"Percy if you don't open this door right now I will make you eat non-blue food for a week!"

Percy shot out of his bed and bolted to the door, quickly throwing it open to reveal Bianca.

"Bianca! I have a crisis!" Percy yelled and pulled her into his room and closed the door.

"Okay? What is it?"

"You know how I only eat blue food right? I refuse to eat anything else."

"Yes, Percy, I know. That's why I just threatened you with it." Percy looked her right in the eyes.

"We are at camp, Bianca. I can't have blue food when we eat out there." Bianca's eyes flashed with realization. Then she laughed.

Percy groaned. "Bianca! This is serious!" He pouts. "What am I gonna eat? Regular food?"

"Unless you want to starve." Percy looks like he's thinking about it. "Percy you're not actually going to stop eating because you can't have blue food."

"Uh, yes. I am."

"Yes, you're going to eat? Or yes, you're going to not eat."

"Yes to not eating. I will figure it out later."

"Percy we are going to breakfast now so you better hurry up and figure it out."

Bianca and Percy left his room and walked out the Chaos cabin to meet their friends at their table.

"Hey, people, how are ya?" Luke asks.

"Percy is making dumb, stupid decisions."

"Like what?"

"You'll see."

Bianca's plate filled with pancakes as she sat down. Percy, having half a table open, lays down on the table while everyone eats.

"Zeno, what are you doing?" Percy looks at Zoë.

"I'm relaxing." He lays back down with his arms behind his head.

"Why aren't you eating?"

"Because I can't."

"And why can't you? It's not poison and it looks perfectly fine."

"Well your 'perfectly fine' doesn't match mine."

"Zeno!" She yells. The pavilion goes quiet and looks over. "You better start eating right now!"

"I can't!" He sits up and looks at her.

"Just because it's not the way you normally have it?"

"Yes, that's exactly it. I don't like eating it how you guys do."

"And why don't you? It doesn't taste any different!"

Percy looks down. "It makes me happy." He says in a low voice.

Zoë's gaze softens. "I know. But you got to eat."

"I will. Just not right now. I can wait."

Zoë nods. She looks around to see the campers looking over at their table. "Eat your food and mind your own damn business!"

Percy snickers. "Oh, not this again Zeno."

He shrugs. A smile still on his face.

Beckendorf hands something to Percy. "Eat this." Percy looks at it to see some blueberries that actually look blue. He grins and stuffs some in his mouth.

"Always better when it's blue."

—————

"You're coming with me."

"Who, what, where, when, why, how?"

"I can't answer half of that but we're going to see Nico."

Percy put away his sword and made sure his hood was covering his face.

"Okay. What are we doing there? Are you telling him?"

"Yeah. I miss him. Are you gonna tell him?"

Percy thought for awhile. "I mean I kinda want to. But I don't know."

"Well you figure it out on the way. Let's go!"

Bianca pulls his arm and runs to the Hades cabin.

"You don't got to drag me I can walk."

"Yeah you can walk but you can't eat so let's go."

"It's not like I've got any choice is there." Bianca rolls her eyes.

"No, you have no choice."

They finally stop at the Hades cabin and Bianca hesitantly knocks on the door. Percy looks at Bianca with a questioning look and the door opens to reveal a very surprised Nico. "Can I help you?"

"Can we come in? We need to talk."

"About what?"

Bianca looks over at Percy and he nods.

"About your sister. Not Hazel." She says after he opens his mouth. "Your full sister."

He steps away from the door so they can walk in without saying a word.

"So what about my sister?" Nico asks when they finally settle down on a couch on the opposite end of the cabin, Percy sitting on the floor leaning against the couch. Bianca standing in front of Nico nervously plays with her hands.

"Angel, it's gonna be fine. Don't worry about it." Percy says with a small smile. She smiles back at him

She brings her hands up to her hood and gently pushes it down. Nico's eyes widen and jumps up to hug her.

"I missed you so much! I thought I'd never see you again!" Nico cries into her shoulder, holding her tight. Bianca has tears streaming down her face and holding him just as tight. They separate to see a faint glow coming from Percy's bracelet and then fades down to show black and red.

"Hey, Eli."

Nico looks between them, confused.

"Hey, Bianca."

This causes Nico's eyes to widen again and his mouth slightly opens.

"What in Hades was that."

"Eli was put into Zeno a long time ago by wizard. There's two people in there now. We don't know how to get Eli back though."

"Is he dead."

The bracelet glows again until it's just red. "I died, yes. The wizard killed me and trapped my soul somewhere. I only remember waking up with in P-ow" Eli rubs his arm. "Why'd you punch me Bianca?"

"You almost said his name"

"Oh, Styx." Eli looks at Nico who is glancing between them two. "You heard nothing."

"Alright I'll just forget that, but are you two together or like best friends?"

Eli starts laughing his bracelet flashing to black and red again.

"Us? Date her?" He laughs even more, tears pricking his eyes. "Oh, my gods that's the best thing I've heard all day!"

Bianca rolls her eyes. "I'm with someone else. I can't be with someone who won't eat anything that's not blue." Percy stills and Bianca clamps a hand over her mouth.

They slowly turn their heads to Nico whose staring at them with wide eyes. "Blue food. You lied. You said he didn't know where he was. That you didn't know if he's happy. But you are him so you do know!" He looks down and Percy's bracelet turns black again.

"I'm sorry. I didn't know what to do. But I wasn't lying about one thing. I don't know if I'm happy." He flicks his hood down and Nico looks into his eyes, surprised they were no longer sea-green but had black eyes with white and green specks swirling around.

"What do you mean?"

"I'll leave you two for now." Bianca glances between them before silently leaving the cabin for them to talk.

"I've been on the planet Origo for... a very long time. Which is really only 4 years here. I've had nightmares a lot whether it be memories of camp or what would happen if I ever came back. They always came when I thought of coming back. To see you. I didn't want to leave you all alone here. I wanted to come back, but I was so scared that my nightmares would come true. But then my father told me that Tartarus was rising and we had help you guys fight. For these past years I haven't been all that happy. Sure I've laughed and made jokes but I'm not happy. And I missed you so much but I couldn't come back. Not when I kept thinking that you hated me."

"I don't hate you, Percy. Not even close." He gives Percy a hug and Percy holds on tightly as if he would just disappear.

When they pull away Nico punches his arm. "But that's for lying to me!"

"Okay so maybe I deserve that."

"Alright come on let's go meet your new friends." Nico grabs his arm and Percy pulls his hood over his head and goes with Nico to the Chaos cabin.

On the way they could hear the campers whispering and pointing but they didn't care. They could only think about how they finally saw each other after so many years. They walked in the Chaos cabin and walk into the living room to see everyone there with their hoods off. Nico scans through the faces and recognizes everyone.

"Uh, hey Nico." Zoë says awkwardly waving her hand.

Percy leads Nico to an empty spot on the couch and Percy sits in front of him on the floor. Percy leans his head back and looks at Nico and smiles.

"Okay, so what are we going to do now? We have Nico here and we haven't even talked about the whole Tartarus thing and most importantly," Luke takes a deep breath, "I'm bored!" He whines.

"I know what we can do." Percy grins his eyes turning red.

"No, Eli. Just no. We are not doing that!"

"But why not?" He pouts and leans his head back and Nico catches his red eyes. "Nice to see you again, Nico."

"You too." He answers slowly.

"But back to what I was saying....why not?"

"Because last time you said that, you were chasing us through the house with a wolverine claws and trying to scratch us. I still have a scar."

Eli shrugged. "Percy said it would be fun." He grinned. "And it was."

"We were terrified!" Silena exclaims.

"Oh, whatever it wasn't that bad."

Beckendorf and Luke scoff. "Sure it wasn't."

"Sucks to be you losers! I was on a mission!" Zoë says happily.

"So wanna play? We're all here." Eli smiles evilly that makes the others shiver and Nico just look amused.

"No!" They exclaim. Well Nico says sure and that makes Eli's eyes brighten.

"See, Nico wants to play!"

"Well that's Nico and we are not Nico and we say no. It's four against two."

Eli pouts and his eyes turn back to Percy's.

"I can't believe you guys didn't want to play with Eli. He's asleep now, just so you know."

"Asleep?" Percy looks back at Nico.

"Yeah. It basically means that he can't hear or see us anymore. I can do the same thing when Eli is out and it's basically just like sleeping." Nico nods his head. "Oh and why did you want to know if he's dead?"

"Eli's dead?" Beckendorf asks.

"Yeah, didn't I tell you?"

He shook his head. "When do you ever tell us anything."

"True, true." Beckendorf rolls his eyes.

"Well I wanted to know because I could probably summon his body and you guys can do your voodoo magic and put his souls back in."

"Voodoo magic." Percy whispers. "I mean we could always try. But not now."

"Okay."

"Seriously thought, guys, what are we going to do?" Bianca asks leaning into Luke. Nico raises an eyebrow then Percy looks at him and nods.

"I kinda want a sub. From that one place in the city. I don't know what it's called it's been so long." Percy says, deep in thought. "Oh it's called WaWa! They still sell subs right Nico?"

"Uh... yeah, I believe so."

"Percy you're forgetting that it's not blue."

He shrugs.

"Oh, are you gonna eat food that's not blue now?"

Percy looks at Zoë weird. "Whoever said that. I can just make it blue."

"You're impossible, Percy."

Percy smiles at her. "I know. That's what makes me, me."

"Yeah, an idiot."

Percy pouts. "You guys are so mean to me!" He crosses his arms then stands up and grabs everyone's hand and flashes them to an alleyway next to WaWa.

"Dude, a warning would be nice!" Luke yells.

"Hi, my name is Luke and I think poodles are scary creatures!"

"Oh, stop that Percy!"

"It was a great story so I always got to bring it up."

"It was a terrible story. I got two fears that day."

"That's why it's a great story." Percy looks at Nico and grabs his hand to pull him into WaWa. Nico's face goes red and lets Percy drag him into the small store. Percy quickly lets his hand go and runs to the kiosk to order his food, Nico following close behind him.

"What do you want Nico?"

"Um, ham with provolone cheese, lettuce, and toasted." Nico looks at the screen. "Wait you're not paying for mine Percy."

"Too bad. I already got your order on here." He continues to put some other orders for the others while they get drinks.

"Nico!" He turns around to his sister's voice. "What drink do you want?"

"I'll just have water." Bianca nods and grabs water.

"Alright, so I got this big receipt filled with sandwiches so now we need snacks."

"Wait, you're getting more stuff?"

"Yes of course. We always get snacks."

They pick out many snacks and Percy goes to pay for everything. "I am so glad my father gave me money before we left."

Beckendorf hears the man call out their number for their food and grabs the sandwiches. They walk out the store and go back to the alley way they came from and Percy makes a blanket appear and they sit down.

In the middle of a dark alley.

Totally not creepy.

When Percy takes out his sandwich he snaps his finger and it immediately turns into different shades of blue.

"Now this is pure happiness." Percy smiles and the others smile looking at him. He looks up and sees them staring at him. "What?"

"Nothing!" They yell and start eating their food. Percy shrugs and eats as well.

Creepy!

Percy lets out a laugh. "I know."

Nico looks at him then to the others to see them not caring. Then Bianca looks up at him. "He's talking to Eli."

Nico forms an 'o' with his mouth and takes a sip of water.

You know why they were staring right?

"Nope. Not a clue. I'm guessing you know."

As a matter of fact, I do.

Percy could tell he was smiling at that. "Okay so what is it."

You're happy.

"Oh." They all look at Percy to see him look sad but then his face brightens again. "I guess so."

Do you know why?

"Blue food?"

Oh, my gosh, Percy. You've had blue food before you dimwit.

"Hey! I am not a dimwit." Luke chokes when he says that and Percy glares at him. "Shut up, Luke before Eli doesn't tell me!"

I wasn't gonna tell you anyway.

"But why not?" He pouts.

Because.

"Because why?"

Goodnight Percy.

"Wait no! Eli! Come back! Please?" Percy looks down. "Son of a biscuit... A blue biscuit." He says and takes another bite of his sub. "Can I ask you guys something?"

Nico raises his eyebrow and the other just look at him. "What type of question?"

"A perfectly normal question... I think."

"Oh, yes, because that sums it up."

"It does!"

"Okay, Percy, whatever helps you sleep at night. What's your question." Luke asks raising his sandwich to his mouth.

"Am I happy?" Luke freezes, his sandwich halfway to his mouth. Bianca stops drinking her Sprite, and Nico looks at him with his hands in his lap. Silena and Beckendorf look at each other and Zoë looks down.

"Do you feel happy, Percy?" Nico asks.

"I don't know. I hate it at camp but I like being here with you guys but it feels different then being on Origo."

"Holy, Styx." Bianca says.

"What?"

Bianca quickly gets up and pulls Percy up to stand stand in front of her. "Silena use your charmspeak to make him go to sleep and have Eli come out out."

Silena raises a questioning eyebrow but does as she says. "Go to sleep, Percy."

He quickly goes limp but Nico catches him and his dark red eyes snap open. He shakes his head. "That felt weird." He looks at everyone and gives a questioning look to Bianca. "Yeah?"

"Percy's asleep right now right?"

"Yeah, he is...why?"

"I know what you meant before when you know Percy more than he knows himself."

Eli's eyes widen. "You do?"

She nods her head and whispers something in his ear and then he nods. Bianca smiles and sits back down. "Silena, can you make him forget this so Percy won't know what I said when he wakes up?"

"Sure thing." She looks at Eli in his eyes. "Forget what Bianca told you and go to sleep." Eli goes limp but Nico once again catches him and lays him down on the floor.

"So, are you gonna tell us what you told him or is it too secret?" Bianca looks at her brother and smiles.

"Top secret. You guys will find out soon. Or I will personally beat the hell out of Percy."

"I will wait for the day that happens." Luke raises his drink.

"Oh, trust me, it will happen if what Eli says is true and Percy doesn't do something about it. But in the end it will make Percy happier."

"Well, if it makes Percy happy I'm in." Silena says.