Solangelo Wolves

Chapter 1

NICO

It was so strange to walk around at the crack of dawn.

It seemed unusual to Nico to see the town yet to wake up from its slumber. It was a rather pleasant feeling though, that the early morning has to offer, if he were a morning person he'd probably enjoy it more.

"Ugh, the air is cold." he muttered under his breath. Nico di Angelo was not a morning person; again, he was not. That's why, even though the morning air was refreshing, Nico's scowl was painted on his face.

Normally, he was still in his bed at this hour snuggling his soft pillow. But not today, no instead he was going to the edge of the town to talk about some business. Business as he called it because it's about his job, one that would not be considered normal by most.

Nico di Angelo is a Hunter; a protector of human life.

He hunts any creature that harms the human race: be it wolves, vampires, witches, shapeshifter or any other kind of monster. He was trained to kill all kinds of threats. He is highly knowledgeable about them, and he also knew that most of them had entered into a treaty to coexist with man. They lived alongside humans for centuries, without any significant casualties.

Man did not have the same power as these monsters and needed to find ways to defend themselves against them, thus they had established the Hunters. The Hunters studied and trained to act as the guardians of man. Someone to protect the sacred treaty and to ensure no war would spark.

Nowadays, Nico and the rest of the Hunters just catch the rogue ones, who did not honor the treaty, those who could not follow the laws of the treaty and the newborns, or the ones that turned into one of these monsters. But most of all they hunted the Demons.

Demons were on a whole different level.

Demons do not have emotion, they just kill and possess the body of the first victim they've killed and continue on killing rampages. No one truly knows why, but they seemed to be searching for something and even the elder Hunters cannot confirm what it might be.

Nico lost himself in his thoughts regarding work as he walked, only returning to taking in his surroundings when his musings came around to his hometown.

The town of Olympus in the mornings was beautiful, breath taking really. Not that Nico suddenly appreciates the morning or anything; it's just that the town of Olympus is a very peaceful place. The town of Olympus was known as the werewolf town as humans and werewolves coexist together peacefully and over time the diverse population grew, that is to say that the ratio of the werewolves in the town is much higher than the humans thanks to additional clans joining as time went on.

The townspeople here have had the werewolves living with them for almost a century and the powerful clans of the werewolves that live in Olympus were protecting the townspeople, which was great in Nico's opinion since it took some strain off of him and the other Hunters stationed here.

Now, Nico was strolling through the outskirts of Olympus because demons had attacked last night and he would not be able to catch a wink of sleep for hours because of the aftermath. It was actually because of this that Annabeth Jackson had pounded on his apartment door at an ungodly hour that morning. Three a.m. to be exact, which is way out of his shift schedule. Annabeth was clearly out of breath when he had opened his door.

"Annabeth? Wha-?" Nico stopped when he saw her.

Annabeth's grey eyes held a look of pain, her blouse was covered in blood and her perfectly pulled back ponytail of blond hair was in disarray. Something was definitely wrong. Annabeth clutched onto him.

"Nico, Percy was attacked, he's with our healer now." She said in one breath.

Nico's eyes widened at that. "What about the other Hunters? Why did no one alerted me? Never mind I'll just go with you!" He was on his way to change his clothes when Annabeth stopped him.

"Nico. He's gonna be fine. The others were fine too. I think they were just trying to scare them." Annabeth was still holding his wrist.

Annabeth Chase-Jackson was the town's head Hunter. Every town had a head Hunter. It was like the head of police patrol, but the supernatural version tasked with keeping every person and every creature in the town safe. In Annabeth's case the people and werewolves of Olympus.

"Then, why you're here?" he cocked his head feeling slightly confused.

"Nico, Listen to me. Demons attacked Percy and his clan but they weren't the main targets. The battle had broken out somewhere and Percy's pack was just a casualty." her grey eyes were fixed on Nico. "Apollo needs our help. That's why I'm here, I need you to go to Apollo's clan, bring the signing papers and report back to me."

"Annabeth, you know that I can't. I -" Nico tried to refuse. He can't go there. He just can't.

"Nico," Annabeth's voice broke, her eyes pleading. "I know that you're not comfortable with werewolves but please. Percy-" she took a deep breath, steadying herself before she continued. "Percy needs me right now and you're the only one I trust to do this."

This was the first time Nico had ever seen Annabeth lose her composure. She was always smart, calculating and reserved. The only times that Nico saw her walls come down was when she's with Percy.

Percy Jackson is Annabeth's husband and the Alpha of the Jackson Clan. She is mated to a member of one of the most powerful werewolf clans in Olympus, which had threatened her lead Hunter position in the town but she proved that she was still capable of doing her job. If anything she is more powerful now.

Nico owed Annabeth and Percy from a long ago and he cannot refuse them this, no matter how much he wanted to. With a sigh, Nico answered. "Okay. I'll go. Just because you need to rest and I owe you and Percy big time."

Annabeth, despite her disheveled state, looked beautiful when she smiled at him. "Thank you, Nico." She said as she hugged him tightly. Nico isn't big with touching but he relented.

"Keep your head down when you're with an Alpha, okay? Especially with Lord Apollo." Annabeth warned him.

Nico chuckled, "I know Lord Apollo, Annabeth. Besides, I've studied them."

Annabeth gave him more instructions for the assignment before she finally left.

Now, Nico had arrived at the edge of the Olympus where the Apollo clan lives. Based on Annabeth's instructions, he will be escorted further into the forest by someone from the clan.

Nico heightened his senses because that someone would be a werewolf. He needed to be completely alert to his surroundings; after all he can't trust werewolves that easily.

A twig snapped nearby and he quickly drew he's Stygian iron sword.

"Did Annabeth send you?" a voice at the end of Nico's blade spoke.

"Yes." he answered. Nico did not make a move to lower his sword as he waited for something to happen.

Finally the other spoke. "This will not work if your sword is in my throat." the voice said.

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