A/N: This is the first Nico chapter ever in my FanFiction and this is being written after the actual House of Hades has been released, a book I sadly have not read yet. Though I have heard the rumors of the House of Hades, and though I have no way to know whether or not they are true, I wish for no one to spoil anything in the comments for me or the other readers. Now with that aside, please enjoy Nico's POV and we see what happens to poor Percy and the knife that is currently being pressed to his throat by the evil spirit of Tartarus.

Chapter 4- Nico

The whole journey underground to Percy's prison, Nico and Hazel had been leading the way because they had been able to sense a very dark and powerful presence there, being children of the Underworld. However, as soon as Annabeth heard Percy's scream of pain, she sprinted toward the direction of it so Nico was no match for the girl's pure hatred of her boyfriend's captors.

When Nico and the rest of the group had finally had caught up with Annabeth in Percy's miserable cell, Annabeth was crying so hard, it seemed like her entire life was being sobbed out. At first, Nico couldn't possibly imagine what could cause that severe out of the normally tough-as-nails daughter of Athena, but then he saw something that nearly made his heart stop but caused it to split in two.

What Nico saw was Percy being held captive by Tartarus with a razor-sharp knife pressed against his throat, already drawing multiple beads of blood. But this wasn't the only thing that frightening Nico, it was the shape that Percy's body was in that made Nico wonder what had been done to him in the short amount of time his captors had him.

For there more than a dozen stab wounds across his body, all oozing green puss, and his shoulder is bent at a sickening angle, a sure sign that it is shattered, his left thigh was covered in blood and Nico could see his femoral bone. Furthermore, Percy's breaths were ragged and irregular meaning that there was something wrong with his ribs and chest, which was confirmed when Percy gave a weak cough and blood came out of his mouth.

But all of this wasn't what scared Nico the most; no what petrified Nico was the look in Percy's sea-green eyes. The once bright green eyes that held so much life and confidence were now dull and almost lifeless, like something inside him had permanently shattered with no hope of it ever being fixed.

Suddenly a cruel icy voice interrupted Nico from his thoughts of despair, by laughing manically. This crazy laughter lasted for a solid 5 minutes, until the insane person who was creating it, calmed down enough to speak.

"So you think you can defeat me demigods? Did you honestly believe that I would let you walk out with my prisoner that is nearly dead, and whose blood is helping me create an actual body? All of this time that I've had your precious Percy, I have tortured him physically and mentally to the point of insanity, it would be easier for both you and him to just let me kill him and put him out of his misery!

"In fact, since young Perseus is nearly dead, so you have nothing to save, I will let all of you go. This can happen if you agree to let quickly and quietly and leave the bratty son of Poseidon here with me. So what do you say, do you value your lives or the Sea Spawn life more?" asked the evil figure.

"Before we answer, do you mind telling us who you are?" inquired Nico.

"Isn't that obvious, silly son of Hades? I am Tartarus, the spirit of the abyss and husband of the mighty Gaea!"

Nico wasn't prepared for this answer, he had just assumed this was either a monster that took the form of a human or a demigod with a grudge against Percy; Nico never dreamed that Tartarus could assume an actual form like Gaea had. Well, Nico did realize that Tartarus was still about ΒΌ spirit, but he seemed to be getting stronger by the minute, apparently courtesy of Percy's blood.

"What do you think, Tartarus? Do you actually think we would leave our friend here for you to kill; Percy is the strongest demigod to ever live, he will live through the torture you put him through, and we will defeat you and Gaea for all you've done!" claimed Nico.

"Is that so, death child? Look at what spending 10 minutes in my abyss did to you! You barely survived with your sanity, and you practically live in the Underworld! Imagine what your friend here's mental stability is, then tell me if you really want to rescue him! But here I'll make your choice easier, by telling you what exactly I have done to him."

Upon hearing this, Nico glanced worryingly at Percy who was struggling to remain conscious through all the pain, but Nico was relieved to see that Percy had invoked the Blessing of Apollo, which explained how he was still alive.

"When young Perseus was taken out of the sea, he was immediately brought here for his blood. Since I want an actual from relatively soon, I needed the location of Percy's old Achilles Spot, because when that is punctured it was release all of the blood in his pathetic little body.

"However, the Sea Spawn stupidly refused to give me his Achilles Spot, so we brought in your old friend, Jason Grace, to help get the information out of Percy. But that didn't work so Jason shattered Percy's shoulder, broke his sternum, and stabbed him in the left thigh with a poisoned blade. Next,-" but before Tartarus could continue with Percy's next torture, Annabeth lunged at the evil spirit, somehow tackling him in mid-sentence.

However, Nico knew that Annabeth and not been thinking clear and planning ahead, because the second Annabeth tackled Tartarus, he quickly recovered and disarmed her with incredible ease. Although, apparently Percy knew this too, because he hurryingly created a massive earthquake that threw everyone off their feet, and caused a large chunk of rock to nearly fall on Tartarus, saving Annabeth.

With Tartarus distracted, Nico rushed over to where Percy lay too weak to move, and tried to get him to stand so they could escape. Sadly, Percy was too out of it to clearly recognize that if they didn't move quickly, they would all die, so Nico just sighed and scooped Percy up into his arms and carried him.

Nico expected Percy to be heavy and hard to lift, so he was surprised to find that he was almost as light as a feather and very easy to pick up and carry. This did worry Nico because it made him wonder when the last time Percy had a proper meal due to him looking so starved and malnourished.

But Nico shook himself out of his thoughts and turned his attention back to helping his wounded friend.

"Percy, can you hear me? Come on man, we're almost out of here, you can do it. By the way, where is Jason?"

Apparently Percy wasn't as out of it as Nico has originally thought, because he foud the strength and energy to answer.

"Nico, Jason is a traitor. He hates the gods and us heroes, and has sided with Gaea and Tartarus. He even caused most of my wounds," explained Percy.

The sudden piece of news that the demigod they had all trusted had turned against them and had even hurt Percy, made Nico literally see red with hatred. However, Tartarus apparently had recovered enough from the rock almost hitting him, and took advantage of Nico being distracted.

Tartarus suddenly lunged at Nico, knocking Percy out of his arms. As soon as Percy heard the stone floor with a painful thud, Tartarus began viscously hitting Percy's face, claiming that he will never let Percy leave alive.

This sudden action shocked Nico so much that it was a moment before he had recovered his wits enough to call upon two dozen undead skeleton soldiers to rescue Percy from Tartarus. But before the skeletons were able to save Percy, Tartarus had already badly broken his nose and jaw, causing a ton of blood to gush from his face.

With Tartarus being restrained by the skeletons, Nico rushed over to Percy and saw that he was struggling to remain conscious. Knowing that he had absolutely no chance of getting Percy to walk, let alone run, Nico again picked Percy up in his arms and dashed out of the torture chamber with the rest of the demigods following him.

The group was nearly out of the miserable prison, when they saw a person blocking the exit and the way to freedom. It was Jason.

By the time Nico recognized the demigod, Thalia and Piper had already sprinted forward and were crying hysterically, demanding how Jason could do this to them.

All Jason did was smile cruelly and claim that the gods were going to be destroyed and he will be rewarded.

"Jason, how could you say that? This is our parents we are talking about, our father! Why are you doing this and how could you do this to Percy, who has saved your life more times than I can count!" shouted Thalia at her traitorous brother.

"Guys, save it. Jason has made his choice, he wants to kill us and destroy the gods, we don't have time to convince him to come back with us," bitterly reasoned Nico.

"So right you are, Nico. Now if you don't mind giving me the dying Percy, then you can all be on your merry way back to your pathetic little ship."

Jason barely finished his request, when he tried to leap at Nico and seize the wounded Percy from his arms. However, this time Nico was ready, and he called the shadows along the damp stone walls to come forward and restrain and overpower Jason.

They are about to leave when Jason starts screaming that Tartarus will rise because he got most of Percy's blood from their torture sessions. While everybody tries to ignore the traitor's claims, it is hard to hear what has happened to their friend and that someone who they thought was their friend hurt Percy.

Just as the group was entering the ground above and leaving the horrible prison, Jason suddenly raised his hands to call down lightning to strike both his friends and collapse the exit to trap them.

However, Percy saw this and found the strength to leap out of Nico's stunned arms and call a giant wave of water out of thin air that completely took and absorbed the electrical shock. Percy, the powerful demigod he is, bended the water filled with electricity back at Jason, who was shocked at this sudden turn of events, striking him down.

With Jason out of the way, Percy collapsed to his knees from exhaustion. Nico cautiously approached the out of it demigod, and lifted him up on his back, piggy-back style. As Nico was gently carrying Percy, he saw that Percy's life aura was fading rapidly, which was concerning Nico greatly.

But before Nico could freak out too much, they had reached the exit and escaped into freedom aboveground. What was waiting there for them greatly surprised Nico, because he didn't know they would know the group needed to be rescued. Well, Nico thought, maybe they sensed Percy's distress from being tortured and abused. This is because what waiting for them was Blackjack and Arion.

Blackjack was a midnight black Pegasus that greatly adored Percy, for he once saved him from being a slave on Luke's ship many years ago. Arion was a super-speed horse that loved Hazel, but respected Percy because he was the son of Poseidon and all.

Both horses were neighing like crazy, and though Nico couldn't speak horse like Percy could, he didn't have to speak horse to know that both steeds were very concerned for the 'boss', which was Blackjack's nickname for Percy.

Though suddenly, Percy lifted his head and spoke to both of the horses.

"Hey guys, I missed you too. But Blackjack I told you to stop calling me boss, and Arion, I am seriously going to wash your mouth out with soap when we get back to the ship."

This just gets a whine out of Arion and Blackjack.

"I have gotten threatened with expulsion from school for saying less! But I am fine, or I will be OK soon, so quit worrying, alright?"

Nico and the others were just laughing at the whole conversation because they could only guess that Blackjack was battering Percy with a thousand questions and Arion was just colorfully cussing.

"Alright guys, I hate to interrupt your little conversation here, but Percy we really need to get you back to the ship for treatment, your life aura is still dangerously low. Also we need a faster mean of transportation than walking back to the ship, if you don't want to die that is," urgently stated Nico.

"Right, Nico can you shadow travel yourself back to the ship? And Thalia, can you do your lightning travel thing to transport yourself? Frank, you can transform yourself into an eagle or something, right? I would do my water thing, but I barely have enough energy to talk, let alone use my powers again. Now that leaves me, Annabeth, Leo, Hazel, and Piper, so Blackjack and Arion, can you handle us?"

Both horses gave an eager nod of the head, signaling that of course they could carry people. From there, it was determine that Hazel, Leo, and Piper would rise Arion, and Percy and Annabeth would ride Blackjack.

It took all of 2 minutes to get everyone situated, but by then Percy was completely out of it, which was making Blackjack very impatient to get back to the ship to treat his 'boss'. As soon as everyone was on their ride, Frank transformed himself into an eagle and flew off, Thalia called down lightning from the clouds and zapped herself away, and Nico called the shadows to himself that carried him all the way to the Argo II.

Nico arrived just as Blackjack landed and he saw that Thalia, Frank, and Arion had already arrived. As soon as Blackjack had put his hooves on the deck, everyone swarmed him to get the completely out of it Percy off his back.

Percy was barely conscious and Nico saw that his eyes were far away, near dream land. Nico saw that Annabeth was extremely worried about Percy, for she was swarming him and kept snapping her fingers in front of his face to keep him awake.

Next to him, Nico heard Piper and Thalia crying hysterically for Jason and the fact that he abandoned the group and turned evil. While Nico couldn't blame them for being stunned at what Jason did, Nico thought that their main priority should be taking care of Percy and making sure he doesn't die, not grieving the loss of his tormentor.

By the look of Percy, Nico knew that he needed ambrosia and nectar in a major way, and he also knew that they should get some water ready due to it having healed Percy before. However, before they could carry Percy down to the infirmary to begin healing, there is a huge thump of something landing on the deck in front of them, blocking their path.

What had landed astonished Nico because it was a ginormous hydra with 12 heads, that all could spit poisonous acid at whoever they wanted to. But that wasn't what shocked Nico the most, what did that was the fact that this huge hydra could talk and was currently threatening them.

"Foolish demigods, you are destined to perish on your futile quest! In fact, danger and your end is approaching very fast, so fast it is almost here!" bellowed the talking hydra.

Disclaimer:

Nico: "Thank you for giving me a POV, but really, a talking hydra?"

Me: "Yes, I have plans for you and the rest of the demigods, and these plans start with this hydra."

Nico: "Interesting, now what are these plans that you speak of?"

Me: "Not telling, you will just have to wait and see."

Nico: "Please, Rick would tell us if he had something awful planned for us in his books."

Me: "For the last time, I am not Rick Riordan! You will just have to be patient to hear my plans."

Nico: "Do you even know what your plans are?"

Me: "Of course, I have this whole story planned out."

Nico: "So will you be updating faster now you have said plans?"

Me: "Hopefully yes, I intend to have a total of 13 chapters of this story."

Nico: "Then will you read the actual House of Hades and post a FanFiction for the next story?"

Me: "Absolutely, now since I have not read the House of Hades, I must stress that if I get anything wrong that contradicts the events of the actual book, it is not on purpose. Also, if I do get anything incorrect please no one should reveal what actually happens or confirm any rumors about the book."

Nico: "Very true, so short story short, just no spoilers anyone!"