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Jay's POV:

"What… so you just… are you sure?" Nico asked me for what was probably the hundredth time. I would have expected Will and Nico to immediately understand the whole 'Guardians are not myths' situation, especially since, well, one of their parents were basically like myths. But the two of them were just as dumbstruck as Dan when we talked about… um, everything.

"Of course I'm right. I swore it on the River Styx – and I haven't been incinerated yet!" I shot back. I let out an inward sigh. This conversation had been going on for ten minutes, and it's going nowhere. Even Jack looked bored. He was leaning against the wall, trying (and not to mention failing) not to snore.

Nico shouldered his jacket on gingerly. "I know, but… something about it just seems out of place."

I suddenly had a great idea. I cursed myself for not thinking of this sooner. "Di Immortales, I'll just give you proof!" I walked up to Jack and shook him awake. "Yo! Earth to Jack Frost!"

Will looked like he was trying not to laugh. I wondered what it looked like for them – I was probably just shaking and talking to the air. "What do you want?" asked Jack, blinking slowly. "Oh. You want to give them proof or something?"

I nodded. At least someone in this room could understand me! "Just make it snow or carry something around."

Jack looked as if he had just snapped out of a stupor, since he know had his signature impish grin plastered on his face.

He grabbed me into a bear hug and lifted me up on his shoulders as easily as someone would wear a backpack. "Jack!" I cried, grabbing onto his shoulders so that I wouldn't fall off. "I said carry something, not someone!"

Will had jumped up in shock. Nico's jaw was hanging wide open. "No way…"

I found myself laughing a tiny bit, despite the fact that Jack might throw me off any second. "Make it snow!" I told Jack.

"Your wish is my command!" he dropped me off beside Will (thank the gods), grabbed his staff, and stomped it onto the ground dramatically (like how Elsa stomped her foot on the ground and made her huge ice castle). Immediately, snowflakes began to fall slowly from the ceiling. Jack gestured around with his hands, forming a bunch of animals varying from birds to narwhals.

"Holy cow!" cried Will, trying to grab onto a snow-cat. His hand passed right through it, and it disintegrated into fluffy white powder. "So it's real…"

"Yes!" I said, grabbing him and shaking his shoulders. "Finally! You understand!"

After Jack had settled down and made the snow melt, I tried asking the two of them if they could see Jack.

"I… no." Will said first. "But I don't understand. Why can you see him, and why can't we?"

Jack, for whatever reason, asked, "Can you hear me?" he cleared his throat and in the deepest voice he could muster, he said, "Hi! I'm Jack Frost, and I'm super tough and super muscular and ripped and stuff." I elbowed him.

"Shut up. Of course they can't hear you."

Jack pouted as Will and Nico looked at me (or us?) oddly.

"Why are you telling us this, Jay?" asked Nico, who for some reason wouldn't look me in the eye.

I glanced at Jack. "Go on. Tell them what's going on. What's there to lose?" he said encouragingly.

I nervously ran a hand through my blue and brown hair. "Well… Remember Lily? That nymph?"

Will snapped his fingers. "Yeah. We had to try and cure her-"

"Do you know the full story behind, well, what happened to her?" I asked them, not feeling too guilty about cutting Will off.

Will shook his head and glanced at Nico. "Some of the nymphs told us that she was talking to someone with white… white hair… wait a sec. Was that – was that Jack?" he blinked a couple of times, trying to process the information.

"Yeah. That was Jack. And… she was just talking to him, casually, when her eyes turned this murky gray. Like… like this colour." I pulled out that crystal ball Ash had given me a while back, and handed it to Will, who then passed it to Nico. "We found out what that means: she was possessed. And me and Jack are trying to get to the bottom of what exactly possessed her."

No one spoke, leaving the bright room in a chilly silence. Literally and figuratively.

After what felt like an eternity, Nico said, "How can we help?"

"Well," said Jack sarcastically, "You can start by never leaving us in creepy silence." I slapped his arm in annoyance.

"Just… just tell me if you know anything important." I said. "We'll work the rest out."

"We do!" chimed Will.

"We don't," Nico said at the exact same time. He scoffed and glared at Will in exasperation. "Fine. We do. Just… please don't kill us about it." He began twisting his skull ring around, a habit I noticed him having whenever he was nervous. Uh-oh, I thought. Is it so bad that Nico's nervous?

"We had this council meeting a while ago. There was a prophecy… and we think it's about you and Jack." Said Will. "He of frost and she of sun, shall meet on the day the monsters run."

"Halloween," Jack and I said at the same time. Of course, the day that the monsters run was Halloween, which happened to be the day where Jack saved me from drowning.

Will nodded before continuing to recite the rest of the prophecy. "And until the dragon eats its prey, their forbidden love, is burnt and frayed."

Jack grinned. "Oh man, Jay-"

I grabbed my dagger, which happened to be under my bed, and pointed it at him. "Say one more word on the subject and your soul will be in Tartarus."

Jack gulped, but his eyes still sparkled. "Yes ma'am."

Nico snapped his fingers so suddenly that Jack and I both glared at him. "Sorry. But, um, is anyone worried about the dragon part?"

Will's grip on the Book of Shadows tightened until his knuckles turned white. "The dragon has to eat its prey. Something tells me that prey isn't any beef jerky."

Something about a dragon unnerved me. I felt as if I should know something "I – yeah. He must be really hungry if they mention it in a prophecy."

Nico's gaze clouded for a second, as if he noticed something wasn't right about the dragon too. "Well, Jay, we're happy to help. But I don't think there's much we can do. Well, we can keep reading the book…."

Will didn't bother to hesitate. He snapped the book open to the page we left off on. "He – uh, Pitch Black - has been known to possess things like nymphs and other mythical creatures (yes, they do exist). I advise that you stay away from anything suspicious, and avoid dreams as much as possible. Pitch has been known to meddle with peoples' minds, causing some to go insane or suffer tragic ends." Will flipped the page, but then a loud bang echoed throughout the room. I seized Jack's arm in fear.

Nico had stood up, his sword drawn as he circled around the room. "What-"

The book in Will's hands disintegrated into black sand. Will screamed like a kindergartener, because the sand was slowly drifting towards Nico. Said Italian's eyes began to cloud into that sinister shade of grey. Something inside of me seemed to snap. "Will – touch the sand! Quick!"

Will didn't seem to have any other plans, so we lunged at the sand. Immediately, it dissolved into nothingness and Nico's eyes came back to normal.

"Schist!" Jack shouted, stomping his feet. "The book! It's gone!"

"Jay?" Will asked, completely oblivious to the cursing Jack. "How did you know to touch the sand? And why did the book turn into that sand?"

Jack shivered. "Jay, Pitch Black uses sand – black sand – to ruin nightmares. He's on our tail."

My head began to pound. "Light and dark are like opposites. So I just assumed…"

"Pitch represents the darkness. And you and Will are the children of the sun gods." Nico said. "Smart save back there. But… was he trying to possess me?" the skinny boy squirmed as Will put a hand to his forehead.

"Pitch sensed the darkness inside of you. He must've thought that since Hades and he share the same realm… I think that thought it meant you're vulnerable." Will said. His voice was steely calm, but he looked a bit pale.

This was not going to end well.

"So he took our book. And he, along with a dragon, is out for us. Great. Just great." Jack fretted. Will and Nico had left a while ago, leaving the two of us in my cabin.

"This sucks. Three months into my stay at Camp Half-Blood, and now I have a chance of dying to the hands of someone that isn't even Greek!" I added. Jack was frowning, something that didn't seem to match his personality at all.

"Jay, you know I'm not usually this serious. But Pitch can enter the camp just as easily as I did." He shuddered. "He could be possessing anybody in this camp right now. Except for that drunk wine god, but he's pretty useless."

I snorted in agreement. "But it just sucks, you know? I feel like… this camp doesn't feel safe anymore. I wanna leave, even if only for a little bit." I glanced at Jack, who was staring at me in amazement.

"Seriously?"

"Yeah. Seriously."

Jack ran a hand through his hair. "Well, I want to leave too. I need to bring winter… I'll take you!"

"What? But how? I'll just slow you down, won't I?"

"Not if you're flying. In case you haven't noticed, I'm as strong as Hercules. I can carry you, and we'll fly off!" he boasted.

"You're not as strong as Hercules. And I don't really think I want to fly." I shuddered, remembering all my near death experiences with flying. The thought was already making me sick.

Jack punched my arm playfully. "But I need to bring winter. And I can't get out of the camp without you. So unless you want a bunch of Canadians complaining about the warm, then I'm dragging you along." His voice was deadly serious.

"… fine."

Jack got up happily. "Cool. We leave tomorrow. You can meet me at Thalia's tree during that sing-along thing." He started walking towards the door, leaving me shocked that he didn't once flirt with me. "See ya!"

"Bye Jack!"

Tap. CRASH!

I whirled around, only to see Nico and Will, and a broken window.

"Dammit you guys! Jack just fixed that window!"

Nico jumped over the wreckage they had ensued, Will following much more carefully. "What was he doing here? With you?" Nico questioned.

"He's always here," I said warily, already having a good idea of where this conversation was going.

"What did he say?" Nico persisted.

I sighed. "He proposed to me th-"

Nico's eyes widened. "I'm going to beat the schist out of that winter spirit!"

"Nico!" I cried. "I'm older than you, at least by the looks. And I didn't finish what I was saying. He proposed to me that he'd take me to bring winter with him tomorrow."

Will smirked. "I told you Neeks."

Nico still looked kind of mad. "Don't call me Neeks! It's childish! And you're not going with Jack, Jay."

I rolled my eyes at the fifteen year old boy. "What, so now you're my mom?" I said sarcastically.

Will doubled over in laughter. I couldn't help myself – I joined in.

Nico still seemed to be fuming. "I will kill you all! I'll do it!"

Hmm, does this count as Jack finally obtaining a date with Jay? You dudes can be the judge of that.

Well, anyways, hope you people enjoyed! Review and favourite and all that schist.