Hello people, I am so sorry for not updating on the other story. I have been so busy with school and friends. Anyways, as I said before, I have read all of the Percy Jackson books up to House of Hades. And yes, I like a little bit of slash. No, not Percy x Nico. In my perspective that would be more of a brotherly relationship. The couple that I absolutely adore, even though it is not Canon is Jason x Nico! Talk about Kawai. Anyways, I have rambled on long enough, enjoy the Fic.

Nico was terrified. For one of the few times in his life, he was truly terrified. In his arms lay the dying form of Piper McLean. He had been duking it out with hundreds of Gaea's bloodthirsty minions while the others were hopefully at the doors ahead of them. She had been helping him, along with Jason and Frank. Towards the end of the fight, a spear had come hurtling towards his back and Piper had been the only one to see it. She had sacrificed her life for his. Her golden life for his pathetic dark one. And now here she lay, calmly looking up at him. After she was hit, Nico had let out an angered cry and shadows burst forth and killed the final minions that surrounded them. He had immediately dropped to her side. Jason and Frank ran over, stepping over spoils of war.

"Piper..."He said, his own voice hoarse and rough from holding back tears. She weakly smiled up at him.

"You can't die...You're supposed to be happy, and live, and go to New Rome and buy a house. You're supposed to get an education and live with Jason and have a bazillion kids or whatever the Hades you want." A tear dripped down his face and landed on her blood soaked shirt. She let out a laboured sigh.

"Nico. You know its my time...you have to admit it." She whispered, brushing his dark hair out of his eyes with a trembling hand. Like Bianca used to do. He shook his head.

"It should have been me..." He whispered. He quickly fumbled around in his pockets for Ambrosia or Nectar, but came back empty. After cursing a lot, Nico looked back down at her.

"Why?" Nico asked the dying form of Piper. She smiled and shook her head.

"You deserve to live. You have a future too ya' know. " Nico began to silently cry. A new and unexpected thing from him. Jason and Frank finally reached them.

"In the time that I have known you on the Argo, and at Camp making the Argo II, you have become like a little brother to me Neeks." Piper laughed. And then started coughing up blood. He looked down at her tiredly and wiped the blood away with his sleeve, soaking it in the process. Nico turned Jason and Frank.

"Do either of you have ambrosia?" He asked weakly. Frank pulled out a small piece of what was left. It wasn't enough, but it was maybe enough to get her somewhere where she could have a better choice for survival. He force-fed it to her. Her life force was waning.

"We need to get you somewhere safe, and then get to the others..." He murmured another tear dripping down his cheek as picked her up.

"I am taking her to Camp Half-Blood. They could keep here alive there.." Nico said to Jason. Jason nodded determinedly. Frank was staring at Piper, arrow still sticking out of his bicep. Nico slipped into a shadow and was soon in the infirmary of the Big House.

"Get her ambrosia!"He said in as loud a voice as he could muster. His vocal chords hurt, so these words came out quieter than he expected. Nearby Apollo kids took her from his arms and lay her down on a bed, shouting at others to get medical supplies. Already her soul was wavering. Fading to nothing more than a wisp. Nico snatched a piece of ambrosia from a table and took a bite. The taste of fine Italian cuisine flooded his taste buds. He had to get back to the others. Piper looked over at him and smiled before her eyes dulled and she let out a sharp gasp, departing to the underworld in less that an Apollo children looked down at her with sollom gazes. Nico let out a cry of anguish. Already he could feel her spirit in the lines for judgment. There was nothing he could do at this moment. He had to get back to the others and tell him. He slipped in the shadows, letting them take him to Jason and Frank.

Jason looked at him expectantly. He shook his head sadly, before breaking down. Jason and Frank both looked shocked, tears of sadness trailed down all three boy's faces. Piper had died...Nico looked up.

"I am not loosing another sister." He said angrily. Grabbing onto Frank and Jason's shoulders, he shadow traveled to Hazel and Leo.

Nico's already broken heart shattered into a million pieces that day and it each piece was scattered throughout the wind. Never, had he thought something as bad as Bianca could happen again. He was wrong.