Nico opened his eyes.

"Rise and shine," a cheerful voice greeted him. "Nice to see you awake, Sunshine."

He groaned. "I'm at Camp Half-Blood. Will, where's Percy and Annabeth?"

Will Solace's face swam into Nico's view. He was grinning. "About that. When were you planning on telling me you'd become the Ambassador to Pluto for the Roman camp?" Will asked. "And that Percy was alive and well at said Roman camp."

"Apparently now," Nico snapped. He sat up and moved to get out of the bed. Will pushed him back down. "Let me out," Nico grumbled.

"Doctor's orders," Will shrugged. "You tired yourself out getting rid of eidolons four days ago from what Annabeth said."

Nico glared. "Will. I have to go. It's a matter of life and death."

"Is it? Because if you don't rest for at least another day, it will be a matter of life and death. I know how to hurt people and make it look like an accident."

Nico stared at Will in surprise. "Did you just threaten to kill me?"

"No, I threatened to stab you so you physically cannot leave," Will corrected.

The blonde son of Apollo making threats like this made Nico incredibly flustered. His face was definitely a light shade of pink, and he sputtered.

"I'm… I'm serious," Nico tried to regain control of his emotions. "I have to help them. There's a prophecy-"

"Annabeth told me," Will nodded. "Twins snuff out the angel's light / Who holds the key to saviors plight. She also said to do whatever it took to keep you here."

"Will, please," Nico begged. "Keep me in the infirmary as long as you like at any time, but this time. I need to speak to Annabeth and Percy at least."

Will looked shocked, but then his face fell and he gave Nico a sad look. "They left. Yesterday. Annabeth got me, Jason was carrying you. Then they got back on the Argo II and set sail for Rome."

"I need to IM them," Nico said through gritted teeth. "Now, please."

Will didn't question Nico which was a pleasant surprise. He quickly supplied a rainbow and left the room.

"O Iris, goddess of the rainbow," Nico prayed. "Show me Percy Jackson on the Argo II.

The rainbow shimmered and suddenly Percy's face was on display.

"Nico!" Percy said cheerfully. "Glad to see you awake."

Nico glared at him. "Percy Jackson, I will kill you. I said I was going to help you with this, but no. You dropped me off with WILL SOLACE? " He shook his head. "That doesn't matter right now. I figured out what Ella's prophecy was talking about."

"You did?" Hazel's voice cut in.

"Is everyone there?" Nico asked sarcastically.

Annabeth came into view. She crossed her arms. "Yeah. Team meeting actually. What is it?"

"Will," Nico blurted. "It's Will. Twins snuff out the angel's light. I didn't realize it until he said the lines you told him. If I'm the angel, then Will's the light."

Percy and Annabeth had pale faces.

"We can't turn around," Percy said, but he looked back at something or someone, hopefully. "How far are we?"

"Just over halfway," someone answered. Nico thought it might be Leo.

Percy looked guilty. "Look, Nico, I wanted to bring you, but I agreed with Annabeth that it was about you. I never even considered… gods, I'm an idiot." He ran his fingers through his hair.

"Percy, tell him about the dream," Piper's voice called out.

"Right," Percy sighed. "Nico, we were like almost to Camp Half-Blood. Originally I wanted to get Will to look at you and then once you woke up you could come with us, but I had this dream. You were in a bronze jar and there was like two pomegranate seeds."

"Hazel said it's called a death trance," Jason said.

Nico swallowed. "Yeah, that's right. But… Percy, are you sure? I was so sure the angel's light meant Will. But, uh, I don't really know the key to the saviors plight. What exactly is this plight?"

Percy and Annabeth shared a guilty look.

"If you two think you can leave me here and then go and get yourselves killed, then you've got another thing coming!" Nico shouted at them. "I'll shadow travel to you. Give me a second."

"Not happening," Hazel's voice said firmly. "Will told Jason and Annabeth that you wouldn't be able to do that for a few more days."

"Of course he did," Nico muttered darkly. "Then I'll just have to fly a pegasus now won't I?"

"They don't like you," Percy pointed out. "Probably because, you know, water isn't your type."

Nico glowered. "Percy. I will find a way onto the Argo II and I will stop you from doing something idiotic. I'm sure if I pray hard enough to your dad he'll help me reach you in record time." He jumped when a loud crash came from outside. Camper's shouts reached his ears.

"What was that?" Annabeth asked worriedly.

Nico kicked back the bedsheets and grabbed his sword from a nearby chair. "Don't know. I'm going to see what's up. Call you later." He waved a hand through the message.

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Outside, the campers were rushing around. They had armor thrown on half-hazardly and some weren't even wearing armor.

"Oh gods." Nico's jaw dropped open when he saw two faces he hoped to never see again.

Ephialtes and Otis. The bane of Dionysus. Or Bacchus. The twins that trapped him in a bronze jar for days. He still had nightmares about it. Waking up and realizing there were no more pomegranate seeds. Suffocating and choking as he struggled to breath…

Nico shook himself from his thoughts. He spotted the Apollo cabin lining up with their bows. Will was with them. And the two giants were headed straight for him.

"NO!" Nico shouted, charging towards them.

Ephialtes chuckled. "Son of Hades. Our mother said you'd be here."

Nico's blood ran cold. Gaea wanted them to kidnap him. Crap, crap, crap. He faltered in his charge.

"You cannot hope to defeat us," Otis continued.

Twins snuff out the angel's light

Who holds the key to saviors plight.

Saviors plight? Savior's plight? Saviors' plight? Saviors' plight. What had been the biggest problem? Percy and Annabeth's little upcoming trip. Nico was stupid for not having realized it before. Then again, Annabeth hadn't figured it out and she was the daughter of Athena. Still, it seemed glaringly obvious once Nico realized what it meant.

Nico did probably the stupidest thing he could have done in a battle. He stopped his charge and extended a hand in Will's direction. The shadows wrapped around the confused son of Apollo.

"Tell them I'm sorry and it's the fall," Nico shouted as Will disappeared.

Ephialtes grinned as Nico stumbled and fell right at his feet. The last thing Nico saw before blacking out was a giant hand reaching for him.

A/N: First of all, if you think I'm going to write Solangelo and NOT throw in a "not your type" joke, you are sorely mistaken. Lately, my life has revolved around Jason and Percy as Solangelo's number one fans, Solangelo, and "not your type" jokes.

Second, if you recall, Nico is from the future, hence he is more powerful, hence he deems himself okay to shadow travel Will far away. Obviously, he was slightly wrong since he fainted.

Third, I didn't go into detail about the past four days because all you need to know is that everything stayed the same, just the Romans didn't attack because they were able to prevent Leo the Eidolon from firing on New Rome. In general, that's what I'll be doing if something is the same. Glaze over it, have the characters think about it in one or two paragraphs then move on with the story.