This Chapter is dedicated to Nico lovers :D Love you guys :D

Disclaimer: I do not own anything of Percy Jackson. Last I checked, I was a boy and I certainly was not a man who owns a famous series. I am a mere Nico loving PJO fan : D

This Disclaimer is also for the previous chapters, to which I forgot to add disclaimers to.

Nico waited for Alecto, slumping on his bed; he was shuffling around his mythamogic cards. He didn't know why he still had these with him. Out of his childhood, these were one f the things that he remembered distinctly. Absently, he walked over to the curtains and yanked them apart. His eyes met with a wonderful view. Persephone's garden; if this whole Greek stuff was right of course. What would Persephone be like? And what was his dad like? He wondered if he did have the same attack power and defence as in mythamogic. OR if he knew about the card game and had a statue of himself. It was the only figurine he needed.

Stupid ADHD .If he didn't stop now, before you knew it, he'd be thinking about dancing dolphins and what he was gonna have for lunch.

Just as he closed the curtains, a sharp knocking at the door scared Nico out of his skin. He quickly slid his cards into his pocket and smoothed out his shirt. It was a Plain black one with a skull on it and along with it, his aviator jacket; he never took it off. He wore matching black jeans and black and white converse.

Guess there were some perks with being the 'Prince of the Underworld'. He opened the door and came face to face with Alecto and Bianca. Bianca was wearing a formal black satin dress and jewels; matching necklace and bracelets. On her ears, she wore skulls that glimmered in the dark. Its eyes seemed to look at Nico, burning through him.

He shook out of his phase.

"Come along Nico " Whispered Bianca. " Stand next to me. I still don't feel comfortable around Alecto"

Nico knew Alecto heard it, but moved back to join Bianca anyway.

They walked in silence down the endless, black corridors, until Alecto stopped abruptly, turned right, and after a few steps, knelt and looked at Nico.

"GO" She whispered; yet it was in an urgent manner.

He strode forwards, Bianca on his hand. When he looked up properly, he saw a man and woman conversing in the corner of the room.

"How should I tell him? What if they don't like me?"

"Nonsense, I'm sure they'd understand"

"Bianca, yes; But Nico, on the other hand"

Nico cleared his throat, but it came out more like a shrill squeak. Puberty clearly had some more magic left to work on him. The man turned around and the woman gently followed behind him.

"Come, sit," She was practically whispering, and yet he could hear her loud and clear.

As she glided past him, she leant down and whispered in his ear.

"You would make the perfect dandelion"

Nico did not know how to rely to that.

"Urghh…. thanks?"

"No problem dear"

The man cleared his throat. Of course the way he did it was better than Nico. Clearly puberty had done him some good. The man smiled at Nico's thought, but to Nico it seemed like he was just creepily smiling. The smile vanished. Nico decided not to think too much anymore.

"Time for formal introductions. I am Hades, Lord of the Underworld and things under the Earth. You are my children. And yes, gods are real. You 2 are half-bloods."

"Wait half-bloods as in?"

The woman answered to this.

"You are half human, half god. Greek God. And you are one of the most important Demigods. You are children of one of the Big three.I am Persephone. Daughter of Demeter and Zeus. Goddess of the Seasons, Hades' wife and your Step- mother."

That was when the questions began. The 2 that caused pin drop silence, was when Nico asked:

"What happened to mother? And if she's dead, then can we see her?"

And when Bianca asked:

"If you're our father, where have you been for the past 10 years, whilst me and Nico struggle to survive? We were SEPERATED FOR A WHOLE YEAR, BECAUSE YOU WEREN'T THERE!"

Nico and Hades winced at this.

Persephone decided to answer. " My dear, your father was bound by the Ancient rules. They stop the Gods from helping their children. Unfortunately, this causes the children to begin hating their parent."

Bianca's expression softened." What about mother? Can we see her?"

Hades spoke in a low and thoughtful voice, as if not to break out and begin crying at the mentioning of Maria Di Angelo. " I can have Thanatos to look for Maria. However, do not expect her, as the Underworld is vast. She dies over 70 years ago.

"What? No she didn't. She died when we were 3.10 years ago. Unless if you're hiding something else."

"Just after you'd been born, Zeus, My brother, Made the Big three take a pact. We were not to have any children. Reasons to which you don't need to know yet. I had requested Maria, to let me bring you and herself to the Underworld"

Persephone made a disgusted face at this

"She understood it was for your safety, but did not want her children to grow up in a place for the dead. She kept saying

'Look at where that got you'.

As true as that was, I knew Zeus would kill you. I begged for her to let you all to come live with me. But she refused. One day, Zeus found out about you and Maria. He immediately took action, destroying the house. Maria was killed; but you were not. You both survived. But of course, Zeus never knew. I hid you in the Lotus Casino, in Las Vegas. Time slows down. In a span of 2 days in the real world, in the Casio, it would seem like only a few hours. I did this because; I did not want Zeus finding you. And I knew that there would be a war. And I wanted you safe. In the Casino, you would be unaffected. From when Maria was killed, Alecto was to keep a tag on you. She was the Agent who put you into the Casino, and the one who brought you out after the Second World War (AN: Not sure if that's true. I think they survived the Second World War. They were brought out quite a few years afterwards. Hades' intentions were to keep them in for the Titan war. But it never came …right?) And sent you both to school. However, since the 2 of you are children of me; one of the Big Three; you would have a strong scent. Especially together."

Nico tried not to take offence to this.

"I do not mean your physical scent. What I mean is what attracts monsters to come and kill you. The stronger you are, the stronger ' scent ' you have, the more monsters would chase you ; the stronger ones. To avoid making anymore monsters attracted t you, I commanded Alecto to separate you 2 and keep an eye on you. She was a teacher at both schools. She manipulated the mist, to make you and the students believe she was on holiday or there was a supply teacher, but once she came back from the other school, she would make only you forget that she was gone; as she had been there the whole time."

"No disrespect meant…Dad…But why bring us to you now?"

"Good question Nico. You see, the main reason I had kept you in the Casino, was that there was to be a war. Not a mortal affair, but a war between the gods and the Titans. I thought I would keep you in as long as the war went. But the war never came. Now Zeus' Lightning bolt has been stolen, his symbol of power. He blames either Poseidon or me. And since a god cannot steal another God's Symbol of power, he blames our children. But he thinks I have no Demigod children, and found out that Poseidon does. His name is Perseus Jackson. A mere 8 year old. Tat was before, Mr Brunner found out about Alecto. You see Mr Brunner is really a centaur. Chiron, the trainer at Camp Half- blood. The safest place for Demi-gods. It caused a commotion, the one where gave you the ring that transformed into a sword. TI caught Zeus' attention, and he knew that you were not killed on that day. And he his determined to kill you now. He secretly hopes you have it. But it's ridiculous, because my symbol of power has been stolen too; the Helm of Darkness.. Poseidon is now enraged at me. To make peace with him, I have agreed to rescue his son and the boy's mother. The thing is.. They're in The Lotus Casino. They have been for only 2 years. And you have to get them. You are to go retrieve them, and get the boy to Camp. You will also go to Camp. There will be monsters after you. I cannot kill them for you as the Ancient Laws bind me form helping my children. Do not worry they will not harm you, and I will make sure Alecto is following you. I will give you each a weapon of choice from the weaponry. You are to go after 3 days. These days will be filled with training.

Well. That seems like enough talking. Good night."

Hades simply flashed out, leaving a jaw dropped Nico and Bianca. They looked at each other and the same thought was running through their heads.

Being a demi-god would never be easy. And there would be no backing out now.

Well that was a long chapter. Tell me if some of it doesn't make sense. I wrote this in a rush, cuz I'm going on holiday and won't have time to write then.

Anyways thanks for reading and have fun :D

~Nicole