Chapter 16
~Before you all have a heart attack from my lack of updates, here's the next chapter. Sorry for killing some of you.~
Nico's pov*
As I slowly regained consciousness, I opened my eyes. It was still as dark as when my eyes were closed. I looked everywhere, trying to find some source of light. A stood up cautiously and slowly then began to walk around with my arms outstretched. If I put my hands up I couldn't feel anything. So that means the ceiling is higher than me. I kept walking forward, almost zombie like, until I hit a wall.
It felt grainy and brick like. I ran my hand along it for about ten steps and I came to a corner. I turned around and made it to twenty when I came to another corner.
So the entire room was twenty steps by twenty steps, made of brick, pitch black, and very cold. I sat down by one of the walls and waited. What else could I do? I was too drained to shadow travel and there seemed to be no door in this room. So I sat and waited. I began walking again or crawling actually. I was feeling the ground for any hatches or secret doors. I found none.
There had to be a way to get in since I was here. What if it was on the ceiling? As I was about to crawl back to a wall, my hand hit something. It was a box. A small box. I shook it and heard something inside. The box could slide open. A match box, that's what it was. I opened it quickly and lit a match.
The room quickly filled with light, allowing me to see most of it. I was right, there were no doors on the walls and no hatches or secret doors on the floor. I raised my head and found a hatch right above me.
The ceiling was twice as high as I am, so there was no way of reaching it. Unless I found enough rocks to pile up to give me a boost. I sat down right beneath it and waited till the match needed to be swapped.
I continued to do this for maybe about an hour. Light, burn, new match. Over and over again. Then I suddenly heard something above me. I looked up and saw that the hatch was slowly opening. (Y/n) was there. "(Y/n)?"
"Isabela actually." She said with an evil grin.
"What? (Y/n) or Isabela, what's going on? Where am I?"
"You are in a basement in a French home of mine. To answer your other question, I'm going to use you as a sacrifice or something. Maybe after I almost kill you a few times. I haven't made up my mind completely."
"Who are you?"
"Oh right. I am Isabela the enchantress. I've kinda taken over your girlfriends body to get revenge on all you demigods and such. You see, a while ago I was sent to a sort of prison in a library because the demigods deemed me dangerous."
"You probably were." I said under my breath.
She floated... yep she floated down to where I sat and brought me to my feet. "Your people were the cause of my misfortune. You all caused me to become locked away for so so long! You will pay for it! They will pay for it!"
Seeing the one person you love the most yell at you is probably the most painful feeling to be felt, but I kept in my mind that it wasn't (y/n). This wasn't her. She would never do anything like this.
The enchantress threw me to the ground and sent a kick to my stomach. When I hunched over she laughed in a very maniac manner, then flew back up out of the basement. I sat up and stared at the box of matches. She left me a candle and a new box of matches. I lit the candle and sat by it. My main priority wasn't how to get out of here, it was to find a way to change (y/n) back.
Leo's pov*
I woke up in the hotel bed bright and early. Wait, no. It wasn't bright! I woke up at dark and early. Nobody else was even awake yet. I stayed laying down for a while. Maybe if I just lay here I'll fall asleep again.
After contemplating my existence in the world for about ten minutes, I decided to go do something else. I jumped up and walked to the bathroom. Once reaching said bathroom, I turned the faucet on and washed my face. I dried it with a towel along with some hairs that got caught in the water.
I wandered back to the room. It was decorated with some creepy looking paintings of dolls, flowers in vases, and other stuff that falls under the category of things that should never be put in a hotel. I walked by the bunk beds. Nico had called the top and Percy called the pull out couch so that I could have a bed. There were curtains on the bunks for privacy. I couldn't hear anything from Nico's bunk. He's usually quit but never this quiet. Maybe I should make sure he's ok.
I cautiously walked over to the bunk and got on my tip toes. I slowly brought my hands up to the curtain. If he is ok I probably won't be ok for very long. But curiosity got the best of me. I pulled the curtain back and glared at the empty bed. Oh gods.
Nico wasn't there. Maybe he was with (y/n). I could check in the moring. He did fall asleep on the balcony with her in Italy by accident. Maybe that's what happened.
Three sharp knocks hit me out of my thoughts and made me lose my balance. I fell down, landing on my side. Three more knocks came. I could hear Percy starting to groan. I jumped up and ran to the door.
I swung it open and found Annabeth. "Hey, what can I do for you?" I asked through a yawn.
"Have you seen (y/n)?"
Annabeth's pov*
"Have you seen (y/n)?" I was hoping she was here.
Leo's eyes widened. Oh gods. He opened his mouth opened and closed a few times. "Is Nico over there?"
"No... oh no. They wouldn't. Would they?" They wouldn't run away. What do they have to run away from other than Percy?
Percy. That could be it. No, (y/n) loves her brother too much to just leave like that. Nico wouldn't take her away without her 100% approval. Maybe it was a monster. But why just them?
I could see Percy on the couch bed thing. He just started sitting up. "What's going on?"
Leo was the first to speak. "Nico went missing."
"Ok."
"And" I began. ".. (y/n)."
His eyes widened. "Both of them?"
Leo and I nodded. Percy jumped up and paced around the room for a second. "No, you're joking. This is some prank. Right?" Me mumbled.
"No Percy. Both of them are gone. It could have been monters. It could have just been them. Or maybe they're just wandering around." I tried to calm him down.
He rushed by Leo and I, out the door. He walked into my hotel room and looked on the bunks. Be took a step back from then and brought his hand to his mouth. "We need to go find them."
He rushed back to his hotel room and started looking for his clothes. "Um, just get ready to go. I mean if you want to go. If you don't, then you can stay here. But I need to look for them." He said while frantically shoving things in his bag.
I nodded and walked back to my room. I began packing my suff after getting dressed in my camp shirt and shorts with sneakers. I met the other two outside my door within five minutes and we began making our way downstairs.
(Y/n)'s pov*
I was currently banging my head on a wall. That seemed like a good idea at the moment since there was nothing else to do but die. I stopped and slid down the wall. I tried to make the most out of this by going to my favorite shops and restaurants, but I couldn't get over the fact that it was just me here. I closed my eyes and listened to absolute silence. It was nice to not hear the chatter of other humans, but it also made me want to cry even more. What more could I do now? Ive looked up everything I can in books and online, but I can't find anything about the entire human existence disappearing.
I opened my eyes and was met with a man standing in front of me. I screamed and tried to back up, but of course there was a wall behind me. "Hey, chill out there. I'm just trying to help you."
"Wh- wha. How?" I stuttered.
"You know who I am, right?" He asked.
I thought for a minute. His hair was a dark shaggy mess, His clothes gave him a tourist at a beach look, and his eyes were sea green. "Dad?"
~I am so so so so so so so soooooooo sorry for not updating. I've been swamped with school work and other stuff. I tried to update as fast as possible, but it want fast enough.
I hope you people's liked this chapter, I'll try to get he next onto up as fast as possible. Until then, I hope you all have a good day or night. Ily!♡~
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