Ch 8- S'mores and Snowballs- a Solangelo fanfic

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CH 8 Will ----------------- Will was practicing his shooting at the archery range, despite the snow, when an Iris message glimmered into sight over by the mist in the slightly melted snow. “Will! Come to the Hades cabin! There's something I need to show you!” said Nico through the Iris message. “Are you hurt? Do I need to bring something?” Will asked, suddenly worried. Nico smiled. “I’ll explain when you get here, but no, everyone is fine.” As Will walked over to Cabin 13, he couldn’t help but wonder (i cant help but wonderrrrr~~~ what this world might beee~~~~ [sorry, epic reference, ignore me]) what Nico needed to show him. Did he find a stray hellhound puppy? (chat i lowkey want to write this now ToT but ill shut up so you can actually read) Will thought, sidestepping a patch of black ice. Or maybe Luca managed to Charmspeak a skeleton into doing laundry. With Nico, 'something to show you' could be a rare Mythomagic card or a literal rift to the Fields of Asphodel opening in the rug. He just hoped it wouldn't involve paperwork. As Will opened the door to the Hades Cabin, he spotted Nico lying on the bed, shadow traveling crumpled papers. “Hey! I thought we decided /against/ lowing our own blood sugars for fun!” Will said, snatching Nico’s crumpled paper. “I was just messing around until you got here,” said Nico. “I’m fine,” he said as he stumbled. “Sure you are. What did you need to show me?” “Oh, yeah, that! Come outside and see what I found! It’s really cool!” The second they were outside, though, Nico turned to Will and said, “Ok, there’s actually nothing out here I need to show you, but I needed to get out of our cabin to tell you. Guess what I found in the Hades cabin? A bug.” “Like an ant? Why did you need to get out to tell me?” “No, like a little microphone.” “What?!?” “Yeah, Travis and Connor put their /name/ on it. I think they were trying to use it to see if we would drop any information about our strategy.” “Oh no, did they hear us earlier talking about our ideas for it?” “I don’t think so. The glue wasn’t completely dry so they most likely put it in during breakfast. I didn’t see them there but I had just assumed they slept in or were busy building somthing.” Suddenly, Will got an idea. “They want our strategy, right? It would be a shame if they were to.. I don’t know… get wrong information.” Nico smiled. “Yeah, especially because they don’t know that we’ve discovered their little trick yet.” They quickly discussed their plan and then walked back into the cabin. “Wow,” Will started, “I can't believe your dad agreed to that.” “Yeah,” Nico continued. “I just sent him back home, but Cerbereus will definitely give us an edge in the snowball fight.” “Do you think he’s against the rules?” “No, I asked Kayla, and she confirmed he wasn’t technically against the rules, as long as he doesn’t kill anyone.” “Don’t worry, Cerbereus /usually/ listens to me, and I told him not to kill anyone.” “Well, we shouldn’t have to do much more work,” said Will, retreating out of the Cabin. “Do you want to go try some archery with me? I think I’m getting better.” “Sure,” Nico said, and they ran out of the Cabin barely containing their laughter. After they had exited the cabin door and stopped laughing, Will wondered aloud, “I wonder if they will actually believe that.” Nico shrugged. “I don’t see why they wouldn’t. I sure hope they do. Imagine they waste, like, a full day trying to make a Cerberueus sized net.” Will smiled. “So, do you actually want to go to the range? I think I’m getting better, and I even hit the bullseye yesterday.” “Sure,” Nico said, and they started down the path to the range.