Solangelo One-Shots

ANGST (NO HAPPY ENDING)

this is my villain arc, curtesy of my friend who wants me to bring the pain

regularly scheduled fluff will come soon, though

uhhhh there's a line in here that is from Euphoria but i saw it in a tiktok :)
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"Get down! Get the fuck down!" Will shouted, slashing at a harpy.

It was just Nico and Will now. They had joked about how they wished they could be alone, just the two of them without the third wheel. Oh how they ate their words.

The third member of their quest was already taken from them, too young, too soon. The young demigod's body lays now in a crudely dug unmarked grave, blessed by the son of Hades.

Will Solace was exhausted beyond belief. He only had a very small portion of the remaining rations to begin with, and he'd used up the rest of his energy healing some of Nico's wounds as well as his own.

His movements were slow. The tip of the short sword he held pointed downwards, for it was too heavy in his tired arms to hold upright.

Nico, on the other hand, was fighting off three harpies at once, disappearing and reappearing behind them with the use of his shadow travel.

"Nico! Get down!" Will yelled again. "You're going to hurt yourself!"

"I got it, Will! If I could fight in two and a half wars, I could kill a couple harpies!" Nico grunted and pushed his sword through the feathery chest of the monster, covering the son of Hades in more golden dust.

Will bit his tongue. "Fine."

Nico successfully killed the other two, falling into the grass. He panted heavily. "See? Told you I got it covered."

"Show off." Will delivered the death blow. He also crumbled to the floor. "Fucking hell."

"We should get outta here." Nico winced in pain. "Too dangerous to stay put."

"I know."

"Or we can set up for the night. I'll take first watch. We can hunt for food in the morning."

"You'd take first watch?" Will sighed.

Nico looked over to him. "Yeah. You look like you need it more than I do. I owe you for patching me up earlier."

"I'm a doctor." Will protested.

"I know. You'll be a useless doctor if you don't have the energy to do doctor-y things. Sleep."

So Nico took first watch. He managed to get a fire going and used his minimal medical knowledge to bandage any open wounds from the fight. Will stirred a few times when he did so; it was like he could smell blood.

Nico heard a few rustles in the bushes nearby, which activated all of his senses. Fortunately for him, it was just a rabbit. Oh. Ok then...

He was about to wake Will when another noise came from the woods. It was definitely much larger than a rabbit.

Nico only had a millisecond to turn and draw his sword when the two blades clashed together, his Stygian Iron the only thing preventing his jugular from being sliced open.

"Will! Get up!" Nico groaned against the strain. "Trouble!"

Will woke up with a jolt, sitting up almost immediately. "What? Wha- Oh!" He scrambled up to stand.

"Hide somewhere! Get out of the way!" Nico finally pushed the other sword off of his, ready to fight. "Please!"

"I want to help out!"