My Ebony Dove (Nico Di Angelo)

Ch 9: The Hippie Oracle

Can i just start off this chapter with a quick rant. So many Nico fanfics have him with a female in a romantic relationship which is completely inaccurate. I know that it's your fan fiction and hopefully your idea but Nico is canonically gay. If you read the Heroes of Olympus series then you would know that. Also who here ships solangelo because I do.

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Ryan's pov:

"What in the hell is a Targerynne?" I asked. It sounded terrifying and it tried to kill me so I really didn't want to meet it. (not that I would want to meet a monster under any preventable circumstance)

Nico's face paled and he shook his head. "I thought that they were all locked away in Tartarus. How could one be out in the mortal world right now?"

"I don't know Nico." Said Chiron tiredly.

Everyone else including myself was confused so we kindly asked Nico and Chiron to elaborate. I really wish we hadn't.

"Well, you all know that story of Hades kidnapping Persephone correct."

"Yeah, he couldn't keep it in his pants with her." Nico muttered under his breath. I laughed and got a couple strange looks.

"Well, one day Persephone decided to escape so with the help of the spirit of the argonaut Jason, she ran away. She neared the entrance to the underworld when Hades caught up with her. They fought and from their fight, three drops of blood fell from her breast and into volcanic soil. Then three creatures that we now know as Targerynnes erupted. They spent millennium terrorizing Greece and Rome until Hera along with Athena, Poseidon and Hades banished them all to Tartarus. One must have escaped and now travels through dreams to assumedly kill demigods. I'm pretty sure as well that it it needs a master to control it."

Everybody just stared at Chiron. Nico broke the silence.

"This is probably a plan put forth by some ignoramus who didn't know better. I imagine we need to have Ryan visit the Oracle to give us guidance on this issue and on ways to stop the creature."

Chiron agreed with Nico and they led me to a set of stairs that I assumed went to the attic. I climbed up them and the door closed behind me, trapping me in its musty dark tomb.

I looked around me and I was visually assaulted by a garish variety of what I assumed were demigod trinkets.

There was a severed hydra head, the skin of the Nemean Lion, multiple celestial bronze and imperial gold weapons and even a picture of Percy and some chick who I later found out was Rachel Dare, standing by two winged Angel automatons at the Hoover Dam.

I guess you could say their expressions were dam serious... Sorry for that horrible pun except I'm not really sorry. (They let me in on that joke. honestly, it confused me at first)

Anyhow, the coolest thing was the mummified corpse at the end of the attic. I assumed it was a female because she was decked out in a fake flower crown, a cheap plastic necklace with a rainbow peace sign pendant and flowery bell bottoms with a beaded leather vest and a tie dye shirt, a very faded and worm eaten tie dye shirt. Her cheeks and sunken in and her eyes were completely missing. Only a couple rotting teeth remained. I jumped in surprise as her hand moved to grip my wrist. I couldn't escape from her iron clad grasp. Damn, that dead chick was strong. I watched in horror as green smoke poured out of her mouth and I grew even more frightened as a raspy and ancient voice took hold of my ears.