Chapter 7: Fight on! (Nico's pov)
Cool. I noticed American Idiot by Green Day was playing. My favorite song and it happened to be great battle music.
Anyway, all four of us charged at them. Mortals screamed in terror as they ran. I have no idea what they saw through the mist but it must have been terrible. Lauren, Magnus, and I were going one-on-one with the furies, while Carlie shot arrows at them.
I fought my fury and she was pretty fierce. I finally defeated her and looked around. Magnus was a pretty good swordsman. Lauren was doing fine. Carlie was standing up on a table, shooting things that weren't furies. Then did I realize that the furies weren't alone. They brought some friends. Empousai. Ok time to bring the battle outside.
I called Magnus and the girls then we ran outside. Magnus didn't defeat his fury but he started on the Empousai. I started slashing, hacking, and stabbing. It was going good until I heard a scream of pain. I stabbed an Empousai in the chest and look for the voice.
I saw who it was. Lauren. An Empousai, Kelli, was standing over her. Anger rushed over me and my adrenaline kick in. I ran as fast as I could, slashing and cutting the whole way there.
"Now die you stupid demi-god." Kelli said before she went in for the kill.
I came up to Kelli from behind and impaled her with Resurrection. She looked at me before she disintegrated. "You will regret this Nico, son of Hades." I looked at Lauren her eyes wide with fright.
"Hey. You ok?" I asked her.
"No. But I will be later."
"Come here. You need to get out of danger." I quickly sheathed my sword and delicately picked her up.
"Yo! Magnus! I'm taking Lauren out of here." I yelled toward him.
"Why?" he said loving the semi-gory battle. Then he saw Lauren in my arms. "Uh ok you guys go ahead. We'll meet you guys in Central Park."
"Ok…wait." I remembered that our bags were in the restaurant and I had nectar and ambrosia in mine. I ran to the joint and placed her gently in a booth. I grabbed my bag on put it on then grabbed hers and slung it over my shoulder.
"I'm going to shadow travel, ok." She simply nodded her head as she slipped her arms around my neck assuring her safety. I ran to the entrance and concentrated. Right before we hit the doors we disappeared.
We appeared somewhere in the middle of the park. I placed her gently on the soft grass. I took out some nectar and ambrosia.
"Yeah umm I don't really know what I'm doing." I said as I took it out. I gave her the ambrosia and she ate it. "Where are you cut at?"
"On my arm and leg." She said. She winced as I pulled up her sleeve and pants leg. I slowly poured the nectar on both wounds and they healed immediately. Good. They weren't TOO deep.
"Thanks." She said.
We looked into each other's eyes. Her eyes were…purple. I leaned in to kiss her and all of a sudden SNAP! Carlie and Magnus appeared out of nowhere. Damn it! That's the SECOND time Carlie's burst in on us. We back away quickly.
"Hey guys!" she said between the giggles. She eyed us weirdly.
"Shut it." I said.
"Gods guys. We NEED to go to L.A. like NOW!" Magnus said irritably. We got off the grass and walked over to them holding hands. Then Magnus snapped and we reappeared in L.A.
"WOW. I haven't been here in years." I said ecstatically. Then I started walking around and ALMOST got ran over. I couldn't control myself. What's going on?
