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Percy's Pov:
Nico, Grover, and I left the underworld and hopped back into the van. I swear, Nico was going at least 200 miles an hour. Some how though, we didn't get pulled over. I asked, Nico turned out to be manipulating the mist. Which Chiron has still not taught me how to do yet!
I don't really get what happened at the underworld. All I saw was Stephanie leaving with her dad. I spoke up, "What's the big deal?" I asked. It seemed I was out of the loop a lot lately. "Gods! Keep up Percy! Didn't you hear a word Morpheus said?" Nico yelled. That was the first thing that came out of his mouth since we left camp. "Um, something about princesses? Sorry I wasn't as close to him as you were. And Cerberus was creeping me out." I said. Nico sighed and said, "She joined the minor gods in war. Their going to try to take Zeus' throne." "Oh." was all I said after that.
I looked at Nico. His eyes showed sadness and fear. You think he would be angry about this and- oh. He must be thinking really hard about something. He gripped the steering wheel and scowled. Grover must have seen too because he said, "Nico, I know you mad at Stephanie for this. But it's not her fault. She didn't have any other choice to go with Morpheus. This way it is a little better, at least she's not dead."
"No. You don't understand..." he whispered. "This is all my fault, and now I'm going to have to fight against her? I- I can't do that. I still..." he trailed off and we waited. But he drove in silence.
We got to camp and ran to the big house. Panting, Grover tried to explain everything, but Nico cut him off. "The minor gods are going to take Zeus' throne, and Stephanie's helping them." Chiron's eyes widened and he immediately started firing orders. Telling the campers to get their battle armor and swords and get the Athena cabin into the big house for instructions.
Soon we had found out that the war had started early due to Nico, Grover, and I seeing Stephanie leave. Because Mr. D got a distress message about it, so we had to work faster than usual. There were so many new camper though so it was all chaos here at good ole' camp half blood.
The senior cabin leaders and the Athena cabin were all seated at the conference table in the big house. There was lots of whispering and mumbling as the Athena cabin compiled a strategy. A couple of times I caught glances at Nico, who was slumped in his chair. Every time the Athena kids gave something big that effected Stephanie, his flinched and looked down. It killed me to look at him like this. Chiron saw it too, but he gave the worst news possible. He said, "Nico, your going to lead this army."
Nico's eyes widened and he yelled, "What? No! I can't!" Chiron's face grew stern and he said, "You have to. We're not giving you a choice. I don't want to hear arguing. She's on the opposing team and a traitor. So we'll treat her as one." Nico looked down and nodded. I felt really bad for him. He was 16, just like I was when I had to lead the half-bloods. But this is different for him. I fought with Annabeth, not against her. It must be horrible for him. But wait, didn't he brake up with her?
After the meeting the campers left and scurried away to their cabin mates. I looked around until I found Nico with his feet in the lake. "Hey." I said softly as I sat down with him. He was looking into the water with his hair covering most of his face. "She used to sit here a lot and draw. Clarisse pushed her in once... When she was in that coma, I literally felt her dying. You know how my ears ring when somebody dies? It was like that, but it was also like she was whispering in my ear..."
While he was saying this I could hear his voice crack. I took a closer look at his face and saw a small tear fall into the water. Nico was crying.
"I know you miss her." I said softly. "But you have to pull through this..."
He started sobbing loudly and I patted his back as he cried into my shoulder. "I can't do this without her! I can't face her in war! With me leading! I can't! I still love her!" he cried. I didn't judge him for crying like this, I would too. "I would do anything to bring her back..." he whispered after his sobs stopped.
"I know. You can. When we see her in a little while." I said. "C'mon Nico we've got to go."
He sighed and said, "Gods I'm such a wimp. I feel like a girl. Do girls do this? Did Stephanie do this? Damn..."
"Yeah. Girls do this. But usually it lasts longer and they sit around eating ice cream. If they lost a soul mate they usually result to killing themselves..." I said. "But don't worry about it."
Nico nodded and walked into the armory while I waited. He came out in a few minutes with his sword strapped to his side and wearing full battle armor.
I didn't bother with armor and I already had Riptide here with me. A group of us loaded into the vans and we murmured final touches to battle strategys. Finally the vans dropped us off at the edge of some park. I didn't care witch right now. We poured out and Nico split us up, giving all the seniors walkie-talkies. I followed Nico group.
Soon we started getting weird reports. The Apollo's kids were just randomly walking, then a few of them blacked out. The whole Ares cabin was walking around too, then they just froze on the spot. The whole Ares cabin! That was a major loss. The Aphrodite kids kept seeing this figure passing around them, then they got visions they were ugly and unpopular. Sometimes we would just get reports that kids would just fall asleep. "It has to be her." Nico said after that last one.
A kid in our group spoke up and said, "She's moving at an alarming rate, don't you think? Seems she started from the east and moving west. She'll reach us in a few minutes."
Nico tensed and looked around. Suddenly we heard a gasp and I realized that it was from nobody from our group. A figure in front of Nico appeared from the shadows. It was Stephanie. Her eyes were wide and her mouth was gaping. Her lips quivered and I saw a tear fall as she faded into shadows again, we heard her footsteps as she ran away but nobody made a move to follow her.
I made the mistake to look at Nico. He was just as bad if not worse than Stephanie. He slumped to his knees and sobbed. The campers around us stared at him in amazement. One of them said, "How did she fade into shadows like that?" None of us knew, not even Nico. "Nico," I said to him. "You can't break down crying like this every time you see her."
"Your right." he said as he wiped his eyes. "But, did you see her face when she saw me? I can't believe I did that..."
We reported to the other campers who it was. We heard some people mumble 'traitor' and 'bitch' into the walkie-talkie but we ignored it. Well, at least I did. Nico had a fit. It was then when I realized that Nico still really did love Stephanie. He was totally whipped, but I bet he didn't care. The only problem was, Stephanie hated him.
Stephanie's Pov:
I gasped and lost focus with my shadow for a second. I felt my tears fall and I immediately faded into the shadows again. I ran as fast as possible without looking back. All I heard was my footfalls and my sobbing. He really did hate me. He was leading the half-bloods.
I ran until I found a hotel Morpheus said we were crashing at. It was cheap, I bet the half-bloods got to the good ones first. I hit the last button on the elevator and shot up. I didn't really pay any attention to how I got into a room or where I was because I was sobbing. But somehow I was laying in a good full sized bed. I stopped crying a long time ago, now I was just laying motionless on my bed.
After a little while I heard a knock at my door. I didn't make a move to get it or respond to the knock. Dad walked in. He pulled me into a hug and I started crying again. "I can't fight him dad. Please don't make me do this..."
"I'm sorry." he said. "I'm so sorry for making you fight. You don't have to if you don't want to. You can just stay here. Or maybe Hestia can watch you." he was being really understanding.
"Hestia would be nice." I said weakly. He smiled at me and waved. I saw my body glimmer. Then I remembered that Hestia was on Olympus and I couldn't just walk in. I decided not to open my eyes during the travel. It freaked me out.
Soon I was sitting next to Hestia watching the fire. I could do this for the rest of the war. No sides, no Nico, and Hestia is really nice to talk to.
"He just left me a month ago. Or was it 2? I don't even remember. Now he's fighting against me. Not anymore though. He meant everything to me and he just threw it all away. He told me he loved me..."
Hestia nodded in understanding as I explained everything to her. "It sound like you really loved him." she said softly.
"I did." I replied.
"You know, I'm no Aphrodite, but he still loves you." she said. I didn't respond. "I can show you if you'd like." I looked at her in amazement and said, "You can do that?" she smiled and nodded.
Hestia fixed the coals a bit then moved her hand over the fire. Soon an image appeared. It was of Nico and Percy in some fancy hotel (I told you they had a fancier hotel!). Nico was crying. I mean, really crying. I stared at the image with wide eyes as Nico was talking to Percy about, me? Nico repeated, "This is all my fault..." over and over. Percy was trying to comfort him but he wasn't doing a very good job at it. "Gods. What is Percy doing? Nico hated that, Percy's just making him worse! Nico likes hugs better." I said as the image faded. Hestia raised an eyebrow at me. "Alright I get it!" I yelled.
Nico cried more than the average guy. I knew that for a fact. He was just sensitive and I always loved that about him. But he just cried about me. "You two just need to sit down together and talk." Hestia explained. "It's going to be kind of hard to do that with the war going on." I pointed out.
"You have to work something out." was all she said after that.
We sat there for what seemed like hours. It was so peaceful I didn't want to leave. But than Erebus showed up.
"Time to go Stephanie." he said.
"I'm not fighting anymore Erebus." I said.
"We're almost done. After you preform the trick, we'll have won." he said a little bit more sternly.
"I said no. I'm not fighting anymore."
"Get up Stephanie."
"No."
"Get up Stephanie!"
"No! I told you I'm not fighting Nico!" I yelled at him.
"Don't worry your not. There's been a change of plans, your taking down Zeus."
"You mean knocking him out?" I asked.
"No. Like I said there's been a change of plans. We feel its much easier to just kill him."
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