DICLAIMER: Did you think I owned Percy Jackson or any of its characters? Coz I don't. I own this story though. Not the characters, not all of them anyways.

Chapter 1: I Help a Chimera Destroy a School

The week after the seven returned from Mt Olympus and the giant attack on camp ended, the last thing I wanted to do was destroy a school to rescue another half-blood. We'd just had a huge war where Roman and Greek demigod children were forced to work together to save the world. It had been the end of the second great prophecy of the century. But Kyle (my satyr friend) had insisted rescuing this demigod should be much higher on my list of priorities than rest and chill-out time.

Kyle had apparently found a demigod that radiated more power than me, Percy and Thalia together. No demigod could be as powerful as all three children of the big three. Monsters apparently followed the demigod everywhere, but never attacked. It was a disaster waiting to happen, waiting for a bunch of well trained demigods to come and rescue a weaker one and score four dead demigods for the price of one.

I headed towards the camp stables, Percy had a pegasi ready for me and my two friends embarking on this mission. A pegasus neighed in frustration. Percy smiled.

"He says you smell like dead people," Percy said.

"Nothing out of the ordinary," I replied. Being the son of Hades and all I usually smell like dead people. I put my hand on the hilt of my Stygian iron sword.

"When we found you," Percy begun, "My mom drove us up."

"I guess I'm just unlucky," I sighed. Percy had been careful not to say "When we found you and your sister" he thought I'd get emotional or something, my sister had died four years ago now when I was 10. Bianca had joined the Hunters of Artemis and left me only days before she'd died. I'd made Percy promise to keep her safe, but Bianca had decided to sacrifice herself to save the others. I'd blamed Percy at first, but after talking with my sister's soul I realized I could only blame her. Her death still had me a bit sad, but I moved on life's tough get used to it.

Savanna burst into the stables.

"You ready Nico?" she asked playfully. Her brown hair was cut only to pass a short way under her chin. Her bright amber eyes shone like the sun, which made sense seeing as she was the daughter of Apollo. Her full brother (both parents were the same) Michel Yew had died during the battle against Kronos two years before. He looked exactly like her only shorter and she smiled more. Savanna had been devastated and stayed out of contact with everyone for the rest of the war. I'd eventually checked in the Underworld to see where all the fallen campers had gone to. When I told her that her brother had made it to Elysium, she'd been super happy and been a close friend ever since. All the campers thought we had some sort of closer relationship, but we didn't, we were friends we just understood each other. She was like my sister and I was like her brother we knew how we felt our sibling had died on us and we were like a replacement sibling for each other.

"Heck I'm ready!" Justin replied bursting through the doors holding his celestial bronze spear at the ready. Justin was from the Nemesis cabin and was not ashamed to say his mother was only a minor god. He had empty purple eyes which was the most striking thing about his appearance. His blonde hair was always perfectly combed like he cared how it looked. He was uber tall-like cyclops tall. I'd met him whilst constructing our cabins after the gods had agreed to have a cabin for each god who had children at the camp. There was only two other kids in his, cabin, but it was better than my absence of company. We all mounted our Pegasi and flew into the world.

If you've ever flown out in the open you'll know how amazing it is to have the evening breeze in your face and freedom of soaring towards the clouds. Our Pegasi flew us quickly to our destination, some boarding school in Washington. We were dropped off at a perfect manor, with pruned vines climbing up the spotless red brick wall. Marble columns supported the walls in various places all perfect as well. A huge variety of flower bushes and plants were in gardens in seemingly random spots, but they formed the school crest when viewed from above. The place made me want to hurl, no kids in their right state could be this tidy. Clearly we'd be rescuing some stuck up kid of Athena (no offense Annabeth). The huge archway and the perfectly manicured hedges seemed to be saying "welcome to tartarus"

"How'd Kyle get in?" Savanna asked. "Only a girls school can smell this good."

"Hey..." Justin protested.

"Only a girls school could look so stuck up," I fired back jokingly. Savanna laughed as we began to approach the doors.

The huge antique doors had carvings of vines and candles and other stupid moralistic things. I lifted the huge ring in the golden lion head door knocker.

"Don't!" an urgent voice behind me whispered. I dropped the knocker and it banged against the doors. Kyle was behind me. "They'll reckon you've been out past curfew and cane you!"

"Wha?" Justin asked.

"I thought the cane was banned!" Savanna said.

"These guys never found out," Kyle sighed rubbing his back as if he'd had some bad experience with that. Kyle adjusted his navy blue cap so I could see the emblem on it. A motto was printed underneath it, "order and discipline".

"Clearly a nice place," I muttered.

"So if we're not using the door," Justin begun.

"The other students aren't all obedient brats," Kyle explained. "We have a way or two in and out of the school the teachers haven't found. Totally unguarded safest way in. Follow me." Savanna gave me a nervous glance as if to say, "I don't like this place". I had to agree. The cane was banned like years ago, I was sure it was against the law. Kyle jogged through the garden with Justin by his side.

"Let's go Dead Breath," Savanna elbowed me and ran towards the guys. I ran after her smiling.

Kyle led us down towards the other side of the grounds constantly turning around as if he thought a ghost was haunting him. He stopped at the foot of a huge statue of a guy on a horse. A plaque below the guy read: "Charlie Douglas Founder of Douglas's Boys Orphanage. 1846", whether that was the date the guy was born, died or founded the school it didn't say. Kyle knelt down and whispered, "Ms Thermon is an ugly, fat, yeti, who I hate." The statue shifted. It shook and rose a meter into the air held up by metal supports. Kyle slid himself in. I slid myself in as the others followed.

"How can it be a boy's school?" Savanna was muttering. We were in a dark tunnel though the darkness didn't bother me. I could just tell where we were it was like my pupils could use darkness as well as light to see things, how I knew I was in darkness, I could sense it. It was weird, feeling the darkness, just as putting your hands on a light can be really hot darkness made me cold, but I liked cold. I turned my friends, Savanna was standing really still her eyes closed and whispering to herself, Justin was walking around with his arms out trying to feel where a wall was and Kyle, he was holding the rocky side of the cave and was slowly progressing forwards.

"Nico?" Justin asked. He'd walked into Savanna. She turned around and punched him in the face.

"Ow," he said. Savanna blew into her hands. A light began to illuminate the tunnel. My eyes didn't like that.

"How do you do that?" Justin asked in awe.

"Duh, my dad's only the sun god," Savanna said. Justin looked humiliated. Kyle looked at the light.

"Should've figured you could do that. You're gonna wanna turn that off before we get to the end of the tunnel," Kyle warned.

"You brought mortals?" Savanna whined.

"Here we're all brothers," Kyle said. "Sam wouldn't let me go unless he could guard the tunnel."

"Is Sam the guy?" I asked hopefully no such luck.

"No Sam's a guy from my dorm the guy we're after thinks I'm a disease. He's in the 13 year old's dorms. He shares a room with a cyclops who owns a pet chimera!"

"This is gonna be fun," Justin sighed shifting his spear in his pocket (yeah it shrinks into portable size). I twisted the ring I on my finger. I'd stolen it from the underworld three years before. Chimeras. I had bad experiences with them. If Minos was still alive I would've tortured him until he died.

Savanna blew the glowing ball in her hands out when we reached the end of the tunnel. Sure enough Sam was waiting at the top of a ladder.

"Kyle!" The guy hissed. "They'll kill you if they find out you brought company, particularly a girl."

"If you don't blow our cover," Savanna began. "We'll bust you out of here." Sam liked that idea.

"Kay, I'll get you up," Sam agreed. We began to ascend the ladder. After he helped us up he turned to Kyle and asked, "What exactly is the 'really important' thing you had to do?" Kyle just said, "Go through the passage and don't come back, you'll find a family - somewhere. The school just won't be safe anymore. You can't help unless you leave. Sorry Sam."

"There's gotta be some way I can help!" Sam exclaimed. "I've sat around all my life learning how to be a super nerd who never puts a toe near the line! Surely there's something I could do! I know where the fire alarm activator thingo is, I could get the school to evacuate safely!" Kyle thought hard.

"Kay dude," he decided. "Go ring that alarm for me and get out."

"I'm on it!" Sam was beaming with excitement as he ran down the marble corridor.

"C'mon guys," Justin said. "We've got a demigod to save." We ran through the corridor in the opposite direction.

We were soon in a corridor full of doors. Sirens began blaring.

"Good job Sam," Kyle whispered. Worried murmuring filled the rooms. I was sort of expecting screaming, but it was a boy's orphanage. Doors burst open and boys started walking out. A couple saw Savanna and gave us weird glances. Some realized Justin and I had never been here before and gave us a death stare. A sandy-haired guy burst through the door in front of us. The moment his golden eyes glanced at Savanna I knew he was the demigod. Not because no normal kid has golden eyes, buy because I could feel power radiating from him. Kyle nudged me and walked after the kid. I was about to follow when a guy who must've been seven feet tall stood in my way.

"Smell demigod," he announced, his voice made it sound like some one had rubbed his throat with sandpaper. "Dead people," he sniffed, he was carrying a fat ginger cat in his arms. "They wannoo hurt master!"

"Yes imbecile," another voice hissed. Savanna pinched my shoulder.

"Nico," she whispered. "Let's..." before she finished I pushed her into the crowd of boys all wandering towards the exit. She tried to push back to me, but it was pointless in the crowd.

A shadow moved from above me, the cyclops had left.

"Hurry up!" Justin ordered pulling me forwards. "Splitting up won't hurt us now!" We begun walking when there was a crashing sound from behind, I heard the scream I'd been expecting. I turned. Giant man had one red eye in the centre of his forehead and was holding a huge chunk of brick wall in his hands, ready to throw.

"RUN!" I yelled, around me everyone began running. They couldn't see that he only had one eye, but I was pretty sure they all saw he was ready to flatten everyone in his path with the school's walls. I pulled my sword from its sheath and charged at the cyclops.

"THE WORLD'S FULL OF MADMEN!" some kid yelled. Justin was running behind me his bronze spear extending into full size. We took the cyclops by surprise but he didn't stay that way. He looked at us confused and then realized we were trying to kill him. He pegged the rock at us. I dove to the floor as it whistled over my head. Justin dove to the side the huge chunk of wall grazing his arm. I jumped up and summoned a small group of undead friends to help me. They were all wearing Greek battle armor, which was way more protection than what I had. The cyclops didn't like that. He roared and stomped on the ground so hard it cracked. My undead warriors shook so hard they fell apart. Justin three his spear and it went straight through the cyclops' chest. The cat fell to the ground and hissed, freakishly snake-like for a cat. Justin ran to retrieve his spear from the cyclops that was disintegrating into dust.

Don't jinx us, I prayed silently.

"That was easy," Justin boasted as he picked his spear up from the pile of dust. The ginger cat hissed more violently arching it's back in anger, no it wasn't arching its back, it was growing. Its legs began to extend and its head morphed into a lion's.

"Which end's the front?" Justin asked. Soon a nine foot lion was glowering down at me. Hissing begun again, but from the other end (and no a great yellow flood did not come and destroy us).

"Argh," Justin groaned. "Ow!"

"You ok?" I asked trying to see him behind the chimera.

"Snake-butt bit me," he explained weakly. That only meant one thing.

"Don't move!" I ordered. I needed to get the lion away from Justin. "Hey fat kitty! Wanna come play dress-ups with your dead cyclops buddy?" I shadow travelled a few steps back to get it to notice me more. The chimera's lion head snarled and followed me wearily. I backed away and begun sprinting. I knew my plan had worked - there was only one flaw: I had no hope of killing a chimera on my own. I ran through the endless maze of halls and classrooms. Anyone walking calmly like it was a drill and they knew it became panicked when I sprinted past. I knew I couldn't keep up the pace for much longer so, but I had no way to slow him. Then I thought of something. When I was ten after Percy had told me Bianca - my sister was dead even though I'd known for a while. Zombies had come for Percy, I'd gotten angry and willed the land to open and consume them - even if I hadn't let on that I did. Maybe I could make a wall fall on the chimera or something.

"Please Dad," I urgently whispered. "Please help." Dad had caused earthquakes in Las Vegas surely he could make a school collapse at least part of one. I concentrated on the stone walls surrounding me, still sprinting for my life. I pictured destruction and put enough force into my arms to push over Mt Everest. The wall beside me began to shudder. My arms were burning, but I continued pushing on the air in front of me. The wall split, and fell. I slid out of the abyss before I got hurt, but my effort had me tired enough.

The chimera roared and spat fire everywhere. I could push down walls with mental power, but not resist fire. The school was now really on fire. The chimera began clawing its way out of the wreckage. I willed the roof to collapse, pushing on nothing once again to make it fall. This time the chimera got really angry. Its serpent tail spat venom at me. The stuff even smelt deadly. How the Hades was Justin meant to live? I pushed that question out of my head and ran away. I turned only to see the pile of debris had shifted and the chimera was not chasing me.

An angered roar thundered from ahead. I ran over.

"Nico?" Kyle asked. "Some warning please!" The chimera was trying to attack Kyle, but roots had tangled themselves around its feet. Kyle had been using his reed pipes to play some woodland magic song that made roots come out of the ground. The chimera's tail broke free and bit Kyle. He howled in pain and collapsed the chimera turned on me again. Savanna ran into the room.

"Nico!" she yelled. "Are you crazy?"

"A bit,"

"You can't fight it on your own!"

"I know!" I said. "But Kyle and Justin got poisoned! You have to help them."

"Fine!" she didn't look happy about it, but she begun whispering a healing prayer to Apollo, her father. The chimera pounced. Savanna screamed. I dove to the ground as a chimera flew over my head. The chimera smashed through a wall that began to split and fall. Savanna dragged Kyle back as the wall started crumbling.

"XYLOPHONE!" Kyle yelled in his unconscious daze.

I scrambled back as the wall's dark shadow approached. I braced for impact- for death. Savanna was screaming my name as time seemed to slow down. The wall seemed to slow its fall. I closed my eyes as a new voice screamed, "KYLE!" I dared to look up. I expected the huge wall to crash down on me at any moment. The sandy-haired guy who'd come out of the same room as the cyclops and chimera was at Kyle's feet. The rock began moving faster again, I slid out of the way, totally confused and shocked. The crumbling wall pounded the ground where I'd just been and shattered.

"RUN NICO!" Savanna screamed. The next thing I knew I was flat on my stomach on the floor. A huge heavy paw was holding me down.

"What is that?" sandy-haired kid yelled. The chimera got distracted. I rolled over and went to stab it. The chimera was to fast it jumped back snarling. I ran at it slashing my sword violently through the air. Chimera tried to bite me and as I backed up sent its snake tail over to bite me. I instinctively sliced its head off. The chimera wailed and roared. It charged. I ran.

We were running aimlessly through burning corridors and stopping to try killing each other for ages. I couldn't beat it. Finally I stopped. I concentrated on the ground, the underworld beneath it and earthquakes. I dropped my sword unthinkingly and clapped my hands together. Instead of the usual slap, there was an earth-shattering boom. My knees buckled, my vision went foggy and I dropped.

A.N: Just to let you know I'm writing this for my own pleasure and posting it so peeps can read it. If you don't like it you don't have to read. Constructive criticism will be appreciated and flames will be extinguished with the power of laughter (EAT HAPPINESS MEAN-FACE). And comments will be adored and given my uttermost love and adoration, OK maybe not that much, but I'll like you. Soz if you think Nico's a bit OOC, but when he starts to fit in around camp half-blood he'd probably be a bit lighter and not so grouchy, so don't blame me. If you have any suggestions on how I could improve a character's personality or how to make them more believable, please tell me I'm a fail at enhancing personality.