Chapter 2 - Unknown Exhaustion


What. In. The. World.

I can easily recognize the boy as Nico di Angelo... but who is the girl? She has this strange gold aura around her, and she is very very very nervous. She looks like a eighth or ninth grader.

The boy, who appears to be Nico di Angelo opens his mouth. "We have to get to Camp Half Blood, there is a huge monster raid, so any demigod out there we haven't gotten here yet needs to go there. It also seems that they're all asking for you," the girl muttered, gripping her brothers hand harder. "I'm Hazel Levesque, daughter of Pluto."

Nico growls. "Hurry up." He grabs my hand and Hazel's in the other, pulling me into the shadows. "We are going to Camp Half Blood."

Leo clears his throat. Oops, forgot he was there too...

"Get in a circle. We need to land in the middle of the fight", he murmurs, rubbing his hands together. I nod and feel myself melting away.

Landing toward the top of the hill, I have a perfect view of the Camp. I see Percy and Annabeth in the middle of a line. Clarisse and the rest of the Ares cabin surround them. Feeling a sudden surge of courage, I turn toward the monsters (now I know that surge is Ichor, the godly blood).

"I'm the one you are looking for. Get your monster butts over so I can slice you!" I grin wildly, waving the pencil, which has turned out to be a sword. That is what the mist can do? Totally amazing.

The monsters speak in unison. "There she is. Let us go and get her." The leader, a automaton, signals to the others to charge toward me. Running at top speed, I give the monster a hard stare. Then I drive my sword through its head. It collapses, but reforms. I must make a plan...

Oh, that's easy. On every one of these metal structures there is a tiny purple square. So when I destroy it, the monsters disintegrate. But the problem in, it is near their feet. I crouch down, feeling the cold grass, and I run toward the first foot. The monster gets to me before I get to the purple button. I smirk, pretending to faint. The monster casts a look at the others, and I take that time to disintegrate the hand. I leap out, and stab the button. Kaboom. 1 down, 9 more to go.

I use similar styles to get rid of the other monsters. Everybody gasps. I collapse from exhaustion of the energy that I had used.


Gods, why does this happen all the time? I watch the dream, the dream that always happens on the 16th of each month, appear in front of me. This started ever since I was ten.

I walk toward the apartment building, helpless. I watch two teenagers fight against each other. Both have dark brown hair. Person one has a helmet and intense grey eyes. She was wearing traditional Greek armor, along with combat boots. Person two had a white shirt and a pink skirt, with jeans.

"Oh come on, why do you steal the girl? Macie needs me to be her mother."

"You are boring as well. No wisdom, only endless love. Can't you see Pothena is never going to happen? I saved him from monsters, I got him to colleg -"

"Oh quit it."

I know this isn't like normal. Fighting my way against the dream, I try to scream myself awake.


A/N: The only thing I can say is that I never knew how terrible this turned out to be. I am very sincerely sorry for bringing this very obvious self-insert onto this website.