First things first, I'm really happy that many of you enjoy this fanfic and leaving a review with your opinion is a great way to express that, what I don't like it is when some people are very impatient and keep reviewing for the sake of asking/demanding me to update…that's one of the things that severely annoys me. Asking me once or twice is fine but asking me five or more times? That's just ridiculous AND it makes me not want to write since I write this for enjoyment and I can't really enjoy it if people keep demanding me to update it.
I know my monthly or so updates is a long time to wait but I don't write out my chapters for this fic, I've tried trust me! They take as much time to write as it does the actual chapter so I just write down notes or key points that I want in chapters and go from there. I try to write a bit every day but there are some days when I get nothing and can't.
Now that that's out of the way some reply to reviewers! Btw if you don't have a screen name I'll just put you as anonymous:
Anonymous: I'm sure Hades feels guilty and cares for Nico, but he's a god and he has his pride as well so it'll be awhile before he can actually face Nico and apologizes.
Its me: Lol I'm glad you don't mind the Josh/Zach bits I add in
Aphrodite: Ah thanks I was using an online translator so guess that came out wrong, thanks for the review!
HerosnMira: Ergh yeah I'll fix the ages when I get the chance, thanks for catching that
Lechonquynhnhu: Thanks for the review and I'm still working on that, lacking inspiration sucks alot.
Moonlight Bushido: Lol I thought it would be nice for Nico to have a good mother figure and I hope you enjoy the new chapter!
Silver Vortex: Thanks a lot! Glad you like how I portrayed Nico and Percy.
Rainfire of Riverclan: Thanks and its not over yet haven't quite gotten to how its going to end yet or a sequel.
Well that's about it for the reviews other then that enjoy the newest chapter of Forlorn Ocean!
The two sides were staring at each other wondering what to do at this point when Nico coughed.
"Weren't you guys in the middle of capturing the flag?" Nico asked looking around and many of the half-bloods cursed before there was laughter and everyone turned to see the twins holding their opponent's flags.
"What the…when did you two get that!" Clarisse raged as Noah and Eli tilted their head in unison.
"When everyone was paying more attention to Nico and Percy." They replied, "that and we put the rest of your team asleep thanks to the nymphs."
"How is it you guys get them to LIKE you!" another Demeter's child demanded, "they hardly like any one of us!"
"Cuz we spend time with them," Noah said counting off his fingers.
"Help them replant some of the forest when certain campers cut down the trees and plants," Eli added looking at the Ares campers.
"And those are just two of the things," Noah said sticking his tongue out still waving the flag in the other's faces.
"Alright so it's official," Annabeth said grumbling as she stepped up, "Your side wins now I think we have business to go through…"
"Whoa hold it right there who made you in charge Annabeth? Look I'll take them to Chiron since they know me." Josh said stepping up.
"Then what about her? How did she get through the barriers?" Annabeth asked narrowing her eyes.
"Hey! Leave my mom alone she got here so what?" Percy scowled not liking the look that Amelia was getting making the woman sigh.
"Because unless she's a half-blood she can't get through." Annabeth stated.
"I believe if we can talk to the leader I'm sure we can figure out how I got through this barrier you're talking about." Amelia said looking around stopping the argument before it grew since she saw Percy about to shout back at the blonde girl.
"Follow me Miss. Amelia but uh what are we going to do with your bags?" Zacharias asked looking down at the luggage.
"Oh right…Josh is there a place we can put our stuff?" Amelia asked turning to the magician boy.
"Sure! You can put them in Percy's cabin!" Zach said cheerfully making Percy blink.
"I have my own cabin?" Percy asked.
"We'll explain it as we go, oh yeah what's with the dogs?" Josh asked before he stared as a white ball of fluff tackled Zach making him laugh as he picked up the puppy.
"Saphir! How are you boy!" Zach laughed hugging the puppy.
"Wow you have two dogs Percy?" Noah asked.
"Well Celeste is mine but Saphir is Zachs." Percy explained.
"How did you get a puppy?" Eli questioned, "and can I hold him pleaaseeee?"
"Well I found the poor thing hurt and took care of him basically." Zach replied as he handed over the ball of fluff to Eli who cuddled the puppy as Saphir nervously licked the twin's face.
"He's so fluffy!" Eli laughed hugging Saphir as the puppy's tail started wagging.
"Hmm hey Percy do you think I can leave Saphir in your cabin? If I brought him in my cabin my siblings would try to take him from me…and doll him up." Zach said already imagining what some of his half-siblings would do, especially Drew.
"I don't mind and I think Celeste wouldn't like to be separated from him anyway. She's been like his mother/big sister." Percy said patting the Labrador's head as Celeste barked agreeing.
"Well thank you Celeste for taking care of Saphir for me." Zach chuckled.
"Better make sure they don't pee on the trees…I know dogs do it and all but the wood nymphs wouldn't really like that.." Eli stated grimacing.
"Who would like someone using them as a bathroom?" Josh replied making a face as well as they started walking back to the camp leaving the two groups back in the forest to talk about what had just happened while most of the Ares cabin simmered angrily that they had lost capture the flag all because they got distracted.
"Well technically its Poseidon's cabin but since you're his only son…it makes it yours." Josh explained.
"Can I stay there too?" Nico asked looking around cautiously.
At first Josh, the twins and Zach were wondering why he was doing that when they realized why he looked so apprehensive.
"Bianca?" Josh asked.
"Bianca…" Nico replied grimacing as they hurried to the cabins.
"Well here we are, cabin number three Poseidon's cabin." Zach said as he stood back.
"Can't you approach it?" Percy asked, as he got closer.
"Nope! Unless we wanna feel like we got hit with a several gallons of water." Zach chirped back.
"You shouldn't say that with a happy tone." Josh said dryly as Percy opened the door and all he felt was a soft sea breeze.
"So…how do I allow mom and Nico to come in though?" Percy asked not wanting them hurt.
"I think you have to allow them to enter probably." Zach replied as Percy still looked unsure but nodded.
Percy closed his eyes and tried to will the cabin to allow Amelia and Nico into his cabin along with Josh and the others too. He felt a wave of energy flow around him and opened his eyes, looking around.
"I think its safe…" Percy said looking at around as he put his stuff on one of the bunk beds.
Celeste ran into the cabin easily and sat right next to Percy, Saphir started whining because he wanted to be with Celeste which made the twins walk into the room as well and they were fine.
"Well guess its alright for us to go in." Josh said as he carried some of Amelia's bags.
"Why does the cabin need Percy's permission?" Amelia questioned.
"I think its something with the big three cabins I think? I'm not sure but one camper was dared to enter this cabin and they got blasted back." Zach replied walking in as well.
"Amelia which bed do you want?" Nico said looking around.
"I'll take the bottom one I don't think it'll be wise for me to take a top bunk." Amelia said chuckling a bit as she sat down on a bed as Nico nodded and took the bunk above Percy's.
"So this is the camp that you guys are in?" Percy asked.
"Tch more like kidnapped." Josh grunted folding his arms making Percy blink.
"K-kidnapped!" Percy gawked.
"Ahahaha yeah see there's this not so smart satyr that didn't give Joshy much choice in coming here." Zach explained, "so he's technically been stuck here as a year-rounder."
"What about you?" Amelia asked.
"Year rounder as well, my dad is off traveling the world but if he comes to New York he lets me come assist him." Zach replied.
"Hey Percy is she the lady that made that really really yummy marble cake!" Noah asked eager.
"Uh huh mom owns a bake shop down by the pier.'" Percy replied laughing as the twins hugged a surprised Amelia tightly.
"It was delicious! We can't remember the last time we had a good cake!" the twins said in unison as Amelia hugged them back.
"Well aren't you two sweet?" Amelia said.
"Don't let their appearances fool you these two are as bad as the Stoll brothers in the Herme's cabin a lot of campers, mainly the Ares cabin gets caught in the middle of their prank wars." Josh said dryly while the twins pouted.
"Its not our fault," Noah huffed.
"They're the ones who keep asking for it!" Eli added.
"Rightt….not because you think most of them are all brawn and no brains which makes them easy targets." Josh retorted.
"Your words not ours!" Eli and Noah laughed before turning serious as Eli put Saphir down as the fluffy puppy was squirming in his arms and whining. When he was on the floor he ran to Celeste and curled against her side barking happily.
"So how long are you going to stay here?" Noah asked, "Not that we're not happy to have you here but Josh said that there were circumstances?"
"Yeah my dad…er…adopted dad really but I'll tell you after the meeting with the Olympians Nico said that when we came here that'd be one of the first things we'd end up doing." Percy replied.
"At this time of night? Its already so dark!" Amelia exclamined, "they can wait until tomorrow can't they?"
"Dunno Amelia, this is all up to them you can't really go against them without getting in some sort of trouble if you try resisting." Zach grimaced, "so that means you're gunna have to face your dad and step-mom Nico."
The son of said god of the Underworld cursed.
"If he makes me apologize to Bianca he's got another thing coming." Nico said darkly flopping onto the bed grumbling.
There was a knocking on the door making the group turn to see a centaur standing in front of the cabin.
"Nico? Annabeth told me you headed for this cabin…" Chiron's voice called out, "we need to talk about Percy."
The dark haired Italian boy jumped off of the top bunk onto the floor as he walked out of the cabin to stand in front of Chiron and a few other campers that were milling around, wanting to see what was happening.
"Shouldn't talk to him rather then playing messenger Chiron?" Nico asked as Percy walked out besides him.
"Uh…its nice to meet you Mr. Chiron." Percy said as Amelia peeked out the door with the others.
"Just Chiron child, now I understand you traveled here with your…mother that came with Nico?" the centaur asked as Percy nodded, "and you have no idea how she managed to pass the barriers despite going through Nico's shadow travel?"
"No sir." Percy replied, "are we going to go meet the Olympians now?"
Chiron looked surprised but shook his head.
"It would be best to rest for the night and then I shall take you to them tomorrow morning. There is much to discus." Chiron replied.
"Alright sir." Percy said.
Chiron smiled at the child before he walked back to the big house leaving the two children of the big three staring at the other campers, before Nico scowled darkly at them.
"Did you lot want something?" he growled sending a few campers scampering away in fear.
"You know you really aren't helping your reputation if you act like that." Zach said looking at Nico who folded his arms.
"Like I care what they think as long as they leave me alone." The dark haired boy grumbled. In the corner of his eyes he saw Thalia and Annabeth coming closer and his scowl just got darker, it wasn't until they got close to them that Nico stopped them from saying anything.
"If you think I'm going to apologize to Bianca I'm not." Nico said making the girls frown.
"She's been worried about you! She was just frustrated and let out a bit of hot air!" Annabeth argued.
"A BIT of hot air! A bit of hot air is calling someone names not removing them from your family!" Nico shouted back as his fingers twitched as small quakes shook the ground below.
"Nico!" Amelia admonished making the said boy wince as he turned to face Amelia much to the surprise of the campers, "you need to calm down, don't let them get to you they have no right to say how you should behave when your sister isn't even here to tell her yourself."
"Feh, I bet she wouldn't come near me anyway." Nico said under his breath but he calmed down and the shaking had definitely stopped making the campers wondering how that had happened.
"Whatever it may be, now why don't you go back inside you two I'm sure you have a lot of catching up to do with the others." Amelia said ushering the two boys inside.
"Yes mom/Amelia." Nico and Percy said as they walked back in.
"Now, would you girls mind explaining to me why you think Nico should be the one to apologize to Bianca and not the other way around?" Amelia asked, "because from what I hear its mostly his sister that at fault that sent Nico away wasn't it?"
"M-maybe but Nico was the one who kept disappearing." Annabeth stated but Amelia didn't looked bothered by the fact.
"And why do you think he kept disappearing? Have you seen Nico around anyone that isn't nervous or afraid around him besides the campers inside here?" Amelia replied, "from what Nico tells me hardly anyone at the camp likes or cares for him so why, would someone who clearly knows he's not wanted around here want to stay for long periods of time?"
The two girls were left opened mouthed as they tried to come up with a rebuttal but after a few minutes when Amelia didn't hear anything from them she just shook her head and turned to walk back inside the Poseidon's cabin.
"When you girls have figured out how to defend your friend's actions come find me since I'm going to be here for a while." Amelia said before she disappeared inside the cabin shutting the door behind her.
"Why do I feel like I have no room to argue with her?" Thalia asked as she looked at Annabeth who was looking frustrated at being out maneuvered by Amelia when it came to talking about the Hades siblings.
"You're not the only one I feel I just lost a battle of wits with that woman." Annabether replied back irritated.
"She kinda has a point, Nico really isn't that well liked though when you think about it." Thalia said making the Athena child look at her.
"Thalia!" Annabeth exclaimed as they walked away.
"You have to see her points Annabeth, she may have only known Nico for a month or more but she seems to know him better then most of the other campers!" Thalia argued making the silver eyed girl go quiet.
"Come on lets go find Bianca and see what she thinks about all of this." She said after a while.
"You know its breakfast tomorrow its going to be tense having those two sit at the same table." Thalia said grimacing as Annabeth followed her sentiments.
"I'll bet she's wondering why Nico isn't in the Hades cabin so that she can talk to him."
The blonde girl added as the daughter of Zeus sighed.
"I wouldn't be surprised." She said.
oOo The Next Morning oOo
Percy woke up pretty early as the sun was just barely up but after getting up early practically everyday since Tatsuya started to train him his body got use to it. He yawned and as he turned his body to get out of bed his head accidentally hit against the top bunk making him yelp, and waking up Nico who had taken the bed above him.
"Hmm?" Nico said sleepily before looking over the side of his bed and see Percy rubbing his head as he got out of his own bed, "Percy are you alright?"
"Yeah, forgot that we were in bunk beds and bumped my head." Percy replied as he went to the bathroom to wash his face.
"The sun is just barely up though," Nico said looking out the window where the sun was just finished rising.
"I got use to dad training us at this time remember?" Percy explained as he splashed his face a few times and went looking for his clothes to change.
Nico nodded and jumped from the top bunk down to the ground, luckily he didn't wake up the others as he looked around. Though he was resisting the urge to laugh loudly, apparently somehow during the night whether it was intentional or not Zach had left his own bed and had crawled into the same bed as Josh was in spooning himself against the Apollo boy.
"Hey Percy you packed your camera?" Nico asked as Percy had put on a clean shirt.
"Yeah its in the front pocket of my bag still why?" the water half-blood asked.
All he got in return was Nico's smirk becoming wider as he went looking for the camera but Percy did see him point to the bed Josh was sleeping in which was under the bed the twins were sharing. Once he finished getting dressed he walked over and had to slap his hands over his own mouth to stop laughing as well.
"This is a perfect opportunity." Nico snickered as he set the camera settings so that the flash didn't go off since he knew that Josh was a light sleeper due to the constant surprise attacks that Zach did to him.
He made sure to snap a few of them before he tossed the camera back to Percy and the boy quickly put it somewhere safe since Josh would more then likely demand that the pictures be deleted or he broke the camera. Percy did not want the later happening anytime soon.
"So you wanna train a bit?" Nico asked as he headed over to the bathroom area to wash his own face and wake up.
"Could we? I wanna try a few things and dad never exactly said to stop training." Percy said as Nico nodded.
"Yeah I think he wants us to continue improving our abilities even if we're stuck here." Nico replied as he changed his clothes as well.
"Do you think anyone else is up at this time?" Percy asked as the two left the cabin.
"At this time? Probably Chiron and the nymphs, doubt anyone else wants to be up at practically the crack of dawn." Nico replied as the two headed towards the lake were Percy blinked and moved closer to the water by walking on the dock and looked down.
Down in the water Percy saw some girls that were under water weaving baskets with the plants found in the lake as the child of Poseidon watched curiously. One of them stopped when they felt they were being watched which made her look up at the surface to see Percy watching them from the dock. Putting down her weaving she swam up and looked up at the child of Poseidon.
"I haven't seen you around camp before, who are you?" the water nymph asked.
"My name is Percy Jackson I just got here yesterday." Percy replied as the Nymph's eyes widen.
"Oh! You're the missing Poseidon's child the camp has been looking for a while!" the nymph replied grinning widely before she called the other two nymphs that were with her up to the surface, "we've been wondering when you would come to camp!"
"Wow he's cuter then some of the campers had described him." Another nymph giggled.
"Well you can definitely feel Lord Poseidon's power in him." The third one said.
"Uhm thank you? I've introduced myself but what are your names?" Percy asked politely surprising them.
"You really want to know our names?" the first nymph girl asked.
"That's a first, most campers just group us together and just call us nymphs." The third girl said.
"I'm Naida! You're really a sweet boy Percy!" Naida giggled.
"Well I'm Undine." The first Nymph said smiling.
"and I'm Neros it's a pleasure to meet you young prince. If you need any help from us don't be afraid to ask." Neros replied.
"Percy what are you doing?" Nico asked walking over and saw that Percy had been talking to the lake water nymphs.
"Sorry Nico I just got curious since I've never seen a nymph before!" Percy replied.
"Well not surprising, nymphs don't usually stay when there are people approaching since they have a history of being chased, or were those only the nymphs in the forest?" Nico asked rubbing his chin.
"Really, well I'm glad I got to meet you Undine, Neros and Naida! oh yeah I'm going to be training with Nico a bit so would it be alright if I used the lake water?" Percy asked, "you three were working on making baskets and I don't want to bother you."
"Its fine young prince," Undine said smiling, "well just stop for now we are rather curious on your powers to manipulate the waters."
"Thank you!" Percy said as he stood back up and ran off the docks waiting for Nico by the sand that the lake water touched.
Nico walked over to him at a more sedate pace before he got in the starting position that Tatsuya had showed him.
"So how long do you think we should go?" Nico asked.
"Until my mom starts yelling at us to stop?" Percy replied laughing.
"That's going to be a while." Nico replied raising an eyebrow, " by that time most of the camp will be up."
"Eh fine until my mom or the centaur uh…Chiron right?" Percy said looking at Nico who nodded, "hey Nico was Chiron that was someone who was nice to you?"
Nico paused to think a bit but nodded.
"He would always invite me to play a game with him or Mr. D he can't show favorisim since he's in charge of the camp but he's a good person…uh…centaur." Nico corrected making Percy grin.
"Alright then lets go!" Percy said as he summoned some water over to him forming his trident as instead of bringing out this stygian sword Nico made a sword out of the earth around him.
"You're not going to last long against me Percy!" Nico replied smirking as he swung his sword against Percy's trident, which the younger boy managed to block before he manipulated the water to turn the ground near Nico's foot to mud making him loose his balance a bit which allowed Percy to push more easily against the older boy.
"Hey Nico?" Percy asked as they kept the fighting with just weapons for now.
"Yeah Percy?" Nico replied as he ducked a stab from the poseidon's child as he pressed forward and adjusted his grip so he tried to stab Percy.
Neither of them were going for drawing blood, they just wanted to learn to control how forceful they could be with their weapons, and Percy could always heal himself and Nico with the water.
"Whats a higher form of manipulating earth? I know a higher form is ice for me but what about you?" Percy asked as he tried hitting Nico with the flat side of his trident but Nico was faster then him and got out of the way in time.
"Huh, never thought about it actually…maybe gemstones since they're from earth?" Nico replied having never really considered the level past the usual earth manipulations, "or maybe metal since bits of earth are in metal."
"That would be cool if you could manipulate gems or metal!" Percy said.
"Right but lets just focus on what we can do now rather then something that I don't would actually work." Nico replied as he managed to land a hit on Percy by nailing the child of Poseidon with the butt of his sword on Percy's head.
"Ow! Nico!" Percy grumbling knowing that there's going to be a giant red mark in the middle of his forehead for awhile until he healed it.
"You'll live its just a mark." Nico laughed as Percy rubbed his head, "come on enough warm-up with weapons now for the real work."
"Yeah yeah." Percy grumbled as he moved closer to the lake and looked at the trio of nymphs that were watching amazed, "you girls might want to move a bit, I don't want to accidentally attack you."
The three nymphs nodded and quickly dove under water as Percy managed to freeze some of the lake top and stepped on top of it as Nico summoned a pillar of earth underneath him until he was standing a good several feet off the ground.
"You ready Percy?" Nico called from his position and when he saw Percy nod he sprung into action. He created medium sized sphere of earth and threw them at the half-blood on the lake.
Percy having more practice on ice skated out of the way out of a few before he used the water to cut clear through them, turning them into tiny pieces and away from him.
"You're getting better Percy but that won't help for long!" Nico smirked as he increased the number of spheres and threw them faster at Percy who grimaced.
"I am really going to need a shower after this." He grumbled as he got to work.
Amelia woke up a bit later as Celeste and Saphir were whining rather loudly waking the woman up.
"I'll get your food in a moment you two." The woman mumbled as she got out of the bed and looked around, realizing that she wasn't in her house, "what the where am I, oh yes…I'm at Nico's camp."
She glanced at the other beds and saw that the others had already left leaving her alone with the dogs.
"Guess everyone had an early start huh guys?" Amelia said as she patted the dogs heads making the two bark.
She quickly washed her face and changed her clothes from yesterday as well before walking out with Celeste and Saphir next to her. Amelia was surprised when she saw the rather large crowd by the lake front and wondered what was going on. As she moved closer she could hear the campers mumbling among themselves and just as she got to the front she saw Josh and the others staring as she headed in their direction. The twins were grinning widely as they had their hands up cheering loudly as Josh and Zach were completely stunned.
"What's going on you guys?" Amelia asked.
"That's whats going on Ms. Amelia! Did you know about that!" Josh replied pointing as Amelia followed Josh's finger to see what had him stunned and couldn't help but stare as well when she saw the sight.
Nico and Percy both had splotches of mud all over them, not to mention a few marks and scratches from obviously the training they were doing. But that wasn't just it, what had her and probably everyone staring was the actual battle going on. Nico had his arms covered by chunks of earth as he blocked a several ice spheres launched by Percy before he made a fist and slammed it into the ground where pillars shot up trying to trip Percy up.
The young half-blood thought fast and quickly created a large bubble that he held onto as he floated above the pillars safely before he landed on one and called the water to rain down on Nico, some of the water elongate and turning into spears since Percy was still learning how to change water to ice he couldn't turn all of them into spears. Nico called the sand and created a shelter that the campers had seen him use when he came back in the middle of capture the flag. The mixture of both water and spears made quick work of the shelter as Percy got down and frowned when all he saw was a pile of mud.
"Prince behind you!" Neros shouted making Percy swerve his head as Nico came up from the ground and blasted Percy with sand as the other half blood did the same with water sending them both crashing on opposite ends as the blasts made contact.
The two stood back up wincing as they knew there was going to be some slight bruising before they ran towards each other and raised their fists and were about to make contact when Amelia had seen enough.
"Perseus Jackson! Nico Di Angelo that is enough!" Amelia shouted surprising both boys making them stumble before they fell on their backsides.
"Aw mom!" Percy pouted as Amelia walked up to them as the campers were surprised that this woman could actually make Nico stop and listen to her.
"Percy I know your father told you to train but I don't think it would be a good idea to punch Nico." Amelia said looking at him while Josh and the others came closer.
"Why not? Its just water." Percy replied as Nico looked at the fist and blanched.
"Uh Percy you might want to re-check that." Nico said making Percy blink and gaze down at his arm before his mouth dropped. Instead of water covering his arm like Percy had thought, Ice had completely covered his fist and his entire forearm.
"Holy Zeus! If you hit Nico with that he'd probably have a broken jaw!" Josh exclaimed as he stared as well.
"Yeah and I already have my permanet teeth already." Nico grimaced as he stood up and helped Percy up as well. The two got rid of their element armor and looked around staring back at the many pairs of eyes that were watching them.
"We really didn't notice this crowd?" Percy asked looking at Nico.
"Told you by the time Amelia woke up that the whole camep would be watching." Nico replied dryly as he glared at a few of them but all of them seemed still too stunned to moved.
"How did you do that you guys!" Eli asked bouncing over to Percy.
"Yeah that was wicked!" Noah added bright.
"You two could probably do something like that since you're Demeter children. We can do it because of our elements, I'm earth and Percy is obviously water." Nico replied.
"Ya know didn't all the plants in the orphanage and mama's gardens seem more lively when we were around them?" Eli asked his twin.
"Same with the park its like we could feel the life in the plants around us I think…right?" Noah replied before looking over at Percy and Nico, "do you think you could show us how to do what you guys did?"
"Maybe later, right now you two need to get healed and clean yourselves off." Amelia said brushing her finger against Percy's hair and getting mud on it as her son laughed sheepishly.
Saphir had found Zach and the magician had picked up the ball of fluff as Celeste stood by Amelia's side.
"I'll go get some ambrosia then." Zach offered but Percy shook his head.
"Its fine Zach I can heal and clean me and Nico off." Percy said, as he grabbed Nico's arm and hauled him towards the lake.
"Did you see those two?" an Apollo child whispered.
"That was just…how in the world can those two do stuff like that?" another camper questioned to his own cabin mates.
"Well they are children of the big three." His friend replied.
"But you don't see Thalia going around calling thunderbolts on people." The camper hissed back.
"Are they always this nosy?" Amelia asked as Percy dumped a bunch of lake water on him and Nico, making sure that he still held Nico's arm so that he would get healed and dried their clothes as well.
"Uh huh," Josh replied as Percy let go of Nico's arm and the Hades's child patted Percy's head as the two walked back to them.
"What is going on here? You all should be in the mess hall for breakfast." Chiron's voice said above all the chattering of the campers quickly silencing them as they parted so that the aged old trainer could walk through. He frowned when he looked at Nico and Percy who looked a bit guilty.
"We're sorry Chiron I had gotten up early and was training with Nico." Percy explained.
"If you were all training then why is everyone around the lakeside?" Chiron asked.
"Oh because they're idea of training is using earth, sand, water and Ice against each other." Zach said making Chiron stare.
"Excuse me?" the centaur asked wondering if his hearing was finally going, "did you just say they used earth, sand, water and ice against each other?"
"We can manipulate certain elements Chiron." Nico said showing the centaur as he created a sand statue of him instantly while Percy called some of the lake water over to him and made a trident before making it become ice.
"That, is rather impressive…especially you Nico I never knew you could do that." Chiron said.
"You learn something new every once in a while." Percy shrugged.
"I see, well lets all go to the mess hall for breakfast you two must've worked up quite an appetite." Chiron said smiling at them as the two nodded.
"Bye Prince! It was fun watching you train with Nico! Come back anytime!" Undine shouted as she and the other nymphs waved before diving back into the lake.
"Prince?" Eli asked amused as Percy scratched his cheek.
"I guess since my other dad is Poseidon, god of the sea and they're water nymphs who're under him they see me as a prince?" Percy replied.
"Oh of course your highness!" Noah teased, "Do you need us to call for your carriage so you can arrive at the mess hall in style?"
"Speaking of style, those clothes are atrocious! How dare a prince of your high standard wear such common clothing!" Eli added in a pompous voice.
"I'll call the tailor's immediantly and get the red carpet at once! The prince cannot be seen walking on common ground!" Noah shouted making Percy groan.
"Guys! Knock it off!" Percy complained while the twins continued teasing the 'prince' before he turned to Josh, "Josh! Help me!"
"Are you sure you're a prince Perseus? You can't even control your court jesters!" Josh admonished making the younger kids mouth's drop.
"Jesters! We would not be jesters!" the twins huffed.
"Argh! You're suppose to be helping me!" Percy whined.
"Now Prince Percy whining isn't becoming of royalty!" Josh admonished before laughing at how frustrated Percy was becoming.
Celetse seemed to enjoy Percy being teased but bumped her head against Percy's side making him scratch her head to make him feel better.
"At least Celeste isn't teasing me." Percy grumbled.
"Celeste is a dog, are you sure you're alright your highness?" Zach added joining in the teasing.
"Nico! They keep teasing me about the title Undine called me!" Percy said pulling on Nico's sleeve.
"Oh really now?" Nico said looking at the others who stopped laughing to look at the dark haired Italian boy, "pift please if anyone should be a prince it's me compared to you shrimp."
"Hey! I'm still growing Nico!" Percy growled waving his fists at the older teen as Josh and the others just laughed louder.
Annabeth and Thalia who had watched the training from the back and were watching the group, more specifically Nico out of the corner of their eyes as they walked saw a relaxed smile on the usually scowling face of Nico.
Around Percy and the others, especially the Amelia woman he seemed at ease and comfortable with them near, he was even joining in teasing Percy about the whole prince thing and was laughing…like a normal teenager. Not the like his usual demeanor that always seemed tense as if someone was going to jump or attack him, he tended to be snappish as well not to mention all the glaring he would give others that had talked behind his back.
As everyone headed for the mess hall Amelia kept in step with Chiron as she had a few questions to ask him.
"Mr. Chiron sir," Amelia started but the centaur held up a hand.
"Just Chiron Miss. Amelia." Chiron said as the woman nodded.
"You mentioned something about a meeting with the Olympians today?" Amelia asked.
"Yes that's correct it would be best for both Nico and Percy to see them as soon as possible so I'll be taking them after breakfast." Chiron said.
"May I accompany you?" Amelia asked.
"I'm not too sure, normal mortals aren't allowed usually." Chiron said.
"I realize that it's a sacred place for the gods but there are probably going to be some questions that they will ask and Percy wouldn't know how to answer." Amelia replied, "especially if it concerns Tatsuya."
"You have a valid point Amelia." Chiron said rubbing his chin considering the options before sighing, "I guess there isn't much of a choice, you have been around Percy's adopted father much longer and would be best to answer questions involving him."
"Thank you very much Chiron." Amelia said as they got to the halls and everyone started to separate to their cabin tables.
"Josh why is everyone sitting in different places?" Percy asked the Apollo boy.
"Each table is set for a different cabin." Josh explained as Zach walked over to his table with Saphir in his lap. The white husky growled at Drew when she came by and quickly retracted her hand that was about to grab Saphir and scurried off to the far end of the table, "I have to sit with my half-siblings at the Apollo table, same with Zach, the twins and Nico…"
"Why can't Nico sit with me and mom at my table?" Percy asked.
"Its just the way things were set up here Percy." Josh replied.
"This bites." Percy grumbled as Josh chuckled.
"Sorry kiddo just gunna have to get use to it and before you eat you have to give some of your food in the fire as an offering to your godly parent." Josh added.
"Alright I'll see you after breakfast Josh?" Percy asked.
"Dunno Percy, you have that meeting with the Olympians remember? Chiron's more then likely going to take you after breakfast." Josh said thoughtfully making the water child sigh at that.
"Right almost forgot about that when I was training with Nico." Percy said.
"I'm sure you'll be fine." Josh assured, "but I'll see you later alright?"
"Kay, see you after the meeting I guess Josh." Percy said as the brunette walked over to the Apollo table where his own siblings had grabbed him and started shooting him questions about Percy.
Percy found a few set of tables that didn't have anyone sitting at them and wondered which one he was suppose to sit at. He looked at the table top and saw that there were engravings on them to tell which table belong to whom, the one he was currently was looking at had a silver bow and arrow on it. He moved away from that and looked until he found one with a blue trident on it and sat down, wasn't long until Amelia joined him.
"Hey sweetie are you alright?" Amelia asked.
"I'm fine, but I'm more worried about Nico since he has to sit with his sister." Percy replied looking around and managed to spot Nico sitting at the edge of a table as another girl approached him.
"Nico can handle her don't worry about him." Amelia said as Celeste was under the table and curled up on the floor by their feet.
"If you say so mom." Percy said as he saw the wood nymphs starting to hand out the plates of food.
"Get away from me unless you'd like to cause another scene like before Bianca." Nico said venomously as he glared darkly at his older sister that stopped a few feet away from him, "I am in no way going to forgive you anytime soon for what you said and if I had it my way I wouldn't be here now."
"So why are you here?" Bianca grumbled settling a few seats away from her brother.
"Certain conditions that I'm not at liberty to discus with outside people." Nico retorted.
"Outside people? I'm your sister!" Bianca replied.
"Did you forget sister? You kicked me out of the family so I don't have a sister." Nico hissed making Bianca flinch.
"Nico…"
"Don't say anything I'm already sick of hearing your voice so just stop talking." Nico said coldly as he took his plate and hurried walk off to the fire as Bianca was left alone at the table.
Nico stared at the flames wondering who he should offer his food to, he was still angry at his own father so he was out…
'Might as well try offering some of it to Tatsuya he's technically a god.' Nico thought to himself as he pushed a bit of his food into the fire and thought of the dragon god that had cared for him.
The food burned up and from the ashes the smell of ocean wafted through making him smile a bit.
'I hope you're okay Tatsuya…' Nico thought as he walked back to his table to hopefully eat his food in peace.
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"So its really okay for you to be here?" Nico asked surprised as he looked at Amelia as he, Percy, Chiron and Amelia were in the elevator in the Empire State Building to meet up with the gods.
"Yes, because I'm sure that they're going to be asking questions concerning Tatsuya that you two won't be able to answer." Amelia explained.
"Amelia I know you're angry at my godly dad and step-mother but please don't do anything to anger them I know you mean well but I don't want to have to go down to the underworld to see you." Nico asked.
"I won't if they don't say anything." Amelia huffed as Nico groaned.
"Mom's brave." Percy said.
"Or over-protective…" Nico replied though he couldn't help but feel a bit happy knowing that the woman was over-protective of him.
"Top floor of the Empire state building." The elevator manager said as the doors opened and the group left.
Amelia was in awe as she walked behind Chiron with Percy and Nico at her sides as they entered the main hallway where all the gods were waiting for them. When they arrived all of their heads turned towards him making the people walking behind Chiron freeze a bit but stayed behind the centaur as he stopped in the center.
"Chiron explain to me why there is a mortal woman when we only asked for the half-bloods." Zeus's voice boomed echoing in the large area.
"I thought it would be best since she knows of the man that took care of Lord Poseidon's son better then the children." Chiron replied.
"Understood. You may leave Chiron we need to discuss this privately." Zeus replied as the centaur nodded.
"I'll be waiting on the bottom floor." He said to them as he walked by leaving the trio in the presence of the gods.
Percy looked around at all the faces that were looking at him, some were indifferent, others were curious, one was happy but one was very very familiar to him and he smiled brightly and approached her throne much to the shock of the others.
"Tsuki-hime!" Percy called out happily, "I didn't know you were a goddess!"
All the other gods now looked at Artemis.
"I did say I found him lost in the woods and brought him back." The moon goddess replied as she shrunk her throne so she could stand in front of Percy and observed him. "you have grown much since last time young one."
"Thank you again for helping me find Celeste and bringing me back to my parents Tsuki-hime." Percy said.
"Uh Percy why are you calling Lady Artemis Tsuki-hime?" Nico asked suddenly thankful that Artemis seemed to like Percy enough that she didn't mind that he was a boy.
"Oh well I didn't know her name when she found me and since her eyes were pretty like the moon and had just a sort of feeling she was royalty I called her that." Percy replied sheepishly.
"It means Moon princess Nico, and its rather fitting since she's Artemis." Amelia said before she too turned toward the goddess of the hunt, "thank you for bringing my son back as well."
"Well this is all butterflies and happiness…" Ares sneered, "but didn't we have a meeting to get through without all this sappiness?"
"Percy Jackson…there are many things we need to discus with you and Nico Di Angelo…" Zeus's voice said seriously as he stared down at the half-blood as he glanced over to Nico that was still close to Amelia's side scowling at Hades and Persephone.