I do not own any of the Percy Jackson character's, Emily is my OC
Nico and Will are walking around New York it's been a while since Nico's been to the city and Will hasn't left camp for so long he was beginning to go stir-crazy so he had asked Nico if he would go with him into the city for the day just for the fun of it, Chiron had given the okay and Jules-Albert had been summoned by Nico to give them a ride into the city, although Will didn't like Nico to use his "underworld-y "powers as he liked to call them he was kind of impressed by the whole zombie chauffer thing.
They had gone shopping (at Wills insistence that Nico needed new clothes that weren't black) they had put their bags in the car with Jules-Albert while they went for lunch at a sidewalk café where they ate outside because Will had wanted to enjoy the beautiful weather. After lunch they had gone for a walk when suddenly Nico felt strong monster signatures nearby he stopped at the entrance to an alley and tried to home in on the monsters he had sensed Will was standing next to him, suddenly Nico pin pointed the location of the monsters he ran into the alley and drew his sword, Will was close behind him, they ran through winding alley ways until they spotted a small group of wild hell hounds surrounding something - no not something, someone- it was a little girl. She had light brown hair and green eyes, she was wearing a yellow sun dress with flowers on it and she looked terrified.
Without hesitation Nico ran forward and cut down the first hell hound and jumped in front of the little girl he then slashed his sword and took down another two as they tried to lunge at him finally he stabbed the last one between the eyes when it exploded into dust he turned to the little girl to make sure she was okay. He knelt down before her so that she could look him in the eye, she had tears falling down her face but didn't make a sound "Hey, it's okay" he said in a soft voice "the scary things are gone now, you're safe." More tears fell from her eyes but she still didn't make a sound so Nico tried talking again "My name is Nico, I fight monsters like those, have you seen monsters before?"
She nodded, okay so she was likely a demigod but what? Greek? Roman? Will walked up beside Nico a little out of breath "how can you run so fast?" he huffed out, he looked down at the little girl, she seemed scared or shy because she grabbed onto Nico's sleeve as she looked at Will. "It's okay, this is my friend Will, and he won't hurt you. He's really nice." But she didn't seem to want to let go of his sleeve. Will smiled at the girl "Hi, I'm Will and I'm a doctor are you hurt anywhere?" She looked at him for a moment before showing him a large scrape on her right knee Will bent down to get a good look at it, then he reached into his bag and pulled out a bottle of water, some salve, and a Band-Aid. He washed out the scrape and put some salve and the Band-Aid on it "There all better." he said with a friendly smile, but the little girl still refused to let go of Nico "I think she's a demigod." he told Will.
Before they could say anything else a light shone over her head it was the mark of Demeter, the girl had just been claimed. "Well that settles that, now what?" Will asked "should we figure out where she lives and go talk to her family?" When she heard this, the little girl pulled on Nico's arm to get his attention he looked down at her she had tears in her eyes again and was shaking her heard no in a silent plea "It looks like she doesn't want to go home, maybe she ran away." Nico said as he looked at her, she slowly nodded, he spoke to her in a gentle tone "Was it the monsters?" she nodded again. Whatever had happened to make this little girl run away it had to be really scary.
"We should take her back to camp with us and talk to Chiron, he'll be able to help." He looked her in the eye "Would you like to come with us? No scary monsters can get you there, you'll be safe." Instead of a verbal response she wrapped her arms around his neck in a very strong grip and would not let go. "It looks like she's taken a liking to you." Will said sounding very amused. With no other choice Nico picked up the little girl and sighed, "Let's get back to the street and I'll call Jules-Albert, then we'll head back to camp." When they got to the street Nico had summoned Jules-Albert to them and they were on their way, the girl still clung to Nico and wouldn't let go. Nico hoped they wouldn't get stopped by the mortal police, the mist could cover for Jules-Albert but not for a child not having a seatbelt on or even being in an actual seat for that matter, but everything went smoothly and soon enough they were back at camp.
Nico had his hands full so Will grabbed the bags from the car before Nico dismissed Jules-Albert and thanking him for the ride, you would think the whole zombie driver thing would have been enough to scare the little girl into clinging to Will instead but she seemed determined to not let go of Nico no matter what.
As they walked into camp they were greeted by Jason Grace "Hey Nico, Will, how was your day in the city? We weren't expecting you back so s-"He broke off when he noticed the little girl in Nico's arms. Will answered his unasked question "We ran into a pack of hell hounds, they had this little girl surrounded in an alley, Nico took all four of them out himself. We don't know her name but she was claimed by Demeter so we brought her back herewith us. She's taken a real liking to Nico, she hasn't let go of him since we found her." Jason just stared in wonder.
Nico shifted his weight from foot to foot "we should really go talk to Chiron, could you maybe go find Katie or something since we already know what cabin she belongs in?" Jason's brain kicked in again "Uh yeah, sure thing." With that he ran off to look for Katie the head of the Demeter cabin. Nico and the girl headed toward the big house while Will ran to put their things away in the cabins, they met back up at the big house and found Chiron in his wheel chair on the front porch, when he saw them he raised a questioning eyebrow "We found a new half-blood while we were out, she was being attacked by hellhounds, can we go inside to talk?" Nico let out in one breath, his arms were getting tired.
Chiron nodded and stepped out of his magic wheelchair so that he was full centaur again, they went inside to the rec room and Nico sat on one of the couches the little girl still clinging to him but now sitting on his lap as she stared in wonder at the half man/ half horse standing on the other side of the ping pong table. Will sat down beside Nico on the couch and they told Chiron about detecting monsters gathered and the fight and the girl being claimed, they had just gotten to that part when Katie came in she stood nearby and listened as they told them the part about when they had mentioned finding the girls family and she got scared and they found out that she had run away though she didn't speak so they didn't know much. "I have an idea." Katie said then she left the room and came back moments later with a note pad and pencil crayons she knelt down in front of Nico and the little girl.
"Hi there sweetie, my names Katie, I'm your big sister, do you know your name?" the little girl nodded "Do you know how to spell your name?" Katie asked, and again the little girl nodded "Could you spell your name for me?" Katie held out the note pad and pencil crayons the little girl let go of Nico but stayed seated in his lap and started writing in big letters E-M-I-L-Y Katie smiled "Emily is such a pretty name, how old are you Emily?" Emily held up both hands showing that she was six. "Well at least we now know her name." Will said, he watched as Emily took more pencil crayons out and started drawing a picture.
Katie got up and went over to talk to Chiron and Will got up to join them "Do you think she could be mute?" Katie asked "It could just be an effect from shock, maybe given time and she starts feeling safe she may start to speak." Will hoped so, he wondered what could have caused Emily to be unable to speak, the poor girl. "I'll go make sure there's a place for her in the cabin" Katie said, before leaving she went back to where Emily was sitting with Nico she had given him a pencil crayon and now they were drawing a picture together Katie looked somewhere between completely shocked and totally in awe. "Wow Nico, I didn't know you could draw so well."
Nico looked a little embarrassed "Hazel's been teaching me." He didn't look up from the page but Emily looked really pleased, Will got curious so he walked over to see what they were doing, what he saw was an amazing picture of flowers likely drawn by Nico and colored in by Emily, it was really well done, he hadn't known Nico could draw either, he wondered what else he still didn't know about Nico.
"Well now that we have things figured out, why don't you two give little Emily a tour of the camp?" asked Chiron, Nico looked at Will "I guess."
This is something I came up with before the Trials of Apollo came out, I didn't even know about Meg at the time so cool how that worked out.
This will have multipul chapters but no set schedual so stay tuned!