Percy Jackson. Gone

Chapter Five (Nico)

        I walked through the Palace of Hades and sighed. Since the Giant War, my heartache was worse than ever for Percy and I had just gotten an IM from Jason, saying that my crush was missing. I walked into my room in the Palace and flopped on the bed. One of Persephone's maids/ undead people offered me a pomegranate, but I refused. I did not want to stay here forever.

        I did most of the time to get away from Percy, or both camps. But I always had the freewill to go up to visit the camps or the wild or cities. I laid, lost in my thoughts until I remembered something. I jumped up from my bed, shadow traveled to where there was water.I was standing on the edge of the Atlantic, in Montauk about to IM, Annabeth or Jason when an IM came to me first.

         "Nico. Don't tell them please!" Percy told me through the mist. The normal kind. "Why not, Percy?" I stomped my foot like a little kid. "Just do it for my sake please," he begged. "I'll tell them when I want to." 

        "Fine." I agreed. "Ok, I have to go." Percy said. A giant hand slashed through the Iris Message, ending the connection. I shadow traveled back to my room in the underworld, only to wonder if I had made the right decision. I decided to go back to Camp Jupiter to see if anything had changed there. I knew both of their praetors are away at the Greek camp. Reyna had asked me to check in and make sure that Octovian hadn't taken total control even though we saved his sorry behind a few days ago but  he, of course, wouldn't care about that fact.  

I appeared on Temple Hill and I walked down through the Forum, and kept getting strange looks from the citizens of New Rome. Well, I was used to it. People always gave me weird looks when I was out and about. When I got up to the camp, and into the Senate house I stopped in my tracks.

        "Octavian. What are you doing?"