Chapter 4- Nico gets a visitor

When I woke up I saw Nico staring down worriedly at me, my dad was on the opposite side of my bed.

'Perce?' Nico asked worriedly 'Talk to me Perce'

'My mom is she, is she' I couldn't finished my sentence.

'Dead no' Nico said

'Missing Yes' Dad said gravely.

I didn't know what I was meant to say Nico touched my arm gently, I looked up at him. 'I'm sorry Perce' Nico whispered.

I just stared down at my hands, not trusting myself to speak. Nico went to leave but I grabbed his arm, 'Stay' I said weakly 'please.'

'I'm sorry Son' Dad said gently, I know how hard this probably is for you.

'I've got to find her'

'Not in the state you're in Percy, and if you're going we're going with you'

'But-'

'No buts our wives won't let us home until our three weeks of bonding time is up, which means we have to come too, well I do. I'm going to find my brothers, rest my boy, you'll need it.'

'Percy-' Nico started. I looked up at him. 'I'm going too, and you can't stop me!' I squeezed Nico's hand weakly

'I was just about to ask you, I'll need you on this quest' Nico's eyes lit up,

'Really?' I was so used to Nico acting older for his age that I forgot that he was just twelve years old sometimes.

'Really' I assured him, I went to stand up but Nico pushed me back down,

'Don't get up yet, Percy your still weak'

'But-' Nico cut me off.

'I'm serious, if you want to save your mom you need to have your strength back. So don't argue with me' I rolled my eyes.

'Yes sir' I mock salute 'But could you get Thalia, I need to talk to both of you about this'

Nico nodded with a weak smile 'Okay, but just so you know she'll kill you'

I chuckled weakly 'I know, but anyway, I need to talk to her' Nico sighed

'Be right back'

'Thanks man' Nico just nodded in response.

He returned a couple minutes later, Thalia in tow and she looked furious. 'PERSEUS JACKSON! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING!'

I winced at the loudness of her voice, 'Sorry Thals, but I wasn't going to die you know, invincibility and all that.'

'But what if they had got your Achilles heel? We would've lost you Percy, what you did was stupid and idiotic'

'Wait' Nico said interrupting Thalia's rant 'Isn't stupid and idiotic the same thing'

I couldn't resist high fiving Nico for that. 'NICO DI ANGELO!' Thalia shouted. The son of Hades flinched at the loudness of her voice.

'THALIA!' The daughter of Zeus jumped 'Just shut up for five minutes and listen to me, okay?' She grumbled in response. 'Good, look Thals, I need to find my mom and I need you and Nico to help me okay'

'There's only one problem' Nico said 'How will we get our dads to agree to it Percy?' Suddenly all the hope I had held onto for finding my mom shattered and I felt tears pool in my eyes. Nico and Thalia noticed, of course they noticed.

'It's okay Perce' Thalia said placing her hand comfortingly on my arm, 'We'll find her, I know we will' I gave her a grateful smile, but my doubts were taking dominance of my mind.

'But what if we don't?'

'Don't say that Percy. I'm usually the pessimist here, but we will find her, as soon as you're better we'll find her whether our dad's agree to it or not'

'But what if it's not enough time?" Suddenly I heard a SLAP and my head was taken over by a dull pain. 'NICO!' My raven haired friend shrugged.

'I had to snap you out of it somehow'

'Okay we'll find her' I looked sceptically at Nico 'Better?' He nodded and I rolled my eyes. 'But we're leaving tomorrow whether I'm fully healed or not'

'But Perce' Nico tried

'I'm not changing my mind about that Nico'

'Fine, but what do we do about our dads-'

Suddenly Zeus walked in 'Although I'd rather not, we're all coming too since our children are going' Suddenly I had a lot more belief that this quest would be a success.

I gave a weak smile 'Thank you Uncle' I say softly, I didn't expect Zeus to hear me but he just looked at me and gave me a slight nod.

'You protected my daughter, I will help you on this quest' Then Hades came into view, nodding in agreement, for once, with his brother and my dad who was making his way over to me.

'We leave tomorrow' I informed them.

'But Perce-'

'No dad, I'm doing this tomorrow, whether I'm healed or not' My father sighed deeply, realizing there was no use in arguing with me'

'Fine' he said, 'we leave tonight'

That night I was awoken by the sound footsteps, I stumbled out of bed and saw Nico walking down the hallways in a trance like state.

'NICO!' I shouted 'NICO!' he either couldn't hear me, or he was just ignoring me, something was wrong. I bolted down the hallway after my youngest cousin. 'Nico snap out of it, Nic? NICO' It was no use. Then I saw it, the large chasm like I had seen when I had been shown my 'mom'

Nico was walking towards it I ran towards him and grabbed him around the waist pulling him back, he fought against me, but just made me hold him tighter. 'Bianca, no, BIANCA. Let me go Percy, I've got to save her, let me go, let me go' I was relieved he had realized I was there and was out of his trance like state.

'Nico, it's not real, you need to listen to me, Nico, c'mon buddy, it's just an illusion a trick of the mist. Snap out of it come on!' Suddenly something had taken over my senses too, all I could see was my mom, she was screaming, I could barely feel my arms still around Nico, so I quickly let go and grabbed onto his hand. But I could still see my mom, screaming in agony. I took a step towards her, and another, before I knew what I was doing I was running towards her and then I was falling and everything had vanished, then I could see nothing but black and I could still feel Nico's hand in mine.

'Percy?' he whimpered, 'Where's Bianca, what's going on? one minute she was there the next she was gone'

'I-' Suddenly I felt all of the air rush out of my lungs as I landed hard and painfully on a hard ground.

'Ouch' I heard Nico. 'Perce, w-where are we?' Suddenly it clicked.

'Divide and conquer' I whispered

'What?' Nico questioned.

'Divide and conquer' I repeated. 'They separated us so they can take us down one by one, they tried to separate you from us just minutes ago, then me and then Thalia, they weren't expecting us to be together, so they have one minor glitch.' I answer surprised I had understood so quickly, hanging out with Annabeth must be rubbing off on me.

'Percy , we have to warn them!'

'We will but right now we may have to kick some monster butt!' I had a feeling that this quest was about to become ten times harder. And Nico and I pulled out our weapons and we charged.

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