Here is your awaited new chapter! I'm only allowed to update on weekends, so bare with me.
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Nico woke up silently at midnight. He slipped out of his cabin and entered the moonlit night. The moon looked angry, though Nico couldn't tell if that could happen. Harpies roamed the skies, looking for any campers trying to sneak out after curfew, which included him. He didn't shadow travel. He didn't feel very strong. Instead, he felt weak. Vulnerable. And definitely not a son of Hades.
A death god's son would be stronger and way more dangerous. Nico tiptoed all the way to the forest where he definitely should not be. But the forest gave him the silence and peace he needed, where no one can interrupt his thoughts and can think things through.
Many people say it's idiocy or arrogance for the children of the Big Three. In some ways, it's true. Percy got idiocy and Thalia got arrogance. But its not exactly true. There's some brains in Percy(otherwise the world would have ended already) and some modesty in Thalia. And Nico was stuck right in the middle. Not exactly dumb, but not smart. He loved to think. Not arrogant but not really modest. There's nothing to brag about.
It was annoying to say the least.
Nico reached the edge of the forest without setting off any "Harpy Alarms". Though Harpies were close to Hades, he didn't feel that he wanted the Harpies to know that he was breaking the rules. Whether he was related to Hades or not, to the patrolling Harpies, it didn't matter. They would eat him.
The cool air whipped his long nightmare black hair, which fell between his eyes and his eyes scanned deeper into the forest. The darkness invited him in. Nico knew something would happen soon, but couldn't put his finger on what. He knew, though, that it wouldn't be good. Since when did good thing happen to him?
He trudged into the forest. The deeper he went, the more the air around him tensed. But he ignored it.
Soon he reached an opening. The place where he usually sat. But by that time, the air around him had reached it's strongest point, which made it like he was walking in a container full of gel. There was nothing wrong with the area from his vision.
And like always, he forgot that the gut feeling was always right and that his senses weren't that reliable. So a monster chose that moment to attack.
Nico whipped out his sword and swung it at the attacking Minotaur.
"Didn't Percy kill you a few months ago?" He growled and dodged a flying claw(paw?). His instincts were too focused on attacking that he moved a second too late. One of it's sharp claws dug deep into his cheek. Blood rushed out of the wound while he ran right back at the bull, raising his sword. All the anger and sadness build up came down at once as he stabbed the Minotaur's right leg. It roared. Trees shook, the ground cracked and the harpies surely heard. Nico's eyes flashed.
He stabbed his sword in to the ground and chanted in Ancient Greek, "Rise spirits of the dead. Follow the son of Hades to the earth. Drink from the fountain of life so you may talk with me and train me the son of Hades to fight my enemies." Skeletal warriors clawed the ground's surface and rose from the cracks. They each carried a gun in hand, and shot Stygian iron bullets at the monster. It was successful, since the Minotaur turned into golden dust, but all the commotion had caused the Harpies to be on alert. He had to run and get back to his cabin. Fast.
Thalia snapped her eyes open. A mist formed in front of her and an image came into vision.
Artemis.
"Thalia, what are you doing in this cabin?" It was only then Thalia remembered that she was still in Cabin 1.
"My lady! I, uh, was looking around. You know, I haven't visited this place for a long time." Artemis raised an eyebrow.
"And slept here? Anyways, I have an urgent monster call in the East. I won't be back for a while, so I trust you to take care of my hunters. Can you do that?" Thalia hesitated, but nodded, "I must go now. Make sure none of those boys mess with my hunters." The goddess slashed her hand through the mist as the image disappeared. Thalia sighed and stood up. She had to get to the forest. Something told her that things were going down hill there.
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