Disclaimer: I don't the characters, they belong to Rick Riordan. I don't own the plot, it belongs to MBC. I just joined them for fun.

Episode 13: Part 3

Previously...

"Should we go together? To find your husband?"

While at gunpoint, Will watched in fascination and horror what Orcus was ordering his father what to do.

He had dragged him back to the manhwa world, still pointing his gun at him. Not even seconds later, Orcus began calling out orders to Apollo.

"Now, draw a car." A brand new black car appeared on the side of the road and Orcus forced Will into the driver's seat with his gun. "Draw a cell phone too." From the mirror, Will saw how a cell phone appeared on Orcus' hand, just like the car had too.

He had to figure out a way out of this mess and soon.

Meanwhile, Zeus Olympia was dealing with his own problems.

Apparently, the thugs he had hired to do the job of getting rid of Orcus not only hadn't done the job but they had lost him too!

"They said that the dude escaped from inside the interrogation room!"

"Do you know what you're saying right now? How can he escape from there?!" Zeus shouted over the phone before hanging up. He was indeed furious. How could he escape from there..? His thoughts were interrupted when he received a call from a 'Restricted Number'. "Hello?"

"I told you not to mess with me, didn't I?" Came the reply from the other side. Zeus didn't even need to ask who was it. "This bastard just doesn't listen when I helped you that much."

"How did you get out of there?" The million-dollar question...

"Don't mess with me!" Orcus insisted. Zeus could not figure out if he was making a tantrum or a real threat. "I can kill you right away! You don't even know how the world works. How dare you act up and try to kill me? You think I don't know who would you send after me?!" Evidently, I underestimate you... "Arrange a hideout for me. Now!" Orcus demanded him. "Find one within five minutes, and text me the address. I told you, didn't I? We're now in the same boat."

"Look here. Why should I?" Zeus argued back.

"Nico di Angelo is alive. I'm saying that bastard didn't die." Orcus insisted. "If you want to catch Nico di Angelo, don't you dare try anything. Got it?" After that, he hung up.

And, as much as Zeus would like to kill this bastard, Nico di Angelo was his biggest target.

By the time Nico managed to get to Apollo's house, Kayla was on the door about to walk in.

"Oh, Nico." She greeted him but gasped at the sight of him holding a gun. "No-"

"Wait here." Nico ordered her, taking advantage of her shock. "It's dangerous." He rushed into the house, leaving an almost paralyzed Kayla on the door.

Nico walked into the house and the first thing he noticed out of place where Will's keys and wallet on the table, his phone on the floor but no signs of him. He also saw the door of Will's old room, the one where Apollo was staying, wide open... without Apollo inside. Knowing there was only one room left, Nico rushed to the master bedroom, where he was shocked by the sight.

Apollo was sitting on his chair, limply. His face had not returned to normalcy. But what chilled Nico's blood was the sight of a hammer-destroyed tablet on the desk.

Knowing he could nothing else there, he came out to face Kayla, who was curled up by the door in fright.

"What is it?" She managed to ask before he rushed to Will's car.

"It's dangerous here, so go to stay somewhere else." He advised her- no, that was no advice. More like an order.

"What happened? Things didn't end well?" Kayla evidently wanted to know why the sudden situation. Nico had only one answer for that while climbing inside the car again.

"The killer kidnapped Will." This is all my fault... but I'll fix it.

No matter what.

Zeus had been pacing around his office, considering his options.

"This bastard." He mumbled, angry. He had already given Orcus a hiding spot but he had to move forward now. Exactly where do I begin, and how should I deal with this? He immediately made a call, needing to discover his doubts and theories. "Hello? Are you on your way?" Zeus asked his speaker, unaware that someone else was in his office. "Listen to me carefully. You can't kill him." He reminded the person on the other side. "Just watch from the outside what he's doing. I have something to confirm with him, so just make sure he doesn't get away. Got it?" The other person agreed with the statement. "Okay. I'll be over there soon."

The click of his office's door being locked made Zeus turn around and get the shock of his life.

"Where did you send Orcus to?"

Nico di Angelo was alive. And in his office.

And not only that, he seemed beyond angry.

"You..."

"What's the address you just mentioned?" While Zeus was not over his shock, Nico di Angelo immediately charged at him. After a direct kick to his chest, Zeus was practically on the floor if Nico hadn't picked him up from his spot. However, it was not to help him as he began punching his face hard and direct before laying him on his desk and glaring at him. "Where is Orcus?!"

"How are you alive?" Zeus managed to stutter, still in shock. The main reason why he wasn't defending himself. Evidently, Nico was out of patience as he pulled out a gun and pointed it at him.

"Tell me quickly. I don't have time."

After giving the address to Nico di Angelo, Zeus continued in a state of shock until his own employees found him and began to treat him for his wounds after they were surprised by the leave of a young man that had appeared without anyone seeing him coming in.

"Don't be like this. Go to the hospital." His assistant, Ganymedes, insisted but Zeus silenced him about it with a wave of his hand. "I apologize. I didn't see anyone coming in. I don't know how this happened." Ganymedes admitted, very confused.

"Nico di Angelo." Zeus repeated his attacker's name like some kind of mantra or clue. Or as if that explained everything.

"Excuse me?"

"Nico di Angelo is alive."

"But Nico di Angelo died. He looked a lot like him, but-" Ganymedes tried to kill that idea dead but Zeus was no longer listening.

"That bastard was right." He muttered to himself, chuckling a little. He recalled the time that blonde young man had appeared out of nowhere inside his office. Looks like a connection... "Something is there. Something I don't know about... These bastards are both threatening me? Get the car ready!" He ordered loudly to Ganymedes, who looked startled.

"Where will you be going?"

"There's something I have to find out."

Right after the call to Zeus Olympian, Will found himself being given directions towards nowhere.

After several minutes- Will calculated around half an hour but could have been a little less -, Orcus finally stopped giving directions... but that didn't mean he stopped giving him out orders.

"Okay, stop." Will stopped the car, not even looking at him. "Turn off the engine." Will did as told, closing his eyes to avoid exploding at him. "Get out- No, wait. Get out after me." Orcus changed his mind and rushed out of the car, still pointing his gun at Will from outside.

I need to find a way out... Will thought while Orcus guided him inside what was obviously a warehouse. Once inside, Orcus made Will stand still while he sat in an abandoned chair and, to make matters worse, put on a silencer on the gun's barrel.

"I wanted to shoot while your husband watched, but I think doing this will make Nico di Angelo come find me." Orcus stated, not even showing remorse. Of course, you wouldn't feel remorse... you were created like that... "I waited for a long time. Because Nico di Angelo couldn't remember you. There's no point shooting you when he doesn't remember you as his husband." He teased him but Will kept an impassive face. "Now that Nico di Angelo knows, it'll be worth it to shoot you." He finished, pointing the gun back at him.

"So, this is what is it?" Will dared to ask, hiding deep the fear he was feeling. "Revenge because he ignored you the first time and decided to stop chasing you?"

"You don't get it, do you?" Orcus insisted, smirking. "You're Nico di Angelo's family. Getting rid of you is the reason I exist." He pointed at his ring finger, forcing Will to glance at it. "So why did you have to put on the wedding ring? No one told you to become the main character's romantic partner in a manhwa!" Orcus scolded him as if he was a small kid. "Did you think it would end well?"

At the same time, Nico was driving as fast as he could to the address provided by Zeus Olympia.

So, his shock was big when he saw the words 'To Be Continued' forming out of thin air, right in front of him. He managed to step hard on the car's brakes before disappearing from the manhwa and back to the real world.

The bad part of disappearing in the middle of the highway was that you would appear on the same spot in the other world. Sadly, the highway was also crowded in the real world and if it wasn't because the drivers were paying attention, Nico would have been run over hard.

As soon as he realized that he was in the real world- mainly, because of the nightlight-daylight contrast -, Nico got out of the highway and onto the side, ignoring the angry shouts of the drivers.

Knowing that there was only one way to discover why the chapter was ending, Nico immediately read the manhwa online and almost had a heart attack when seeing that Orcus was ready to kill Will in cold blood. He kept reading, hoping that it was there where the manhwa decided to stop.

He was wrong.

He watched as Zeus' henchmen appeared in the area and made enough noise for Orcus to focus on that. Will used that opportunity to slowly step back but Orcus' attention was back on Will, who started to run, making a fatal mistake.

He turned his back to Orcus.

And Orcus didn't hesitate to shot him.

Nico could only look as Will felt to the floor and tried to drag himself out of the warehouse, not reaching out very far. He was saved from a second and more closed-up shot of Orcus by the appearance of Zeus' henchmen. Orcus immediately focused on them and killed the entire group- all three of them.

The last image of the manhwa's chapter was Will's passed out expression.

Gripping his phone like if his life depended on it, Nico knew he only had one choice.

"I'm going back."

Seconds later, daylight turned into night and he re-appeared on the same spot he had left. His car was even there, which meant that not a lot of time had passed. Good... He began driving again and soon reached the warehouse's address that Zeus had given him.

There, Orcus was waiting for him.

He was inside the getaway car he forced Apollo to draw for him. He had purposely waited in the dark and lighted up the car as soon as he saw him, smirking at him. That was clearly a challenge and the smirking face of Orcus was like a waving cloth to a bull, as Nico's emotions went from the extreme worry to the biggest hatred.

Both, the hero and the villain of the story, knew this was their final encounter. Like in the old western films, they used their cars as a combination of horses and spears, ready to strike each other and see who would come dead from the simple act of crashing each other.

Both plans worked halfway, as the cars struck each other with the same amount of force but none made a significant impact on the other. It didn't pass to long before both foes pulled out their guns and began shooting at each other, bullets drilling through the windows of the opposite car.

When Nico realized that one of Orcus' bullets grazed his arm, he decided he needed an advantage and he created one, forcing his car to advance and push Orcus' backward. That small advantage helped Nico land a perfect shot in Orcus' body, a shot that splashed his nemesis' face with blood.

Nico didn't stop there and emptied the ammunition clip of his gun on Orcus, who had stopped moving after a while. The backlash of the first hit on him had made him fire some bullets to the air, clearly not hurting anyone. But Nico only stopped for two reasons.

One, his ammunition clip was empty.

Two, Orcus had fallen dead in his place.

It took Nico a couple of minutes to come to terms with what he had done. In the general aspect of things, he had killed a person. Sure, this person had killed his family, murdered people at his former TV broadcasting station, killed his Uncle, framed him for it and shot Will.

Some would call it revenge, others justice.

But Nico wasn't thinking about those things at the moment. He rushed out of the car and into the warehouse. He saw Zeus' henchmen laying there, two dead but one was alive. He didn't care about them, he passed them through and headed to the last corner of the warehouse...

Only to find a big spot of almost dry blood.

Will... did he manage to return?

Holding tight to that thought, Nico returned to the real world.

The warehouse was the same but under the daylight was not so scary. He immediately saw two police officers that were talking to whom it seemed a worker of the warehouse and rushed to them.

"Who are you? Where did you suddenly come from?" The worker asked him, confused.

"What happened to the man that was over there?" Nico pleaded, not really caring how did he sound.

"A young man was bleeding and passed out on the ground, so I put him in an ambulance just a moment ago." Wait, what...?

"He's alive?" Nico checked, managing a small smile.

"He was at that time, but I don't know. He was dying." The worker admitted and Nico turned to the officers, focused on one thing.

"Where is the hospital? Can you take me there?"

The officers didn't sound too bothered with the request and allowed Nico to climb on the back of their patrol car on their way to the hospital. On the way, they swapped information with Nico, who was worried out of his mind.

"They said that it's serious, that he was hemorrhaging a lot." The officer in the passenger's seat told him before turning around to see him. "It looks like you've been hurt, too. Are you okay?" Nico hadn't even thought about his arm and ignored the question. But he wouldn't ignore the next one. "What is your relationship with the patient?"

"I'm his husband."

And for the first time since the death of his family, Nico allowed the tears to fall.