Nico

I woke up to find Thalia right by my side, her head on our hands. I smiled, Thalia is so cute when she sleeps.

"Hey Nico!" Grover whispered from the doorway. "Hurry and wake Thalia, we need to get going right after breakfast," he continued. I nodded and tried to wake Thalia to no avail. Grover left with a smile on his face thinking I wouldn't be able to wake up Thalia. So I decided I was going to shadow travel us to my cabin and let her sleep in there while I got ready.

"Wait Grover." I said a little surprised from my loud voice, I cringed. He returned from the hallway. "How long will it take to get the first demigod?" I asked him.

"A week, I think. Pack light. He lives in manhattan. That's not too far away but we have to be undercover as some transfer students and we are probably going to take him at the dance at the end of the week, Friday." He explained. I nodded.

"Who else is going, again?"

"You, Thalia, Annabeth, and I." He replied and left.

I looked down at Thalia and shadow traveled her to my cabin. She was still sleeping so I placed her gently on my bed and turned on my bed heater. My bed heater is awesome and it turns off in ten minutes. I heard her gentle snore so I went and grabbed my showering things. I turned on the water and

let it run for a little bit while I brushed my teeth. I finished brushing and got into the shower pulling the curtain closed. The water ran on me and flowed off my fingertips. I picked up my shampoo and started washing my hair. And I picked up my body soap and applied it. I was clean in a few minutes. I let the water run on me a little longer while turning up the heat so it was boiling a little. I finished and stepped out while turning off the water. I got dressed and did more stuff and opened the door to the bathroom. Steam rolled out behind me and I think it made me look very dramatic and cool. I had a towel on my chest and jeans on.

"Hey Nico." Thalia was rubbing her eyes and looked at me. "Whoa." Her eyes widened when her eyes focused on me. "How can that steam be so flattering?" I smiled and started to come towards her. "Nico...just, stay there." I rolled my eyes and started to wipe up my dripping hair. She stared at me.

"What are you doing, Thals?" I asked her.

"Nothing..." She continued looking at me.

"Are you checking me out?" I asked her. Her eyes widened. She gave me a half smile. "Oh my gods, you are." I smiled and flexed my abs. "Like what you see? Don't you?" She laughed and smiled.

"Come here death breath." I smiled and came towards her.

"Want to go back to your cabin now?" She shook her head.

"I want to stay here for a little while longer." I beamed and she said, "When are we leaving?"

"After breakfast." I stated and let her go. "I'll be done packing in a sec." I rushed to my closet and pulled out a dufflebag. On it, it had a skull and cross bones and some fire behind it, a gift from Hades. I pushed in a few band-tees, a couple pairs of pants (jeans really), and underclothes. I almost forgot to put in my other leather jacket, two veenecks, and socks along with a pair of aviators and contact stuff. And my hair products. I like my shampoo, myhair gel, and my not-so-beauty products. I packed all of this within two minutes. "Ready." I stated and grabbed Thalia pulling her into a shadow with my duffle. And, perhaps by luck, I remember to put on my lucky white veeneck and a leather jacket which had my favorite aviators in one of its pocket. I also had my smartphone with me, not an iPhone. iPhones suck, by the way.

"Nico, did we really have to shadow travel?" She said tiredly. I nodded and she left me sitting on the bed to pack and shower. She finished in a half hour and the conch rang just as we were about to kiss. She smiled and I grabbed her dufflebag. We walked out of her cabin and stumbled on to the pavilion. I carried our bags as she got food for me. We went to the sacrifice fire and I told her to dump my food for me as I prayed. We did our sacrifices and went to sit at my table and I placed our bags next to me as Thals sat across from me. Grover came up and joined our table.

"Hey Grover," I said and he nodded. He sat next to me and ate his enchiladas. I rolled my eyes at his enchiladas and his tin-can tower next to them.

"Hey, we'll be leaving after Annabeth's done. Okay?" He asked and Thalia and I nodded. I looked over at Annabeth and saw she started eating and had a notebook with her, looked like she was planning out the week. I inwardly sighed and hoped that Thalia and her didn't butt heads. Annabeth didn't have much on her plate so I knew she'd be finished soon regardless if she was writing an itinerary.

"Done. You?" I looked at my table mates. They were almost done as well. I glanced back at Annabeth and saw she was almost done too. "Grover, where's your bag?" I asked him.

"Oh, I'm already a student there so my stuff is over there as well. It's well, a boarding school." He said and I frowned. I hate boarding schools, they are so boring. The teachers can reach you at anytime, they [the teachers] can be such idiots blaming people for something they didn't do. Annabeth walked over.

"Hey Annie." Thalia said knowing it still gets on her nerves.

"Ready?" Annabeth said. She had a duffle over her shoulder and was staring down on Grover's quickly depleting tin-can tower. He was packing it in a bag.

"Yeah." Grover said after he finished packing, "lets get going." He got up and we followed, me carrying mine and Thals' bags. We walked to the big house and saw Chiron there.

"Hey Chiron." I said. He nodded and pointed towards Argus.

"Argus is going to drive you all to manhattan." We walked towards the camp boundary. Argus was waiting for us. We got in, Thals and I in the very back and Grover in front of me and Annabeth in front of Thalia the both of them in the middle of the van. Our bags were in the back and Argus was driving fast today. I guess he didn't want us to be late for our first day if class. He stopped in front of the dormitories in no time. Luckily, the girls and guys dorms were close to each other.

Since we are new, we didn't have to go to our morning classes. We could skip them and explore the grounds first. And that's what we did, after we unpacked. We explored together while talking about the demigod. "What's their name, Grover?" I asked when we all were all gathered. He stayed silent and began showing us around the campus. He handed me a file, the demigod's file. I opened it up and Thalia peered over my shoulder.

"Nico, the least you could do is to read it out loud." Annabeth said with a roll of her eyes.

"Yeah sure, Annabeth." I took a deep breath and looked around for anyone listening. "Sebastian Verlac. Likes to be called by his middle name, James. Dark-almost black hair, what seem like black pupils, pale skinned, troublemaker although hasn't been caught for anything," my eyes skimmed through the file picking through it and summarizing the paragraphs, "avid swearer, apparently charming, and has 'lady troubles' like swooning the girls around him. Oh, athletic, straight-A-student-pfft-only five seven, I'm six three by the way, same age as us, lean but muscular at the same time." I finished summarizing the file. They nodded. "Oh and we all have the same classes together with him. Whole schedule the same." I finished.

A bell rang in the distance, it signaled the ending of morning classes. Lunch was going to start soon. "Yes! Lunch! I'm starving." I shouted at them. They laughed and smiled. We started walking to the cafeteria. I have to say, the students here look absolutely boring. They all where the school uniform perfectly, have the same hairstyles and shoes, and all talk about the same things: school work, dates, and languages. So boring. "Ugh," I sighed. Luckily, we just walked into the cafeteria and I could smell the food. It smelled good, but there was an off-putting smell from the bread. I guessed they put stuff in their bread. We got into the food lanes and I leaned back against it. I still had my "outside" clothes on, the four of us did not have our uniforms on so anyone could see we were new. I smiled and waved, in doing so I heard the girls squeal. What could I say? I can charm the mortals pretty well.

"Nico..." Thalia said my name in a raspy voice and put a hand on my chest. I could feel everyone's eyes on me and Thals. I pulled her closer to me by the waist and she met my lips with hers. We went into a full make out session for the next minute. Afterwards we unraveled and I held by the hand. There was slight coloring to her cheeks, and I could hear the gasps echoing through the room. We continued through the line and I picked up a burger, some salad, some fruit, water, and a mint. Thals had a slice of pizza, salad, fruit, and water too. Annabeth just had some fruit and salad; Grover picked a load of vegan food I don't know the name of. As we were about to go sit down, the lunch lady calls us over.

"Yes?" I ask her with a miniature hair flip.

"You...need to pay for that." She pointed to all of our food shyly.

"We are new students and haven't gotten our ID cards yet, can I pay with a card?" I asked her. She nodded slightly. I handed her my card and she swiped it. I quickly signed the paper recording the purchase of the food and followed my friends to an empty table by the windows.

"Is that him?" I jutted my chin towards the window when I thought I spotted the new demigod Sebastian-I mean James?

"Yeah." Grover said sadly, "He's not a Demeter kid, that's for sure."

"What does he do? Kill animals for fun?" I asked Grover, "Or worse, litter?!"

"Something like that." He frowned at Sebastian. All of our eyes widened. He seemed like a really piece crap.