"Yes, thou are it was wonderful having thou with me by thy side, thank thou for all thee service goodbye now," Draco said and left the great hall before anyone could see what he did.
3rd Person P.O.V.
Draco crouched down from where Percy and himself were. They stood outside in the snow and waited for Thalia's signal to get inside the military school. She nodded at them and they all stepped out and inside the school doors, they walked through the grey halls of the school until they were spotted by a teacher. "What are you doing here, who are you?" The teacher said glaring at them in suspicion. Thalia came forward and looked at her in the eyes, "We are students here that just got here, so you were showing us the way to the other students." And snapped her fingers at the teachers face. The teacher blinked at them with glanced over eyes then smiled, "Well then follow me, right now we're having a dance in the multipurpose room. Come along now!" They all followed her to the gym where all the students were dancing and drinking something in red cups, probably punch.
Draco scanned the crowd until he found Grover, "Over there!" He whispered to the others pointing at Grover. They made his way to the satyr in disguised, Grover looked at them and instantly smiles running over to them. "I'm glad you guys came, follow me the crowds getting a bit loud," Grover walked them until they were close to the stalls. Draco noticed that two people were already there by the corner of the room. One was a girl with her hair braided on her shoulder. She wore a green cap and had her hands on a younger boy 'probably her brother,' Draco thought. "You see those guys over there?" Draco heard Grover day and glanced at him noticing he was pointing at the people Draco was looking at earlier. "Those are the Demi-Gods I was talking about they always keep to themselves and don't talk to others much, so I couldn't get close to them. We need to get them out of here fast, their sent is strong so it might alarm any monsters near by," Grover said, Draco nodded and looked back at the pair. He saw that they were talking to some older guy and started following him, "Um, guys? I think they're leaving," he said eyes still locked on the pair.
"Oh no, that's one of the teachers I had a bad feeling about," Grover muttered. They all quickly left and followed the pair outside the gym. Percy suddenly sprinted up to the pair, 'shit.' Draco thought, Thalia followed him and together they went towards the teacher. Draco ran up to them and grabbed both kids as the teacher revealed his true form; a manticore. "We got to get you to safety follow me!" He said, pulling both Demi-Gods with him as they moved away the monster looked at them, "No! You're not going anywhere with them!" The manticore said ignoring both Percy and Thalia to get to them. Draco twisted the silver ring he wore and adjusted the dagger in his hand. Draco ran as fast as he could with Borge Demi-Gods and slashed at the manticore, "Dr. Thron?" He heard one of the Demi-Gods whisper behind him as he kicked the monsters— Dr. Thorn's chest, sending him away from them.
"We've got to hurry!" Draco said turning back to the siblings and continued to run out the hall and into the doors ahead of them. Draco heard an angry roar behind him and ran faster until they made it outside the school, the snow made running harder. Draco heard the sound of someone falling and saw that the shorter sibling fell, he cursed himself for not thinking of the kid and helped the kid up. Sadly the manticore had already catch up to them, Draco didn't know how they could escape since they were already near the corner of the hill. Draco made both siblings stand behind him and raised a hand to protect them, the other holding his dagger. Percy, Thalia, Grover, and Annabeth stood behind the manticore and tried to get its attention by attacking him from behind.
It worked and the manticore turned to them, "It's no use punny Demi-Gods! I'll take these ones away to bring to the General! He'll reward me beautifully when I get back!" Dr. Thron said laughing at them, the sound of a helicopter filled his ears and looked back. Something was coming closer and closer to them, he grabbed the younger Demi-Gods wrist and slowly pulled them towards the woods. Making sure not to gain Dr. Thorns attention as they walked around him. When Draco took his next step a loud CRUNCH was heard, he looked down and saw that he had stepped on a branch. 'Fuck,' Draco mentally cursed as he saw Dr. Thorn turn around. "Huh? Where do you think you're going?" He asked and raised his hand towards them Draco turned around and tackled both siblings to the ground missing, Dr. Thorn's huge hand.
When Draco looked up he saw something silver passed by him and hit Dr. Thorn more of them came and he noticed they were all arrows: silver arrows. 'The hunters!' Draco thought relived that they had people helping them. Soon more of the hunters stepped out of the woods all their bows pointing at Dr. Thron and hitting him with arrows. Dr. Thron stepped away from them, "Damn hunters!" He cursed as more arrows hitter him, he started walking backwards, towards the end of the cliff. He stopped when he felt the end of the cliff but sadly the eight of the manticore was too much and the rock broke, making Dr. Thorn collapse until all his chest and arms where the only thing handing to the cliff. "If I can't have those damn Demi-Gods I'll have the next best thing!" Dr. Thorn yelled grabbing the person closest to him: Annabeth. He twisted and fell off the cliff bringing Annabeth down with him. Draco stood up and ran towards the end of the cliff with Percy, "Annabeth!" Percy yelled panicked. Draco grabbed his shirt when he got too close to the end of the cliff, he grabbed his shirt and tugged it a bit making Percy look at him. Draco's head pointed at the hunters and Lady Artemis, "We got to get the Demi-Gods to safety, we'll save Annabeth later I promise," Draco whispered the last part to Percy and walked towards the Demi-God siblings. "What's going on? What just happened!?" The older sibling said and Draco looked at her and stopped eyes wide.
'She looks just like- no, she's dead Draco remembered that she's not here anymore and she'll never be coming back!' Draco cursed himself and forced himself to look at the sibling in the eye. "Everything is fine now, we'll take you to a safe place away from here," he said turning his attention to the shorter kid. He looked at Draco in awe, "WOW! How did you get a dagger? And how did Mr. Thorn turned into that?!" The kid yelled excitedly. Draco smiled a bit and glanced at the girl noticing her looking at the hunters in awe. He kneeled down and glanced at the kid placing his finger close to his masked lips and pointing to the goddess of the moon that was talking to her hunters. "You see that person over there?" Draco whispered, the boy nodded. "That's Lady Artemis goddess of the hunt," Draco said turning to see the kid in the eye. The boys mouth dropped, "How? The gods aren't real?"
Draco chuckled, "That's what everyone thinks but they're very much real, come on kiddo the hunt is leaving without us." He glanced at hunters and followed them to the woods as Percy walked near them while Grover was fanboying over the goddess, Thalia was glaring at one of the hunters that was glaring at her back. "Don't call me kiddo!" The voy complained, Draco raised an eyebrow that was hidden by his mask, "Then what should I call you?" He asked, "Nico! Nico Di Angelo," the kid yelled smiling at him showing a tiny gap in his teeth. "Alright Nico, I'm Draco nice meeting you," he chuckled and walked a little behind the hunters Nico's sister walking with the hunters. "What's your sisters name?" He asked Nico. "Her name is Bianca she's my older sister, and she's super cool!"
"I'm sure she is come, we're getting a bit too far from the hunters," Draco said and both made their way to the group. Draco noticed that they were explaining the 'Demigod awakening' to Bianca and explaining to her what camp is. Nico heard what they were talking about and said, "Sweet! Lets go!"
"Wait," Bianca said looking uncertain, "I don't—" "There is another option," one of the hunters said, Draco noticed the silver like tiara in her head and instantly recognized her as Zoë Nightshade, Artemis lieutenant, "No, there isn't," Thalia growled and Zoë glared at her Thalia doing the same.
"We've burden these children enough," Artemis announced, "Zoë, we will rest here for a few hours. Raise the tents. Treat the wounded. Retrieve our guests' belongings from the school."
"Yes, my lady," Zoë said. Artemis then turned to look at Bianca, "And, Bianca, come with me. I would like to speak with you."
"What about me?" Nico asked, Draco placed his hand on Nico's shoulder whatever Artemis wanted with Bianca must not be good for Nico,
Artemis looked at Nico with a thoughtful look, "Perhaps you can show your friend how to play that card game you enjoy. I'm sure he'll would be happy to entertain you for a while... as a favor to me?" Artemis looked at Draco with a harden, "Sure Lady Artemis, come on Nico," Draco said pulling Nico towards the woods. Draco sat in the snow not caring that his jeans were getting wet by the snow and payed attention to Nico as he babbled on about his Mythomagic cards. "Hey Nico," Draco calles out to the boy.
He glanced at Draco giving him his full attention, "yeah?" He tilted his head. "Want to see a magic trick?" He asked and Nico nodded his head in excitement. "Give me a card that repeats or one that's very ugly," Nico passed him an old card that had Hades in it, Draco took it and crushed it with his hand, a soft blue glow came from his closed palm, and he opened his hand. Revealing a paper bird, he grabbed the bottom of his mask and pulled it upwards just so that his mouth could show and softly blew on the paper bird. The bird flew out of Draco's hand and flew around the woods circling some tree branches before landing softly on Nico's cards. Nico gapped at the bird and looked at Draco before asking ,"How did you do it?" Draco putted his mask back in place and said, "it's a secret~"
Nico whined at his answer, "Come let us go back." They both went back to find Grover healing a wound on Percy's arm, Draco felt guilty that he didn't payed enough attention at the fight Dr. Thorn and Percy had but ignored it. Nico went towards them and started asking questions about Demi-Gods and what not. After a while Artemis came and asked Percy to follow her, Zoë went with them and left them all alone with the hunters. When they came back Zoë was muttering something about foolish campers. "-And now there is one last decision to make," Artemis said turning to Bianca. "Have you made up your mind, my girl?" Artemis asked, Bianca hesitated, "I'm still thinking about it."
"Wait," Percy said. "Thinking about what?" He asked. Draco nodded along with him. Bianca looked at him with hesitation, "They... they've invited me to join the Hunt." Bianca revealed.
"What? But you can't! You have to come to Camp Half-Blood so Chiron can train you. It's the only way you can learn to survive!" Percy said confused. Draco stopped and looked at her, 'What about Nico? Was she abandoning him at camp?' Draco thought. 'If that's the case she might as well be the reincarnation of his mother, not only will they look alike, but they'll abandoned their family," Draco thought bitterly. "It is not the only way for a girl," Zoë said. Percy looked at Bianca like he couldn't believe what she was saying, "Bianca, camp is cool! It's got a pegasus stable and a
sword-fighting arena and... I mean, what do you get by joining the Hunters?" Percy asked.
"To begin with," Zoë said, "immortality."
Percy stared at her, then at Artemis. "She's kidding, right?"
"Zoe rarely kids about anything," Artemis said, "My Hunters follow me on my adventures. They are my maidservants, my companions, my sisters-in-arms. Once they swear loyalty to me, they are indeed immortal... unless they fall in battle, which is unlikely. Or break their oath."
"What oath?" Percy asked. "To foreswear romantic love forever," Artemis said, "To never grow up, never get married. To be a maiden eternally."
"Like you?" Percy said. The goddess nodded.
Percy looked at her with a thoughtful look, "So you just go around the country recruiting half-bloods—"
"Not just half-bloods," Zoë interrupted. "Lady Artemis does not discriminate by birth. All who honor the goddess may join. Half-bloods, nymphs, mortals—"
"Which are you, then?" Percy asked and Draco face palmed, "oh my gods Percy, you can't just ask people what they are!" Draco said looking at Percy. "Why not?" Percy asked. Draco just shook his head and turned at Nico who was staring at them in confusion.
"That is not thy concern, boy. The point is Bianca may join if she wishes. It is her choice," Draco heard Zoë say in an angry tone. "Bianca, this is crazy," Percy said that was one of the things Draco agreed with Percy but whatever it'll be her choice at the end. "What about your brother? Nico can't be a Hunter," Percy argued. "Certainly not," Artemis agreed. "He will go to camp. Unfortunately, that's the best boys can do," Artemis said glancing at Nico with and uninterested look. "Hey!" Percy yelled offendedly. "You can see him from time to time," Artemis assured Bianca ignoring Percy, "But you will be free of responsibility. He will have the camp counselors to take care of him. And you will have a new family. Us."
"A new family," Bianca repeated dreamily. "Free of responsibility," Artemis nodded and smiled at her. "Bianca, you can't do this," Percy said. "It's nuts."
Bianca didn't answer and looked at Zoë. "Is it worth it?" She asked, Zoe nodded, "It is."
"What do I have to do?" Bianca asked. "Say this," Zoe told her, "'I pledge myself to the goddess Artemis.'"
"I... I pledge myself to the goddess Artemis," Bianca repeated hesitantly, "'I turn my back on the company of men, accept eternal maidenhood, and join the Hunt,'" Zoë finished and Bianca repeated it, "That's it?" Bianca asked, Zoë nodded. "If Lady Artemis accepts thy pledge, then it is binding," Zoë said glancing at Artemis. "I accept it," Artemis said.
The flames in the brazier brightened, casting a silver glow over the room. Bianca looked no different, but she took a deep breath and opened her eyes wide. "I feel... stronger," she muttered. "Welcome, sister," Zoe said. "Remember your pledge," Artemis said. "It is now your life." Draco's mouth dried he felt like he somehow failed Nico, and his tale was beginning to repeat.
"Do not despair, Percy Jackson," Artemis said, "You will still get to show the di Angelos your camp. And if Nico so chooses, he can stay there."
"Great," Percy said. "How are we supposed to get there?" He asked, Artemis closed her eyes. "Dawn is approaching. Zoë, break camp. You must get to Long Island quickly and safely. I shall summon a ride from my brother."
Zoë didn't look real happy about this idea, but she nodded and told Bianca to follow her. As she was leaving, Bianca paused in front of Percy and looked at Draco he was still holding unto Nico's shoulder. "I'm sorry, Percy...But I want this. I really, really do," Bianca said and followed Zoë. "So," Percy said glumly. "We're going to get a ride from your brother, huh?" Percy asked looking at the 12 year old goddess, Artemis's silver eyes gleamed. "Yes, boy. You see, Bianca di Angelo is not the only one with an annoying brother. It's time for you to meet my irresponsible twin, Apollo."
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After waiting for Apollo to appear and Bianca took Nico from Draco, to explain what she had done. Draco respected her that she at least explained her decision to Nico, not everyone abandons their family and explain why they left and just leaves them to wonder what they had done so wrong to make them go away—Draco shook his head there's no time to duel in the past. When Apollo appeared they all talked and went into his changing bus thingy, one thing that Draco learned from Apollo don't. Ever. Let. Thalia. Drive. Ever. Draco's hands hurt from gripping Apollo's seat so hard. Once they got to camp they all left the bus dizzily Draco happily plopped down to the ground.
Draco then stood up and held a hand towards Nico, "Come I'll show you where you'll be staying." Nico nodded and followed Draco to cabin eleven: Hermes cabin. After lunch it was announced that camp was going to play with the hunters and the normal tradition started, they were going to play capture the flag with the hunters and lose for the 100th time. Draco stood by Nico, Percy, and Thalia armor ready and this time he decided to have a sword with him, he'll use his dagger if he needs too. "You've already got Ares on your bad side," Draco heard Thalia say to Percy as they made their way to the field. "You need another immortal enemy?" She asked. "Sorry," Percy said, "I couldn't help it. It's just so unfair." Thalia stopped by the armory and looked out across the valley, toward the top of Half-Blood Hill. Her pine tree was still there, the Golden Fleece glittering in its lowest branch. The tree's magic still protected the borders of camp, but it no longer used Thalia's spirit for power. "Percy, everything is unfair," Thalia muttered. "Sometimes I wish..." she trailed of and Draco left and moved a bit far he felt that what she wanted to share with Percy was going to be personal, and he didn't want to interfere with their moment.
He went up to Nico and started teaching the basics of how to use a sword. He'll need it for his first game and even if they lose Draco wanted this game to be the best experience for him. Nico deserves it for all the shit his been through so far. After a while lunch time started and Percy came out of his cabin, he had bed hair so Draco assumed that he took a nap. He sat at the Hermes table with Nico squeezed next to him, Nico was happily eating some snacks he wanted while Draco settles for some fruit. He didn't feel like eating, but he knew that he'll need the extra energy for the game. Draco noticed Percy talking to Grover and he couldn't help but eavesdrop on their conversation by the look on Percy's face. He heard that Artemis was kidnapped and Annabeth was tricked by... Luke. Draco poked his fruit he didn't want to eat anymore with the learned information.
When the horn aired again they all left the lunch area and prepared to play capture the flag. Draco glanced around and took notice of who were on their L team, they had Beckendorf and two other camper from the Hephaestus cabin, a few from the Ares cabin, the Stoll brothers, Nico, and himself from Hermes cabin, and a few Aphrodite kids. It was weird that the Aphrodite cabin wanted to play. Usually they sat on the sidelines, chatted, and checked their reflections in the river and stuff, but when they heard we were fighting the Hunters, they were raring to go.
"I'll show them 'love is worthless,'" Silena Beauregard grumbled as she strapped on her armor. "I'll pulverize them!" That left Percy with Thalia. "I'll take the offense," Thalia volunteered. "You take defense," she said adjusting her shield. "Oh," Draco heard Percy hesitate, probably because he normally takes offense in these games. "Don't you think with your shield and all, you'd be better defense?" Percy asked Thalia, but she already had Aegis on her arm, and even their own teammates were giving her a wide berth, trying not to cower before the bronze head of Medusa.
"Well, I was thinking it would make better offense," Thalia said. "Besides, you've had more practice at defense." Draco didn't know if she was teasing Percy, but he felt uneasy.
"Yeah, no problem," Percy said Draco stepped close to him, "I'll join Percy with defense." He told Thalia. "Cool," She said turning to help some of the Aphrodite kids, who were having trouble suiting up their armor without breaking their nails. Nico ran up to them with a big grin on his face.
"Percy, Draco, this is awesome!" His blue-feathered bronze helmet was falling in his eyes, and his breastplate was about six sizes too big. Draco chuckled at Nico and ruffled the helmets feathers, "You look ridiculous in a good way." Nico whined at Draco and lifted his sword with effort. "Do we get to kill the other team?" Nico asked, "Well... no." Percy muttered. "But the Hunters are immortal, right?" Nico asked Draco, "That's only if they don't fall in battle, and no they can't come back, Nico. These are real swords and we got to be careful with alright?" Draco asked gently and patted Nico's shoulder as Thalia ad Percy announced the others positions.
Draco, Nico, and Percy climbed into Zeus's Fist and Draco took a moment to look into the camp the lands and woods bringing a familiar smell. A safe place, a home. "Can you guys hold the fort?" Percy suddenly asked. "Of course," Beckendorf snorted and with that Percy took of to the woods and Draco saw him grab the hunters flag after accidentally hitting the girl guarding it. Draco looked behind him when he heard a snap and saw Zoë down Zeus Fist. 'Shit!,' Draco cursed before grabbing one of the Stolls and pointing at Zoë. "Looks like we've got company," One of the Stolls said and they all looked alarmed at seeing Zoë. She took noticed that she had been seen and started climbing upwards and tried to take the flag. Draco quickly tools the flag away from her grasp and saw the other hunters behind her. He jumped down and started running away from them, they other fought against them. At this moment Draco wished Percy was here already so that they could win this game for the first time.
Draco glanced behind him and saw Zoë running towards him, in a moment of panic he grabbed one of the branches from a tree and started climbing upwards. The hunters might be good at everything, but Draco bets that they aren't good at jumping from tree to tree. Once he was on top of the tree Zoë started climbing and other hunters aimed their arrows at him. Draco saw a tree nearby and jumped towards it grabbing at the branch that he landed on and pulled himself up, he repeated the action making sure to jump on the most random trees and places, so that the hunters can't shoot at him with their arrows. Sadly one of the hunters caught on with his plan and shot and arrows and him midair, the arrow pierced the back of his left thigh. Draco colapses on the next tree with a yelp and clutched the branch and the flag, he tried to pull himself upwards with one arm and putted all his force on it and carefully pulled the arm with the flag next to his other arm. He glanced down and saw that he had climbed up a bit too far to fall without breaking an ankle. He carefully pulled his body upwards and sat on the branch, he clutched the flag as he saw Zoë and her hunters not so far away. One of the hunters glanced at his invited thigh and winced, 'does it really look that bad?' He thought and looked at his bloodied thigh, the point of the arrow was peaking out of his thigh from the other side. 'The arrow pierced right through his thigh from behind and got stuck in the process, great just what I needed,' he thought bitterly.
Draco grabbed the tip of the arrow and pulled upwards, hard and fast he completely pulled out the arrow from his thigh and tossed it down. Draco pulled one of his arm guards and adjusted it on his thigh to stop the blood flow. He carefully got up and jumped to the next tree. This might've disgusted the hunters, but they didn't shoot that many arrows anymore. He was able to get a little ahead of them and hid in one of the trees as best as he could. His thigh burned and he could still feel the blood on his hand and thigh. He looked around and noticed Percy running in the distance his hand clutching the hunters flag. Draco pressed himself closer to the tree when he saw one of the hunters below him, she was glancing around to see if he was anywhere on the ground. Draco placed his hand on the branch on top of him, then he stopped when he noticed the branch starting to turn black as if it where dying... Draco's eyes widen in horror as he quickly let go of the branch.
Once he let go the branch snapped and fell down, the hunters below him jumped and looked upward, noticing him instantly. She shouted for her teammates and Draco prepared to jump when his foot got stuck on one of the branches making him fell down the tree and lose his grasp on the flag. Draco's breath left him when he landed in his stomach on one of the thick branches, he wheezed and gripped the branch, at the bottom the huntress grabbed the flag and left. Draco rolled his eyes and carefully made his way down the tree. When he was finally on ground level he glanced where he saw Percy last and noticed Zoë sprinting at Percy in full speed, until she slammed on him and took their flag.
"The Hunters win!" Chiron announced without pleasure. Then he muttered, "For the fifty- sixth time in a row."
"Perseus Jackson!" Thalia yelled, storming toward Percy. Draco quickly limped his way towards them and took noticed of the horrible smell. Everybody cringed and backed up because of Aegis. "What in the name of the gods were you THINKING?" she bellowed. That must've been the wrong thing to say as Percy balled his fist and yelled, "I got the flag, Thalia!" He shook it in her face for good measure. "I saw a chance and I took it!" He angrily muttered. Draco made his way to Percy and placed his hand on his shoulder slightly leaning on him making sure it wasn't the one with his blood in it. "I WAS AT THEIR BASE!" Thalia yelled. "But the flag was gone. If you hadn't butted in, we would've won." Draco sighed, "You couldn't have won anyways the hunters got the flag from the beginning." Percy and Thalia Both ignored him, "You had too many on you!" Percy yelled. "Oh, so it's my fault?" Thalia fires back. "I didn't say that," Percy said. "Argh!" Thalia said and pushed both Percy and Draco. Draco felt a shock went through his body that blew him and Percy backward ten feet into the water. Some of the campers gasped. A couple of the Hunters stifled laughs. "Sorry!" Thalia said, turning pale. "I didn't mean to—"
Anger roared in Draco. A wave erupted from the creek, blasting into Thalia's face and dousing her from head to toe.
Percy stood up besides Draco. "Yeah," he growled. "I didn't mean to, either." Thalia was breathing heavily. "Enough!" Chiron ordered.
But Thalia held out her spear. "You want some, Seaweed Brain?" She growled. Percy took out riptide, "Bring it on, Pinecone Face!"
"GUYS STOP!" Draco yelled as he limped out of the water. "NOWS NOT THE TIME TO FIGHT!" He wasn't aware that with every step he took the glass around him wilted out and died. Draco placed himself between Thalia and Percy at least that way they'll hurt him instead of each other. Draco raised both his hands at his side when Thalia yelled, and a blast of lightning came down from the sky, hit her spear like a lightning rod, and slammed into his chest. Draco slammed into Percy and groaned in pain. There was a burning smell; Draco had a feeling it was his clothes. "Thalia!" Chiron said. "That is enough!"
Draco got to his feet along Percy in a flash of anger Percy willed the entire creek to rise. It swirled up, hundreds of gallons of water in a massive icy funnel cloud. "Percy!" Chiron pleaded. Draco grabbed his hand, "Percy please!" The sound of his voice made him cringe but it made Percy hesitant into hurling the water at Thalia, Draco glanced at Thalia and saw something in the woods. He lost his grip on Percy all at once. The water splashed back into the creekbed. Thalia was so surprised she turned to see what they were looking at.
Someone... something was approaching. It was shrouded in a murky green mist, but as it got closer, the campers and Hunters gasped.
"This is impossible," Chiron said. Draco had never heard him sound so nervous. "It... she has never left the attic. Never," he said. And yet, the withered mummy that held the Oracle shuffled forward until she stood in the center of the group. Mist curled around our feet, turning the snow a sickly shade of green.
None of them dared move. Then her voice hissed inside Draco's head. Apparently everyone could hear it, because several clutched their hands over the ears.
'I am the sprit of Delphi,' the voice said. 'Speaker of the prophecies of Phoebus Apollo, slayer of the mighty Python,' The Oracle regarded them with its cold, dead eyes. Then she turned unmistakably toward Zoe Nightshade. 'Approach, Seeker, and ask,' the Oracle said. Zoë swallowed. "What must I do to help my goddess?"
The Oracle's mouth opened, and green mist poured out. Draco saw the vague image of a mountain, and a girl standing at the barren peak. It was Artemis, but she was wrapped in chains, fettered to the rocks. She was kneeling, her hands raised as if to fend off an attacker, and it looked like she was in pain. The Oracle spoke:
'Six shall go west to the goddess in chains,
One shall be lost in the land without rain,
The bane of Olympus shows the trail,
Campers and Hunters combined prevail,
The Titan's curse must one withstand,
And one shall perish by a parent's hand.'
Then, as they were watching, the mist swirled and retreated like a great green serpent into the mummy's mouth. The Oracle sat down on a rock and became as still as she'd been in the attic, as if she might sit by this creek for a hundred years.
Aaaaaannnndddd done! Sorry that this chapter was pretty short, school has been a bit of bitch this week and didn't let me write much. So, I hope you take this Nico and Draco friendship and prepare for the next chapter. I hope you have a very nice day!
-D.