This chapter has a minor spoiler for Blood of Olympus. I tried to keep it vague, but it gives away a bit of the story. But VERY little, so don't worry about me 'ruining' the whole book for y'all

That night I fell asleep in Nico's arms. It was relaxing, having him there. The smell of vanilla was fresh around him. He looked so calm when he slept. He looked peaceful, like an innocent child. Something I doubt nobody saw, I saw that as an honor.

When I opened my eyes the sun was shinning through the small window. Not much light got through the scum covered window, but it was enough to illuminate the small room.

I felt Nico shift behind me, he smiled when I rolled over to face him. Most of his hair was sticking up and he had sheet imprints on the right side of his face.

"You're awake," he smiled.

"Yeah, how long have you been awake?" I asked.

"Not long," he answered. I could tell he lied, he looked too awake, but I let it slide.

I crawled out of bed with Nico soon following after me. I grabbed some clothes and headed for the shower.

"I'm going to go grab some clothes," he told me. I assumed he was going to join me in the shower. The thought of that stirred up butterflies in my stomach.

I turned on the water and adjusted it to a good temperature and put on some music. The first song that came on was Fall Out Boy, Centuries. I'm not too familiar with the song, but I still liked it. Nico walked in as I was taking of my night clothes. I pretended not to notice him staring at me as I walked into the shower.

About 30 seconds later Nico joined me. I started washing my hair while I admired his body. I know that is sounds weird, but he was my soul-mate. If I wanted to look at him while he was stark ass naked, I was gonna do just that!

As I was admiring him, I noticed something, he has small scars on his biceps.

"What are those from?" I asked as I ran my fingers aross the scars.

He looked at the marks and frowned. "I got into a fight with a werewolf while transporting the Athena Parthenos to Camp Half-Blood," My eyes widened. "He was working for Gaia and didn't like that we were doing better than him and his mutts thought we would. Personally, I think he should've stayed out of the fight. He was following orders from a hunter Gaia sent after us. He and his pack were the 'hounds',"

"Do they still hurt?"

"Only if something scratches them. Other than that, no," he explained. I just nodded my head, not knowing what else to say.

About ten minutes later we got out of the shower. Nico dried his hair and got right into his clothes. I was in the bathroom for a while doing my hair and make up. I didn't do too much. Because acourding to Leo, we should arrive on Ogygia sometime today. Assuming he was right.

After putting on some dark eyeshadow and black eyeliner, I pulled my hair in a tight french braid. After that I started getting dressed. At first I couldn't deside what to wear. We were going to be fighting a crazy nymph and possible monsters, I didn't want to wear something too restricting. But I finally desided to just wear the outfit I origanlly picked out. A pair of tights with rose designs on it, black jean shorts with studs on the left, front pocket, A shirt with Ariel from the little mermaid on it. It's a black tanktop ad Ariel is covered in tattoos peircings, and has a sceleton top on. I put on my necklaces, red converse, and a red and black, studded bracelet.

When I walked out of the bathroom I saw Nico laying on his back on the bed. He was wearing a solid black t-shirt, black jeans, and a pair of black converse. I noticed he also had a black belt, on with his belt was his black, three-foot-long, Stygian iron sword.

I trusted Nico, more than I probably should. But that sword was scary looking. It radiated fear, maybe because it was made in the Underworld. Percy once told me that it could remove someones soul just from the touch. I don't know about most people, but that didn't give me warm, fuzzy feelings.

On the way out of the room we heard yelling. We took off running in the direction of the yelling. I expected to find a monster attacking it. What I found surprised me, but not Nico.

In the middle of the 'living room' stood Leo and Petalouda arguing. That wasn't even the worst part, Leo's hands were ablaze, and Petalouda was radiating darkness and fear. I didn't even know that was possible. But they all stopped when Nico took a running start and knocked Petalouda to the ground. That's when all Hades broke loose.

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I am so sorry for not updating in so long. School has been crazy, and it's just too much. But I am NOT going to stop this story. I'm going to get a bunch of updates done this weekend and post them every few days or so. Another reason I took so long was because I wanted to wait until I read Blood of Olympus. I finished it about five days ago...I hated it...if you guys have any questions about the book or have read it and want to talk about it or whatever, just message me or leave a comment!