Nico di Angelo; Angel of Chaos

The Primordial Council

I was pacing. Nervously.

I had opened a portal back to Planet Chaos, and we had all cleaned up in our council clothes.

We all had to dress nicely.

I hated it.

They were like Roman Senate Meetings. Or Olympian Council Meetings. Except worse.

Since I was 'heir to Chaos' apparently my appearance mattered. They kept calling me 'prince of the Universe'.

Next person who called me that was going to find out what shadowfire tasted like.

But I still cleaned up, though reluctantly.

So now I was standing in my room on Planet Chaos, in black slacks and a button up white shirt with my black cloak buttoned around my shoulders, hood down.

Chaos seemed so nervous. What could make the creator of the universe nervous? Whatever it was, it terrified me.

My door swung open, and I stopped mid-pace.

Sparky stood in my doorway, in a plain black dress. Her cloak was clipped around her shoulders, though her hood was down.

She raised an eyebrow at my pacing.

"You know we have, like, a minute before we have to portal to the council room, right?" She asked.

We all had an eerily accurate sense of time. Now that I concentrated, I could tell that it was exactly 3:49 a.m. Less than a minute from when Chaos had told us to portal to the council room.

I cursed.

Sparky rolled her eyes and we hurried out of the room, our cloaks fluttering behind us.

We reached the others, in one of the sitting rooms not far from our bedrooms, in less than ten seconds. They were all dressed similarly.

Reyna scowled at me and produced a comb from thin air.

She was dressed in a black, floor length dress with a silver trim, her cloaks hood down.

"You really need to learn how to use a comb. And just so you know, as soon as we get back, I am cutting your hair. Why did you let it get this long?" Reyna asked exasperatedly and started attacking my hair with the comb so hard I winced.

"Well, I haven't exactly had time to go see a barber, Reyna." I protested.

I heard laughter, and looked back to the rest of them.

Sparky was doubled over in laughter, Shadow had his hand over his mouth to hide his suppressed laughter, and Siren was laughing so hard he was crying and his laughs were silent.

"You're... like an old... married couple..." Siren remarked.

"We are not!" Reyna and I said in sync, with twin scowls.

"The Prince of the Universe is finally defeated by a girl with a comb." Sparky said and took a shuddering breath.

I frowned and batted Reyna's hand away. Her comb disappeared into an inky black mist, which vanished almost instantly.

"Oh, shut up. I'm opening the portal now. Just get into formation and pull your hoods up." I commanded.

They complied, shuffling into a V formation behind me. I waved my hand and a swirling black portal popped into reality in front of us.

I was about to step through when Reyna grabbed the back of my cloak.

She spun me around and pulled my hood up, and I realized I had forgotten. She looked me over once, then kissed me quickly.