Reader's cabin: 13

My brother Nico was out at camp Jupiter for the week, despite the fact that the war with Gaea was over he still frequently left camp halfblood for short periods of time, cabin 13 to me and me alone, usually I didn't mind being alone, I actually liked practically having a private cabin, but this week was very much different.

Rumord about a monster impersonating a camper, but with mr.D out of camp and Chiron busy with other matters that rumor never got investigated, nobody was behaving oddly so these were just rumours, but I couldn't shake the feeling something was wrong, I've been here at camp for just a few weeks but it didn't take a Percy Jackson level veteran to feel something was off, my boyfriend Jason was also starting to suspect something but without any solid evidence there was nothing we could do.

Today, after a particularly harsh training session I snuck at Jason's table so we could eat together "hey y/n, is everything alright? You look troubled" I started picking at my food a bit "I've had a bad feeling about something happening all week, but today it's particularly bad" I sighed, Jason's hand reached for mine "you know, if you feel unsafe you can stay at my cabin, there's still the extra bed from when Thalia still lived here" he proposed, looking a bit worried.

"I don't think it's allowed, if Chiron catches us he'd do far worse than turn us into trees" I replied, not without a hint of humor, Jason scoffed "yep, and be glad coach isn't here, even just sitting here together would have earned us a hundred push-ups" hearing about his tales on the Argo 2 had me always laughing; he says it was a serious and dangerous mission, and it was don't get me wrong, but it must have been hilarious to cohabitate with a sassy merman, his stoic girlfriend, the only daughter of Aphrodite who doesn't like makeup, an emo boy, his gem attracting sister, a son of mars in denial, a goat with violent intents and Leo fucking Valdez (no commentary needed, his name was enough).

"Jokes aside, if you ever need you just say the word,  and I'll come flying, kay?" Jason said, giving my hand a light squeeze, making drunk butterflies yeet themselves around in my stomach, gods if piper's mom was having fun watching us now...

"Thanks Jason, I trust you with my life, and my heart" the last part came out just above a whisper but Jason must have heard me considering he pulled me closer, whispering in my ear "I'll be dead the day I betray your trust" dinner went normally after that, we ate and laughed, taking our time, we were the last to join the campfire in the evening and nearly missed out on the marshmallows, when it was finally time to head back at cabin Jason insisted on accompanying me to my cabin, even if his was closer to the campfire, our goodbye a simple "stay safe shadow princess" "thanks blonde superman, I will"

I quickly prepared to go to bed and cursed the fact that being a demigod meant I couldn't play any kind of videogame for the rest of my mortal days, later in the night I was in a strange state between asleep and awake when I realised something was moving around on my room, my window was open, a cold wind hit my face, fully waking me up, sitting up straight.

In that moment of epiphany(thanks James Joyce) I realised I had closed all the windows before going to bed, that's when panic settled in, I frenetically looked around the room as my eyes focused on a dark figure "so you're the new daughter of Hades? I didn't think it was possible to look as frail as your brother, yet here you are" my sight was still blurred enough for me not to realise who was the dark figure, so I decided to simply ask "who the fuck are you?" "Doesn't matter, the last descendant of hades I met left me to rot, and now you will pay for your brother's insolence" second epiphany of the night (thanks again Joyce) I understood who was the figure, Minos' ghost, king of Crete. Nico told me all about him, about how Minos tricked him into helping him in exchange for informations on Bianca.

"So you're the bastard used Nico's grief to possibly come back to life..."  apparently he didn't appreciate insults considering he lifted me up from bed and bashed me against the black marble wall, the dagger I always held on my belt clattered out during the impact, but as I went to reach for it another guts of wind hit me, pinning me up against the wall, Mino shouldn't have this power on wind, there must be something wrong, looking around i noticed faces appearing in the wind, storm spirits. Annabeth told me those could control the actions of whoever was possessed, so probably they used a demigod to allow Minos to enter camp and kept a low profile "what did you say to me little scum?" Unfortunately for me my brain doesn't register dangerous situations as such, and instead of  'nothing, please spare me' I said "I said your poltergeist ass couldn't trick a demigod if your life depended on it" next thing I knew was another hit to the head.

I knew descendents of hades could control ghosts but I never managed, granted I just had one lesson with Nico considering he was away more often than not, none of my powers manifested itself yet, which gave free play to the ghost controlling the storm spirits "let's see how long will take for your little bravado to fade" the still half asleep state and the probable concussion prompted me to reply "I'll start being scared when you'll stop being a little coward who needs fart spirits to attack a demigod who's never fought a single monster in her life" the storm spirit also didn't like being called a fart seeing he threw a glass at my head, it shattered, surely leaving shards in my head and shoulder, the rest falling on the floor.

Minos suddenly lifted my dagger "your blood, little mortal, will make me rise again, don't worry, you'll meet your father in no time" as the dagger quickly flew towards me I barely managed to grab and stop it, was this really how I was gonna die? In what was supposed to be a safe place? Killed by a ghost and his fart attendants? Not even a month into my new life? Was this my last goodbye to Jason?

In the complete darkness I made a wish, I wished for nothing more than to be by Jason's side, I wished I could have turned back time and accepted his offer, stayed at his room. I closed my eyes and suddenly the storm spirits holding me up disappeared, leaving me to fall on my ass, when I opened my eyes again I wasn't in cabin 13 anymore, the ceiling I was staring at was white, was I dead?

"Y/n?!?" That was Jason's voice, I wasn't dead, as I turned my head to look at him I noticed the bigass Zeus statue, this was cabin one. Jason was by my side in a second, his arms holding me close as he examined my wounds "what happened? Who did this?" I suddenly felt sleepy, sleepier than I've ever felt, but I knew falling asleep with a probable concussion and shards of glass in her skin "Minos... two storm spirits..." the adrenaline came down and the pain spiked up "stay with me, everything's gonna be alright,we're going to the Apollo cabin and alerting all camp, alright?" I simply nodded, trying to get up "wait, you should avoid straining yourself before the Apollo kids check on you, I can carry you" he said, lifting me in his arms

Jason ran up to cabin 7 with me in his arms and started knocking "well well well, look who we found, the storm spirits told me about you Jason Grace" Minos stood there behind us, Jason looked away from the door and at the imminent threat, sitting me down with my back leaning against the wall, he stood between me and the ghost "told you the bravado wouldn't last long" Minos said with the shittiest grin, Jason was having none of it "so you're the monster who did this to her..." Jason said, pulling out his imperial gold gladium, an electric spark threatening to light up the night "step aside kid, least you want to be collateral damage" "I'm not letting you getting any closer to her" I heard rustling coming from behind the cabin door, without turning his eyes from the ghost "y/n, the second someone opens the door close it shut and don't send anyone outside" at this point I could barely keep my eyes open, I knew Jason had already fought storm spirits but ghosts weren't exactly is playing field.

As Jason pushed back the storm spirits and kept Minos from getting any closer the door of cabin 7 opened and a tired Will Solace walked out, rubbing his eyes, he blinked once or twice before realising what he was seeing was not a fever dream "Jason, what the hell? Do you need a hand?" He said, not noticing me until I weakly wiggled my leg against his, still without distracting himself from the fight Jason shout "Will, heal y/n, I can hold him off on my own" to which will helped me in yelling back at Jason "he's a ghost, you can't simply stab it with a sword!" But Jason simply replied "that's something we can figure out later, please Will, just save her" his voice and sword both unyielding, Will brought me inside and closed the door.

The leader of the Apollo cabin was quick to remove the glass shards from my skin and prepare a mixture of ambrosia for me to drink, two other archers from cabin 7 were assisting Jason, but the fight was far from over, Nico had failed to provide me with the full story on how he defeated king Minos, however he must have told Will about it, he always tells him everything, it was worth a shot to try "you said celestial bronze and imperial gold have no effect on ghosts, how did Nico defeat Minos last time?" Will sighed "descendants of hades have the power to control ghosts, but it takes a big tool on the mind, almost as big as a shadow travel, I guess Nico has told you about shadow travels right?" I nodded, teleporting from a shadow to another...

Teleporting from a shadow to another? Wait I did that tonight! "Hypothetically, if I already managed to handle a shadow travel I could also command ghosts?" I asked him, starting to realise I could actually solve this mess without having to call my brother back form camp Jupiter "you're way too early in your study for both magics but technically you could" that was all I needed to know before bolting to the door leaving Solace stunned enough to not try and stop me, being a fan of horror movies I knew that knowing the name of a spirit means having power over him.

The second I opened the door I saw Jason's golden sword about to fall from his hands as Minos commands the storm spirits to hold the demigod still, had I not acted immediately the ghost could have killed Jason "Minos, king of Crete" I had successfully attracted his attention and had him drop my boyfriend, but as he advanced towards me I felt different, stronger "I command you to stop" the ghost froze, so did Jason and Will, who just peeped his head out of the cabin.

I could feel everyone's eyes on me, but I focused on the task at hand, I had to, for the first time everyone's lives depended on me, I couldn't let them down "you're leaving camp halfblood and getting the fuck back to the depth of Tartarus where you came from!" I snapped, I could see terror in his eyes as Minos was sucked back by the earth itself, setting the two storm spirits free and out of control, they flew away.

Will and Jason stood still in shock, somehow I managed to control my powers without any sort of lesson or instruction, but after every burst of energy there's always a fallout, had it not been for Jason's quick reflexes I would have fallen face first into the mud, we both were on our knees as he held my limp body against his chest, his forehead leaning on mine a distant "how on Olympus..." came from Will as he still struggled to believe what happened.

Neither I nor Jason could care less about anything happening around us, in that crazy moment of trance we were locked in eacother's embrace "you're amazing shadow princess..." he whispered in my ear "you know I was never one to play the damsel in distress, blonde superman, I couldn't let you save me without returning the favour" we both giggled before Jason pulled me in and kissed me