Author's Note: This chapter will be mostly flashback. Sorry it's been so long. Stupid people will be the death of me, but I'm still here so you people have to put up with me a little longer. ;)
Katherine didn't want to explain. She wanted Nico to just magically understand what had happened. But she knew that was impossible. Slowly she told him.
She stared at Nico and Bianca. Nico was crying and she hated when he was sad. She never wanted to leave Venice, but Zues was making death threats again. This time though, it seemed he could follow through. His orders to her father were to surrender all his children to Camp Half-Blood. Sadly his children were even more stubborn then he was. She and her siblings had absolutely refused to go. Why should they when neither they nor their father had ever been recognized or honored there? Her siblings were currently gathering in the Underworld. She had fought tooth and nail for him to bring Nico and B but no dice. Nico clung to her dress.
"Please Kat don't go! I'll miss you." he cried. Bianca stood apart from them, her face oddly solemn. She knelt and carefully pried Nico's hands from her dress.
"It's ok Nikki. I'll see you again."
"Wait, take this." Nico handed her a little silver locket. Inside was a picture of her, Nico, and B in one side and Maria, her mother Isabelle, and her step-father Raphael. She snapped it shut, nodded once to her mother and step-father, and left them, and Venice, behind her.
Katherine pulled the locket off her neck and pressed it into Nico's palm. Nico stared at it for a moment before pointing out the single flaw.
"It's dented."
Katherine charged into battle beside her troops. Guns and/or bullets had been banned by popular vote. She heard screams and battle cries dully in her ears. She took enemies down left and right. She never checked to see if they were dead. If you fought against her you were dead, simple and easy. She took down eight without so much as batting an eye. There were about 40 Children of The Sky and 32 wind spirits, and The Sea's Children had dropped out of the war after year one when they realized, like she had, that Zues was completely nuts. Suddenly a dagger was thrust at her chest. There was a soft clang as the demigod's dagger collided with her locket. Her vision went red. She left him with a slit throat, bleeding out on the battlefield.
"Where have you been?" asked Nico.
"Katherine di Luminoso, because your father had pleaded on your behalf your punishment will be light. You are here by sentenced by the Olympian Council to an unknown immortality. The world is forbidden from knowing your presence. You will be the priestess of the Necromanteion. You will serve three deadly quests in Tartarus, and you shall complete whatever quest any of the other gods have prepared for you. You will not be released until I otherwise say so. Do you swear to abide by these terms as the other option is an afterlife in Tartarus?" asked Zues. Katherine looked up, her face smeared in blood and ash from single-handedly carrying all 27 of her sibling to their funeral pyres after killing their murderers. The final 23 children of Zues had massacred her siblings during a party for her brother's birthday. She had challenged them to one-on-one duels and she had won. She spoke coldly.
"I swear on the River Styx.
Nico's expression was blank. Then he slowly pressed the locket back into her hands.
"It's good to have you back...Kitty."
Author's Note: Nico just called the Shadow's Assasian Kitty...Anyway the next chapter will get back to the actual, you know, plot.
...Yes there is a plot.
WarriorOfHades Out!