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Hello again everyone! Today I have an important question for all of you. Would you like me to do alternate endings to this story? I want you to PM me or review to tell me, but I have two ideas for endings to this story and I would like to write both. If I did alternate endings, I would start changing the labels on the chapters e.g. Chapter 8 ending 1 or Chapter 8 ending 2, so you can tell which story line you're reading on it. I like this idea, but I want you guys' opinion on it. Let me know what you think!

And now, onto Chapter 7!

Percy's POV

I woke up the next day in my cabin.

It's been a while since I've woken up here. It was almost alien to me.

I decided that I might as well get up, so I showered and got myself ready for the day.

I figured Nico and Chiron wouldn't let me do my usual activities, since I was still weak and hadn't fully recovered yet. I walked outside and had to squint and look at the ground until my eyes adjusted to the bright light outside. It had been a while since I've been outside during the day.

It was later than everyone usually woke up, so I wasn't surprised when I came to the dining pavilion and found that there was nobody there. I looked at my table and saw Nico sitting there, waiting next to a plate of food that was blue. It didn't take a genius to figure he was waiting for me.

I slid into the table next to him in front of the plate of food.

"What's up Nico?"

"Not much, everyone has already separated for their activities, so it's just me here."

"How come you're here? You never stay at camp for this long."

He grinned at me and said "Because if I left who else would torment you?"

I laughed for the first time in a few days. I hadn't thought about it much, but I was really happy that Nico was still here, he was the only person in camp who was treating me the same. Everyone I'd seen had been skeptical to even come near me, or treated me with pity. Piper was the worst. She came for a visit on the second day that I was awake and told me she was sorry about what had happened.

I hated pity, I didn't want people to feel sorry for me, I wanted to be treated normally again. All I got anymore from anyone was either pity or fear that I would just snap.

Nico was the only person who seemed to really understand me and how I felt. He treated me how he always had, along with the aid he gave me getting better and the company that kept me from going insane with boredom.

"So I'm assuming Chiron still isn't allowing me to do my usual activites?"

"Nope," Nico said, "but I'm sure we can find something."

"Like what?"

"I have no idea, I figured you'd think of something."

I nodded while I sat and thought.

The rock wall was obviously out of the question.

I wouldn't be able to handle the monsters in the woods.

"I could handle water, if that has to do with anything." I said.

"Hmm, I'm not sure. Fishing? Or is that bad, you know, killing something your dad is the god of?"

I laughed "I'm pretty sure fishing would be fine." I said while Nico smirked sarcastically at me.

We went to find some fishing poles in the big house, seeing how everything was in there somewhere, then we walked to the docks.

We sat down on the dock and started fishing. It was strange doing something like this, just two guys doing something any regular mortal boys would. Stuff like this may not seem like much, but demigods don't get to experience it very often.

We'd been fishing for about twenty minutes when I had an idea.

"Hey Nico, you know what would make fishing easier?"

"What?" He asked, confused, "no powers, that's cheating."

"Yeah, yeah I know, that's not it. It would be easier if you think like the fish."

"What are you talking about?" He asked, genuinely confused now.

"You know, think how the fish think. The cool of the water, swimming, looking for food." I continued.

"I thought you were hurt in the stomach, but apparently you got hit in the head." He replied.

"Aww, come on. See, let me help you." I said, then I shoved him off the dock into the water.

"Hey!" He yelled as he managed to grab my shoe and pull me into the lake as he fell in.

I surfaced and he laughed at me. "Yeah, I can definitely feel the same as the fish now." He said as he splashed me.

I climbed out of the water back onto the dock and helped him back up.

"Well, now I have to go dry off." He said as he smacked the back of my head with mock anger.

"See? It would have been so much easier just to think like the fish, then I wouldn't have had to show you how to do it."

He shook his head, then he seemed like he remembered something and the smirk faded back to what he looked like normally.

"I'm gonna go change into dry clothes." He said.

I heard a strange tone in his voice when he said that. It was sad, like he'd just lost a family member.

"Nico, you ok?" I asked.

"Fine." He replied as he walked towards his cabin.

The rest of the day was fairly normal. Nico helped me around the camp as we went to watch what people were doing, like archery, Pegasus riding or sword fighting in the arena.

The arena was the last stop because I tripped into a weapons rack (fortunately empty of blades) and nearly blacked out when it hit my wound on my stomach.

Nico helped me stumble back to my cabin and helped me sit on my bed.

He started to walk away but I asked "Nico, what happened earlier? You seemed like you were having a great day and actually enjoying yourself, but you almost seemed like you lost your best friend after we were fishing."

He waited a few seconds before responding, "Don't worry about it Percy. Maybe someday, but not today."

He walked out of my cabin and shut the door behind him, leaving me to wonder what had happened to him.
Had Nico lost someone? I knew Bianca had died, but he came to terms about that, and that never made him sad anymore, at least not on the outside.

I laid down and tried to figure it out, but nothing came to mind. I would just have to wait until he was ready to tell me. I dozed off, thinking about what could've caused him to get sad so quickly, as if he'd remembered something or someone who was gone, or out of his reach.

And that's it! I'm sorry this was such a slow chapter guys, it does have a purpose though! I don't like writing filler chapters, so believe me when I say that this chapter does matter in the overall story! And remember, please let me know what you think about the alternate endings idea, I want to know what you think about it.

That's all, and I hope to see you in the next chapter!