p id="docs-internal-guid-52466f2b-7fff-8564-e559-ba80dcbb6924" dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Will POV /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"I woke up Nico and he looked at me with shattered eyes. Sorry he quickly looked away and blushed, scrambling to give some space between us when he realized how close we were. He began to ramble, "Sorry you were cold and I hoped my fur would warm you. I didn't mean to turn human but I did and that is awkward, sorry." I laughed and looked outside. It was still horrible out so we spent the rest of the week talking, laughing and getting to know each other. When I returned home I was almost tackled by my friends and after I explained and Lou asked for ALLthe details. Every night I meet Nico in the clearing and we talk for what feels like eternity and not enough at the same time. One night I was especially nervous. My friends forced me to invite Nico over so they could meet him. And I quote Kayla when she said "I want to know who my future half brother in law is." Which led to a lot of stuttering and blushing from Will. Nico suddenly walked into the moonlight snapping Will from his thoughts. "What's wrong?" Was immediately what Nico asked. "Am I really that obvious?" I sighed. Nico stared at me with calculating eyes and I squirmed under his gaze. "So do you think you would be Willing to meet my friends and come back to the pack with me? Not permanently unless you wanted to but to look around?" I said rushing through the words. Nicos mouth hung open and I flinched. He slowly nodded and said, "Sure I will see you tomorrow morning" with a small voice and disappeared into the night./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"—-Time skip brought to you by only eating muffin tops—-/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Will paced through the clearing the next day waiting for Nico with his friends Kayla, Cecil, Lou, Percy, Annabeth, Piper, Jason, Leo, and Calypso. There was rustling in the trees somewhere and I called out "Nico you there?" A dispatched voice of Nico responded, "Why are there so many?" Leo answered that one with a "That's what she said!" And A stick hit him in the head. Will stifled a laugh and said "These are my friends you can come down!" Suddenly in front of him Nico dropped down in a super hero position with a hand on the ground and he was on one knee. He slowly stood up and had a guarded expression on and his eyes flitted across the group. He gasped and pointed at Percy, "You." Percy's eyes were as wide as saucers as they stared at Nico and said "Holy schist" I looked between the two and Annabeth said "care to fill in the rest of the class?" Nico scowled and Percy gulped saying, "I may have promised to protect his sister and was unable to and I also kinda held a sword to his throat when I thought he had betrayed me when we were trying to get some rebels but it ended up him triple crossing them and Savin me. So yeah." Everyone's mouths fell open so Piper just said "We Will talk about this later but for now we want to get to know you Nico." Nico cocked his head with a confused look on his face. Jason clapped his hands and said "Ok lets go and get some ice cream like planned and continue on with the day." They all turned around and Nico slowly walked forward joining the group. "So where do you live exactly and where is your pack?" Asked Annabeth. Nico shrugged and said "No pack and I live in the most glamorous cave around with the best hay beds ever and scratch marks." He finished sarcastically and Leo said "Hey I get to be the funny one!" "Says the dude with the joke the that is what she said joke." Said Percy. They all laughed and were about to enter the entrance to their packs town. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Nico POV/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"I gazed around at the town with kids running around chasing each other turning into wolves. There were little houses a good distance away from each other with cozy restaurants and stores. I still wasn't sure what to make of Will's friends and I was most definitely annoyed about Percy but anything to make Will happy. They took a turn and found a quent looking frozen yogurt shop and stepped inside to see so many flavors Nico though his eyes couldn't get wider. Leo made a beeline for the coffee ice cream which was not good because he was already so hyper. Piper walked over to scold him and Nico roamed the isles looking for the best flavor out there, chocolate. Nico let the thick syrupy flavor fall into his cup when he pulled down the lever and licked his lips. Will walked over to him and laughed "Your tail is wagging" Nico bushed and said "Don't question the power of chocolate." He looked over at Will's cup and nodded his head at it "What did you get?" Will took a bite and said "cake batter" Nico laughed "do you just like it because it's yellow?" Will nodded pointing this spoon at him "don't question the power of yellow." They laughed and walked to join the others. "So what is up with you guys? What is your backstory?" I asked. Will began saying "Well Kayla there is in the Apollo pack and is wicked with an arrow and is my half sister. You know Percy who is in the Poseidon pack and Annabeth the genius is in the Athena pack and Leo is the weird kid who is in the Hephestos pack and Calypso is a witch and healer while Piper is in the Aphrodite pack and Jason the Zeus while Cecil is in the Hermes cabin and Lou is a witch while I am a human." Nico nodded. "So Nico, what do you like doing in your free time?" Said Lou. "Mytho- umm I like just running a lot and sword fighting." Nico blushed realizing that he almost said Mythomagic. "Will, what is that on your neck?" Said Jason, with confusion written across his face. Wil touched his neck where the bite mark from Octavian was but Nico had bit down when he was healing Will to pull the venom out. Everyone looked and started bursting out laughing. "Will you got marked!" Yelled Leo pointing. Realization dawned on Wills face and he stuttered blushing which was absolutely cute like a little puppy. "Nico, did you do this?" Asked Piper smiling. "Well yeah after he was bit by Octavian I had to draw the venom out." And then he realized and groaned. When you bit someone lightly like that wihtought turning them you were marking them as your mate and Nico had just done that to /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Will/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;". Like /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"the /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Will. They laughed and the rest of the day went smoothly until…They were walking over near the gate so they could go to the lake and swim but the boards had stopped them and looked at Nico. "Who are you?" Asked the bigger one with blond hair slicked back and sharp broad features. Nicos tail twitched and he replied "Nico Di Angelo" the smaller lean girl with long black hair in a tight sleek ponytail and hollow features gasped and said "Your /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"teeth/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;". You are a werewolf hybrid aren't you? What is your pack?" Nico became nervous as they started to point their speeds at him and just kind of nodded "Do we have a problem?" They began walking forward and the larger one yelled "We need backup there is a vampire on the premises it is probably trying to steal something!" More guards surrounded Nico and the group tried to yell for them to get away but were ignored. They started to close in and jabbing at Nico he rolled and stood in ready position. Some turned into wolves and launched. Nico turned into a wolf and rolled and ducked but one landed on his back and they began to roll around. Nico slashed the guy in the face and began to run. He sprinted away and into the forest without a look back. But someone started to come after him. Twigs broke in his wake and he stumbled. When he turned around and looked back he saw it was one of the guards from before. It was a thin girl with slicked back hair. They began to circle each other and Nico pounced. He landed on the girl and they rolled around biting and clawing. Pain was spreading through Nico but he was doing far worse to the girl. They rolled and rolled hitting trees and bushes. With A final shove Nico pinned her down and she smirked up at him. What was the threat? Why was she smirking? And then pain shot through his head and it all went black./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"I woke up Nico and he looked at me with shattered eyes. Sorry he quickly looked away and blushed, scrambling to give some space between us when he realized how close we were. He began to ramble, "Sorry you were cold and I hoped my fur would warm you. I didn't mean to turn human but I did and that is awkward, sorry." I laughed and looked outside. It was still horrible out so we spent the rest of the week talking, laughing and getting to know each other. When I returned home I was almost tackled by my friends and after I explained and Lou asked for ALLthe details. Every night I meet Nico in the clearing and we talk for what feels like eternity and not enough at the same time. One night I was especially nervous. My friends forced me to invite Nico over so they could meet him. And I quote Kayla when she said "I want to know who my future half brother in law is." Which led to a lot of stuttering and blushing from Will. Nico suddenly walked into the moonlight snapping Will from his thoughts. "What's wrong?" Was immediately what Nico asked. "Am I really that obvious?" I sighed. Nico stared at me with calculating eyes and I squirmed under his gaze. "So do you think you would be Willing to meet my friends and come back to the pack with me? Not permanently unless you wanted to but to look around?" I said rushing through the words. Nicos mouth hung open and I flinched. He slowly nodded and said, "Sure I will see you tomorrow morning" with a small voice and disappeared into the night./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"—-Time skip brought to you by only eating muffin tops—-/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Will paced through the clearing the next day waiting for Nico with his friends Kayla, Cecil, Lou, Percy, Annabeth, Piper, Jason, Leo, and Calypso. There was rustling in the trees somewhere and I called out "Nico you there?" A dispatched voice of Nico responded, "Why are there so many?" Leo answered that one with a "That's what she said!" And A stick hit him in the head. Will stifled a laugh and said "These are my friends you can come down!" Suddenly in front of him Nico dropped down in a super hero position with a hand on the ground and he was on one knee. He slowly stood up and had a guarded expression on and his eyes flitted across the group. He gasped and pointed at Percy, "You." Percy's eyes were as wide as saucers as they stared at Nico and said "Holy schist" I looked between the two and Annabeth said "care to fill in the rest of the class?" Nico scowled and Percy gulped saying, "I may have promised to protect his sister and was unable to and I also kinda held a sword to his throat when I thought he had betrayed me when we were trying to get some rebels but it ended up him triple crossing them and Savin me. So yeah." Everyone's mouths fell open so Piper just said "We Will talk about this later but for now we want to get to know you Nico." Nico cocked his head with a confused look on his face. Jason clapped his hands and said "Ok lets go and get some ice cream like planned and continue on with the day." They all turned around and Nico slowly walked forward joining the group. "So where do you live exactly and where is your pack?" Asked Annabeth. Nico shrugged and said "No pack and I live in the most glamorous cave around with the best hay beds ever and scratch marks." He finished sarcastically and Leo said "Hey I get to be the funny one!" "Says the dude with the joke the that is what she said joke." Said Percy. They all laughed and were about to enter the entrance to their packs town. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Nico POV/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"I gazed around at the town with kids running around chasing each other turning into wolves. There were little houses a good distance away from each other with cozy restaurants and stores. I still wasn't sure what to make of Will's friends and I was most definitely annoyed about Percy but anything to make Will happy. They took a turn and found a quent looking frozen yogurt shop and stepped inside to see so many flavors Nico though his eyes couldn't get wider. Leo made a beeline for the coffee ice cream which was not good because he was already so hyper. Piper walked over to scold him and Nico roamed the isles looking for the best flavor out there, chocolate. Nico let the thick syrupy flavor fall into his cup when he pulled down the lever and licked his lips. Will walked over to him and laughed "Your tail is wagging" Nico bushed and said "Don't question the power of chocolate." He looked over at Will's cup and nodded his head at it "What did you get?" Will took a bite and said "cake batter" Nico laughed "do you just like it because it's yellow?" Will nodded pointing this spoon at him "don't question the power of yellow." They laughed and walked to join the others. "So what is up with you guys? What is your backstory?" I asked. Will began saying "Well Kayla there is in the Apollo pack and is wicked with an arrow and is my half sister. You know Percy who is in the Poseidon pack and Annabeth the genius is in the Athena pack and Leo is the weird kid who is in the Hephestos pack and Calypso is a witch and healer while Piper is in the Aphrodite pack and Jason the Zeus while Cecil is in the Hermes cabin and Lou is a witch while I am a human." Nico nodded. "So Nico, what do you like doing in your free time?" Said Lou. "Mytho- umm I like just running a lot and sword fighting." Nico blushed realizing that he almost said Mythomagic. "Will, what is that on your neck?" Said Jason, with confusion written across his face. Wil touched his neck where the bite mark from Octavian was but Nico had bit down when he was healing Will to pull the venom out. Everyone looked and started bursting out laughing. "Will you got marked!" Yelled Leo pointing. Realization dawned on Wills face and he stuttered blushing which was absolutely cute like a little puppy. "Nico, did you do this?" Asked Piper smiling. "Well yeah after he was bit by Octavian I had to draw the venom out." And then he realized and groaned. When you bit someone lightly like that wihtought turning them you were marking them as your mate and Nico had just done that to /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Will/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;". Like /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"the /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Will. They laughed and the rest of the day went smoothly until…They were walking over near the gate so they could go to the lake and swim but the boards had stopped them and looked at Nico. "Who are you?" Asked the bigger one with blond hair slicked back and sharp broad features. Nicos tail twitched and he replied "Nico Di Angelo" the smaller lean girl with long black hair in a tight sleek ponytail and hollow features gasped and said "Your /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"teeth/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;". You are a werewolf hybrid aren't you? What is your pack?" Nico became nervous as they started to point their speeds at him and just kind of nodded "Do we have a problem?" They began walking forward and the larger one yelled "We need backup there is a vampire on the premises it is probably trying to steal something!" More guards surrounded Nico and the group tried to yell for them to get away but were ignored. They started to close in and jabbing at Nico he rolled and stood in ready position. Some turned into wolves and launched. Nico turned into a wolf and rolled and ducked but one landed on his back and they began to roll around. Nico slashed the guy in the face and began to run. He sprinted away and into the forest without a look back. But someone started to come after him. Twigs broke in his wake and he stumbled. When he turned around and looked back he saw it was one of the guards from before. It was a thin girl with slicked back hair. They began to circle each other and Nico pounced. He landed on the girl and they rolled around biting and clawing. Pain was spreading through Nico but he was doing far worse to the girl. They rolled and rolled hitting trees and bushes. With A final shove Nico pinned her down and she smirked up at him. What was the threat? Why was she smirking? And then pain shot through his head and it all went black./span/p