Back to our favorite heroes, we know, but like to ignore.
Nico: Hey I am the most important
Me: In holding the bags for actual heroes
Percy: Got to give the guy this one. Sorry Nico
Nico:You all suck
Nico Pov
I am so screwed
"Hey Calypso hows it going" I ask sheepishly trying to cover the rose with my body
Her eyes were still bugging out from the fact that I had a giant rose and picture of her in my room.
"Uhhhm Nico why do you have a picture of me?" she asks cautiously still extremely surprised but blushing at the same time
In most cases I would run or bring out a sword when faced with danger. That just shows how life is different from love. I try to think of any possible explanation and come down to the fact that I have to tell the truth. I brace myself and open my lips and brought air out hoping to form words.
"I like you" I say extremely nervous and stuttering a bit
I brace myself for the worst, but instead I get a blush from Calypso. She pauses for a second growing the tension within me. If people had butterflies in their stomach I had a hippo in there.
"Nico I have to tell you something. I feel the same." she says now looking like a person lost in a hurricane looking for cover
On one side we have a man who has never had a crush before Calypso and a girl who has been alone for millennia. I truthfully didn't know what to do. Do I go for a hug, move to give her the rose, or run yelling potato. I chose to give her the rose.
"For you" I say bowing acting like an english gentlemen trying to calm the tension but only creating more for myself
"Do you want to hunt for more food" I ask her after she was marveling at the rose for what felt like an hour
"Yeah uh Yeah" she says snapping out of a daze
We head out to the woods and are covered with an awkward silence even for hunting. I return to doing my nervous twitch. When we head into battle everyone has one thing they do to try to pass the short time before. For some it is try to act strong. For me it is to use my left hand to grab my left hand. When we go to fight everyone has to hold their weapons and since my sword takes one hand the other is empty leaving me to try doing anything with it usually with me trying to grab my left hand. Darn adhd
Back to the point. I try to break out some conversation lines.
"So why do you like the bow and arrow so much?" I ask trying to instigate something outside an awkward silence
"I like the accuracy over the brute strength and speed. It has a skill or art to it while swords usually end up in fast paced battles which I can't do." Calypso explains as she shoots an arrow at the bear hitting it in the eye
"Remind me not to get on your bad side," I say looking at the bear that was barely visible now fall lifeless on the ground with a hollow thump
"I will as soon as you explain this to Percy." she says deviously
"Explain what" I say cautiously and slowly hoping it wasn't what I though it was
"Us," she says quickly while shooting an arrow at a duck
This was the worst part. How the hell do I tell our best friends that we are a thing. I mean if I don't die from monsters I will die of awkwardness from that.
"So hows the hunters and Thalia?" I ask trying to change the topic
"They're fine," she responds quickly
"How do you even check?" I ask just straight up confused
"I may or may not have left a mark on Thalia that acts like a one way empathy link, so I know she is ok." She says acting innocent
"How did Artemis not notice?" I ask feeling full of questions
"She did but trusts her lieutenant. By the way this is the most boring game of 20 questions ever." She says while sticking out her tongue
I just relax a bit lying on the cool snow. 10 years ago I would have helped her hunt. 10 years ago I got two split arrows in each buttcheek after accidently knocking some frozen snow from the tree on her.
Flashback
I was standing next to a tree supporting my weight on a branch. I feel myself start to slip and grab another branch for support. Unfortunately it was weaker and flicked snow all over Calypso's now angry face. Even covered in snow I could tell she was mad.
"You have 3 seconds before I hunt you down." she says threateningly
I just ran using all the power in my legs not caring if I slipped or not.
Flashback over
I don't need a reminder of that day. While we were hunting we had a pretty good catch. Out of nowhere I suddenly see a hellhound jump at us and punch it before pulling out my sword.
"I thought we dealt with these things," I say knocking a few more hellhounds away
"I thought so too," Calypso says hitting a cyclops
"Whaaaah," I start yelling but the world turns black and I fall into encaging darkness after getting hit by a club
Calypso Pov
5 minutes back
I start to knock away at these stupid hellhounds. I'm pretty sure Nico didn't notice it but for some odd reason they seemed agitated at us. Normally the dogs may be mad but they usually look like we are food not that we are enemies. I turn around as I hear an out of place thump and see his body fall.
"Help," I manage to yell before getting overpowered as well letting the darkness encompass me
Percy Pov
Annabeth and I run towards the scream we heard in the wood. Preparing for the worst I ready riptide and Annabeth pulls out our daggers. We start to rush before looking around to see an army the size of Olympus ready to kill us. I use my water powers and sword to start killing these things. I quickly got trapped and look around noticing Annabeth is the predicament as me. I try to fight these things off while I try to figure out what was happening. These hellhounds and cyclopes were actually fighting with strategy. I was confused normally they just attack all out but now they are constantly trapping us.
"Annabeth I don't think I can keep this up," I yell to her
"Regroup," She yells out of breathe
"What are these things?" I ask Annabeth who paved a way over to me
"I have no idea but I don't we can keep this up." She says low on breathe
"N..o," I yell before falling to the ground with a sword at my neck
First step into knowing you screwed something up you manage to die backwards. Instead of flying down into the underworld I was flying up. Suddenly I land in room that looked like a cemetery. It had the vietnam wall on the side while the flooring was dirt. I find Nico and Calypso looking around just as confused as I.
"What's going on?" I ask them
"I thought we were supposed to be dead but this isn't the underworld." Calypso says surprised at the loacation
"I know this makes no sense." Annabeth says entering the room
"What is going on?" Nico says utterly confused
"I have no idea but lets look around." I tell them scanning the area for monsters
We all walk as a group looking at the different rooms. When some of the rooms look familiar I realize where I had seen them. I give Annabeth a look and we both realize where we are. The place within my dreams. Carefully I look through the rooms. Each one looks like it was taken out of a different world. It all had something to do with life or death. There were plants, bacteria, and even animals. Some were dead most were alive and everything felt out of place. We manage to exit the odd building we were in and saw a city. It was a mix of a nice neon red with black. The sky itself was a reddish color. We see two statues that emanated warmth and death. We all see a castle in the distance that was made up off white glass.
Before we can even decide what to do three guards dressed in black lined with red and white came up to us.
"Your presence is required," The leader says with a hint of a bow
Suddenly I feel myself yanked and find myself in front of the castle we were looking at. Up close the details were more clear. The white castle had many pictures created by the light shining of the walls. Most of them show some sort of war where a monster was fighting a monster.
Out of nowhere I feel myself and the group get yanked inside in which we see a man sitting on a throne with a mask on the covered his identity. He looked like a goth person. His face looked like it had a black veil on it while his clothes were a mixture of red and black. The veil like thing on his face was see through but not to the point where you could see his face. I glance to make sure Annabeth and the group were next to me.
"Who are you?" I ask getting tired of half teleporting half getting pulled
"I am who you least expect," He says normally
"No more riddles, who are you?" I say with more confidence in my voice
He simply answered by ripping off his mask
I am shocked and look at Annabeth with my eyes wide and jaw dropping expression on me. While Nico and Calypso looked like they would faint at any second.
The leader of the place who managed to avoid us death and brought us here is...
A.N.: I definitely need to rewrite this chapter and the ones before. It will be more for detail and clearness because I want the beggining to be perfect before I move on. First reviewer logged in who guesses who the person is and is right will get a taste of my next chapter early.
Hint 1: Not chaos
Hint 2: Design