Percy's POV
I didn't get why Nico was so freaked out about the hunters being here, I mean yeah sure they were intimidating with their wolves and bows and the like but I mean he was the son of Hades and they were, like, girls.
"I ran across them a couple times during my travels." He was saying. I was thinking 'so what' and then I remembered their hostility towards me and all other male heroes.
"Oh."
He looked at me "I suppose 'oh' covers it pretty well"
"What happened dude?" I asked him.
I swear he started blushing. "Theykindasavedmylife."
I looked at him, "What?"
He sighed "I was fighting the Minotaur-"
I shuddered.
"And he got me."
"Huh?" I didn't know how someone as fast as Nico could possibly get beaten by the Minotaur, cause as scary as he may be he was stupid and he was slow.
Nico just looked at me and waited for me to grasp how that could've happened. I was still wrestling with the idea when I remembered how utterly exhausted he'd been when he got to camp.
"Oh" I said again. It never occurred to ask him where he'd been shadow traveling from.
He nodded. "I thought it was all over for me and then they appeared and they shot him and gave me some Nectar."
I nodded again, then paused, "Why?"
"That's the problem."
"I don't see a problem." I said and he gave me a look like he couldn't believe I was making him actually spell it out for me but I didn't get it."
He sighed again. "When Thalia was giving me the Nectar she said the only reason they were helping me was because one of the hunters liked me."
I felt my eyes widen and I remembered some of the times the Hunters had come in the last half-year. Thalia always asked about Nico and she had been one of the first to panic when he didn't show up after a couple months, but that didn't mean anything there was still the oath of the Hunters, they had all sworn off men forever.
Then the ADHD part of my brain acted up, totally off task, thinking about how little friends Nico had and then wondering why it was such a bad thing that one of the hunters liked him, he didn't have a girlfriend, why did he sound so worried.
"I see a dilemma but not a problem," I told him, and suddenly I got an idea.
"I have to go talk to Annabeth." I said, "I her help on something, meet you at the campfire," I was already jogging back to the pavilion. I needed a strategist.
Sorry it's so short, I'll try to make the next one longer.
R&R!