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Chapter One-Followed

Nico POV

Nico was watching the girl from the shadows as he had been for a while. She was walking along somewhere in the middle of western. It was 10pm and the sun had just set. Nico was sure that she was the one he was looking for, she had long brown hair, deep dark brown eyes, and a lightly tanned skin. She was wearing light grey shorts and a green shoulderless short sleeved top. She had green sandals on and had a blue rucksack over her shoulder. The rucksack had light blue trainers tied on to the back and she had a dark blue hoodie tied around her waist. She was humming a song - I think it was Thunder by Imagine Dragons - but she showed no sign of knowing that he was there. He stepped out of the shadows, tripped on a loose brick and crashed into a bin. It was quite loud, the girl turned around immediately and studied him. She looked like she was about to help him up when she saw his Stygian iron blade at his side. She started to run away and he got up and chased her.

She was quite fast for her age, after all, she only looked around 15-16, the same age as him, she turned down an alleyway, obviously not knowing it was a dead end and almost ran into the wall at the end of it. She turned to face him and drew a Stygian iron and silver blade from her bag, how did she have Stygian iron? How did she get that? She went into a defensive position and he could tell that she was a good fighter, not better than him or Percy or Jason, but maybe better than Clarisse.

"look," he said gently "I don't want to hurt you but I will if I have to"

"what do you want? Who are you? I don't have any money and my family won't pay a ransom for me" she said keeping her eyes on him the entire time.

"I just want you to come with me, I can tell you my name if you tell me yours."

"why should I? How do I know you won't attack me with your sword?"

"have I drawn it?"

"no"

"you can trust me, I swear it"

"fine, but you say your name first"

he looked at her through narrowed eyes then sighed

"fine, my name is Nico, Nico Di Angelo."

her eyes widened slightly then went back to normal almost before he saw them, why did his name surprise her?

"Arya, Arya woods" her voice was filled with emotion but he couldn't tell which.

"well Arya, I need you to come with me."

"no"

"why not?"

"I don't trust you! You just appear behind me from out of nowhere, chase me, have a black sword and claim your name is Nico Di Angelo, of all the names you could make up it, would be the one I and all my friends know wouldn't it!"

all her friends knew me? And she knew me? I didn't remember her...

"what do you mean all your friends and you know me? I haven't met you before in my entire life!" I almost shouted the last bit.

"so?" was her only reply.

I started to get angry, why would she make something like that up? Was she trying to provoke me?! I almost attacked with my blade, but instead, I told her,

"please just come with me, I swear I won't hurt you."

"swear it on the River Styx"

how did she know about the river Styx? Never mind I would do it anyway.

" I, Nico Di Angelo, swear it on the river Styx that I will not harm this girl unless it is a life or death situation or she attacks me first"

thunder rumbled above us and I knew Zeus approved of my oath. The girl seemed satisfied with that.

"fine, I will come with you."

I smiled at her then grabbed her arm and shadow traveled away.

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