Hello! This is my second fanfic I have ever written so don't judge me too hard! This will be taken place after the HoO books. As for Miss Peregrine's I have to change the ending in order for this story to work so...ya sorry. Well not really. This story will have some hints or references from my last Fanfic that some of you may not get but you don't have to read it to understand what is going on. Due to school work and stuff, I will not be able to post as much as I would like to. So just hang in there! Sadly I don't own HoO or Miss Peregrine's but they own me.

The Running of The Bulls

Nico

It was dark by the time we made it out of camp. Since Percy didn't bring his car we had to walk the entire way to the pizza restaurant. Between the sharp pain, my feet felt every time they hit the raw concrete and Leo's dreadful stories, life was pretty good. It felt nice to be back home. Since I was tuning Leo out I didn't realize we had made it to the restaurant till I ran into the door. The glass was cold but I was too numb to feel anything. I heard soft laughing in the corner and saw Percy and Annabeth smiling. I was in too good of a mood to glare at them so we just walked in.

The door had a loud bell ring when we entered. The walls had a weird green pattern with some random pictures of people I didn't know nor cared about. It was a simple room except for the hole cut out for the chef. We sat down at one of the tables. The chairs were plastic and cheap and the tables had a tacky checkerboard style printed on them. It smelled of cooked pizza and cheap beer but it didn't matter to me. I looked across the table to see Annabeth wrapped around Percy's neck trying to tell him what the menu said. It made me smile. Then there was Leo.

He seemed to be building some type of catapult out of the plastic sporks. I didn't even want to ask. Annabeth ended up ordering for all of us since she is the least dyslexic one out of all of us. It took about ten minutes till our waiter came with the pizza. The smell made me realize I hadn't eaten since my last mission. Quickly I snatched a piece and started to eat. "So Nico how was the mission?" Annabeth asked holding her slice in her hand. I stopped eating. "It was fine I guess. I mean it took a lot longer than I thought." My attention was to the pizza. "I know but how was it like? You know meeting the wizards?" I shrugged. "It felt weird but I got use to it. Even made some friends." Leo laughed "Were they invisible?" Annabeth turned red "Leo! That was-" I butted in, "It's okay Annabeth I can fight my own fights. I mean if I had invisible friends then they must be super close to Leo's invisible girlfriend." I then felt a meatball hit my cheek. "Hey, it works!" Leo chanted his catapult. I turned to him and I snapped it in half. "What was that for!"

"So Nico you made friends?" Percy muffled out between bites, directing my attention to him. "Ya, I have a picture of them in my cabin if you don't believe me." He shook his hand around. "No no, I believe you." I blew a tuft of my hair out of my face. "So anything new at camp since I was gone?" I asked. Percy shook his head. "Just the usual stay alive thing." I laughed. "Are you okay Nico. Your acting different." Annabeth started to analyze me. "I'm fine, it's just the last mission opened my eyes more that's all." I brushed the topic off. We all chipped in to pay the waiter when we were done and started for the door.

Walking in quiet streets always made me feel uncomfortable. A fog had settled in and it was hard to see anything. There was literally no one on the streets and for New York that was weird. I stopped walking. "Nico, are you okay?" Annabeth asked putting her hand on my arm. It felt warm to the touch and soft. "Something is off..." And as if on cue a huge metal bull came flying out of no wear just missing Percy's head. "What the-" Percy turned to the bull. "I thought I dealt with you already!" He complained. "You did?" Leo screamed as the bull came running towards him. "Ya, when I was-" He started to explain. "Stories latter!" Annabeth barked. She pulled her dagger out but I doubt that would be any good. "Leo, can you do something about this?" I said. "Why would you think I can...oh!" Leo started to tumble out scrap metal from his belt. "Distract it away from me for a minute!" He dropped his metal. I threw my sword at it. "Hey you uh, thing get over here!" It was sad that was all I could say but it seemed to work. I scrambled to get away from the bull before he punctured me. Then it was Percy's turn to distract it. We all took turns in a way but it never got tired. "How's it going over there, Leo!" Annabeth asked. "Just! Just ugh! Perfect, this stupid fog isn't helping but there it's done." He fumbled a remote in his hands. "Direct it towards me!" I ran it next to Leo. He started to press buttons left and right. It was twenty feet away... ten ...five... He started to get frazzled "It's not working!" Before he did anything stupid I flung myself towards him tackling him to the ground.

The bull came at us full speed. Leo flung his hands wide and ran straight towards it. Before I could yell at him that he was stupid I stopped. He was melting it. His sneakers skidded against the floor but he held his ground. The color red burst through the fog. Soon the bull was just a puddle of liquid metal. He brushed his hands on his pants. "I wouldn't touch that if I were you it's hot." He smirked. Before we could thank our friend the floor started to thump. In the horizon, I could faintly see not one but twenty bulls coming this way. "Really!?" Percy threw his hands in the air. "So run?" Annabeth turned to her boyfriend. "Yup."

I ran so fast my legs started to trip over themselves. Running down block after block I knew we couldn't outrun them. Percy kept throwing his sword at them and again when it came back to him. I wondered how he has been alive this long but then he had Annabeth. Looking at my friends we seemed to be unharmed from the first one. Except for maybe Leo who had a couple of scratches and his hands were still glowing red from the last bull. It probably attracted the bulls more, the more I thought about it. We finally ran into a dead end.

"What do we do?" Leo whispered. Percy grabbed my shoulder. "You have to get us out of here." His eyes were so intense and focused, sweat trickled down his hair to his face from all the running. His camp shirt was the only thing that stood out in the fog. I shuddered, "But there's fog I won't know where we would-" He interrupted me. "Whatever just do what has to be done." I directed my friends to the corner with the darkest shadow."Everyone hold on." We started to fade but then we turned back to normal. "What's wrong?" Annabeth asked. "It's this stupid fog. It's blocking my vision." I mumbled. "I swear if we die because of fog that is a sad way to go," Leo complained. I tried again and again. "Nico I would hurry if I were you." Percy bugged. I looked up to see the bulls feets from us. Their glowing eyes cutting the fog with ease. They got so close that I could see the gears running in their body. frantically I tried again and again. Then finally found a network. "Hang on people." Then in an instant the bulls disappeared and we landed on soft grass.