Nathan I
While in the car, Nathan couldn't help but feel depressed though he was thankful it didn't show on his face. He always would keep his feelings to himself so he wouldn't worry his family, but his wife could always read him and she would worry, which Nathan didn't want. Nathan would occasionally put his hand on his left eye to think to himself. During the time of the Giant War, Nathan was a camper at Camp Half-Blood, but was never claimed, but when the seven had already left, it wasn't long before Nathan was claimed by the titan, Prometheus. He explained the situation that he would tip the scales of the war in the gods favor if he was with the Prophecy of Seven. Nathan wouldn't accept it at first, but he knew he had to help his friends so he took his father's advice to see Rachel, the Oracle, to receive a prophecy from her and join the seven on their quest to Greece.
After Nathan had helped the seven in several events that would have lead to their doom, as they found the couple, Nathan knew his time had come for him to leave. So he snuck out from the Argo II and his father came to his sons' aid for his quest to gather reinforcements and the titian teleported them to the side of Bob (Nathan's uncle) and Damasen (a giant), before they were claimed by Tartarus and saved both their lives, but with a price had to pay dearly by losing sight in his left eye as they escaped. After the four escaped, his father was mortified of his sons' fate, but Nathan shrugged it off as they continued on their quest. The next location was getting Calypso off a deserted island that the gods banished her to. When they arrived, she was surprised at first, but as Nathan explained the situation at hand, she knew she had to help, though she was a bit worried of getting off the island with her banishment still intact. Prometheus reassured her that she could escape with the help of him and Bob since the prison could only withstand so much power and adding Nathan's powers they all safely escaped. Before the final battle, Nathan had to do something about the two camps before they could kill each other, so he asked his father to transport him to where Nico and Reyna where so he could, with the help of his father, get to the Camp Half Blood faster and to prevent the war to happen. His father was happy to help and they both appeared to Hades son and the daughter of Bellona's daughter, which freaked them out.
The two demigods were about to attack, since Titans weren't really welcomed, more less invited, although, Nico stopped immediately as he saw Nathan and he quickly explained the what was going on. Reyna was honestly glade to see Nathan, but was still a bit spectacle about his father. Both camps were surprised to see the statue and suddenly the gods appeared at camp, their Roman and Greek aspects safely in tack. The gods were a bit surprised and confused to see Prometheus in the lines of Camp Half Blood, but again, Nathan explained and said a full on speech on to the fact that the Prophecy of Seven would need everyone's help and aid if the world needed to be saved. After that, it was all a blur to Nathan as the gods agreed and with the help of them, Greeks, Romans, Titans and a giant, prevailed against Gaea and her sons. Victory was won.
After the war, the gods wanted to discuss a matter of Nathan and how he had saved them all even though they argued at the fact of him being a son of a titan, but the others vouched for him to live and the gods surprisingly stopped arguing and continued the discussion at hand. They asked Nathan if he wanted a wish granted and he knew what he wanted. He explained to the gods that there are some good titans and giants and wished for them to live a peaceful life and to be welcomed into Olympus and to also recognize all the gods so they wouldn't be resented anymore and all of them would have their own shrines. Zeus was about to argue, but Nathan was not finished, he also wanted the gods to actually visit their sons and daughters of both camps from time to time to have a more, "family bond" which Nathan never had when he was a child. A lot of the demigods that heard this felt very emotional about the proposal and wanted this to happen. The Seven were also teary eyed and supported Nathan for the plan for a better future. The gods discussed on both matters and for the majority rule, it was passed.
With all that has happened, Nathan didn't realize with all of his thinking that they had already arrived at Camp Half-Blood and his wife, Catherine, had tried to get his attention.
"Nathan, we're here. Are you sure you're alright? You didn't speak throughout the whole ride here? Is something troubling you?"
Man, he always had to worry his family and he hated that about himself.
"I'm alright Catherine, I was just thinking about a few things. Why don't you take the kids and follow Percy and Annabeth. I'll get the luggage out of the car." He replied.
"But….." He wouldn't let her finish as he gave her a kiss on the lips and gave her a warm smile.
"I'm fine, really, I just need time to be alone for a while, I'll meet you both inside." Nathan replied to his family, though his wife still looking worried headed out with the Jackson boys to the Big House.
He sighed and got out of the van and started to unload each of his family members' bags.
"Need some help Nathan?" He heard a familiar voice suddenly asked him.
The son of Prometheus quickly turned and found a man that had ghost white pale skin with shoulder length messy black hair and eyes, though he looked like he hadn't slept for weeks. He wore a black V-neck and a black leather trench coat that fell to his knees with jeans to match his outfit. There was also a black sword that was swung to his side and was also wearing a silver ring on his right hand and silver skull ring on the other. Nathan thought his heart was about to stop, since the newcomer suddenly appeared right behind him.
Nathan wasn't sure if he was relieved to see this man or wanted to kill him.
"Nico di Angelo, why do you always have to scare me like that? I really thought my heart was going to stop." Nathan replied, still shaken up.
Nico smiled this. "Sorry Nathan, but you should know by now that I'll always mess with you. I consider you the little brother that I've always wanted. Besides that," His smile faded as he looked concerned for him. "I'm worried about you and right now, I can sense something is wrong."
He froze in place, nervous and didn't know what to say to Nico, he saw right through him, but he didn't want to worry his cousin. "W-what makes you think something is wrong Nico?"
Nathan tried to hull the luggage by himself as he passed Nico, but a grip tightened on his wrist and he turned to Nico, looking a bit concerned.
"Nathan, I know you better than that. You're lying to me, I can tell. You usually tell me everything, so what's on your mind?" Nico asked.
He really didn't want to tell Nico, but he knew that the son of Hades was very persistent and wouldn't stop until he gets the truth. Nathan let out a sigh as he set the luggage down and confessed, "I've just been thinking about the quest a few years ago. I still have nightmares when I went to Tartarus and actually fought hi-" Wait that last bit wasn't supposed to come out and Nico seemed like he was frozen in place, too shocked to what he had said.
"Wait; did I just hear you say you fought Tartarus? Why didn't you tell me?" Nico said a bit angry now.
"I didn't tell anyone what I did, alright?!" Nathan yelled in a panic. "I didn't want to worry everyone with what I had to do."
"And what was so important that you had to go down in Tartarus and fight him?" Nico asked, a black aura seemed to get stronger as he saw anger in the son of Hades eyes.
"I-I can't tell you Nico, It-It's hurts me, I just can't." Nathan said as he held his left eye.
He felt a grip on his shoulder and it was Nico and he seemed to calm down, but not fully.
"Yes you can. Nathan, you can tell me anything. I've told you about my past since I trusted you that much, now I want to know what's troubling you." Nico said.
Before Nathan could reply, footsteps where heard and they were running towards them and a man with medium length wavy dirty blonde hair and blue eyes appeared behind Nico, giving him a peck on the cheek. He was wearing a blue t-shirt with cream colored pants and gym shoes. Over it, he was wearing a brown leather jacket.
"Nico!" The man yelled sounding a bit frustrated. "You just shadow travelled suddenly without a word and left me behind!"
Nico blushed, but pulled him closer to him to kiss him. "Sorry Will, I just wanted to see an old friend."
He looked at Nathan and beamed with a smile on his face, he shinned like the mid-day sun.
"Nathan, oh my gods, you're here! Where's your family?" He asked as gave him a bro hug as he smiled at him.
"Oh, they're already in the camp, told them to meet me there, when Nico appeared out of nowhere and scared the Hades out of me." Nathan explained and Nico smirked at this.
"Ah-uh, well, don't keep me in suspense. What did you guys talk about?" Will asked.
The two boys stiffened a bit, not know what to say before, Nico spoke up, "We were just catching up on some things, and Nathan said we'd talk later, right?"
Nico as he spoke placed his hand on Nathan's shoulder, tightening his grip which the son of Prometheus, knew that Nico wouldn't let this slide.
Nathan smiled a bit and said, "Right Nico, it's nothing, Will really. You don't have to concern yourself, it's just us bros talking."
Will studied the two men, trying to tell if they were telling the truth. Before he could ask, Nathan could hear a pair footsteps running towards them. Nathan tried to look, but he was tackled down by a girl of 12 years old, who had long blonde hair and blue eyes. She was wearing an orange "Camp Half-Blood" t-shirt with blue jeans and gym shoes.
"Crystal, be careful. You could have hurt your uncle." Will said.
"Sorry dad, but I haven't seen Uncle Nathan since Christmas and besides that, I was trying to beat Seth down here, guess I won." Crystal replied triumphantly.
"Sorry sister, but as usual, I win." Nathan heard from behind him and he turned to see a young pale boy who looked to be seventeen with medium length black hair and eyes. He was wearing a black t-shirt with skulls on them; over it was an old aviator jacket with black jeans and shoes. He looked like the splitting image of Nico when he was his age.
Crystal pouted as she glared at the boy. "No fair! When did you get here?"
"A few minutes before you arrived." He simply said.
"You can't Shadow-travel, that's cheating Seth! Dad, tell him he can't do that!" The twelve year old complained.
Nico couldn't help but grin at his youngest daughter's predicament. "I'm sorry Crystal, but Shadow-travelling is all fair." To prove his point he suddenly vanished in the shadows and appeared right behind Will, who was startled, as he pecked him on the cheek once again. "See."
"But still…." Crystal said still angry.
"It's alright Crystal, I'm sure you'll beat Seth someday. You just got to keep practicing. I've known Will for a long time and he's one of the fastest runners in the Apollo Cabin I've seen, compared to the Hermes cabin, but I'm sure you'll catch up to Seth in no time." Nathan said and Crystal smiled at him and gave her uncle another hug.
"Wow uncle, I'm truly impressed you've calmed Crystal down so fast." Seth said.
"Well, being a son of Prometheus does give me a few perks and helps now and again." Nathan replied.
Seth smiled, but then he looked like he realized something. "It was good to see you uncle, but I should go, since you're here, Andrew bound to be here somewhere as well. I'll see you around." Seth said as he vanished into the darkness.
"Seth, come back….Oh forget it. Come on Crystal; let's go see your Aunt Catherine and little Lumia!" Will said and Crystal beamed up as this and they both walked away from the two boys.
"Well, I see your family is doing well." Nathan said as he laughed a bit.
"Yeah, but that's not what we're talking about here. Now tell me the truth, the whole truth Nathan." Nico said getting back on the topic at hand.
Nathan sighed, but knew he couldn't keep anything, especially from Nico, who he considers him like an older brother.
"Alright Nico, here's what happened." Nathan then explained the whole story to Nico.