"Luke." Percy growled.

I realised that the person he was talking about was Luke Castellan. He is our enemy. I looked at him. He doesn't look that menacing.

"Hello Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase, Leo Valdez, Nico di Angelo, Piper McLean, Frank Zhang, Hazel Levesque, Jason Grace, (y/n) (l/n), and Caileigh Rose." He extended Caileigh's name.

I heard Caileigh hide behind me. I covered her as much as I could. Then, I realised. Rose. Her last name is Rose. That couldn't be right. It's impossible.

Unfortunately, for me, before I could question her, Luke came over to us. I felt tense, but stood my ground. I knew this was going to be a problem.

"Go away!" I yelled.

He laughed at me with an evil grin. Nico stood next to me ready to attack. Before I knew it, Luke sent us over the edge falling into what seemed to be hell.

"Bye." Was the last thing I heard Luke say.

I thought I was going to die. Luckily, Nico grabbed onto me and shadow traveled us to the bottom. He didn't have enough energy to transport us back up. I felt bad for him.

"Nico, are you ok?" I asked.

I realised he was still holding me in his arms. My cheeks turned red. I looked at Nico who seemed really tired. That shadow traveling must wear him out.

"Tired." Nico said.

"You can put me down now." I said.

He put me down slowly and as soon as me feet hit the ground I pulled him down. He needed rest. I was worried about him. He looked confused.

"Sleep." I said.

"B-but-" he started.

"No. You've taken care of me, so I'm going to take care of you." I said.

"You don't understand-." He started.

"Just go to sleep," I said and raised my voice.

He knew there was no point in fighting. He sighed and went to sleep. I looked around at where I was. It was burning hot, literally. There was very hot fire and lava everywhere I looked. This place looked like a hell on Earth. Then, I realised that it was hell. More commonly known as Tartarus. I felt really unlucky.

New heroes fallen to deaths pits, and a battle for a soul with wits

"Well I'm screwed." I said aloud,

After a while of keeping guard of Nico while he slept. It was a pain in the ass. I was attacked nearly every minute. Nico finally woke up

While I was fighting a chimera....

I heard Nico groan as he woke up. I looked his way and got knocked to the ground. The chimera scratched a gash in my stomach and it hurt like hell (ba-dum-ch).

I looked over at Nico. He was staring at me, eyes wide in terror. He saw the gash and the chimera. Before I knew it, the chimera was gone. Nico in its place, which I absolutely preferred.

He bent down next to me. He was on his knees next to me. He looked pissed and worried. I knew that he was scared for me. He thought I was going to die.

"N-Nico. T-there's ambrosia and nectar in my bag." I sputtered out.

Nico scrambled to grab my bag. He pulled out one of my many containers of ambrosia and nectar. Then, he ran back over to me.

"Here, let me help you." He said softly.

He drizzled the nectar on one of the ambrosia squares. He put it to my mouth. I ate the entire thing. It helped me heal, but there was still a large open cut.

"Get the bandages." I said.

Nico, once again, got the thing I needed. He pulled up my shirt and started wrapping my cut. He was blushing a deep red and the top of his ears were bright pink. He finished and quickly pulled my shirt down and put away the bandages.

"Are you ok?" He asked, avoiding eye contact.

"Yeah thanks to you." I said.

"What was I supposed to do? Let you die? I couldn't let that happen you." He said.

"You're the best. Speaking of which, could you shadow travel us out of this hell?" I asked.

"Yeah, hold on to me." He said.

I grabbed onto his arm. Dam. I never realised how muscular he is. I looked up at him. He seemed confused and looked at me.

"It's not working. Something's blocking me from shadow traveling." He said.

"Must be Luke." I inferred.

"Yeah, that would make sense." He said.

Suddenly, he tensed up. I noticed his face drop. He looked at me a with sympathy before turning back to normal. I was confused.

"Are you ok?" I asked.

"I'm fine." He said

With that we trudged through hell. Both of us were tired and weak. Especially me, I hadn't gotten a drop of sleep since we got here. I had no idea how long we would be here for. I really didn't care, I just wanted to leave.

"Look, the Doors of Death!" Nico said.

I gave him a hopeful smile and ran to them. Suddenly, I was blown back and fell to the ground. I winced in pain. It hurt like hell on my scars, cuts, and bruises.

"Luke! I know your there!" Nico called.

"Well spotted di Angelo. Your sister would be proud. Oh wait she's dead!" He said and laughed.

"Shut up, you son of a bitch!" I yelled.

"Oh feisty (l/n), or should I say Rose." He teased.

"That's not my last name anymore, my name is (y/n) (l/n)." I growled.

"Changed your name did you? Is it because you killed your sister, or because you let everyone die?" He smirked.

"(Y/n), what's he talking about?" Nico asked.

I ignored Nico's comment. Instead I pulled out something I didn't even know I had. It was a sword. A Stygian iron sword to be exact.

"Where did you get that?" Nico and Luke yelled.

"Hell." I replied.

The interesting thing wasn't the type of metal the sword was made of. It's what was engraved in it.
'Ψυχρής κόπτης' or 'ŠØÜŁ ÇÙTTËR' and a black skull on the handle/hilt of the sword.

The sword seemed familiar. Wait, it's no.. Well, I guess I have no choice. I decided to let Gabbie handle this. I let her take over, but she didn't take me to the mind-scape.

Instead, she let me watch as she battled Luke. I don't know why, but she did. He was defenceless against her. She was to strong. When she finally won I forced her away and I was back as myself.

"I'll just shadow travel us out of here." Nico said.

"Wait." I said.

"What?" Nico sighed.

I kissed him. I don't know why I did. I'm glad I did though, because he kissed back. I felt heat surge through me as I melted into the kiss.

"Nico." I said.

"What?" He asked, obviously tired of waiting.

"You just gave me the rest of my soul." I said and smiled.

"Woah." He breathed.

"What?" I asked.

"It's just, you're really beautiful when you smile." He said, embarrassed.

I smiled again and kisses him. He wrapped his arms and my waist. I wrapped mine around his neck and played with his hair. Eventually, we broke the kiss due to lack of air.

"Let's get out of this hellhole." He said and we shadow traveled.

He brought us outside of the Door of Death. In front of us stood the seven. They looked so happy to see us again. And I got a ton of hugs.

As soon as I laughed and smiled, everyone except Nico stared at me in shock. I realised Caileigh must've told them.

"I have a soul." I said.

Everyone cheered and starting saying nice things to me. Nico, on the other hand. Poor Nico was being teased as though we had made out. Even though we didn't even get that far.

We boarded the Argo II and we started off on our journey back to New York. Right now, we were all the way in California. It was going to be a long trip back.

I walked across the ships halls to Nico's room. I knocked on the door and he opened it. When he saw me, his face lit up. Seeing me must have made him happy.

"Hey Nico. Can I come in?" I asked.

"Of course." He said, smiling.

He opened the door wider for me to step in. I walked in and immediately kissed his cheek. A blush rose to his cheeks as he smiled at her. Then, she sat down in Nico's bed.

"Nico. Please come over here." I said.

He closed the door and say next to me. I smiled at him and I felt arms around my waist. It was Nico's arms and I immediately smiled. Gods. I love this boy.

"By the way. You missed earlier." He said.

"Huh?" I asked.

"I'll help you." He said and smashed his lips on mine.

I smiled in the kiss and wrapped my arms around his neck. I felt his arms wrap around my waist.When I pulled away, I looked at him and shook my head.

"This is more cliché than a romance movie." I said.

"Shut up." He said.

"Meh, I don't wanna."

Then, we heard a sound of a horn. It wasn't an emergency though. This was the sign for dinner. Nico and I got up and met up with the seven.

We sat down and of course we had couples together. Nico and I, Frank and Hazel, Percy and Annabeth, and Piper and Jason. Leo was sitting next to Jason.

Then, I had noticed something. I didn't see Caileigh anywhere. I looked around for her. Yet, she was nowhere in sight. She wasn't there when we met back up with the Seven either.

"Um, guys. Where's Caileigh?" I asked.

The room immediately fell quiet. An unsettling feeling fell over. Nobody said a word. They all had different looks. None of them were happy. It was either sorrow, regret, pity, or just depressed.

Something had happened. I was the only one who didn't know. I needed to know. I really didn't want to.

"Guys she needs to know." Nico said.

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Ok I'm done. This chapter was a little bit shorter than I did intended it to be. My goal was 2,000 words and I only reached 1,800 words so it wasn't exactly my main goal. Besides that, I believe I did a good job. The next chapter might be delayed with school starting really soon. I'm so sorry guys. I'm going to try to get it done asap! I promise to! Ok bye my little potatoes!!