Back! So, I'm gonna add a little twist. And before the Chapter, I'd like to thank my readers and reviewers that keep their patience up for a new chapter! Thanks guys!
So, here it is!
Disclaimer: Me still don't own it. I do have a plan of kidnapping Rick and force him to give me Nico*wink*.
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A howl pierced the silence.
Darkness. There weren't any signs of life in the cold depths of Tartarus. Only the swift beating of a heart was there. The others were just spirits. Waiting until their return to the world and waiting until they reform.
Thub-dub, thub-du, thub-dub.
It beat rhythmically. The shallow breath of it's owner were muffled.
"Zin." A whisper said. The girl shifted in her sleep.
"Zin." It called again, a little louder this time. Now, the girl slowly opened her yes. Adjusted to the lack of light, she listened closely for another call.
"Zin." It said yet again.
"Father?" she hastily asked. The temperature couldn't get any colder but it did.
"Zin. Where are you?" he asked.
"Right here. Always right here." She said with boredom in her tone. Like right here was the last place she wanted to be. She waited patiently for another reply, but none came.
And then, so sudden that there wasn't a time to react, a ray of light appeared. Unlike any other ray, it was powerful. Nothing that could ever appear in the pits of tartarus could support any ideas on what it was. But it was enough to make any eyes turn away.
And nothing could survive it's power. It was raw power. And it somehow knew it was being violated. Someone was peeking into itself. And it pushed the violator away. Strangling it, until she loosened her grip on the memory.
(Back into reality)
Sam gasped and fell on her bottom. She gasped for air as she scrambled away from Zin, like Zin was a monster that she feared the most. And that would be the first, since Sam was almost virtually not afraid of anything.
Nico almost fell down the same way. Only he was laughing at her expense. He couldn't believe he would see the day that Sam, oh so tough Sam, would be scared of something. But not just anything. That thing was a small girl, sleeping comfortably on the couch.
Lips in a straight line and face most angelic, Zin had the most peaceful dream she had since she left her home in tartarus. It was dull, of coarse. No colors, no faces, nothing but endless voids of blackness. But she was used to it. She afterall, lived in the deepest, darkest place on the planet.
Chiron on the other hand couldn't believe he had gotten a child in the utmost danger. The way Sam reacted had confirmed his conclusions as to who this girl might be. And none of it were good.
"Shut up pretty boy." Sam growled at Nico. She glared at him, with as much hatred as she could master. But Nico just doubled over in response, tears slowly forming in his eyes.
"You- And then she- And then- AHH!" Nico gripped his head as it pounded. Somehow, Sam was able to kick his large head with her foot, but still remained on the ground. She smirked a little. 'See who's laughing now', she thought, but her eyes glistened with dread.
"You wouldn't understand. She- She has this certain aura, and it runs chills down my spine. At first, I just shrugged it off," she shook her head and stared at Chiron, who was in the corner, who looked like he was clinging to her every word, "but then, her mind. It's too pure. Like someone is blocking me off, warding trespassers." She continued.
"Pure? As in clean pure?" Nico asked, still mad about the kick but had his hands down at his side and was now standing straight. Looking at Chiron, then to the girl he just rescued, down to his little comrade, who was standing up and brushing off the dirt on her cargo pants.
"I think that's what her mind is. It's so…innocent. Like she's never exposed to our world at all." Sam mumbled but still looked at Chiron as Chiron looked at the sleeping girl.
"All I could tell for now is that if we haven't got her godly parent yet, we'll be in terrible danger." Chiron said with a grave tone. Nico, wanting to get off the case and do something productive instead of all these dangers and bad-happenings, tapped his feet impatiently and rolled his eyes at the old horse man.
"Yeah, yeah. I get it. Dangers and Evil tacos. Could I go now?" he asked, crossing his arms over his chest. Sam looked at him, offended for the old centaur but Chiron had hidden humor in his eyes.
"You seem to be kind of impatient today Nico?" he pointed out but Nico just gave him a loud huff.
"Oh, he just wants to get back on his make out session with the Aphrodite girl named, what's that again Nico? Mary? Mary Sue?" Sam asked with a smirk, that seemed to be plastered on her face, permanently.
"Her name's Mary Weikens, Sam. And I'm not impatient of going back to her. She's awfully been too clingy lately." Nico glared at the kid.
"Gee, I guess since you've gotten past her ego, you notice it now?" she retorted.
"Feeling lucky dream girl?"
"Yes. How about you death breath?" she asked, stepping once so that they were just close enough to violate each other's comfort zones. But seeing Sam's a little smaller than him, Nico smirked. Sam started to tick off her 'Always-Wanted-To-Do-To-Nico-Big-Headed-Angelo' list and started with the first option. And it wasn't an option to laugh at.
"What are you guys doing? Who's dancing?" a sweet voice asks, followed by a yawn. Zin had apparently woken up, and was rubbing her eyes to rid of the sleep dust.
"Oh, we're not dancing. Yet." Sam said, stepping closer to Zin and leaving the comfort zone of the son of Hades.
"Yes. Not yet." Nico agreed. Chiron merely looked at them and back to the young girl.
"Good noon Zin. Did you have a good rest?" he asked, eyes soft and warm.
"Yes, mister horse-man sir." She smiled at him and Chiron winced. Both Sam and Nico were, for the first time, laughing with each other and covering their mouths to block off the sound.
"Now Zin, I want you to tell me exactly what you feel okay? Feel free to come by and talk. For now, I'll send you to cabin 11, there you'll meet the others okay? Will you be fine?" he asked. She nodded.
"Wait! What about the whole dangers-awaits-if-she's-not-claimed thing? I thought we're doing that?" Nico asked suddenly. Sam gave him a 'what-the-hell-' look and Chiron smiled.
"Surely you'll make her rest first right? Tuck her in at night?" he asked, innocently.
"Wait, tuck her in? I'm no babysitter!"
"Surely, you seem to be..ah, concerned about her being claimed. Surely you'll see to it that she'll be perfectly at home right?" Chiron said. 'That old bastard.' Nico thought grimly as Chiron assigned him with the new task.
"HA! That's what you get for being the pretty boy Nico!" Sam teased with a chuckle. But it looked like Chiron wasn't done there. The old man still had surprises off his sleeves.
"Ah, but surely Sam, it'll be a life time opportunity to get in touch with your feminine side. You're both now responsible for the safety and well-being of Zin here. I hope it's alright with you." Chiron asked. Who knew a thousand year old centaur could have so much fun.
As Sam was about to object, a small figure, which is supposed to be the body of choppy black hair and navy jacket tackled her.
"What the-" she began.
"Yeahay! A new friend!" Zin said with a giggle or two. Nico began to step away, undetected but Zin had noticed him.
"You too." A flying hug came his way. Zin didn't know why, maybe it was because he wrecked like home, but she was somehow inclined to him.
"Good. Now that you're introduced, you're now dismissed." Chiron said.
And the trio left the house, with a Zin on Nico's back and Sam leading them into the afternoon and with a few colorful words here and there.
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After a few days with Zin, you'll begin to expect even the impossible.
After the whole 'incident' in the big house, you'd expect that everything was to be back to normal. With both demigods' lives in their usual routines and nothing ever changing.
But that's where you're wrong.
After tucking in the little girl in a new sleeping bag at cabin 11, both sleepy figures straddled to their own cabins and fell asleep, as soon as their heads hit the soft and comfy pillow, awaiting another normal day tomorrow.
But the little girl had other plans. As tomorrow came, their routine was broken by simultaneous jumps on their beds and giggling in their ears.
Sam woke up first. With a jumping kid on her bed and groaning cabin mates.
"Rise and shine!" Zin said with a grin.
"Zin you know it's" she looked at her clock beside her bed and opened her mouth in shock. "6 o'clock in the morning?" she groaned. How the Hades had she been stuck to babysitting duties with the weird kid?
"Well, I can't sleep with the whipped cream-filled pillowcase those nice kids gave me. And the whole, frog inside the sleeping bag wasn't fair for the frog. I had to let it out!" she smiled a bit.
Sam gave out one large groan and dropped her head back into her pillow, wanting another minute of sleep.
"Wake up!" Zin ordered. But seeing she'd been going on far too long, and still no response, she wished all she can for some help.
And help did come. In liquid form that is.
Sam yelped as the cold settled in on her.
"What was that for?" she asked, her voice threatening violence. "Was that really necessary?"
"At the moment." Zin smiled and hopped off the soaked bed.
"You'd better be willing to keep your life kid. Cause you're this close into seeing Hades soon." Sam lifted her hand and raised her thumb and forefinger a little bit apart, seeing how close she was into strangling someone.
"Come on!" Zin shrugged the threat off and threw a towel to Sam, that came up from who-knows where.
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"Holy crud! What was that for?" Nico jumped off his bunk, shivering and in his Greenday shirt and boxers.
"Sam said you were better awake when wet!" Zin said through the open window of cabin 13. Snickering could be heard outside, but Nico was too busy glaring at Zin to know who was it, or what we're they seeing.
"I don't care what Sam says. Why. Did. You. Wake. Me." He asked, glaring.
"I don't really know." She shrugged. "But seeing you're awake, let's go start our day!" Zin smiled and Nico looked like he could kill.
"You're dead to me okay." He growled and stalked off into the bathroom, grabbing a pair of clean boxers, a pair of pants and a Skillet shirt.
"I am?" Zin couldn't help but be bothered.
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"Zin! Don't aim it there!" Sam yelled from afar, but it was too late. The arrow flew gracefully, aiming for it's mark. But the target dummy wasn't what it was aiming for.
A mixed whine of a horse and a groan of a man could be heard.
"I hit something!" she yelled to Sam and Nico were on their bellies, who were a few yards back, seeing how she had done with a bow and arrow after a few tries. She has at least broken Percy's record of worst archery skills.
"Yes you did. Now come on before we get caught!" Sam hissed at her, while Zin stood there, trying to see what she hit.
"Come on pea brain. Move before we get caught!"
"Move before we get caught? Why?" she asked.
"Caught by-" Sam was cut by a large shadow that towered over both of them. she gulped and turned around.
"Caught by whom?"
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OMGosh! A Cliffie! Oh, so, who'd you think the mystery man is? Find out next time dearest readers!
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