Heyyo! I just made a ton of new story's when i was trying to update this X( i suck at this so much is not even funny. Anyway here's the chapter. This part has memories, mostly from the books, and some parts are almost word for word. Just know that I don't own these memories. They are all from Heroes of Olympus, and percy Jackson and the Olympians, which I don't own. Thanks!
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Nico was a toddler playing with Bianca. Maria Di Angelo sat in the hotel lobby chair talking to hades. She went up stairs and the building shook. Hades created a bubble around nico and Bianca as the ceiling fell. Nico scowled at Hera.
"Is this really necessary?" Nico growled.
"Yes. Your friends need to know you." Hera snapped.
"Do i have to be here?"
"Yes."
Nico and his sister were playing video games in a huge arcade.
Then they were at a school dance, nico sat on the bleachers while Bianca danced with a boy.
Percy was fighting the manticore and nico sat there in awe.
And then it went wrong the caption said.
"Nico, i joined the hunters." Bianca said.
"Oh. Okay cool." He turned away and frowned. You could see the hurt in his eyes.
Nico hugged Bianca as the rest of the quest members loaded into the van.
"Ill miss you. Ill come back. I promise." Bianca said.
"Okay."
He believed her.
"Hey! Where...where's my sister?" Nico asked percy.
"Hey nico. Let's take a walk. We need to talk." Percy said.
"You promised!" Nicos voice broke. "I shouldn't have trusted you! You lied to me!"
He found the statue to the ground "i hate you!"
"She might still be alive-" percy said, but nico cut him off.
"She dead!" He sobbed.
Nico was sitting on his bead, in his room in the under world. He was leaning against the wall, resting his elbows on his knees. He was fiddling with his skull ring. His head was leaning back against the headboard. His Adam's apple bobbed up and don't when he swallowed.
His eyes were unfocused and wet.
The background changed, but his position didn't. He aged.
Then it showed nico without a shirt on. Which was very uncomfortable for many. Hera is a weirdo. But it showed his scars. The were worse than most demigods.
He watched as percy and annabeth kissed and hugged. You could see the hurt in his eyes.
Did nico ever have a crush on annabeth?
Then he was running. He was bleeding in many spots, clutching his side as blood spilled through his fingers. Something raked his side with its claws, and he collapsed coughing up blood.
'No.' He thought.
Tartarus took a toll on the young boy. He went through alone. But most pitied the favorite people.
Everyone looked at Nico. He just glared at the table. Then everyone looked at percy and annabeth, who looked guilty.
They had each other. He had no one.
Nico was in a bronze jar, eating a small fruit.
Nico stood, looking around wildly. An arrow sunk into his arm, but then dissolved.
"Enough games! Show yourself!"
"It is a costly thing" a voice said. "Looking at the true face of love."
Jason thrust his sword in the sky and thunder shook the valley.
"A good try, but love cannot be pinned down so easily."
Next to Jason, a wall collapsed. Jason barely managed to roll aside.
"Stop it!" Nico yelled. "It's me you want! Leave him alone!"
"Nico," Jason hollered, "what does this guy want from you?"
"Tell him, Nico Di Angelo." The voice said. "Tell him how you are a coward, afraid of yourself and your feelings. Tell him the real reason you left camp half blood, and why you are always alone."
Nico let loose a guttural scream. The ground at his feet split open and skeletons crawled forth.
"Will you hide among the dead, as you always do?" The voice taunted. Waves of darkness rolled off the son of hades, and Jason almost blacked out. Jason saw dozens of scenes from nicos life, and they left him stunned, unable to move or speak.
Cupid fought the undead warriors, but the skeletons kept coming, pinning his arms and legs.
"Interesting," The voice said "do you have strength, after all?"
"I left camp half-blood because of love, annabeth...she-" nico said, but was cut off.
"Still hiding" the voice said smashing a skeleton. "You do not have the strength."
"Nico, its okay, i get it." Jason said.
Nico glanced at him, pain and misery washing over his face.
"No," he said. "You don't. There's no way you could understand."
"So you run away again." The voice chided. "From your friends. From yourself."
"I don't have friends!" Nico yelled. "I left camp half blood because I don't belong! Ill never belong!"
Nico looked miserable. He just stared at his plate like it had just murdered his whole family.
"Nico. What's happening?" Hazel whispered to him.
He looked up, still glaring.
"Hera. I'm not really okay with you showing this." He snapped at the amused goddess.
"I don't care." She said.
"You're a real bitch you know that?" Thunder rumbled.
"What did you just say to me?" Hera said. Nico stood.
"I said you're a bitch! I'm not okay with you doing this and you don't care! This is just for your amusement! We don't need to get to know each other! Because then well see things not worth knowing!" He screamed at the goddess.
"Don't talk to me like that, son of hades." Hera growled.
"Don't in invade my privacy."
"I am a goddess-"
"And I'm a person who has rights! Do you not understand that I don't want you showing this? How about we watch a movie about all the bad things you've done?! It would only take a millennia!"
"You son of a bitch! I could kill you wright now!" Hera screamed.
"So could any other god! Or a mortal! Or a really dedicated platypus! Your not special!"
"Why you little-" Heras hands glowed, but before she could do anything to Nico, a hole opened up beneath her, and she fell down wherever it went.
Waves of darkness rolled of of him and the campers had to struggle to stay conscious.
"Nico." Hazel said. The waves lessened, and nico reached out with his hand. He made a fist and the hole closed.
His jaw was set and his fists were clenched. He was breathing heavily. He made eye contact with every person, looking at him. They all looked terrified. Even Chiron. Mr. d just sat there, amused.
"We will never speak of this ever again." He said, and then walked calmly back to his cabin.
Then Aphrodite appeared. She looked guilty.
"I really don't want to hurt him. Especially after what he just did to Hera, she's fine, just, very, very traumatized. But umm, we need to finish the movie, so pay close attention, and never ask him about it." She said.
"Leave him alone Cupid, this isn't..."
Wait. Cupid?
"I—I wasn't in love with annabeth." Nico said. His voice sounded like broken glass.
"You were jealous of her." Jason said.
The campers gasped. No way!
"What?!" Many yelled.
Hazel looked so confused it wasn't even funny. Many looked at percy and annabeth, but more looked at Jason, realizing why nico had been so upset yesterday.
"That's why you didn't want to be around her. Especially why you didn't wan to be around...him. It makes total sense."
The denial seemed to go out of nico at once. The undead crumbles to piles of bones and turned to dust.
"I hated my self." Nico said. "I hated percy Jackson."
Cupid appeared.
"I had a crush on percy," nico spat. "That's the truth. That's the big secret." He glared at Cupid. "Happy now?"
Cupid looked sympathetic. "Oh, I wouldn't say love always makes you happy. Sometimes it makes you incredibly sad. But at least you've faced me now. That's the only way to conquer me."
He dissolved into wind leaving the scepter of Diocletian. Nico picked it up.
He looked at Jason. "If the others find out—"
"If the others find out," Jason interrupted. "You'd have more people to back you up, and to unleash the fury of the gods on anyone who gives you trouble."
Nico scowled.
"But its your call." He added. "Your decision to share or not. I can only tell you—"
"I don't feel that way anymore," nico muttered. "I mean...i gave up on percy. I was young and impressionable. I—I don't..." his voice cracked.
Then it showed nico shadow traveling with the Athena Parthenos. Then it showed him during the war.
Bianca coming back, and bianca leaving.
Then it showed him having a ptsd attack. It showed what he had saw. it showed the shadows attacking him. It showed him reaching out for the blade, and will comforting him.
It showed him yelling at Jason and kicking him out of the hades cabin. Then it showed the hole swallowing Hera.
And then, it showed nico in his cabin. It was live feed. He was in the same position. Elbows on his knees, leaning against the headboard.
He had tears streaming down his face but he didn't sob. He cursed Hera, a lot. His words were harsh, but no one blamed him. She was a bitch.
Heyyo! I hope you liked this chapter! It's super angsty, but hey, Hera's a bitch. I wont be ending this any time soon, i have so many ideas written down, and i hate it when authors stop updating! It's infuriating!
I also love making chapters long, because i hate short ones. Thank for reading!
-PercysBlueWaffles
