Of Myths and Magic

Gringotts

Nico's pov-

I woke up at around 7 in the morning and stretched out on my bed. After laying there for 5 minutes deciding whether to get up I figured I wouldn't be able to go back to sleep. I swung my legs over the side of the bed a sat there rubbing the sleep out of my eyes. Then came a knocking on the door. "You awake yet?!" Thalia yelled through the door. "Not really," I grumbled. "Well hurry up, Percy's handing out blue cookies." "BLUE COOKIES!" I screamed and ran into the bathroom. 5 minutes later, I was ready wearing a black T-shirt with a white skull on it, black jeans, a black aviator jacket, a jet black backpack and black running shoes and running out the door.

"GIMME THE COOKIES!" I yelled as I barged into Percy and Annabeth's room. I snatched up the box of cookies and stuffed a few in my mouth. A minute later, Thalia ran in and snatched the box away. "You need to share, Death Breath!" She said while stuffing a few in her mouth. I grabbed the box, but she wouldn't let go. We had a mini tug-of-war game while Percy and Annabeth were sitting on the bed laughing. "They're going to destroy my cookies Wise Girl," Percy complained. "Put the cookies down," Annabeth said, giving us her death glare. We gulped and put the box down. "Thanks, Annabeth," Percy grinned and kissed her. "Ew, no PDA," Thalia said wrinkling her nose but grinning all the same. They broke apart and shooed us out of the room to get ready.

In a few minutes, Percy walked out wearing a blue hoodie, an orange CHB T-shirt, blue jeans, a sea green backpack and white sneakers. Soon afterwards, Annie came out wearing a dark gray T-shirt designed with a white owl, blue denim shorts, a light grey backpack, and white converse. Thalia was last and came out of her room wearing a black 'death to barbie' T-shirt, black camo pants, a silver parka, short black converse, a sky blue backpack with Panic! At the Disco buttons and her silver lieutenant crown/headband thing (what is it called?).

We headed down for breakfast. I had a pomegranate, Percy had blue pancakes which he was currently drowning in blue syrup. "Your going to drown your pancakes," Annabeth chided. "I've already told you, I'm a Poseidon kid. I can't drown and neither can my pancakes," he replied. She just rolled her eyes and went back to eating. She and Thalia were having poached eggs and bacon.

After breakfast we gave the keys back to Tom and asked for the way to Gringotts. He took us to a room in the back and led us to a brick wall. " Why are we here?" I asked warily, reaching for my sword. I looked around and saw the other demigods doing the same. Tom just chuckled and took out his wand. We got into fighting stance but he just tapped a few bricks on the wall and the wall started to slide apart. We put away our weapons and stared in amazement the wall opened to reveal a long cobbled street that was bustling with activity. Tom told us how to get to Gringotts and sent us on our way.

There were many shops that lined the street that were unlike any we had ever seen. There was a shop window filled with gazillions of candies I had never seen before, a shop with bubbling cauldrons and another with a bunch of plants. There was a shop filled with books that Annabeth was instantly drawn to, but we had to pull her away to get our money first, reasoning that we needed wizard money to buy anything here.

We found the huge gray building and entered. It was filled with goblins measuring gold bars and examining jewels with microscopes. We walked over to the table that was slightly raised. "Hello sir," Annabeth said, "My name is Annabeth Chase. We're looking for our vault and wondered if you could help us find it." The goblin looked surprised at her politeness but quickly said, "Of course, which vault?" "Number 7," Annabeth responded. The goblin's eyes widened and hurriedly said, "My Lords, my ladies! It is an honor having you here. Follow me, I'll take you to your vault."

We followed him to a rickety looking cart, like the type used in mines. Thalia and Percy visibly paled as I grinned. "Underground, my favourite place," I said, as we got into the cart, Thalia and Percy rather hesitantly. "Are you sure this will hold all of our weight?" Thalia asked shakily, looking green as she looked down at the long drop. "Oh, it's perfectly safe, Ma'am," the goblin said. The cart took of down the tracks. "Before the 2nd wizarding war, there used to be a huge Ukrainian Iron-Belly near the older vaults to guard it, but it was broken out by Harry Potter and his friends," the goblin chattered on the way down. We passed through a waterfall that sent shivers down my back, but seemed to energise Percy.

When we finally reached our vault, Thalia stumbled out and kissed the ground. Percy, Annabeth and I stepped out like civilised half-human beings after her. The goblin walked out holding a lantern that threw shadows around the hall-like passage. "One of you will have to put your hand against the door to open it. It will sense your godly blood and open," he instructed. Annabeth stepped forward and placed her hand on the cold, hard stone. The door rumbled and opened with a scraping sound. My jaw dropped. Inside the vault, there were piles and piles of gold, silver, rubies, emeralds and all kinds of precious metal imaginable. Along the walls there were helmets, armour, shields, weapons and trophies all made of Celestial bronze, Imperial gold and Stygian iron. The far wall was one huge bookshelf filled with millions of books.

We filled our pouches with all of the money we could ever need (I know we're greedy but shush) and grabbed a few extra weapons just in case. I took a pair of small knives and a black and silver skull ring that would turn into a shield. Percy got a knife that he could hide in his shoe and a bead he could put on his leather necklace that would turn into dark blue armour that he could wear under his clothes. Thalia grabbed some extra bow strings and a pair of twin hunting knives. Annabeth had taken a silver bracelet that would spiral into a shield and was browsing through the books when she let out a gasp. We ran over to see what she was staring at and saw her old bronze dagger and Daedalus' laptop that she had lost in Tartarus. Next to them was a note-

We retrieved these from Tartarus for you.

                                           -Athena

She grabbed them both and put them in her backpack.
After we were done, we left Gringotts. We were walking around and saw a black-haired, green eyed boy, a red-haired boy and a girl with brown hair and intelligent eyes. When Thalia and Annabeth's eyes landed on the girl they froze.
"Mione?!"

K, I think that's long enough. So, question for today-

Where is Camp Jupiter located?

-Ayden Castellan