An update! I hope you guys like it.
Disclaimer: Rick Riordan owns both Percy Jackson & the Olympians and Heroes of Olympus. Not me.
Once everyone sat on the table, Demeter allowed them to start eating. Three pair of eyes watching for their reactions. The first one to speak was Thalia.
"Who cooked this?" she asked and Hazel lowered her head.
"I did." She said quietly.
"Are you sure you don't want to get in the Hunt?" Thalia asked and Hazel looked surprised with the question.
"What? I mean, no. But why you're asking?" The daughter of Pluto asked surprised.
"So you cooked for us everyday"
"What? No!" Jason yelled in outrage "She's coming to Camp Jupiter!" Hazel looked like she was about to say something, but was interrupted.
"Shut it, Grace!" Percy yelled, "She's coming to Camp Half-Blood. I've never met a girl who could cook just as well as my mom. You're coming with me Hazel." Katie nodded in agreement while eating eagerly.
"You're all being ridiculous" Zeus said and Hazel was about to thank him, but was again interrupted. "She's coming to Olympus"
All hell broke loose.
With everyone fighting, Nico was the only one to remain silent, besides Hazel and Hestia, of course. The poor girl tried to speak for herself, but was always interrupted.
Nico ate in silence; he wasn't even paying attention on the fight. When he finished, he got up with his plate in hands, taking it to the kitchen and stayed there. Much better than staying in all that mess in his opinion.
With nothing better to do, Nico washed his plate and everything Hazel, Demeter and Hera must have used to cook that amazing dish. He noticed someone entering the kitchen and watching his with curiosity by the corner of his eye. Nico clenched his jaw and ignored the other's presence.
"Your mother used to say that a real gentleman never leave all the kitchen work for the women." Hades commented watching his son finishing the last pot. Nico stayed quiet. "She cooked and I washed. She didn't like much being taken to restaurants. 'There's no food like the one cooked at home', she used to say."
"Why are you talking about her?" Nico asked trying to control the pain in his voice.
"I thought you would like to hear…" Nico fought the urge to laugh.
"You never talked about her and forbade me to summon her spirit." Nico said, his voice as cold as ice as he turned to look at his father "For four years I have been trying to please you so you would tell me a minimal thing about her, you never did. I don't know if you remember, but you even tricked me on the first time I did!"
Hades was stunned by the boy's words and couldn't find anything to say. His son started yelling by the point "I stopped trying to please you. I just went to underworld to visit Persephone. Hell, I don't even know how she does it! I would go mad. Well, madder then I already got."
"You surely must be going mad because I will not allow you to speak to me disrespectfully!" Hades barked angrily.
"I'll speak with respect with those who deserve it!"
"I'm your father! Speak to me with me with more respect or I will…"
"You'll what?" The young boy barked with a fierce look in his eyes interrupting his father mid-phrase. "Kill me? Gladly! You'll be doing us both a favor!" With that Nico ran out of the house, leaving five confused demigods and six shocked gods.
Five demigods gathered in an empty in the third floor, discussing about what they just heard down stairs.
"No wonder he acted that way in the forest borders!" Katie said and the others nodded in agreement.
"I should have known" Percy said sadly "I'm the one know him the longest…"
"You should've known? Percy! He's my brother! How did I never notice?" Hazel yelled angrier with herself than at him.
"Blame ourselves will do no good. We need to find him! I know he can handle himself, but it's not like I'm letting him stay alone in the forest at night!" Thalia said and the other agreed.
"It will be better if Jackson and Hazel stay here" her brother said and both Hazel and Percy looked outraged and about to object. "Hazel, clearly Nico is not Pluto's favorite, and talking to his favorite will not help." Hazel bit her lip, still angry, but could see that Jason was right. "Jackson, you stay with Hazel."
"I'm going with you!" he argued.
"You won't help at all!"
"He's my little brother!" Percy yelled and Jason felt like knocking him out.
"He's on a weak state! Seeing you will only break him more!" Jason argued angrily. Why can't him just give up?
"Jason's right" Thalia said. Wait, I am? How does Thalia know that? What does she know? Jason asked himself growing pale, afraid that she knew of Nico's secret and that he would come after him thinking he told her. "We know Nico's fatal flaw in holding grudges. You can't come, obviously he still blames you for Bianca's incident."
Jason mentally thanked his sister, but didn't know what she was talking about. And obviously couldn't ask and played along. Apparently he wasn't the only one who didn't know what she was talking about. "Bianca's incident? Who's Bianca?" Katie asked confused.
"Nico's sister. Bianca Di Angelo. He never told me how she died." Hazel said sadly.
"I don't think he really knows. Only if Bianca told him, what is really unlikely since he only succeeded in summoning her once, and I was there." Percy said staring at the window.
"One shall be lost in the land without rain" Thalia murmured sadly "We were in the desert, Zoë, Grover, Bianca, Percy and I passed through the Junkyard of the Gods. Bianca didn't know that there are consequences for picking something from there."
"Talos. When someone picks something from there, the metal giant Talos wakes up to kill the thieves." Percy explained bitterly.
"She sacrificed herself to save us." Thalia said.
"I promised him that I would do everything to protect her. I failed." Percy said, "I'm staying. Find him, please, I failed him once, I don't want to do it again."
"We will." Jason said leaving the room with Katie and Thalia behind him.
"You finally did it!" Demeter yelled angry. The other gods have never seen her so angry in aeons. "You finally pushed away the only child of yours that actually liked you! Congratulations!"
"Demi, this is not time for fights." Hestia said putting a hand over her sister's shoulder.
"We need to find him. I know you set up protective yards on the woods so no monsters would get in, but not in the whole woods and we all know something doesn't need to be a monster to be dangerous" Poseidon said surprising everyone.
"Zeus, you and Hera will stay with Hades. First, to keep an eye on him, we don't want him doing anything stupid." Demeter said glaring at her older brother "Well, more stupid."
"Why do we have to stay with him?" Zeus asked annoyed. He would rather go after a moody teenager.
"You did kill his mother when you were trying to kill him, so, yeah, you're not in his list of favorite people." Demeter said cynically. "And Hera, you're not know for your love for demigods. Besides, I trust you not to let them burn this place to the ground."
"Fine." They agreed. Hestia, Poseidon and Demeter went out to start look for their nephew.
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So…. I know it's short, but I'm trying to update my fanfics as much as I can before school term. I have the idea of next chapter ready, I just need to write it now. I'll try to make it longer though.