Chapter Seventeen: Nico

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“There’s no way of knowing if this place is enchanted, and how it is enchanted. It could be that every hour we spend on this place is actually a day or two. We can’t trust anything we see or hear or smell.”

The very thought of that theory shook Reyna to the core. All her time at Camp Jupiter, she’d been trained to trust her senses logically and accordingly. And now that Nico was suggesting otherwise…

“What happens now, then?” Reyna asked. “Will we just stay here until we die? Or-or will we—"

The ground beneath her feet shook, sending trembles all through Reyna’s body.

A laugh boomed below, from the depths of the earth.

“I guess,” Gaia murmured. “That that is for me to decide.”

Nico

The whole experience of being stuck on an enchanted island while the Gaia taunted them was not at all pleasant.

Nico, Reyna and Coach Hedge stood back to back, weapons raised, muscles tense with the anticipation of battle.

“What do you want with us, Gaia?” Reyna demanded glaring at the ground.

The ground rumbled sickeningly beneath Nico’s feet, reminding him of how ill he had felt on the Argo2, when they were on the water.

“Surely you have guessed, my dear demigods.” Gaia murmured softly. “I cannot allow you to return your precious statue to the Greek Camp. It would be a great inconvenience.”

Next to Nico, Reyna stomped her foot and threw her hands up in the air, frustrated. “So what?” She demanded. “You’re going to keep us here until you’ve achieved your world domination goal?”

The earth shook violently, cracks appearing from the surface.

Nico stumbled back, pushing both Reyna and Coach out the way as a gigantic crack appeared beneath them.

Reeking, purple fog slithered from the gap, its putrid scent washing over the two demigods and satyr.

The purple fog morphed into the shape of a woman, slowly becoming solid and realistic, until a young woman appeared before them.

She wore a dress of silk which looked like a plain green at first, but as she shifted slightly, Nico realized it rippled with gold, black, brown and light green. Like a sunlight passing through a canopy of trees. Her skin was a shade of delicate light brown in contrast to her midnight black hair which tumbled down her shoulders, highlighting her sharp features and piercing forest green eyes.

Gaia was beautiful.

The earth goddess looked at them, her intense eyes filled with interest and a kind of wisdom; like they had seen many, many years pass before them.

“Ahh…” She stretched her arms out in front of her, eyes closed with pleasure. She ignored Reyna. “It’s been a while.”

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