Chapter 11

The injury

Nico Di Angelo

I had never felt more angry than when Snow came back and fell to the ground, with claw marks on her arms, which were not fading.

I at least knew she was alive, I could tell that much. But I couldn't stand to see her like this. She was bleeding everywhere and all I could think was her love of blood, but I don't think even she would approve of this much, especially on herself. Annabeth tried to stop the bleeding with bandages, but it soaked right through. It was probably poisoned. It was strange, though, because I had seen her drink poison before, and it did nothing to her. She liked to do things like that because she could.

"Where's Topaz? She'll be able to help. "

"She's erasing the pilot's memory."

Oh, gods. Not her, too. If she was there, even if one of the pilots was a demigod... I bolted for the engine room. She was there, as promised, lighting a honey scented candle to erases his memories of the storm spirits. There was no sign of a fight. "Topaz, Snow is hurt!"

She looked over with alarm. "How is that even possible? And... how is your leg healed?" I had been so concerned about her, that I had completly forgotten my own injury, which she had so tenderly taken care of.

"Um, I don't know. Maybe the unicorn draught is getting faster. Come on!"

We ran down to where everyone else was sitting. Topaz poured some of the water on the wound, it was closing, the blood being sucked in like a whirlpool. I breathed a sigh of relief. But she still wasn't waking up.

"Some of the poison got into her system. She won't die, but she might be sick for a few days." My fists clenched. I would kill them for this. I would make them suffer. I would impale them, then hang them, then burn them. (Snow came up with this. She called it the 3-way death. It's the longest, most painful death there is.) Then I would go back into the depts of Tartarus to retrieve them, and send them to punishment for eternity.

"Um, Nico. There's bone's following you." Sapphire said. There was a trail of bones littering the floor from the pilots room to where we were.

"How are you doing that? We're in the air?" Blade asked. They knit together to form a full skeleton, which started dancing. "I don't know. I've never done that before. It has to be summoned from the ground."

"So, you can fly?" Percy questioned.

"I guess they're floating up to the plane... I don't know. Does anyone know how to wake her up?"

Topaz smiled. "We can't wake her up when she's just sleeping. You know she's a heavy sleeper. It would be better just to let her rest." I sat down. "Yeah, you're probably right."

"Now boarding, San Francisco, please collect your belongings and vacate the plane, we'll be landing in 2 minutes."