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Chapter 5: My Life Gets Even Worse (Percy)

After Annabeth left, I went to sleep. Sadly, I had one of the now-rare nightmares all demigods got. Even though, technically, I wasn't really a demigod anymore, I still got them from time to time.

I was standing in the middle of the dinning pavilion, back at camp. Everyone was yelling at me, calling me names, telling me how weak I am, that I'm a murderer.

I wanted to yell back at them. Tell them I was a better hero than they ever were. Except that wouldn't be true.

Looking back, I was never the great hero everyone had always dubbed me as. All I'd really done in the war against Gaea was disappear and wait for my girlfriend and some new friends of her's to come rescue me.

Then, I ran away from a camp that I was in charge of, only to nearly start a war between the two camps.

I almost died so many times and the only heroic thing that I did was fall into Tartarus, planning to die for Annabeth if necessary.

I tried to shake my head to rid the thoughts from my mind. No, I had done more than that. Annabeth was always telling me about the heroic things I did. But right now, all I could think of were the negative things... Plus I couldn't shake my head.

I was paralyzed, just standing there, listening to all of the things they said. I wished someone would wake me up. Like, right now. Then, the scene changed.

Now, I was standing in the middle of a forest. Thick with trees, bushes and flowers. A beautiful green landscape if not for what lay in front of me.

A body. The dead body of someone close to my heart. One of my only friends in the world. Hazel. Beside her crying, were Frank and Annabeth. Nico and Bianca were standing farther away, seemingly trying not to break down.

Hazel was their sister, their friend too. "She's there, do you feel it," Nico whispered sadly to Bianca. She nodded solemnly, letting tears fall. The walked to the others.

"First-first Percy...now Hazel. Who else do you want, Fates?" Annabeth yelled at the sky.

So, in this dream, I was dead. I let that settle in for a moment. I wanted so badly to run over to all of them, and tell the that it was okay.

I spoke to Hazel just today. She helped me pick a gem to put on the engagement ring. I was alive too.

But I still couldn't move, so I stood there, watching as they kneeled there, crying. Waiting, hoping I would wake up soon.

When I finally did, my face was wet with tears. I looked at my clock. It was six in the morning. Because I knew I wouldn't be able to get back to sleep, I got up and went to the lounge room.

I got a coffee to wake me up. Even thought I didn't particularly like coffee, I found it kept me awake on mornings when I hadn't gotten any sleep the night before. I sat on a black leather recliner, still in my "Warrior of the year" PJs.

I just sat there, thinking for a while. I had no idea what I was going to do. I didn't want to go back to camp. I wanted to stay here, marry Annabeth, possibly have kids.

Maybe one day they could be warriors too. I didn't want to go to earth again. Especially to battle my newly evil uncle.

But I knew I had to. I had to prove to myself that I am not the weak person I keep seeing myself as.

With that thought, I sighed as I got up, snapped my fingers so I was wearing my all black uniform, and went to Chaos' throne room to tell him I'd go.

As I walked down the short hallway there, I saw Nico pacing impatiently outside Bianca's room. I ran over to him. "Bianca having another flashback?" He nodded sadly.

I put my hand on his shoulder. "You know she'll be fine. Just give her some time," I said comfortingly. "I know, it's just this has been happening so much lately, and I'm worried about going back enough without having to worry about this," he said. I nodded in understanding.

Right then, I realized just how much I was overreacting about this whole thing. My whole army must be worried too, and as commander I needed to put them first.

"You're right, Nico, you shouldn't," I decided, "come on, let's get her to the infirmary," I said opening the door to Bianca's room. There, on her bed, sat a very tired looking Bianca.

"Hey, Bianca can you tell me what happened?" I said, full well knowing she had a flashback. "Percy... He was back! He-he wouldn't let me go and I just..." She trailed off.

I nodded, not wanting to push it further and risk her going ballistic again. "Okay, come on. We're gong to take you to see someone," I said. She took my hand are I helped her up.

Nico and I dropped her off in the infirmary. Nico stayed, leaving me to go find Chaos. As I walked into the throne room, I could tell something was wrong. There weren't enough guards, Chaos, who was usually so content to see me seemed deep in thought.

He was only like this when... "Who's missing?" I asked, worried it would be someone in the army. "Percy, please don't freak out," Chaos pleaded.

"Who," I demanded, knowing I wouldn't be happy. "Annabeth," Chaos whispered, nervously. I stood there, shocked for a moment, before yelling in anger and running out of what used to be the throne room.

Now, it just a pile of rubble. I heard Chaos sigh, call me to come back, get up to follow me, but I didn't care. I was going to find my Wise Girl, if it was the last thing I did.

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