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CHAPTER 18

WILL'S POV

Eliza landed us on the hill of camp Jupiter and in the valley below there was chaos. Mad, uncontrolled, deathly, chaos. It was like Pandora had opened the box again, and hadn't captured chaos. Eliza immediately grabbed my hand and dragged me down to one of the barracks where the demigods slept. Laying on the floor was Nico. Hovering above him was Annabeth, blocking another demigod from his limp, bloody body. Annabeth slashed at the demigod from the rebellion with her dagger, slicing his stomach a little.

I rushed over to where my boyfriend was unconsciously lying on the ground. I bent down to find his pulse. It was faint but it was there. I scooped him up and carried him to one of the beds in the barracks. He moaned when I dropped him gently on the bed, his head moving slightly to the side. There was blood all over him flowing from his shoulder. I ripped off part of the bedsheets and tied it round the cut. It was a deep cut and would need stitches when we could get him to the infirmary. I picked him up again after Annabeth and Eliza had knocked out the rest of the rebels.

They covered for me as we ran across the raging battlefield. This was way worse than Camp Half-Blood. There were more rebels here and their camp was less populated but the also had New Rome to protect. Bigger area plus less people equals disaster. I sighed as I started stitching Nico's shoulder. He always had to go and get hurt. I was always stressing about if he was doing something stupid or not if he wasn't with me. The kid was so freaking unpredictable. Nine out of ten times if he was alone, he got hurt. It killed me to know that he was in pain all the time. Especially dealing with Eliza. She could be a handful sometimes, but Cat kept her under control most of the time. I swear, if she didn't have Cat she'd go insane. Nico moanes and rolled over onto his stomach, opening his eyes.

"Nhhggg, my shoulder hurts Will." Nico moaned at me.

"I wonder why. You only got stabbed in it," I said to him.

"Sarcasm doesn't suit you."

"Whatever death boy."

He moaned as he sat up and pecked my lips. Eliza walked in, breathless, and told me that it was safe to go outside now. The rebels had been detained and there was going to be a trial for them in a week.

CAT'S POV

Uhg. that Liam kid was annoying as Hell. he wouldn't stop hitting on me, like what in hades?! I was taken! He didn't seem to understand the words 'not single'. He followed me around everywhere! It was annoying, to say the least.

"Cat, could you come here for a second?" Jonathan from Apollo called. I walked in his direction to the top of Half-Blood Hill, next to Thalia's tree.

"Whadda ya need?" I say cheerfully.

"W-well, I want to ask your brother out…" He whispered.

"Yes! Do it! I ship it already!"

"But I don't know how he'll react."

"I'll make sure you guys are a happy lil cute couple," I said. YES. this will be awesome. I can't wait. I ship it.

"Hey, Cat," Liam said.

"Fuck off Liam," I say, walking away with Jonathan. Teresa and Piper had started with the new demigods from the rebellion and Percy and Leo had enforced the boundaries so that no one could attack. People could still come in and out of the boundaries freely, but groups of more than five people were deflected. There was the clanking of swords from training in the distance and the shouts of the Apollo campers teaching archery and manning the infirmary. The infirmary was only sliiiightly chaotic without Will.

All of a sudden the clashing of weapons and yelling of demigods got closer. Me and Jon looked past Thalia's tree in the direction the sound was coming from. There were five people, four boys and a girl from what I could tell. Two of them looked like they were about seventeen, one of them about sixteen and the two younger ones looked ten of eleven. They were about two hundred feet from the border and being safe from the giant that was attacking them. A crowd had gathered on top of the hill but no one went out to help. All of the actually successful demigods were and Camp Jupiter or with their families. One of the boys, the shortest of the older ones, started distracting the giant while it grabbed at him, narrowly missing every time. The other two older ones started trying to get the little ones to the border.

A loud, ear shattering scream echoed through the valley, then suddenly went silent. The giant kept lumbering forwards towards the others, leaving the one boy, bloody and lifeless, flattened into the ground. The creature swiped at the four people and missed, but all of a sudden when it went to grab at them again they were gone. The giant was then attacked by Apollo archers from safe towers inside camp. It was then safe to say it had gone back to Tartarus. We all turned around to go back to what we were doing and found three of the four kids huddled on the ground around one of them. It was the boy who had made them disappear. Shadowtravel, I'd assume. A group of Apollo campers came and examined the dark, shadowy boy lying unconscious on the grass.

"His pulse is faint but there, lets get him to the infirmary!" Kayla yelled. Her sister Lily helped carry the boy down the hill and into the infirmary.

"We need Will!" Lily said. "He's fading quickly!" she said frantically.

WILL POV

Nico healed quickly, like always, and he and Eliza shadow traveled us all back to camp. We landed in the middle of the infirmary and there were people rushing around everywhere.

"Will!" I heard Kaya yell. "We have a fading demigod there's lots of shadows in him. Your the one who's and expert on this we need you!"

"Uh, okay, let me change into clean clothes first," I said. I told Nico to go lay down in his usual bed to rest and Eliza, Annabeth and the new kid Rhys all went outside to get out of the chaos. The boy that was fading looked an awful lot like Nico, but then again so did all emo kids. I decided to teach Kayla and the rest of my siblings how to extract the shadows from a child of the underworld. I quickly healed him, and left to go treat my boyfriend.

"Will?" Nico asked as I sat down on the bed next to him.

"Yeah, Neeks?"

"Do you still love me," he asked, his face going sad. He looked down at his hands and clenched his fists.

"Of course I love you Nico! You are the love of my life! I couldn't NOT love you!"

"I-i got high again. And I cut. I'm sorry, Will," he whispered and started letting out heart wrenching sobs that shook his whole body.

"Oh Nico, I'm not mad, just sad that you thought you had to do that and disappointed that you followed through." I held his hand and rolled up his sleeve.

"What did you use?" I asked.

"A razor. Annabeth found it and took it."

"Okay, so she knows?"

"Yes."

"And what did you get high on?"

"Nicotine and weed," his head bent down in shame. I hugged him to my chest and let him cry into my shoulder until he drifted off to sleep, me quickly after.

sooo how'd y'all like it? thank you to Nightshade494 for the OCs! pls review!