Hello. I'm sorry it's taken so long to update. With all the various holidays which have been going on recently, I've been spending time with my family, and I simply haven't had time to write, er, um, type.
Anyways, on with the story!
Eclipse P.O.V (Because I like writing in it)
I looked sideways at Crescent, whom the gasp elicited from. I lightly nudged her and nodded toward Nico. She nodded slightly and began to walk toward Nico.
When she was about halfway to him, Nico noticed her. She froze, and I assume she was staring at his face.
Without any warning, she ran in the opposite direction, straight into a shadow, and disappeared.
I sighed and walked into the shadow she had disappeared into. I tried to follow whatever shadow path she may have taken, and, after a few tries, I successfully followed her.
As I stepped out of the shadow, I realized I was in a forest. There were a lot of trees. You probably already guessed that though, seeing as I already said I was in a forest… Nevermind.
It was pretty easy to find her. She didn't exactly try very hard to cover her tracks. She was sitting on the ground, with her back to a rather large tree.
I approached her slowly, slightly afraid of what she might do. She was crying, and I've had bad experiences with crying women. They usually end up slapping me.
"Crescent." I said, taking a seat next to her. She jerked suddenly, as if I surprised her. Her hand shot out at me, and before I knew it, I had a brand new, red, hand-shaped mark on my face. "Ouch," I said.
"Commander! I'm so sorry! I didn't know it was you…" She said once she realized it was me.
"It's okay…" I muttered. I turned to look at her, "Now, would you like to tell me why I found my second in command crying in the middle of a forest?"
"No," she said.
I sighed, "Telling me might make you feel better."
"No," she said again. Sometimes her stubbornness is annoying. Oh well.
"It's Nico, right?" I looked at her expectantly.
She sighed, "Yes."
"Are you going to talk to him?" I asked, turning my head to stare forward.
"No- yes- I don't know!" Crescent yelled, seemingly agitated. I waited for her to continue.
"I want to talk to him, I really do, but what if he's angry at me? What if he hates me for making him think I was dead?" She asked, her voice laced with doubt and sadness.
"You were dead," I pointed out.
She turned to look at me, "Well, I'm not right now."
We both remained silent for awhile, until I spoke, "Jason wasn't mad."
Crescent looked at me with surprise, "What?"
"Jason thought Thalia was dead, but he showed only joy and gratitude that she's alive." I continued.
"Jason and Nico are two different people." Crescent said, still sounding doubtful.
I sighed, again, "But they both cared for their sisters more than anything else in the world. I know that Nico wouldn't hate you. He'd be too overcome with joy to even think of being angry with you."
She flashed me a grateful smile, "Thanks. You're right, and even if he is angry, he still has the right to know I'm alive."
I nodded, standing up. "Well then, now that you've come to your senses, shall we go back?" I asked, extended a hand to Crescent.
"We shall," she said, grabbing my hand and pulling herself up.
We hopped into the nearest shadow, and before long, we'd arrived back at Camp Jupiter. Just so some flying object could hit me in the back of the head.
"Ow!" I yelped, turning around quickly. A suspicious-looking brick was laying on the ground.
"Commander!" I heard someone yell. Looking around for the speaker, I spotted Hotshot running toward me.
"What is it? What's going on?" I asked, noticing that fully armored Roman campers were running around.
"Well," Hotshot began, "Ya see, we're under attack, so…"
I sighed, for the I-don't-even-know-what-number time. "Lead the way."
Hotshot took off running, presumably toward the battle. Crescent and I followed.
We stopped on a hill which, conveniently, overlooked the entire battlefield. The enemy army consisted of mostly monsters, although it did include a few titans.
We weren't losing the battle, but were by no means winning it. Jinx was providing medical attention, Forge was repairing damaged weapons, and Spark was fighting all of the present titans by herself. Obviously, Forge and Crescent were standing by me.
"Let's go." I said, summoning my sword, and diving into the thick of the fight. I sliced through the monsters pretty easily. They seriously need to start sending stronger monsters. These are kinda boring.
I made my way through the sea of enemies, toward Spark, who was doing fairly well against three titans at once. When I finally got to her, I stopped a spear jab aimed at her back by Atlas. I snapped his spear then swiftly cut his head off. I didn't have time to play around with these titans.
I jumped toward the next titan, Prometheus, who weakly gripped a sword that seemed much too heavy for him. He was shaking, probably terrified. I smirked.
He slashed at me, but I easily dodged it, before stabbing him in the chest. He turned into dust, like all monsters do.
I turned toward the third one, but as I did, he crumbled to dust. I nodded approvingly toward Spark, who had dispatched the titan.
We would probably win this battle fairly easily, now that the monsters didn't have the rallying points that were the titans. I smiled at Spark, happy that this battle went in our favor. At first, she smiled back, but then her face morphed to take on a look of horror. I looked at her, confused, until I felt an intense pain in my stomach. I looked down, and gasped, seeing a purplish sword sticking through me.
So, that was the chapter… Sorry if it seemed rushed or bad, I started typing it at midnight as soon as I realized that I hadn't updated in two months, so I've been tired and half asleep the entire time that I typed this chapter.