Voices (a Nico Di Angelo fanfiction)

Chapter 6:Home sweet hole

A/N The song above is called 'Home sweet hole' by Bring me the horizon and the song Nico sings to in this chapter.

Jason's POV:

We were all sitting around the table eating dinner, well I say eating, mostly we were just picking at it, even Percy wasn't eating. I know, shocking. The mood was so low that the cheeriest person on Earth (Will Solace) would be sad.

Nico still hadn't come out of his room, even if we knocked on his door and started up a conversation it would always be one-sided. He hasn't opened his mouth since we found out about the schizophrenia. We all tried getting him to open his mouth and speak but he just wouldn't, he couldn't, not even for Hazel. I did read up about it though and apparently going mute often happens to people suffering from it.

I was still picking at my food when a shadow appeared out of nowhere. It started to spin, faster and faster, almost like a tornado. Hands came reaching out to grab something to pull themselves out and screams of the tortured echoed around the empty walls all round. Suddenly it stopped and a man in a black cloak turned around and said:

"Where is my son?"

Hades. The god of the underworld. Lord of the dead. Terrifying and evil. Radiating power and authority. Nico's father.

"My lord, I am sorry but he is in his room" Hazel said bowing. He regarded her for a second before a slight scowl appeared on his face.

"Why are you sorry?" He said sounding a bit annoyed.

"He has gone mute, we all tried but none of us could get him to speak" Piper piped in.

"Again?" He asked a bored expression on his face.

"Again? He has gone mute before?" Frank asked curiously.

"Yes, last time it lasted for six months. Between him and Persephone it was the most silence the Underworld has ever heard." He said a look in his eyes, the only peaceful look I can imagine he has ever had. "It was bliss" He continued.

At that people had thoughtful and concerned looks in their eyes. And by them I mean Hazel.

"Anyway I have no need to stay here and chat to you imbeciles so I will take Nico and go. Goodbye" Then he disappeared. And, when we looked in Nico's room, him and all his stuff were gone.

Hades' Pov:

I had just bought Nico back to the Underworld and let's just say Persephone was not happy.

"What! You can't bring him here, I hate him,...umm... I mean, it would be inconvenient, you know considering all that's happening" She screamed, her grip tightening on my hand. I could feel the vines growing up my arm, trapping me, well trying to.

I ripped my arm out of her hold and gave her a stare"I am sorry but he is more important, he needs this; he's my son" I sneered, he is in danger, I needed to do this, to keep him here, to keep him in the Underworld.

"Oh come on he is basically a walking bad luck charm. I mean come on everyone he has basically touched has died and left him because he is so irritating. He is so weak and stupid why do you like him anyway, you have me" Persephone shouted angrily, black roses covered in sharp thorns grew up her throne she was no longer sitting on.

Nico looked at us, tears littered his long eyelashes. He looked to the floor, then back up to me one last time. He looked broken. In a second he was gone from standing there to running out of the room.

Oh Nico, I thought shaking my head, you just always have to stir up trouble don't you.

Nico's POV: