Blood of Olympus

Chapter 8: Reyna

Hey guys! I have 200+ on all my stories combined! I feel accomplished :) Yep. I've been procrastinating so I'm sorry for this story being late. Viria put another 'tribute video' as I call it for the Heroes of Olympus series. Look it up my friends, 'Nothing Left' is the song. I was CRYING. Like no joke, I was on the floor hugging my iPad and CRYING all depressed like. I think my mom was going into my room to get something and left (akward) BUT THE FEELS have been KILLING me. My book parabatai (yuppers it's official) and I share the same unhealthy but awesome love for these books and she hasn't replied...well schist. Turns out Rick IS finishing the PJO/HOO series after the Blood of Olympus (cue more crying) BUT I will make my children read his books. AND he is starting a Norse mythology series YESSS!! Well, we had Greek, Roman, Egyptian, and now Norse. Now before I start crying and breaking down again (blush) here's the story!

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Reyna

Reyna was more than mad. She felt like socking the son of Hades in the face, even if that wasn't the smartest move to play. They had a 'minor delay' in their journey. They had to go to Italy, find Nico's old home and dig up some sort of treasure for Hades. Now, they could always refuse and get zapped into ashes but, if they did that, the war would go on. So the only option was to got Italy.

Their landing was...unfortunate, to say the least. They landed in this big square plaza in front of a lot of people, now staring at them. Nico was curled up against a bench, and Coach Hedge was drenched in a fountain, so she was the only person who could actually help right now. What was she supposed to say? 'Hey so you see that man in your fountain? He's half goat! And this guy and me? We're half god! This big statue? Something that could potentially kill all us! Now let's just go back to our own business!' That would probably end badly.

She pushed herself up, off the ground and was about to say something when she realized....no one was ACTUALLY paying attention to them. They had looked at them, but instead of continuing to gawk, they had gone back to doing what they were doing. She frowned, what the Hades was going on?

"Thanks the gods for the Mist!", she heard Nico mutter, slowly getting up.

The Mist? She had heard that term before. A magical type of mist that hid the mythical from the mortals.

Reyna turned around when she heard a gasp. Nico was looking around and ACTUALLY smiling. "I know this place! I know where we are! We landed in Piazza Navona! Bianca and I...she and I used to come here all the time!"

He turned in a full circle and bit his lip as if calculating something.

"Stupid River Lethe..." he muttered

"What's wrong?" I asked, concerned

"When I was younger, Hades dumped my sister and I into the River Lethe. We used to live in a hotel, I remeber THAT, but I don't know which hotel it was. Plus, I think it was blown up thanks to Zeus" Nico said, and I began to see the problem. We were in a tourist attraction, which meant there had to millions of hotels here. Then there was the problem that the hotel might not even exist anymore.

The fact that we were lost in Italy, had three days to return something to Hades and then after, try to prevent a war between the Greeks and Romans was just stressful. She prayed to her mother, something she had never done. She sighed, 'desperate times call for desperate measures. And she began to pray. 'Bellona, I know that I haven't really talked to you in a while, and I know that a daughter of the war goddess need to have a plan, but I really need your help. We need to find a hotel that might not exist and we're hopelessly lost. Please, if you're listening, send some help our way.'

She had no idea if it would actually work, but she had to hope. She looked around, expecting some kind of big godly message, some kind if explosion. Instead, she saw what looked like a homeless man wave at her and smile cheekily. Then he pointed at Reyna and pointed to the sky, where a big message was being spelled thought the clouds. It read 'I am Eurus, god of the West Wind and my fellow venti will guide you on you mission. For now, you must go west if you are to find the hotel. Now go my fellow demigod, and a piece of advice. The son of fire, he has two paths. Make him choose wisely. He can die in the hands of his first love, or live apart from everyone, in solitary. However, there is now another path he can choose, now that you are here. That, you will find soon enough. But remeber, happy endings are usually the hardest path.'

And with that cryptic message about the hotel and about Leo, she felt a gust if wind blow her back to her companions. She now had four jobs to do. 1: Find the treasure, 2: Stop a war, and finally 3: Save Nico di Angelo and Leo Valdez

She only hoped it was better for her friends back on the Argo II.

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Well if any of you have watched the video and and are breaking down emotionally, I'm here for you!!! :'(

Today's quote: "We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our soul." -Winston Churchill

Well I love all of you and thanks for reading!! For all of you who agree that Percy Jackson is more than book, it's part of our life, you rock!

May Tyche be with you!

-PHAMP1232