Hello all you Demigods out there! Sorry for the lateness for this...and for the quality of text as Annabeth would say. Anyway
DISCLAIMER: I do not own anything here except Jenna, Falcon, and the plot.
"No… I may be a very smart person, but I am no leader. Not like Percy." I complained.
"Please Thalia Grace, lead us till our Ghost King returns!" Jenna pleaded.
"Not all mutants are saviors…Percy is…I'm only the punk girl." I stated.
"In this time of crisis Perseus Jackson can not save us…The ghost king and you are our saviors. Please forgive our state of urge, but Falcon destroys you along with us as we speak. Thalia Grace for once in many years the Shemosora need mutants to save us!" Jenna persuaded.
I looked into her eyes and I saw the eyes of someone who would do anything to save her people. She needed help and she couldn't say that to just anybody. I finally realized that Jenna was not only asking for help from us, but also for something to reassure her and everyone else that there was hope still. I looked into her eyes and what I saw was someone desperate in saving her last family, someone who just didn't care about herself. I have to help Jenna, even though she never helped us exactly, I would help her and maybe Jenna will understand the debt she'll be in and help us out sometime.
"Here is what needs to be done." I smiled at her, and she perked up, "I need Annabeth in here to help with plans on stopping this idiot."
"I got that I'll send for them. ARICIA SEND FOR ANNABETH!" She shouted.
"Yes Ma'am." A voice echoed around.
In no time Annabeth and Percy walked in unharmed thank the gods.
"Thalia can I talk to you for a second?" Annabeth asked.
"Fine." I scowled and she drug me over to an abandon area.
"Can we trust them? Is it logical?" Annabeth started.
"Trust me! This is something we need to do…I have a plan!" I said.
"Oh your plans never work!" Annabeth sighed, but didn't say anything else.
We headed back over and joined Percy and Jenna.
"Jenna I need a map of some kind. Do you have one?" I asked quickly.
"A…map?" She asked mystified.
"Don't worry Thalia, Percy has mine." Annabeth answered.
"You don't know what a map is?" Percy asked reaching into his pocket and pulling out a crumpled piece of paper.
"No…not really." She replied.
"That's not important right now…what we need is our exact location." I demanded.
"Uh…yeah let me see that map thingy then." Jenna answered and we handed it to her.
She unraveled it and looked at it for a real long time till I noticed it was upside down.
"I can't figure anything out, these names make no sense." Jenna remarked.
"Its upside down Jenna." I said as one of Jenna's people rushed in.
"Anyone have a little girl named Sadie with them?" He said hurriedly.
Sadie? The name sounds familiar, but I can't quite place it. Sadie sadie sadie? Friend? Oh Gods the little girl.
"Annabeth! Its that little girl!" Percy yelled.
The look on Annabeth's face was priceless. She was horrified, the girl she had saved…we never noticed her gone when we transported here! How was that possible?
"Well she just appeared right here on this side of the territory." The guy said.
"Fine, bring her in…do hurry." Jenna said.
Jenna refocused on the map, as if the girl wasn't even important. She grabbed a pen like item and circled something and chucked it at us.
"Here in between here." She remarked.
I grabbed it and looked…it was long island.
"Annabeth…you memorized Falcon's pattern of killing…do you know exactly where they happened?" I asked her.
"Ya, Queensboro bridge and a couple others." She answered, "By the way, what exactly is your plan Thals?"
"Every villain has a hide out no matter if they are immortal." I answered proudly, my plan was amazing.
"Oh my gods…that's ingenious…how could I have not come up with that? 65 out of 100 percent of times I villain will kill close to the hide out. Hand me that map and marker." Annabeth demanded and quickly got to work circling things.
Someone came running in with a little girl in their hands. The same girl with the brown hair and green eyes. The little girl that for some reason disappeared and we had forgotten about her.
"Sadie!" Annabeth shouted and put down the map.
The guy handed her to Annabeth.
"Where did you find her exactly?" Jenna asked.
"Right on the territory line…it might be a trick of Falcon or possibly the other clan." He replied.
"Right on the territory line? Take some warriors and head up and doubly security Falcon must be warning us."
I glanced at Annabeth who was back working on the map and Percy who was playing with Sadie. Something made me feel uneasy about her though.
"Jenna permission to speak!" A young girl came running in out of breath.
"Permission granted soldier." Jenna replied with no emotion in her voice.
"We…found him…The…Ghost King…He is…here." She huffed.
Jenna bounced happily and recited a quick prayer.
"Thalia, come with me Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase stay here and work on the map." She demanded.
"But I want to see my friend!" Percy whined and Jenna glared at him, at all of us and the message was pretty clear.
Do not make me weak in front of my people or I may kill you.
"On second thought, Annabeth could use some help with the kid and the map." Percy said quietly and I couldn't help but smile. I liked Jenna her death glares are amazing.
"Let's go then Jenna!" I said cheerfully, I'll get to see Nico again!
She nodded and took off running with the two other of her kind following her and me last. Jenna was fast, all her people must be…and then me the mutant trying to keep pace. Two words, Nearly Impossibly. We stopped at a different clearing with a whole crowd of Shemosoras. I pushed through some until they cleared away for Jenna and I saw Nico. He looked battered, but as strong as ever. I rushed forward and he did to and we embraced. I could feel his heart beating and I realized I missed him a lot already.
"Nico Di'Angelo." Jenna said and we broke apart.
He looked at the crowd gathered around him and Jenna got down on one knee. The whole crowd did also and I realized that this was her whole group. Roughly 300 strong.
"Nico Di'Angelo, The Ghost King for 400 years we have awaited your arrival. Falcon has tormented Mutants and Shemosora alike and now it is time that you lead us to war with him. It is such an honor to be in your presents, will you lead my kind and yours also?" Jenna asked.
I looked up into Nico's dark obsidian eyes and what I saw was a darkness, as if he went through tartarus.
"Yes…I will guide you as we fight Falcon. He will pay for Tyler, my sister, and my parents!" Nico answered, "The dead will help you!"
Jenna smiled, "Thank you Ghost King, when we defeat Falcon the rift in between our kinds will be mended. If we win you will go into our 'Hall of Fame'."
"I need a few things though, I will tell you later, but right now I need to talk to my friends." Nico answered.
"First give a speech Ghost king." A girl asked.
"Speech!" Another repeated and soon the whole crowd chanted 'Speech!'
Nico looked at me and I nodded, "Come on Nico, you can do at least one in you're absents."
He clasped my hand and looked at to the crowd. I know he's been through a lot, and probably lots when he disappeared also it made sense that he needed some self-assurance.
"I may not know how long this Falcon has been tormenting you, but he has destroyed everything I held near to me. I thought it was over, until they came to me. My sister and parents and many others and they told me that I was a figlio di morte or The Son of Death. My mother said Semper pueri mei vobiscum, nolite timere or My young boy we will always be with you, do not fear. She was right, the dead is with us, and for this certain battle Death is our savior! FALCON CAN NOT DIE! HE IS IMMORTAL, BUT I SAY LET'S SEND HIM TO HADES…WE HAVE TO KILL HIM OR LULL HIM BACK TO SLEEP ONE OF THE TWO I LIKE THE DEATH PART MORE. LET'S FIGHT FOR MUTANTS AND SHEMOSORA!" Nico yelled and in response the whole group yelled back.
Lots of "Ayes!" and "Let's destroy him!" rained through the land.
Nico threw his left fist into the air, "Let's do this!"
Then Nico snuck out of the area dragging me with him.
"Where are the others?" He asked quietly.
"I'll show you, oh can you let go of my hand?" I asked him.
"Ya sure, sorry…haven't seen a human with real skin for awhile…which sounds crazy since I was gone only for a little bit." He murmured.
"You changed what happened to you?" I asked rudely.
"Huh?" He asked.
"Uh…You changed." I repeated.
"I'll tell you later." He said quietly and didn't talk for the whole walk back to Percy and Annabeth.
When we came into sight of Annabeth and Percy they ran and tackled us with a little girl in Percy's arm.
"Hey bro, thought I'd never see you again." Percy joked.
"Its great to see you Nico, you gave us quite a scare when you disappeared you know." Annabeth answered and threw a map at me, "Also Thalia steady the map real close like and tell me what you see."
I studied the map and Annabeth had wrote little messages and circles in areas. I looked for a pattern, but I couldn't figure it out. The circles of death were clusters of meaningless information, only dead people. Then I noticed it…all the death's circulated around Manhattan.
"His hideout is in Manhattan!" I exclaimed, "Did you find a building or some kind of place?"
"Yes…and no…It's somewhere around The Empire State Building. Kronos's Territory." Annabeth stated.
"Isn't Kronos just a nickname for the leader of Luke's bully group?" I asked, because that cowardly jerk was not the leader. Even I could be the leader, because Luke could never beat me and at the mention of the name Annabeth tensed up. She still loved him.
"Well what I learnt was that Kronos is not Sythi Muraloas. I don't know how they did it…but I figured out that Kronos is an immortal mutant teamed up with Falcon. That could be a deadly pair Thalia. I'm guessing they hid their real plan…awaken Kronos, just like Jack and Mia awoke Falcon, and they have and they just covered themselves up with a regular bully group…leading a lie." Annabeth said matter of fact way.
"What does that mean Annabeth?" Nico asked.
"Well Nico, we have a slight problem." Annabeth answered him.
Sorry if you didn't like that...it was better than last chapter I officially call the Crappy chapter lol. Just a few tips...all these characters I put in are not just random...Tyler and Jenna are important...just more so later in the story. Remember that person walking from Bianca's grave...that is still important you know...so think on who could that be also and Sadie disapeared for a reason also!