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Enjoy! Chapter 4 - Awkward Moments

Nico POV

"What. The. Hell?" I said.

Three people that I'd never seen before looked like they were about to kill Percy, Annabeth, and Thalia.

At my arrival, it seemed like they all snapped out of their glare/stare/frown fight.

Well, actually, they all turned on me.

I took a step back, and held my hands up.

Still, no one said anything. Wow. This was probably the most awkward situation in the entire universe.

Finally, I broke the awkward silence and demanded, "Will someone tell me what the hell is going on here?"

"I could ask you the same thing! You just appeared out of thin air!" one of the 3 strangers snapped back. She was tall, and looked like she could beat up Chuck Norris. Alright, maybe not quite, but you get my point, right?

"Um…?" was all I could get out in response. Don't tell anyone, but I was scared of her.

The other two strangers were still staring at me. One was a little girl who looked like one of those creepy life-sized dolls. The other guy was like… a larger sized me.

That sounded wrong.

"Actually," Thalia said, getting everyone's attention off of me. "We should be asking you. You just kicked down our door and ran into our hotel room."

Annabeth and Percy nodded in a 'listen to her!' kind of way.

"Who was that girl?" the creepy doll girl said. I nearly jumped back at her voice. It was menacing, controlling, creepy – not the kind of voice you'd expect to come out of that body.

Stop calling me the creepy doll girl.

It was her voice – the little girl's voice, in my head. In my head! What the freaking hell? Something was wrong with these people. Seriously wrong.

I was so confused.

"Um," Annabeth said. She seemed to be having a mental debate. "I guess we should tell you."

"From the beginning," Percy added, flashing a quick look at her.

And I was still standing here, confused as ever.

"But first, let us introduce ourselves," Annabeth said matter-of-factly. "I'm Annabeth, this is Percy, Thalia, Nico."

Well, at least they noticed that I was there.

"We already met Ariel," she said, smiling sweetly at the little girl, whose name was apparently Ariel. How can you smile sweetly at someone who just talked to you the same way Hitler talked to Jews? That was the weirdest comparison ever.

We all looked expectantly at the other two.

"I'm Max," the tall girl said. From the way that she talked, you could tell that she was a leader, and that she was tough. It was refreshing to see a girl who was tough, unlike those frail bitches from… Nevermind.

"Nick," said the future me, nodding at us, then looking away. I was expecting him to say "Nico" :P

"So, does anyone feel like telling me what's going on?" I said for the… third time, I think?

And of course, everyone ignored me. Again.

Suddenly, Ariel looked confused, and then angry. "Fuck," she muttered, earning glares from Max and Nick.

That was an interesting group of kids. Almost as interesting as us.

And then, suddenly, Max's eyes widened, and she turned around, dragging Ariel and Nick out. At the last moment, she turned around to face us, and snarled, "Stay here."

Then they were gone.

"Um," Percy said, after about a minute's pause.

"Will. Someone. Tell. Me. What. Happened?" I demanded.

Thalia rolled her eyes. "Fine, dead boy. Aphrodite comes in here because of that." She pointed to a pile of clothes on the floor that I hadn't noticed. "Then those kids kick down our door, the creepy little girl points at Aphrodite and yells 'That's her!' And Aphrodite looked scared. Like, mortal fear."

Thalia paused to think, and shook her head.

"And then Aphrodite said, 'Tell them they'll never win.' And then she disappeared."

"That was so strange," Annabeth said. "I mean, you always think that Aphrodite is, like, a dumb blonde."

"Not literally!" she quickly added, looking up.

"The little girl, Ariel… she talked in my mind," I said softly. "Her voice was in my head."

Percy, Annabeth, and Thalia all frowned – whether in disbelief or confusion, I couldn't tell.

"You know what this means?" Thalia said. "We're not done saving the world."

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