Nico's POV
~1 year later (A/N Nico is now fourteen, just so you know.)~
"Nico, shut up!" Percy whispered. Apparently I was extremely clumsy in the forest. Lucy had sent me and Percy on a hunt to try and find Jinx. It had been a year now and no one had found her. Gaia hadn't bothered us once, so Lucy had assured us that Jinx must have exhausted her even more. Lucy told us that the fight against her would have given us around six months to prepare. We were more than prepared now, but all the campers were agitated, waiting for Gaia's next move. Or, for all we knew she was still exhausted and sleeping.
Anyway Lucy was distraught to find that Jinx had gone. She was hiding something though, something to do with Jinx... and Percy and Annabeth knew about it... So Lucy insisted on looking for Jinx, her sister who was now out to kill the god and all their children. Yeah, we were all enthusiastic to find her!
"I'm trying, Perce, I haven't been training with Lucy personally!" I hissed. Lucy had given Annabeth and Percy a choice to join the army and they had accepted. So Percy was still seventeen, but he had been trained with Lucy personally. Apparently Lucy could work miracles, because Percy was holding a crossbow and sneaking around the forest soundlessly. The same could not be said for me...
"Why can't I join Lucy's army?"
Percy rolled his eyes as he started to climb a tree to get a better view. We both knew I knew the answer. Lucy said she though seventeen or over was the best age to join so we could keep enjoy our innocence while we could, because otherwise we might make a rash decision, because once you join you couldn't unjoin. That was why Frank, Jason, Piper and Leo hadn't joined yet, they were only sixteen, and Hazel and I were only fourteen.
I watched Percy as he crouched on a tree branch and looked over the forest. We were in Rome again by the way; because that was the last place we had seen Jinx. Percy suddenly dropped down from the branch giving me a heart attack. "Gods! Don't do that!" I hissed as quietly as I could.
Percy rolled his eyes. He'd been spending far too much time with his girlfriend. "Nothing," he said. "This is the twentieth time this month and still nothing." He tapped a little device in his ear and I heard a tiny click as it got a hold of Lucy. Percy pulled a little mouth piece out of the device to speak into. "Nothing," he said onto the microphone.
I heard a sigh come from the other line. "Good try you two." I heard Sophia say. "Best be coming back, you know how agitated Lucy gets when you guys are away too long. Never mind your girlfriend." Percy's face got a little pale for a second, but he tried to hide it. In all honesty I couldn't blame him. It must be hard to be away from your soul mate for a whole month.
"Okay," Percy said, and the line clicked off. Then he turned to me. "Best stop at Camp half-Blood to get more supplies from the Cyclops."
Camp Half-Blood was now a base for the Cyclops to make supplies for us without being disturbed. Lucy agreed with the Olympians that the demigod had to be all together and Camp Half-Blood was too small and Camp Jupiter wasn't protected enough, its boundaries weren't as strong, but we didn't have the heart to stop calling it Camp Half-Blood, for most of us it was our home for most of our lives.
"Can you shadow travel both of us?" Percy asked. "I can get us to Lucy's place from there."
I nodded.
Percy took us to Lucy's place. No one actually knew the exact location. They could open a portal like Percy but, no one actually knew where it was, some even wondered if Lucy knew where it was.
The first vision of the base always gave me a heart attack. The amount of people who yelped or gazed in awe at the entrance was amazing.
Imagine a marble hotel, then in the centre of it was a statue about ten stories high. The statue was in a priceless blue stone Lucy had called Aquamarine, the statue was of Mary, daughter of Poseidon, with water pouring from her cupped hands and kneeling with water flowing down her hair and over her legs. The statue was beautiful, Lucy said all the Commanders of each sector had a statue in the base, protecting each of them, she said whenever they died, their great deeds and sacrifice would be taken account of and make the protective boundaries around the base even stronger. So Mary's death had also strengthened the boundaries. Lucy said Mary was the welcoming statue because she was loyal and wanted to protect her family just as much as Lucy so she was given the honour of being the first statue.
