Nico's turn!

Go to Hell

Nico sat lazily in his chair, his eyelids drooping to his chin. His brain hurt and his ears seemed to amplify every noise in the room. He groaned as the kid waiting next to him worked on breathing exercises.
"Shut up." Nico mumbled, turning the other way.

He just wanted to get in a little nap before he had to go onstage. He had been up all night working on lyric, after lyric, after lyric, and he was about to fall over dead. If it were up to Nico, then he would've just given the lyric sheet to someone else and let them perform. But, regardless of what Nico wanted, Apollo was calling his name and the camper working the curtains was motioning him over. Nico gave a sigh before getting up, brushing his hair back with his fingers and walking onstage.

"Here he is, ladies and gentlemen!" Apollo announced as the crowd cheered for Nico.

The son of Hades blushed as the spotlights turned right on his face and he lost sight of the crowd.

"Let's do this." he whispered to himself, grabbing the microphone.
And then, he began.

Go to Hell
By Nico Di Angelo

"I'm winning in Friday's capture the flag.

Oh yeah, oh yeah.

Guarding high up on a crag.

Oh yeah, oh yeah.

Losing hurts when courtesy of me.

Oh yeah, oh yeah.

Too bad it's now that you noobs see.

Oh yeah, oh yeah.

You're on your knees, begging, please, let me live.

But what's the fun if I can't push you off a cliff?"

Nico held his arms up in question as a boy entered the stage. He had on battle armor and he slowly made his way towards Nico as he began the chorus.

Chorus:

"Throughout the game I've been bored,
But now
Puny son of Hermes you can go to Hell."

At this, Nico grabbed his sword from his belt and swung at the other boy onstage. The boy pretended to die and laid there on the ground. Suddenly the ground started shaking. Five skeletal warriors appeared as Nico sang the next line.

"Don't you try to escape my wrath

I'll just send my skeletons out to attack.

Sorry
You can't get through
I can't help you
You're wimpy, wimpy

Throughout the game I've been bored,
But now,
Are you living? Are you breathing?
You can go to Hell."

Nico put his hand behind his ear and let the crowd sing the next few words.

"Go! Go! Go! Go to Hell!"

"So what if maiming you is not allowed.

Uh oh, uh oh

Since when do I follow Chiron's rules at all.

(Pause) oh, yeah oh!

I'd rather kill, than wait out here all night long.

Oh yeah, oh yeah

Much rather stab,
Than come up with lyrics to this song.

You're on your knees
Begging please,
Please don't kill.

But if you're alive,
Tell me, Smarty, what's the thrill? (What's the thrill?)"

A girl appeared onstage now, just like the boy had, and Nico did the same thing to her when he got to her line. She fell 'dead' next to the son of Hermes.

"Throughout the game I've been bored,
But now,
Hephaestus's daughter, you can go to Hell.

All I want is to take a nap
Now's the time for all you demigods to clap."

The crowd burst into applause and cheering. Nico smiled. This wasn't as bad as he had expected.

"This is my,
Territory,
I'm so sorry,
You're wimpy, wimpy."

Two more campers appeared and Nico 'killed' them as well.

"Throughout the game I've been bored
But now
You call yourself a Half-Blood?
You can go to Hell"

After they were lying on the ground, he got low, almost on his knees and led the audience in the next few lines.

"Pain, pain, pain, pain, pain, pain, pain, pain
Whoa, whoa
Death, death, death, death, death, death, death, death
Yay, yay"

He slowly stood up as five more campers appeared behind him.

"You say that I'm breaking all the rules
Well, you are just a bunch of fools

Yeah, I am breaking all the rules
When, I'm killing a whole bunch of fools!

Throughout these next few chorus's he ran around and 'killed' every one of the demigods that had appeared behind him.

"Throughout the game I've been bored,
But now
You think that you can beat me? You can go to Hell (Go to Hell)

All I want is to end this song
Writing all these lyrics takes me way to long (Way too long)

Throughout the game I've been bored
But now
All of my opponents you can go to Hell.

You know very well that you don't stand a chance
If you do I will just shadow travel off to France (Sorry).

Sorry (No)
This is easy (No… Well yes)
Lemon squeesy,
You're wimpy, wimpy

Songwriting's making me tired
Right now
If you'll just excuse me
I will be in Hell."

He shadow traveled back behind the curtain and all of the dead demigods on the ground lifted their heads up and sang the last line.

"Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,
ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha"

The crowd applauded as Apollo made his way back up onto the stage calling, "Nico? Nico? Where are you bud?"

Nico walked back onstage and the crowd cheered even louder. He had a big smile on his face and a few drips of sweat on his forehead.

"I've never seen him smile that big!" exclaimed Annabeth.

"Seriously." agreed Percy.

Apollo finished announcing Nico and the last few campers performed. But, the audience thought Nico had been the best.

"Great job, man!" said the son of Hephaestus who Nico had talked to the day before when he chose his song.

"You too!" said Nico, slapping the kid five. He had performed a cool version of the song 'Party Rock Anthem' that had had the campers up on their feet.

Apollo began calling names from the hat as Nico sat down in between Annabeth and Rachel.

"Good job, Skele Brain." said Annabeth ruffling his hair. Nico pushed her hand away.

"That was great." said Rachel patting him on the back.

"Thanks."

"Rachel Dare!" Apollo called from the stage.

Rachel jumped. "Did he just call me?" she asked Nico in disbelief.

"Go!" he said. "Don't worry, it isn't that terrible."

"Thanks." she huffed walking around the benches up to the stage. When she got to the top she tapped the sun god on the shoulder.

"Apollo! I'm not even a demigod. Why am I up here?"

He shrugged. "Your name was in the hat, sweetheart. You gotta perform!"

She furrowed her eyebrows before stepping back in the line with the other nine kids who had been chosen. She had never liked being onstage much. The lights were too bright and she felt as if the audience were inspecting every bit of her. She squirmed uncomfortably as the song hat made its way around. She closed her eyes and prayed to Apollo as she stuck her hand inside and put her fingers on the slip of folded paper that felt right to her. Taking a deep breath, she opened it.

"Well," she sighed, "I guess this could summon up my feelings."

Yay! Rachel's turn! I never liked her much… Anyway, the song that she's going to sing is by P!nk, and it was huge on the radio a few years ago. It's a good song and it will 'summon up her feelings' about a certain couple… :D See if you can guess!