The Lost Trident: Percy Jackson

I walked around an old castle

The sun had actually began rising in behind us whilst we were walking up towards the entrance. We made it up to the entrance without being seen by anyone or thing we found the doors were already opened and we walked into what I assumed was an entrance hall, I began walking towards the what sounded like hundreds of voices, all displaying different emotions, some were angry some were distraught, some were worried but none of them were happy.as we walked closer to the room Nico nearly fainted.

"Nico! Are you okay" Travis whisper yelled,

"There's too much, I can't go in there there's too much" Nico sobbed. I had never seen him like this, I didn't really know what to do.

"Travis, you stay with Nico I'm going to go see what's on the other side of those doors, make sure your hidden" I told them. I crept down the rest of the hall and stepped into a massive room filled with hundreds of people of all ages. Most people in the room were crying over the bodies of people they had lost. I understood why Nico was so stressed now. I crept down the side of the room trying to see if there was anything I could take. I saw a couple tables at the front of the room that had food on them. I began walking towards the table as quickly as I could with the hopes of not being noticed. I made it to the front of the room grabbed a few handfuls of food and stuffed it all in my pocket. I was lucky most of the stuff was packaged. I turned around and saw that and older woman was looking directly at me. At first I didnt know what to do but then she smiled at me, made a shh sign and nodded at the door as a sign for me to leave. I began making my way out of the room when I caught a glimpse a whole family of redheads, one of which looked like the man that had followed me and Travis down that alley a few days ago. They appeared to be mourning the loss of a fellow red head that looked identical to one of them so I assumed that they were twins. It was at that moment that I also noticed that everyone in the room was also carrying sticks. I decided I needed to leave and I also made a decision not to tell Nico or Travis about what I had seen, I wasn't even sure I was going to tell Annabeth and I tell her everything.

I made my way back out to Travis and Nico and we left the building and headed back towards the lake we had only made it about 50 yards when we saw people walking towards the open doors of the castle, they were shouting something towards the people who were now coming out of the open castle doors.

"Nico, we need to leave now, can you shadow travel us, take us anywhere, ok, anywhere" I ordered. Both Travis and Nico looked at me but the Nico grabbed hold of our hands and pulled us into the shadows just as the yelling and screaming started.

We came out of the shadows in the middle of the lake at camp half-blood, Nico was passed out and there was no one around which I found slightly surprising considering it was nearly summer and the fact that we have quite a few year-round campers. I could feel Nico fading away slightly and that worried me a lot because I felt that if he died it would be my fault.

"Travis run and get a healer I don't care if they are working on someone else grab them and drag them here right now!" I shouted at him. Travis could hear the desperation in my voice and he ran faster than I'd ever seen him i took my bag of and dropped the trident so that I wasn't being dragged down by anything and I stayed in the water trying to help sustain Nico's live. Even being in the lake I could feel all my energy draining, it wasn't enough I could hear Travis coming back with a number of other people. But it was no use Nico was fading to fast I didn't know if anyone or anything could bring him back. I felt him squeeze my hand, I could feel him not wanting to leave, his breathing was becoming shallower, I could hear the shouts of the medics at the edge of the lake telling me to bring him to them but it was no use there was nothing they could do. I heard someone pushing through the water trying to get to use,

"NICO!" Will shouted, "It's me! Its Will. Nico hold on!" will pleaded through tears. He was trying to stay strong but I could tell it was breaking him. I hated seeing him like this, I had hoped and prayed that this would be the year we wouldn't lose anyone. My own father had told us to our faces that this quest wasn't going to be dangerous. I could feel the anger rising inside of me. I could hear another person making their way through the water towards us.

"Nico, you can't leave us yet we still need you" Annabeth sobbed. I've lost so many people through the years but ever since the labyrinth I never thought I would lose Nico. I don't think any of us did. we cared for Nico, and we knew he cared about us even if he had an odd way of showing it. for all the people if lost this one was the one that was tipping me over the edge.

The three of us stood there sobbing over his body doing everything in our power to sustain his life force but it was no use, I knew he stopped squeezing my hand. I stood in the lake looking at the empty body of a boy who had gone through so much lose an loneliness, and I broke me, I looked at the body the anger rising from within trying to escape. I could tell Annabeth and Will were moving back I knew I was scaring them, it was like they knew what was going to happen before I did. all the anger and pain inside of me was fighting so hard to be let out, all my worst memories flashing before me until I couldn't hold it back anymore. I screamed. A gut-wrenching scream of anger, grieve, frustration, loathing and sadness. I couldn't see anything around me all I could see was darkness all I could hear was silence. I couldn't feel anything, I fell to the ground holding the body of a boy who had so much more life to live. I sobbed over this body unaware of my surroundings, oblivious to what I had done, it was only when Annabeth came and sat next to me pulling me into a hug that I realised what I had done. As I opened my eyes I looked to the shore of the lake and saw the terrified faces of the campers and Chiron, drenched in water from the lake that was now for the most part empty. The valley was flooded with water both from the lake and the beach. Will had made his way over to Nico's limp body and began sobbing onto him. everyone stayed like this for what felt like hours but in reality, was only 5 minutes.