Authors note: Nico will be hold a rather childish personality at first since this takes part during the 'Titans curse' when Percy and Thalia bring him to camp half-blood. I was reading over it and realized that Nico was in fact childish at first. I honestly think that when Bianca left though and Nico was left at camp half-blood he must have evolved some why other another, considering this is really the first time he's on his own without his sister. So you'll be sing some of that evolving from Nico as a character in later chapters. Though he wont really snap until the end when Bianca doesn't come back, which is easily understandable. Also in the first chapters I really wanted to capture real childish and innocent love from Nico,which I think you can kind of find in here towards the end. Of course there will be kissing and romance but I really think that will come with him as he evolves as a character so don't be expecting full blown kissing in the next three chapters or anything like that. I'm also sorry that this got posted later than I wanted to( I was delayed) but here it is anyways true to my words,anyways enjoy! R&R!


It's been a two months since my last run in with Clarisse. Somehow she managed to get assigned with some quest from Chiron I wonder if she threatened the poor Centaur to get the quest but Chiron would have easily won if so. My stay at the Hermes cabin was rather enjoyable, though I yearned for my parent god or goddess to claim me. Luna also had this schedule thing where she would try to wake me up before the crack of dawn; she rarely failed much to my dismay.

I tried to contact my parents but with no phones or wireless in the area I couldn't come up with any ideas, also no one was very supportive of me contacting my parents with the risk of exposing myself as a demigod. It would be stupid to say I didn't feel guilty about the whole thing but my mind certainly wasn't filled with thoughts of them either. No, instead they were filled with the thoughts of that little boy; I dreamed of him often.

I explained it to my friends once but everyone brushed it off and Emma joked it was a dream sent by Aphrodite. Of course that day I was left blushing while all my friends were laughing at me. It turns out that Daniel and Emma were children of Hephaestus and true to legend they did have the ability to create some of the most amazing necklaces, fighting tools, and trinkets. They seemed to hold their abilities with honor and were proud of their parentage regardless of their father, who was marked "lame" or " hideous".

In fact I agreed with them I had read about the story of Hephaestus, regardless of how much was true or not, I still don't think he was treated fairly by his mother or the other gods. If legend was true he was one of the nicer gods and, personally, he was one of the best so it was easy to see why he was one of my favorites even before all of this began. I heard rumors about the god who was in charge of camp, Dionysus, and how mean he was. I thanked Zeus that I hadn't had any confrontations yet with him.

Dionysius, although not the worst god, was not on my top three if you know what I mean. He was the god of wine and had quite a reputation in Greek mythology to be quite the party animal and that seemed to be the opposite of me. I could think of a thousand things that would be better than to drink all day and party all night but I'm guessing that Dionysus couldn't think of a thousand things to do better. Yes, I did see him in camp grumpily stomping around and miss saying children names on purpose, glaring at every demigod in eye sight.

With all of this in mind it explains why I don't just walk up to him and say, "hey! I'm Zoe!" Also I don't exactly want to be marked as the 'trouble maker', which I'm sure I would be. Because lets be real; what idiot would just walk up to the boss of the camp and introduce yourself? Your basically asking for trouble if you do that, Because the best way to stay out of trouble is to stay invisible especially by the person who owns the place, which is Dionysus.

I had heard stories about a camper named Percy Jackson, a son of the big three, and how he had to retrieve Zeus's lightning bolt. What had amazed me more is that it was a rather current event and not a hundreds year old story. Apparently Percy Jackson would come back at some point so I was looking forward to meeting the guy or at least seeing him around camp.

Luna stayed her rather sarcastic self and enjoyed to mess with me it seemed the longer we knew each other the more comfortable she became about messing with me. I still have yet to figure out if I should be happy or extremely ticked; though now that Luna just ripped off my covers and began hitting me with a pillow to wake me up, I'm leaning on extremely ticked. I tried to rip the pillow away from her grasps but was unsuccessful.

Maybe if my eyes were actually open I might have been able to grab it but I was still half asleep and I wasn't thinking about that at the time. I lazily opened my eyes to be met with another hit from the pillow, I shot up. I was shocked and that woke me up immediately though I was displeased by this when Luna crossed her arms in happily and held her head high, I clenched my teeth. I swear smoke was coming out of my ears but Luna only threw my cloths at me, smiling, and walked out.

I decided to lay in my bed for a little while, I had that same dream again. It was that boy and we were laughing and smiling and suddenly I was holding for dear life. I sighed and began to put on my jeans and light blue shirt with the wavy cut end; I brushed my hair and put my hair up in a messy ponytail. I seethed with jealously when I saw some campers still sleeping soundlessly in the Hermes girls part of the cabin. I grabbed my toothbrush and toothpaste, walking quietly towards the girl's bathroom to brush my teeth.

I shivered walking out the door as the breeze hit me; I ran back inside to grab a light jacket before scurrying out the door. I wished I had more appropriate shoes as I began walking outside; light snowflakes were falling outside and sooner than later I would be walking in snow wearing sandals or flats. I shivered due to the cold and the idea of walking in the snow wearing my shoe's, I would have packed more if I had thought it through. I brushed my teeth, which was rather hard considering my mouth kept chattering.

I than moved some of my hair behind my ear and rinsed my mouth as if it was mouth wash, though I knew it didn't really do anything. Slipping my toothbrush and toothpaste into the plastic bag I began to walk outside; it seemed to only become colder as the snow began to stick onto the grounds of camp half-blood. I was pretty grumpy for the rest of the day.


Later that day I heard children cheering as the snow began to stick on the ground even if it was just a filled the campus as campers happily watched the snowflakes hit campus ground.I rubbed my arm when it grew cold hoping I could at least make it a little warmer. I frowned when only a few seconds later my arm grew cold again and saw no point in trying to make it warm again so I just walked along trying to find any sign of Luna, Emma, or Daniel.

Though I didn't have to look far because I heard a screaming noise behind me and with no surprise I jumped in a defensive position, it was Daniel. He was laughing now as I raised an eyebrow, "where's Emma?" I asked knowing that the twins were not seen together.

He smiled "working in the arts and craft area I kind of lost interest after a while though so I said I'll meet her at dinner time" he answered fallowing me around.

I nodded, "have you seen Luna?" I asked looking around the snowy grounds. He nodded "saw her after she ran out of your cabin after that no idea" he answered giving me a crazy smile.

His smile suddenly winded as he received an idea, "let's practice some of our fighting" he suggested brightly. I scanned the idea over in my head and agreed, though Daniel was going to win, we began to make our way towards the armory.

He walked in a confident stride towards it and I fallowed rolling my eyes at how full of himself he was. I decided to stop fallowing and made my way up next to him, "you know I heard that Percy was coming soon" Daniel said out of nowhere.

I looked at him with pure curiosity, "and where did you hear this?" I asked not believing him "oh, it's just a rumor going around I have no idea whether it's true or not myself" he answered shrugging his shoulders. I nodded as he walked into the armory; Daniel passed me some armor and a sword inside.

It took Daniel about six minutes to put on his armor although with me it took twenty-one minutes. I haven't really practiced sword fighting much, which means less time practicing to put on armor. Daniel thought it was quite funny and didn't even tried hide it as he let giggles slip by the dozens and even bursted out laughing on some occasions.

I could then understand than why Emma threatened to bitch slap him the other day though I held it in. Once I got my armor on and Daniel stopped laughing I stomped off ahead of him, he thought that was funny as well and let another chuckle slip.

I turned around sharply giving him a glare and he clenched his lips together and shaking his head making a hand movement for me to continue, all the while trying not to laugh his head off. I continued to stomp off hearing a few of Daniels giggles pass his clenched lips, I ignored them this time.


I fell on my butt again as Daniel put the sword up to my neck, I surrendered in defeat. His eyes were gleaming now in pride, he had managed to kick my ass three times in a row. I snorted as Daniel removed the sword off of my neck and held it in the air as his obvious mark of power, he ignored it though.

He helped me up and I wiped the grass off of my pants. Me and Daniel called it a day and decided to head out and try to find Luna or do something else to waste time; we were going to be few minutes early but it didn't matter. There still seemed to be light around but it was slightly dark enough that the lights around the houses shimmered just a bit.

We passed the big house on our way and I was greeted by a call of my name by Chiron from the door of the big house, Daniel looked at me surprised and I told him to go on ahead. He agreed and walked on ahead, stepping toward Chiron I looked at him confused and walked into the big house.

I jumped and my eyes went wide, I was pretty sure the boy in that room was the one from my dream. They looked so much alike in fact now that I looked closer I was sure it was him! He wore a childish smile though but his eyes held no adoration, yet.

I realized that my mouth was open and shut it quickly swallowing nervously I also realized who was in the room. Percy Jackson was standing in the room and looked at me with his green eyes matched the exact description that campers gave! Chiron coughed getting me out of my daze. I blinked and turned to Chiron, "Zoe you're rather new why don't you show Nico around here" he said pointing to the boy with silky black hair "and show him the orientation film while you're at it" he said.

I nodded, "orientation film? Is it rated G or PG cause Bianca is kinda strict-" I decided to cut him off because he was mostly rambling on "I think its PG-13" I answered. "Cool!" he cried making his way to my side in an instant Chiron simply nodded and I left the big house.

Nico was VERY energetic, "so what's your name?" he asked "I'm Zoe" I answered; I looked at in his hands "what's that?" I asked pointing to some cards. His smile grew larger "oh! It's a card game! I have every figurine except Hades" he then went on to explain the rules. When it finally came time to watching the orientation video Nico's eyes grew with excitement, I wasn't all that excited because I had watched it before and because I hadn't enjoyed watching it last time.

It mostly talked about monsters and the basic rules of all demigods to say the lest Nico had loved it and went on to ask about camp half-blood.


Me and him where currently just walking around while I tried to point at everything that would be of an important to him "So do we do sword fighting? I saw some people holding swords around here" he asked brightly, "yes but only if you can manage to get the armor on in which case I guess I won't be doing too much sword fighting" I answered to Nico.

I turned to him smiling although that smile soon faded slightly, when I looked at him I could only think of that terrible face he wore in my dream that held only hatred and misery. It must have been a dramatic event to alter his character so much because the Nico who stood before me now held quite a childish reached out for my hand causing me to gasp slightly, "Are you okay Zoe?" he asked concerned; I nodded "yeah, it's nothing" I answered giving him a giant smile. He returned it with childish glint in his eyes, "good" he answered before running off ahead of me and leaving a blushing Zoe behind.

I continued on trying to catch up to Nico but that boy was fast! He laughed though and thought it was quiet funny when I couldn't catch up to him. I hadn't caught up with him until he decided to start walking again. I was now panting while Nico just gave me that goofy 'I'm sorry' grin; I nodded and decided to sit down in one of the steps of the buildings. I got up and re-tied my ponytail when I realized it was becoming loose and turned toward Nico.

He was looking at me curiously "so, Nico how did Percy find you?" I asked him with guanine curiosity. He wore a sad smile I suddenly regretted ever asking a question like that, I bit my lip nervously. He thought about it for a moment, "Well me and Bianca, my sister, we were brought to a school by these strangers.I don't know who they were so don't ask me, We were at a school dance when a monster attacked us and well Percy, Thalia, and Annabeth saved us" I nodded to let him know I was listening "and they brought us here" he finished shrugging his shoulder.

I thought it over, "why didn't your mother bring you?" I asked and mentally smashed my own skull in when Nico looked down, "I'm not sure if we have one don't remember much about our mother for some reason anyway" he answered sadly. I nodded and sat back down next to him, "I don't know anything about my real parents either" I said trying to make him feel better.

He smiled slightly "really?" he asked "yeah I was left on my adopted parents doorstep and no god or goddess has claimed me yet so I'm in the dark, just like you, for the moment" I answered smiling hoping that I soothed him somehow. It seemed to work because he wore that same goofy grin again, "does that mean will be in the same cabin until you know we're claimed?" he asked as the breeze whisked his dark hair.

I nodded "yeah the Hermes cabin but don't worry the Hermes cabin is pretty fun and I managed to live there so far" I answered truthfully. I would have talked to Nico longer if a voice hadn't disrupted me, "Nico!" a female voice called. A girl came running up wearing the same features as Nico "Nico I was looking all over the place for you!" she called like panicking mother "I'm fine Bianca! Zoe was just showing we around" he said lazily.

Obviously Bianca had played the panicking mother numerous times because Nico didn't seem to think much of it "Come on Nico I need to talk to you" she answered tapping her feet on the ground. She then turned to me, "oh and thanks Zoe for keeping an eye on him" she said smiling, she seemed to be about fifteen but it could be just the way she was tapping her foot on the ground made her look older. Nico got up and turned to me, "thanks Zoe I'll see you later" he said while waving and turning toward Bianca.

I waved and cracked a smile as I heard, "and there's sword fighting! And a monster isn't that awesome Bianca? Oh, and I explained my card game to her!" I'm pretty sure Nico went on but his voice faded too much to hear now. I got up and turned the opposite way quickly but I managed to hit someone in the process of it. I got pushed to the ground again landing strait on my butt, "ouch" I hissed "I'm sorry about hitting you, I wasn't paying attention!" I exclaimed once I got over my personal pains.

I looked up to see who I hit and found,to my displeasure, Dionysus. He peering at me as if he was about to scream at me but his face suddenly turned white. He looked like he had seen a ghost, which caused me to raise an eyebrow at him. He stepped back a little but stopped deciding to hold his ground, "who are you?" he barked in a demanding voice. I gulped, "I'm Zoe sir" I answered sticking my hand out trying to make the situation better, it didn't work.

He gave me a startled look but it didn't last long and he changed back to his normal hard face, "well watch were your going next time Joey!" he answered before stomping off, as normal. I could only think while I sat on my butt 'He did not just call me Joey!' I thought angrily. I decided to get back up though and find Luna since it was nearly Dinner time.