Never:
There are many things in this world that will never happen. The tooth fairy will never start making monthly appearances at the dentist's office. The lazy ghetto boy from Spanish class who has no idea how to speak proper English without a gangster-punk-street accent will never grow up to be a popular British classical singer. Two parallel lines would never meet. Percy Jackson will never betray his friends.
There are just some things that will never happen.
And honestly, Nico likes that sometimes. He's tired of all the surprises. Monsters and Greek gods never existed… now they're the biggest part of his life. His sister would never die at a young age… now he's talking to his sister's ghost who now has a younger appearance than him.
Never was a nice word. Nico liked never.
Never meant a boundary that could act as a shield. Never meant a small, protected world, where nothing would really change. Never meant limits, never meant rules.
Never meant safety.
Of course, to some, it didn't sound like the best option. Who wants to be controlled by the limits of impossible and possible? To some, never meant boring, never meant giving up.
Nico was one of the few people who, although was originally one of the few kids that liked to follow the rules, became rebellious, trying to break down the walls of NEVER. Because never meant things were impossible.
Nico hated never.
He hated that it was so preventive. You can never do this. You can never do that. Don't.
So, he broke wall one. Many didn't think that he was a son of the Big Three. He couldn't. He wouldn't. He shouldn't. He was. Although they thought it was impossible, it was never going to happen, Nico broke through the first wall of NEVER.
Never wasn't impossible any more.
But no rebellion is easy. Nico came across harder obstacles, harder challenges that challenged both his physical and psychological strength. He came across walls that took more than power to knock down.
Time passed, Nico's progress out of NEVER increasing in only the slightest. Then came the largest wall ever in the terms of NEVER- bringing back the dead.
No one could do that. It was a physical impossibility. No one could bring back the dead. One could never do a deed as impossible as this.
So, Nico tried to break down the wall of NEVER. He was going to bring back Bianca di Angelo from the dead. Unfortunately, this task was much harder than he could have thought. Not only was it a far greater and impossible wall to break through, others strived against him, making the wall bigger and taking him off course.
Nico struggled against the outside forces that brought words of "It's impossible." "Nico, you can't do this." "No one has ever done this." "It's never been done."
Exhausted, Nico let loose his hold of trying to break down this wall of NEVER. Percy, Annabeth, Thalia, Grover, and others stood behind him, offering a hand to be pulled back into a world of safety.
But Nico saw the faces of those that hated that he defied NEVER while they couldn't. He had done something that many only dreamt of doing.
Nico wasn't satisfied though. Although he couldn't break through that wall of NEVER, he still had more walls to conquer, and he was the type that never liked to give up.
Digging through the past was something that Nico never thought of doing, until he learned about his unusual life story. Being stuck in the Lotus Casino meant that more time had passed around him that what it had felt like. So, he had questions. And he wanted answers.
But, NEVER, decided that he needed another obstacle. The wall it put up this time came in the form of his father, Hades, and his stubborn attitude.
Hades would never give Nico any information about his mother, Maria di Angelo. He wouldn't even let Nico try to find it himself, threatening the demigod that if he tried anything then he would suffer his wrath.
Hades blocked all contact with the ghost of Maria di Angelo from Nico. Instead, when Nico had tried to summon her, a memory of the day she died appeared. Falling to his knees, Nico stared in horror, as his father materialized, frowning and voice ready to destroy.
Nico didn't get much information, but he learned something more of his past. He learned the reasons, of being put in the Lotus Casino, of Maria's death, of the illness of May Castellan and the reason her son, Luke, became so bitter towards the gods starting this war.
This time, instead of breaking the wall down of NEVER, he simply flew over it. He could get past it without trying to destroy it.
But, he came across another blockage. He knew that it was crucial to assist the other demigods of Camp Half-blood in the Battle of Manhattan. Now, how to convince Hades, the Lord of the Underworld, to join a battle that he insisted would not benefit him in any way.
Most of the other demigods already thought, "Hades would never join us. He hates us." Hades didn't hate the demigods for no reason, but because the demigods loathed him just because he reigned over the dead. Nico understood this, many of the other half bloods preferred to stay away, but he couldn't give up.
The others needed someone strong to lead them. Sure, he wasn't the strongest, but due to being a son of one of the Big Three, he could greatly assist them on the ground while Percy, Annabeth, Thalia, and Grover confronted Kronos/Luke on Olympus.
This time, Nico shoved through the wall of NEVER with so much force, that all the other things that held him back were knocked out of the way from the power. And when the end came, Nico had barreled right through another wall of NEVER.
NEVER was a world of pointless boundaries and restrictions. Sometimes it kept you safe, other times it was made of glass barriers that were just simple lies. NEVER wasn't the type of world where everything existed peacefully. Things clashed and collided, creating obstacles and openings.
Nico knows how to navigate through NEVER.
Things are never impossible when you're rebelling against NEVER. Never can't stop him now.
Ciao. I'm sorry that I haven't updated in a month, and then update with a pretty repetitive, bad, boring story. I'm sorry. Anyways, thanks for reading, reviewing, favoriting, and all that jazz. It makes me feel like I can actually write. I don't own Percy Jackson. All rights and rewards go to Mr. Rick Riordan.