Thank you so much for the awesome reviews! And, reviewers, especially if you're anonymous, do not criticize another reviewer. Altough I appreciate people sticking up for me, I don't appreciate two people getting into a review fight. This is supposed to be fun, so please, respect me and don't say anything about other authors. I need at least three reviews before I begin writing another chapter, so keep reviewing! And, as someone asked (Sorry, I can't remember your name) Azrael hates Nico because he's a demigod and she feels like she's not. She thinks demigods have perfect lives, and is jealous of them. In addition, Azrael, Hadyn, and Abbadon are John's kids, as the summary states. Nico wouldn't be there if they weren't. He's there to see if John's (Who's a demigod) children are also demigods. And with that, enjoy!

Chapter 7

Azrael's POV

I felt... different. There was no other way to describe it. Just... different. As soon as I stepped up to make the clouds go together, I had felt...powerful. Like I had a say ion what happened to me. Like I could do anything. And that power built inside me, and then the clouds were moving together. And then I though of Nico, how hopeful he looked for me. But then, how he knew. He knew that I would be able to do it. And then I thought, Maybe he didn't know that he knew, but I did. I could see it in his eyes when no one else could. But it wasn't just his eyes. It was his being. I could tell that he knew, and it scared me.

It scared me to know that someone had faith in me.

Nico POV

The rest of the day went fairly normal, considering how we had found out that all of John's kids were demigods in one day when we were given two weeks to find out. Me, Hadyn, Azrael, and Abbadon had all been in the exercise room, hanging out, when we started to go to the kitchen. But when we got there, everything changed.

Because, right in the middle of the kitchen, was a Fury.

Hadyn screamed and jumped back, and Abbadon looked startled, as if not believing what was in front of him. Azrael, though, seemed to be the only one besides me who wasn't scared. She stood her ground and looked at the Fury as if it were something she just picked off her shoe.

"Give me the girl!" the Fury shrieked.

"In your dreams," I said, and stabbed it. The Fury dissolved in a puff of black smoke. When we could see again, it was nowhere to be found. Hadyn stared at where the Fury once stood, amazed that I had taken it down so easily. "You see, this is the type of stuff they will teach you at camp," I said to them. "Azrael, we need to get you to camp immediately. And I don't want to take any risks, so your siblings are coming, too. You'll be safe at Half-Blood Hill, because there is a magical border that stops monsters from getting in."

And, right on cue, John walked in and said, "Everything alright guys? I'm tired, so I'm just going to heat up some buffalo wings."

"John," I said, "A Fury was jsut here. It's gone n ow, but we have to get your children to vamp. Now. Like, right now."

John nodded understandingly. "I knew this would happen sooner of later. I just thought it would be the 'later' option."

We all piled into Charnette's purple minivan and sped away, to the train station. Being the mayor's kids, they had never been on a subway. It was a bad experience for them, and Hadyn kept complaining about the gum on her shoe. Soon we were finally in front od Half-Blood Hill.

I beckoned for everyone to follow me, and we stepped through the camp's magical borders.

Azrael POV

We walked up to a half-horse half-man thing and he and Nico began an intense conversation. I copuld only hear glimmers of the conversation like 'She doesn't know how powerful...' or 'We should watch...', and '... of great importance'. The conversation slowed to a stop and soon we were assigned a cabin. I kept watching Nico the whole way there. I don't know why, exactly. He looked like a part of this. This... magic. Like he belonged here. For the first time, Nico looked comfortable. This must be his home most of the time. He stopped in front of a door to an airy gray cabin. It looked elegant but detailed(A/N: Sorry if there was a different explanation for Zeus's cabin in the book. I'm too lazy to look for it.).

"Everyone, come on in. Except you, Azrael." I gave him a curious look, and he motioned for me to walk with him.

I looked around and noticed for the first time that my dads wasn't there. "Where's my dad?"

"Wel, if you were listening, you would have heard me when I said that he was going home. Even though he's a demigod and can enter the camp, he has to go home."

I nodded knowingly. "So what did you want to talk to me about?"

Nico looked at me in a way that I'd never seen him look at me before. He looked so intense that it was expressionless. I couldn't help but think of the almost-dead roses that my mom had gotten from my dad. They were red towards the bottom, and fringed with black on the edges. It had been the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. And then I knew why I had thought of the roses when I saw Nico. He was a rose that had started out like any other rose. But, as time grew on, while the other roses stayed the same, he turned a darker color. He was unque, just like those roses my mom never threw out, because they were an old memory. "You're powerful," he said. "Beinf a daughter of Zeus has its consequences." And then he looked away.

"Wait. What do you mean by 'powerful'? Why is it a bad thing? And why isn't Hadyn like me?"

"Well," Nico said, still not looking me in the eye, "You have extreme power, for some reason, we don't know why. There was a monster behind us on the subway and when you looked at him, he fled. For some reason, you have a lot of power. It s a bad thing, because a lot of monsters will want to kill you for. The rest of them will try to get you to go to their side. And you were the first born, right?"

"Right. But Abbadon and I are twins. I was only born, like, fifteen minutes before him."

"That's called fate. You're still the first born."

"But why me?" I questioned. There was so much I didn't know. That nobody knew. But I had a feeling that nobody wanted to know. Including me.

"Because you're special," he answered. And that changed everything.

Because he looked at me.

In the same way he did before.

Except now I could place what the expression was.

Love.

And he didn't have to kiss me, because I knew that he wanted to, and that was enough. I took a step forward, and pressed my lips to his. He dipped me. Yes, actual dippage. And I thought chivalry was dead.

He pulled away, and we walked back to the Zeus cabin. Holding hands.