Chapter 7: Now can I have my seeds?
Nico's prov:
"Nico?" I turn to face him with my plate in my hand stuffed with food. I really have been hungry lately.
"Yeah?" I turn facing his cloud filled eyes.
"Would you like to sit with the seven I mean six on the Zeus table?" We were both looking on the floor with the reminder of Leo.
"Sure," his face brightens up there was still sadness smeared on his face. I give him a small smile. I was guilty. I killed him. No. stop. No now.
"Nico!" I hear my sister's sugary voice. I turn and smile at her trying to cover up my true feelings. She brightens up when she sees me smiling.
"You weren't there in morning," her shorter body was moving rapidly.
"It's okay Hazel, just a dream," I give her a small smile. I sit down with the others.
"Green looks real good on you," Piper's voice inputted. I turn straight at Jason. Glaring him down to a point he won't be able to breathe.
"Next time tell me, also BRO give me something black to wear," He nods his eyes wide. I drop my gaze and look down at my awfully large meal compering to what I usually eat.
"You do look good in green," I look towards the voice. It was Will's. I cover up my blush by a grunt, also remembering what happened early in the morning. I look into his eyes, then a pain hits me in the head and I drop my fork and clench the side of my head.
"Infirmary dyeing person, daughter of Demeter, 4 minutes to live," Will's eyes widen and turn shallow again. He raises his eyebrow.
"WILL! Infirmary right now! We've got a daughter of Demeter, man, she does NOT look good," a blond screams from a distance.
"How? You know what never mind. You Infirmary after lunch. Got it? DOCTOR'S ORDERS!" then he runs off not even letting me answer his gorgeous blond hair following him.
"Told you so," I say after he left.
"Nico you okay?" Hazel asks. "I don't know why that hit me so hard normally it doesn't hurt that much," I shrug and continue eating.
"Wait you feel pain every time some ones about to die?" Percy asks. I nod.
"Oh," Percy remarks "At war?" I nod again.
"Oh." I feel Jason's shoulder gently nudge me; I turn to see him giving me a supportive smile.
"Neeks when did you get so muscular?" I turn to Hazel who was trying to light up the mood. I look at her to see she was totally not joking. I give out a little laugh and roll my eyes. I eat my what ever you can find meal. When did I get such an appetite? The seeds.
"Jason? When can I have my seeds?" Instead of him answering I hear Annabeth's voice.
"When you tell us what they do. ALL of it," Thankfully I don't feel jealous of her anymore or I could have been glaring at her.
"Well one they perfectly healthy, two they brought my appetite back, three they make me gain weight, four they make me… well happy, not exactly it kind of well traps my old soul for a while like never mind you get the point." I look at Annabeth to see a confused face but I'm pretty sure she got everything I said despite my speed with words.
"It took me a while to get what the side effects are but the side effects are useful. They help with the fading. Even though stepmother, I mean Persephone-just never mind." I shake my head and continue eating.
"Did you just call Proserpina step mother?" She growls.
"Yes?" I say uncertain.
"When did that happen, NEEKS?" Hazel questions a little higher than before. No. I crunch my eyebrows together.
"E 'successo quando è successo/It happened when it happened," I debate harshly not even noticing I was speaking in Italian. She got the message and sat lower on the bench. I sometimes I would switch to Italian if I was in a leave it alone moment. I knew Hazel couldn't understand Italian but the message was the same either way.
"You speak Italian?" I hear Frank's voice for once. "Intelligenza scorre in questo/Intelligence flows in this one," I comment sarcastically.
"Jason, seeds," he grumbles and pulls them out of his pocket. I pick it up like it a smelly sock and stuff it into my pant pocket.
"Thank yup," making an effort with the P. Hazel was still sliding down her bench next to Frank. I was happy Hazel had Frank, Is still remember the first I met Frank. Such a klutz for Roman but not a disappointment. Thinking of Camp Jupiter, I missed Reyna. I know I didn't know her for the longest time but. I liked her. Weird I know. The rest of breakfast went with small conversation, which I sometimes commented on. I also heard some whispers saying that I looked good in green. Yeah. I knew I was going back to black straight after breakfast. Even though I secretly licked the compliments.
"Nico what happened to you're shirt anyways? I pretty sure you wouldn't ask for a green shirt from Jason for any reason. Wait why were you in his cabin in the first place? Is he your ty—," I cut him of before he decides to tell the whole world I was gay. Think. I was good at making excuses.
"So, one no," I glare at him and he shivers, I smirk, "and well it's quite simple, I went outside early in the morning for obvious reasons then I was forced into Infirmary by Solace and then Jason found me and then we went to his cabin to talk and then I spilled some soda on my shirt and I asked for a shirt, simple as THAT." I glare at Percy sending a message. It's the truth accept it. He gives me a goofy grin that I used to fall for before but know I felt emotionless. In a good way.
"Why were you forced into Infirmary?" Hazel asks. I grunt forgot not to mention that.
"Well my leg kind of," she guessed what I was about to say.
"You're going to let Will heal you? Got it?" She was standing up now leaning towards me. I shiver. The healing shadow thing was horrible. I look into her golden eyes. Her tight eyes tightened and then widened and she sat back down.
"Oh," she says as she sits down and continues eating. I knew she could tell that I was scared and in pain.
"Do you guys have a telephonic powers?" Percy said stupidly. Pea-brained. I look at Percy right in the eyes and concentrate on one word. No. He stands up and yelps. I burst out laughing. Just enough to be hidden. Well my shoulders were still shaking.
"What did you do?" Annabeth asks but giggling. Nothing. This time she yelps. My shaking shoulders increase.
"What are you doing?" Piper said using her charm speak. I roll my eyes, as a daughter of Aphrodite I'm surprised she hadn't figured out I was gay and that it was hard to charm speak me. Nothing at all. She yelps.
"Okay I am so done," I fall of the bench laughing. As I'm on the floor I see almost the whole camp was staring at our table.
"What is going on here?" an old voice says, Chiron's voice. I was still laughing so I couldn't answer,
"I have no idea," Frank admits along with Hazel and Jason. I eventually stop laughing.
"Yep I'm okay," I say and stumble back on the bench.
"Care to explain?" He asks he's arms crossed but I smile on his face.
"Nah I'm good," He laughs and walks away.
"Wait you're just going to let him go? You never let us go!" I hear the Stroll Brothers from the other side. I turn to them and give them a mischief smile. They return it. I think they got exactly what I was thinking. I smirk and sit back down. "
Nico?" I look at Jason who was dumb folded.
"Yes Jason?" I ask innocently.
"Is this going to continue?" He asked in a overly mature voice.
"Definitely." He smiles and shakes his head.
"What ever makes my little bro happy," I laugh at the comment. He ruffles my hair. I growl but decide upon something else.
"Even if it means you're the victim." He looks at me,
"Yeah, no." We both laugh.
"Did I miss something? When did you guys be all BROMANCE?" Percy asks clapping his hand together."And what's continuing?" I smile evilly at him.
"You'll find soon enough," he's eyes widen. I leave the table with my almost fully empty plate. I was quite proud. I look at the Stroll brothers and nod. Soon enough they leave and follow my lead. I walk towards the woods behind the Hermes Cabin.
"Hello Di Angelo, don't kill us," I turn to see them side by side.
"You don't prank me or steal anything from me and I won't kill you," I they turn to each for a split second.
"Agreed Di Angelo," they say at the same time.
"Good," I give them a mischief smile worthy of Hermes himself. They laugh.
"What are you thinking? Or what are WE thinking?" I spin in a circle.
"Well," I turn at them facing their brown eyes.
"I'm thinking of…" I spill the plan out. It was pretty simple and nothing to horrifying but it would be vey… entertaining.
"YES." They say identically. "When did you become all pranky?" Travis asks. I smirk.
"Well… You must remember some of them, like the Ares cabin before the war," they gasp.
"No way." I giggle. The Ghost Kind does not 'giggle'. I ignore my instincts.
"Now, now. We wouldn't anybody reveling my secret hobby," they nod still smiling wickedly.
"So what did you do earlier it was AWESOME." I look at him straight in the eyes. It was hard the first time but later it was easier if you were on a roll. Say the magic word.
"Holly mother of." They were holding on to a branch. "What was that!?" He looks them back at the panicked boys. My giggle was lightly revealed. That's what you called AWESOME.
"That's AWESOME! Horrible but awesome," they fall of the tree.
"But how does it work?" I shake my head in disapproval.
"Later," I say before walking out the woods.
"HAHAHA! THIS IS GOING TO BE AWESOME!" he heard his voices from behind. I smile noticing that they were actually pretty cool. What I was thinking was very well…evil. No it wasn't but it will be seriously funny. Once I exit the woods I immediately drop my smirk. It was still too early to go to Infirmary.
"What to do?" I ask out loud. "Seeds…" I continue talking to myself. So okay it was 9:30, seeds take 3 hours, so what to do? Without noticing I was already in my cabin getting ready for sword practice. To my surprise I find something on my bed. A black box. I walk towards it with carefully. The box was a meter long and 20 centimeters wide. On top there was a letter on it. Black letter. It had silver writing on it. Hades. That's the only thing I saw on top of the letter. I open the letter hesitantly.
Nico, Son, you deserve this.
You have made me proud.
Love, You're Father
That is something I thought I'd never see; Father and love. I smirk. I carefully place the letter on my nightstand that was surprise surprise black. I sit on my bed and stare at the box intensely. For all I knew it could be a baby skeleton, even though I didn't feel like a skeleton. I place the box on my lap still staring at it hoping to have X-ray vision or something like the superman guy. I think he can do that.
"It can't be that bad," I say out loud hoping Hades couldn't hear me. I unconfidently open the box. I gasp. It can't be. Holy.
"Holy mother of everything beautiful in this world." I could almost imagine Hades laughing. It was a beautiful, sliver sword. Everything was silver even if I preferred it black it was gorgeous. The handle was spiked up wards and continued up the engaging sword. I touch the blade and pulled my hand away immediately pull my hand away. The spot that I had touched had turned black and had grown like veins. It slowly disappeared slowly moving backwards of it veins design. It felt almost powerful when I touched it, like it turned Celestic and black when I touched it. I touched it again, to my amusement it the whole sword turned black. It was well…me, gods I sounded so gay. I notice that the middle of the sword was a line that almost ended on the tip of the blade, it was silver and it looked deadly. I laugh. For real.
"Thanks dad." I roll my eyes at the comment that my own lips had formed. I stood up and held the strange material of handle, it felt amazing. I swung it, to my pleasure I felt amazing. Just amazing. I walked around the room still swinging my sword on my side. I look for my old sword that seemed like nothing compared to this masterpiece. I found it on a black armchair. On top there was a black note.
Let it go.
It was also written in silver handwriting."I will… eventually."
I put down my new sword to see it turned back to silver. I still looked wicked though. Not as good as black… I look at my old sword and see that the leather holding was to loose for it now, I frown. When did that happen? I pull of the leather strap and hold it carefully. I look at it turning into different angels. It seems lighter despite its larger size. I look back at my new sword. Maybe… I lift the sword slowly turning into black. I notice ancient Greek writing on the side, which was of course black but it was not shinny black. I read it slowly a little scarred to see what it said. βασιλιά φάντασμα/Ghost King.
"Wow." I would be lying if I weren't surprised. This sword was specifically for me. Meaning this was a new sword. Not like Percy's that had belonged to Hercules but an original.
"Wow." I turn the sword over to see that there was a something else written on it. σκεφτείτε ένα όνομα/Think of a name. Ahh what now?
"Umm... okay?" I think furiously for a name. I think of it. Kind of lame but…
"σκιά πνεύμα/Shadow spirit." I gasp as shadows actually wrap my newly found sword. The shadow spiral around the treasures metal. They slowly move down to the upper part of the handle to form a diamond like shape and insert itself to the sword. You could practically see the shadows move inside the gem.
"Wow." Now carved in the sword was Shadow spirit in Greek.
"Wow." I shake my head and pay back my attention to the strap. I strap it around my waist to my horror to see I was still wearing green. Forgot about that. I don't bother changing it though. I lift my sword carefully still admiring its sharp edges. I close my eyes and slide it down the hold. I open my eyes slowly to see… it totally fit. I think I might have jumped. I cover my mouth afraid I might start squealing. I stare back down at it smiling like a mad man. A mad gay man. I shake my head. I flop back on my bed and pull out the pouch. I stare at it intensely before pulling a seed out.
"Thanks dad, for the sword and everything. I close my eyes and plop the seed in my mouth and wait for my dreams to cover me. Or haunt who knew anymore? Well let's just say I went down smiling to the taste or the sword I sure hell didn't know.
Author's Note: Well, well, well. I thought it would be cool to bring a new sword to town cuz y the hades not? Anyways I hoped you liked the chapter! I'll be switching from sad to happy A LOT so.. yeah. If you have something against it let me know. PLEASE tell me what you thinkk the silence is killing meee! Anyways School tomorrow, again... ;c updates will b once 2 or 3 days.
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To reviewer/s: I think this is better! I'll change the previews chapters similar to this also up coming chapters will also be like this. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR TELLING ME!
