Meeting the war (a Percy Jackson fanfic)Formerly called Stand by me.

The quest part 4

When I charged, I knew I was done for.

When Percy and Annabeth circled the minotaur, I stabbed it from behind. It roared and charged. Dang. It wasn't dust yet.

It ran Percy over, and I ran to him. He groaned and tried to get up.

When it charged at me, I stuck out Nico's sword and turned it to dust.

"DO YOU HAVE ANY WATER?" I yelled to Hades. He shook his head.

"I am fine." Percy said. Of course, he said that as he was holding his bleeding arm, and struggling to sit up.

When he finally sat up, he looked around, and I knew his vision was cloudy because he reached out and tried to grab a stone, and he said, "why is it so fuzzy?"

Annabeth laughed and pulled him up.

When we were helping him stand, he was delusionally trying to be funny by making jokes about hades, and at one time he went in hysterics. 

He started crying, and we set him down. He started mumbling random things about Hades that would've gotten him killed if Hades heard it.

I sat next to him and slapped him in the face.

"LAILA!!!" Annabeth yelled.

Percy snapped out of his hysterics, rubbed his cheek, and went "Huh?".

Then we saw a person we would never think to see. He appeared right next to Annabeth in the blink of an eye.

Nico DiAngelo.

I tackled him and he muttered "Bad idea. Should've stayed in Mintsville."

"What?" I asked, pulling away from the hug.

He groaned and rolled his eyes at me. "A town.'' he said with no expression on his face.

Why did he not want to stay here? Did he not want to see his sister? Maybe not in the underworld, but what the heck?

"What type of town? Big, small, what?" Percy asked. He had a red mark from where I slapped him, and when Nico asked why it was there he replied "Laila slapped me" and pointed.

"Percy you are pointing to Annabeth." Nico said.

"Oh."

"Now your pointing to me."

"Oh."

When he finally pointed to me, Nico noticed Percy's arm.

"You should get that fixed." He said.

And then Nico vanished.