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Nico

Nico and Sadie travelled through the shadows, desperate to get away from their "captors". Nico couldn't believe what just happened in the past few days. It seemed as though Sadie were a time bomb that everybody had to be so hostile around her especially Chiron and Percy. What could've been so wrong with her that they had to torture her?

Nico felt her grip on his arm tighten, her holding on to him for dear life. What to do now, Nico thought, as the shadows formed them back into the mortal world.

"Um Nico, you do have some sort of control over this thing, yeah?" Sadie asked with panic in her voice. Nico smiled a bit. She was so cute, even when she's panicking. Wait, where did that come from?

"Um, Yeah. Of course I do." He replied.

He felt them leave the shadow world, and that was when he got the peculiar sensation of falling. "Nico you idiot! You formed us hundreds of feet above the ground!" Sadie yelled at the top of her lungs. She wrapped her arms around him his waist in a bear hug, and buried her face in his chest, screaming all the while.

"Get us out of here!" she demanded.

The winds whipped at them from above, and Nico got the feeling that Zeus wasn't too pleased with his antics. He hugged her back, closed his eyes, and willed the shadows to take them somewhere at sea level. He was thankful that it was still dark, so shadow travelling was possible, to an extent. His mind raced, thinking what would've happened if it were morning.

A loud thud, followed by searing pain, snapped Nico out of his trail of thought. Slowly, one of his eyes fluttered open. Sadie was still hugging him, her eyes closed and screaming, and cursing him from time to time. He gave a small laugh, but winced as his body racked him with pain at such slight movements.

Sadie continued to scream hysterically, obviously not noticing that they were safe, at least for the moment. Even though Nico thought it was kinda cute, he didn't want his ears bleeding out from all the screaming. He put his hands on her shoulders, and gently pushed her away. She got up from him instinctively.

"Sadie, we're fine! Stop screaming or you'll attract attention!" Nico stood up groggily. Where was the ambrosia when he needed them? She peeked through one eye, and, finding out that he was telling the truth, slapped him in the face. A red mark the size of a hand immediately formed on Nico's left cheek.

"Right. Don't ever, ever scare me like that again!" She huffed, standing up.

Nico didn't know why that even happened. He usually got shadow-travelling right, and he never ended up high in the sky. Maybe it was because I panicked at camp, he thought bitterly. He couldn't tell that to Sadie though. She'll just wave it off as incompetence on his part.

But a part of him felt that way too. He shuddered, thinking what could've happened if things hadn't gone the way they had.

"Where are we?" Sadie asked so suddenly. "It doesn't look like anywhere in America."

Taking a look around, Nico felt bile rising up in his throat. They were in a village. No, not again. Nico thought. He knew where they were, and, oh gods, he suddenly wished they had just fell out of the sky. He had half a mind to knock Sadie out before she learned what embarrassing secrets he held here.

Apparently, Fortuna must've hated them, since the locals swung him a look, and then began the pointing.

"Sadie, I think we're in China."

Later that night…

Nico wanted to kill himself.

They just had to pop up in China, despite all of his yearning never to go back to that place again. It seemed that the shadows thought it was the other way around, or maybe his dad thought it up as a practical joke. Either way, it wasn't funny.

The Villagers there practically worshipped him as a god. At first, he didn't mind; he even thought it was kinda cool. But then stories of a "god of darkness" started popping up all over the place. It became so bad that his own dad started a manhunt for him, since he couldn't bear another god of darkness more famous than him and he didn't know that that was Nico.

"Hey, Lord Ni Cuo." Sadie smirked as she sat next to him. Nico glared at her, half-heartedly. They around a bonfire, like the one in camp. The Villagers were offering up their food, throwing it in the fire. Sadie stared at them quizzically. Nico 's glare faltered; he knew he couldn't stay mad at her long enough.

"Quit calling me that. Seriously, it's annoying." he murmured. He really hated that name; he didn't even have any idea what that meant!

"Exactly…Lord-"

"Say it and I'll shadow-travel us back to camp." Nico threatened. Immediately Sadie shut up.

Nico noticed how her body tensed at the word camp. He suddenly wished he could take it all back. "Hey, I didn't mean it like that. I was just messing around. I'm so sorry Sadie."

"Jerk," Sadie huffed. Nico laughed. He liked the way she was becoming more and more of her old self. Maybe taking her away from camp really was the best idea he ever came up with. He sighed a breath of relief, happy to know that he didn't traumatize Sadie.

He nudged her playfully. Sadie stared at him at first, then grinned. She nudged him back more forcefully. At first, it was friendly, but then kicking, punching, or in Sadie's case, slapping, finally became involved, and both of them suddenly found themselves on the ground, exhausted from playfully beating each other up. Both of them were laughing, like they had nothing to care about in the entire world. Nico felt like he was in heaven. The sound of Sadie's laughter…

He stood up, and offered a hand to pull her up. They both dusted themselves off, still laughing a bit from their antics.

"I'm going to go to bed. We can leave this place tomorrow." Nico informed her. He had wanted to go that night, but he thought that Sadie could use some rest after what they've been through. Sadie nodded, and started to go towards the hut that the villagers kindly gave to the both of them.

"Sure. Goodnight…Ni Cuo." Sadie grinned playfully. Nico punched her in the arm.

"Jerk."

Sadie stuck her tongue out at him. "You know it."

When both of them reached the hut, they found two problems: one, it was smack dab in the center of the village, so they would definitely be noticed if they left, and two, there was only one bed.

Nico frowned when Sadie immediately jumped onto the bed. "So you sleep on the floor, and I'll take the-"

"Hold on." Nico protested. "Why do you have to get the bed?"

"Because I'm the girl, and you are the bloody boy, so be a man and suck it up." She lay down on the matress.

"But why can't we just sleep together?" Nico whined.

He saw Sadie blushing. "Are you bloody crazy?! What if somebody saw us? They would think that-" she blushed even redder. "No, no. Ugh, never mind. Bloody boys, always so bloody annoying. Always so-wait, are you hitting on me?" her eyes went wide.

Soon after, Nico's eyes were just as wide as hers. "What?! No, of course not! Why would I – oh for the love of Zeus, just move!"

"No!"

"Move!"

"I told you, no! Just sleep on the floor!"

"I don't want to! This bed is big enough anyway!"

"Are you bloody crazy?"

Nico jumped her, and the two fell back on the bed. Nico was straddling her; her arms were pinned to the bed by his, and his body was pressing against hers, giving her no spaced to move. Their faces were inches apart.

Sadie gulped.

Near the door, Nico noticed a few villagers looking their way and turning crimson red, though he had no idea why. Beneath him, he felt Sadie start to get uncomfortable.

"Get…off!" she demanded.

"Not until you let me sleep on the bed!"

Sadie groaned. "Alright, death boy. You stay on the bed, and I'll sleep on the floor then."

Nico was taken aback by her suggestion. "But wait-"

"No buts." She said. "The decision is final. Now sleep."

Nico nearly had a dreamless sleep that night, except for when his father told both of them where to go next.

Philippines.

He had no idea why, but his dad must have had some reason. And he was sure that this was probably just another one of his father's schemes to punish him for his disobedience, but seeing as they were being hunted all around America by the demigods he considered as family, he had no choice but to obey. Nico knew he was going to regret this, so when he woke up the next day with Sadie using his chest as a pillow and curling up against him, he just had to smile.

Sorry if you hate this chapter guys, but I wanted to add my own twist for this story, and use my country as the setting. Put it in your reviews if you hate it! Anyway, this was short, I know, but I was already writing the next one, and I needed to somehow connect it with the previous uploaded chapters, so…yeah. Anyway, Wait for the next one!