The Next Generation: The Beginning

Chapter 1-I let a gang into school

"Someone's tired." I yawned again.

"I'm going to bed," I said, heading for the bedroom.

"Good night Nico." But instead of following me like I was expecting him to do, he turned and went to the door.

"Wait, where are you going?" I was extremely confused. He turned around.

" I'm going to check on Mia. I'll come to bed in a bit." He walked over to me. "Please try to sleep. I promise I'll be back in less than an hour." He kissed my forehead. "Ok?" I sighed.

"Ok. Good night." I closed the door. I was too tired to worry or care and I knew Will wasn't lying. I changed, and pulled back the blanket, crawled into bed, and sleep found me immediately.

Mia's POV

I ran to the Hades cabin smiling. I couldn't believe it - I was gonna get to stay here and train! I wasn't paying attention to where I was going and suddenly I ran into something hard.

"Ow!" It was a boy's voice. I landed on my back.

"Oh my gods, I'm sorry. Here, let me help you." I looked up and saw an inquisitive look in his stormy grey eyes. I had seen him before with his parents but I've never talked to him. He was holding his hand out for me to take, which I did ( I don't like physical contact but I didn't want to be rude and I kinda wanted help).

"Thanks." I stood up and dusted myself off. "It was probably my fault anyway. I was running to my cabin..." wow got to get used to saying that; it felt so weird.

"It's ok." He held his hand out again. "I'm Joey Jackson." I shook his hand again, not wanting to come off as rude.

" Mia Solace-Di Angelo. So you're Percy and Annabeth's son?" He nodded.

"Will and Nico?"

"Yeah." He shuffled a bit and rubbed the back of his neck.

"If you don't mind me asking, what is it like to have two dads?"

"I don't mind- people ask that all the time. And it's a long story so could we go sit somewhere?"

"Sure. The lake?" I nodded and we walked to the shore. After we sat down I started talking.

"Well, for me, I don't know anything else so it's my normal. I mean, my sisters, Aunt Kayla and Aunt Hazel have always been there to help with... girl stuff, so it's fine. But Dad wanted to send me to a mortal school and papà was ok with it! It was so unfair! None of my siblings had to!"

"Wait, who is papà, and who's dad?" He stopped me.

"Oh, papà means Father in Italian and since I get my Italian from Nico I call him papà. Carlos calls him papà too, but my other siblings just call them dad or daddy and father. Will is just dad. Anyway, I'm the youngest out of five, and my fathers are worried about what I can do." Joey looked at me, clearly confused.

"Why are they worried?" I sighed.

"All my siblings look like papà and are healers like dad, but I look like dad and have both of their abilities. I can shadow travel and have Apollos' blessing, and I can heal, and I can raise the dead. No one knows why or what to do, because as far as I know, no one's ever been like me before."

"Oh," silence. "Have you ever seen your grandfathers?"

"Yes and no. I'm always welcome in the underworld and I go there often. I even have my own room in Hades's palace and talk to him all the time (he's one of my only friends), but I've only ever heard from Apollo once. He gave me a ring for my birthday this year." I held out my finger to show the gold ring with a large moonstone in the center and three blue stones on each side. "What about you?" I tried to change the subject to him; I felt like I had been talking a lot.