AN: This Story Is Far From Finished, I'm Only Posting To Know Whether The Story's Good Or Not, All Comments And PM's Welcome, BTW: I'll Change The Story's Format Into One More Comfortable To Read And Split It Into The Chapters You're Accustomed To After I Know If I Should Keep Writing Or Modify It

R.I.P. Moon-Moon

When I woke up the next morning, I was alone in the cave. I looked around and when I saw no one at all, I walked outside. Cathy was fully clothed again and Angel was wearing a blue jacket over the orange Camp Half-Blood t-shirt he put on last night and they were both near the lake apparently, waiting. I walked over to them, wearing my camp t-shirt, jeans, a hoodie with the sleeves rolled up, and of course, my dog tags. "They're thicker here." Said Angel when I walked over. "What's thicker?" I asked.

"The shadows." Said Cathy.

"What time is it?! I asked, alarmed.

"9:46" said Angel, relieving me of my worry that I had overslept.

"Then what are you doing here by the lake? Why don't we eat something?" I asked.

"Because it's easier to keep a steady Iris message." Said Angel.

"What?" I asked, wondering what Angel meant.

"We talked to Carter." Said Cathy.

"Without me?" I asked, undignified

"Calm down we only asked him if it was okay if we had breakfast over there. The plates lose their magic after a while away from camp, I only managed to steady the enchantment for a while but still, It'll wear out."

I glanced at my watch, it was already 10:00. Next thing I knew, there was a large rumbling sound and a large ball of fire was racing towards us. Now, let me explain something. For the last two and a half weeks I've been training as a demigod and, while being a son of Zeus with powers over winds and lightning, I've always been better at controlling lightning, and every once in a while, I'd discover I could do something new, like shoot lightning bolts or missiles but this was something different. Just as a giant ball of lightning was rushing towards us, I instinctively raised my hands and made sort of a wave of polarity. I don't know how to describe it but it looked like a transparent wave of pure electricity. The ball of flames moved about half a foot in the opposite direction and fell into the lake, killing the flames, and revealing a huge metal ball. "WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?!" Yelled Angel.

"Lycanthropes!" yelled Cathy pushing Angel and me to the ground. Cathy stood up, and summoned her weapon. Angel and I stood up and did the same. Every time a lycanthrope through a ball of fire, I stopped it with either the winds or my new polarity wave, meanwhile, Cathy was shooting green flames at the lycanthropes and Angel shot long rays of light at the lycanthropes. When did he learn to do that? At one point, Cathy's boomerang thing glowed red and she threw it at the lycanthropes, the beast bellowed in pain as it started to glow red. Cathy retrieved her weapon with the monster still glowing with that red light; the thing started to glow gold as she turned it sideways, she clutched it tight and the monsters skin started to burn off, making for a really disgusting sight. "What are you guys waiting for?!" exclaimed Cathy, snapping us out of our trance. In truth? Angel and I had been staring at her as she single-handedly fought the lycanthrope without even blinking. I turned my sword back into a ring and fired a ball of black flames at the monster. It hit him squarely at the chest. Then Angel closed his fist at the monster and a sphere of bright, multicolored light engulfed the lycanthrope and when the light died out, there was a small pile of gold dust. I grabbed hands with Cathy and Angel as quick as I could, and suddenly, everything started spinning, we were engulfed in shadows and we appeared in a house with weird bent swords in the walls and strange symbols everywhere. Hieroglyphs. The minute we surfaced from the darkness and the world stopped moving, I collapsed.

When I woke up, in a strange room with a bunch of beds. An infirmary perhaps? I got up and walked through the nearest door and bumped into a girl that was about to walk into the room. "You're up!" she said and I thought it was kind of obvious.

"I'm up." I said, "Who're you?"

"I'm Jazz, the healer."

"Great, thank you I feel much better but you wouldn't happen to know where I can find two other people with this orange t-shirt? They came with me and I really need to find them."

"Sure, they're about to have breakfast."

"Breakfast? How long have I been out?"

"About forty-five minutes. You got here early you know?"
"Yeah we ran into some trouble with lycanthropes. Had to come early."

"What?"

"Nothing."

"We're he– No Philip stop that!" I looked over and I saw a full-grown albino crocodile in the pool by the breakfast buffet, jumping out of the water and it looked, at least to me, as if it was about to attack. I clenched my right hand and in an instant, my sword Stygian, was in my hand. I charged the crocodile when I heard someone behind me shout "Amax!" then, my sword started burning so much in my hand I dropped it into the pool where it started steaming, but only for an instant. I glanced over and noticed my sword was no longer at the bottom of the pool, but back into ring form and on my finger. "That's a nice little trick!" I thought but then realized what was going on. "I wasn't supposed to attack the crocodile was I?"

"No." said Sadie. "You weren't."

I apologized and sat between Cathy and Angel who whispered in my ear that they'd made the same mistake. The boy Carter stood up at the table with surprising authority that he didn't have last night and said. "Well now that we're all here I'd like to introduce our guests. This is Cathy, Angel, and David, they're on a quest right now and they need our help, and judging by the information they've given us so far, I believe we need theirs too. So I would like all of you to hear them out and be patient with them, their ways are different from ours. Cathy, Angel, David, please begin." I stood up and, knowing that Sadie and Carter probably don't want panic spreading through the audience, I changed our story a bit. "We're Greek demigods!" I said. "We come from a camp, Camp Half-Blood, that trains us, the spawn of the Greek gods. We were sent on a quest to retrieve a lost demigod, Nico di Angelo, and we have reason to believe that he might be here. Nico found a statue a couple days ago and said he was going to trace it back to its origin. The statue was red and of a snake with two heads that walks on some legs. It's really weird, the point is, that demigod, Nico, is very confused and needs to be taken back to camp before he hurts somebody. If anybody could help us out please, it's very important. Now, we've gotta talk to Carter and Sadie but we'll be right back in a second." Cathy and Angel stood up with me as I was walking inside but Carter and Sadie didn't come until they both gestured at someone among the crowd to come with them. "These are Walt and Zia, it's okay, you can trust them, now tell us the real story." I told Carter how Nico had stolen Hades' key and we've been set out to find him. I told them about the Roman camp and Nico's sister who was talking about the red snake statue and how I thought It might have been Apophis. I told them about the hydra, the lycanthropes, and the shadow traveling all the way over here and finished my story by asking him if he knew Nico di Angelo.

"Yeah he lives here." Said Carter. "He usually wakes up a bit late and doesn't have any breakfast but yeah, what exactly does Hade's key do?"

"It controls who lives and who dies."

Zia was starring at us wide-eyed and said "He's a necromancer here, how could you allow him with power over who lives and dies? He could expand his power to the maximum with the blink of an eye!"

"That's not what he's doing." I said. "He's trying to wake Apophis. The red snake statue he found, it starts turning black from the moment his fingertips touch it."

Everybody inside the mansion was staring at us and I told them that we had to wait here for Nico and that there was probably going to be a fight.

"You don't know what you're doing." Said the Walt guy. "I'm the host of the death-god, Anubis. That guy radiates powerful death energy, and trust me, it's him, not the key."

"Nico's a son of Hades, the god of the Underworld, his friends are more commonly dead than alive." I said.

"You seem very passionate about this." Noticed Zia. "What are you gaining from all of this." I couldn't bring myself to mention my family, it was just too painful. "It's my first quest." I lied. "I just want to make a good impression." I could tell Zia wasn't convinced but everybody else seemed to think that was enough.

"Your arm's healed." I noticed, gesturing at Cathy's arm.

"Yeah, the healer here, Jazz, she's amazing; and she taught me quite a few tricks."

We went back outside to finish breakfast and tried to ignore everybody starring at us. After finishing breakfast, Cathy, Angel, and I started making a strategy to catch Nico, but we were speaking ancient Greek, just in case. After about ten more minutes we heard a door upstairs open and we began. Angel hid behind a column at the bottom of a staircase while Cathy and I made-out on the last step of the staircase. Nico stood there awkwardly and cleared his throat.

"Oh! Sorry!" Said Cathy, slightly wiping her bottom lip.

"Don't worry about it," said Nico with a slightly puzzled face.

"Who are you?" he asked.

"Cathy, this is David." Said Cathy, that's when the plan failed. This is how it was supposed to go down: Nico catches me and Cathy making out in the staircase and has to interrupt us in order to pass, then, Cathy and I introduce ourselves so that when he introduced himself, Angel would hear his name, giving him confirmation that he we go t the right target and creating a sphere of light around Nico, just long enough for him to fall unconscious. We pick him up, take him to camp, and problem solved. That's what was supposed to happen. What really happened was that Nico recognized Cathy from camp, something we really should have thought about, and bolted. We ran after him, chasing him into the street. Just when we were about to catch him, a giant wall of black stone rose up in front of us, separating him from us. "You're teaching me how to do that!" I yelled at Cathy as I was punching a hole through the wall with the same force with which I had punched the Manticore. Again, sucking up the energy around me as I did it. I saw that Nico was headed at a tree, it was really big and I didn't know why would he want to go to the tree then I realized he was about to shadow travel, and we'd be back to square one I made Cathy's shadow thicker and stopped dead in my tracks. Cathy stumbled behind me and was about to slam into me when I disappeared and re-appeared in front of the tree Nico was headed and he crashed into me. Angel, Cathy, and I had surrounded Nico when he stabbed his sword at the ground and when it cracked, he summoned three skeletons. I summoned my blade and did the same, except when the crack I made caught up with his skeletons, they shattered into a pile of bones. Nico stared at my sword and pulled something out of his pocket, a rod, not like the one Sadie and Zia had. It was shorter, bronze and it had little teeth on the side that stopped in the handle. It was much thinner than the rod the Egyptians had except for the handle that was slightly thicker. It kinda looked like a Harry Potter wand, which Cathy found racist. The rod started glowing a dark purple and with a jolt, I realized that that wasn't a rod, it was Hades' key. He fired at me with the key and I realized what was happening. Nico was telling me that I no longer had the right to live. The blast of purple light was speeding towards me. I was too slow to react, but Moon-Moon wasn't. He appeared in a boom of thunder and a cloud of dust and mist. The beam hit him and just like that he was gone. Nothing was left of Moon-Moon. Nothing but a small pile of golden dust. I knew he wasn't dead, he couldn't be. He's immortal. But I knew that I would probably never see him again. Annabeth said that it usually took a long time for monsters to come back from Tartarus. Rage filled me, rage even worse than when Cathy got injured. I didn't want to save anybody. I wanted Nico dead. By now, all the magicians were outside, staring at us, but I didn't care what they thought, or what they saw, this shit would end. Now.

Moon-Moon Is Dead! Oh The Feels!