Hey guys! So this is the second chapter, sorry it is so short but it explains about the fight that Maia and Nico had in way more detail then my previous story. I hope you like it and the 3rd chapter should be up soon.
He looked at me with a blank expression. The light seemed to drain from his eyes as he realised that I was telling him the truth.
The second Titan War was only three years ago, at the time Nico must have only been around twelve years old. To be that age and watch your friends and family die around you, to be shoved to the frontline of a war you really didn't want any business in… I couldn't imagine. But I guess I would have to soon.
I only found out I was a half-blood a few months after the Titan War, because of a promise Percy made with the Gods. No one at camp talked about it; however there is always a memorial service on Percy's Birthday (a bit of a downer for him). The only time anyone had ever told me about it was on my first day when Annabeth was showing me around the camp. She looked away as if in a distant place and only spoke a few words: 'It was awful, imagine the only thing that was ever stable in your life, getting ripped out from under you; shattered and destroyed right before your eyes. Olympus almost fell; it was only because of Percy Jackson that it didn't.' I had no words after she said that, I looked away and kept on walking but not before I noticed a single tear falling from her eye.
That night I was claimed, I found out that I was the only known daughter of Poseidon, sister to the famous Percy Jackson – Saviour of Olympus. Of course, at first everyone just stared at me when I walked passed, but after a while I made friends – like Nico, and the Oracle: Rachel as well as some of Percy's friends, but they were only people that said hello as they knew Percy not because they wanted to know me and no one else really wanted to talk to me. I presume they thought that I would be a stuck up mermaid princess like Ariel or something.
But as I stayed at camp for longer, most of my friends drifted away from me, apart from Nico. That was when we became really close. We were both outsiders, as much as I loved camp, sometimes I just wanted to get away from my demigod life where it felt like no one could trust me to do anything, because I wouldn't do it as well as Percy. When I was with him, I felt so much more like my old self before I had found out my true parentage. But then we had the argument. I don't even remember what it was about. But it turned nasty very quickly.
We were out in the pavilion and I remember the ground shaking, because of him or me I don't know. Cracks began to form around his feet and skeletons clawed their way up from under the ground, bring with them a cloud of black smoke. He radiated a deadly power that no one should have been stupid enough to attack against.
In hindsight it was probably not a good idea to think that I could take him on, but I pulled nearly half the river up and threw it against him as his skeleton army ran towards me. When they started attacking I pulled out my sword and fought them away to get to Nico who had managed to stand up again after the water had knocked him down. He drew his sword and we sparred, it wasn't an even fight as he was trained much better than I was in using swords. I blocked strike after strike but eventually knocked away his sword. I looked up at him and he didn't look like he had broken a sweat, a cold feeling came over me as I realised that he had let me knock away his sword. I knew he was about to attack with is powers again, but I was injured from the skeletons (who I have to say, put up a very good fight) and the battle with him so didn't have it in me to defend myself when he threw a ball of black energy straight at me. It threw me back several metres before I smashed into a tree trunk causing a mini earthquake while the remaining water from the river exploded out of the river bed.
By this time about three-quarters of the camp were watching our fight and now struggling to stand because of the earthquake, luckily Percy pushed through the crowd and calmed the water and the earthquake. From behind me I felt arms wrap around my sides Will Solace was pulling me away from the reforming skeleton army while Percy slowly and warily approached Nico. The last thing I remember that night is Nico pushing Percy away and collapsing into the shadows and disappearing.
After that night I went back to my home in Ohio and didn't see Nico Di Angelo for about two years.
Anyway, back on subject. The Titans seemed like bad news.
'I-I-I…this can't be happening' stuttered Nico as his knees buckled and he fell to the floor. He pulled his knees up to his chest, placed his head into the palms of his hands and started crying. Nico di Angelo was crying. This was so out of character I had no idea what to do. He usually showed next to no emotion which was easier for me to deal with compared to a crying son of Hades who could literally kill me if I did something wrong. I was dumbstruck and didn't know how to react but I moved closer to him and sat down. 'This must be bad' I thought as I cautiously wrapped my arms around his shoulders as he let out a shaky breath, trying to stop himself from crying as if he remembered that I was actually there.
'I don't know what to say…' I stated.
'I don't know what to think…' he replied. 'I was so young in the second Titan War, so much was at risk, the whole world was at risk and if Percy had died I would have been the child of the prophecy and I was terrified.' I sat their uncomfortably unsure of what to say next.
'I'm sorry Nico, I really am, but I don't know what I can do…'
'Just promise me one thing.'
'Anything.'
'Don't let me leave you again.'
'I wouldn't.'
'Thank you.' He paused thoughtfully, regaining his composure, 'and if you value your life you won't speak of this whole…thing.' I almost laughed. He was afraid that I would tell someone that he cried.
'Of course not Di Angelo.'
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~ Saltwater10
