Solangelo Stories

Chapter Eight - Archery

Nico was actually surprisingly good at Archery, the thing was, he wanted to impress Will. He was trying not to try if that made any sense. Every day Nico would practice down by the arena, he pretended to fail every day. A while ago Nico found out that Will had also liked boys from Wills brother Austin. Since then, Archery was the way Nico thought Will would notice his impressions.

Nico was never one to simp after someone, but right now he felt lonely and bored. He steadied an arrow on his bow and looked around. He couldn't see anyone in sight, he added two more arrows and this time he let them fly with perfect accuracy. You could ask how he knows Archery, the truth is the Hunters decided to show him.

I guess they felt guilty for the death of Nico's beloved sister. Especially since she died two days on the job. That was kind of a buzzkill for the hunter's reputation. I suppose that was also a way to get Nico to shut up so they can restore their gloried reputation.

Nico smiled proudly as they all hit the bullseye. Each one of them landed on a different target which was even better. Nico picked up some knives and did the same thing with those. There were three on each hand. He threw them behind him where the dummies were. On the two dummies, the knives hit the head, the body, and the pelvis which would be very painful for a person.

Nico sighed and laid down on the arena floor. The dirt was resonating around him, he watched the clouds float in the air. Drifting with the wind, shifting, and shining. Again, Nico was never one to go after a person but he felt that something special came from the Son of Apollo. Something he couldn't but his finger on. It was on the tip of his tongue yet, he couldn't quite place it.

Sighing he stood up as the bell rang for lunch, he made his way over to the pavilion grabbing an apple from a rack. He wasn't quite sure how to sacrifice an apple so with a knife he just cut off a slice and threw it in the fire. He sat at his throne table he made out of bones and set his feet on the table.

"Your majesty." Percy mocked walking by to sit at his table.

"I will summon the dead on you, once your dead your corpse will become part of my undead army." Nico threatened, Percys face turned ashen.

"My lord," Jason said on his way to his.

"I will send zombie vultures to feast on your dead body one I have finished with you. You too will become part of my undead army once dead." Jason tilted his head and raised his eyebrow at Nico's response. Nico only smirked and finished his apple, he wasn't one for an appetite either.

Will was watching him carefully from his table. Kayla smirked as she glanced over to Will, "Whatcha looking at?"

Will jumped and went red, "Wh-what do you mean? Pft I am not looking, anyone."

"Sure... I see a certain Son of Hades in the direction you're looking at."

"Do you think he's paying too much attention to Jason and Percy?"

"Why? Are you jealous?" she smirked, even more, she stifled a laugh.

"Pft, no." he scoffed looking away and down at his food.

Kayla had an idea, "Well if you don't like Nico I think I'll ask him out. Actually it looks like Jason is about to do so."

Will snapped his head up. He looked around for Jason and Nico, they were nowhere to be found. Will stood up and went to look for them, Kayla laughed. "Not jealous my ass."

Nico and Jason were walking together to the amphitheater. "You really need to make a move," Jason spoke.

"I'm just one to stand in the shadows."