Will Solace is the prince of the day. His large and busy village is always sunny. His parents Naomi and Apollo, rule the village with joy and fairness. His two younger siblings, Kayla and Austin, make being a prince a lot more fun than it actually is.
Even though his parents are good people, even people his own age kiss up to him. It's embarrassing. Being nineteen didn't help either. He was supposed to become king, but the raging war with the neighboring kingdom didn't help. How he hated the Night kingdom. They don't care about their people, it's obvious. How are the current rulers even still in charge? Since the war was coming to an end, they were finally putting these hot headed people in their place. Little did he know, his parents had their own plan of making peace.
Nico Di Angelo is the prince of the Night. His small and silent village was always quiet, always hidden. No one knew each other. His father and step father, Hades and Persephone, weren't the best people in the in world. His little sister, Hazel, made everything easier to deal with.
After the death of not only his own mother, but his older sister Bianca and Hazel's mother too. Because of how short tempered his father was, many people feared him and Hazel. Hazel hated it, but Nico loved it. He was never the most "popular" person before Bianca died and before Hazel was born. Everyone teased him for his small size, even if he was the prince. it was embarrassing. Once Bianca, His mom Maria, and Hazel's mom passed, everyone was too afraid to even look at him. If they wouldn't love him, they would fear him instead. Being eighteen wasn't very fun and the war with the sunny kingdom wasn't fun either. Oh how the Day kingdom amused Nico. Always sunny and cheerful. They think they could take on his kingdom so easily? Ha. Little did he know, his parents had their own plans for peace.
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What if Nyx got Nico as Will, Bob, Small Bob and Nico were in the boat? What if Nico hadn't swore on the River Styx?
It's been 2 years since Will and Nico ventured down to Tarturas, and today is the anniversary of that day. Will never left Camp Half-Blood. He's been waiting for Nico to somehow rise from the ground and and say "I'm back with more trauma!" or something like that. People have gotten concerned about Will; he's been distant, and easily agitated when someone mentions something bad about Nico.
Percy and Annabeth knew what happened, but they hadn't said anything to anyone about it other than the remaining seven, although no one was brave enough to mention it around Reyna. The seven recommend Will take a break, relax, maybe even visit with Nico's parents, but he refused, not wanting to be so close to Tarturas where he might jump in to find a possible dead Nico.
Even Hades and Persephone have been acting weird, much to the God's confusion. The dead have been rising at random times at both camps, causing people to become suspicious.
But one day, a very cold and rainy day, a group of skeletons run to Camp Jupiter and Half-blood, relaying one message: "A demigod has rose from the darkness."
I do not own Rick Riordan's work, nor his characters. This takes place after The Sun and The Star, so I recommend reading it before this so you understand.