Chapter Twenty-Six
Disclaimer: I do not own the PJO or HoO series by Rick Riodan, nor do I own Star Holder Commander's character, Walker. I do own all of the other OCs mentioned.
Nico's POV
I had tried everyone I could think of, but no one had answered the phone. Typical. You're in a life or death situation and no one picks up the phone. It's like what Kyra would always complain about when we were teenagers.
Her mom or Lucas would call, and she wouldn't see it until about ten minutes after. Then when she would try calling back, they'd never pick up. So she'd commence to scream, "I could be dead,and you wouldn't know because you won't pick up the phone!" at her phone.
I sigh and hang the phone back up. I pull the chair behind the desk over and heavily sit down, sighing. No one; Mo, Piper, Will, Leo. None of them would answer. It almost made me worry that Osiris had captured them and had them in his skyscraper.
I shake my head, trying to get the thought to go away. I couldn't think like that right now, not with Kyra's current condition. I reach for the phone again, one last person to try popping into my head.
I dial the number and put the phone up to my ear, listening to it ring. Two, three, four rings and I started to feel like it was a hopeless cause. Then, I hear it stop, and a sort of clatter. I perk up and sit up straight in the chair.
"Hello?" I hear on the other end.
I felt like crying out of joy. "Hello?" they say again, sounding slightly irritated.
"Percy!" I say, trying to calm myself.
"Wha—who is this?"
"Percy, it's Nico,"
The line is silent for a second, then it explodes with questions. I hold the phone away from my ear, because he was nearly screaming on the other end.
"Percy, Percy!" I say, trying to get him to shut up.
"What? You and Kyra go missing for a month and you just suddenly want to have a nice little chat on the phone? Dude, you gotta be fucking me,"
"Percy, listen to me, it's important,"
He sighs, obviously agitated, but quiets down. I quickly explain what all had happened since we had been taken as best as I could. Then I go on to tell him about Kyra, and how bad she had gotten over the past couple of days.
"Now what I need is for you to help me get on a main road,"
"Okay, just tell me where you are," I could hear some shuffling in the background, as if he were going to his desk and pulling up a map online.
"Thalia said something about Baxter State Park. Even I, being me and having traveled everywhere, don't know where that is,"
"You ran into Thals?" he asks, some clicking noises in the background.
"Yea, she was tracking down this maiden who had gotten lost during a Hunt like a month ago,"
"She find her?"
"Yea, it was apparently the girl who had found us and took us in for the night,"
"That's strange, that all of that would just happen,"
"Perce, we're demigods. Strange things happen to us everyday,"
"Yea, yea. I know,"
"Found anything yet?"
"Yea, actually," He sounded shocked on the other end.
"What, what is it?"
"Well it says here that Baxter State Park is in Piscataquis County, Maine. It was a camping ground and national park, up until 2024, when several park rangers went missing. Ah, crime scene, blah blah blah, oh here; they eventually found the rangers' bodies in one of their fishing ponds. Um, let's see; it says the pond had been closed for the past year for some unknown reason, and when it reopened, a man and his two kids went fishing and ended up catching on to one of the—appendages, of the rangers.."
"Okay, that's pretty gross, but what does that have to do with getting us out of here,"
"Calm down, I'm getting there. The park had all this bad publicity, and the state wanted to close it down for good, but someone—holy shit, you're not gonna believe this,"
"I doubt much could shock me by this point in my life. Go on, tell me,"
"The whole park was bought by an Asari Kame,"
"And that's supposed to be some earth-shattering news to me? So what, some rich guy bought the state park,"
"No, dude, Asari is another name for the Egyptian god, Osiris. And Annabeth helped Kyra do some digging a couple of years after the whole 'Callie' thing, and her last name before turning into Callie was Kame,"
"Oh dear gods. So you're telling me Osiris owns the park?"
"That's what it looks like,"
"Okay then, tell me how to get out of here. We're at the old welcome center,"
He goes on to explain what roads to take and when I got to the main road, to go to a particular gas station that a a demigod owns the franchise of, so there are emergency traveling supplies hidden away in the back.
"Wait, why can't you just shadow travel the two of you back to your house?"
"Because, idiot, I used up all the energy I could muster when I traveled to our safe house to get some supplies. It'll be at least three or four more days before I can travel myself, and probably another week before I can take another adult with me,"
"Dude, you're screwed,"
I glower at the phone. "Thanks for pointing that out,"
"Whenever you get access to a phone or a rainbow, call me again, or someone else and tell them to pass on the message to the rest of us,"
"I will,"
"And you be careful, both of you,"
I sigh, he was starting to go all "worried family member" and tell me to do a bunch of stuff when I wouldn't have the time of day to do any of it.
I try to interrupt. "Perce," He kept on babbling though.
"Percy,"
"What?"
"I have to go, and I'll try to contact one of you again, but I'm not making any promises. You know how this kind of thing goes,"
He sighs, almost as if he were trying to find a reason to keep me on the phone a little longer. Finally, he gives in. "Okay, yea. I'll talk to you later Nicks,"
I hang up the phone and sit back in the chair, digging the heels of my hands into my eyes. I had a headache starting to come on. I take a deep breath then stand up. It was time to find the keys to that hunk of junk in the parking lot.
A/N:
Oh boy, where do I even start. Is everyone just as worried about Kyra as I am? She's my own damn character, who I control, and I'm worried about her, how about that. And now our Nico, exhausted and just weary all-around, has to get them out of Osiris's park of nightmares. Bet that'll be so much fun.
Oh man, it's been a week. A good week, believe it or not. I can't remember if I told you guys about the guy at my local coffee house that I like, and how he knows my name now. If I didn't, well, I just did. He even knows exactly what I order now so if he's working when I come in, he just meets me at the register and asks if I'm ordering the usual and then sends it in. I think he likes me too, which sends me over the moon with giddy schoolgirl joy. But then, I'm also not sure at the same time, because he's really nice to me, but you kinda have to be nice to people when you work in costumer service. I know that all too well with working at the studio.
And today I went in with my friend, and while she was waiting at the counter for her order, she overheard a couple of the employees talking and one of them asked about him and the other said that he was supposed to work today, but called in sick. I'm not gonna lie and say I wasn't disappointed when I saw he wasn't there today.
And when I was driving my friend home, I just said, "I feel kinda creepy about this one," Of course, that was incredibly random and she didn't have a clue what I was talking about, so I had to explain.
See, I crush on people really easily, and usually that leads to thinking about them practically all the time and trying not to drive my mother and friends crazy talking about said person. So this happens a lot, and I was telling her that this time, I just feel like I'm a creep if I even think about him, even though I've done this same exact thing with several other people. But this is the first person who I just really like.
So she commenced to ask me all these questions, like how often he pops into my head every day, to which I told her, "Literally every hour or so, every day. Then I feel like screaming at myself,"
And when she was finished quizzing me, I looked at her and said, "Now you see how much shit I'm in with this one, don'y you?"
And she just kinda shook her head and agreed. And what's gonna suck is if I ever get the courage to ask him out or something and he rejects me. I think I'd be devastated, as well as completely embarrassed.
But besides that little thing constantly nagging at my brain, it really has been a good week. Saturday went a lot better than I thought it was going to. We made masks, and the kids had a ball doing it, so that was a relief. And I also finished these wicked mugs, they're so cool! I think they're going to be my signature mug shape now, because I made eight of them in a row last Saturday without wavering in shape or form.
Oh! And my brother and his wife bought a house this past week! They're literally six minutes away from my house in a nice little neighborhood. We're all really excited, because not only will they be closer and it will make things easier for them driving-wise, but we'll also be able to see the baby more often!
Oh yea...Y'know that big news I was talking about in like April? Well, that was it. My brother and his wife are having a baby! It's a girl, and she should be born in late November or early December! This is their first one, so it's kinda hard to pinpoint when exactly she'll come. Babies in general are hard to pinpoint when they'll be born, but first-borns are really hard. They can be pretty unpredictable.
The only sucky thing that happened this week was that my iPod nano died yesterday. It was the newest model, and I haven't even had it for a year. So my advice is if you're looking for an iPod, don't get that thing. So I immediately ordered a seventh generation refurbished Classic off of Amazon, so it should be here sometime this month. I had been planning on getting that one anyway, but I had wanted to wait until closer to Christmas. Until then, I'll be going old-school and putting my huge stockpile of CDs to use...
M/A:
"'You should take this heart of mine
She's always had that heart of mine
Always had that heart of mine
Always had that heart of mine'"
Heart of Mine by The Young Veins
XOXO,
Mrs-diAngelo25
