DISCLAIMER:Any of the characters realted to percy jackson and the Olympians I do not own. They are property of Rick Riordon.

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The forest floor all around him was covered in blood. Percy had never seen a sight quiet like it. It was too dark to see the source of the blood but, the stench was all around him and what he could see terrified him. Suddenly, as if to answer his question, bright moon glow forced its way through the trees around him. He couldn't believe the sight in front of him. Grover lay in a puddle of blood from a huge gash in his side. Annabeth a little farther away lay in her own pool of blood that was slowly being soaked into her hair turning it a ugly rust color. Percy dragged his gaze from the scene in front of him and closed his eyes, but not before he saw another shape leaning against a tree. tearing his eyes open he ran to the figure and dragged them into his lap. The gentle feather like thunp of a heart sounded against the chest pressed against his. He watched the eyes turn to him, and whispered," i shall always....love...you...percy." Nico's eyes slowly closed as his chest stopped rising.

A voice filled the clearing, 'An enemy sleeps deep in the earth, but soon will awaken. what will you do, Perseus Jackson?"

"NO!" Percy flew up from the bed trembling. He ran a hand through his unruly brown hair and stood on the floor in front of the bed. "it was just a nightmare."

But, somehow, to Percy, it did not feel like a dream at all.

THe bright sunlight streamed into the cabin making Percy blink in the sudden light. How long had he been just sitting there thinking about his dream? The dream had felt so real but yet he knew it was just a dream. Sighing he threw his leg over the side of the bed and looked around. His cabin was just like how he had left it when he went to bed that night. There was a couple of bunks besides his own nestled against the walls. Each one empty of course. He was still the only child of Poseidon and the few belongs he owned were scattered around the cabin. The ballpoint pen, however, sat on the stand next to his bed. he smilled, remembering the gift from his dad. Percy walked over to a backpack on the floor and rifled through it for a clean shirt to wear. Straightening his shirt,
he was just about to sit on the bed to put on his shoes when he heard a voice yell from the other side of his cabin door.

"Percy, hurry up will you? we want breakfast!" A famiilar faminine voice shouted at him with a bit of a laughter. He knew that voice all to well. It belonged to one of his first and best friends he had made when he had joined Camp Half-Blood.

Putting on his shoes he grabbed the ball, point pen, which in reality was his favorite sword Rip tide, he stepped out the door and came face to face with Annabeth. movement behind her made him look behind her to Grover, his best friend. The second person behind grover, hidden in shadow made Percy blink in surprise. It was Nico Di Angelo, son of Hades. He was so shocked to see him because Percy had no idea he would even return to camp. Nico smirked, upon seeing Percy's surprised look as Grover and Annabeth both laughed.

"That is the same expression I have had from every person I have met since returning to camp late last night and coming out of the cabin this morning. At least these two welcomed me."

Finally being brought back to reality by nico he smiled and waved toward the common area. He felt an odd butterfly feeling in his stomach upon seeing Nico and for some odd reason it was it was still there. he couldn't quite figured out why the sight of Nico made him feel this way but he had also, started to get this strange feeling right before their finally battle with Chronos. He just shrugged it off as a feeling of joy at seeing his friend back (well he hoped they were friends anyway) at Camp Half-blood.

"okay, okay already! are we done with the happy reunion? it is time to eat!" Grover said breaking Percy from his thoughts yet the happy faces of all his friends in front of him made the dream smack him in the face like a ton of bricks. The blood. The bodies lying on the ground, broken. The bodies of his friends he knew by their strange, unearthly stillness that they were dead made his heart twist in grief. But, for some reason, seeing Nico die in his arms made his heart feel as if it were shattereing. He hadn't had these feelings when he first woke up. Just fear. so, why now? The strange shattering of his heart upon watching Nico die puzzled him.

'Beware the enemy that seems to sleep deep in the earth, but soon will awaken. What will you do,
Perseus Jackson?'

That voice again. The voice made him shiver. He felt cold all of a sudden. Who's voice was that? And what did it mean 'beware the enemy that seems to sleep deep in the earth'? It mad no sense at all to him. Shaking his head to clear the vision from his mind, percy looked around him to his friends and noticed they were already on their way to the commons without him.

"Hey wait for me!" Percy yelled as he jogged up to his friends. The strange voice and the horrifying dream started to fade as he pushed it to the back of his mind. The strange copper smell followed him all the way to the commons though he did not notice it in the slightest.