//It'll be short.//

It was a sunny day. The big, white from astronomical point of view, star was shining, lightening up the whole Camp Half-Blood and bathing it in immense heat. The Seven were inside the Big House, it was too hot to go outside and in the blue building they could at least get cold drinks. It's not like they had refrigerators in the cabins, the Camp wasn't that profitable. After all, how much can you earn by selling strawberries, right?

"-right, my Wise Girl?"

Chase gave him a weird look, like one of the 'why does my Seeweed Brain really have a seeweed brain' kind.

"No, Percy you can't. Cookies won't need less time in the oven if you set higher temperature. That's not how it works." Annabeth said to the son of Poseidon. The latter slammed his head against the table they were all sitting at.

"But I want cookies." Percy said to his arm so the words were a little muffled.

Jason, who was watching the scene with amusement, shoved one of his chocolate-chip cookies towards the ebony. Jackson looked up at it and grinned. "Bro."

"Bro."

They fist-bumped as they were sitting next to each other. Annabeth and Piper just exchanged amused looks. Yep, they were fricking cute. Like children, but the point stands.

Leo was playing with some rubber bands, springs and ice cream sticks. Apparently, he had been making a fan, because exactly when Frank was about to say something, he yelled: "It's alive!" and showed everyone his actually moving masterpiece. Then he put it in front of his face and sighed with delight. Even the weakest, softest blows of wind were very welcomed. Our Spanish elf was undeniably unspeakably happy.

It was that moment when Will ran into the Big House. He passed the seven demigods and was heading to the... basement? Hazel stopped him in his tracks before he disappeared from the view.

"Will, where are you going?"

The blonde rested his hands on his bended knees. He took a deep breath.

"I'm looking for my stupid, shadow-travelling boyfriend. This idiot's stupid, and I tell him not to, ya know, doctor's orders, that means mine, and he's stupid and won't listen because of his stupidity."

Percy snickered. "That's a lot of 'stupid' for one sentence."

"'Cause he's stupid." Will muttered catching his breath.

Hazel cocked her head. "I thought he was okay to use shadow-travelling."

"Yeah, he is."

"So why-"

"'Cause it was a race and as a doctor I forbidden it as it isn't considered 'healthy rivalry'."

Piper made a face that caused Jason to snort, for what he later got smacked upside the head. Leo interfered with: "And why exactly were you racing here?" with an accent on 'y'.

"Does it matter? I need to-" there was a thud in the hallway, where they couldn't see. Will ran towards the noise, murmuring something that sounded like 'You're so dead that even Hades won't help you, you emo annoyance'.

Jason and Percy both looked at each other with each raised one eyebrow.

"Should we check it out?" The son of Jupiter asked.

"I don't know. Will seemed pretty serious about his threats."

"Are you for real?" Frank interrupted.

Annabeth broke in, disrupting the bickering: "While you were at Camp Jupiter playing Preators with Reyna, those two proclaimed Nico their younger brother that has to be protected from everything and all the evil of this world."

"YES WE DID." The mentioned two said in unison and high-fived.

There was another, louder thump, this time it sounded like something, or someone, smashed into another someone. If Piper was to guess, it was Will colliding with Nico and throwing them both into a wall. Then came the happy laugher, 'try calling any corpses and you'll be one' and 'I wanna slide'. The last thing seemed to catch 'hero-bros-for-life' attention 'cause the very next second Percy was running down the hallway with Jason in his tow. The remaining demigods, having literally nothing else to do, followed suit.

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They arrived near the stairs to the basement. Stories were told that it was haunted and... not the time. They saw Nico and Will sitting on the railing, the latter lower than Nico, and it seemed they were going to slip down.

Percy reacted with high-pitched scream and something that sounded suspiciously like 'my baby!' which earned him Leo's 'what the fuck man' look. Annabeth just didn't care, she was too used to her boyfriend's antics.

In the same time, a little on the right...

Jason was supposed to be the mature one? Hell no. He was definitely not.

"Oh my gods, NICO GET BECK HERE! You're gonna break a leg or" he gasped in terror "get a bruise on this pretty emo-gay face of yours!"

Will was trying to swallow the laughter but he was successful only so far until a very misshapen snort left through his nose. Di Angelo raised his head and looked at the seven. He waved at them.

"You're all going to hell. Goodbye!"

They were all dumbstruck where they stood.

Jason was the first one to snap out of it. He followed the two teenagers with his eyes. "He just-"

Percy yelled after Nico: "Don't vine us! Come back here, young man! This instant!" And as to emphasize the importance of what he just said, he put his foot down.

When son of Hades and one of Apollo disappeared from the view, both Camp's Aquaman and Superman leaned over the railing to see Solangelo slowly sliding down.

"NICO!!!

//So... it was supposed to be short. I can't really help it.//

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G'night
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