The Sacred Cards - A Nico Di Angelo Adventure (Part 1)
Nico looked around at the Hades cabin, wishing for not the first time that Hazel would visit again soon.
Sometimes he didn't mind being there alone, but at other times he minded very much.
Fortunately, the children of Hades never had to be truly alone...
Nico closed his eyes and stretched out his hands, focusing with all of his might on what he wanted.
There was a very minor tremble of earth. Barely a vibration, then the door of his cabin opened.
Three skeleton boys stepped inside.
One of them plopped down on the sofa and found the TV remote. The second started raiding Nico's fridge. The third skeleton boy proceeded to Hazel's empty bed and kicked back.
Nico smiled. That was more like it...
It wasn't long before he was snoozing away, so he didn't see the black fog pour in under the front door. He didn't see his three skeleton chums tremble and fall to pieces.
The black smoke solidified into a teenage boy, not much younger than himself.
Like Nico, the boy had black hair, and a pale appearance. Unlike Nico however, the boy's form seemed to have a jackal-headed man projected over it.
The strange boy proceeded to the side of Nico's bed and stretched out his hands over the sleeping son of Hades.
Inside his dream world, Nico's surroundings suddenly turned darker. Then he felt as though he were roughly pulled forward.
He began going through a series of dream images. First, he saw a little shop in what appeared to be a rather large city.
He saw a rough looking man with big arms bring out a key-looking device. Nico couldn't see what this man looked like because he was wearing a ski mask over his face.
The man inserted the key-like device and began working the doorknob.
Nico's dream shifted, and he figured he was now inside the shop. There were cases full of some kind of trading cards. They looked vaguely familiar, but Nico couldn't place them.
He saw the man in the ski mask come in through the door.
The dream shifted again. The man in the ski mask was holding a little wooden case, which he pulled back the lid of.
Inside the case, resting against a soft plush surface were three trading cards.
Nico could see that one card depicted a blue demon-looking giant. Another card showed a very long, red dragon.
The third card showed a golden bird-like creature.
Nico again felt as though he should recognize these cards from somewhere. Possibly, the cards belonged to a popular trading card game. They weren't mythomagic cards...
Then Nico jolted awake suddenly.
The first thing he noticed was the feeling of a strong presence that had just left. He wondered if it could be his father Hades, but it didn't quite feel like Hades.
It felt foreign. Besides, why would Hades come all the way to Camp Half Blood to visit him?
The second thing Nico noticed was that the three skeleton chums he'd conjured up were lying in little piles of bones.
Yes, something powerful had definitely been in his cabin. Something with power over the dead. If not his dad, who?
A sudden knock at the door, shook him from his anxious thoughts.
At the door was his boyfriend Will, looking nervous about something.
"Chiron wants to see you," Will explained. "...and there's someone else. Some old ladies with wings."
Nico thought - 'No! Surely not...'
What would they be doing at camp?
(To be continued)
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What if Will Solace was the next name on Rick's "list of dead blue eyed Blondies"
I mean we have Luke, Lee (ok he's not a natural Blondie but still) Octavian and Jason too
But like, Will is a blue eyed Blondie too, like what if he dies on the trip to Tartarus, like it was mentioned that Solangelo would have an Orpheus and Eurydice parallel and that Nico has to give something up for something else (uhh, I really don't remember) but what if Will sacrifices himself? He'll be all like "Take Bob and go, I'll stay" and Nico would be like "No William, your coming with me" or they would be leaving Tartarus with Bob and (maybe) Jason's soul and Nico looks back and well, Will just disappears (?)
No Riordanverse book is complete without someone Doing some Huge sacrifice or Dying (eh)
But what if Will DOES sacrifice himself but comes back, just like Leo did, like, he took the doors of death to get to the real world again
Or what if we get plague!will solace and he uses his plague powers to survive in Tartarus??
Guys idk anymore LMAOAOAOAA
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