"Nico! Hey Nico, wait up!"
Nico looked around to see who was calling him from his alone time. With him and Hazel being the only ones that really hung around the Hades building, he got plenty of space to himself. As it turns out, it was Percy, running full kilter towards him. He held up his hands in self defense just in time to be barreled over by the sea god's son. They tumbled on the ground until they came to a stop in a jumble of limbs and demigod.
"Whoa, sorry Nico, I just got a little excited" said Percy, a little sheepishly. "I went on an awesome little adventure earlier and I guess I'm still a little pumped about it and there were these really awesome fish and... Are you okay?"
Nico was most certainly NOT okay, he just got basically tackled by his longtime crush, who now happened to be sitting on top of him ranting about his day.
"Of course I'm alright, I just got knocked to the ground by a person with kelp for brains." He was a little sour since being touched by people wasn't really his thing, but he let this go just this once. Just for him.
Percy flushed a light pink and mumbled his apology while he scrambled off of him. He picked him up and apologized again for the whole smashing into him thing. "Sorry again, like I said, I was just excited about earlier."
"Well, now that you're calm enough to think, why exactly did you come sprinting towards me? Without putting the brakes on that is."
"Oh yeah!" He scratched the back of his head, "I just wanted to know if you would like to hang out with me later tomorrow, I don't have much planned after about two o'clock. You game?"
Nico couldn't quite believe what he was hearing. "What?"
"You heard me, oh master of gloom and doom." Percy stuck out his tongue playfully at him.
He decided that if Percy was going to joke like that, he could afford to be a little bratty. "So the high and mighty saviour of the world wants to hang out with the "master of gloom and doom eh?"
Percy wasn't quite sure how to react to such a reply from Nico, so he kind of garbled his answer. "Well duh! I mean, you're not... I guess... Yeah, I'd like for us to hang out. It's been a while, you know?"
Annabeth came strolling from around the corner of the building. "So what's this about hanging out? I thought we were going on a date Percy." She pouted a little, pushing out her bottom lip in a way that didn't quite suit her.
Nico watched them bicker back and forth for a few minutes, like they were, as people say, an old married couple.
"But why can't it just be us tomorrow?"
"Because B, I love you, but I also have friends that I kind of like talking to every once in a while."
"Are you saying that I purposely take up all your time?"
"No, I'm just saying that I like talking to other people. I don't really see why it's a problem to-"
"But we already made these plans in advance for tomorrow! What about that huh?"
Nico was a little bored of the argument seeing as it was going nowhere. "No offense Annabeth, but isn't it still his choice about what he wants to do?"
She turned to him with a look that gave even him goosebumps. "Did you just tell me how to manage my tongue? Because I'm pretty certain that's a lot coming from an antisocial child of Hades that hates so much as the idea of talking." Her normally stormy grey eyes looked like twin hurricanes, swirling with anger.
"Annabeth! What's gotten into you? You're acting like Nico's the enemy or something."
Annabeth whirled back to Percy. "And you! There's nothing wrong with the way I'm acting, it's both of you ganging up on me."
Percy was astounded that Annabeth was being so cruel to Nico, he didn't deserve this, and she wasn't acting like her normal self. "B, are you ok? I'm sorry I asked him."
There was a steely glint in her eyes as she replied, "Sorry? If you were really sorry, we wouldn't be here right now, we wouldn't be arguing, and you would never have asked in the first place."
Nico was starting to see a vague, void-like darkness surround him, curling and uncurling at the end of his vision. "Annabeth, you do not manage other people's lives. It doesn't matter who you are, now if you would kindly shut up, that would be great."
Percy didn't like this, and it was getting really out of hand if they where exerting their demigod powers. "Guys, I really think that you should stop."
Annabeth was also seething with rage, her eyes literally lighting up, glowing softly with a lightning type anger. She didn't even acknowledge Percy's pleading. "I swear if you say one more thing, I will fry your little brain, if it's not already rotten from spending so much time with skeletons."
He raised his hand, ready to summon forth a few so called "skeletons" from the ground. She raised her hand like she was going to do what, throw pencils at him? But as soon as he thought that, he started to get a tingling feeling in his forehead, slowly building to an agonizing pain. The world started to slowly blank out.
He vaguely heard Percy shout something, and then a rushing feeling fell in place around him as he felt like he was being carried away by the approaching darkness.
Hey! It's me again, I had a crazy weekend with prom and stuff, so I feel kinda bad for not updating, because I plan to update every few days. I'm really excited that at least a few people have read this, so Woot! Thanks for taking the time :P Spoilers for next time: Nico is soaking wet, Annabeth is a jellyfish, and Percy is compared with a balloon. Thanks to brickman for my first review :3 they're going to be helpful in advancing the story. Until next time!
