"OH WOULD YOU FUCK OFF MATE!"
They all heard it, a girl.
Nico ran ahead and found the source in an open field.
The girl with the long black hair and golden eyes stood bent over in the middle.
Her right arm covering her side which was bleeding.
Their eyes locked.
Nico saw her opponent, coilcus bull. Nothing she normally couldn't handle but everywhere around her there where piles of yellow dust. Her energy was drained.
The rest of the group found the field and stopped in their tracks.
"Ah fuck, bull." Percy winced.
Nico sprinted, reached with his right hand.
She took it. A small flash of black energy surrounded them for a few seconds. Just as the bull charged again.
With his left arm he shielded Wrynn, who could barely stand up.
With his other arm he grabbed his sword, and waited for his chance.
The rest of his group took position, surrounding the bull from all sides.
The ground rumbled the bulls legs disappeared into the ground in les then a second. Annabeth moved quickly and jammed a knife into his head, the bolts started wiring and the head shook. The sword vanished into the head. "Oh bull." Annabeth let out as she quickly stepped back.
"Percy! What did you do last time!?" She yelled.
"His mouth is his only weak spot."
They all nodded.
Frank Leo and Jason moved fast, Jason jumped on top of it and held its horns while frank turned into a bear to weigh it down as it was slowly coming free of its trap.
Leo jumped in front of it, "come on fella let me show those teeth of yours.
It growled and opened its mouth, heat was coming from it as it was ready to fire, Percy threw his pen to Leo and after clicking it threw it into his mouth. Where it turned into a sword.
"Get off!" Percy yelled and gestured everybody to take cover.
They all sprinted to the trees.
In one swoop Nico lifted Wrynn in his arms and shadowtraveld.
The sound of the bull's mechanics became louder, one moment it stopped. A loud explosion followed.
"Wrynn." Nico whispered as he pulled her closer.
He felt his breathing become rapid.
A warm hand cupped his face. "Missed me?" She said with a small grin.
He laughed a bit and nodded.
"We have to be careful, I don't know what else is near, I've been here for almost the whole day now, a lot of the monsters ran off when the bull showed but I doubt they went far."
Nico nodded and stood up with her still in his arms.
"Almost makes me feel like bloody princes." She murmured.
"Guys?! Everybody okay?!" Percy yelled from the other side of the field.
They all am urged from there hiding places.
"Annabeth, ambrosia?" Nico guested.
She ran towards them while fiddling in her bag.
Nico put Wrynn against a tree for support. "Show me." He pointed towards her side.
She pulled away her hand, a large wound showed, consisting of 3 individual claw marks.
Annabeth handed her the ambrosia of which she carefully took a bite.
The wound stopped bleeding but it was still very deep.
Annabeth took something else from her bag, a fresh pack of bandages.
Softly Nico pressed one on the wound and tried to get a better look. His hand stopped as his gaze fell on her back. He softly let his finger run over the small
Side of her back that was showing, scars covered it completely, all where long lines, he knew what had happened. Next to him he felt Annabeth's gaze looking at the same thing, both suddenly going back to bandaging the wound, neither of them said anything. "Guys I have a bad feeling qi should go back." Hazel said as she was looking around.
Nico picked Wrynn up again.
"Introductions can wait. Thanks for the help and eh hi?" Wrynn said awkwardly as they all started walking.
"Well I'm Percy son of Poseidon. And that is Annabeth daughter of Athena." Percy pointed at her. And decides to just go around. "Frank is the big Asian over there, son of mars and next to him hazel daughter of Pluto." Both waved politely. "The blond guy is Jason son of Jupiter and over there is piper daughter of Aphrodite. And the short one is Leo son of Hephaestus."
"WHO YOU CALLING SHORT!" Leo growled. "Leo for once pay attention, he called you short." Annabeth teased.
"It's an absolute pleasure to meet you all, I think you already know who I am but still, the name is Wrynn daughter of Thanatos."
They all smiled at her and continued walking.
"Quick question, why eh are you just wearing shorts and a hum weird looking bra." Piper asked red as a tomato.
Wrynn looked down. "Oh well the bull kind of destroyed my top and the Minotaur ripped my jacket, the serpents took my bag and some really nasty cows took my provisions. Yeah today was fun."
She laughed.
"That all happened today?" Frank said in astonishment.
Wrynn nodded. "And some other but they didn't take or broke anything so it wasn't part of the answer eh."
"I guess you are right." Frank smiled.
It took a few hours before they could set up camp.
The sun was already setting.
"I will put up a barrier." Nico walked to the edge of the camp and put his hands on the ground, a small spark came from the tip of his fingers.
After a minute he stood back up and completely ignored the faces of the others while unpacking his sleeping bag.
Wrynn sat on a fallen dead tree, inspecting her bandages thoroughly.
She decided they would have to last a bit longer. They had already used up the whole pack.
Leo started a fire and slowly they all came to sit in front of it.
"Wrynn I hate to ask you this right here but Chiron informed us that you know what the new thread is." Jason spoke calmly and looked her in the eyes.
She raised her shoulders.
"Could of expected it, doesn't matter I can tell you all."
She adjusted her position and leaned against the dead branch.
"A while back I was in Brooklyn, visiting an old friend of mine, we went out to takkies it's a food joint for downworlders like fairies, vampires etc.
I remember I wasn't feeling well after about an hour and went to the bathroom to freshen up a bit, I felt really sick and started to shake, I wanted to go get my friends but I was nailed to the flour, the bathroom door opened and a guy walked in, around 18 years old, blond hair, and almost white eyes. He had a creepy grin on his face; the moment I wanted to speak everything went dark. I woke up at one moment and felt that I was chained to a chair. Normally it wouldn't be a problem to break free but I still could barely move."
She stopped for a moment. Jason gestured for her to go on.
"They started to ask questions like, do you know what you are, who is your parent etc. Like vomit the words poured out.
Except for one question, I never told them who I was. It annoyed the hell out of them apparently. I think I was on that chair for a few days till something happened and a guy rushed in giving that blond guy a piece of paper.
I kind of knew I was fucked because he spoke my name.
They took me to a cellar. Sometimes they would come take me to a dark room and well first nothing really significant happened, after a while they started to turn more aggressive. Time was hard to tell there as there were no windows."
"Who were they?" Annabeth asked a bit uneasy.
"Demigods, just like us, only they had different parents, Nyx, night, day, Gaia and one was from chaos himself. It was very clear what they wanted, even a monkey would know, and I was part of the key to get what they wanted."
"They want you to resurrect them don't they?"
Piper whispered.
She just nodded.
It was completely silent for a long time.
Percy broke the silence.
"Wait, if you were also close why where you not at all the battles the past years, I mean the gods want you in them, the both of you, but only Nico was called up on it."
Nico inhaled a sharp breath. He didn't want to hear what was coming. "Well it wasn't till I got out I knew how long they had me there, I was 16 when they took me there. So I guess I missed all the fights and the gods didn't know where I was during that time."
Percy lost the entire colour in his face.
Looking around he wasn't the only one.
Guilt struck him as he remembered the time he was lost without memory of anything but Annabeth and how horrible it felt to him. Feeling a fraction of what she must have felt was a feeling that he couldn't handle, even being in Tartarus itself would have looked like a walk in the park. Almost 5 years, being a prisoner, Annabeth had whispered to him what she saw. And yet she didn't even seemed fazed about it, the only evidence that it took a tale on her was her body and the way she slightly shivered under someone's touch that wasn't Nico.
Lost in thought he hardly realised some had gone to sleep.
It was just him, Annabeth, Nico and Wrynn at the fire.
He followed Annabeth's gaze.
She was looking at the fingers of Nico and Wrynn, fey sat apart a bit, but the tips of their fingers touched. They were holding back, till a moment the rest had gotten used to the fact of what they are.
"Hey wise girl," he said looking up. "Do you think we are also soul mates?" He smiled.
Completely in shock she started laughing.
"Seaweed head what a thing to ask! You know the gods made us fall in love for the humour of it, smart girl with a klutz. I would pay to watch that." She said through her laugher.
"If you are going to call me klutzes at least add brave before it!" He grinned.
Wrynn almost fell over from laughing while Nico was covering his face trying very hard not to join Wrynn on the ground.
In the morning they all packed there stuff and started walking before the sun got up, Nico pulled down the barrier.
After a few hours Nico stopped in his tracks.
Wrynn looked over.
"Where?"
He pointed behind them.
"It was following us at a calm speed but is now closing in at a rapid pace."
They all nodded and took their swords.
Their eyes where all looking to the point Nico gestured at earlier. There was no sound.
A loud crack followed by a grunt as the creature emerged. It jumped over Nico, too high for him to cut it down.
It landed right between Wrynn and Leo.
It snarled, its eyes where focusing on Wrynn sword.
"I'm not in the mood for a sphinx today..." Wrynn murmured as she put down her sword.
The ground shook and absorbed the sword that reamurched under the sphinx piercing it heart.
A last snarl before it turned to dust.
"A sphinx? Wtf they never get so close to camp." Percy called out in astonishment.
Annabeth agreed. "It's very odd. We should keep going, camp is close."
Nico caught up with Wrynn and they all walked in silence, listening to any weird noises.
It wasn't long till they ran into their first guards of the barrier at the camp.
Friendly greetings where spoken.
"You guys have been gone or a while we thought it would take 2 days max, what happened?"
Spoke a boy with blond hair and blue eyes, he carried a small box with him aswel as a bow.
Annabeth sighed. "We had to travel a bit farther than expected and we came across a coullcus bull." She lifted her shoulders "so it took a bit longer than we thought aswel."
"But quest accomplished?"
Percy nodded.
"Well guys before you go back into camp there is something you should know... There are a lot of rumours going around as to where you guys went and who you picked up. People who know the old stories... Well they are pretty pissed that only now the ones from legends are called upon."
They all looked at each other. "Ah well that was to be expected." Wrynn laughed.
The boy looked frazzled. "What's your name by the way?" She asked.
"Oh sorry I should have introduced myself, I'm Will solace, son of Apollo."
"Pleasure will." She gave him a smile.
"And for the rumours, it was sadly impossible for me to come sooner. Location issues and stuff." She looked straight ahead towards the camp.
Will nodded. "Well you guys should get going; Chiron would want to see you all as soon as possible."