Calypso may have made Percy stay, but that did not stop the fact a great prophecy was still on the lose, waiting for a hero. Just when they thought Nico Di Angelo was the one, the fates decided to twist the string.

Set a couple of weeks after Percy landed in Calypso's island. Read coz you can. :)

Dark prophecy

Chapter 1

Operation Nico Di Angelo

Do not look back. I warned myself. Just keep going.

I held onto the piece of paper with the address on it, reading while running. For a dyslexic kid, cursive was not any different no matter how you decide to read it.

"Half-blood hill, Long island, New-york." I kept on reminding myself, only later I realized it was bad for me to say it out loud.

Then the image of a blank road and a hill came within my view. When you squint really hard, you can just about make out the letters Halfblood on the border. But for me it looked like Flood hill.

Did they really expect me to run up that hill into nothingness?

No! I screamed in my head. Don't give up!

I raced up that hill. I was anything but athletic, although the fact somebody might be chasing me sent strength down my spine. With one final leap, I passed out on the top of the hill.

- προφητεία -

When I opened my eyes again, I was in a completely different place. And condition.

You see, I was pretty much on the run for my whole life. I had no idea where my mom was so I had always presumed she was dead. So was my dad for that matter. So I did the natural thing: running away. I did not like to do that, but that had to be better than staying in an orphanage. But right now I was lying down somewhere softer than I was used to, with a much better feeling. My bones were frozen, but the pain was gone.

By my side was a cup of something that looked suspiciously like hot chocolate, so I stretched out to take the mug.

It clattered to the floor the second I'd touched it, because it was rather a cold drink. I gave up on trying to drink it and slowly got out of the bed.

At first I thought I was in some a sort of schoolyard, because teens and preteens flocked around everywhere. Then I noticed not everything was the way it seemed.

Lava poured down from the climbing war, and two boys were having a fight with nothing else than real swords. A group of people were flocking around a bush, like it was some kind of a secret meeting.

"Rian. How did you and Trina's search go?" The girl at the center said. She looked pretty intelligent and had a deep frown. Her gray eyes looked like they were always thinking. She also had curly blonde hair, go figures.

"Me?" The guy I supposed was Rian asked. "We did not find a single trace of him."

"And Trina?"

Another girl about my age stood up. "I found this." She held out a silver skull ring which looked like belonged to somebody Goth. That didn't seem like anybody there.

The blonde studied it. "That - that belong to him, didn't it? Maybe we could trace the scent and -"

Then that was when my dumb plan kicked in.

"Um, excuse me." I asked the blonde rather awkwardly. "What is going on here?"

"We are searching for Nico Di Angelo -" Then she turned to look at me and her frown deepened even more.

"What?" I asked.

I felt uncomfortable when they all stared at me.

"A new half-blood." The girl stated. "What's your name?"

I felt weird inside. Not because my bones anymore. Because I was standing in front of crowds of unknown people, which I wasn't used to at all.

"I'm Hailey." I told her uneasily.

Luckily at that moment a much older guy in a wheelchair wheeled his way to us, and when he did, everybody stopped talking. "Annabeth, this is the new Half-blood. I shall send somebody to show her around. Meanwhile, you can get back to your search plan."

Annabeth nodded.

"Wait, show me around to where?" I protested, rather having the girl showing me around than the man. I do not know - he just creep me out sometimes.

"Come this way." The old man said. He was starting to look even older in the sunlight.

"What is up with the plan? And where am I?"

"You are somewhere safe, child." He told me. "And as for the plan, we are searching for Nico Di Angelo."

Did you like it？ Either way review! I take any kind of reviews. Easpecially ones that tells me what to work on.

I think this is pretty much just a prologue. By the way Hailey is not a daughter of Artemis if you thought she was!

I think I hit a writer's block on that very first chapter for some reason! I tried to make it about 1000 words because really, I don't like short chapters either.

- H-I-T-S ζ (LOL it spells HITS)