The Meeting

After what felt like hours of walking, Nico and company arrived at a gas station. Groping around in his back pack, Nico found some crumpled dollar bills and headed into the small store.

After emptying the chip bag Rhythm asked, "I'm sorry to be the one to ruin the party, but we have some serious problems at hand, also I have some questions; Who sent those freaks to kill us? Who destroyed that park that crazy tree huger was obsessing over? And Nico," he turned to him, "why are we headed to Orlando."

Rhythm, who had been pacing, stopped in front of Nico to glare. Nico had to admit there were some things in this quest that weren't adding up.

Nico explained to the group about his strange dreams, and his magical iPod.

Annabeth's eyes had widened at the mention of the first dream, "All dreams of the Big Three are important, when I was with Thalia and… Luke. Thalia would have these dreams, that always seemed to get us into trouble," she sighed.

"I wish I knew what it all meant".

Nico looked at Amee, who was deep in thought, he was having trouble thinking about the mission as thoughts of her kept filling up his mind.

He decided to tell the group about what had been bothering him earlier, " The thing is, when I was having the dream about the two voices, one of them seemed familiar, it almost seemed female".

He shook his head to clear the Amee out of it.

"Nico, take out your IPod, maybe it can give us some insight", Nico obeyed the brown haired girls instructions and began to listen.

But tell me, did you sail across the sun?
Did you make it to the Milky Way
To see the lights all faded
And that heaven is overrated?

Tell me, did you fall for a shooting star?
One without a permanent scar…

The song kept repeating the one part of the song, over and over until Nico gave it to Rhythm.

"You know more about songs than I do".

"It's Drops of Jupiter by Train, it's one of their hits." Turning to Nico he said," You really don't know this song?"

"I purely listen to rock, the greatest form of awesomeness know to man," he said defensively.

Rhythm put his hands up," Sorry, it's just one of my favs, assumed everyone knew it."

Nico shrugged. Maybe he did need to broaden his music ranges, but for now, he was going to stick to what he loved.

"Well, what are the lyrics about?" questioned Amee.

"This guys girlfriend goes out and tries to "find herself" and leaves her boyfriend behind. And when she comes back he sings her this song asking about her journey,"

Turning to Nico he added, "Like Heels Over Head by Boys Like Girls", Nico nodded slowly then asked.

"But what does that have to do with the prophecy? And why does it keep playing that part over and over?"

"Hmmm, let me hear" Percy snatched up music player away from Rhythm, who protested, but soon gave it over.

"Maybe it's trying to get you to listen more carefully to the lyrics, he's talking about the Milky Way, right? And also stars…SPACE!"

Everyone gave him a blank look," Don't you see? Space is a place with no sea, the only place with no sea,"

Annabeth quickly caught on," But we couldn't possibly go to space, also, since the Olympus is currently in America, all prophecies would have to take place here".

"But prophecies never turn out the way you expect them to. It's probably a place in Orlando that has to do with space," Amee ventured.

Nico turned to walk towards the gas station store.

"WHERE ARE YOU GOING?" Annabeth shouted after him.

"TO BUY A MAP OF ORLANDO," Nico yelled back.

After the annoying chiming noise was made when he walked in Nico noticed something for the first time. The gas station was completely empty, the cashier had disappeared.

He left the money at the cash register and looked over at the section with maps, they weren't actually in Florida yet but he hoped that the maps would show neighboring states.

After plucking a Florida map he hurried back to his friends," We have to get out of here," he said in a whisper.

"Why?" questioned Rhythm.

Nico looked down at his IPod, the song title scrolled across the botto m of the tiny music player.

"Leave Get Out by Jojo"

"Because" he started, but was interupted by a low growl...

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