Can't Live Without Cheeseburgers

   As soon as I snapped my fingers, the world began to move again. I took a deep breath and smelled the familiar scent of Manhattan. I sank to my knees, the remembrance of my battle flowing back to me at once. I heard my friends gasp and a few hints of words through my buzzing ears.

     "Oh, Lyla, what...!" Piper spoke in a distressed voice.

     "Somebody... cab!" Annabeth was yelling.

     "... Iris Message...!" That time it was Frank.

     "I'll... Blackjack!" Percy called out.

     I heard the sound of a horn honking and hooves clopping. I started to see spots and decided to  finally speak.

     "I..." Nico, the only one not busy heard me and came running over. He dropped down to my level.

     "Delyla, what is it?"

     "Sp-spots,"

     "Uh, OK, um, just... Delyla!"

     My eyes began to roll over and I fell backwards. The last sight I saw was Nico rushing behind me so I wouldn't hit my head. Oh, Gods, not again... I thought. But it was too late.

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I plugged into dreamland and dreaded the worst. The video had told me all I need to know about demigod dreams. They tell the future, remind of the past, or show the present. I heard you can even commutate through dreams. That was everything running trough my head as I opened my eyes to the dream.

     It looked close to 6:00-7:00 P.M. and... was I sitting in a tree!? I sighed. All the better to take in my surroundings, I guess. My tree was close to the edge of the cliff and suddenly I was egar to get down. There was a harber down at the shore, but with few boats. Not far ahead, maybe a mile, was a city. Though I didn't see anything interesting about. All of a sudden I hear a loud clack, some clicks and whistles, and a boy cursing strongly in Greek off to my right. Now, that, sounds interesting. I carefully climbed down from the tree I was sitting in. I began walking towards the sounds. When I got closer, I saw the cause of the clack was the boy banging a tool, as he was doing when I walked up. He was banging it on a metal dragon, who was making the clicks and whistles, trying to fix it. Every now and then he would spout a few curses and get back to work. He was wearing blue jeans and an army jacket over a plain white shirt. He had messed up black hair. Over to his right was a girl with the same almond color hair, which was pulled into a tight ponytail, and eyes as Piper. She was wearing the same plain white shirt as the boy and same jeans. She was rummaging through a suitcase and pulled out a small pot and spoon.

     "I brought my magic pot and spoon."

     "Cool. Although, tonight, I was thinking showing you what a cheeseburger is."

     "A... cheeseburger?"

     "Exactly. One cannot simply live without ever knowing what a cheeseburger is."

     She giggled at this comment, "When do you think your dragon with be fixed?"

     "I dunno. Could be days, could be weeks. Could be longer."

     "You think your friends will find us?"

     "I'm 99.98% sure they will," this was awarded with another giggle. Once again he cursed. "Well, I'm done for now, ready for that cheeseburger, sunshine?"

     "You, bet Leo! I've never gotten to see a city, or any food other than cider and stew. I've never even seen another girl!" So this is the high and mighty Leo that saved the world. To be completely honest, I'm not really seeing it.

    "All righty, then. Let's get a move on." He walked over and offered a hand to the girl, who took it. Together they started their way to the small city near the bottom of the cliff. But before they left, Leo hit a butten on the metal dragon and it turned into a tiny metal square. He picked it up, tossed and caught it twice, then set it into his tool belt.

     Suddenly, black began to creep in to my sight starting from the edges and making its was in. "No! Not now!" I screamed. But I was already overcome by darkness.

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     My eyes fluttered open to sight of the Manhattan skyline. I knew I was leaning on something, but couldn't tell what. I heard the beating of wings and saw a horse's mane. What, was I flying on a pegasus!?

     I let out a sudden scream as I fully realized my surroundings. I was flying on a pegasus. An all black one with a full black mane.

     "Whoah! No need to scream, you're not going to fall." I sat up and looked behind me to identify the voice. I noticed it was Percy sitting behind me. Oh, sushi! It was also him I was leaning on!

     "Uh, sorry. I guess I've never flown before."

     "Don't worry. Blackjack is super balanced and won't never let anyone fall off him."

     "So, this is Blackjack?"

     "Yup. Blackjack, why don't you say hi?" There was a slight pause and I remembered when Piper had told me that Percy could talk to horses. I guess he was listening to Blackjack now. "He says: Hi! When do I get my donuts?"

     I giggled. "So he likes donuts that much, huh? I'll have to remember that."

     "Oh, look! There's Camp Half-Blood!" I looked down to see a birds eye view of the camp. It truly was beautiful. "Get ready to land! I bet everyone's already there!"