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Nichelle smirked at Quentin and Tara. "You look like some weird monument to toilets." "You're a loser, Nichelle," Tara said, "That's why everyone always hated you." "I'm so hurt," she said. Nichelle put her hand out toward them, and Tara and Quentin began to shake from the pain. "Who's losing now?" Tara screamed out in pain. "Nichelle," I said. She turned to me. "What?" "That's enough." "I've just started." "We're not like them." She looked at me with a peculiar expression, one I'd never seen on her before. She put her hand down.

"Nichelle, stop this." Quentin shouted, on his knees. "That's an order." "You're giving me an order?" Nichelle said. "I think you've got that backward, Q-bert." She crouched down until her face was inches from his, and her eyes narrowed in anger. "You were the only family I had, and when things went bad, you all left me to die. Michael Vey was my enemy, and he showed me more mercy than all of you creeps combined."

"You're good," I said to Nichelle. 'You could be an actress." "I lived with Hatch for ten years," She said. "I was."

Bryce Lawrence stumbled, clutching his head, both nostrils bleeding. Nico marched towards him. He grabbed Bryce’s probatio tablet and ripped it off his neck. ‘You aren’t worthy of this,’ Nico growled.The earth split under Bryce’s feet. He sank up to his waist. ‘Stop!’ Bryce clawed at the ground and the plastic bouquets, but his body kept sinking. ‘You took an oath to the legion.’ Nico’s breath steamed in the cold. ‘You broke its rules. You inflicted pain. You killed your own centurion.’ ‘I – I didn’t! I –’ ‘You should’ve died for your crimes,’ Nico continued. ‘That was the punishment. Instead you got exile. You should have stayed away. Your father Orcus may not approve of broken oaths. But my father Hades really doesn’t approve of those who escape punishment.’ ‘Please!’ That word didn’t make sense to Nico. The Underworld had no mercy. It only had justice.‘You’re already dead,’ Nico said. ‘You’re a ghost with no tongue, no memory. You won’t be sharing any secrets.’ ‘No!’ Bryce’s body turned dark and smoky. He slipped into the earth, up to his chest.‘No, I am Bryce Lawrence! I’m alive!’ ‘Who are you?’ Nico asked. The next sound from Bryce’s mouth was a chattering whisper. His voice became indistinct. He could have been anyone – just another nameless spirit among millions. ‘Begone,’ Nico said. The spirit dissipated. The earth closed.

Nico didn’t know what that meant. He didn’t want to know. ‘My son.’ Hades’s tone was almost gentle.‘Whatever happens, you have earned my respect. You brought honor to our house when we stood together against Kronos in Manhattan. You risked my wrath to help the Jackson boy – guiding him to the River Styx, freeing him from my prison, pleading with me to raise the armies of Erebos to assist him. Never before have I been so harassed by one of my sons. Percy this and Percy that. I nearly blasted you to cinders.’ Nico took a shallow breath. The walls of the room began to tremble, dust trickling from the cracks between the bones. ‘I didn’t do all that just for him. I did it because the whole world was in danger.’ Hades allowed himself the faintest smile,but there was nothing cruel in his eyes. ‘I can entertain the possibility that you acted for multiple reasons. My point is this: you and I rose to the aid of Olympus because you convinced me to let go of my anger. I would encourage you to do likewise. My children are so rarely happy. I … I would like to see you be an exception.’

Nichelle smirked at Quentin and Tara. "You look like some weird monument to toilets."