Nico's Birthday! (A Percy Jackson One-Shot)

Nico's Birthday

(A/N – Hey guys! :) This is just a short disclaimer. Usually I don't do these but I just know that if I don't address this now the comments are going to explode with people saying 'Ugh! Rick Riordan says Nico's birthday is January 28 1924 you got it wrong!' 'Even though it wasn't in the book Riordan still says Nico's birthday is January 28th!' 'You must not know Nico very well if you got his birthday wrong.' YES! I know when Nico's birthday is! Although not said in the books Rick Riordan came out saying that Nico's birthday is January 28th 1924. I will also say that we are only given a rough estimate on how long Nico and Bianca were in the Lotus Hotel. They say about 70 years so I'm going with 70 exactly. That just makes the math a bit easier. And I'm going with the current year 2016. Well I'll be stepping off my soap box now! :) Enjoy the story!)

An alarm went off breaking the silence of the Hades cabin. Nico di Angelo son of Hades groaned as he rolled over and put a pillow over his head to block the noise. By no means was he a morning person. He finally gave up and knocked his alarm clock off the night stand then opened up a hole to the underworld beneath it. He wouldn't be seeing that alarm clock any time soon. Reluctantly he crawled out from under the covers and got out of bed.

Usually he wouldn't be putting himself through torture like this given that breakfast at camp doesn't start till 8:00 and even then he usually skips breakfast to get in a bit more sleep. However, today was not your average day today was October 31st Nico's least favorite day of the year. Sure you might think that being a son of Hades Nico would like all of the creepy things that happen because it's Halloween.

It's not that he disliked Halloween he just hated how much extra work it gave him. Because of the rotation of the moon (or something like that. Even his dad wasn't exactly sure.) The gates of the underworld were at their weakest on Halloween. That's why mortals came up with all of these ghost stories for October 31st. People would see souls that had escaped from the underworld and decided to have a little fun. Of course this meant that someone would have to bring them all back. Every year Hades put all hands on deck so that they could keep as many souls from escaping and those that did they would get them back as quick as possible.

But that wasn't the only reason Nico hated October 31st. If it was just Halloween he would probably be ok with it but there was more. It was his birthday. Now you're probably thinking 'why would anyone ever hate their birthday?!' It was because it reminded him of how Bianca would always try to make a big deal out of his birthday. He would always pretend to hate it but he secretly loved it. Now that she was gone he didn't have anyone to celebrate with so he didn't see the point in telling anyone it was his birthday. He didn't even think Chiron knew.

Nico quickly got changed and got the things he needed to capture souls. As a child of Hades he was able to sense where escaped souls were. Once he was sure he had everything he shadow traveled to the place of the first escaped soul.

~time skip~

"Festus! A little more to the left!" Leo, Piper, and Jason stood around while Festus moved a giant pole into place. "Nice Work!" The giant dragon landed and Leo gave him a pat on the head.

"Wow!" Annabeth came walking down the hill and looked around. "You guys this is looking great! Just wait till Percy and the others see it!"

"Agggghhhhhhh! Blackjack no! Too fast!" they all looked over and saw a black blur quickly crashing to the ground. They all giggled as Percy stumbled out from under one of Blackjack's wings. "I know I told you I would give you a donut when we got back but does that mean you had to crash land to get us here faster?!"

Blackjack let out a snort that meant 'Sorry Boss. But can I have my donut now?'

Percy just sighed and handed him a donut from his pocket. "It would be a bit less crumbly if we hadn't crashed! Why don't you go get cleaned up before the bonfire tonight. The Hunters of Artemis are coming over and they're supposed to be bringing Pumpkin cookies. If you're good maybe Thalia will give you one." Blackjack let out a snort of glee before flying off. "Hey guys!" Percy waved as he walked over to the others.