The Chosen Demigods

Chapter 9

HEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So. How's life? *Nervous Laughter*

So look. This is supposed to involve a prophecy, and I'm kinda really bad at poetry so..... sorry 'bout that in advance. Moving on from my lack of skill.....

I DON'T OWN HEROES OF OLYMPUS OR HARRY POTTER!!!!!

I'm too dumb to. J.K and Rick however.......

Or maybe I am J.K Rowling and you don't know it yet? *Awkward silence* Yeah, I'm sure that fooled absolutely no-one. 

ON WITH THE STORY!!!!!

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Pipers POV (I haven't done one of these yet have I?)

We all walked out of the big house in silence. Well, this was awkward. 

"Uh, Will?" I asked. "Correct me is I'm wrong, but your dad isn't supposed to be able to predict when prophecies arrive, right?" I mean, I knew he was literally the god of foresight, but really?Will just shrugged. 

"I mean, here's no mention of it in the myths, but I wouldn't put it past him. So, are we going back to the Underworld or something?" 

"Nah. You guys are staying in Hazel and I's cabin." said Nico smiling and looking at Hazel who stifled a laugh. I exchanged nervous looks with Will. "Uh... why are you guys laughing?" asked Will looking at his boyfriend. "Oh, no reason." said Hazel her voice wavering. 

Okay, now I was scared. No offence against Nico and Hazel, but children of the Underworld were kinda known for their twisted humor. I fell back next to Will. 

"Any idea what this is about?" I asked him quietly. "No idea." he mumbled still looking at Nico. I smiled. Even when he was worried, I could tell that Will was thinking about Nico. I wonder when he's gonna propose, I wanna plan the wedding. Where would they live? How many children.... "Piper!" I looked at Will who was, in turn, staring at me looking horrified. "Oops. Did I say that out loud?" I said nervously. Will's look told me all I needed to know. 

"So, um... I kinda got 'round to decorating, so this might take a while." said Nico half nervously as he opened the door to the Hades cabin. And what I saw made my jaw drop. 

The front room had a scary resemblance to our common room in the underworld, except most things here were themed black. The floor was covered in a dark ebony wood flooring, with the exception of a fluffy red and black rug that sat in front of a huge wall-like marble fireplace that blocked the second half of the cabin from view. There were two cream armchairs and a couch with black and gold cushions on them around the rug, and black bookshelves lined the walls up till the fireplace. 

"So this is the front half, kinda like a living area I guess," began Hazel grabbing my hand and leading me across the floor. "And this is where we sleep." She lead me through a gap between the fireplace and the wall, to the second half of the room. 

This was the part of the room where the walls were actually visible. They were a french white with two large bay windows on either side which had gold window-sills, blue silk curtains, ad black cushions resting on them. The floor was covered in fluffy grey carpet,  and each side had two double beds, one on either side of the bay window. There was a chest of drawers and a side table next to each bed. On the side which i presumed was Hazel's, one of the beds (probably hers) had a rich purple bedspread with a gold and black comforter. Her side table and dresser had a range of personal objects on them, but the other set of furniture was plain white and bare. There were large paintings on canvas hung up over Hazels bed, which I assume Hazel painted, most of which were vibrant and colorful, most featuring Arion. I chuckled. Why did I expect anything else from Hazel. 

Nico's bed had a black and gold duvet, and a silver comforter. He had various charcoal sketches in excruciating detail hanging over his bed. I stared at them for a while. Because they were amazing. Seriously. One of them was a field with a black and white sunset behind it, with a single yellow flower amidst the black. Another was a pencil sketch of what looked like Italy, and a charcoal one of Hazel and Frank, among others. Wow. The boy could draw. His side table had a single small figurine on it, that looked like it was from a game. He also had a black sketch-pad and pencil within arms reach of his bed. I frowned. I'd seen him drawing in it after he'd had a nightmare. I desperately wanted to look at it, but knew that if I did, chances are that I'd get nightmares from the drawings if they were anywhere as good as the ones on his wall. He also had a blank set of furniture on the other side of his bay window. 

"Yeah. We also have one more thing to show you, but first..." Nico walked over to Will, grabbed his hand, and guided it to the blank set of furniture next to his bed. 

As soon as Will's hand touched the duvet, a warm golden color started to spill from his fingertips. Swirls of black intertwined with the gold, and soon the duvet was the same as Nico's but inverted. I smirked. I had a idea what the black stood for....

"PIPES!!!" I was brought out of my mind-palace and whipped my head around to see Hazel smiling at me and gesturing to the only bed left in the room. "It's your turn." She said cheerfully. God that girl is sweet. 

I walked up to the bed next to Hazels, and tentatively placed my hand on the duvet. I was greeted with a slight tingling sensation, and blood red spread out from my fingertips. As it spread across the sheet, branches of blue spread from the center, giving the impression of a fractured stone. Nico let out a whistle at my shoulder. 

"Well that something ya don't see every day." I gave a startled yelp and fell backwards onto my bed. That guy could pop up anywhere. Even after living with him for two months, I hadn't got used to his jump-scares. I looked up groggily to see Will and Hazel sitting on their beds laughing and Nico standing above me holding out a hand chuckling. 

"You scare easily you know that?" said the smiling son of Hades pulling me up. I felt the blood rushing to my head, and nodded. "Anyway, before we show you the other room," another room? how big was this cabin? "-you guys should get some of your stuff from your cabins." said Nico. 

"Uh, Neeks? It's eleven." said Will sounding amused. "Oh. Right. Well, I guess we can show you the room now." he said shrugging. I grinned. Whatever this room was, it didn't seem to be part of the main cabin, so hopefully it would be cool. "C'mon." 

Nico started to head toward the fireplace. What? Meh. This is Nico we're talking about. That guy is the definition of weird.

Nico walked up to the back of the fireplace, and placed his hand on a small carving that I hadn't noticed before. It was about the size of Nico's palm, and it was the same symbol that was on the door to our underworld common-room. I furrowed my eyebrows. That thing popped up everywhere. Literally. I even saw Apollo and Hecate talking about it earlier, they were holding a necklace with a pendant on it that was around the same shape, and when I asked them about it, they refused to tell me anything. It was kinda annoying. 

Nico placed his hand on the symbol, and like something out of a Harry Potter movie, the back of the fireplace melted away, revealing a set of stairs. Nico turned around to look at us. 

"Well, come on."

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Sorry this is so rushed, it's more of a filler than anything. the next chapter will probably hold more info, but thanks if your read this!!!

Also, I've kinda got the pain plot figured out, but if there's anything you'd like to see, please let me know! See ya later!