A/N: Alright. Long time no see (like about 2 years now). You remember in chapter 6, when Nico was up to something and whenever you asked I would say "I don't know". I actually didn't know, but I figured as a parting gift I'd put that down. I know there's actual cannon for PJO and Kane Chronicles crossing over now, but I figured it would be nice to wrap this up.

What Nico Did That Night

"Well, that is a problem," Percy frowned, his food long forgotten (and snatched up by Nico as soon as he thought he could get away with it).

Annabeth's head was in her hands, and her hair lay pooled on the table. It was nice hair, and a nice table. This whole place was nice, actually, and Nico felt bad for having interrupted what was obviously a special night.

Well, his was supposed to be special too. No father or stepmother or ghost servants or anything. Just him, in the mortal world, treating himself to a well deserved kick-back. Maybe some pizza. Maybe some ice cream. A movie, perhaps, if there was anything good.

And now there was a salivating beast trapped in his hotel room.

"You don't know what it was?" Annabeth clarified.

"I've never seen it before," Nico answered. "It just...appeared."

Percy sighed and stood. "The problem's not about to fix itself."

Nico had calmed, and now that he'd hashed it through with Percy and Annabeth, he felt rather ashamed for having interrupted their date. He'd dealt with strange creatures before, this was nothing new, so why had be panicked? He'd just shut it in, hoping a door would keep it contained, and bolted?

Nico shook his head, shaking off the cowardice. He needed to shape up.

"It's not that big of a deal," Nico said. Partly, it was his way of reassuring himself that what he'd seen really wasn't that out of the ordinary. Except that it was out of the ordinary, whatever ordinary was for a greek demigod. The keyword there, though, was greek.

He wasn't scared by the new and impossible, even other pantheons didn't spook him. But, meeting the Roman's hadn't been like this. Maybe it was because the Romans and the greeks were closely related, maybe it was because he'd been there under his father's protection, but the thing in his hotel room was strange beyond comparison.

Neither Percy nor Annabeth jumped on his statement.

"Nonsense," Annabeth said, "if it was a big enough deal to come to us, then it's a big deal."

And that was that.

Nico now led them down the street, musing that it was what he got for getting a hotel room on the wrong side of the river. He wasn't exactly sure what 'the wrong side of the river' was, but he'd heard the expression used by monsters in manhattan before.

He saw Sadie, the strange girl he'd literally run into just ten minutes before, running