Sorry for the delay but we stayed for longer than intended but now I'm back home so here is the story.
"Nico." I said simply, venom noticeable in my voice. I was hoping I would not see anybody in my mission but how wouldn't I see the son of Hades in his domain.
"What are you doing here Percy? Didn't anybody tell you that camp was attacked?" said Nico. I noticed that his body was tightened like if is nervous or expecting something bad to happen.
"So? Do you want me to go save the world again and be forgotten after I'm done with saving your butts?" I said with my voice rising with every word.
"What do you mean by saying that? You mean that you won't help us?"
"Don't play dump and understand what my what I'm saying here, Di Angelo."
"I thought of you as my big brother after you made me see that crying over my sister death won't help anybody and if I helped camp things will get better, you were my idol, I wanted to be just like you when I grow up, a hero, someone loyal to his family and a caring person, but I guess I was wrong." After the last part I realized he was crying.
"I tried to act like a brother to you because I was the reason of your sister's death, but you never acted thankfully and never allowed anybody to be close to you. Too late to be sorry."
"So you are declaring you are in Kronos's side." Who said anything about Kronos?
"Who said anything about Kronos? Isn't he dead two years ago?" I was puzzled, the so called gods said when they offered me godhood after the war that he will not be able to regain power to do anything.
"Apparently he is back to business. Wait, are you saying that you are on your own side?" I wouldn't say I'm on my own, because I have Tartarus and Hecate with me, and I learned from Tartarus that the god's in other mythologies were the same as the Greek gods but the Greek gods had huge headaches because of the different personalities so they made different universes and separated the other gods souls from them and put the Norse gods in a universe, the Egyptian gods alone and so on, but only the Greek and Roman gods stayed in this world, so I was going to go to each world and ask the gods for aid.
"I'm not on my own but I won/t tell you who I'm working for."
"So right now you are an enemy, so I must kill you." He unsheathed his Stygian iron sword and turned his stance to a battle stance.
"You? Kill me? Remember what I did to your father when I was out of the Styx? Now I am much more powerful." With that I focused my energy in a ball and threw at him, he was surprised of what I did but he did have the time to protect himself with his sword.
When the energy ball touched the sword, Nico flew ten feet away and that was one of the weak skills I learned from my training with Tartarus.
I heard him groan when he tried to stand, when I saw his face his lips were bleeding and he had a few scratches on his cheeks and forehead, he looked angry and summoned hundred of skeletons he told them to attack me and they all charged at me, I could destroy them all with my bare hands, maybe I could show him why he should never mess with Perseus Jackson .
I threw energy balls at the skeletons and they turned to dust, 10 skeletons with each ball I ended about 200 hundred skeleton until it started to get boring so I jumped high, while flying in the air I focused my energy in two balls, while landing I hit the two energy balls on the ground, they exploded like a nuclear bomb.
All the skeletons turned into a big pile of white dust I saw Nico laying there almost unconscious, he looked up at me and said "What are you?"
I smiled and said "Your worst nightmare." I noticed that the shadows were slowly eating hiss body so I figured out he was shadow travelling but he didn't have the energy to do it quickly.
Annabeth POV (in camp)
After the attack from Percy everybody was very wary of every new camper, they thought every new camper was a spy to the attacker who I didn't tell them was Percy.
Right now its lunch time and nobody was talking, after the attack everybody became very serious, even the Hermes cabin stopped their pranks and stopped joking, Chiron cancelled capture the flag, the Hecate cabin was tired from enchanting the barriers every day, the Syters and the Demeter cabin are working 24/7 to keep the plants and trees alive because the Golden Fleece is not around to work its magic.
poof !
everybody looked at the source of the sound, we saw Nico falling from nowhere when he hit the ground we heard the sound of bone breaking.
When everybody saw him not moving his sibling hurried to him and looked at him for a moment then one of them shouted "We need an Apollo child here! He is dying! Quickly, please we're losing him everybody gathered around them and saw him.
His face was bruised and his nose and mouth were bleeding, his clothes were torn and I could see his whole body bruised and bleeding.
The Apollo kids started their work and he was slowly healing, when they finished their work Will Solace spoke in a high voice so everybody could hear him "he is fine now to live but he can't do anything like fighting or shadow travelling."
"Who or what do you think did that to him? Everybody knows that Nico is a great fighter." I asked.
His face darkened like he was hoping that no one was going to ask that question "We traced some godly energy on his wounds and there is still some that we can't get it out, it will come out eventually, but the overload of power will put him in a coma for few days." Some kids from the Hades cabin were crying because the state of their big brother and some were swearing they will avenge for their brother.
Percy's POV
Now Nico is probably in camp so why don't I send Laelaps to make some mess.
But do I release him? Hecate never told me how. Well, I will try my luck.
First I turned the bracelet, nothing happened. I tapped it several times, nothing happened. I wiped at it expecting it to just appear like a Jinni but nothing happened.
I took it off and threw away and shouted "come dog, come out and I will give you all the bones here." Nothing happened, and I was getting mad "come on you dumb excuse for a dog!" the dog carving on the bracelet glowed like if the dog was offended.
What do I do if I want my dog to come? I thought for a second then the idea shined through my mind like the sun. I whistle!
So I whistled then smoke rose from the bracelet, it thickened then a huge muscular dog came out of the smoke. It was like any jerman shepherd except it was the size of a truck and it's claws would cut through Titanium like if it was butter.
It looked at me with the eyes of a hunter so I figured out it was intelligent and would understand human language "Go to camp half blood, destroy buildings, wound that dragon Peleus but don't kill him and wound anything that tries to stop you but don't kill anything, okay?" it barked and it seemed like a yes.
It ran away with the speed of light, it was faster then Hermes, now that will be some surprise.
