Solangelo between HoO &TOA

Chapter 12: Monsters

Trigger warning :Death of a loved one. 

He slipped off his bed and onto the floor, picking up and pulling on his chest plate over his pyjamas before he even fully realised he was awake. The dream from the night before hit him with the force of a cannonball, but he filed it away for later. There were people in trouble outside, that could wait for later. Grabbing his sword, he ran out the door and was met with a scene he never imagined would happen at Camp.

A group of Empousa had broken through the borders, and a couple of male campers were staring at them dreamily as they approached for the kill, their friends and siblings screaming for their attention as they tried to yank them away or fight off the Empousa, failing, as most of them fell under the monsteress' spell as soon as they heard them speak. Nico was suddenly so glad he was gay. He started towards the group as one of the empousa grabbed one guy by the shoulders, yanking him in and biting his neck. The screams he had originally heard, redoubled, piercing his ears, , the high sounds seeming almost as bad as that horrible noise Will had made up on that hill, a couple months back. He smiled, then grew serious again as another boy was caught, then a girl. There were about twenty empousa in total, all of them seeming to have control over two of the ensnared campers each. Nico charged towards the scene, and as he did so, Will came out of the Apollo cabin, yawning, but as soon as he saw one of the boys lying on the floor, the empousa having finished with him, Will rushed towards his unmoving body and called his siblings. They all came stumbling out, but as soon as they saw what was going on, two of them ran in and came back with earplugs, throwing them around, but Will was already halfway to the infirmary, and Nico saw no more, having reached the fray of Empousa and their chosen victims, going for the one who seemed to be the leader first, realising quickly she matched Percy's description of Kelli, and it was confirmed when she did a double take, like she saw a person she knew, then realised Nico was not Percy, but this gave Nico half a second's advantage making the fight shorter than it would have been otherwise, Nico only having to lop off her sword hand, then stab her as she disintegrated, and the rest were easy, they were so unprepared for a boy to come charging into them at high speed with a sword that they only had time to scream before Nico's sword severed their spinal cords and they disintegrated, until there was only one left, who in all the chaos had somehow managed to grab Will, and was sucking away at his neck and Nico could see his life aura fading faster every second. He bounded across the field towards them, and lopped off the empousa's head, but he realised he had been a few seconds too late, and his boyfriend fell to the floor, his last breath whispering

'Nico'

HEYYYYYYYYYYY

Who decided to break all your hearts??? I did! Sorry. Do not worry though! I shall do another chapter to explain what happens next and, will then mend your hearts with it. I will put it up ASAP for you. I cried so hard whilst writing this, I will go and play some clarinet to calm down and come back and write more. Also. THIS is what I am doing to celebrate the release. Enjoy the next two chapters!

Alice