Nico POV
Everyone was looking at them like they were crazy (excluding a few of the Romans that were in on the joke). Nico thought it was quite funny how everyone else looked flummoxed.
Percy gasped for a bit, then he breathily said, "Sorry. Inside joke,"
Grover wheezed out, all the while laughing harder, "Those dam inside jokes." This then, in turn, made a Percy, Thalia, and Grover laugh harder. Even Nico cracked a small smile.
He thought that he was doing that a lot lately. Nico was fairly certain that it was Will's fault. As he thought that, it reminded Nico that he and Will were going to tell their friends about them soon. It was a nerve wracking thought.
He was distracted from his thoughts by a small commotion next to Jason. An Iris message formed, with Reyna in the center and a very familiar Latino boy bouncing in the corner.
"Leo!" everybody shrieked simultaneously.
Piper nearly walked through the Iris Message she was on Leo so fast, "Where were you? Why didn't you contact us? How are you alive? Where did you go? How is Festus still functional?-"
Leo cut her off, "Beauty Queen, I'm ok." Leo then proceeded to give them the short version of what happened on the island and all of his plans.
When another girl came into the picture, Percy looked like he was having an aneurism. Nico wasn't sure why, though.
Percy breathed out, "Calypso?"
While the girl looked at Percy in surprise and nodded her head, the campers started whispering among themselves. The majority of them remembered from the myths that Calypso was Atlas' daughter and was stuck on an unplottable island.
Reyna seemed to notice something in the crowd and she looked surprised. "Frank," she called out, "how did you get here? You were here when Leo came." Everyone looked confused.
Frank revealed himself in the Iris Message, looking very smug with himself. The Frank on Nico's side of the Iris Message was gaping at the other one. Out of the corner of his eye, Nico noticed that nobody on the other side of the message was moving. It was like they were frozen in time. The Frank on Camp Jupiter's side started to say, "What a pleasant surprise. I seem to have quite the welcoming party. Looks like the conquerors have become the conquered. Your next Greeks and Magicians."
Nico was momentarily surprised when he only said Greeks, but then he realized that the Roman demigods on his side were frozen like the others in the Iris Message.
Chiron was the one that broke the silence. He turned to look at the gods and said, "Do you have anything that we can use to prevent this?"
Most of them shook their head no, but Athena said over a bit of muttering, "I know of something that may help. It is probably not coincidence that as soon as the tool has the ability to work, this creature comes to freeze us."
Nico was a bit confused about what the tool was and why it only just had the power to work. He was going to ask, because he was sure that he wasn't the only one that was confused, but Annabeth cut him off, "I know about that! It has to activated by both magicians and demigods working together," Annabeth looked at Athena as she said, "Why do you think that is? Does it matter what kind of demigods help activate it (Roman or Greek)?"
Athena looked to contemplate something for a second before replying, "I think that to activate it, the tool needs to have three children of different cultures, all that have current contact with a god. I suppose that any Roman and Greek demigods would work, but for the magicians they would have to be a host or have been a host at one time."
Nico looked around and said, "So it would have to be a group of us that have the most contact with a god, right? Where is this tool anyway? I'm sure most of us are wondering that."
It was Carter who answered Nico's question, "I think I have read something about this before! It went with a nymph around the world, but the nymph fell in love and killed herself because she was rejected. The woman that the nymph had been rejected by took the object and seeked out the gods. She got only to Washington DC before she was encountered with monsters that were attracted to the godly tool. She was killed, but it turned out that she was part of a different religion and was sent there. As she had died heroically, she got to keep the object until it was rejected by the magic in her religion. The object was lost somewhere in Europe."
Everybody looked stunned. Nico didn't know whether to be relieved that Carter knew about the object, or angry that the gods had hidden yet another religion right under their noses. What kind of religion let people keep objects after a heroic death (or any death).
Athena broke the silence, "Carter is correct, that is indeed the story of this tool. We know only this about it. It really is a miracle that the story wasn't lost in some other culture. Does anybody here have any questions?"
Percy seemed to be contemplating something, and when he heard Athena ask about questions he looked up and said, "Was the nymph gay?"
Nico was amazed that out of the entire story that was what Percy had payed attention to. Though, Nico admitted to himself, he was a bit curious as well.
Annabeth replied, "Obviously, nymphs can only be female," giving Percy a look. Percy responded with a look that said 'How could I have known that?'
Sadie asked the questions that were on everybody's mind, "Well, where is it in Europe and how do we get it?"
All eyes turned to the gods once again. Zeus started to respond when he was interrupted. Every person's focus was centered on the new speaker.
AN- Hello all. Yes, I have finally finished this chapter (how long did it take me to write it)? I think this was my longest chapter. It was just over 1,000 words.
Thank you for all the reviews and you are lovely.
PS. if you get an update soon and don't see a new chapter, that may just be me editing previous chapters.
Once again, thank you so much for the support, and I hope you enjoyed this.
~UpsideDownLife