Ok… because I love this series so amazingly much, and because I think Nico deserves more attention than he's getting in the books… I am writing my favorite brand of stories… crossovers… what happens when Nico is thrown from his western kingdom of ghosts? He learns new tactics in the east, of course… after all; he is technically the son of a shinigami…
By the way, I know that if Nico really landed in Japan or wherever else I decide to put him there would be the whole language barrier problem… but I don't feel like writing that so sue me .… please don't actually sue me, I'm just lazy…
Don't be stupid, people… they aren't my characters…
Stupid fanfiction starts
"I've got a lot of things to investigate, if I find anything," Nico paused, "well, I'll let you know."
"Keep in touch, Nico."
The black haired son of Hades turned and walked off. There wasn't any use in staying around Camp Half-blood, Nico knew that much for sure. It wouldn't be safe for him. He would be an outcast and not even Percy and Annabeth could save him from that. It would be much better to try and learn about his powers on his own as he had been doing before, no longer tied down with the hope of resurrecting his sister. The camp could do nothing for him now.
Less than a week later…
Why didn't I just stay at Camp Half-blood? Nico thought jumping to the right, the ridiculously large claws of the thing he was now fighting whizzed through empty air. I could've gotten along just fine, but instead I'm Zeus knows where fighting something incredibly ugly that is definitely dead, but doesn't seem to understand that it shouldn't attack the son of the Greek god of death. He dodged another blow. I knew skipping breakfast was a bad idea.
He had been caught by surprise, walking out of a hotel. The creature had knocked Nico's sword out of his hands almost immediately and Nico was now trying to get it back. The beast was unlike anything he had ever seen. It was mostly black but with an odd white mask over what was probably its face and it had a huge hole in the middle of its torso. Occasionally it made some high-pitched noises that might sound like words if you were really trying to understand, but that's kind of difficult to do while dodging six-foot long claws. Besides, Nico's ADHD was focusing on something else kind of odd. He was fighting with a giant monster, right? Well, then why weren't people noticing? The mist couldn't hide something like this, it wouldn't look like a goth kid fighting a giant freak with a mask and claws, but it wouldn't look like nothing either. People were just walking by as if nothing was happening, as if Nico was just standing around in an alleyway.
"Hey, kid!"
Nico looked up. Standing on top of the building was a man in a ridiculous green coat and stripy green hat.
"Can you see that thing, kid?" he yelled.
"No, I can't see it," Nico yelled back, ducking as the creature took another swipe, "and that's exactly why I'm moving out of the way of every single attack!"
"Well, at least you have a sense of humor," the stranger yelled, obviously grinning, " The name's Urahara, would you like me to help you with that?" he asked, pointing at the creature.
Nico frowned, there was no way he would let this clown defeat a monster he should be able to destroy in the blink of an eye. He dived under the creature, rolled over the concrete and picked up his sword before the thing had time to react. It turned and the son of Hades aimed between the eyes. The Stygian iron went through the mask like a hot knife through butter, or like a spork through a delicious bowl of rice pudding. The creature shrieked and exploded. Well, at least some things were predictable in this world.
He looked up at the building and saw the strangely dressed man clapping.
"Bravo! Bravo! Well done, are you a new soul reaper? You don't look like one from the way you're dressed, but you can never really tell."
Nico raised an eyebrow. "Um… no… I just, I deal with these things all the time."
"Oh, you do?" the guy asked, sounding surprised, "well, that's good because there's about five more coming this way. Something must've summoned them. Mind if I watch you take care of them?"
"If you want," Nico said, "but if one attacks you first, I'm not going to help until I destroy the rest of mine."
"Fair enough " the strange man called, "and if you don't die, you can come back to my shop for a little while!"
Nico groaned, if I don't die, how often have I heard that one before?
An inhuman scream off in the distance brought him back to the real world. Sword back in its scabbard, Nico climbed up the fire escape on the nearest building. Once on the roof, he prepared himself, watching for the monsters to come up over the buildings. Well, this summer vacation is going to be anything but ordinary, even by a half-blood's standards.
Later that day…
Nico shoveled the rest of the rice into his mouth with his hands. He was starved and tired of trying to use those stick things to eat with. True to his word, the guy with the green hat had let Nico back to his shop and given him some food, as well.
"Wow, looks like someone was hungry," the shop owner grinned at Nico, receiving a death glare that would give Seto Kaiba a run for his money. "So," Urahara continued, completely unfazed, "how exactly did you get here? I can tell you're not a ghost, obviously not a soul reaper, and most definitely not a hollow, so what exactly are you?"
Nico raised an eyebrow, "First of all, I have no idea what any of those things are. Secondly, I don't know who you are and Bianca always told me not to talk to strangers. Third, it's none of your business who or what I am. And finally," he paused, trying to think of some other reason to avoid an interview, "you wear too much green?"
"Ah, touché," Urahara grinned, "however, you are in my shop, eating my food, so unless you want to be charged a couple thousand yen… you should probably start talking."
Nico stopped shoving rice into his mouth long enough to realize that he had finished it all off. "Fine, I'll tell you what happened."
"Excellent! Ururu! Jinta! It's story time!" A blond kid with spiky hair burst into the room followed by a much quieter girl with black pigtails.
"YA! STORY TIME! C'MON URURU HURRY UP AND SIT DOWN SO THE GUY CAN TALK! GEEZ YOU'RE SUCH A GIRL!"
"Jinta, stop pulling my hair, I am sitting down," she looked up with a pitiful expression.
"Now, you two, settle down, let the boy talk." Urahara smiled at Nico, "whenever you're ready"
"ummm…" Nico sighed, "My name's Nico and I can't go into detail about this but I'm a little… different from most people. The full story would take too much time but just a few days ago I decided to take a little fieldtrip…
Nico's story…
Nico di Angelo sat in the comfy first-class seat of a plane. He didn't know exactly why, but for some reason, he felt like a daredevil for doing this. It wasn't like he had gotten the tickets illegally, so what was the problem with flying from California to Florida?
About two hours into the flight, Nico gathered up the courage to look out the window. The lights sparkled off of the glittering blue mass below and… wait a minute… were they flying over the Gulf of Mexico? There shouldn't have been water out the window but… Nico shook it off as some trick of the light and tried to fall asleep.
He woke up hours later to a red beeping siren warning everyone that the plane was experiencing technical difficulties and that they would be landing in some town in Japan… Karakura, was it? And Japan? Was Florida not good enough for these people? A summer home school plan of fighting monsters in the Bermuda triangle was now ruined. But at least the airline was paying for all of the passengers to stay at a hotel until a return flight could be scheduled.
Well, he had tried to make the best of it, but apparently, if you can see one type of monster, you can see them all. And if one type of monster is bent on exterminating you, well, the same can be said for all others.
Ummm… the end?
End of Nico's awesome story…
"That was… beautiful" Urahara grabbed Nico, "I was so moved by your story that I've decided you can stay here as long as you want. You can work for food and training!"
"Ack!" Nico gasped, "that's fine, really I can just go back to my original plan. Florida is nice."
"Then it's decided," Urahara declared, "you'll stay here until you have the skills to match a higher than average level soul reaper!"
End crappy fanfic
Ha ha… chapter one is finished…
definitely not one of my best… but I think it's ok… I just drank an entire energy drink (which was the first time I've had that much caffeine at one time… pathetic, no?) so instead of freaking out people I know, I'm directing the energy into fan fiction writing ^^