Chapter 10:Dreams and Nightmares

Harry POV:

What an exhausting day. These Americans are insane. It's like they've had too much caffeine all the time.

I was walking back to the room Ron and I share when I saw a piece of paper. I picked it up. It must be a note from the Americans' package.

"Hey, Harry. Whatcha got there?" Ron asked.

"I dunno, I think it's a note from the Americans' package," I said.

"Who found a note for the Americans?" Hermione asked as she came up the stairs with Ginny.

"Harry did," Ron said. Wow, thanks for throwing me under the bus, Ron. "What do you think it says?"

"I don't care, Ron , we should give it to them right away!" Hermione said crossly.

"Aren't you just a little curious, 'Mione?" Ginny said.

"Yeah, what if they're Death Eaters or something?" I added.

Hermione bit her lip. "Maybe we should, just to check."

I unfolded the note and read:

Percy-

Chiron told me about your quest, please stay safe. IM whenever you can! And share the blue cookies!

Love Mom

Quest? What quest? I thought they were here on an exchange program. And who's Chiron?

"What does this mean?" Ginny murmured.

"It means there's more to these exchange students than we think," Hermione said.

Immediately after I fell asleep, I started dreaming.

A younger version of Percy was fighting a bull-man an a hill with a pine tree. The dream changed to show a much younger Annabeth and Thalia running up the same hill with two boys. Holy crap that guy has goat legs! Thalia stopped running and somehow got a spear in her hand. She turned to face an invisible enemy. A pack of dogs the size of rhinos came charging out of the darkness. They overpowered her, and before she fully died, she turned into a pine tree.

The dream changed to show 5 people on a chariot pulled by 2 pegasi.

Then it was Nico and Hazel on a hill overlooking a city. It changed to show Frank arriving at the same city with a wolf. Then it showed Reyna arriving at the same city.

Then it changed to show Nico in a bus with Percy, Thalia, and a bunch of girls in silver clothing. Then it was Calypso and Leo flying away from an island on a mechanical bronze dragon.

I woke up, gasping. There's no way that dream was real, right? I'll tell Ron and Hermione about it in the morning.

I was about to fall back asleep when someone started screaming bloody murder.

Percy POV:

"Percy? Percy why did you leave me?" Annabeth wailed.

"I didn't!"

She stumbled through the aria.

"Annabeth!" I yelled.

Yes, what a special curse, the demons said.

Annabeth wandered closer to the abyss.

"Percy?" she called.

She took another step toward the edge.

"Annabeth!"

"PERCY!" Annabeth yelled. No, she thinks I left her. It isn't real.

"PERCY!" She yelled again.

Annabeth took another step toward the edge.

"NO, ANNABETH!"

"Percy, wake up!"

My eyes flew open. Annabeth stood above me. I pulled her into a hug. "The curses," I mumbled into her hair. "You almost walked off the cliff."

"It's ok, we're ok," Annabeth said soothingly and strokes my hair.

Nico POV:

Percy started yelling and thrashing in his sleep.

"Someone get Annabeth!" I yelled.

Leo sprinted to the girls room. 5 seconds later Annabeth came sprinting in.

"Out," she ordered. "And make sure no one comes in."

We went out of the room, Percy was still screaming. The girls were already there.

"Another nightmare?" Reyna asked.

I nodded. "5th one this week."

Suddenly the Brits came down the hall.

"Who's screaming?" The annoying one, Ron, asked.

"No one?" Jason lied.

Percy screamed again. I face palmed.

"Oh really?" Hermione said, arching an eyebrow. "Who's screaming?"

"That," I said, "is none of your business, so go away."

Harry opened his mouth, probably to argue, when Mr. Weasley, Mrs. Weasley, and Sirius came down the hallway.

"What's going on? Who's screaming?" Sirius asked.

"They won't tell us!" Harry said angrily.

"That's because it's none of your business," I shot back.

"Well if someone's screaming bloody murder in middle of the night, we have a right to know," Ron said.

"Well it's a personal thing, so go away!" I said.

"Why are you so rude?" Ron said. Wow, that stung.

"Why are you so nosy?" I shot back.

"Percy would be so proud of that sassiness," Leo said.

"Leo, not the time," Calypso said quietly.

"Just someone tell us what's going on!" Sirius said.

"Percy's having a nightmare," we said in unison.

"There's no bloody way a nightmare could be that bad," Redhead Stoll #1 said in disbelief.

"Oh, it's possible, so go away," Piper said.

We all started arguing again.

"There's no way!"

"Well there is so-"

"Just go away-"

"You people are crazy!"

"SHUT IT!" Mrs. Weasley yelled. "You six-" she pointed to Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, and Redhead Stolls "-go back to bed. And you nine-" she pointed to us demigods "-calm him down and go back to bed."

With that she stormed away. Mr. Weasley and Sirius followed. The younger wizards gave us dirty looks and followed her.

"Well that went well," Frank said dryly.

"Right," Reyna said sarcastically.

The door to our room opened. An exhausted Annabeth walked out.

"Hey guys," she said. "What'd I miss?"

"Just another argument with the Wizards," Thalia said.

Annabeth sighed. "We're supposed to become friends with them, but all we're doing is arguing with them. This quest is getting more complicated by the minute."

"Let's worry about that later and get some sleep," Hazel said.

We all agreed and went to our rooms.