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Capítulo 74: DA : Chapter 74: Making Choices I

Nico flinched as his ears were assaulted by the combined voices of his queens, both looking at him as if he'd grown a second head. He couldn't really blame them seeing as how freaking random the whole thing was.

Still, after giving a mild glare while making a point to rub his ringing ears, both goddesses settled down with the grace to look slightly embarrassed though Hestia reached down and placed her open palm before him. The invitation being clear, he made a quick hop onto her hand before she lifted him up to their eye level.

"Sorry," Hestia said in a softer voice, knowing that their size made any tone above inside-voice painful for anyone of regular size.

"So … mind repeating that?" Rhea asked next as she leaned over the armrest of her throne to get closer.

He sighed with a nod. "Yeah … so Styx proposed to me."

"Why?" Hestia asked next as she narrowed her eyes slightly. "She does know that you don't swing that way right?"

"Not like I hide it," Nico defended while resisting from crossing his arms petulantly.

Rhea and Hestia shared a glance before Rhea asked, "So … how exactly did it go?"

He almost groaned at their obvious curiosity and need to settle their confusion. Hell, he was still confused. Regardless he told them …

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The Night Before After Their Meeting

As the council members used their favored forms of teleportation, the king and his queens quickly dissolving into shadows and likely heading up to their home.

Jason going off to possibly hunt down his new 'target' and Thalia leaving to finally meet with Aeolus and two of the cardinal winds leaving the West Wind to still be found, Phoebe went to likely Delos as she still favored the island, and lastly Andromeda returning to her office for her project.

As Nico walked down his long flight of stairs to reach the throne room floor, he noted that Styx was looking directly at him.

He didn't find it odd considering she'd been glancing at him repeatedly for some time. He'd admit that it got him curious but he'd left her to approach at her own leisure. Now though, as he got to the floor she got up from her throne and slowly walked to him, shrinking with every step.

As she walked he couldn't help but admire her. Sure, he was firmly in the rainbow camp but it didn't mean that he couldn't appreciate feminine beauty and being in a council with arguably the most beautiful women on the planet tended to draw his gaze.

Rhea, the epitome of a queen with a regal stature and grace. Her body being the perfect, curvy balance of athletic performance and natural beauty giving homage to her domain of Nature and the ideal of a physically perfect woman.

Hestia, the embodiment of Fire making her a hot goddess mixed with her demure and gentle personality that could melt even the coldest hearts. Then there was Thalia, unyielding and fierce like her Storm domain. She carried a sense of danger and slight haughtiness that made her the center of attention without even trying.

Andromeda, in contrast to Rhea being nature's ideal, took on the ideal of what sentient beings, predominantly humans, wanted or unconsciously looked for. The curviest of the council, her every motion and stance screaming sensuality, her voice sweeter than honey even on a bad day.

It was at those times Nico thanked Chaos Andy's personality wasn't anything like Aphrodite, otherwise even he would be putty in the goddess' hands.

Next came Phoebe, whose domains culminated into the strands of Fate, who carried a natural allure to herself. Phoebe was not the most beautiful of the council, or the curviest, or fiercest but with her there was a supernatural and exotic appeal.

A sense of mystery, an ocean of unasked questions and hints around her, that mocha skin contrasting her glowing amber eyes that simply drew you in with the need to know.

And lastly was Styx, the most quirky of the lovely ladies of the council. Usually teasing, bordering flirty with any and all to the point she kept a tally of how many gods and goddesses alike she could make blush throughout the day.

Being a more petite beauty, Nico would usually describe the goddess as impish with her slim build and thin waist, modest bust and proportionally long legs leading to one of the tightest rears he'd ever seen.

Big doe eyes holding unusually sharp tones of venom green and onyx black in equal swirls, her long green and black streaked hair that always looked like she'd just showered barely a minute ago. If he was being honest with himself he found her more attractive than the other goddess.

Maybe it was her playful personality even though he could literally feel the darker aura hidden underneath thanks to her domain of Hatred that was so similar to his own as the heir of the Pit. Maybe it was that since he liked guys he really couldn't appreciate the soft, marshmallow goodness of big boobs.

It was a coin toss really.

Still, whatever the reason his eyes still watched as Styx slowly walked towards him, his eyes catching the slight sway of her hips shown by her snug chiton. She didn't stop until she was only a few feet away at best, now looking up at their difference in height.

They waited in silence, or at least Nico waited considering it was Styx that approached him since she obviously had something to tell him. However, she looked unusually nervous given by the slight shuffle of one of her feet and her hesitant glances. 'Odd, since when is Styx ever shy about anything?' he wondered before deciding to break the silence himself.

"So Styx," he started, already berating himself for sounding so bland. "Can I help you with something?"

"Ah well," she started, the momentary flash of relief passing her eyes thanks to him speaking first. "I just … wanted to ask you something."

Another odd pause ensued until Nico cleared his throat.

"Okay, shoot," he said casually, trying the make the atmosphere a little more comfortable.

Styx fidgeted with the rope tied around her waist.

"Umm … how are things with you and Will?"

That got him to start, not expecting that question in the slightest. Generally the others that have known him the longest simply talk to him in general and only going onto the subject of Nico's love-life if Nico brought it up himself.

"Ah, good. We're good. He just started his resignations from the practice in New York and will be ready to move here within the week.

He's over the moon since his focus was split between athletic traumas and child care thanks to being the resident doctor in the camp so long. I'm sure Leto will appreciate having such a friendly doctor on call," he answered getting a small smile from her.

"And are you going to give him an apple?" she asked softly.

Nico blinked for a moment in thought. He'd already broached the subject with Will in terms to their mortality. Nico was already partially immortal and he honestly didn't want to watch Will retain mortality and age on until passing. But he knew Will did have some reservations about immortality, partially in his respect to fair play and feeling like it was being given away rather than earned.

Another being that immortals tended to have really loose pants, as so eloquently portrayed by their extensive family tree. Nico knew Will was scared of potentially growing into something similar to Apollo even though Nico highly doubted it and then Will would always answer in an oddly pessimistic way.

'Sure, maybe not now or in even in a century. But that's immortality. There will always be enough time to change and possibly make that mistake.'

But Nico could understand his worries. It was the same reasons Percy had constantly rejected the Olympians and their demand of him joining them.

He didn't want to become separated and distant from the very mortals he grew up with and spilled blood protecting, fearing that immortality would change him. Still, shaking his head of the thoughts he refocused on Styx.

"Yeah, I was thinking of giving him an apple soon after he gets here. I would rather be assured that he'll be okay on the battlefields since I know he'll want to fight too and I don't know if I could handle him dying. At least as an immortal if he gets taken out I'll wait a few decades for him to reform in Tartarus."

Styx nodded at his answer before asking, "And have either of you thought of marriage?"

That got Nico to blush slightly before giving a hesitant shrug. "I ah … know that it's on his mind since I found some hints …"

"You found the ring and questioned him about it but he couldn't lie to save his life," she interrupted with a grin to which he gave a defeated sigh and nodded.

"Yeah but I could tell he wanted to do it at his own pace so I dropped it for now."

Styx hummed at that and looked towards the warm hearth for a while as Nico glanced at her again, noting how the flames seemed to reflect in her intense eyes.

"What about you?" he suddenly asked making her give him a side glance. "Have you considered marriage to anyone?"

Styx returned her eyes to the fire before answering, her voice surprisingly stern. "I have actually … but I find myself a little hesitant about the whole thing."

"Why?" he asked curiously as he shifted around to be standing right beside her.

"Hmm … mostly due to some personal quirks and preference. After all, it's no secret that I simply love flirting for the sake of flirting, even to the point I risked getting mauled by Rhea one time by getting a little close with Percy during a training session," she said with a grin.

"Pretty ballsy, I'll give you that," he agreed, knowing that Percy and Rhea were equally territorial of each other and given Hestia's actions lately, the fiery goddess was as well.

"Yep but that's just it. I like flirting but that doesn't mean I'm really interested in doing much more. Sure, there have been a few lovely specimens from time to time that give me that special itch but more often than not, I'm just not interested."

"So then why bother looking into it?" he asked. "If marriage is too much of a hassle then don't marry and if you get that itch once in a blue moon, than find that lucky guy (or lady) and scratch it."

"That's just it though, I don't want to sleep with just anybody," she said with a sigh. "I do want to have that special someone and have love but even then, I'm just not a sexual creature like our king and queens," she added with a snicker and he snorted in agreement.

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Capítulo 75: DA : Chapter 75: Making Choices II

"That's just it though, I don't want to sleep with just anybody," she said with a sigh. "I do want to have that special someone and have love but even then, I'm just not a sexual creature like our king and queens," she added with a snicker and he snorted in agreement.

...

Everyone knew that Percy and Rhea were both stamina monsters on the battlefield and it obviously translated into bedroom activities. He wasn't sure if he was more impressed with the fact that Percy's appetite was more than enough to screw both his wives into orgasmic puddles or that it took Hestia barely a few days to match up to them from the get go.

Both continued to snicker for a moment before Styx cleared her throat and continued. "Anyways, the point is that if I did have a husband, I wouldn't really be able to meet the physical needs often enough and that would be more of a punishment than anything else to whoever that is."

"What if you tweak your vows so that he could find release somewhere else?" he asked to which she frowned.

"I don't like the idea of being cheated on, even if it's for a reason," she replied curtly before sighing.

Nico scrunched his brows for a moment in thought, wondering how to get around Styx's quirks to find a working relationship.

Obviously it would have to be someone that had interest in her just as she him/her but at the same time, it couldn't be someone wanting more activity that spare times but then again, immortals rarely had low libidos. Then again it would also need to be someone capable of dealing with Styx's teasing personality.

"What about a poly relationship like Percy, Rhea, and Hestia?" he asked getting Styx to look at him curiously. "You could marry two people and that way, they could satisfy each other."

"But who?" she asked as she suddenly turned towards him, her eyes seeming to glow as she zeroed in on him.

"How many couples are out there that are willing to open up to a third? What's to say that I'll even like one, let alone both of them as is? And what if they marry just for the prestige of being married to a council member or maybe their mortal and want to be immortal as well?"

With each question Styx took a step towards him and Nico couldn't help but take a step back to mirror it. Her every light step sounded like a hammer fall to his ears, the slight sway of her hips like a hypnotic pendulum to his eyes.

He stood nearly a foot taller and broader, his frame a testament to being hardened in the flames of war, his black and red tinged eyes normally pinning others to the spot as he observed them. Yet for all that he felt the smaller of the two and could only back away and yield as Styx came forward.

Then suddenly he stumbled and couldn't stop himself from falling back on his rear. He only got a moment to sit up before his heart leapt into his throat as Styx sat on him, straddling him as her eyes bored into his. His body suddenly felt like ice with only the parts making contact with her burning, especially her hands pressed against his chest.

"You know," she said softly even as her eyes retained their steely semblance. "Of all the men I've spotted from the rare times I came to the surface when I could, none have every given me the 'itch' like you have, Nico De Angelo."

Her hands started to slide down as she wiggled ever so slightly to get more comfortable and Nico found a strange though not unpleasant heat over his crotch. He tried to ignore it though as he refocused on her face, his hands getting clammy and throat dry at her little confession.

"I know you are very much in love with Will and I would love to be there for your vows someday however, I can't help but wonder …" She then leaned a little closer, her breath washing over his face and her body seeming to press down on him more. "With your suggestion and all, if you two would be willing to consider me?"

His eyes widened as he looked at her heart-shaped face, glancing at the little dainty lips speaking such dangerous words.

"And I can't help but feel that you aren't against … feminine delights … as much as you say," she almost teased as she slowly rolled her hips making him groan before he suddenly looked down in alarm.

He wasn't a stranger to female teasing and even some touching, what with the more daring girls in his years after the war trying to seduce him along with the few openly gay men.

Hell, the old heroes once threw a party to try and get over some of the sadder feelings of the previous years thanks to Percy's disappearance.

Most got roaring drunk and started a raunchy truth-or-dare game that got some interesting results; Will ended up making out with a broom, Jason and Frank shared a kiss (Nico's idea, he just didn't think they'd do it), Calypso took Leo to a closet and forgot to come back out, somehow Hazel and Piper ended up cuddling topless, and of all things, Reyna gave Nico a lapdance.

It was then that she showed the kind of movement and flexibility one would expect from a child of Aphrodite could have along with Nico gaining some appreciation for the softness of a female's rump but even then he still didn't bat an eye.

He'd never reacted to a girl more than maybe a second glance and remaining at a distance but Styx was making him react right now. The goddess even went as far as giving him a little smirk of victory before she backed her face up while Nico was still mentally reeling.

"Now that we know that it wouldn't just be a token marriage given that there is attraction between us," she said as she gazed down while intentionally wriggling again but this time he bit back the groan and desire to grab her hips. "I was wondering if you'd like to marry me Nico De Angelo?"

He was gapping like a fish as he looked at her, too stunned with everything that happened in the last five minute to form a coherent thought. She was proposing? To him? What about Will? Wait … but she meant a pair, so him and Will? But would Will even—

Styx giggled breaking his train of thought as she looked down at him, her eyes shining with a familiar mirth.

"I don't expect an answer right now," she said as she leaned closer again. "I know this is sudden and we don't really have feelings for each other … Well, I might have what's considered a crush," she admitted with a light blush.

"But still. Just think about it and talk to Will. Who knows, maybe this will turn out better than either of us could have guessed."

With that she gave him was last flirty wink, a kiss on the cheek, and disappeared in a ball of green mist. Nico stared at the previously occupied space before glancing down at the bugle in his leather pants.

"Traitor," he growled at his offending organ before slumping back down and looking at the throne room ceiling currently mirroring the open night sky.

He sighed, wondering just what was he going to do about all this …

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Present

"And I just kinda stayed like that for the night and day," he finished, sitting cross legged on Hestia's palm while said goddess and Rhea picked their mouths off the floor.

"Wow …" Hestia murmured. "… Go Styx."

Rhea snorted in amusement before focusing her eyes on Nico. "So … have you come to any decision at all?"

Nico blinked at her for a moment before sighing while slumping his shoulders. "I don't know, that's why I wanted to ask Andy."

Both goddesses hummed in thought while exchanging glances. All the while Nico looked between the pair before asking softly, "How was it that you three came to your decision?"

"Well," Rhea started hesitantly. "It's complicated. I mean, me and Percy were already together and Andy tipped me off about his feelings for Hestia. If I hadn't known, I can guarantee that it would have taken a lot longer before I would have agreed to try being polyamorous.

In the end my love for him and willingness to compromise at first was what helped but we also had years to truly adjust to the idea before Hestia came into the picture. Even then it didn't really sink in until Hestia was with us."

"And we all know how I reacted initially," Hestia chimed in with an embarrassed blush that lessened when Rhea tugged her free hand and gave it an affectionate kiss on the knuckles. Nico couldn't help but smile at that, even if he wasn't really a romantic himself.

Really his king and queens were the idols of a caring and honest relationship. Hestia sent Rhea a warm smile before returning to Nico.

"Anyways, in the end Andy helped me too and I realized my feelings hadn't changed even knowing Percy wouldn't only be mine but I compromised too. Heck, now it's an honest three-way marriage rather than two wives splitting a husband and I wouldn't change that for all the world."

"But could Will and I do that?" he asked. "It has to be a mutual decision and then if so, what would our dynamic be? Obviously I'm gay and apparently bi when Styx is around much to my humiliation," he said while pointedly ignoring the snickers from the goddesses. "That's not to say that Will, will have the same inclination."

"His dad is the god of Bachelors," Rhea said with an eye roll. "I'm pretty sure that if it came down to it he could scrounge up a little willingness to mount our apparent vixen of a river goddess."

"So crass," Nico said sarcastically but the goddess only stuck her tongue out at him.

"Besides, think of all the kinky scenarios," Hestia added innocently getting a genuinely shocked look from Nico.

Where the hell did the proper and shy maiden go!?

"Anyways," Rhea interjected. "I think its best that you go and talk to Will about it. Things won't go anywhere if you don't discuss it first and it will give him a few days to stew on it before arriving."

"Might want to hurry incase Styx decides to test if she can get a reaction out of Will too," Hestia commented making Nico jump in her palm.

"Now I'm worried," he snarked as he prepared to jump off her palm but before that he asked them, "So what are you two doing now? I noticed the barrier but I didn't know if you two wanted to talk about it."

Rhea and Hestia shared another glance before Rhea answered.

"We have a few apparent complications to our love-life that needs addressing too. We're keeping it a little private for now but we'll let you and the council know later on."

"Besides, right now I think we're going to find Percy and drag him to the House of Night for a little … connection," Hestia added, her voice purring out the last word with such heat that even Nico had to blush.

'Sweet Chaos, let Percy survive this night,' Nico prayed as he noted Rhea's saucy smirk, her fangs poking out of her lips.

He gave an awkward nod and salute before hopping off Hestia's palm and disappearing into the hearth with a slight burst of purple flames within the wreaths of golden and orange fire ….

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