Oh my gods, hi.
Remember me? Remember this story?
I spent these 5 months thinking that I haven't written this chapter yet, but then a few minutes ago, I saw this in my Documents and saw that it was finished.
I was quite shocked. *smiled sheepishly*
Anyway, here's the story Define Awkward. Nico turned into a girl here.
You really don't remember? You know, a fanfic that is filled with pathetic excuses for humour and OOCs? No?
Well okay.
Much love,
Thalia Malfoy - there's a space in my pen name now! :D
Aphrodite waved Chiron away. "I'm here to talk to Nico."
Chiron moved his wheelchair backwards in uncertainty. "We were just discussing his quest to appease the Lady Hera." Aphrodite snorted.
"She looked terrible," she said, smirking.
"You're not bothered?" I asked.
She fingered her hair. "Why should I? She rudely said that I put on too much make-up the other day."
Mr. D coughed loudly, as if to agree with Hera, and Aphrodite looked stricken for a moment. I felt angry at him again. "You're perfect, Lady Aphrodite," I reassured her.
She flashed me a smile. "I already know that," she said. "But you're sweet. Which," — she dramatically turned to Mr. D — "is why I'm here, Dionysus." She sauntered towards him and touched his shoulder.
Mr. D looked at her hand, and made gagging noises and he seemed to be about to vomit. Aphrodite lifted her hand back in alarm and he stopped and smirked.
"Ah," Aphrodite said, shaking her head sadly. "You're still regrettably unrefined and unmannered, D."
Mr. D raised an eyebrow and looked at Chiron. Chiron shook his head as well, very slightly.
A sigh. "What do you want, sister?"
Aphrodite brightened up again. "I simply want to have a word with Nico, before he makes the mistake of accepting whatever stupid quest you and Chiron think of this time, D."
Mr. D closed his eyes. "I will forgive the insult, Aphrodite, but stop calling me D."
"Whatever you say, D." She reached out and grabbed my hand. Percy stepped forward in concern, but I told him with my eyes that it was okay, and he stepped back.
Annabeth, on the other hand, walked to the spot beside me and said, "What are you going to talk to him about? Are you going to use him as a toy so that you gods can have a bit of entertainment?"
Chiron looked up in worry. "Annabeth—"
Aphrodite's childlike smile disappeared. She looked at Annabeth with the contempt of a woman. Not that I knew anything about the contempt of a woman. Nor did I know that much about women at all.
Anyway, so Aphrodite was looking at Annabeth the way she might look at a cockroach. "Hera didn't like you, little girl. You don't want me to feel the same way, do you?"
Percy stepped forward again and pulled Annabeth back with him, and seemed to be whispering into her ear.
Aphrodite smiled at me again. "Now that that's done… Let's go!"
She led me down to the basement, where I watched that film Grover showed me when I first came here. I looked back over my shoulder as she pulled me. Mr. D looked bored by the window, Chiron looked concerned, Annabeth angry, and Percy fixed his eyes on me with worry.
We settled in the basement-room, and Aphrodite seemed to be examining more than my face. She seemed to be looking through my soul.
"Nico, sweetie," Aphrodite said. "You turned out to be a pretty girl."
I was unsure on how to reply to this. "Uh… thanks?" I wasn't really keen on being a girl, much less looking like one.
"But of course, you can't stay a girl forever," she continued with a shadow of a smile on her face.
"Yeah…?"
"I'm here to help!"
I figured that out for myself, funnily enough. "Lady Aphrodite…"
"Don't worry," Aphrodite soothed, rubbing my arm. "I've got everything planned out. First, don't accept that quest Chiron wants to give you."
"But—"
"Second," she interrupted, raising a hand to silence me. "You have to stay here. I'm giving you my own mission."
"Your own—"
"Shh," she said. "All you need to do is stay here, in your safe little camp. I will acquire the solvent for you."
"But—"
She shushed me again. "Nico, listen to me. I will get it, yes, but of course, you have to do something for me in return. You have to kiss three of the boys here in your camp."
"WHAT!?" Oh Zeus. "Lady Aphrodite, I think I'd rather take Mr. D's offer—"
"Darling." There was a dangerous tone to her voice now. "If you don't agree, I might think you don't like me… and I'd have to make an enemy of you."
Great, now she was threatening me. I knew it was dangerous to meddle with the goddess of love and beauty, but if I accepted...
"Why, though?" I asked. "Why did you decide to help me?"
Her expression softened, and she smiled again. "Nico, I've been observing you for years. No girl has ever caught your eye. I considered homosexuality…" Oh gods. "But no, I don't think so."
I nodded vigorously.
"Then I realized that you were one of those souls… The kind that doesn't look for love. But you are lonely, I know. You're uncomfortable around people, but you need someone. You need love. Therefore, you need me. I am love itself."
"I knew you upset Hera. I knew she was going to punish you with some impossible task… So I planned to turn it into my game. But I didn't realize that Hera would turn you into a girl."
I let out a snort. "Believe me, neither did I."
"I was supposed to ask you to kiss three girls, but I am not an avid fan of homosexuality, so I couldn't traumatize the precious flowers by letting you kiss them in your state. Three boys, then, since you are now a girl."
She's got it all twisted. "But, Aphrodite, I am very much a boy, even though I now take form of a girl. I thought you didn't like homosexuality?"
She sent a wide, blinding smile to my direction. "Nico, you have a vagina. That is enough. You are a girl." I choked violently.
She patted my back, and I looked up.
"So that's it? I just need to kiss guys and I'm free? How does that budge my status from single?"
She smiled. "It doesn't. But you would know what human desires are. Perhaps you'd learn to start pursuing girls. I think all you need is a little inspiration."
She stood up, and started to glow. "Do you accept, Nico Di Angelo, son of Hades?"
A/N - Whaddaya guys think? Deal or no deal? By the way, next chapter is when I get 40 reviews because there's this thing called school is it's keeping me busy from writing stuff.
Pearl0001: Omg, you used a lot of adjectives! I feel so loved! You're so nice! *dances around the room happily*