Evil shadows stir in the dark

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The next thing I know, I was in the infirmary...
"Oh! Nico! Thank the gods your awake," Kayla, Alice, and Austin had taken over Wills role, though even with three people it still didn't seem like enough, how did Will do it all by himself? And how much work did he get?
"How are you feeling?" Alice asked me, Alice, full name Alice rosenguard, a child of Apollo like Will, she came to the camp a few days after Will left, she didn't have significant healing powers like Will but she could heal so she was put to all the kids that could heal,
"Shitty,"
"Well since Kayla and Austin aren't here I can't prescribe any ambrosia or nectar but I can give you mortal medicine,"
Alice wrote some stuff on a sticky note and gave it to me along with a bottle of Tylenol,
"Take two tablets if you feel pain or anything and take the Advil before eating or right after if you feel pain, if you don't take with food it'll hurt your stomach ok?"
"Geez you sound just like Wi-ll..."
"Hey um...I'm new and young and inexperienced...I don't really know who this will guy was I mean aside from what I've been told, him being my brother apparently, but...everyone seems to really miss him,"
"Yeah..." I say, playing with the engagement ring will have me,
"I really miss him..."
The rest of the day was just plain bland, Percy tried to cheer me up, he was the last person I wanted to see right now, then Annabeth, that didn't work, then Jason, kind of but not really, Piper then Leo, who was visiting, everyone just seemed to be tuned out, I wonder what will was doing? How was he? Was he eating? Sleeping properly? Gods I sound just like him...I guess he rubbed off on me...if it weren't for this stupid prophecy none of this would be happening...we could-could get married and have a life together...we could be happy...
Whatever that's not what's important now, I-I have to tell Chiron...but what if...what if that only makes things worse? I don't wanna hurt Will or Percy, even if he is a massive jerk he doesn't deserve to die...there-there has to be another way, yes, another route! I-wait a minute...I need to find Annabeth,
"Annabeth! Annabeth! Hey!"
"Nico? What brings you here?"
"Well, you know the son of Apollo prophecy?"
"I...yes...if you want us to just hand Percy over for a bunch of monsters then sorry but we can't do that."
"No! I think I have it!"
"What do you have?"
"Does the prophecy name Percy?"
"Well no,"
"Do you still have that slip of paper?"
"Yeah I do somewhere let me get it wait here"
"Alright,"
Annabeth rummage through her filing cabinet for a minute, looking in a certain folder labeled prophecy's, which kinda specific but whatever,
"Do you wanna hear the prophecy again or wanna just read it?"
"Um hear it, that language is difficult, and I thought modern language was hard..."
"Alright,
The guy eldest living son of the sun will raise sick and illness, he will raise monsters and madness, and slay the son of the sea, and bring about the end-
"Cryptic as always Anyways, what if Percy isn't the guy? And why is it cut off?"
"Well no it doesn't say percys name and well, the prophecy was an old one, it was written down but half the paper was torn and stolen, so we only have this half left,"
" anyways, what if the son of Poseidon isn't Percy?"
"What? Waitoh gods, I can't believe we could be so blind and Apollo he-"
"Gods can't interfere right? Apollo just did exactly what he was supposed to,We need to tell the others,"
"Yes, tonight"
"Hey, thanks Annabeth for listening to me..."
"Don't worry about it, it's the first time you've been enthusiastic about something other than mytho magic"
"I thought you promised to never talk about that again..."
"Well anyways, it's almost dinner time, we should get going, some camp Jupiter members came when they heard about the prophecy"
"Jason and Hazel are here?"
"Yeah I think Hazel is in cabin 13 and Jason is sparing with Percy"

Will however wasn't having such an enthusiastic night,
Seeing Nico again reminded him of just how real everything is, and how close...how soon he would have to kill Percy, after a few years of being alone...and a few hours to calm down...he really didn't hate Percy, sure he was a nuisance and got hurt way to often but he wasn't by any means a bad person...well that's debatable, but he didn't deserve to die...why did he have to get this stupid prophecy? Why, if Apollo knew...why didn't he say anything? Why? Is this some sort of a sick joke? Some kind of game for the gods to watch and laugh at? One day...he would have to face off with Percy...
'It's him or me..." Will thought, sideways on his bed,
He was sad, no not sad, heartbroken by what Nico said but now wasn't the time to waste on tears, now was the time for preparation,
"It's time for another war, and this time I'm not the doctor but the one starting it, everything's come full circle." Will thought bitterly as the image of Lee flashed through his head, and Michael who's body wasn't even found,
Will knew what he had to do...he just didn't know if-if Nico defended Percy...if he could pull the trigger...he never wanted to hurt anyone...not even Percy...his mom...when he was younger...when Apollo stuck around until he was 5 his mom would always tell him to be happy. And he was, very very happy, his mom had a good job, a country singer, a popular one, his dad sometimes visited bring his mom things. Bringing him gifts, he was a happy person, until his dad left and it all went down hill, Ah....that's right, he always had these powers...hr just buried that memory not letting it effect him, when he was 6 a boy had insulted his mom and her singing, then he called Wills dad a drunk bum, Will wasn't sure what that meant but he was pissed, Will was angry for the first time, he ran up to the boy and grabbed him, instantly as he made contact a greenish black mist swirled around the boy, in a matter of seconds he was on the floor coughing and screaming,
He gave the boy pneumonia. It was the first sign that he was the child of prophecy...
His mom didn't react well to it, the boy didn't survive, soon roomers about how Naomi raised a killer circled, the abuse the burns the wiping, the constant state of fear, yeah...that's right...if Apollo varied he would've come to help...he wouldn't have left Will to deal with it himself...and he wouldn't have exiled him from camp.
Will knew now what he needed to do, all doubts settling,
"If I can get Nico here, he'll be safe, I just need to get him here,"
The castle had a that blocked off half-blood powers, the only exception being Will.
If he could lure Percy and Nico here he could finish the job and set free everyone,
"I've made up my mind," Will said reassured by his own twisted sense of mind,
Little did he know a more sinister force was lurking, waiting to strike,
"Oh Konstantinos, how naive you have become, how easily manipulated...this will be very fun, hahaha..."

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