The Son of Death in Gotham(A Nico Di Angelo Fan Fic)

36) Gods & Goddess's

Will's Pov

Nico's been gone for months, or at least that's how long it felt like to Will. In reality he'd only been missing three days, the worst three days of Will's life.

"We need to be out there looking for him," Bruce was arguing with Chiron over Iris message, he still hadn't been given clearance to enter camp, much to the Wayne's displeasure, "He's been missing for three goddamn days for gods sake. He could be hurt, or dead!"

"Please calm down sir," Chiron sighed, looking stressed, "Nico has a history of disappearing, it is very possible that he could just be taking some time to himself. This prophecy could have impacted him more than we thought."

"He didn't just leave!" Will interrupted, defending his boyfriend, "You didn't see the look on his face when he was pulled into the shadows, he looked confused and scared. We need to find him!"

Chiron just shook his head, "We have other things on our hands with this prophecy. Believe me, I'm worried about the boy too. But we need to focus our defenses on defending Gotham city from this "goddess shrouded in smoke" We still need to figure out who that is."

That's when Annabeth perked up from the other end, she'd gone back to camp to return to her boyfriend and discuss what had happened.

"I have a bit of an idea about that," She seemed confident, but that didn't mean much when it was a child of Athena's idea, they were always confident, "Me and my siblings discussed this a bit. Nyx isn't really a goddess shrouded in smoke. My and Percy ran into him down there. She was more like shadows itself, which would make more sense with just the queen of shadows line of the prophecy. But with these parts, the smoke, a goddess, a "queen" wanting to take over Gotham. We had an idea."

Chiron grimaced, like he guessed where this was going and didn't like it.

"There's been talk about Hecate having her own land," Annabeth continued, "A magical domain somewhere down in Scotland. But knowing her, that might not be enough for her. Gotham is cut off from the gods, with all the villains down there they don't want anything to do with it. It would be close enough to Olympus for her to still have some power, but the gods couldn't do anything about it."

Will stared at Annabeth in surprise. Nico'd told him about Hazel's interaction with the goddess, and truthfully she didn't sound awesome. He didn't want her trying to take over Nico's new home when he'd just started being happy.

"Have you discussed this with Hazel," Will asked quietly, "Or the Hecate cabin?"

Annabeth shook her head.

"I don't want to cause any panic. I'll ask Hazel since it has to do with her brother, but Hecate is a formidable opponent. She can make you go insane, or alter your very reality with the mist. She could strip it away from mortals and drive them insane. She might not be as powerful as Gaea, but she might be on par with Kronos. Just because she doesn't have a throne on Olympus doesn't mean we shouldn't worry about her strength."

Will nodded and Chiron sighed.

"I'll call everyone in. We should discuss this with Hazel and the Hecate cabin and check to see if anyone's had any strange dreams. And Will?"

Will nodded.

"Come here, and bring the Wayne's. I have a bad feeling like Hecate might have plans for you."

Will mumbled his agreement, not loving the lack of finding Nico in this plan, and Chiron slashed his hand through the Iris message.

Will stormed off, pissed, but he had to do his part, so he walked over to the sitting room where Nico's brothers were sitting.

"Guys," All four boys looked up at him, "We're going on a trip. Follow me."

Immediately all the boys are on his tail, asking a billion questions about Nico that Will didn't answer. As they were walking to the front Bruce joined them and started explaining what was happening.

Will led them out to the front parking lot and Bruce went to call Alfred out, but Will stopped him.

"I have a... faster way to get there." Will was really hoping this would work.

He stepped out into the brightest part of the courtyard and looked up at the sun. He'd never asked anything of Apollo before, he really hoped that his father would pull through this time.

He switched to Ancient Greek and shouted, "Father, I've never asked you for anything before. Just this once, please come to my aid. Nico's missing and I need to get to camp as soon as possible. Please help me."

At first nothing happened, Will truthfully hadn't been expecting Apollo to actually come through, but it still disappointed him. He turned back to the Waynes and was about to ask Bruce to call for Alfred, then there was suddenly an explosion behind him.

He could barely stop himself from being thrown away, holding his ground he turned around and saw a red maserati sitting in a small crater.

A blond man in a yellow suit stepped out, he had a bow and arrow strapped to his back and was dusting the non-existent dirt off his coat. He looked up and shot Will a blinding smile.

"Hello son, nice to finally meet you."