They arrived in Lakeview in an hour. As they walked around the district something unsettled Nico, the amount of recently dead ghosts that hung around. One passed him; it looked like it had been through a storm -its clothes were drenched. He tried to ignore them and focus on finding Apollo.

At around two in the afternoon they stopped for some food. Will was looking worse, the circles under his eyes had gotten darker. It seemed to be that only Will had noticed the disappearance of the sun.

Will got up and told the others that he was going for a walk. He had only been walking for 4 minutes when he heard the Coach shouting something. He turned and saw a monster towering above. The monster scooped Will up and ran off with him. The Coach ran after it screaming, "DIE! DIE! DIE! STAY STILL AND LET ME KILL YOU!"

Nico got out his sword and ran after the Coach.

The monster took Will underground. The others followed. They were lead into a large tunnel. The light was dim so they had to squint to see the monster. The monster walked out into a large clearing. It placed Will down and began sharpening a blade. The Coach ran out and began to attack the monster, Nico did the same. The monster flicked them off as if they were harmless flies. The monster flicked a switch and blinding lights flicked on.

It wore an outfit that resembled a nun but the dress was rather short. It had long blonde hair that was covered by a veil. Due to the height of the monster Nico saw something's that he wish he hadn't.

"What do you want with him?" Nico yelled.

"Grk wants to suck the life out of this demigod. That is what Grk does." The monster replied.

The monster pulled out a block and placed Will on it. Nico snapped into action and ran towards him.

"Nico stay back, I've got this!"

"Yes, stay away demigod." Grk agreed.

"Shut up!" Nico looked at Will,"Are you insane, it's going to chop off you-"

"NICO STAY AWAY. I HAVE GOT THIS!"

Nico obeyed and stayed where he was.

The axe cut through the air, Nico sprinted and the axe cut through his arm. The cut wasn't that deep but it was deep enough to draw blood. Grk threw Nico across the clearing, he sprained his arm from the fall. Grk swung the axe again.

Nico slowly lifted his head and saw Will jumping up and grabbing the axe and with one swift movement cut the monster in half. It crumbled into dust. Will ran to where Nico was and examined his arm.

"Nico you idiot!"

Will knew every part of the human anatomy. He knew how to do the most complex medical procedure. As Will ran his hand down Nico's cold and pale arm he felt nothing. Usually he could feel the bones and the blood rushing about. A sick look took over the blonde haired boy. His hands began to tremble.

"Will, what is it?" Nico whispered.

"It's all gone. I can't fix this," Will muttered over and over again, "I-I can't, Nico why?"

"What's gone?"

"I can't remember anything." He croaked, "my medical prowess has gone."

Will buried his head into Nico's chest, he let out a small scream and he sobbed loudly.

Will raised his head and apologised repeatedly to Nico.

Will lent forward and placed his lips on Nicos. To both of their surprise Nico kissed back. Nico could taste Wills tears; they were full of sadness and despair. As the kiss went on for longer and longer Nico was able to get into Will's head. He saw the monstrosities that Will had witnessed because of his father. When finally Will let Nico go his tears had dried. Will gave a faint smile then fell onto Nico.

Coach hedge, who had been quiet until that point began to speak.

"Nico, are you okay?"

Nico shook of his daze, "Yeah," he mumbled, "but I don't know about Will."

"What happened?"

"There were short flashes of his memories...it was extremely odd."

Nico gently pushed Will off of him. He got the Coach to help him carry Will out of the cave.

"I think we should find a hotel to rest." The Coach suggested.

The mention of the word 'hotel' made Nico tense up but he did want somewhere warm to stay.

"It better be cheap, we haven't got much money left."

They found a small hotel. They walked up and down the corridors, they found a door that had been left open. They went in and placed Will onto the bed. The Coach went to close the door while Nico made Will confortable. He looked at Will. He'd seen a memory of Will controling the mist, he wondered what else there was about Will that he didn't know.