Hey guys!
Did you know that I wanted to be a detective when I grow up?
it's true. That's why I put my pen name as detective DG.
That's my name and catching criminal's my game!
Hey….i like that!
I think that'll be my motto for when I become a detective.
Unless of course I come up with a better catch phrase than that.
Wouldn't it be sooo cool to go around the city trying to catch crazy psychopath serial killers! Yes I crave for an exiting job, where you don't know whats going to happen tomorrow. I don't want some kind of boring office job or something.
Hey…I should make another story like that. Where Percy and his friends are detectives and they catch criminals.
Yes…that would be cool.
Now some replies to my reviewers:
IcePrincess2299: thanks for being my first reviewer!
HarryPotterPJODocterWho: yeah I know it sucks.Youcan't even put into words how much it sucks.
Well now lets get on with the story!
The Grave Mistake
Nico POV
I knew now.
I knew EVERYTHING now.
I had gone to the big house. There was a meeting going on there with the people who had gone on the quest to rescue Artemis. That was including my sister.
I had expected to see Bianca, waiting for me there with a big smile on her face.
Instead I was met with…nothing.
"Where…where's my sister?" I asked no one in particular.
No one answered.
Percy stared at Chiron, as if they were hiding something. Something bad that had to do with me.
No! This couldn't be happening! She couldn't have died!
"Hey Nico." Percy said. "Let's go for a walk okay? We need to talk."
Percy told me everything.
How she…died. How she had sacrificed herself to save him and the others.
But I didn't care.
I didn't care about anything then. He kept talking, trying to explain why she died. Trying to make me feel better, but it didn't work.
He just made the whole thing worse.
He frieken' promised!
Suddenly Percy brought out a small statue from his pocket. It was a plain figure made of pure gold.
"She wanted you to have this."
He gave it to me and I stared at it, slowly turning it around on my palm. So she had died for this.
"You promised you would protect her."
I clenched my fists.
"Nico, I tried. But Bianca gave herself up to save the rest of us. I told her not to. But she-''
I interrupted him.
"I shouldn't have trusted you." I said in a deathly calm voice.
I remembered the nightmares that I had when they were on the quest.
"You lied to me!" I was shouting by now. "My nightmares were right!"
"Wait what nightmares?"
I got so mad right there that I threw the statue across the floor. The sound it made when it fell was like a gunshot in the darkness.
"I hate you!" I exclaimed.
"She might be alive! I don't know for sure-"Percy started saying . But he didn't know how wrong he was.
Oh she was dead all right. I could feel it.
"She's dead." I told Percy.
I was shaking violently with anger now.
"I should've known it earlier. She's in the fields of asphodel, standing before the judges right now waiting to be evaluated. I can feel it." I shouted.
"What do you mean you can feel it?" Percy asked.
Before I had the chance to answer, I heard a weird clattering noise. It sounded kind of like the clattering of bones.
Percy took out his sword.
Realization suddenly dawned on me.
I gasped.
I knew what these things were!
They were all skeleton and no flesh at all. They each had permanent grins on their faces. Their swords were drawn by their sides. How could they be here?
"You're trying to kill me!" I exclaimed "You brought these…these things?"
"No! I mean yes they followed me, but no! Nico run! They can't be destroyed!" Percy shouted at me.
I wasn't about to listen to the guy that killed my sister!
"I don't trust you!" I said.
One of the skeletons ran toward Percy. Percy knocked the blade out of its hand. Another came and Percy cut it in half with his sword. Even with all the effort Percy was doing to kill them, they just wouldn't die. They just kept reassembling themselves back again.
They couldn't be killed like this!
"Run nico!" Percy said to me. "Get help!"
I knew Percy was going to die soon, when the skeletons finally overpowered him. And then they would come after me.
"No!" I screamed. "Go AWAY!"
Just as I said that, I felt the muscles in my arms and legs tighten. The ground beneath me started to rumble. I felt my muscles tighten even more, until it became kind of painful. The ground rumbled even more.
A crack opened in the earth. Percy dove away just in time, so as not to fall in.
The crack ripped open to reveal a fissure in the earth right below the feet of the skeletons. Fire bellowed on the sides of the chasm. All four skeletons fell into the hole, and the chasm closed with a loud CRASH!
I had a tiny gut feeling that I had just done all that.
And then there was silence.
Where the crack had appeared, all there was left now was a long bumpy crack line running across the floor of the pavilion.
Percy turned to me, amazed "How did you-"
In light of the recent events that happened I forgot all about Percy betraying me. All my anger came rushing back to me.
"Go away! I hate you! I wish you were dead!" I shouted.
Then, I ran.
Away from Percy, the crack, camp, everything.
I ran towards the woods. I ran, and ran, not stopping.
I was deep in the woods before I had to stop to catch my breath. I leaned against a tree, breathing heavily.
I looked around taking in my surroundings. I expected to see a part of the woods that I've been in for capture the flag, but I was met with no such thing. This was definitely not where we played capture the flag. I had no clue where I was. I was lost.
It really was a totally different part of the woods that I have never been in. The trees were all ghostly and crooked. It was actually kind of creepy.
I thought back to what had happened with the skeletons. How had I opened up that crack? And how did it destroy the skeletons? Could I have really done all that?
I decided to try and see if I could make the same crack appear again.
I concentrated, and tried to recreate the same feeling I had when the skeletons appeared.
I felt the same tightness of my muscles again. I was doing it! I anticipated to seeing another chasm appear in front of me, but nothing like that happened.
Nothing at all happened.
I stood there, confused. But I had felt my muscles tighten the same way they did when I opened that chasm. What did I do wrong?
Suddenly the darkness around me seemed as if it was getting darker. it felt as if the air around me had gotten heavier and the darkness was about to swallow me up whole.
And that's exactly what it did.
All around me, there was nothing but dark. I could faintly see ghostly images around me, but that was it. With every passing second, the images started to whiz by faster, and faster, until it felt like I was on the world's fastest roller coaster except that it was going ten times faster than normal.
Then as quickly as it started, it stopped. I felt myself being jerked violently to a complete stop. It felt like I was almost ripped apart. All the faint images had stopped moving, and the darkness was slowly lifting away from me.
I saw light again.
Inch by inch, slivers of light seeped into the darkness, until finally I could see again.
And what I did see, was something remarkable.
I wasn't in the woods near camp half blood. Although I was in a forest. Oh no, I was someplace totally different.
And it wasn't night time anymore.
In fact, it was just the crack of dawn.
The world seemed to light up with every passing second. Beams of sunlight peeked through the tree canopy. And the trees were normal maple trees-not the creepy trees of camp half blood.
This was really weird. A second ago I was in the woods of camp half blood, and now I'm in...this place.
Where was i? And how did I get here? Did it have to do with the darkness, and the fast traveling? I had a feeling it did.
I wandered around for a bit, looking for any clues, anything to find out where I was, but of course I didn't find anything. After a while of searching I gave up and sat on the ground, with my back against a tree.
I thought for a while about how I was ever going to get out of this place.
Then I had a thought.
What if I could do…whatever I did to get me here in the first place, to get me back to camp half blood? Yeah that could take me back. Or it could take me somewhere way worse than this place. I put that thought away and decieded that I had to try, or I would be stuck here forever.
So I stood up and concentrated on camp half blood, on getting there.
I felt the now familiar sensation of my muscles tightening again. The light around me slowly faded to black just like before. It got darker and darker until I couldn't see anything at all, except of course the ghostly pale figures. The figures started to move faster and faster around me as I felt myself be pulled a hundred miles per hour.
Then as suddenly as it came I felt myself being ripped back, as the figures stopped moving and I came to a complete stop.
The darkness lifted around me again.
I slowly looked around, taking in my surroundings. I realized two things: first, that it was still night time where I was standing. Second, was that the trees were all creepy looking. That was enough proof for me to know that I was back at camp half blood.
Whoa. Now, how had I done that!
Well I do know that I am the only one that COULD"VE done that. After all there was no one else around me at that time. So ok I did that. So those were my powers, I guess. I remembered how Percy had powers over water because his dad was Poseidon.
So maybe it was like that. I had powers because of my dad.
But who was my dad?
I thought back to how I had opened that crack in the ground and killed those skeletons. Those skeletons had probably come from the underworld. After all, where else could skeletons come from?
Then I remembered how I had traveled to that place from camp half blood with the darkness-with the shadows.
Now who was the god of skeletons and shadows?
….
Of course!
How could I not have realised this before!
HADES was the god of skeletons and darkness, and essentially the underworld.
I opened a crack in the ground which meant that the crack led to the underworld. I killed the skeletons using the crack when no one else could. AND I could use the shadows to travel.
That meant that I was Hades' son.
I had to be.
I didn't like it though. My dad hadn't shown himself to me since…ever! I was fuming. He didn't even have the courage to claim me. I had to find out for myself.
I also had a another thought.
If Hades was the god of the underworld, well that meant since my mom was dead, she would be in the underworld!
Maybe I could talk to her. After all, I was Hades' son.
So now I had a goal.
And I knew.
I knew that Hades was my dad.
I decided that I would leave camp half blood and never come back. I don't ever want to see this place again. There was no home for me here.
I concentrated on the darkness again to take me somewhere, anywhere away from here.
I felt the same tightness in my muscles again as I summoned the portal of darkness. It appeared in front of me, a big black swirling cloud of nothing.
So I stepped into it, letting the darkness swallow me whole.
Phew! Finally!
That took a while for me to type . I think my hands cramping now.
So thanks for reading!
Oh and please review!
-detective DG signs out