What's this? I updated in less then a month! Its a summer miracle!! *throws confetti*...okay yeah after where I left the last chapter off it was kinda easy for me to continue hence why it only took a few days to get this up lol. But I'm really glad how everyone is liking the fic so far! Well in this chapter some things are revealed and several other things are said other then that please read and review as always!
Oh and excuse some Harry Potter stuff I squeezed in, I've been on a high kick of it since the last part came out...just a warning hahaha...and the thing at the end of the chapter is something I made up, tried to give one of the characters a bit of a creepy vibe.
As the dinning tables filled up with the campers for lunchtime, even for the people who didn't witness the event like others, everyone could feel some sort of tension in the air. The campers looked at each other warily wondering what had happened to get this kind of atmosphere as the Nymphs passed out the food to each table though many of them could see several of the campers glancing over to the Hades's table where Bianca sat alone glaring down at the table. Whispers started to fill the hall, each one making up their own idea about what happened and what it had to do with Bianca before they went back to their own plates. Each camper got up and sacrificed some of their food to their godly parent before going back to their seats to enjoy their meal as much as they could despite the atmosphere.
When Chiron came in since he and Mr. D had a meeting that ran later then they expected both of them could feel something was amiss with the campers. Mr. D could care less as he immediately ignored it and went to his seat, poured himself some soda and started eating. Chiron meanwhile was trying to figure out what was going on by observing his campers like he had done for plenty of years. He noticed that Bianca looked tense as her knuckles were white as they gripped the utensils, Annabeth, Thalia and Luke were looking at the daughter of Hades before going back to their own meal.
'It seems I'm going to have to talk with them since they seem to have an idea on why we have this atmosphere and many of the campers are looking at Bianca as well.' Chiron thought to himself as he was given his plate of food and ate it quietly.
His ears twitched when he could pick up snippets of the conversations from some of the campers but nothing really made sense since he only got fragments what they were saying.
"-can't believe that happened."
"Funny how you think you figured someone out"
"Never imagined him to be interested-"
"That's probably why he doesn't train-"
"-a bit too harsh don't you think?"
"-surprised this didn't happen sooner…"
Chiron sighed as he ate some more of his salad, the one time he should've been outside with the campers to keep an eye on them he had been stuck in a meeting with the satyrs, nymphs and Mr. D He couldn't help but feel an unsettling cold feeling in his stomach when he wondered what had happened to get the camp gossiping to each other quietly, he could only hope it wasn't as serious as his gut was telling him but then again you can never be too careful what happens when it involves half-bloods.
It wasn't long before Chiron noticed Bianca standing up and about to make a hasty exit out of the dinning hall when he walked over to her, stopping her from leaving.
"Bianca, I would like to talk to you please. Something has been bothering since entering the hall." Chiron said.
The dark haired girl didn't say anything but nodded.
Chiron looked over at the other tables and called over Luke as well since he had a feeling the older camper knew what might have been going on with the camp. The three of them walked out of the dinning area and some distance where they could get some privacy for their talk.
"Now will one of you two please explain to me what is going on?" Chiron asked frowning as he looked at the two, "I have the feeling that I missed something important."
The centaur's frown increased when he saw Bianca fold her arms and look away stubbornly as Luke looked uncomfortable being put in this situation as he seemed to contemplate how to answer the aged old trainer.
"I'm waiting you two we can be here all day if we need to be." Chiron added seriously not liking how this meeting was going with the two, "I can get the other campers involved and ask them what exactly had happened."
The tall Hermes's cabin leader sighed and gave in, since the last thing he seem to want was to get more campers involved with this matter.
"Its not really good Chiron." Luke said after a few minutes.
"I got that distinct feeling what I am asking is why everyone was looking at Bianca and whispering to each other." Chiron replied folding his arms as he waited for the blonde haired half-blood to explain to him.
"Okay well this is what happened see me Josh, and the Demeter twins were coming down the hill to the dining hall when…" Luke started and then went into the full explanation on what he and several campers had witnessed what had taken place and what was said, mostly on Bianca's part.
As Luke continued with his explanation, Chiron just became more and more horrified at what he was hearing, the aged hero trainer could feel his jaw drop once Luke finished and the two were waiting for Chiron's verdict on the whole case. He turned his head sharply to Bianca frowning heavily.
"Bianca did you even let Nico explain himself?" Chiron asked.
"What was the point." She muttered out making the centaur re-evaluate his opinion on the daughter of Hades.
"The point would be to hear his explanation, I know Nico hardly has any attachments to this camp but I believe what you had…told him was much too excessive." Chiron admonished the young girl as he rubbed the bridge of his nose at all the new trouble that he's going to have to deal with along with the current situation they were in.
"Er so what happens now Chiron?" Luke asked out loud, "After what happened I don't think that Nico isn't going to be coming back anytime soon."
"Of all the times I should've been outside instead of inside it had to be today." Chiron sighed as he looked at the two half bloods in front of him, "and I don't doubt that Nico now has some heavy resentment towards the camp because of Bianca's actions."
"Does it really matter? He was barely here anyway." Bianca argued but was quickly silenced by a look from the centaur.
"That may be true but now we have a serious crisis on our hands, we're now looking for two powerful half-bloods instead of just one." Chiron stated, "this is going to be hard since this is the first time someone has willingly left the camp especially someone with Nico's abilities. Now Nico lost the protection of the camp from monsters since he doesn't have a home in New York or anything to stop the monsters from catching his scent."
Both Luke and Bianca paled since this information seem to just occur to them, and with a half-blood as strong as Nico the monsters would be all over him…
"This is really not good." Luke grimaced worriedly, "there's bound to be more powerful monsters after Nico since he's a child of the big three…"
"Exactly, now you see the dilemma? " Chiron stated giving Bianca a disappointed looking as she swallowed nervously.
Bianca remembered some of the monsters that had attacked her and Nico when they were on their way to the camp and were lucky to make it back, and that was only because they had some experienced half-bloods with them at the time…this time she wasn't sure where she and Nico stood against monsters like before.
"Can't we go out and search for him?" Luke asked, "I mean he couldn't have gotten far right?"
"He can travel by shadows Luke," Bianca whispered as she glared at the ground, "he can be anywhere in the city by now…and I'm not as well versed as he is in shadow traveling so I wouldn't be able to follow him."
Luke cursed at that as he ran a hand through his blonde hair trying to think of something.
"It looks like I'm going to have to go back to the council of the gods and tell them the news, they're not going to be happy with this." Chiron stated, "one particular half-blood is hard to find but two is going to prove even more difficult."
Luke and Bianca nodded and were about to head back to the dinning hall when Chiron stopped them once more.
"I still have to give you a sort of punishment Bianca for causing this, I think cleaning out the Pegasi stalls for three weeks by hand should be a start." The centaur added, "So no creating fissures to make the job go faster."
When Bianca opened her mouth to protest she didn't say anything when Chiron gave her a warning glare before he trotted off to leave the camp and head to the Empire building to inform the gods at what had transpired at the camp. The two half bloods nod, Bianca half-heartedly as she trudged back to the dinning hall as Luke shook his head when they saw everyone leaving.
"I hope this teaches you a lesson Bianca, Nico may not be the most active person in the camp and likes to keep his distance but he still comes back." Luke said as the two waited for their friends to come out, "That should've been reason enough that he cares about the camp.
Luke looked over to the quiet Hades's child who kept her head bowed and wasn't saying anything in reply to Luke's statements, allowing the Hermes child to continue his soft berating.
"I know you were angry at him but disowning him from the family is harsh. You know how important family is here and doing something so crass was too hard on Nico. He may have changed but he's still your blood brother compared to the others with step-siblings." Luke sighed as he folded his arms, "you should've noticed though being his sister…"
"Noticed what?" Bianca asked in a quiet voice.
"Noticed that unlike you, who easily gets along and can talk to anybody Nico is the opposite. You're bright, vibrant, open and happy to everyone which makes it easier for people to like you unlike Nico who rather stay in the back away from crowds doing things his own pace." Luke explained, "but because he stays in the back and looks like he's brooding the other campers avoid or end up picking on Nico. It's been like this since you two came here."
Bianca shifted a bit in her spot.
She had noticed it but had pushed it aside, thinking that Nico was just too shy to talk to anyone at the camp besides her. As time went by her brother had decided to just stay away from the other campers unless they came to him, which was rare, as she had seen that other campers avoided him.
"Really, I think the only ones that Nico would accept here at the camp are Josh, his Demeter twins and possibly Zachariah that Aphrodite child." Luke added after he had a minute to think about it.
Bianca tried looking back at Luke but found that she couldn't without feeling heavily guilty at what she had done and what Luke had said to her, explaining things about Nico she had just ignored. Not to mention the glare that Luke was sending her was giving her cold chills down the spine.
"So…what should I do?" Bianca asked timidly as she noticed Annabeth and Thalia coming up to the two of them along with Josh, Elijah and Noah behind the girls.
"If Nico decides to come back and that's a big if, you should apologize and do something nice for him." Luke replied folding his arms, "just saying sorry isn't going to make Nico forget what you said to him so you're really going to have to find someway to make it up to him."
"Do you have any ideas?" Bianca asked as she managed to look up at the blonde.
"Not really and even if I did I wouldn't tell you." Luke replied bluntly as he unfolded his arms and started to walk over to where Josh was, "this is something you need to figure out by yourself Bianca."
Bianca nodded as Thalia and Annabeth got up to her just as Luke left her completely.
"So what happened when Chiron called you over?" Josh asked as he and the others stood to the side.
"Chiron got really upset at Bianca for practically sending Nico out of the protection of the camp." Luke replied, "So now we have both Percy and Nico to look for when we're sent out there."
"Great this just keeps getting better and better…" Josh groaned shaking his head.
"Yeah doesn't it?" Luke replied, "Chiron has Bianca cleaning the Pegasi stalls for three weeks and that's just a start, I don't even want to imagine all the stuff she has to clean up."
"Wait the Pegasi stalls?" Eli said as he got a strange look in his eye as he looked at his twin.
"Are you thinking that we should…" Noah started as a grin started to form on his face.
"We haven't used it yet and it is used for plants." Eli pointed out.
"and it shouldn't be hard to make some use of them…" Noah added smirking. Josh immediately knew what the mischievous twins were thinking about.
"Oh don't you guys go and copy Harry Potter with dung bombs." He said exasperated.
Luke blinked confused as the twins gave Josh a pseudo-horrified look.
"Now Joshy we wouldn't do anything like that!" Eli said but with a grin on his face.
"We're just getting creative and just 'borrowing' ideas, we're not going to copy it exactly per se…" Noah started.
"Just some modifications to suit our needs." Eli finished.
"Your parents never should've gotten you those books…you're far too much like those twins in those books." Josh grounded out feeling a headache come on.
"What's Harry Potter?" Luke asked suddenly making Josh groan louder as the twins gave Luke a real horrified look.
"blasphemy!" the two shouted shocked before the two started ranting.
Luke just looked at Josh wanting a real explanation.
"It's a book series their adopted parents had gotten for them," Josh explained, "its one of their favorite books and very influential to them…unfortunately."
When the twins saw that Luke wasn't even paying attention to them they both glowered at the elder blonde.
"Wait right here…" Eli said pointing at Luke's face.
"while we go and get the book to educate you." Noah added as they both ran off to their cabin.
"Should I be worried?" Luke asked after a minute when the twins ran off.
"A bit, just don't say anything bad about it or you'll be at the mercy of their new pranks besides your brothers." Josh replied as they walked away from the dining hall.
"Maybe I should've just kept my mouth shut." Luke grimaced, "especially if a book of all things influenced them to take on my brothers on pranking…how did you know about the books?"
"It was one of the first things they showed me that they brought with them to camp, said I needed to know some of the stuff that was going on in the world outside the camp." Josh replied, "didn't help they practically shoved the book in my face."
"I…see…" Luke replied wondering what he had gotten himself into.
Bianca turned towards Annabeth and Thalia wondering what they were going to say after what they had just heard.
"Bianca I never thought you would actually do something like that, I mean I know how annoying brothers can be at times…" Annabeth said biting her lip.
"Do you really mean everything you said to Nico?" Thalia asked sighing.
"Some of it but…I think I just let my anger and frustration take control when I was yelling at Nico." Bianca said playing with her hands.
"That much was obvious, you really must've been holding that back for a while." Annabeth stated.
"More or less, it just kept becoming more and more frustrating when Nico wouldn't tell me anything about what he was doing, I mean he use to be able to tell me anything." Bianca said.
"That was before I guess you two came to camp huh?" Thalia asked as the olive skinned girl nodded.
"Well what's done is done we'll help you find some way to get your brother back." Annabeth assured as she wrapped her arms around the daughter of Hades.
"Yeah don't worry Bianca we'll find him." Thalia added assuring the worried girl.
Josh and Luke passed them and overheard that last part and shook his head.
'If Nico doesn't want to be found, he won't be found unless he slips up but that doesn't happen very often.' He thought to himself as he saw Eli and Noah running back to them with several books in their hands.
oOo Up on the 600th floor of the Empire State Building oOo
"and that's all I have to report." Athena sighed as she rubbed her head, "I thought I was being discreet enough but it seems he already knew of my intentions."
"This is seriously unnerving…" Apollo said grimacing, "he's not psychic now and read Athena's mind is he? Then again you have to give the guy props for saying that to her face and fooling her for so long."
At that statement Athena glowered at the sun god making him whistle innocently.
"I'd like to not be reminded of what had taken place Apollo…" Athena hissed darkly.
"I would say he's just very perceptive." Athena replied sitting up, "since he could already tell what I am despite my disguise."
"At least this gives an explanation to why he gave off a similar aura to ourselves." Artemis stated, "at first I thought he was another deadly monster but instead we find out he's an immortal similar to us."
"I agree with my daughter…this is serious a monster is one thing but another god is a completely different story, especially when certain realms are involved." Zeus stated as he tapped his fingers on the armrest of his own chair.
"But how similar is the question." Hera said frowning, " the last thing he told Athena is a bit disturbing…"
"But not untrue." Hades said bluntly as he rested his head in his hand, "in different cultures there are others worshipped besides us like the Norse and Egypt gods for example."
"That doesn't mean we feel comfortable with another god practically invading our territory." Ares hissed.
A soothing voice by the fire calmed the gods down before an argument could erupt.
"Now that we know its another god that is taking care of Poseidon's son, what should we do? Besides the obvious of not angering him." Hestia stated, "since he can disguise himself as a mortal it will be hard to track him."
"Bah! I can't believe an almighty immortal would prefer to stay in a weak mortal body for so long." Ares sneered, "we shouldn't even consider him in the same level of power as us!"
"Don't be ignorant Ares!" Athena growled, "just because he hides in a mortal form doesn't make him any weaker then any of us! We don't even know what placement of god he is!"
"She has a point, we don't know if he could be a minor or major god from where he originated." Hermes added tapping his chin, "did you at least get where he came from?"
"I don't think that would help, I mean for all we know he could've been lying saying where he came from." Hephaestus stated.
"He said he came from Japan but Hephaestus has a point for all we know he could've come from Antarctica." Athena replied.
"Antarctica has gods?" Ares asked making the most of the room groan as Hermes and Apollo were laughing.
"It was sarcasm Ares." Athena retorted dryly stopping herself from adding anything else to the god of war.
Ares scowled as he folded his arms.
"I knew that…" He muttered while some of the gods still snickered.
"Besides that point, gods not matter what shouldn't be underestimated." Demeter stated leveling Ares with a look, "since we don't know as much about other gods compared to our own history, since they too rarely leave their own realms."
"Until now…" Hermes said.
"What I'm wondering is why we haven't met any other gods and why they didn't confront us when we visited other lands I mean I visited other countries a few times and never met anyone similar to us." Apollo asked out loud and curious.
"I'll explain it, like my brother said each land or territory has their own set of gods that are worshipped there correct?" Poseidon said as the others nodded, "despite the similar realms of ownership like sky, earth, water…etc.. we are allowed to visit their lands but the universal rule is we are not to take resident in their land as that would equal invasion of territory."
"So its similar to when mortals go visit relatives in other lands then?" Athena asked, "they can stay there for a certain amount of time but if they wish to take residency they have to go through a lot of paperwork?"
"Take away the paper work but that is essentially correct." Poseidon replied.
"Well that's good it would get really confusing if several gods of one thing were in the same land together…" Hermes said.
"So do we even have an idea where this Tatsuya reigned from?" Aphrodite asked.
"He did say he came from Japan but there are plenty of gods in there and we don't even have an idea on what his power is based on." Athena informed the goddess of love, "That's really the only place we can start from even if it may not be true."
"He never showed anything or even a hint when he was talking to you?" Zeus asked but Athena shook her head making the king of gods groan, "great now its impossible to figure out anything about this guy unless he makes a move because for all we know he could be part of some organization or coup…"
"I think you're exaggerating…" Hera said, "why would he be part of a coup when he has a wife and son?"
"A son that happens to be Poseidon's kid." Zeus bit back.
"Lets just avoid thinking about the worse case scenario with Tatsuya and try to figure out what we're going to do now and figure where he is at least…" Persephone said.
"I couldn't even get an idea where he was once he left the coffee shop, it's like he just up and disappeared." Athena stated rubbing her head at this mystery that was sure to bug her for a long time.
As the council tried to think of some way to track this immortal in their realm they were surprised when they heard someone making their way into the chambers. They all turned to see who it was and were surprised when they saw Chiron rolling out of the elevator and into the middle of the room with a grim look on his face making the gods even more worried.
"Hey Chiron what's gotten you down in the dumps?" Apollo asked making some gods roll their eyes at his lack of 'tact'.
"It is not very good news Lord Apollo." Chiron sighed, "I think it may somewhat worsen the situation we are with Poseidon's half-blood."
Now that statement alone made the gods freeze up and look at the centaur before them.
"What do you mean that it could worsen the situation! How much worse can it get!" Hermes exclaimed.
"It involves another big three child…specifically Nico di Angelo…" Chiron replied and went forward and explained what he was told by Bianca and Luke back at the camp.
Many of the gods' faces were shocked at what had happened none more then Demeter who turned and glared angrily at her daughter and her supposed son-in-law.
"Are you serious that's what happened?" Aphrodite asked as she looked at the enraged Demeter to the emotionless mask of Hades and Persephone inching away from her mother.
"Yes I got it word for word from Bianca herself and Luke who was a witness as were several others from what I was told." Chiron replied, "so now we not only have Percy to look for but Nico as well."
There was an eerie silence in the council before everyone broke out of their stupor and started to shout and yell at Hades and Persephone over what Chiron had told them, but no one was louder then Demeter who looked livid.
"I can't believe you would do something like this daughter!" Demeter practically screeched making Persephone wince, "I thought I taught you better manners then that! Of all the things to hear, I can't believe I'm hearing you actually treat one child no better then horse manure…"
"You mean sh-" Ares started but got hit in the head by Aphrodite.
"You don't want to get on her bad side like those two are…well Hades more then before." Aphrodite hissed at the god of war.
Ares just rubbed his head but kept him his mouth shut.
"Mother…" Persephone tried but Demeter instantly cut her off.
"Don't you mother me missy! Bianca is just one of your stepchildren! There is no reason to go and prefer her over Nico and you!" Demeter seethed pointing an angry finger at Hades, "don't even get me started on you! You're already on my bad side for my daughter but I thought you were smart enough not to do something so ridiculously stupid as ignore a single child when you have two of them to care for!"
"This is probably the most ridiculous thing you've done brother!" Poseidon growled glaring at Hades, "I'm trying to find my child when you go and lose yours! And you called yourself the smarter one between the three of us."
Hades just scowled darkly at Demeter and Poseidon as he stood up from his seat.
"I can find him easily you twits." Hades sneered at them, "since he left through the shadows I can find him and bring his sorry hide back here. You're worrying over nothing."
"Then go and do it death breath." Demeter mocked waving her hand in Hades's direction.
The other gods quiet down as Hades summoned shadows and went through them, leaving the council. The gods all looked at each other wondering how long this would take but were surprised when Hades came back only a few minutes later.
"Well did you find him?" Hera asked but saw a frown on Hades face as he looked almost worried.
"It shouldn't be this hard to track him since I can control the shadows myself…" Hades muttered to himself as he summoned the portal again and tried to search for Nico once more but like last time it didn't last very long and he came back.
"Hades what's wrong? I thought you said you could easily track Nico since you're more proficient using shadows." Persephone asked.
"I can't find him." Hades replied.
"…WHAT!"
"What do you mean you can't find him!" Ares scowled, "you're not trying hard enough aren't you?"
"Its just like I said you blithering moron!" Hades growled as Ares scowled back at him, "it should've only taken a few seconds to find him but it took longer and even when I did find him or was close to it, but then something blocks me from appearing where he is."
"How is that possible?" Apollo asked his mouth dropping, "It would what take someone powerful to enable to block you from finding them wouldn't it?"
"It would require someone of equal or more power of me in order to do something like that." Hades finally revealed.
"Great now the shit really did hit the fan this time." Ares said bluntly.
"I believe I now need to have a nice long discussion with you my dear daughter and Hades as well.." Demeter said so darkly that even Hades winced at the tone of the goddess of harvest.
All the men looked at each other knowing a universal rule: Never piss off a mother/grandmother of children less you want to face their wrath. Just the thought of that made them all shudder at their own experience of that.
"I'll have the camp informed to keep a look out for both Percy and Nico now, hopefully when we find him he'll still want to come back." Chiron said as the meeting was obviously over as Demeter stormed over to Persephone and Hades making the two swallow nervously at her as she grabbed them by the back of their clothing and hauled them off.
Aphrodite shook her head and muttered, "I doubt he'd want to return to a place where no one wanted or liked him…"
It was quiet but Aphrodite had been close enough to Persephone and Hades that they flinched as Demeter's scowl got even darker as the three of them disappeared and everyone else left with the foreboding feeling of the two big three children missing.
oOo oOo
It was a bit later in the afternoon and Nico had calmed down from his outburst earlier and was now resting in the upstairs spare room on the couch. Percy made it a habit to check up on Nico every hour to see if he was really alright much to the fondness of Amelia but even she was still worried.
'Nico doesn't seem like someone that would cry a lot…whatever happened must've been really bad for him to do so.' Amelia thought to herself as she rang up a customer and handed him their change.
"Mom is Nico sick or something?" Percy asked looking up from his worksheets from school really wondering what was wrong with his friend, "cuz when I was sick you told me to get lots of sleep and that's what Nico is doing right now."
"He's fine Percy he's just exhausted and just needs to rest to get back his energy." Amelia assured her son as she put a new batch of cookies in the display case, "he was just really upset about something and we should just leave him alone for now."
"Alright…" Percy sighed as he went back to his homework and tried concentrating on it but it was hard since his mind kept going back to his friend.
The bell rang signaling someone walking into the bakery and both Amelia and Percy looked up to see who it was and they were both surprised to see a smiling Tatsuya there.
"Dad!" Percy grinned as he jumped off the chair and ran up to the man and hugged him.
"Hey Percy, hi Amelia." Tatsuya said patting Percy's head as he pulled away but still had the big grin on his face, "have you been good Percy?"
"Yes dad, I'm working on my homework and helping mom in the bakery." Percy replied, "I even did my violin practice."
"You did? That's very good Percy we can get a treat for you later then." Tatsuya said laughing as Percy cheered happily as he let his dad go to talk to Amelia as he went back to the table.
Tatsuya walked over and kissed his wife on the lips and smiled at her but then frowned when he saw she had an uneasy look on her face.
"Is something wrong? You look upset about something." Tatsuya said.
Amelia glanced at Percy before she looked at Danette who nodded at her.
"Go, I'll take care of the front and Percy." She said.
Tatsuya was wondering what was going on as Amelia pulled him behind the counter and was about to head up the stairs but Danette managed to make one more comment before the couple were out of earshot.
"You two just better not be too loud up there~" she teased making the two turn red, several patrons cough into their drinks, trying to muffle their laughter as Percy looked confused.
"What does Danette mean by that dad?" Percy asked.
"Don't worry about it! Its nothing you need to know besides you're too young!" Tatsuya quickly stated as Amelia hauled him upstairs her face still red.
He saw his wife motion him to be quiet by placing a finger to her lips as she quietly opened the second floor room and they both looked inside. Tatsuya was surprised to Nico fast asleep on the couch in the room and looked towards Amelia for an explanation.
Shutting the door she sighed as she spoke softly to explain what had happened to Tatsuya.
"He came in my shop with very distressed look on his face and I pulled him in the back to ask him what had happened but he surprised me when he suddenly wrapped his arms around me and started crying." Amelia replied shaking her head, "I tried to gently ask him what had happened but he was much too upset to answer me."
"Do you know where he went?" Tatsuya asked, "was he here before?"
"Actually yes, he came here earlier and helped around the shop a bit before going to Percy's school to pick him up for me." Amelia replied thinking a bit, "then he came back for a while but then he left to give some cake to his sister."
"So he went to where he came from right?" Tatsuya asked his frown getting deeper.
"Yes I would surmise that's where he would go, why do you have an idea on what happened?" Amelia asked as she leaned against the wall.
"I have an idea." Tatsuya said outwardly his expression didn't change but inside he was absolutely furious.
He knew that Nico came from this camp that 'protected' half bloods from monsters, but he wondered if they protected the campers from monsters inside the camp. He was really having second thoughts sending Percy to a place if they had hurt someone like Nico for no good reason. He decided to up the training for the two because he was not about to send his son into a place that would hurt him emotionally.
"Tatsuya, calm down your eyes…" Amelia said softly looking up into her husband's eyes.
Instead of the usual electric icy blue they grew darker and had slits in his eyes, as more animalistic features were showing. Shaking his head he took a deep breath, calming himself down as the anger receded, as did his features.
"I'm sorry Amelia I just got angry at who would want to hurt Nico." Tatsuya apologized kissing the woman's forehead.
"Its alright I'm angry as well the best thing to do right now is care for him since I don't think he has anywhere else to go." Amelia replied making Tatsuya smile.
"I'm glad I'm with such a compassionate woman, we can let him make the guest room his own personal bedroom." Tatsuya stated, "we'll make him feel right at home with us."
"That's brilliant" Amelia said happily as they opened the door again and Amelia walked inside and over to the couch where Nico slept. She pulled the blanket she had placed on him back up as she kissed his forehead making the boy curl up even more on the couch.
"He's cute when he's like this." She giggled making Tatsuya roll his eyes.
"So what should we do for dinner?" Tatsuya asked as Amelia continued to watch Nico and brushed a few bangs out of his eyes.
"Hmm…can we go out? I really don't feel like cooking and its been a while since we've done that." Amelia asked looking up at Tatsuya, "and because we have Nico staying with us longer this time."
"Sure where to though?"
"What about that nice Japanese place near the pier its one of my favorite places since we came here." Amelia replied, "and we could even get that nice private room for us."
"That would be good…" Tatsuya stated rubbing his chin, "there are a few things I'd liked to talk to him about without others overhearing us."
"Alright we can do that, I'm sure Percy would enjoy going out to eat as well." Amelia said smiling as Tatsuya nodded and looked at his watch.
"Hmm its only close to 2pm and dinner service doesn't start until at least 5pm. I'll take the boys home while you finish and then we can all go to the pier for dinner, I'll make the reservations as well." Tatsuya said.
"Alright I hope Nico is feeling better when he wakes up." Amelia sighed as Tatsuya walked over to the bed and picked up the sleeping half-blood in his arms and slowly made his way downstairs as Amelia shut the door behind them.
Percy looked up from his books as he closed them when he saw his dad carrying Nico.
"So what's going on now?" Percy asked.
"You, me and Nico are going to go home and wait for your mother to finish up and then we're going out to eat for dinner." Tatsuya explained.
"Really! So Nico is gonna stay with us then?" Percy asked excited.
"Yes he will." Tatsuya said as Percy cheered happily, "hurry up and put your books away so we can get going."
"Alright dad!" Percy said as he shoved his books in his backpack and ran over to Amelia and stood on his toes to kiss her cheek good bye, "I'll see you later mom."
"Okay Percy be good for your father." Amelia said smiling as the trio walked out of the shop and got into Tatsuya's car where they drove off back to their home.
Once Tatsuya parked the car in the garage Percy opened the gate surrounding the house as Tatsuya opened the door, and stepped quickly to the side as the Labrador retriever bounced out and tackled Percy down and started to lick his face making him laugh.
"Ahahaha down girl down!" Percy giggled trying to get the dog off of him.
"Why don't you play with her since she's been bored in the house Percy, you know where her toys are." Tatsuya said as he walked to the guestroom.
"Kay!" Percy said grabbing a tennis ball, rope toy and Frisbee from the small basket by the front door and ran to the front yard with Celeste chasing after him.
Tatsuya placed Nico on the bed there and pulled the blanket over the teenager after he had removed his shoes and jacket.
"Don't worry Nico I'll take care of you like I do with Percy." He said quietly as he shut the door, but not all the way. He left a bit of it opened as he went to the living room so he could keep an eye on Percy in the front yard by watching him through the bay window as he corrected some finals before he sent the grades to the University.
"Okay girl fetch!" Percy shouted throwing the ball across the yard.
Celeste barked and ran before she jumped in the air and caught it skillfully in her mouth.
"Wow that was a good jump Celeste!" Percy said as the dog walked back to her owner proudly, "now gimme the ball."
Celeste playfully growled as she fought to keep the ball while Percy struggled to get it away from her.
"Aw come on Celeste!" Percy whined but he was laughing as well as he pulled as hard as he could to get the tennis ball back.
All of a sudden Celeste's ears twitched making her loosen her grip on the ball, accidentally sending Percy crashing to the ground because of how hard he had been pulling.
"Ha got it Celeste!" Percy said smirking holding the ball happily, despite it being covered in drool. But Percy stopped smiling and looked confused when he saw Celeste looking at something outside the gates making her growl.
Percy stood up and brushed the dirt from his pants as he dropped the ball, walking back to his pet, patting the dog trying to get her to calm down. He looked to where his dog was growling at but all he saw were a few people walking by like normal.
"Celeste there's nothing there." Percy said tugging on her collar, "come on I thought you wanted to play games."
The Labrador growled a bit more before she whined, looking at Percy.
"Don't worry girl it'll be fine, dad's inside watching so you don't have to worry about anything." Percy assured, "come on lets see how good you are with the Frisbee."
Unknown to Percy there had been someone watching the house that had gotten the dog's attention but disappeared into the crowd before Percy could see them.
The figure ran to someone that was calming sipping some tea outside a coffee shop. It was a woman with long wavy light blonde hair with blue streaks in her hair. She was wearing an expensive looking elegant dress looking like a high society sort of person.
"Please remove the hood Andromeda we don't want to look suspicious now." The woman stated without even opening her eyes.
"I apologize my lady." Andromeda replied bowing and removed the hood of her jacket before sitting across from the woman in front of her.
The person who was named Andromeda was also a woman only much younger looking with red hair that was tied in a high ponytail with dark blue ribbons intertwined in the strands of her hair. She wore a thin dark blue jacket with fur around the collar and hood and on the ends of the sleeves. The jacket was opened and it showed the young girl wearing a white shirt with a design on it that looked like a cluster of stars and skinny jeans with a chain loop hanging from her belt straps.
"So what have you found out about our cute little target?" the woman asked nibbling on a snack.
"My Lady I have located the home but it is heavily warded. I can't even get within two feet of it." Andromeda said sighing, "I'm sorry."
"You have done well," the blonde figure replied, looking up at Andromeda with her piercing green eyes, "it is farther then we had hoped do you have a photo for the child at least?"
Andromeda nodded and handed over a single photo to the other woman.
"So what now my lady?" Andromeda asked as the woman finished off her tea and snack.
"Now I can move on with the next phase, you may rest up before heading back to headquarters." The woman replied smiling back at Andromeda as the other girl looked pleased.
"Thank you my lady!" Andromeda said smiling brightly as she stood up and walked into the crowds.
"Check please." The woman said.
She paid her bill and then stood up herself brushing off her skirt before heading down to one of the more secluded parts of the beach. She stared out at the ocean for a moment before she walked into the water in her outfit, but the water didn't seem to soak into her clothing, as she got deeper into the water. Once she dived in her outfit changed and instead of legs she had a fishtail as the dress flowed around her still as she swam around looking for something.
She came upon a rather large rock formation and saw someone already sitting there looking around nervously and irritated.
"I see you got my message, Prince Triton, son of Lord Poseidon." The woman said as the other figure as she bowed to him.
Triton frowned as he narrowed his eyes at the woman.
"Who or what are you?" Triton growled.
"Now is that really a tone you want to talk to me with when they're willing to work with you? The woman practically purred.
"How do I know you are not trying to trick me?" Triton sneered.
"My my so suspicious but I guess that's understandable since you're going being your daddy's back with his precious second son." The woman replied making Triton growl even more darkly. The woman giggled before she held up a photo that Andromeda had given her earlier. "I believe this is the little one you are after?"
Triton snapped the photo out of the woman's hand and glared angrily at the photo.
"Yes this is him," he said before he looked up at the woman, "what do you want me to do?"
"So you are willing to listen to us just to get this child?" the woman asked curiously.
"Possibly…whom exactly would I be working with?" Triton retorted folding his arms.
"You would be under my orders since water is a bit of my…specialty." She said.
"And your name would be?"
"You may called me Aquarius…" the woman replied smirking back at the godling.
"Fine, so what exactly would I be doing." He asked.
"Oh nothing much, just keeping tabs on dear old daddy and reporting to me anything new…" Aquarius started counting off her fingers.
"And how exactly by Hades am I suppose to do that?" Triton asked before a inconspicuous conch shell was tossed at him and caught it.
"You can use that, since being the son of a sea god your parents won't question you having a shell in your room." Aquarius stated, "lets see…in exchange for the information you get I'll keep an eye out on your little target and tell you when you can 'meet' him."
"And that's it?" Triton asked.
"For now…" Aquarius replied slyly, "its not like you signed a contract but we are still doing a favor for each other."
"Should there be anything else I should be aware of." Triton asked.
"If called to battle would you fight for us?" Aquarius asked.
"Maybe…" Triton replied a bit warily, he knew what he wanted but the last thing he wished for was to end up being a pawn.
"Well if you do you may defeat great beasts that may turn your father to pay attention to you rather then some half-mortal child." Aquarius replied.
"…Depends. Is that all now?" Triton growled.
"For now, don't forget our deal I shall see you soon Prince." Aquarius replied sweetly before disappearing in a burst of bubbles leaving Triton alone.
The immortal son of Poseidon looked down at the shell and smirked.
"I'm one step closer in getting you brat…" Triton said maliciously before he swam back to the palace to get any news on what his father may have discovered.
Back on the beach bubbles appeared a the shore before Aquarius stepped out of them running her hands through her hair before her fingers brushed against something on her wrist.
"It is done Master, we have the godling on our side." Aquarius said as she looked at the intricate silver armlet on her wrist where a beautiful sapphire glowed eerily.
::Very good Aquarius, I know you would not fail me:: the voice said in her head, ::await further orders until we figure out what we need to do::
"I understand master, I serve only you." Aquarius said, "we are getting closer to your goal…"
::Yes…the key in the form of an ancient gem that we have spent our lives searching for…the Dragon's Tear shall be ours…::
"Any clues on your end sir?" Aquarius asked as she stretched a bit.
::Nothing, but the others are searching the texts for any clues::
"Do you really believe this creature knows of it?" Aquarius questioned.
::That's what we know of just continue to observe the child do not allow them to know of your presence.::
"Yes sir, I'll talk to later." Aquarius said brushing her fingers against the gem which stopped it glowing before she started singing as she walked off the beach.
Soon the tears shall fall one by one…
The agony knows no bounds
We say goodbye, we hold on tight
To these memories that never die
They say they don't know when but a day is gonna come.
When there won't be a moon and there won't be a sun.
It will just go black.
It will just go back to the way it was before.
Until the end
Till the end~