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.

Final Episode: Part 3

Apollo had woken up from his slumber and was now struggling to get free.

He barely noticed that Jason had arrived to the room to look after him.

"Yes, cousin. I just arrived." Jason called Percy to tell him. "His condition seems serious... And also, I heard this... I think the CEO was shot." Evidently, he received a shocking reply because he elaborated. "Zeus Olympia shot him. I didn't know earlier." However, that conversation was enough to catch Apollo's attention and he stopped struggling. "I think he bled a lot. What should I do?"

"Nico di Angelo was shot by Zeus Olympia?" Apollo asked Jason weakly, who looked at him, before he repeated. "He got shot by Zeus Olympia?"

"Yes."

"Where is Nico di Angelo?" Apollo continued under the mistrust look of Jason.

"We don't know. We're still looking for him."

"That's Percy Jackson, right? Let me speak to him." Apollo demanded. "Hurry and give it to me." Jason looked unsure but placed his phone on Apollo's ear. "Tell him to untie me."

"You're asking to untie the ropes?" Percy's disbelief could be heard by miles.

"Untie it now." Apollo said again but Percy was not one to follow his order that quick.

"Will Solace strictly warned us not to."

"Untie it please." Apollo insisted.

"I can't. If you need something ask Jason to do it." Percy denied his request.

"I heard you also heard something." Apollo tried one last trick. "If we know the location then it would be faster with the tablet. Untie me. Untie me please." It seemed like his last trick worked because soon Apollo was on the tablet, drawing and searching for Nico, under the careful watch of Jason.

Poor Jason didn't expect the stabbing of a needle on his neck for his gratitude.

~WARNING~ This part contains almost detailed self-harm actions.

At the same time, Zeus Olympia arrived to his office after his last encounter with Nico di Angelo.

"Are you crazy!" He shouted to his people over the phone, caring little if anyone listened to him. "You crazy dumbass! You were beaten up by a person who was shot! Kill him right now! No need to drag him here! So if you see him just kill him right on sight!"

His assistant, Ganymedes, thought this was too much.

"Assemblyman, you can't be like this." He tried to reason with him. "What are you trying to do that you are making things this big? You could have just handed things over to the police, why must you do this? He can be arrested now at any time." His loyalty was rewarded by being grabbed by the neck of his clothes, almost manhandling him.

"When is there going to be such an arrest? Do you know when?" Zeus had obviously lost all reason. "He may be searching for me right now too. What's the use of doing anything because I'm sitting and accepting my date of death. The file that Nico di Angelo gave. If tomorrow that is not the only one, it's the end. How would you stop that!" He finished by throwing him on the floor. "Get out! Get out, you bastard!" He ordered him, leaving Ganymedes no option but to leave his boss alone.

But Zeus didn't get the solitude he was asking as his secretary soon walked in with a phone in hand.

"That..."

"What is it?" He didn't even let her begin.

"It's a person named Apollo Solace." The woman started again.

"Who?"

"He said you would answer after hearing his name." It took him a couple of seconds to realize what she had said before he became interested and took the phone from her. She immediately took it as her cue and left.

"Hello."

"It's me."

"Apollo Solace?" He checked.

"Right. Good thing you're in your office."

"You're the Apollo Solace that I saw in the hospital?"

"Right. The one that made you. I made you... as an antagonist." For Zeus, Apollo's voice was very calm and he could hear he was doing something but couldn't figure out what. "But what happened that it came to this? At the very least, you aren't someone to get blood on your hands. Did you shoot the gun?"

"How are you here?" Zeus questioned him, a bit of fear lacing his tone. "You, back then-"

"Did you shoot Nico di Angelo because you wanted to find me?" Apollo interrupted him. "I was here. Ever since a year ago." Suddenly, the loud click of the door locking itself was heard and Zeus watched as a gun appeared on his free hand.

"What is this?" He wanted to know.

"You too, do you want to know the reason for your existence? Since there is a lot you want to know, you gradually came out more. Because you can't stop the greed of wanting to know. Everyone was the same. That's why I became this way." While Apollo talked, Zeus tried to get the gun out of his hand... only to find out he couldn't. "But then, you can't be like that. You're someone who wanted to be a president. If you know all of the secrets then what would happen to this world? And a bad person like you at that. That's something so dangerous." By now, Zeus had figured Apollo's plan and he was trembling like a leaf. "Let's go together, you and I. I failed everything, but you are the one thing I must dispose of before I go." Slowly, Zeus' arm was getting closer to his forehead and against his will.

"No. Save me." Zeus begged before shouting. "Hey! Is anyone-?" His words were muffled by tape that appeared on his mouth.

This was his own end now.

~WARNING OVER~

Apollo knew it was time to put his affairs in order.

He made a confession and a recording of Zeus Olympia appear to every police officer in the city, as well as a physical one on Zeus' desk, along with his last will. Afterward, he drew a new car, a letter, and a picture, leaving the latter two with a still passed out Jason- he never meant to kill him -before making a phone call.

"Hello?" Percy answered the phone.

"Has Will gone to Nico di Angelo?" He asked him.

"Yes."

"Where is that place? Tell me the location. My son... I want to see him for the last time." He begged Percy, who relented and gave him the address Will had given him. Apollo hopped in the car and drove to the location. He feared he would never make it in time, he was fading away very quickly. Thankfully, he arrived just in time to see Will arriving on the other side of the road. Will... "I love you... my son..." A small smile graced his lips, happy to see his son one last time. "Goodbye."

Apollo accepted his destiny as the sad end, sacrificing his for his son's happy ending.

Percy ignored why Will hadn't called him with news of Nico.

Had he arrived on time?

"Is it right there?" He pointed at the sidewalk when he saw a man laying on the curb. Frank stopped the car and both men jumped out of it. "Nico. Nico!" Percy immediately recognized him while Frank called 911.

The ambulance arrived very fast and soon, Nico was on a stretcher and Percy was driving on the back of the ambulance with him, Frank following them from the car.

"Nico. Nico." Percy called him, holding his hand. Nico opened his eyes slowly at his voice and turned to see him. "How are you feeling? I thought you were dead." Percy couldn't help himself to scold his younger cousin.

"Will..." Nico mumbled behind the oxygen mask and Percy hated to give bad news.

"He's not here. I couldn't find him." He explained and to his surprise, Nico sighed in relief as if he knew what had happened.

Nothing really mattered now for Percy.

His priority would be getting his cousin in the hospital.

"The video file of the candidate Olympia kidnapping and torturing Mr. Nico di Angelo, the contents of the call record of the dead suspected murderer Orcus, and the recording files of instructing the gangster to murder Mr. Nico di Angelo spread quickly on the Internet. The police revealed that they are tracing the route. After the shocking news of the candidate Zeus Olympia's suicide-"

The last person Nico expected to visit him in prison was Reyna.

However, he greeted her with a smile.

"Hey, Reyna!" He called her when he noticed she was distracted. She looked shocked but soon returned to her old self.

"Are you okay? What about a gunshot wound?"

"I've come back from the dead but after I became okay, they sent me here right away." Nico joked a little about it.

"Since you are cleared from the murder charge, the rest of the sentence won't be much." Reyna pointed out before she talked about what was really bothering her. "I'm sorry."

"For what?"

"For doubting you and cutting off contact with you." She explained, guilt showing off.

"If it were me, I'll be suspicious like that too. Since I put a show that I died." Nico said to her. "I was glad that you were suspicious and cut off contact with me." That really shocked Reyna.

"What are you talking about?"

"For showing me the proof that you can live another life by yourself."

That's all Nico needed from her.

A few weeks later, Nico received a message from Percy in the shape of a letter and a book.

In the end, I couldn't find Apollo Solace. He said he'll go and meet his son, after that I lost contact. He just left the car behind. There's no trace of him at all. He left a letter to you. It's in a book.

Nico searched the book until finding what Percy was talking about. A picture of Apollo and a letter fell from its pages.

To Nico di Angelo,
I was hoping you let me go peacefully... But in the end, I'm leaving on my own.
I'm already dead. My soul is limited. Since I don't know when I'll go crazy again, I'm going to end my life here today.
You go out to the real world. I'm going to end my life here.
You become human. I'm going to remain as a manhwa character.
You got out of the predetermined circumstances I created. I will die trapped in the predetermined circumstanced that I created.
Isn't life interesting?
I wish you a happy life.
And make Will happy.
Also, if you see Will, tell him that I'm alive. So she won't be sad. Tell her that I'm living well in this place.
Inside of the manhwa that I drew.

Naomi Solace was worried about her only child and she would let him know.

"Are you going somewhere?" She questioned Will when seeing her son prepared to leave.

"To meet a friend." He lied, trying to hide his sadness.

"You should rest since you're sick." Naomi insisted. "What happened to your father? It's been a week." She pointed out, ignoring Will's swirling emotions.

"He'll probably come. If we just wait for few more days." Will finished the conversation, leaving his mother apartment.

Leaving his phone behind.

That Naomi answered.

"Hello?"

"Is this Will Solace's number?" A male voice asked from the other end of the line.

"Yes. This is Will's number." Naomi answered, curious. "He left it at home. But... Who are you?"

Meanwhile, Will was ignorant of whom his mother was talking to.

He just decided, on a very stormy day, to spend some of his time on a cold, outside and wet bus stop. Very deep inside of him, his brain was making a joke about how the weather matched his mood.

He sat on the curb of the bus stop, getting soaked in less than two seconds as he hadn't taken an umbrella with him. He leaned his head on the post and closed his eyes for a second, glad that the rain would mask his tears. However, he didn't have the strength to do much now.

His weaken state thanks to spending significant time in the manhwa and the heavy pouring rain was making a deadly combination to his body and soon, Will was losing consciousness in the same position that he was in.

He didn't stay conscious enough to see a car stopping by nor who was driving it.

The next time Will opened his eyes, he was in a completely different environment.

The first difference was that it wasn't raining. He couldn't feel the rain on him.

The second thing he noticed was the beeping of machines. It was the unmistakable beeping of a hospital machine. Great... I'm more of a patient than a doctor...

The last thing he noticed was that, tucked under his neck and in front of his line of vision, there was another arm. He frowned slightly and saw that the extra hand was tangled with his. It took him less than a second to recognize the wedding ring on the extra hand.

And the ring that was back on his own finger.

Will immediately turned his head and was muted by the sight of Nico di Angelo, alive and well, sleeping behind him. Or not sleeping because as soon as Will turned fully to see him, Nico opened his eyes.

"Are you awake? How are you?" He asked him, speaking softly as if there were more people in the room. Will kept staring at him, saying nothing. "Your mother came. I thought she would ask a lot, but she didn't have anything to say." Will continued to listen in silence. "I couldn't say I was your husband, so I just said I was your boyfriend. In a hurry, I showed her this old presentation card." Nico showed him an old card of his- back when he was CEO. "She didn't say anything afterward." Will sighed softly, hoping his mother wouldn't worry much. "I came after spending two years in jail, but it's only been one week here." Nico explained to him. "Honestly, I was worried our times were going at the same rate. For two years, I was afraid you would die from the sadness of being alone. That's a relief." He admitted, relaxing.

Finally, Will had something to say.

"What about Dad?"

Wordlessly, Nico sat up on the bed and helped Will do the same. Then, he pulled out something from his pocket that he gave to Will. It was a photograph of Apollo. Will took the photo, conveying the silent message Nico was giving him.

Apollo was gone.

Will couldn't do anything but to crumble. He leaned on Nico and began to cry for the loss of his father, mourning him with the only person who knew about his fate. Nico simply hugged him tight and let him.

He was there for him now.

A few more days and Will was finally out of the hospital.

I hope this doesn't become the norm now... He thought to himself while walking next to Nico, who had his arm around his shoulders.

"Wow, who knew?" Nico spoke up, getting Will's attention. "I finally belong to this world." That made Will wonder about something.

"Is it really... the end?" He asked, looking at him. Nico simply looked at him, serious.

"It really is." His reply was emphasized with a kiss on Will's forehead before keep on walking on together.

Nico di Angelo's story in the manhwa was a happy ending.

But the ending between the real Nico di Angelo and Will Solace is still unknown. However... they don't have to think about being in a manhwa.

Even if it might be boring and ordinary, I hope they will meet an ending that will last for 50 years.

Just like any ordinary couple.

Don't you?

● THE END ●

I want to thank those who read this fan fiction. It gave me more headaches than anything, so I'm glad I was able to finish it. Thank you to those who commented, reviewed and waited patiently every week for the ending to come. I doubt I do something like this for a while.

I'm preparing a surprise for you guys, so keep tune!

I'll see you in other stories!

xoxo, SilverHuntresses