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Nico and Will split up, because how bad could it be traveling alone as a powerful demigod with lots of training? They realized this was a terrible idea after about three hydras, an arrow in the knee (To which, Will was called many names as he pulled out the arrow.), and a small flock of man-eating birds. They were looking for pretty much anything silver when a trap opened up from the ground, and a hand grabbed Will.
"HELPPP!" Will yelled to Nico reluctantly.
"Idiota." Nico said, dashing into action.
In a few swipes, and a few arrows later, the monster was still there. Nico looked agitated, and Will was getting tired.
"What is this thing!" Nico yelled, frustrated.
"I don't know, and I definitely don't care." Will said, knocking four or five arrows.
As Will let the arrows fly, Nico threw his sword. When they hit the monster, it disappeared, and silver dust appeared on the ground.
"I'm telling you, this has something to do with that arrow. All the monsters we kill have either become pink goop or silver dust."
"This means nothing, Solace."
"HOW!?"
"You're just paranoid. It's the string. The dust is most likely silver because we're looking at it in the wrong light."
"Sure it is."
Will climbed out of the hole they were in, and Nico followed behind him.
"It's night, and I'm tired." Will said.
"I'll take first watch. If you're so tired, then I'll make sure no more 'pink goop' monsters come to attack us." Nico replied.
That night, no monsters attacked, but there was a strange, silvery light nearby. Nico went to investigate a bit, not going too far as that would alarm Will and drag him. Nico saw an arrow with a silver glow, and a cliff in front of it. The arrow hung on a blue string just out of reach unless you stood at the edge of the cliff. Nico walked forward, and saw a whole cesspit of monsters. He saw headless ones with chest-mouths, gray-pale monsters with glowing red eyes and long nails, and worse. He walked closer, and saw a single pink shard in the midst of the monsters. He grabbed his sword from his pants, but it wasn't there. He'd left it with Will. Nico cursed. He inched even closer, and stood at the edge of the cliff, reaching for the arrow. The cliff edge broke, and he fell down, into the pit. All the monsters looked up, as if waiting for a meal. Nico screamed, and then he felt someone shaking him.
Nico told Will about the dream, and Will nodded. He grabbed the scroll from Chiron, where he had jotted down the prophecy. He began writing what the lines meant.
"Alright, here we go.
First line, 'Sun and Shadow are Bound' means that not only are we bound and the sun and moon's shadow are bound, but I'm guessing that our lives are bound together now.
'Travel to the land without Sound' sounds like we're going to go somewhere where we can't talk or do anything with noise.
'Find the lonely Death' means something with death. It sounds like those were extremely dangerous monsters in that pit.
'Unify with a single Breath' Means something about unifying something with a breath.
'Face the monster with a fear-striking Hiss', so it's one of those monster in that pit.
'Send your souls back with a single Kiss' Means we kiss someone and send our souls back to the real world and out of the spiritual one.
'Hold on and don't let Go' Means we shouldn't let go of something, probably that cliff.
'Or fall to the ones that we don't Know.' Well, we don't know the names of those monsters. We've figured out the prophecy." Will said.
"Okay, in that case, we should find this cliff." Nico said.
"You said it was in the woods?"
"Yeah. Oh, please don't."
Will walked into the low branches of a tree and disappeared. "Come on, Death Boy!"
The string slowly thickened a tiny bit, to where it was almost a cord.
"I hate you."
