Nico and everyone else ran up to the deck and saw Leo sailing the ship. He didn't look worried like he made it seem the way he spoke over the intercom. That didn't mean that the problem they were about to face would be an easy one, and Nico still had his plan that he hasn't told anyone. He wasn't sure if it would work, and he definitely knew Annabeth wouldn't go along with it.
When everyone was standing together, they all waited for Leo to say something, and it was obvious that he seemed nervous about what ever it was.
"What is it Repair Boy?" Piper asked clearly annoyed that he called everyone and wasn't telling them anything.
"Well we just entered Greece." Was what he started with, not taking his eyes off the sky and the tops of the mountains in front of the ship.
"Well isn't that a good thing, now we can just go to the Doors of Death, get Percy and close them." Hazel said, she had a look of excitement and an almost smile on her face. In fact, everyone did, knowing that Percy was so close, they all wanted to get there to help him. Nico was the only one not smiling because he knew what this might lead up too.
"I don't exactly know where the Doors of Death are..."
"I'm pretty sure Nico does, if not then he said he might have an idea where they are at." Jason said, cutting Leo off. Nico glared at is older cousin, wishing he had kept his mouth shut about the location.
"So what is the problem then?" Annabeth said, she seemed almost flustered knowing that Percy was so close has certainly made her feel better. Nico just hoped that she wouldn't kill him for what he was about to mention to her.
"Well I did scans with the Argo II's radar and it seems like a horde of monsters have gathered around not far from where we were going to land." Leo finished, and with that statement, everyone's smile faded away.
"Well couldn't you just land somewhere else?" Hazel and Piper said almost in unison.
"No, there is too much mountains and the ship needs to land soon."
"Then we can deal with the monsters after we get Percy." Annabeth said, she was clearly not going to let anything stand in the way of her and Percy reuniting again.
This however, gave Nico an idea and idea that almost made him break out in a smile. He knew he had to play his cards right, because battling a child of Athena, especially with words was going to be difficult.
"I have an idea." He said, swallowing hard, "Jason and I can go get Percy, the rest of you stay and try to deal with the monsters."
The response he got was almost what he expected, silence fallowed by a lot of yelling, at him. Jason and Leo were the only ones not yelling, the former because he seemed to actually be thinking about it, and the latter because he was too busy focusing on the sky.
"What if Percy needs us, all of us." Frank said, Nico was sure that if he wasn't dating his sister, and if Hazel wasn't holding him he would have punched Nico right then and there.
"Frank, calm down, we are all going to get Percy." Hazel said, glaring at Nico.
Annabeth's reaction, was by far the one that scared Nico the most.
"How can you even say that?" She shouted at him, walking up so her nose was almost touching his, "He saved me, and suffered only Hades knows what, and you think that only you and Jason have the right to rescue him?"
"No that is not what I am saying." Nico said in defense, "but what if that horde of monsters, tracks on to us and attacks wile were are trying to rescue him. What if he hasn't even made it to the doors yet, then we will be stuck there just waiting to be attacked."
Nico was trying to sound convicting, but even thought his father was Hades, he was defiantly not cut out for being a lawyer. "Annabeth, if we get attacked, or if more monsters pour out of the doors wile we are waiting for them it wont matter if we save him or not, because by then we already lost. Jason and I will get him, being children of the big three, we will be able to hopefully handle what ever comes out of the doors that isn't Percy."
"What do you expect us to do then?" Piper said, crossing her arms, all of them were looking at him with angry faces. It was getting harder and harder to lie to them.
"Fight the monsters that are all together, at the very least hold them off for us to get there. You guys are certainly strong enough to do that, and they need you too Annabeth, they need someone who can strategize like you and your the only one on this ship capable of reading battle plans of the enemy without even looking at them."
Annabeth just glared at him, her eyes seemed to be forming a massive thunderstorm in them, it almost made Nico think that she was a child of Zeus. After what seemed like an hour, she finally backed away from Nico and nodded her head in agreement.
"Annabeth are you sure?" Hazel said, it seemed like a dark cloud came over her, knowing that she wouldn't get to save Percy.
"Nico is right, we are no use just sitting around waiting for Percy to arrive, if we are found we will be dead for sure."
"Well I still want to go with Nico and Jason, Percy risked his life for me, now it is my turn." Frank said, Hazel's eyes widened at the thought of not being close to Frank with what was sure to be a battle soon.
"No Frank, Nico and I will get him, Hazel and the others need your strength to fight what ever it is that you are going to face." Jason said, speaking for the first time about the hole plan.
"So what is the plan then?" Leo said, braking the tension that was between everyone.
"When we land, Jason and I are going to the Doors of Death, You and everyone else will go to the horde of monsters and hold them off until we get there."
"Sounds good to me." Leo said," but just so you know, we are landing right now."
The ship landed on the ground with a hard thud, Piper lost her footing and fell right on her backside. A little embarrassed she got up and swore an Leo for not warring anyone.
Before everyone left, they all tried to stay cheerful, but they all knew far to well that situations like this didn't always result in happy endings.
"Don't worry Annabeth, if he doesn't show up with in the first day, we will go though the doors ourselves and drag him out." Jason said, with a smile, he defiantly was trying to keep everyone's hopes up.
Annabeth looked at Nico, hugged him as well, "Please find him." She whispered and all Nico could do was nod.
When the two of them set off Nico could tell Jason wanted to say something to him, but waited until they were far enough so no one could hear them.
"So what is the real reason why you wanted to split us up. Because I know that there is no way a child of Hades would think that some monsters were a threat to him." Jason said, looking directly at Nico now.
"It isn't the monsters I am afraid of, its Percy. I wasn't even in Tartarus, I was in the outer rim of it and only there for almost a day. When I came back to the world of the living, I wanted to destroy anything in my path because of what I saw. Percy has been in the pit of it for a week, I have no idea what he will do when he comes back."
Jason looked like he was thinking about it for a moment, "well if it comes to that, we will find away to stop him. After all, Percy is our cousin." Jason said and gave Nico what seemed like a pat on the back. "For the recorded, not letting Annabeth come because you didn't want her to see him like that, seems more like something a demigod of Aphrodite would do." He said with a smiled.
With that the two of the walked to what Nico would hope wasn't going to be the last time he saw Percy again.
Hope you guys like this one, hopefully going to lead into a big battle scene. The next chapter is going to be Percy and maybe the last view of Tartarus. Like I said before none of these characters belong to me.