Nico

Nico was standing at the front of Trireme, staring off at the sunrise. Percy and Annabeth have now been in Tartarus for a whole day, he wondered if they were still alive. No! Don't even think if their dead! If they are…. Nico felt tears well up in his eyes. He blamed himself that they fell, if he had been more careful, hadn't gotten pulled into Tartarus, maybe. He shook his head, there's no point in dwelling on what you can't change, we have to focus on getting them out of there!

"Hey, Nico!" Leo yelled.

"What?" Nico yelled back.

"Should I be steering into those thunderclouds?" Leo asked, his voice shrill. Nico quickly ran over to where Leo was. Right in front of them, was one, mother of all storms.

"Why didn't we see those earlier?" he said, practically peeing himself.

"They formed in a matter of…. milliseconds!" Leo said, his voice rising with each word. A crack of lightning nearly struck the ship, and the ship began shaking due to very high winds. "Sweet Mother of all Screwdrivers!" Leo yelled, "Where's JASON!" he practically screamed Jason's name. A few seconds later, Jason came flying up the stairs, everyone else following close behind.

"Jason!" Nico shouted, "Poia i̱ mi̱téra tou Olýmpou, was that!"(What the mother of Olympus)

"I don't know! Maybe it was Coeus?" Jason suggested

"Who?" Nico asked.

"Coeus! The Titan of the Winds!" Jason yelled, "But it can't be him!"

"Why!?"

"Because, he was destroyed last summer!" Jason yelled again, "He was destroyed when Will killed him, and Helios!"

"Who's Will?" He asked, his curiosity getting the better of him, despite the circumstances.

"Before Percy, he was the last Son of Neptune!" Jason shouted back, "He was Centurion of the Fifth Cohort! He sacrificed himself to destroy Helios and Coeus!" A/N: I will be explaining this in another fanfic story, "Roman Hero". Read to find out more! Before Nico could ask anymore questions, the ship was rocked by another strike of lightning. They could here a familiar evil laugh, Gaea.

Foolish, foolish heroes! You fight for a world that doesn't want you, parents who don't care for you! You will die, just like your friends whom you abandoned, Percy and Annabeth! Even now they are in Tartarus, fighting my legions, and they curse you for letting them fall! Your friends will die, and so will your world! and then she laughed, and then it echoed into silence.

The storm was still continuing on, shaking the boat, threatening to throw it of the sky. The message had left them all shaken. Are Percy and Annabeth really cursing us, do they really hate us? that one thought, may scare Nico more then Tartarus itself. They couldn't focus on that, there were a few shapes flying towards them. Jason tensed up as soon as he saw them.

"Great, just great." Nico heard Jason mutter under his breath.

"What's great!?" Nico demanded.

"Gorgons!" Jason exclaimed.

"I thought they faded!" Nico shrieked.

"Well so did I!" Jason said.

"Well, if they get close, Festus has a surprise for them!" Leo said, grinning evilly.

"Oh gods, what are you planning?" Nico asked, terrified of the expression on Leo's face.

"I plan on making a snake barbecue!" Leo said, chuckling now.

"You're going to have Festus torch them, aren't you?" Nico asked, starting to grin as well.

"Why wouldn't I?" Leo said, going into a full out laugh, "I'm gonna have snake steaks!"

"Coach Hedge!" Nico yelled, Hedge approached, "Can you start shooting at those Gorgons? But make sure to miss!"

"But come on! Hitting 'em is the best part!" Coach started whining.

"You know, I could ask someone else to shoot them?" Nico added, making sure to give it a tone that said: "it's a good idea!"

"NO! No, no, no, no, no! Please don't do that! I'll go miss right now!" And now Coach Hedge started sprinting towards the ballistae. When he got there, he loaded one, then fire. BOOM! Was all that could be heard. He loaded another, BOOM! Then BOOM!, and another BOOM! All the shoots skimmed close the Gorgons, but they all missed.

Come on, come on! Just another forty yards! Nico silently stated urging them. The Gorgons were slowly gliding towards them, thirty, twenty, TEN!

"Now Festus!" Leo screamed, and Festus blew out a huge inferno! It completely engulfed the Gorgons, and even incinerated their dust. By the time the flames came to a halt, there was nothing left. "WHOOP! WHOOP! WHOOP! You did it Festus!" Leo yelled, everyone started cheering. Nico stopped cheering as a thought crossed him, and it darkened his spirits once again. Everyone stopped cheering and looked at him.

"What's wrong Nico?" Hazel asked him.

"I just realized something." He said gravely.

"What?" They all asked in unison.

"Every monster we kill, is another for Percy and Annabeth to fight."

"So, we what, stop killing monsters?" Jason asked.

Nico shook his head, "No, nut we need to try and avoid them now, with that thought in mind."

Hey, sorry for leaving it off short, but I couldn't get any ideas! I'm serious! Give me some ideas! Just Read and Review! I swear, I'll give any of your ideas some serious thought! Or, if you have any questions, I'll answer them so long as it doesn't give any spoilers! But anyway, stay awesome you guys!