It only took 8 hours until Nico's temper tantrum died down. Impressive, as his last one took 12 days, a trip to Mexico, and an egged house for it to die down completely.

During those 8 hours, Nico summoned a total of 67 skeletons, pulled on their hair 37 times, landed 18 punches on one person or another, and interrupted one (1) intense Percabeth makeout session with a kick that knocked them over.

When he came to, the room around him was trashed, all of their clothes had a minimum of three rips, Annabeth was slumped over a rafter after fighting the last 17 skeletons, and Percy was slumped against the wall.

"Uhm. What's happened?" Nico asked.

"Are you finally fucking done?" Annabeth yelled down, neither of the adults moving.

"Done with what?"

"Thank Hades." Percy muttered.

"Okay. Firstly, where's Will? Secondly, why does it look like we've been attacked by a chainsaw?"

"Will's in the corner. We tranqued you, dragged you over here, learned some shit about Two Face, and got Will back. Secondly, hello chainsaw."

"Ok..."

"Too add on, Two Face is Ethan Nakamura with brain damage, the Bat Family showed up at one point and we almost had to fight them, and then we sat around as you tried to beat us up for eight hours."

"Ethan Nakamura? But he's-"

"No no. He's alive. He looks like he's been skinned on left side, and he's got a fuck ton of brain damage, but he's alive."

"Hm. He was definitely dead last I checked."

"We never found his body."

"I certainly found his soul floating around in Elysium after the Titan's War."

"Well then."

"... Shit. I need to go check this out if he really is here. Want to cover for me for a few days?"

"Really Di Angelo?" Annabeth asked.

"I don't need to fake a week-long kidnapping."

"What's in it for us?" Percy asked.

"A soundproofed, monster-proofed house that you could live in for a few days."

"... I'm in."

"Same."

"Okay. You guys keep up appearances and make sure that he doesn't murder me later. Have fun!"

Nico dove into the shadows, leaving the others behind.

"Did Nico just leave us to deal with his boyfriend?"

"Seems so."

"And isn't said boyfriend going to be pissed to high heavens when he finds that Nico just left without any real prep."

"... Gods dam you Nico."

Published: 8/18/2020

Word Count: 401

—————Author's Note—————

School year is already off to a great start. We were supposed to start yesterday, but the smoke was bad enough that the district cancelled.

Short chapter, complete and total crack.

Is anybody else starting school 'round now? If so, how's it going?

-Kat