This is the last part of this chapter. Enjoy it. *smiles*

Percy and Nico stood back to back as they fought the monsters and evil demigods.

The mission was relatively easy. They just had to go in and kill everything inside the main base of the enemy army. Easy as pie, right?

For most people, that statement seems innacurate. But to someone like Percy or Nico, it was pretty much just a walk in the park.

Not that they could even take a walk in the park without something bad happening.

Maybe that was a bad analogy, considering how this was almost no trouble at all for the two.

Or maybe it was a perfect one.

Percy cut down monsters left and right, along with the occasional demigod that got in his path. Nico stood near him, causing near the same amount of damage as the other.

"So, Nico," Percy said, cutting the head off of a cyclops.

"Yeah, Percy?" Nico asked.

"Want to go out for ice cream after this?" Percy asked, smirking slightly even though Nico couldn't see.

Nico's eyes widened slightly as he stabbed a demigod in the chest. The demigod fell to the ground and tried to stanch the flow of blood from his chest, but he died mere seconds later with a scream. But Nico's eyes didn't widen because of that.

"Are you—" Nico spluttered, "are you asking me out on a—"

"Yes," Percy said, cutting the leg off of a demigod. "What else would I be doing?"

"But we are in the middle of fighting a bunch of monsters," Nico stated as he kicked a hellhound away from him and stopped at demigod in the forehead. A stem of blood sprouted from the demigod's head and he collapsed to the ground, dead. "You're going to ask me out now?"

"Why not?" Percy said as he cut off three monster's heads with one swing of his sword.

Nico thought about it as he cut the hellhound thy he had kicked in half. "Nothing," Nico said after a second.

"Okay then," Percy said. They fell into a silence.

Percy muttered some weird poem under his breath as he killed the demigods and monsters. Nico could just barely hear the words.

"One dark day

In the middle of the night,

Two dead men

Got up to fight.

One was blind

And the other couldn't see,

So they used a dummy

As their referee.

They stood back to back

And faced each other,

Drew their swords

And shot each other.

A deaf police man heard the noise,

And came to arrest the two dead boys."

Nico spared a glance at Percy, confused. Percy didn't notice as he snapped the neck of one demigod and shot a monster with a gun that he had gotten from who-knows-where. It must've had some kind of monster killing bullets because the monster blew up into monster dust the second the bullet hit it.

Nico looked around as he cut off the arms of an enemy demigod. Blood splattered on him and he wrinkled his nose in disgust.

The enemy army was almost gone. Percy and Nico killed off the last few monsters. Percy got the last one, and stabbed him in the face. When the man died, he smirked and said something. Nico could hear this too.

"He got stabbed in the face

'Cause he's such a disgrace,

And now he must embrace

The erase

Of his face."

(A/N I do not own that. My sister heard someone say it and told me about it, so I don't know who it's originally from, but credit goes to them. It was something on YouTube though.)

Nico sent Percy another confused glance, which Percy saw this time. Percy blushed.

Nico smirked. "Let's go eat some ice cream."

"Okay," Percy replied, still blushing.  "Let's go."

~°~

Nico and Percy both got blue ice cream. They enjoyed their ice cream before leaving the ice cream shop forty five minutes later.

Nico named that erasing of the face rap that Percy made "The Face Stabbing Rap." He needed to think of something as Percy muttered it under his breath for the hundredth time since they had left enemy base.

When they got back to the hunters' camp, they went to their tent to restart their game of chess. But after they had closed the tent door, Percy was still muttering The Faced Stabbing Rap.

So, naturally, Nico gave his mouth something else to do.

Nico kissed Percy, and Percy, caught unawares, stumbled back slightly before kissing back.

~°~

As Percy remembered that, he smiled slightly, the deep sadness that usually filled his eyes momentarily disappeared.

But it soon returned as Percy remembered what had happened next.

There is a reason that this is chapter thirteen.

~°~(When you realize that the last chapter and this one was all a flashback. . . anyway, flashback continued!)

Percy and Nico woke up early the next morning.

The huntresses were moving to a different camping place that day. They went over the river and through the woods.

But as they walked into the clearing, planning to set up camp in it, they were attacked. There were more enemies than during either of the wars that Percy was in, more than there even were at the hideout. Most of the ones from the hideout had already reformed and had joined this army.

(A/N By the way, I'm just going to mention that Percy already realized the value of his life with some help by Nico. This information is here because I forgot to write it. Whoops. But yeah, Percy realized that he's fine with living now and he's okay-ish with being immortal.)

The monsters went down with arrows sticking out from their heads, chests, or limbs, but more took their place. It seemed never ending.

Slowly, the monsters started winning. Some huntresses went down, until there were only about a dozen left. Percy and Nico were the only ones who seemed to be making any progress.

With every hunter that went down, Percy got angrier. There was more power behind his attack while he still flawlessly defended himself, and his enemies realized just how strong an enemy Percy was. Before long, Percy and Nico would destroy them all.

But an evil demigod that once held a knife held that knife no more. It flew through the air, spinning, and hit it's target in the stomach.

Nico felt a huge pain in his stomach. He looked down to see blood; lots of it.

He stared at it in shock. Then, he collapsed to the ground and died.

(A/N I just laughed at the bluntness of my statement. I will laugh every time I read it. Ha.)

Percy felt that something was wrong. He turned around just in time to see Nico fall to the ground. He watched as Nico died quickly.

He never even got to say goodbye.

Percy stared at the dead body of his love in shock and horror. He barely got out of the time in time to dodge a monster that had tried to hit him.

Percy's eyes filled with rage.

Artemis's eyes widened. As she realized what was about to happen, she shouted out to her huntresses, "Close your eyes!"

The huntresses that were left immediately followed the goddess's orders as Percy burst into his true form.

(A/N You know, because he's a god and all. . .)

All the monsters and evil demigods were incinerated; none of them stood a chance. All the monsters were all sent back to their master to reform.

Percy gained control of his true form a few seconds later. He looked around the battlefield to see piles of monster dust and devil demigod remains everywhere. But the dead hunters were in the mess.

Percy watched as the huntresses looked for their fallen friends. Percy saw Zoë among the dead, and she returned to her place in the sky.

Then, Percy went straight to where Nico lay. He fell to his knees next to Nico and stared at him in shock and sadness. Percy looked into Nico's still open eyes and gently closed them. Percy could have believed that Nico had been only sleeping if not for the absence of breathing or the blood that soaked Nico's clothes.

Percy buried his face into his hands and silently wept.

~°~

Percy remembered that day. It had been enough to turn him into this. He didn't get out of his cabin, and he was spouting meaningless mutterings while staring with wide eyes at a wall.

(A/N It's a very interesting wall.)

But after a few weeks, Percy's shocked sadness turned into anger. He swore to get revenge for his fallen love. Tartarus and everyone who worked for him would pay.

And there would be no mercy.

A/N Yes, this story will still be Pernico. It'll just be a. . . long-distance relationship.

And don't worry, I have plans.

So, how did you like the chapter? *smiles*

~ShatteringThe4thWall