Chapter 10
NICO'S POV
I was waiting impatiently for Thalia's answer. I was looking down at her from the nest as she was clinging to the branches.
"Nico...I.. My answer is-" she said but was interrupted by a bunch of squawking baby birds. I looked behind me and saw that the eggs had hatched and they didn't look to happy to see their mother's ashes.
"CLIMB DOWN! GO, GO, GO!" I screamed I started climbing down as fast as I could and Thalia did the same. By the time she got to the bottom, she started running like crazy. Gods, she's cute...Snap out of it! I started running after her, wildly slashing at birds as they flew around my head.
I started running a little faster to catch up with Thalia, I grabbed her hand and pulled her into an alley.
"What are you doing?! They are going to catch up with us!" she said, whisper-screaming.
"Have you ever shadow traveled?" I asked quickly. I could hear squawking about 15 feet from us.
"No" she responded, she obviously picked up on my plan because she squeezed my hand and shut her eyes. As we were shadow traveling, she opened her eyes and saw the curls of smoke and shadows all around us.
"Nico...this is beautiful...in a creepy kind of way." she said
"I see this all the time. We can go anywhere you want but...we are already headed to Half-Blood Hill" .
"That's where we need to go...I think they've noticed us disappearing. You...not so much because you leave from time to time but, I'm not supposed to leave because it's to dangerous." she explained.
The curls of smoke disappeared and she dashed up the hill.
"WAIT! WHAT'S YOUR ANSWER!?" I shouted.
From the top of the hill, she stopped and shouted "You'll have to wait until dinner!" she said with a mischievous smile on her face.
"That's so Thalia! Always leaving people without answers!" I said, smiling.
"Sorry!" she said as she walked inside the camp borders.
I looked at my watch and saw that it was around 4:30. Great...dinner's at 7:00. I trudged up the hill with my sword dragging behind me. I was going to have a loooonnngg day.