The Sword of Justice

008

Sorry that this chapter is posted a little late! I almost published it in Dutch since I'm a bit tired XD oh well, here is the English one.

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Nico hurried into the bathroom and closed the door after him. He had to make a plan, and he knew who could help him with that.

Nico grabbed the spare drachma out of his jeans and turned the water hot.

He only had to wait for a few minutes and he would be able to contact Hazel.

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After a minute or three Hazel popped up.

"Hazel!" Nico whisper-yelled.

Hazel turned to the image and looked surprised when she saw Nico.

"Nico! How are you?"

Nico knew he had to explain everything fast. Staying in the bathroom forever would raise suspicion. 

"Well, to make a long story short, I'm on a quest in Italy. We got attacked, Will shot me, he got arrested, I had to go to a hospital and now we have a big problem-"

"You got what?!" she yelled and Nico rolled his eyes.

"Sssh! Nobody can hear us! But now the police has our weapons. Will is allowed to get out of the police station but we told the police a bullshit story and now they want to bring us both back to America!"

Hazel's eyes got wide, this really wasn't what she expected to hear.

"Shadow travel inside the police station and get your weapons?" she suggested.

"I already thought about that. The problem is, how are we going to get out of Rome without the police noticing us? How do I get Will with me? I can't leave him here!"

"Do you still have your backpack?" Nico nodded.

"Then shadow travel there now, get your weapons, shadow travel back and let the police take you. Then, when the police got you at the airport, shadow travel away. It will probably take a really long time to find you again."

Nico considered the option, it was dangerous, but it was worth it.

If he didn't go with the option, the quest would fail for sure.

"Thank you, Hazel." 

Hazel gave him one last smile and the image faded away.

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The police station was a busy place. 

It was a lot busier than Nico expected, but he didn't really care. He just melted in the shadows and searched for the room where their weapons would be in.

He had to be quick, otherwise the hospital staff would go looking for him and that couldn't mean something good.

After a while, Nico found a room which could be the place their weapons were in. He opened the door in silence and stepped inside.

The room was a bit dark. The walls were a shade of  dark green and the floor was a light shade of brown.

Nico didn't really like the combination of colors.

He opened all the drawers that were in the room but he didn't find anything. 

"Looking for this?" a deep voice from behind Nico said. 

Nico flinched and turned around slowly.

"What are you doing here?" Nico tried to whisper but it didn't work out that way.

"Now, now, is that the way to treat your father?" 

"Sorry," Nico mumbled and looked up at Hades.

"Its funny that the son of Apollo got arrested, I never expected that." he said.

"Neither did I," and it was true. Nico always saw Will as some perfect good boy who followed all the rules. And now he got arrested, the irony. 

"But seriously, why are you here?"

"I was visiting and felt your presence, so I came here to see how everything was going." Hades said while handing over there weapons.

"Everything isn't going very smoothly, like every time." Nico sighed. 

"I must get going. Good luck, son." 

'Thank you, Father."

Nico pushed everything in his backpack and shadow traveled back to the hospital.

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A policeman came to Will Solace and opened the door.

"I got a message from the others, your story is correct. We're going to the hospital to pick the other boy up and after that we go to the airport, understood?"

Will nodded, he understood the plan, that wasn't the problem.

The thing was that it wasn't going to happen. 

Will couldn't really think of a plan to escape the police station and to get Nico from the hospital, they needed Nico's shadow travel to escape.

So Will's plan was to wait and hope that Nico made a plan.

He only hoped that his plan would work out well.

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Sorry that the chapter is kinda boring.

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