Chapter 1: Leaving…
Narrator: (me!)
Years after the war against the Titans did Nico Di Angelo finally get over Bianca's, his sister's, death. This takes place when Nico is 15.
"Bye!" I shouted. The other campers shouted 'bye Nico, or 'Whoo! He's gone'. The last ones were the Ares cabin demigods.
I was tired of being cramped up at camp half blood, so I decided to leave, but Chiron made me go to school like other kids my age. Well, technically I'm 70 years older than every body because of being trapped in the Lotus casino for 70 years. See, that casino was enchanted, to keep kids in playing games, while the rest of the world grew old, and they stayed immortal- kind of-. That's what happened to me. But 5 or so years ago a man in a suit came and rescued us. Me and Bianca were sent to a military school and soon almost gotten killed by a manticore (a cat man, or lion, I don't know it's kind of hard to remember.), when Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase, Grover Underwood, and Thalia Grace rescued us. We were sent to Camp Half-Blood, a camp for demigods to be protected and train to protect themselves in the real world.
Now I was heading to a school in Manhattan. Every day when I wake up I practice in the arena with a few of the skeleton warriors I summoned up to keep me on my toes but now I was prohibited to even summon any dead thing from the underworld. That's easy to explain, I'm a child of Hades, the god of the underworld. I felt really weird not practicing this morning.
I got in the car and Argus, our camp guard who has, like, a thousand eyes! , drove me away.
Hades has a 'friend' that he let me stay with, his name is Lucas. He owns a foster home and I'm the first boy in it. On arriving I saw several more cars behind mine. I guess that Lucas wanted to start this business fast. I could see that one was a girl about my age and 4 boys behind her car.
I got out of the car and rang the door bell, no one answered, and it was starting to sprinkle. The other kids got out and stood behind me. I tried to knock on the door but something shocked me, I had smashed a black widow. The weird thing is when things die I can see their spirit leave their body. The spiders' spirit crawled up my arm and turned to smoke.
The girl behind me watched stunned. I could tell she wasn't a demigod, but now I knew she could see through the mist, but she was more special than other mist see-through mortals because she could see the spider's spirit.
Her mouth hung open, "Uh…your hand is swelling!" She shrieked, and the other kids jumped at her sudden outburst. I looked to my hand; it was swelling up with the poison of the dead black widow. Particularly, I wouldn't worry about that because I was immune to poison, or non-physical death sentencing stuff. I concentrated and my swelling went down, and the poison from the spider sting just dripped off and out of my hand, I wiped it on my pants.
The other boys weren't looking but the girl was, she just looked quizzical for a second then threw up over the balcony. She recovered her self and we all waited another half hour ringing the door bell.
I got agitated and took out my black stygian iron sword out and busted open the door. "Whoa! Cool, where did you get that!" The other 4 boys got all excited. Crud monkeys! The girl just looked as stunned at me as ever. I panicked and ran through the busted door.
"Hey! Nico, you finally made it in!" I'm guessing it was Lucas. The other kids walked in. When I and the girl turned towards the voice we both screamed. Lucas was a skeleton, bits of him still there. The girl fainted in my arms. I had screamed because of him, being in skeleton form in front of these other mortal children, what was he thinking? The other boys didn't see anything strange, just a man.
How was I going to help this girl? "Lucas, she can 'see'! Cut it out!" I scolded our Foster keeper. Technically I wasn't an orphan, because I did live with my dad, Hades sometimes. He said 'oh!' and fixed himself right as the girl in my arms woke up. She scuttled forward, a little embarrassed by what she had just done; I don't think she thought the Lucas problem was real.
"Hello children! My name is Lucas, your foster parent or provider! Let me introduce you to each other and the three other girls staying here. April, Maylynn, Tami, Jessica, get down here, the new orphans are here!" Lucas hollered, I could tell the other kids were a little offended. I glared at him.
Four girls came running down the stairs. Lucas introduced them, "This is Tami,-" Tami had short brown hair and hazel eyes, she was a total girly girl, "And Maylynn,-" May had blonde hair that went to her hips, her eyes were blue, she had a bit of acne on her face, she was shy and timid, but I instantly liked her, "Jessica,-" Jessica was a red head, had brown eyes and wore too much pink, "And last, but not least April." April had black hair and sea green eyes, she looked just like Percy! I gasped when I saw her; she looked at me stunned also.
"What's he (she) doing here, Lucas!" we both said. Lucas just laughed and went on.
"April, Jessica, Maylynn, Tami, this is Nico Di Angelo,-" Tami looked interested, I cringed, May just nodded, but I could tell all of them thought I was Goth, but April could tell I was a son of Hades. I nodded, "This is Donagin,-"He was a boy behind me, his eyes were like May's and He was the type of sports guy, Tami and Jessica instantly took him away, "And Mike,-" another boy behind me, he ran after his twin, Donagin, "Joseph,-" He was a bit younger than me but looked a little like May. She squealed, I think they were separated siblings, they both hugged and started crying, they left us 4 left alone. "And this last boy is Herculus," It was pronounced Her-c-you-l-us. Me and April looked at each other and started laughing. The boy looked a bit like Thalia; I stopped April from continuing to laugh.
"April, I think he's a son of Zeus…"I whispered to her. The girl who had fainted walked in.
"Oh! And this is Lexi!" Lucas finished the introductions. "Everybody, if you want to know where your room is, your name is taped to the door." He shouted.
Me and April grabbed Herculus and Lexi and headed straight for my room. Lexi was my age and had jet black hair, just like mine. Her eyes were a beautiful purple, which is rare for humans to have. Her face was shaped like a heart, hair caressing it into a bob. She was like me, a bit on the dark side, not Goth but taking the loner position. We both wore complete black; her hair was nicely combed down, unlike my messy and longish, but short dew.
I used to have short brown hair, but it changed when I first went to the underworld.
When we found my room, we shut the door. Herculus just looked confused, Lexi scared. "How should we tell them?" I asked April.
"I don't know, but why did you bring the mortal in here!"
"Because she can see through the mist, she also saw the soul of a spider that I killed!" I argued.
"Well, still you could have kept her out of this!" April scolded.
"Have you seen what Lucas really is? Lexi saw that! And… oh gods, you Poseidon demigods are so annoying!" I said exasperatedly.
"Poseidon, I thought I was unclaimed?"
"Well if you would have paid more attention to Percy, you would have known!" We were practically yelling now.
"Hey! Why are you talking about Greek myths? And what mist can I see through? You're scaring me!" Lexi screeched in our ears.
"Lexi, we need to tell you something…" So I and April told her everything about the Gods, and the monsters, and what she could do.
"Then why am I here?" Lexi asked.
"Ya, I was wondering the same thing." April said, I could tell she didn't like Lexi.
"Because, well… because I saw in an iris message, that, Rachel Elizabeth Dare, our oracle, is about to die and Lexi is the next oracle or Delphi of Apollo." I explained gruesomely. It killed me to know that Rachel was going to die, but, what else could happen.
"What? But she's my only friend at camp! How is this supposed to happen, and when?" April sobbed into my shoulder.
"Who's Rachel Elizabeth Dare?" Asked Herculus. I had forgotten he was there, was he listening this whole time? Boy, he was quiet!
But this only made April weep harder. "Shh, it's ok, we'll find a way." I said.
"Do you know who my Godly parent is?" Herculus asked again.
"Well, you kind of look like Thalia." I said so he'd catch on.
"But I've never been to Camp Half-Blood, I've never even heard of this stuff till a minute ago, but strangely I believe you." Herculus said reasonably.
"Oh ya, sorry, I think you're a son of Zeus."
"Wow, what can I do like April can control water? What can you do?" He asked me.
"From seeing what Thalia can do, I'm guessing you can summon up a pretty intense storm. Make it rain or other things. A natural born leader. And you have the power to control lightning." I said. Herculus's eyes were wide with interest. "And I can summon the dead, ghosts, or an army of skeletons, also shadow travel, since I'm the son of Hades."
Herculus felt a tingle in his gut and shocked Lexi. "Hey! Ouch, that hurt!" Lexi exclaimed and scooted away. That made April giggle. Why did she not like Lexi? Lexi looked to me for support since I hadn't laughed.
"Um…Herculus, you shouldn't do that to mortals."
He ignored me and shocked her again, this time her hair stuck up. April went hysterical and fell off me and the bed side. "Ugh! Demigods! I don't like how you keep calling me 'mortal', you're one too!" With that Lexi stormed out of the room, I tried to run after her but April held me back.
"Don't, she'll get over it." April said.
I couldn't just leave Lexi like that, not with all that just happened a few minutes ago. "No." and with that I went out after Lexi. She wouldn't let go, so I quickly shadow traveled with April clinging to my arm and we ended up in the bathroom. I walked out the door and locked her in.
April realized what just happened and started screaming and banging on the door. I turned my head and saw Lexi down the hall laughing her head off. (A/N: since I'm one too, Teenagers always have the most fun goofing each other off, like what happened with Herculus shocking Lexi, April laughed. And Nico shadow traveled with April locked her in the bathroom, that made Lexi bust up!) I couldn't help but laugh a little too. Then I could hear April busting the pipes with her power of Poseidon and used the water to rip the door off its hinges. Lexi and I went quiet.
"You JERK!" April screeched at me. She charged at me taking out her sword I had seen her get from camp a few years ago. I pushed Lexi out of the way and ran for my room just down the hallway.
Herculus knew what was going on and tried to be median but April just dragged him into the fight.
Herculus and I ran out side, avoiding water geyser blows from behind us. I don't know how April discovered her power so quickly but she was doing pretty good, better than Percy I might add.
I accidentally tripped Herculus on the way out the front door, he immediately took it offensively. Now there was going to be a battle between the three most powerful demigods alive. The streets of Manhattan went nuts. With all the water being pulled in by April, the storms and massive lightning by Herculus, and the scariest that made mortals run for their lives, the skeletons crawling out of a new fisher in the street, made by me… Total masdistruction and chaos!