~The Beginning of Life~

~ Chapter 5 ; Nico Di Angelo ~

I fall on my back onto grass, my bag dropping next to me. I quickly sit up. I was in a forest.

Then I notice someone standing in front of me.
"You idiot!"
I gasp mentally. It was Nico! My- my favorite character... Dam.
"I was trying to get your attention to get you to camp!"

I slowly get to my feet. Nico was around a foot away, and we were roughly the same height.
"By throwing feathers at me?" I retort. He was only taller by a few inches. Not that scary.

"Don't play dumb! You're one of those- fangirls, pressing magical buttons! That's what one of them said." One of them? Okay, which idiot spilled?
Wait what...?

"Yeah, well that's believable." Undoubtedly he hated me already. My eyes adjust to the moderate darkness and I can see him properly. He was wearing a Camp Half Blood T-shirt, a bit too big, with a black hooded jacket and jeans.

"Ugh, whatever. Now come with me!" He turns and walks into the darkness. I follow him.

What was I wearing? A blue top with sky blue jeans and white boots. Nico probably wasn't a blue fan. Oh wait I forgot about Percy. Haha, never mind...
"Why are you so ticked off?"

Nico doesn't say anything for a while, probably thinking of why. "None of your business." He says after a while.

"Yeah, sure," I say, rolling my eyes.
Suddenly, everything turns bright and I realize we had left the forest. Nico keeps walking, scowling with a hand shielding his face from the sun.

My eyes seemed to be immune to high sunlight, so I could put my hands casually in my pockets and follow him to Half Blood Hill.

"So what's the true story?" Nico was already at the top, squinting and leaning against the tree.

Panting, I reach the top. "Story? For?"

"Your appearance. You're like fourteen, you ought to be dead by now from the monsters. And according to a few others, you all suddenly appeared to life, which isn't possible."

Umm... Okay... but what others is he talking about?
"Well, there are thr-two versions." My mind starts working on a story. I couldn't say that this was a fictional world and they were all characters. I could maybe flip that around.

"Then say both," Nico demands.

I sigh. "Why now?"

He rolls his eyes. "Why, you got somewhere to be? You'll speak later anyways. Now come on."
He starts going down the hill and I follow, a bit more unenthusiastic now.

He leads me to the infirmary then points. "Go in."

"What, why?" I wasn't hurt was I?

"Just go!"

"No!" Not caring that he'd hate me more, I turn and walk towards the Big House.

Suddenly, heat falls over me. My vision shakes and my legs collapse beneath me. I fall onto the grass, but I can't feel it; it's like it's just air... I feel sickly warm and I black out.
Again.

ARGH HYPNOS