Stupid Cupid

~Stupid Cupid - Chapter 14

"Sky?" Nico asked. He had stopped walking and I with him.

I looked towards him and say, "Yeah?"

"You've been silent for twenty minutes which is not like you. Are you okay? Did you have a vision? Why did you take that picture?"

"Do you know anything about Leo's past?" I asked and Nico pursed his lips. "You know something!"

"Yes."

"What is it?"

Nico looked up at the sky and then sighed. "When Leo was a kid, his mother died and he was sent to a foster home. He ran away and was on the run until he was sent to a school where he met Piper and Jason."

"How did his mother die?" I suddenly felt like this was important.

"In a fire. Leo didn't say anything else but..."

"'But' what?"

"When I was in the Underworld, I saw her. She was in the Fields of Asphodel but she was muttering something and tapping a pattern on her knee. She could remember. Not much but something."

"Why is that so strange?"

"No one other than children of Hades can remember things from their life on earth. If she could remember and isn't a child of Hades... I don't know. I asked Hades but he didn't say anything. I never saw her again, though. I asked Hades where she was and he said he sent her to rebirth."

"Oh my gods."

"Why did you ask?" I looked at Nico and explained my vision. He was silent for a while.

"If Night is trying to recreate major occurrences in the world and Leo's mom could remember - which is a pretty major thing in the world of demigods - I think Night is trying to recreate Leo's mom's death. And to do so, she'd need Leo."

"And the place where it all happened," I said trying to finish the puzzel.

"They're going to come back here. We need to contact Chiron." There was no question. If we didn't run this by Chiron, we were seriously doomed.

Nico and I walked back to were the old burned building was and thought of a plan. We had four of the six large water bottles that we had in the beginning. If I could make a good mist with one - and keep it constant long enough - Nico could contact Chiron and converse with him. How? I have no clue.

Nico fished in his pocket for a while and then pulled out a gold coin. I looked at him questioningly but he just waved me off. I started making the mist (which I still don't know why I have to do) and the mist caught the light to make a rainbow.

"Oh Iris, goddess of the Rainbow, please except my offering." Nico said in a rather bored tone then flipped the coin in and it dissapeared once it touched the water. "Chiron, Camp Half-Blood."

The rainbow shimmered and then Chiron, Percy, and Piper appeared having a very intense conversation. I felt my stomache drop at the sight of Percy but ignored it. Piper was fuming and Percy had a bright pink cheek.

"-did you slap Percy, Piper?" Chiron said and Nico and I started listening intently.

"He disappears for three days, doesn't say good-bye to his half sister - who might not even come back - and then shows up like he's the king of everything. He's an a-"

"Chiron!" Nico yelled and Piper's ears tuned pink.

Chiron turned towards us and said, "Nico? Sky? What's going on?" Nico explained what had happened and about my vision - during which Piper's eyes widened - and then about our theory.