Chapter 12

Time passes...

"So here's a tip I have for you then," James the Kronos member turn spy told Shinichi,

"On this day there's going to be a cavern of monsters heading to New York for the battle. If you can stall or destroy them then a good portion of the defense will be gone."

Shinichi nods. He gives him the letter from his half sister on his godly side and says, "I already received confirmation that your sister is in witness protection and should be safe with the senior minor demigod who is going to foster her. If everything goes smoothly I should be able to hide another group of defectors from fighting."

The spy gave a sigh of relief. Shinichi says "Thanks for any information."

"No, thank you again for saving my sister. I just want to protect her and if she doesn't need to fight or be around monsters the better."

"Alright, I'll let you go then." Shinichi walks away and quickly loses any possible tail he may have. Better safe than sorry.

Nico glances at the hotel door when Shinichi walks in.

"You're back? Anything you need to share?"

Shinichi shuts the door and nods. He pulls out his phone and pulls the image of the location of the bus terminal.

"He let me know that a group of monsters are headed here on this date."

Nico begins to dig for a dramaca and heads to the restroom where Shinichi follows.

Shinichi watches Nico's message to Percy. The image of Percy practicing his swings against a dummy showed in the rainbow.

"Percy." Nico called.

"Nico and Shinichi where have you guys been?" Percy paused and looked at both of them through the mist.

"Not important but we know a bus full of monsters is headed to New York."

"Of course, more bad news" Percy crossed his arms.

"But" Shinichi piped in. "We know where they are going to stop. If you are able to send a group to stall them then the battle may not be so overwhelming." Percy looks at the two of them then decides to question Nico.

"How did you know this Nico?"

"That's not important" Nico soon rattled off the address and made sure Percy correctly wrote down the address. Once certain Nico quickly said. "so we will meet the group you send there then,"

"Nico stop. Don't you dare hang-"

Nico swipes the IM with his hand canceling the call. He shuts off the water and walks out of the bathroom. Shinichi follows and climbs up the bed.

"You didn't have to do that" Shinichi commented, looking at Nico shrug in response.

"I know, I just don't like being told what to do. He's not my mom or my sister." Shinichi decides not to respond.

"So let's be on our way then and help them out."

"Now if only we had a way to get there, " Nico groaned. He would rather save his powers and not be useless so shadow traveling is out.

Shinichi sighed out, "I can't believe I'm doing this... Give me half an hour and meet me behind the hotel. Just get our stuff and make sure we don't leave a trace."

Nico nods in confusion as Shinichi leaves with his backpack. Half an hour later a Black Ford Mustang rolled up in front of Nico. Nico stood in shock but quickly turned to disbelief when he saw Shinichi in the driver seat.

"Hop in" Shinichi motions to Nico.

Nico walks around and opens the driver door, ignoring Shinichi's protest as Nico grabs him and moves him to the passenger side.

"Hey!"

Snorting with laughter Nico says, "pfff, no way am I going to ride with you struggling with your tiny legs to reach the pedals. I can drive too."

"What?" Shinichi stops fighting for the steering wheel.

Nico continues to say, "It can't be any different from the arcade driving games I played."

Shinichi face paled, "Nico, it's not the same, don't-"

Screech, Nico pushed full throttle on the gas and took off from the alley, honks from angry drivers surrounded them.

"NICO!"

...

A line of buses filled the terminal. Mortals unknowingly avoid the station that was filled with monsters and weaponry. A few streets away two boys watched from the distance more and more monsters arrive, ready to fight for the Titans.

"Okay so I'm pretty sure this is it." Nico mentioned offhand.

Shinichi looks out the car window and points out, "Who is that?"

Nico looked up, a large male with ripped muscles and a warm tan was walking hesitantly towards their stolen car, he was followed by what looked like a son of Apollo and a daughter of Hermes.

"Beckendorf?" Nico asked in pleasant surprise.

"Nico?! I didn't know you were the tip line!" He gave a smile at him and turned his gaze down to Shinichi, "and who is this on your journey?"

Shinichi gives him a wave from his seat, "Shinichi, nice to meet you son of Hephaestus"

Beckendorf blinked and laughed, "Clever. Well we can't guarantee to protect you but we got the stuff to blow these monsters away. "

Beckendorf gestures to the Asian girl on his left. "Here is Alice, daughter of Hermes who is a master car thief and" gesturing to the other member "the healer of our group, son of Apollo Daniel. "

"Hi kid." Alice greeted Shinichi. She oblivious ignored the peeved look on Shinichi's face. "Sup," she greets Nico and her gaze fell on the car.

Daniel looked at Nico suspiciously but hesitantly gave a wave to both of them. Alice's composure soon broke when she realized the car Shinichi and Nico were sitting in was stolen.

"Wow! I didn't think you had it in you to be able to steal a car, Neeks!"

"Don't call me Neeks." Nico snapped back.

"And I'm not the one that hotwire it" he gestures to Shinichi besides him.

The three campers looked at Shinichi in shock and disbelief. A blush rose on his cheeks and he turned away from the group stares.

"Haha! Awesome job shrimp, alright let's get this show on the road!" Alice fist bumped and jumped up in excitement.

"My siblings and I made Greek firebombs to take out the monsters." Beckendorf gestures to the bag slug across his shoulder.

Shinichi replies back, "I recommend placing it in the engine of the tour bus to get the largest explosion. Here's the order of loading from what I've observed. "

Beckendorf nods and simply states, "alright let's go blow up some monsters."

A few minutes later the group of mortals were watching the buses leave for the long road. From the distance they soon began to watch multiple explosions blow up each and every tour bus. Whole legions of Kronos' army were successfully destroyed.

"WOOHOO! Another group bites the dust!"

The mad giggles of Alice made the group laugh. Daniel gave a large smile as another bus blew up to the sky.

Beckendorf gave a satisfied smile and cheered with a can of soda Nico gave him.

Together the group watch the magnificent destruction in front of them.

Beckendorf turns to the child of Hades and asks, "Nico, are you both going to be safe on your own? " His hesitant glance at the youthful face of Shinichi question if he should trust Nico to watch over the kid.

" Travel back with us " David suddenly stated. He fiddle with his fingers and his blue eyes look at both Nico and Shinichi, "You… you're not like the rumors…you're good" His posture was guilty of judging the son of Dead earlier that day of this trip being a possibility of a trap to show allegiance to Kronos.

"Thanks Daniel but, we got our own list of things to do before then." Nico answered back. Shinichi gives a nod in support. The campers looked at each other and saddled up to return back to camp.

"It was nice to meet you again! Next time steal a Lambo for me!" Alice yelled from her Pegasus. The white feather wings expanded and took off to the sky.

"Best of luck," Daniel told the two of them. His ride galloped and lifted off. Beckendorf yells back from the sky, "Come visit us soon before the deadline!"

After a while the flying Pegasus and demigods became specks in the sky. Nico turned his attention to Shinichi

"So...let go on as planned and meet death, and hopefully not get slowed down by another serial killer".

Shinichi exasperatedly looked at Nico "idiot, it was one serial killer, the rest were just regular homicides."

Nico let's out a laugh and floors the car out of the parking lot.

… end of chapter-