Sirens screamed and echoed through the crisp night air in the underworld; something was terribly wrong.
"What the hell is going on here? What caused these alarms to go off?" Hades' voice boomed against the marble ivory marble walls.

"Sir something has been stolen." A soldier saluted, he was around the age of early 30's.
Hades sighed and paused, he was trying to get a hold of his building rage. "Do you know what they stole?"

"No sir, but we're looking into it."

Hades scratched his head, he wanted to say something but was hesitant, " have you heard anything about my son, Nico? Do you know anything about his whereabouts?"

"No sir, we still haven't been able to pin Nico's where about, right now he can be anywhere."

Hades sighed, "Thank you; and please give me any updates when they happen."

"Yes sir." The soldier left Hades to himself. 'Damit…why did I have to yell at him like that? For all I know he could be in a foreign country.'

Hades ran his fingers though his hair and looked around; he closed his eyes and sighed.

"Damit", he disappeared into his bedroom.

Nico cleared his throat before entering Percy's home; he had no idea what was going to come next. Was he going to meet Percy's mom? Whatever was coming next, Nico wanted to be ready for anything. Percy unlocked the apartment front door and showed Nico inside.

"Hey sweetie welcome home." Percy's mom called from another room.

"Hey mom, I want you to meet Nico." Percy looked over at Nico and smiled.

Nico smiled back and paused as he waited for Percy's mom to enter the living room. For some reason he automatically held his breath, Nico never felt comfortable around adults.

A woman around her late thirty entered the room; she had dark wavy brown hair spiraling down her back toward roughly around the middle of her back. She was wearing a long sleeve brown shirt with blue jeans and socks. Her eyes sparkled with gentleness and her smile seemed to brighten the room. Nico smiled to himself, Percy had his mother's gentle smile. "So you're Nico. Percy's been talking about you non-stop; it's Nice to meet you."

Nico blushed lightly, 'Percy's been talking about me?' He smiled at her and shook her hand.

"Are you two hungry", she asked.

Percy shook his head, "Nah, I'm fine."
Nico shook his head, "No thank you I'm okay." He yawned.

She smiled at the two boys, "Nico has the right idea. I'm going to go to bed. I'll see you too in the morning. Good night."

Nico yawned again, he blushed at his uncontrollable urges of yawning.

"Night" Percy and Nico sad simultaneously, Nico rubbed his eyes. Percy watched his mother enter her bedroom and shut her door; he shifted his gaze back at Nico, who was yawning again.

"Let me show you my bedroom", Percy lead Nico into a dimly lit room, he switched on the light.

Nico looked around the room, a twin sized bed covered in deep blue bed sheets and aquatic blue pillows; over in a corner of the room a small dresser sat, it had a mirror and was covered with trinkets Percy had collected over the years and throughout his adventures. Next to the bed, a small nightstand stood holding a small lamp and a picture of Percy, Grover, and Annabeth and a couple of other campers from Camp Half Blood. The nightstand also held Percy's cell phone charger and a small notebook. The cover was black and it looked old and worn at the cover; the pages looked yellowed and water stained.

Percy took a couple of steps into the room and remembered something; he turned back to Nico and strolled up to him. Nico blushed lightly as Percy approached him. Percy smiled at Nico and took Nico's backpack from, "let me help me with your bag, you are my guest after all", Percy chuckled.

"Ah-", Nico was caught completely off guard and let Percy take his bag. 'He didn't have to do that, we are only five feet from the bed and my backpack isn't heavy…Dork.' Nico laughed at Percy's silliness.

"Um, can I use your bathroom", Nico asked.

"Yeah it's down the hallway to the right, it's the 2nd door."

Thanks", Nico left the room.

Percy smiled, 'Wow I can't believe Nico is actually here in my room. Wait-I need to stop obsessing over this; if Nico actually found out these feelings I have our friendship will be over for sure…Damit-'

RIIIINNNNG-RIINNNGGG-RIIINN-

"Hello?" Percy quickly answered his ringing cell phone.

"Percy, it's me Annabeth, it's urgent."

"What is it?"

"Charon needs you back at Camp Half Blood sometime this week ; and he's asking if you've seen Nico. Nico ran away from his dad's and we just to make sure he's safe."

Percy's ears perked up, "Yeah I can be there sometime this week, do you know what could have made Nico run away? And do you know why Charon needs me back this week?"

"Well from what I heard, something important and major was stolen from Hades' house and we're going to need your help; and as for Nico I heard that he had a huge fight with his dad."

"Whoa, do you know what was stolen?"

"No, I still do not know what was stolen, but I heard it was major."

"Ah. I will keep an eye out for Nico. I'll see you later."

"Ok. Good night."

"Night", Percy hung up his phone and put it to charge. He looked out his bedroom; he had a frown etched onto his lips. 'Nico…' Percy brought himself back to this reality, brought himself over to his Television set in the corner of his bedroom, and switched on the T.V. and started to play video games, to release some building stress.

Not long after Percy started playing video games, Nico came back into the room, he found Percy in deep concentration. Nico smiled and took a seat next to Percy.

"Want to play?" Percy asked, he did not take his eyes off the screen.

Nico thought for a second, "I'll play when you finish."

At that moment Percy finished the game, he looked over at Nico and smiled, "finished."

"Nice timing."

Percy reached over in a drawer under the television stand to pull out a second controller. "Let's tag team."

Nico nodded and took the controller once Percy had finished setting it up. "What are we playing?"
"MW3, have you heard of it?"

"I think. Is it a war game?"

"Yeah. You and I are on a team and we have to kill the other guys. Hey look out!" Percy lunged his character forward to block the opponents' attack and kill the enemy. Nico flinched, "uh. Thanks…um…hey lets go over here, I think I see a place where we can kill the other guys." Nico lead his character over to an abandoned house, Percy followed; he glanced over at Nico and saw he was having a little trouble using the controller.

He paused for a second and hit the pause button, "Nico."

"Yeah?" Nico was concentrating on his controller and did not even noticed that the game was on pause.

"Look." Percy scooted closer toward Nico and held his controller next to Nico's; "here is the jump button, here is the shoot button and here is…." Percy continued to explain the controller to Nico and showed him a couple of tricks on how to play the game. Once that was settled, Percy and Nico continued to play until they couldn't think clearly any more, this was around, 1:30 in the morning.

Nico yawned, Percy rubbed his eyes, trying to rub away the spots in front of his eyes. "Good idea, I'm so tired, my head's killing me." Percy took the game controller from Nico and turned off the television. Nico stretched and got up slowly, he headed for the door to head toward the living room.

"Hey where are you going?" Percy asked; he got up and chased after Nico.

"To go sleep on the couch in the living room", Nico opened the bedroom door.

Percy placed a hand over the door and blocked Nico from opening it any further. "You're my guest, please use my bed."

Nico blushed lightly, he turned away and tugged at the doorknob, "No I' m okay on the couch."

Percy let go of the door to grab Nico by the wrist, he began to pull Nico over to his bed. "No it's okay I insist! I want you to be comfortable Nico. I'll sleep on the couch."

Nico shook his head and tried to pull away.

"How about this, you use my bed for tonight and I sleep on the floor?"

"No that's even worse! You'll never get to sleep!" Nico pulled Percy toward him and pushed Percy onto his bed, "I'll use the floor. I'm use to the floor. Don't worry."

Nico was about to sit down when Percy grabbed Nico by the wrist and pulled him on the bed. "I have one last deal for you, we share the bed. So no one sleeps on the floor or couch. Is that okay?"

Nico thought for a second and nodded slowly. His cheeks were blazing with blush, luckily the room was so dimly lit that Percy couldn't see Nico's blush. "Yeah that's fine."

"I can't believe we actually agreed upon this", Nico huffed pulling the covers closer toward him.

Percy smiled, he was facing opposite of Nico, he had no problem showing off his big grin. "Well if we didn't agree on something, we might have to actually battle this out. And if we did that my mom wouldn't have been too pleased."

Nico brushed his elbow against Percy's side and pulled away quickly blushing crazily. "What- ever…G'night."

Percy smiled, "Night." Soon after, it faded to a frown, 'I guess I need to tell Nico what Annabeth told me; I'll tell him in the morning.'

They fell asleep quietly, facing back to back against each other. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

"My my look who we have here; it looks like Envy has returned to us. What kind of news do you bring to us Envy? Have you heard any news about the Fullmetal Alchemist?" A voice cooed from the darkness. Envy took a step forward and grinned, "it's nice to see you too Sloth."

The woman called Sloth took another step forward she was smiling softly. She had the face of a mother, kind, and gentle. Her eyes were a dark amethyst, her hair was long, and long, it spiraled down her back. A boy step out of the shadows, he also had long hair, except his was pure black, and he also had amethyst eyes, the shinned like marbles, except he was far from smiling. He had a calm expression upon his face. The young child was clinging onto the woman's dress. The woman who was called Sloth petted the young child's head softly to keep the child calm.

The one called Envy took a step closer to the mother and child figures, "all I've heard is the twerp and his brother and the girl are on the move once again. Now they are staying in a motel. They encountered the one of demigods that Kronos warned us about, the kid of Hades.

"Oh you mean Nico di Angelo, what happened between the four of them?"

"Nothing much, they just saw each other, no words were exchanged; and hopefully they never see each other ever again. But we'll take provisions for them not to meet."

"I'll let you handle that. You know what you are doing. Just keep a eye on the two, what did Kronos call them; Demigods?

"Yes those hybrid bastard children of the Greek gods. I'll make sure Fullmetal and his posy and the demigods don't come in contact with each other. On another subject has Lust come back yet with our prize?" Envy took a seat on a nearby crate, he crossed his legs and grinned at Sloth.

"I haven't heard from them yet. But I'm pretty sure Lust and Gluttony are on their way. And we will possess the souls of some of the evilest humans in history." Sloth chuckled and patted the child's head.

"And once we have the souls we can partner up with the one they call Kronos and make our hybrid Homunculus and kill every last human…" The child finally spoke, his voice grew with confidence; a cheesier cat grin took form upon his face as well.

"Exactly Wrath, and with Kronos help we'll get rid of those demigods in the process. So it's like killing two birds with one stone", Sloth smiled.

Footsteps echoed within the dimly lit room, before Wrath, Sloth, and Envy two more figures stepped forward. A beautiful woman with a elegant black dress appeared, she had a smaller man trailing along her, he was smiling with a hint of drool on the corner of his mouth. "We got the souls. It took forever to sneak into the palace of Hades, but we got what we needed. Has Kronos showed up yet?"

"Lust I'm hungry…" The smaller man wined, he tugged at the woman's dress with a look of disappointment.

"We'll feed you later Gluttony; right now we need to stay alert for the arrival of Kronos.

"That scary man", Gluttony asked shivering.

"Good evening." Another voice echoed out from the darkness. The group of homunculi turned toward the voice. From the shadows a boy around the age of twenty stepped out. His handsome features had a shadow casted upon them, giving him a menacing appearance. His bleached blond hair hung over his piercing icicle eyes, and his scar beamed under his left eye.

"So you're Kronos, the father of the Greek gods and you almost destroyed the world before? Nice to meet you, we acquired what you need to help us make a unstoppable weapon. What do we need to do first to make sure our plan to destroy all humanity and to create the ultimate super weapon succeeds?"

The young boy who they called Kronos smiled, his eyes beamed with dim light. "First we must destroy the children of the big three; the sons and daughters of Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades. With those demigods dead, we can easily kill the other demigods and then take out the gods one by one. Then we can destroy any one who stands in our way. Including those Alchemists, you told me about. Once the weapon is complete, all of humanity will be at our will. Before we can get down to business, may I have a word with the one you call 'Father'?"

Nico's eyes fluttered open as his breathing increase, "Crap…Not that dream again." Nico looked over to the window and closed his eyes again, trying to calm his mind; he was able to relax for about two minutes before he realized his position. Nico was in a small ball in the corner of the mattress, with Percy nearly totally on top of him. Nico could feel his cheeks catch fire, 'oh no Percy's on top of me! Oh gods, please don't wake up Percy!' Nico tried to pull himself out from under Percy, but was caught by Percy. Percy, who was still in deep sleep, wrapped one arm around Nico's shoulders and sighed contently, Nico silently screamed; he clutched his fits and killed the feeling of throwing Percy off him and across the room.

'Ok, think, how can I get him to let go of me?' Nico searched his brain and smiled when he thought of a solution for his dilemma. Nico slowly reached over to Percy's face and lightly traced his fingers over Percy's nose. 'Tickle tickle, roll over Percy!'

Percy sniffled and swatted Nico's hand away from his nose. He mumbled a little within his sleep and pulled Nico closer toward him.

'Crap…he probably thinks I'm Annabeth or someone else, this would be very awkward and embarrassing if he woke up and found us in this position. I wonder if I can wiggle me way free.' Nico took a deep breath and began to slowly pull away from Percy, "crap-crap-crap-crap!" Nico pulled away from Percy and rolled off the bed to land on the floor with a loud THUD. He groaned in pain, 'Well at least he didn't wake up and he didn't suspect a thing.' Nico sighed contently and rolled over on the floor. 'I'll sleep here until the morning. If Percy asks…I'll just say I fell off.' Nico closed his eyes and smiled softly, 'Damit he gives good hugs…even if they're not indented for me and he's asleep.'

~End of Chapter 4~