I am so sorry for not uploading last Sunday as I had planned to. I live in California, and with all the fires, I jad to evecuate and was living in a church building for a while, my family is on our way home now, and I just realized that I had neglected to update last Sunday. Anyway, so sorry! I have this chapter and the next one all set to go, and I am attempting to finish the next chapter (or few chapters if I'm lucky) of Unfriendly Encounters. Here you go!
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Nico stood frozen, looking around at Melody's dream world. It was a dark cavern, and about hundred feet from where Nico stood, was Melody. She looked horrible. He tried to remind himself it was only a dream, but his heart ached for his cousin. She was chained to the wall sobbing. He looked around more closely and saw the source of her tears. Just beyond her reach lay a possibly dead Tyson. The big cuddly cyclops looked as if he'd just been beaten within an inch of his life, and no doubt in Melody's eyes he probably had been. Nico creeped closer to Melody, keeping in the shadows, hoping against hope he wouldn't be seen by whoever her 'captor' was.
"Mel." He whisper shouted. "Mel. Melody."
She looked up, surprised. Her head whipped around, as if searching for him. When she locked eyes with him, she almost started crying again. He held a finger to his lips. She became solemn and silent. He crept up to her and shook her sharply by the shoulders.
"What are you doing?" She stage whispered. "How are you here? He took you away ages ago and you looked awful…"
"You're dreaming."
"What?" She scoffed. "I wish."
"You're dreaming. You need to wake up, your life depends on it."
"Nico… did you hit your head? Or get hit in the head? 'Cause I think you're delirious."
"Melody. Listen to me. You. Are. Dreaming. And you need to wake up."
"Alright… you obviously hit your head or got hit in the head pretty hard, so I'll bite if it'll make you feel better. What do I do to wake up?"
"Clovis said to envision the place you're actually in. Picture the infirmary. What it looks like, what it sounds like there, everything you can."
"Okay…"
She closed her eyes and did as he had bidden her. She pictured the infirmary as she usually saw it. After awhile the vision started to change slightly. She wasn't standing by a bedside watching Will and Nico, she was in the bed, Clovis and Will were sitting beside her, Nico in Will's arms, only half awake. As she reached out to him, the wall of illusion shattered and what was in front of her became real. She was awake.
