This is a longer shatter, hope you like it
Nico's POv
"It-It," I stuttered, unable to comprehend what to say. My mind was blank. I looked into the eyes of my friends, each of them more horrifying then the next. Then my eyes flickered to the image on Piper' phone. I wasnt getting out of this one so easily.
Two Hours Earlier
"Where to, death boy?" Alex asked, kicking pebbles as we walked along the side walk. The sound of busy traffic surrounding us and the uneasy feeling that something was following us.
"Alex..."" I said, my eyes locking on a figure across the street. There was an old fat lady sitting at the bus stop across the street. But the lady was looking right at me, and her eyes glowed a hue of red. Not good.
She had tan patchy skin and was wearing a ratty-ripped suite with made her stomach buldge.
Alex eyed the woman, dropping her hands into her vest pocket, retrieving a dagger. I held out my hand, shadows swirling around my finger tips until I felt the familiar holt of my sword.
"It already sees me so we can't run." And as I said that the thing..vanished No not vanished, jumped. In a flash it became a chimeria, sprining off its hind goat legs.
"Duck!" I shouted.The monster had landed right behind Alex. Its head was of a lion, while its other head was a goat. its snake tail flung in the air, its mouth opend just enough to see the flicker of a flame. The Chimeria.
Alex cucked and I swung my sword, cutting a gash in the lion's cheek. It roared, and it was my turn to duck as fire seared the edges of my hair.
I rolled to the side and Alex rolled the other way. I jumped to my feet and ran behind the monster while Alex was drenching it with water from the front. I stoke its behind, slicing the tail off. It roared and turned toward me. I side stepped slicing through its chest, but I guess it didnt take, only made the monster more angry.
Alex ran back infront of it, trying to piece the monsters eyes. While I was fighting the goats head and snake side.
But then I heard her scream. I whipped around and saw that the monster had bit into her shoulder. Alex fell to the ground, the monster gaining on top of her. It mouth inches from the flesh of her neck .
I ran toward Alex, skidding to my knees before the mosnter.I was now keeling, my back toward Alex as I sliced at the monsters head.
And I hit the mosnter right in its neck, it screeched and the lion head fell to the gound. Now with an open space I rolled under the body and pierced its heart. The monster turned to dust.
I rushed toward Alex who was propped up, grabbing her shoulder.
"Are you okay?" I asked, hurriedly.
She shot me a leer, "No, I just got bitten and injected with poison."
"Do you have any ambrosia or anything?" I asked.
She went to grab something from her pocket but then cussed as she moved.
"In my pocket, it magical, think of soemthing and it'll show up." she said through gritted teeth.
I did as she said, yet it was akward. I leaned foward, putting my hand in her pockets . We were so close I could feel her breath warm on my cheek, it reaked of the metalic smell of blood and posion.
I pulled some nectar, ambrosia and ACE bandages.
She greedily took the nectar and ambrosia, and the I dessed the wound. She had had a tank top underneath so it didnt bother her when I told her she had to remove her shirt.
"Thanks, you saved me." she mumbled and it was evident she wasnt used to saying that, "I guess were're even."
"No." I said sharply, "you save me..in tartarus." I shivered, hearing that horrid word aloud
Her eyes widened, "I thought you were unconcious."
" I guess not." I said. "But come on, are you hungrey?"
"Yeah," she responded , I helped her to her feet and the both of us limped over to Mc.Donalds.
I felt the sense of familiarality as I entered the junk food resturaunt. I felt like I was ten again, wading into the room ready to rise the dead
"Whats with you and famouse resturaunt chains? Starbucks and now Mc.Donalds," she asked. The color has returned to her face, even if she as gently wincing when she has to move her arm.
I shrugged, "I spy for demigods at Starbucks, and I rise the dead with a kids meal from mc.Donalds," I said simply.
She laughed, shooting me a teasing look, but then frowned when she saw I wasnt laughing , "Your serious?"
"Yeah, I actually reaise the dead with mc.donalds food, the dead like it." I said, and the poeople beside us took a wary step away from us.
We ordered and sat in a booth, across from eahother.
"About tartarus.," she began, "I did save you, but it didnt matter, really."
"You save my life. But what were you doing down there?"
"To search for the doors of death. You?"
"Same." And then silence, but it wasn't akward it was thoughtful Both of us thinking about our time in hell.
"You never really thouroughly descibed about why your at Olympus and how you got seperated from Percy. Can you tell me." I said. Wrong move. Her eyes squinted in on my, her first clenching, her whole body tensed.
"No. I wont tell you, you know what you need to. And sometimes people dont get what they want." she said in a lash of fury, her eyes becoming dark and stomry.
"Sorry, I-" I began, but she had stomred off, flinging open rthe girls restroom door.
Great, I pissed her off. What the heck did I do though? I didnt ask her anything inapropriate. What did I do wrong?
But I guess I understood, if she asked me why I was pissed with Bianca, I would react the same way.
She came back a few minutes later, collected and in order.
"Sorry." she mumbled as she approached.She placed her bad arm on the table, going to step into the booth. She yelped in pain and staggered ontop of me.
Her head was against my shoulder, as if she was leaning against me. Her arms were agaisnt my chest as to break her fall. It was akward.
But I didnt hear the click of a camera.
"Sorry." she gapsed, pushing away from me.
"Uh, its fine, you okay?" I asked. She nodded, and slid far away from me in the booth.
"Sorry about what I daid earlier, you can aske me anything."
"Anything?" she asked.
I nodded, "Anything," I confirmed.
"Why do you hate Bianca?" she asked. How did I guess she was going to say that?.
I intook a berath, hesitatn.
"You don't need to answer if you dont want to," her vocie was gentle now, and comfortable.
"Well, we were clsoe, she was all I had left, no parents, no friends, just her. I was also ten at the time, it was seven years ago. Yeah, well she chose to join the hunt, become immortal, run free...and never get to really see me again. She chose it with out hesitation, as if she wanted to leave me," I said, angrily.
Alex studied me, "I'm sorry. But she didnt want ot leave you, I know that."
"Well, if so she never told me. She just died, and I never saw her again, except now shes alive and she never came to visit me." I said,my fists clenched.
"She couldn't, Nico, I told you before."
"I know, sorry."
And then she told me, she deescibed how she was too emotional and would interupt the prophecy. And so they took her, took her right from her home, from her mother and Percy. And she got put here. She lived alone, the closest to a mother she had was hestia.
But she grew up, being trained by the gods and ocne old eenough she got blessed. She learned to fight, and she would go on missions for the gods. And as a reqard she broguht the dead alive, as I already knew.
"Wow." was all I could say.
"Thanks for listening." she said.
"Yeah, of course. " I said, but then my tone of voice turned back to normal, "Well it's getting late. I'm staying at camp for the night because the romans are coming tommorow and Hazel needs to help set up, and if I show up late the harpies will eat me alive."
"Yeah, well see ya around death boy."
"Your royal jerkishness," I said, bowing.
She laughed and then we both left.
Time Lapse
I approached my cabin, but suddenly felt someone grab my wrist. I whipped around to find everyone staring at me. piper, Percy, Jason, Piper and Hazel infront of me.
"What?" I asked, suspiciously. They were all standing their hands at the hips with glorified looks. piper held up her phone and their was an image of us on it.
Me and Alex.
It was when Alex had falled inot me and it looked like she was huddled agsint me. Oh gods.
"No girfriend huh? Drew saw you two cuddling. Who is she" Piper asked.
"It-It," I stuttered, unable to comprehend what to say. My mind was blank. I looked into the eyes of my friends, each of them more horrifying then the next. Then my eyes flickered to the image on Drew's phone. I wasnt getting out of this one so easily.
Drew is so dead.
Quistion of the day: where would your dream place to have a date be