Apollo to heal a broken Hades

The war council

WILL'S P.O.V

"I'll wait outside." Nico stated, leaning against the wall of the Apollo cabin, his arms crossed against his chest. "I don't want to disturb your siblings." He finished.
"You wouldn't be, but if you want I'll only be a few minutes." Nico nodded as I ran up the stairs to my cabin, quickly throwing on a camp half blood T-Shirt and shorts, before re- sheathing my weapons, weaving my way through my brothers, sisters and their junk.

"Ready." I called as I closed the door behind me.
"Yep." Nico answered, pushing of the wall and heading in the direction of the big house a few feet in front of me. I wondered if it was still what Delilah had told him that had him this way. It was killing me, something in which there was no cure I could provide.

"Are you okay?" I asked as I caught up to him, nearly tripping over on a few lone rocks in the pathway. "Is it still last night?" I finished carefully.
"Don't worry about it Will, I don't want to talk about it." He ended the conversation before I even had time to nod.

"What are we going to tell them?" I turned to Nico after some time of complete silence, only the distant noises of camp in the background.
"Everything, they need to know what there up against." Nico replied, finally turning to face me for a moment, before turning back.
"Do we even know what we're up against?" I asked, bi passing a couple of campers in the Rode.
"I don't know Will, I wish I did." He was shaking his head slightly, his lips pursed.

"Ghost boy! Sunshine!"
"Sunshine?" I questioned turning around and giving Percy a nasty stare.
"Lighten up Sunshine. Anyway, where you guys off too."
"None of your business." Nico answered for me, turning away slightly.
"He's on the council." I whispered to Nico.
"In that case, come." A boy of few words he was.
We kept on walking as Percy caught up, walking beside us,

"So what's this about me being on the council and all?" He asked after some time.
"Can you be patient?" Nico asked, looking straight ahead, he was seriously uncomfortable today.
"Patient is my middle name." He answered, an awkward silencing following.
"Okay... Yeah no.... I can't be." Percy rebutted a few seconds later, obviously dying for an answer.
I just had to chuckle, I didn't expect him to be.
"If you I told there was a war against the undead to contemplate, would that shut you up for five minutes."
"Hahaha! Nope." I should have known that was a long shot.
"Look Percy, your just going to have to wait." Nico replied sharply, walking far ahead.
"What's his problem?" Percy asked, running a hand through his hair.
"I don't know." I lied, and awfully at that. Percy gave me a funny look before shrugging it off.

"So, what's this about a war?" He asked, as I rolled my eyes, here we go again.
"Percy, the big house is only 30 seconds away, it'll take about 5-8 minutes to round up the campers, and another 2 for Nico to begin talking, Can you wait that long?" Did I have to spell it out for him?
"Do I have to!" He complained, pouting beside me.
"You know, your a real child sometimes."
"So I've been told."

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Soon after, around ten minutes if we were to be exact, Percy looking at the clock the whole time, asking if we were ready to begin like a child on a road trip, we had all the counsellors finally rounded up.
Nico and I sat beside each other, on one side of Chiron, Annabeth and Percy on the other. The other counsellors were spread around randomly, Clovis at the very end of the table, his head resting not oh so gracefully on the table.

"If that's everyone, Nico Di-Angelo, would you please explain as to why you have warranted this meeting."
"And it better be good! You took us away from a good candy session." Travis Stoll called out, his brother hitting him in the back of the head.
"You idiot, Chiron is right there." Connor said, pointing to the head of the table.
"Ow, damn, he might not have known we stole the candy if you didn't make it so obvious."
"Well now he does doesn't he!" Conner interjected.
"Because you..... Oh."

"Stolls, we can discuss this later, for now, would you care to be quiet, I think we are all curious as to why Mr Di-Angelo and Solace have called this meeting. " There were several sounds of agreement from the group.
Nico turned toward me, when I nodded for him to begin, he knew the situation better than me, and was better suited to explain.

"Lately the underworld has been a little... Unsettled so to say." He began.
"What do you mean unsettled, how is the underworld unsettled. My stomach gets unsettled when I eat to much but..." Percy went on, receiving nods of agreement from the Stolls and Leo.
"If you guys just shut it, I'm sure death breath will explain." Clarisse yelled out, silencing everyone expect Nico.
"My name is not death breath, it is Nico, why is that so hard for everyone!" He called out to her, obviously in a very bad mood, it even shut Clarisse up.

"Look." I continued on, getting everyone's attention. "Hades is somehow losing power, there's another power, source, I don't know what the fuck it is...."
"Language." Annabeth interrupted, shaking her head. I rolled my eyes at her continuing on.
"Anyway, this thing, it's controlling the spirits, ghosts and Hellhounds of the underworld."
"Not necessarily controlling." Nico had calmed down. "They could just be following her, thinking she's a better choice at 'master' so to say."

"Wait!" Leo cut in, "Was that why I was attacked by Hellhounds?" Nico nodded, not even looking over at him.
"You said she?" Jason joined in, earning a couple of nods as he leaned closer over the table intrigued.
"It could have just been a mistake, was it a mistake?" Piper asked, playing mindlessly with the bottom of her hair, sitting awfully close to Jason.

"I don't know, but I have my suspicions, but Me and Will aren't sure."
"Will and I." Annabeth corrected, earning one of Nico's death stares.
"Anyway," she said, "What are these suspicions?"
"Delilah Anya Rouge."
"But Delilah so sweet and nice and young." Leo butted in, earning a stare down from his immortal goddess girlfriend.
"This may not be a good time, but, how the hell did you score a goddess?" I asked, earning myself a few stares.
"I agree, not a good time." Katie said, resting her head on her hands next to Miranda.

"Delilah May be sweet nice and young on the exterior, but she's one hundred percent creep and sadist. But I agree, we're not certain, she told me about this when I woke her up, like she wanted us to know, she wanted me to come and help her contain them. It could all be act, we're really not all to sure." Nico said, surprisingly confidently to everyone, despite how unsure we both were.

Everyone started talking then, discussing their theories, but it sounded as if most thought Delilah guilty.
"We can't just accuse her." Annabeth said passionately. "There's no circumstantial evidence to this."
"Yeah, no curum... What." That was Percy's attempt at scoring brownie points with his girlfriend gone wrong.
"Seeweed brain." She muttered.
"Wise girl." he whispered.

After a few moments we heard someone clear their throat, "I hate to rain on your guys parade, but if Nico woke Delilah up, then where the hell is she now?" Everyone turned toward Nico and I, whist I sat shocked, I hadn't even thought of that.
"Shit!" Nico yelled, standing up almost knocking his chair over, and running to the door.

All of us walked outside, only to catch sight of Delilah lying on a patch of grass, picking out cloud animals in the sky.
"And there's a rabbit! Oh how I love rabbits!"
Beside me, Jason whispered, "This is our number one suspect."
"I love to put my hands around their neck until they die, and then watch the red blood from the cut in their hearts, make a pretty pattern on the white fur!" Delilah sang to herself, giggling whilst she acted it out with her hands.
"Yep." I replied.

Hey guys!! What do you reckon?! That was surprisingly fun to write!!
I'll try my very best to update tomorrow, but... I Totally need to work out where to go from here. I am at a crossroad. :D
Thanks,
Livs. Xxx