So, here's the next chappie! Hope you like it! Once again I do NOT own any of the characters, just the OC. I don't really put much effort into thinking about these things so I don't notice the typos and all until I upload them so I'm really sorry if it doesn't make sense to some.

On another note, I've been getting some reviews saying that I'm self inserting myself as the main character. Let me get one thing straight; Jackie is NOT my real name, it's just a name I picked out for my French 2 class where we had to have French names. Also I do have enough imagination in me to make up other characters, I just don't feel like putting them in because I feel they should be revealed at a later time. I do indeed have enough imagination to muster up a completely different word that is not in a dictionary. There. Satisfied? I'll talk more about it later.

Enjoy!

NICO'S POV

"Are you sure, Nico?" Annabeth asked for the tenth time today.

"Yepth, I'm sphure," I said through a full mouth of mashed potatoes we were having at school.

"Lay off, Annabeth," Grover said in amusement, "The dude's eating his mashpots!"
"Grover," Annabeth said in an annoyed tone, "for the LAST time, 'mashpots' is a stupid term for mashed potatoes."

"Whatever," he groaned in protest.

After I'd swallowed a mouthful of mashed potatoes, I leaned over to Grover.

"I still think mashpots is a better term," I whispered and he nearly doubled over in fits of 'manly-giggles' as Percy would like to put it.

Which turned my attention to him. He wasn't in the laughter like me and Grover, neither was he in the glaring mood like Annabeth, he was just serious-looking. He stared straight at Grover's water bottle.

All I know was that the next thing that came flying in Grover's face, was the water from the bottle that read: "Naturally spring made for the good at heart." Extremely ironic in this situation.

Speaking of natural, I saw a pair of green eyes staring straight at me. They were probably fake, considering they were from a fake-face owner who I like to call 'Devilish Evil Stare That Is Nasty Yellow." Also commonly referred to as: Destiny. I did not like that girl one bit, and yet she tries to impress me by flirting. I'm too old for those shitty games, I want real fun.

Which reminds me of going back to Camp Half Blood. I was ready to meet new demigods that the protectors found. Which also turns me back to another, possible demigod.

"So what exactly happened with you and Jackie?" Percy spoke up after moments of silence from him.

"Uh," I couldn't actually tell him how I felt about it. "She had this sort of energy around her, like she wasn't scared of anything."

"And?"

"Nothing else," I said as-a-matter-of-factly.

I wasn't really comfortable about telling him that her eyes had that kind of expectant shining. Or how she was actually cool with me bumping into her. Not the sort of lady things I would see in a girl. But maybe that's just me.

"Well," Annabeth spoke up, "I guess we have the wrong person, then."

"Yeah," Percy said in a daze.

"Well I gues that means we gotta go," Grover hopped up.

"C'mon, Nico," Annabeth held out a hand, "we gotta get back to camp. You know how Mr. D is with us being late. Not too happy."

"Okay, yeah, sure." I said as we got out of the cafeteria.

All of a sudden, I felt this kind of tingling inside me. Not the funny kind, this one was menacing. Like someone near us was in danger. I perked up my head and listened to that familiar sound of a hellhound chasing someone.

"Nico," Percy shushed me before I could conjure up some of my skeleton army buddies. He stealthily pointed out to a girl with brown hair running from a 20-foot long hellhound.

Great. This should be easy.

JACKIE'S POV

I quickly ran into a small pine tree collection as a huge Rotweiller chased me. It had to be at least 60-feet long! It didn't seem to go for anybody else but me. Great! And while running for my life, one of Destiny's little friends even shouted, 'What're running for? The Dork-olympics?' She's definitely a dumb blonde.

I climbed a tree just as it's paws started to swipe against the bark. I sat on a high, thick branch that would support my weight and waited for it to go away. It didn't.

For after what seemed like hours, the mega dog STILL didn't stop swiping at the bark. Suddenly, with a flash of bright light and a fire, it erupted into golden ash.

"Well," I grunted as I jumped off the branch onto the ground on all fours. "that was a bad doggie."

"Definitely," a familiar voice said.

I turned to see Nico di Angelo, the guy I met before P.E class, walking up towards me.

"What was that thing?" I said as I got up.

"Hellhound," he said shortly, "from the Underworld."
"The Underworld?" I asked surprisedly, he nodded. "Like, the Underworld?" He nodded again.

Footsteps crunched on the warm soil of June in Manhattan. I looked over Nico's shoulder to see the two guys and one girl he was talking with during P.E.

Which brought me back to my next point.

"What were you guys talking about?" I asked.

"What do you mean?" the guy with the sea-green eyes asked.
"Over during first period. You guys were talking about something while everybody was gathered around me about the whole 'wall' incident thing," I made air quotes to add emphasis on what the situation was about.

They each shared a look that I think meant 'She'll-flip-out-if-she-learned-the-whole-truth', sort of thing. Finally the girl with the grey eyes stepped up and grabbed my wrist.

"We'll tell you on the way," she said reassuringly, "But right now, there's too much danger around to be talking about this stuff."

With that, all five of us were on a trip to someplace I'd like to call, 'freaky-place-that-has-no-meaning-whatsoever-in-my-life", in some direction towards Canada, Ohio, the Atlantic, or the other direction towards the Atlantic.

NICO'S POV

While we were walking, Annabeth explained to Jackie that she was a demigod, or halfblood. I'm surprised she didn't actually flip out when she learned about her having one of the gods or goddesses as a parent, she just nodded.

Grover was gnawing on a tin can he found on the round, slightly murmuring 'Juniper is so gonna kill me if she finds out I ate this!' every five minutes. Percy was deep in thought, he wasn't talking. Which I found weird, considering he was a talkative one back before we left camp.

Back to the girls in front, Annabeth had put on her orange Camp Half Blood t-shirt before we left. She was wearing comfortable blue jeans that were a bit ripped here and there from all the training. Her blonde hair was tied up in a ponytail. Then my eyes moved on to Jackie and her small form. She was wearing what she was wearing this morning, except it didn't look as dirty and dusty as it was now. She had on a red hoodie that said 'Go, Panthers!' in the front and some light blue skinny jeans. She looked really comfortable in them, she said she even sleeps in them if she's really tired. Her feet were not-so-comfortable looking, considering she had on slightly heeled flat sandals. Her brown, shoulder-length hair was ruffling in the slight wind. My gods, she was pretty in the sunset. Wait, what?

She turned her head in my direction and I looked away, but not fast enough for Percy to notice, so he snickered at us.

"Nico," he called to me, "I need to talk to you. In private." He grabbed my arm and pulled me farther from the group, where Jackie was staring intently at me, and I stared back at her.

"You like her don't you?" Percy chuckled.

"Uh, who?" I asked as if I didn't know who he was talking about.

"The new girl," he said.

"Who? Jackie?" I gasped in surprise. "Nah, she's just a P.E buddy." Good going, Nico.

Percy laughed. "Suuure," he said teasingly. He ALWAYS knows where a crush comes from.

JACKIE'S POV

I turned to look back at Nico and the sea-green eyed guy, whose name I later learned was Percy, were talking. Nico spared to look at me and I suddenly noticed how he looked in the sun. He was sort of pale-looking, he had that ruffly black haircut that looked messy. Kind of cute on him. His black eyes, which I didn't care about the color, were gleaming when he looked down. I felt a droop in my heart.

I suddenly felt this spark inside of me, that lighted my eyes to see Nico di Angelo in a different light.

I hope you guys liked the second chapter! I'm gonna get into the action a bit late in this story because I really like the way the two get to notice each other. That's what the story's about, right? So anways, maybe in the next chapter or two I'll get on with other perspectives other than Nico's and Jackie's. Review for more chapters!