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Nico shadow travels home because the New York entrance (Door of Orpheus) can only be open by music (for more details go to page 110 in the Last Olympian)

"Boo" Nico yelled as he entered Deaths favorite spot in the Underworld (a small office near the river Styx)

No response

"Hey, Death you didn't have to get scared for reals" Nico joked

No response

"DEATH" Nico yelled frantically

He had to be somewhere right? It's not like someone can just walk into the underworld and take Death he is a god… Then again Persephone was kidnapped by Hades and plenty of (evil) Demigods and other thing had stolen stuff from the underworld like that time Ethan Nakumara stole a key and Thalia, Percy, and he had to retrieve it. Nico's heart was going one thousand miles an hour was it possible. Then a sudden thought accrued to him he had to find his friend Death, gee he thought if that doesn't sound emo what does. So began Nico Di Angelo's search for Death.

He ran up and down the walls of Erebos ignoring Cerberus's please for a game of fetch… nothing not even the smallest hint of Death just the dead. Finally Nico got to the three doors of death. He pushed and shoved passed the dead as they complained:

"HEY"

"You could say excuse me"

"What a rude young man"

"Damn, ain't ever seen a boy run so quickly to his death"

"Slow down well all get there; we have time"

"Youth these days always in a rush and so rude"

Nico ignored their comments none of them where Death and nothing else mattered. With every second that passed Nico's mind raced faster and faster with all the possibilities. He ran passed the judgment pavilion and watched as a man was dragged to the fields of punishment he was screaming and yelling

"I didn't do it I'm innocent I tell you INNOCENT!"

The man was wasting his breath he was wrong and that was that. They did not simply pass judgment they pulled the crime out of his memory and now he would suffer.

Nico ran to the fields of punishment maybe he was helping drag a spirit back. Nico walked in he could hear the screams of pain. He checked every part

"Get me out" some people demanded of him

"Let me go"

Nico sighed he would not let them go he was not stupid despite their pleas for help he knew they did not regret their mistakes…they got what they wanted. People suffering everywhere but no Death. Every now and then Nico would walk up to the dead and ask if they had seen Death. But each time he received the same answers:

"Haven't seen death in a week" or

"Let me go and I'll tell you"

Someone should of told these people Nico was ADHD and Dyslexic not stupid. He kept walking all the way to Elysium, stopping ever now and then to ask if anyone had seen Death… No luck. Nico walked through all of Elysium the people here where much more cooperative.

"Sorry, no Death here"

"Nope I've never seen Death before"

"Maybe he's in the Fields of Punishment"

"Sorry, good luck with your search"

And the occasional joke "I've seen death… where all dead here"

Poor Death, where could that old man be? Nico said thanks and walked away. On to the field of Asphodel for further searching.

Walking through The fields of Asphodel was so annoying the dead here did nothing to help.

"Have you seen Death?" Nico would ask

"Are you dead"

"N-"Nico began

"Do you know who I am?"

"What's my name?"

"Do I know you?"

Finally Nico began walking away these spirits where no help they were all just a bunch of babbling morons. Only one spirit didn't bother him she was a curly haired 1940's African-American girl; it was clear by the sad look in her eyes this girl new who she was… the way only a child of Hades could. Seeing her made Nico fell sad it made him think of Bianca. Damn Nico had nothing ALL his brothers and sisters where dead as was his mother and now two of his best friends were missing. Nico smiled a wicked smile; as, he got a horrible, morally wrong, completely awful idea that would anger Hades and every other god and demigod and freak out all the mortals. If Death wasn't here to stop him Nico could free Bianca he could have a 'living' sister one who he could see every day and talk to and hang out with. Yes Nico Di Angelo would bring Bianca Di Angelo back to life.

Uh oh Di Angelo, that's a no, no we don't bring the dead back!