Chapter 15

Nico

As soon as we reach the camp, we were bombarded by campers.

I was about to head off as they congratulated Reyna and Thalia when another group bombarded me. They were lead by, of course my best friend, Will Solace the son of Apollo.

"We knew you could do it!"

"Good job, Nico"

"Nicely done, Death Breath."

I was startled to say the least i thought they could possibly be angry at me for the whole shadow thing the other day.

"Great job, dude!" Will said wrapping an arm around me in congratulatory manor. "I didn't think you had it in you."

I stared dumbfounded at him. "Have a little faith, Solace. I do have some underworldy strengths you know."

"I think our good friend, Will is trying to say." Lou Ellen interrupted "Is that congratulations half the campers were shocked. We all thought it was going to be Percy again."

"I did too." Percy said conning over "I hoped it would be either you or Jason. I've seen enough for a while."

"Then why did you enter?"

"Dude, in your words, I'm the cool and powerful son of Poseidon. Why shouldn't I?" He said jokingly.

"I think I have the right to say, I told you so!" Jason said from behind Percy with a knowing smirk on his face. "So, I told you so."

I playfully stuck my tongue at my cousin. Who returned the favor by grabbing me in a headlock and rubbing his sharp knuckled on my head.

"Gettoff!" I exclaimed from under him.

Neither Percy nor Will was no help whatsoever. They just laughed at us in the background.

What great friends I have. I thought sarcastically. But also happily. Perhaps Jason was right it was all in my head.

"Alright everyone!" Frank announced standing on the porch of the closer cabin. Everyone turned to look at the Roman Praetor.

Despite the fact that Frank and Reyna are, technically, leaders of the Roman military, the Greek demigods respect them enough to listen to, more or less, half the instruction or orders they give.

"So I would like to congratulate my fellow Praetor, Reyna, as well as our brother and sister from Camp Half Blood and the Hunters of Artemis, Nico and Thalia for being chosen to compete in the Tournament!"

A loud cheer erupted from the crowd, that I was sure could be heard from the dungeons.

"So to celebrate, I have consulted with the schools as well as Chiron. Tomorrow, we shall invite our new friends the wizards to our version of a party."

The demigods all cheered at the idea. For some reason, having our lives cut nearly in half due to possible death from monsters, demigods love to live their life to the fullest they can achieve. Which meant a lot of parties.

"Alright everyone to bed, we have a lot to do tomorrow! Afternoon training will be canceled in preparation for the celebration tomorrow. Good night, Everyone!"

~()~

The next morning wasn't as promising as the night. I had to wake up at sunrise. Which I am not used to since, like what i probably convinced half of the camp to believe, I am half vampiric and i absolutely hate mornings.

But unfortunately, my cousins are morning people. And I share a cabin with them. Technically speaking, The Big Three kids share this cabin so its smaller than the others. But since after the first week everyone was starting to mix cabins, we have usual visitors. Again unfortunate for me, one of them was Will. Who, like any other Apollo kid, wakes up with the sun.

My two cousins and Will decided it would be fun to wake me up early this morning.

I was sleeping peacefully in my small room in our cabin when someone decided it was nice to flip over my bed.

I landed on the wooden floor with a loud thud. I instinctively jumped on mg feet slightly disoriented with a sword on my hand.

"What?" The three were laughing at me.

"Good morning, Death Breath."

"Shut up, Sparky." I looked at the clock that hung on the wall "what the hell guys! Its five in the morning!"

"Yes, but training starts at six!" Will said. "So come on, breakfast time!"

The three started to leave the room. I groaned and rolled back to my blanket and lay on my fallen pillow on the floor.

"If you don't wake up soon, Percy and I are getting the Ice Bucket!"

I jumped back to my feet and saw Jason's head at the door frame.

"I'm up!"

"Good, then get dressed, breakfast!"

I shook my head. It doesn't matter if your mortal, muggle, demigod or wizard, teenage boys are driven by one thing. Their stomachs.

I headed to my trunk on the foot of my bed and changed into a familiar pair of jeans and one of my newly acquired camp t-shirts.

The camp counselors and the senate all thought it was nice to have some t-shirts that represent both camps. So with the help of the Aphrodite and the Athena kids they managed to create hundreds of different t-shirts that were on sale at the camp store in Camp Half Blood and in Camp Jupiter.

Annabeth and Piper both decided that I needed more t-shirts other than my usual skull designs do they got me a new camp t-shirt. It was grey with large bold letters at the back that said "Proud Demigod" in white writing and in the front was the glyph of Pluto.

I wore the shirt proudly and couldn't help smile. I am where I belong.

I ate breakfast with Will, Lou and Cecil.

"So, Nico." Cecil said "Do you have any idea what the first task is going to be?"

"Honestly," I answered after swallowing. "I have no idea the maker of the game didn't tell us anything important. We'll probably figure it out soon."

"I just hope it is nothing too dangerous." Will said "I mean it's hard to drag you to the infirmary after a quest. And its harder to keep you there."

"I'm sorry i hate hospitals." I muttered

"But hanging in the infirmary with Will is fun!" Lou exclaimed

"Well i give him that." I said "but seriously three days! I was fine!"

"You were about to fade into the shadows. I don't think that is considered fine."

"I wasn't"

"Don't test the Doctor, di Angelo." Will said "I might just strap you to the hospital bed like last time."

I paled at the thought. After the whole cookie jar incident. I am not comfortable with tight spaces.

"Good." Will said "we understand each other. So what do you guys have next?"

"I don't have anything till eight." Cecil said

"I am going to check out the castle." Said Lou "I want to check out the secret passages. Wanna come Cel?"

"Sure" he said shrugging. "It's not like i have anything better to do."

"How about you, Nico?"

"Swordfighting." I said "and like all of my other training sessions i have them with my dear cousins, Jason and Percy."

"They aren't that bad." Will said "they're just looking out for you."

"They're bloody annoying." I countered. "Its like having two older brothers. And I am contented without them having to look out for me, thank you very much."

Will chuckled at me. "It's better than having a whole cabin of siblings, you could get lost inside the Apollo cabin. Seriously."

"Anyways guys, I have to go before the cousins find it funny to drag me to the arena."

~()~

I was in the arena, extremely sweaty but with a smirk on my face. My cousins and I thought it would be fun to mix it up a bit. So we went against each other. Jason vs Percy vs me.

At the moment Percy and I were at an advantage. Jason had gotten a new weapon like his old coin. But he was used to the spear not the sword. It didn't take long for me to disarm him. He just waved it off and watched us from the side.

Percy and I were now circling each other waiting for the other to strike.

Percy charged towards me his Riptide drawn for a swing. I blocked his strike and sent my own jab towards the hilt of his sword.

Of course he saw it coming and blocked it.

"You're getting better at this." Percy commented

"I needed to do something in my time in the Underworld."

I managed to hold him off longer now thanks to a bit of training in Camp and with some old heroes.

But of course he does have two years more experience than I have. So, he made a fake hit to the side and as I anticipated him to swing, he jabed at the hilt of my sword which sent it flying he caught the hilt in his left hand and pointed both sworss towards me.

"I yield" I surrendered with my hands up. I gestured for my sword back. But he simply capped Riptide and held on to my Stygian Iron sword.

"I don't think you'll be needing it for today." He said with a smile. Even Jason had this look on his face.

I suddenly felt myself being lifted by my arms again.

"Hey! What..."

"Come on, di Angelo." Blaise said on one side with Draco on the other. "The others are waiting. You need to catch up to like three years of spells if you want to win!"

"Good Luck" Jason called as the Slytherins dragged me back into thedungeons.

Hey guys! So yeah new update. I'm sorry if there star spelling errors i have a new phone that allows me to write with a word file but i hate autocorrect. Its annoying.

Hhehe so... SOLANGELO! Heheheh yeah i know but as much as i love that ship.i cant put it in here cuz it would cause difficulty when it comes to the Yule ball chapter. So i have a different pairing in mind for Nico