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Except of course in Celstial bronze.

Chapter 9

After having fun with myself in the shower and washing up I walked out and went to Ancient Greek classes. I walked in and was greeted by Annabeth shooting a knowing smile in my direction. I rolled my eyes and began reading up on history.

Annabeth strode over and stood at the corner of my desk. I buried my nose deeper into the book, hoping she would pick up on clue I was dropping. Obviously the odds were not in my favor at the moment. "So what's up with you and Nico?"

"Kopros" I muttered under my breath. "Do we honestly have to do this right now?" I dropped the text book down on the desk.

"Of course we do." Her gray eyes bore into mine. "So?"

"I don't know where we are honestly." I leaned back in my chair. "We were about to talk about it but then someone came in and interrupted it."

"I thought he was just oversleeping like usual. I did not know I was interrupting the thing that would get you and him to stop being angst ridden."

…

Nico and I were sat deep within the forest, where we unlikely to be interrupted. Crickets chirped as the wind swept through the trees. Nico had his back resting on a juniper tree, while I was spread out in the grass, my head resting on his out stretched legs. Monster growls echoed from far away.

"I've never done any of this before." Nico sighed. "I don't know what to do."

"To be honest, neither have I. I mean the physical part of it I have." Nico flinched at that. "But I've never done the relationship part. But we fought the Titans how hard can this be." Neither of us said a word after that. Unsure of himself I saw Nico dip toward me, his lips connected with mine.

"I'm going to say much much harder." Nico whispered as he drew back.

I laid there contentedly, head in his lap, for awhile. The sun had moved across the sky and started to dip beyond the tops of the trees. From my position I could hear his stomach grumble. I stood and pulled his petite frame off the ground.

Slinging my arm over his shoulders we started to walk back to camp, in a comfortable silence. Nico suddenly froze. A confused look appeared on his face.

"What's wrong?"

"Do you feel that?" He asked, his face turning into a mask of seriousness.

"Feel what?" I waited, trying to figure out what he was talking about. Then I felt it, the ground shuddered softly. Every few seconds the shaking grew stronger. Suddenly we were wrapped in shadows, darkness whipped past me until I was on a branch high above the forest floor. The sound of creaking metal drifted toward us as we looked for the source.

The trees infront of us began to sway violently, and something in the distance reflect the faint sunlight that managed to break through the think canopy. A gigantic bronze dragon lumbered into view. Ruby eyes gleamed as smoke poured through exhaust pipes on its face.

"Whoa." Instinctively I reached for Nico and my necklace simultaneously.

"Stop. It doesn't see us." We waited for the behemoth to leave before Nico shadows engulfed us once more.

…

Both of us hurriedly ate our dinners and met at the edge of the lake, the water lapping gently at our feet. Our fingers intertwined I leaned back in the warm sand yanking Nico on top of me. His head rested on my chest, after all those days of sharing beds this is what felt natural. With my free hand I absent mindedly stroked his jet black hair.

Nico unraveled his fingers from mine and held himself above me a devilish smirk on his face. He leaned down face getting closer to me, his hair tickled my forehead. My eyes were locked on his lips. I slowly lifted my head as he lowered his. Our lips were seconds from touching when he suddenly darted forward. His lips brushed against my ear.

"Race you to the camp fire." Nico whispered, hopping up and running toward camp, chuckling to himself.

"I swear to Zues you're going to pay for teasing me Di Angelo." I yelled running toward his retreating frame.

I caught up to him just as he met up with Annabeth and Percy. My plan for revenge would have to wait for another time. We all sang songs about long dead heroes and the Stoll brothers pranked some of the newer campers. Almost two hours later Chiron sent us all to our own cabins, making sure we all understood the "own" cabin part.

After giving Nico a quick goodnight kiss I ran over to Percy's cabin to wait for him to say good bye to Annabeth. He walked up to me and cocked his head to the side, silently questioning why I was waiting for him.

"I just wanted to apologize to you." I mumbled, chewing on my nails.

"What?" Percy leaned against the rough stone of his cabin eyes locked onto mine.

"I'm sorry for being an ass to you." I stopped chewing my nails, due to the fact that I had them chewed to the nail bed, not because I had suddenly become comfortable with the situation. "I was jealous, you're this amazing demigod, the savior of Olympus, and my crush liked you. I thought there was no way I would be picked over the boy that saved the world."

"It's cool. No hard feelings man. Tomorrow we start over." Percy held out his calloused hand, which I shook and turned toward my cabin.

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I woke up feeling good, I got rid of all my unwarranted hate towards Percy, and I'm with my Nico who in my highly regarded opinion was the best looking camper. Everything seemed to be going my way. That is, of course until I got to sword fighting class and unfortunately was paired up with Clarisse. She was about the same height as me and much stronger. Besides Percy she is hands down the best fighter I've ever seen.

Seeing her take down a Drakon single handedly, discouraged me from wanting to fight her one-on-one. Sadly I must of used up all of my good tidings on everything else so here I am. I pulled the necklace apart and brandished my daggers. One point in my favor was that she hadn't gotten a new electric spear, she just had a regular old normal spear to skewer me with.

Before Percy could finish the word "Go." Clarisse thrust her spear forward. I just jumped away before it could impale me, snagging a portion of my orange shirt. She thrust again and I was able to use one of daggers to parry it and get it close. I slashed with my right hand but she jumped back and slammed the shaft of the spear into my ribs and quickly followed up with a knee to the stomach.

The air left my lungs and I gasped for breath. Clarisse had begun to taunt me but I all I could hear was my ragged breathing. I caught my breath in time to see the point of her spear headed toward my chest. I dove toward the side, rolling out of the way. The spear was buried in the ground before she could pull it out I put all my force into a kick strait at the shaft of the wooden spear. Thank Ares it snapped.

Anger burned in the daughter of Ares eyes. I slashed wildly as she came at me, scoring a cut on her buff arm. This only proved to anger her even more; she swung hard connecting with the side of my face. That was all it took, I was done and Percy ended the fight.

I slowly stood up and the world spun around me, swaying slightly I stood waiting for the world to calm down. Clarisse looked surprised that I stood and smirked nodding her head at me. I think I may have just gotten a new fan.

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Later that night after some Apollo campers assessed that I do not in fact have a concussion or broken ribs; I went over to where Percy and Annabeth were sitting discussing battle strategies for the next game of capture the flag.

"Hey could you help me?" Percy and Annabeth looked at me waiting for me to continue. "I need to learn how to fight better. You're the best fighter here."

"Uhh sure, meet up with me to tomorrow at the arena."