nope, he was beyond furious. He looked like he wanted to strangle the life out of me and send my soul to the fields of punishment.

"Treya, try to remember," Lou said, desperate for answers.

I choked back a sob, "I swear I'm not lying. I remember practicing chanting the other day, and I said that. Except I didn't get to complete the spell and chanted it anyway"

Lou's expression darkened, "Treya... no matter the spell, if you don't complete the chant then you won't be able to cast the spell. We told you this the first day we started training remember? It means you completed the spell. We're lucky Nico wasn't harmed, but we need to come up with a way to undo the spell,"

Nico's eye twitched, "But Treya still had lines to say, didn't you?" He looked at me and I nodded. It was the first time Nico had called me by my name, maybe when I undo the spell, I can be friends with him.

I mentally slapped myself, not the time.

"He's right," I carefully laid out the last line I was supposed to say and when I finished, Lou looked frightened and she scrambled to get up.

"This is bad, I need to talk to Chiron," She panicked

I grabbed her arm before she could get out, "I want to understand. I want to understand what I've done wrong. I know I casted a spell upon Nico unsupervised, and that the spell didn't have the spell I casted. I just want to know the reason of your panic" I said.

Lou's expression calmed a little bit, and she gave me reassuring pat on the shoulder, "I promise I will tell you, but for now, I need to ask Chiron what we need to do. If anything enters your head, try chanting it. It might be the spell to undo Nico's curse,"

Lou Ellen then grabbed Keira by the arm and pulled her out of the cabin, leaving Nico and I alone.

I immediately turned to him and gave him a ninety degree bow, "With all my heart, I'm sorry"

Nico sighed, "Whatever," then he sat on one of my sibling's bed.

My eyes lit up, "Do you forgive me?"

He scowled, "No, but I do know you're sincere. The day you turn me back to normal is when I'll forgive you,"

I sat crisscrossed on the floor, "Look at the bright side, you're not a vampire yet you sparkle!"

Nico gave me a strange look, "Did you just refer me to Twilight?"

I shrugged, "Oh cheer up, like Lou said, at least I didn't harm you"

"You harmed my reputation," Nico hissed "What sort of son of Hades sparkles?"

"You are so not nice. I thought you'd be as nice as Hazel," I grumbled, bringing my knees closer to my face, glaring at him.

Nico rolled his eyes, "I remember you now, you're that new girl who wouldn't stop staring at me,"

I felt my face heat up, "For the record," I stood up, "I was only amazed that you were powerful, had I known you were a jerk, I would not be amazed," I said, fuming

But Nico did something unexpected. He laughed. Not the emotionless laugh he gave me when he was taunting me, but an actual earthy whole hearted laugh.

"What's so funny?" I asked, turning red

"You..stared at me because you thought I was powerful?" He wheezed

I crossed my arms, "But you are, my siblings told me- you're the ghost king,"

His laughter died, "You're not afraid of me?"

I looked at him, confused "No? Except when you tried to kill me, but why should I?"

He shrugged, "You're afraid of the dark, so I assumed-"

I sped up over him and clasped my hand over his mouth, "SHUT UP!" I raised my voice

Nico pulled my hand away from his mouth and he glared, "What's so wrong with being afraid of the da-"

"We children of Hecate are stronger at night, do you not know how embarrassing that sounds?!" I stomped my feet, glaring back at him.

He rolled his eyes, "You're overreacting,"

"If you say a word to my siblings, I'm gonna curse you even more," I threatened

He looked up at me and sneered, "You wouldn't dare"

Before I could say something, Lou slammed the door open. "Camp Counsel meeting, this is about you Treya, so you should come"

I look at her before protesting, "Camp counsel meeting? Have I done something so wrong aside from piss this whiny ghost king?"

Nico looked offended, "Whiny? Excuse me but that adjective is for you,"

I stuck my tongue out at him, "Shut up,"

"What are you, three?" He insulted but I paid him no mind because Lou and Keira were pulling me out of the cabin already.

When I noticed Nico was walking with us, I paused before giving him an annoyed look, "Why are you coming too?"

Nico rolled his eyes, "Because you put this spell on me, idiot. And I'm the counselor for the Hades cabin, which means I get called too,"

"Wow," I faked amazement, "Not only are you the ghost king, but you're the counselor too?"

"I'm gonna strangle you-"

"Stop fighting you two," Lou stressed

"He started it!" "She started it!"

We both said simultaneously before noticing that we did, and glared at each other.

"Nico, I didn't think you'd be this....playful," Lou commented purposely avoiding the term immature, as we arrived at the Big House.

Nico sighed, "Your sister's annoying,"

"No, you're annoying. If only you didn't try to kill me-"

"It's capture the flag!" He reasoned out

"You said it was for fun!"

"If I knew how weak you actually were, I wouldn't have wasted my time on you!"

"So it's my fault now?" I look at him incredulously

He faked gasped like I did earlier, "Yes, of course it is!"

"That doesn't make any-"

"Stop arguing!" A voice called us out. I stopped talking, it did seem nice to stop arguing with Nico.

Lou looked like she had been saved, "Thank you so much! I thought my head was gonna explode!" She cheered

Nico looked back and grunted, "Piper,"

"Nico?"

I looked back as the pretty girl stared at Nico head to toe, questions erupting in her head probably. But I recognized her. I was awfully good with memorizing faces, she was one of the seven and one of the people Nico occasionally hung around with.

"What happened to you?" She stared in horror

"Can we just go inside?" Nico muttered. Lou started pulling me inside the big house but my attention was still at them. Powerful demigods.

Piper glanced at me before giving me small smile, which I returned. "Oh, okay-"

"NICO! WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU?!" A loud voice boomed, a voice that belonged to no other than Leo Valdez.

Nico groaned, "I'm gonna head inside,"

Leo looked at me, "You did that?" He asked with awe as I was pulled by Lou.

I smirked proudly, "Yup!"

Nico passed me with a disgusted look, "You're proud?"

"Oh shut up di Angelo,"