The Chosen Demigods

Chapter 49

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I actually cannot believe that people read 49 parts of this book to get to this part, and I am SUPER GRATEFUL! Seriously, thank you so much! And in regards to the video, I have no regrets. Also, I'm sorry this is out later than usual, I didn't get time to write. But this is a bit longer than usual, so here you go!

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Will's POV

I stared at Nico as he stirred his porridge -hehe. That's such a british word!- halfheartedly. He'd been pretty quiet since we'd left the dorm, and now was no exception. 

"Will," I turned to my left where Monica sat, looking at me. "What's up with Nico?" she asked me quietly. 
"Nightmare." Monica frowned. 
"Really? Must've been pretty bad..." Oh no she was onto us. "-Any idea what it was about?" Oh thank the gods. I suppose it was expected that she'd know our boundaries by now. 
"No idea. He said he'd tell me later." 
"Aw!" she cooed softly, picking up her coffee. I felt my ears go red, and chuckled. 
"What's so cute about that exactly?"
"Everything." she said smirking, lifting the cup to her lips. 

A familiar screeching sound echoed around the cavernous room, accompanied by the frantic flapping of hundreds of wings.
"Oooh yay! Mail time!" said Divani clapping her hands excitedly. Nico let out a quiet laugh, and leaned closer to me.
"It's kinda hard to believe she's been her for six years." he muttered.
"Mhm." I replied smiling at his closeness. 

I stared up at the ceiling, which was now a mural of whites, browns and blacks. And then a bird was in my face. 

"Gah!" I said, my hands shooting up over my head and screwing my eyes shut. I did NOT like the idea of being attacked by a barn owl. Nico's laughter reached my ears, making me wretch my eyes open. I saw my soulmate scoffing as he stroked the owl, and slowly coaxed a package off it's spindly leg. 

"Calm down, Solace." he said smirking at me. I blushed, and chuckled nervously. 
"So what is it?" Nico shrugged. After tearing off a piece of toast and feeding it to the owl, he handed the package to me. 

I tugged at the twine, and eventually opened it. I frowned. 

"Sweets?" Nico looked at me confused. 
"What would they send us sweets for?" I shrugged, and turned around. Across the hall, I saw Piper and Hazel opening a similar package. I nudged Nico. 

"The girls got one too." Nico's eyebrows furrowed, and he stared at them. I turned back to the package in front of it. 

The owl had flown off by now, and the package was sitting half on the table and half on Nico's plate. There was nothing extraordinary about it honestly, it was just a bunch of toffees wrapped in wax paper. But then something else caught my eye. It was another toffee wrapper, but this one looked strangely... deformed. I frowned, and picked it up. It was really light. I squeezed it, and to my shock, it sunk underneath my touch.

"Neeks, look at this." Nico leaned over my shoulder as I pulled a crumpled piece of paper from the rest of the toffees. 
"Weird." muttered Nico, resting his chin on my shoulder. 

I un-crumpled the paper carefully, and then smoothed it out on the table. It was a letter written in Greek. 

Hello, Nico, Will. 

I know it is an uncommon occurrence for me to write to you, and I did send Nico a dream, but the magic at Hogwarts somehow interfered with it. Your plan to destroy the Horcrux using the Styx is going to fail. It's impossible. Hecate knows this, but she thought it was best for you to find out by yourselves.