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Chapter 17: The End of Everything... Almost

In the early hours of the morning I was woken by Connor shaking my shoulder.

"What is it?" I asked sleepily. He looked at me with something like excitement in his eyes

"Percy and the others are back." he said. I stared at him in surprise.

"I'm going to see my sister." I told him and he nodded.

"Okay." he agreed and I jumped out of bed and got dressed.

I ran across the camp to the Big House and knocked on the door of the parlour. I pushed open the door and looked around anxiously.

Percy, Annabeth, Clarisse whom I had learned was the head councillor for the Ares cabin, Chiron and Grover were there but Zoae, Thalia and Bianca were nowhere in sight.

"Hey," I said "Where's my sister?"

Everyone glanced at me cautiously and finally Percy stood up and said "Nico come for a walk with me ok? We need to talk."

I followed Percy out of the room and he started to walk towards the dining pavilion. While we walked, he told me about his quest and my heart sank when he told me that my vision of the junkyard was right and my sister had sacrificed herself to save the others.

He kept talking but he was just making things worse. "She wanted you to have this." he said and he held out a small MYTHOMAGIC statue of Hades. I took it in silence and as kept talking.

At last, I couldn't stand it anymore "You promised to protect her!" I reminded him furiously.

His eyes turned even sadder and he said "Nico, I tried but she sacrificed herself to save the rest of us. I told her not to."

I glared at him even harder. Did he think that that made everything ok? "But you promised." I repeated "My nightmare was right, I should have known earlier."

"Wait, what nightmares?" Percy asked. I felt pure disgust at his blatant lack of sensitivity for what I was going through.

Suddenly a vision of Bianca popped into my mind. She was standing in a black pavilion and three grim looking men in golden masks were looking down at her impassively.

Meanwhile Percy was starting to look desperate "She might be alive," he said. His voice was even more desperate than his expression was. "I don't know if-was but I cut him off

"No," I said "She's dead. She's in the Fields of Asphodel being judged right now, I can sense it."

He stared at me in surprise.

"What do you mean, you can sense it?" Percy asked. I scowled at him.

"Why should I tell you? I hate you! Go away!"

I turned my back and saw four horrible skeletons in armour coming towards us. I gasped in shock.

"You brought them here!" I screamed at Percy, "You're trying to kill me!"

Percy shook his head violently. "No," he said "I mean, yeah they followed me but no I'm not trying to kill you, Nico run!"

"No, I hate you and I won't listen!" I said. Percy drew his sword and the skeletons attacked.

I don't know what I was thinking. Percy had let my sister die but still how could I let him die like this? I could hear Percy still telling me to run but I simply put my hands over my ears and screamed at the skeletons "GO AWAY!"

Immediately the four warriors froze and the ground under their feet split open and swallowed them in a flash of glow red flame. Percy stared at me in shock.

"How did y...?" I turned my back on him.

"I still hate you!" I told him bitterly "I wish that you were dead!" then I dropped the little statue that my sister had given Percy for me and ran away into the woods.

I couldn't help it. I had been through a lot of arguments and the knowledge that my sister was truly gone forever devastated me. I couldn't stop myself from crying as I ran which I found was a huge mistake.

I had been running for about ten minutes or so when I tripped and fell into a pit. My last thought before I hit the bottom of the pit was at least I didn't let Percy die for revenge.

Author's Note: Thanks for reading. This is the last chapter but I might make a sequel. Please review.