Chapter Two

Dinner and Cabin 13

Mary stared around at the campers. They stared back, slightly scared. They clapped half-heartedly, like someone was going to hurt them if they didn't. Chiron directed her toward a table where a boy was sitting alone. He had shaggy black hair, and like her, he was dressed in all black. She sat down across from him and he immediately scooted to the other end of the table.
"Great, even my brother is scared of me." She mumbled
"Half-brother!" he protested.

Mary rolled her eyes and ate her dinner. When dinner was over the black haired boy stood up.
"I'm Nico I'll show you our cabin." There was resentment in his voice, like he thought she shouldn't be there.

He led her down a path. A group of cabins came into view. The two nearest to them were big and majestic looking. Farther down there were some really weird looking cabins, one had an ugly red paint job done badly, one had plants all over, and another looked like a Barbie house.
"Our cabin is number thirteen. All the way at the end." Nico said. "This one." He pointed to a long blue-ish cabin, "Is where my friend Percy stays."
"The great Percy Jackson I've been hearing about?" Mary sounded bored. "Um is that cabin changing colors?" she asked.
"Yes and yes, the color changing one is the Hecate cabin. Don't mess with them, they might turn you purple." The tone of his voice suggested that he had discovered that the hard way.
As they came to the end of the row Mary saw a pure black cabin, it had tiki torches alight with green fire. The Hades cabin.
Inside there were two bunk beds on one end of the cabin. On the other end were two black leather couches with a pure black coffee table between them. Nico walked over to the bunk next to the wall. "This is my bed. Don't touch it." He glared at Mary like she would contaminate everything.
"Touch." She touched his bed with her pointer finger. "What are you going to do about it?" she sat down on his bed and crossed her arms. Clearly she was trying to bug him.
Nico rummaged in his trunk and pulled out a can of disinfectant. He sprayed the part she had touched then sprayed her.
"Hey! You're going to regret that." She moved her stuff off his bed and onto the other bunk. "Happy now?"
"No." he grumbled. "You shouldn't even exist."
"What do you mean by that? Mad that you have to share your cabin?" her eyes searched Nico's face for anything that might give him away, but his face was like stone. Betraying no emotion.
"The big three gods, Zeus, Poseidon, Hades made a pact that they wouldn't have any children. But Zeus and Poseidon broke that pact. Now Hades has to." Was that disappointment in his voice?
"Wait, if you're here that would mean that Hades would have broken that pact anyways."
"Not necessarily. I was born before that pact was made." He seemed irritated now.
"How come you're not dead then?" Mary was determined to get to the bottom of this.
"Because my dad put my sister and I in the Lotus Hotel and Casino. It's magic. You go in and lose all track of time. Percy went in there for a few hours once. He came out days later. My sister and I were in there for like sixty years. Someone came and got us out. Now I'm here."
"So what happened to your sister?"
"She died." Nico left the cabin, shutting the door behind him.
End of Chapter.