"Hellhound!" Nala yelled. I turned back to her in confusion. How did she know?

"Nico, help!" Will called. He pulled out a dagger and advanced towards the hellhound. I rushed to help, but then more monsters showed up. Two telkhines, two dracaenaes, and even an empousa. As we fought them, I saw Nala out of the corner of my eye. She was holding the boy back, but from what?

That's when I realized that the empousa was talking to him. Will was battling the Hellhound (rather clumsily) while I took on the two dracaenaes and the two telkhines. When I finished off mine and Will his, we went back to help Nala, only to see that she had it under control. She was currently talking to the boy.

"-Charm speaking you. Cover your ears." He covered his ears as she stood up, towards the empousa.

This was getting weirder every second.

"You really don't want to eat him." Nala's words were dripping with charm speak. "He would taste terrible. How about this? You go and try to have Nico? I'm sure he would love that."

The empousa turned towards me and snarled. She took a step foward and I slashed my sword at the empousa. It exploded into dust.

Nala slowly turned towards me. Her face looked pale. She looked at me, then Will, then the sword, then back at me.

"Are you really Nico di Angelo? The Nico di Angelo? The first survivor of Tartarus? The Ghost King? The one who brought the statue half way across the world? One half of Solangelo? The only living child of Hades? A-and Will? The best healer, like, ever? The amazing son of Apollo? The other half of Solangelo? Head counselor of the Apollo cabin? Really?" Her eyes were wide. Nala looked like she was going to faint.

"Um," I said, "how do you-" She interrupted me.

"Oh, of course. You must not know about the books. I read all of them. I can't believe they're real! Now, I'm assuming your here to take Aris and I- Aris!" Nala spun around and faced the boy, Aris I assume, and smiled apologetically. He looked very confused.

"Sorry Aris." She turned back towards us. "Can he come with us to camp? Maybe he's a demigod. His dad left when he was born. He could be the child of Hermes or something." Nala smiled charmingly. I took a closer look at her. She had a black t-shirt on the said in gold letters,

YOLO

unless you're Hazel or Leo!

I figured YOLO was some sort of modern reference, but it bothered me that the shirt had my sister's name on it as well as Leo's. She was also wearing dark skinny jeans and black boots I liked her style.

Aris was wearing a light blue shirt, light blue jeans, and had short light brown hair. They were both in good shape.

Will finally seemed to shake off whatever trance he was in and started asking questions.

"Who are you? How do you know so much about Nico? How do you know so much about me? How did you know what the hellhound was? How did you know about the charm speak? What's with your shirt? How-" Nala interrupted his questions.

"Hold up. I'm Nala Loove. Like groove, but with an 'L'. I know about you and Nico because I read books about you. I'll explain later. I also knew what the hellhound was from the books. Same with the charm speak. My shirt is YOLO, which means 'you only live once', and at the bottom, 'unless you're Hazel or Leo', is because they both died and came back to life. Also, this is Aris. He is my best friend." She gestured to the boy, who stood up to stand next to her.

"Hold on. What's going on?" Aris asked. Nala turned to him.

"These are characters from my favorite book series." Nala told Aris. She looked back at us. "Aris might be a demigod. He could see through the Mist. Nico, can you sense if he is a demigod or not?"

"I-I can. I learned how to after the war. But how do you know I can-"

"Just a wild guess. I don't think you could sense demigods in the books."

"Hold on." Will made a 'time out' gesture with his hands. "What books? Are we in books?"

"Well, yeah. The first series is called Percy Jackson and The Olympians. The second is called, The Heros of Olympus. You're introduced in the third book Nico. It's called The Titan's Curse, and you're in the fifth one Will. It's called, The Last Olympian. You healed Annabeth remember?"

Will and I just stared at Nala.

"Well," She continued as if nothing was wrong, "Let's get to camp. I want to meet Chiron."