A.N Chapter 4! Enjoy and Review!

Chapter 4: Vivid dreams and Cravings.

Lyric

"Phoenix! Phoenix!" I saw a woman running around our house, screaming. I knew it was an older version of me automatically because she ran like half-dead walrus.

"Phoenix Esmeralda, you tell me where you are right now!" I said. God, I've turned into my mother. I thought to myself.

"Here" I heard a small voice. I turned to it and my dream self and I could help but laugh.

The little girl was standing in front of us in armor way too big for her and a war helmet that she was trying to keep on her head without falling over. "Oh, sweetie." I heard the woman say running over to the child. "What're you doing?"

"I just want to be a fighter like you." The girl said in a tiny voice.

"Ah, honey." She took the helmet off the child. "You're not a Fighter." The girl began to frown. "You're so much more than that. You're a Warrior, at least you will be. And I know you'll be the best there is." I watched as "Older me" took the weapons out her hair and clipped them in her daughters hair. "These are my knives. Don't bother trying to use them now they won't work unless you really need them."

"But what about you?" She asked.

"My fighting days are over." She laughed. "You are the world's next greatest hero." She knelt down in front of Phoenix. "Now she me your warrior face." The little girl bared her teeth and tilted her head back. "We'll work on it." The mother laughed.

The scene changed and showed a girl who looked uncannily like me only she had brown eyes. She was ducking under something with a boy who was staring upward. She looked around 15 and her jaw was locked as she knelt. She looked up and she was baring her teeth like the little girl only slightly. I realized that she was my daughter in her teenaged age.

"Ezzy, what are we going to do?" The boy said.

"I told you not to call me that outside the house." She said.

"Sorry 'Phone'" He said, sarcastically but she just smiled. "Now what are we going to do?"

"You're going to get the peacock, and I'll fight the Cyclops."

"You can't fight him alone!"

The girl took out the clips as they turned into knives. "I've done it before, Cece." She patted his cheek before running out until she was in front of the Cyclops.

The Cyclops bellowed. "Well, if it isn't the little legacy. Not quite human, not quite God. Still trying to fight like her mother."

"If my mom killed you, I can certainly do the same." She yelled up at it.

It laughed. "You are not a Demigod hero, legacy. You are just a glorified mutt!"

"You're right! I'm not a demigod. But I didn't let that stop me from defeating the Minotaur, Medusa, or the Nemean Lion. No, I may not be a Demigod but I am the world's greatest hero. And you…" She paused. "Your as good as dead."

With that my dream went up in flames.

I gasped when I woke up. I turned over to see Leo still sleeping. I shook him. "Leo?"

He grumbled and turned over. "Leo?" I said, shaking him again.

"Leo!" I screamed and he fell out the bed with a thud.

"What?! Are you ok?!" He said, worried.

"Yea, I'm fine." I said. "Our daughter is badass!"

"What?" He said, confused.

"Our daughter! She's badass!" I said, excitedly. "I had a dream! And she was fighting Cyclopes and she has fire ability and—"

"Lyric, calm down, it's like 4am!"

"Guess what her name is?"

"Mary?"

"Really Valdez, that's such a generic name. Guess harder."

"What is it, Lyric?"

"It's Phoenix, like the bird of flame!"

"Uh-huh." Valdez was getting less and less interested in this conversation.

"And guess what her middle name is?" I said, helping him back onto the bed.

"What is it?"

"Esmeralda." I smiled.

That got his attention. He looked at me and returned my smile. "You said she had fire abilities."

"Yup."

"Phoenix Esmeralda…" he whispered. "I like that." He said, to me.

"I like it too."

Percy

BANG!

I jumped out of bed as I heard something downstairs. I looked at the clock. 4am? Something had to be happening. I grabbed Riptide and headed downstairs. I didn't know what to expect. Monsters? A burglar?

But what I saw was far from that list.

I saw Annabeth siting in the open fridge, taking a bite out of a wheel of cheese.

My first question was She's 3 months pregnant, how did she fit in the fridge? And my second question was Why is she eating a block of cheese? She looked up at me and swallowed. We looked at each other for a second, completely silent.

Annabeth started crying.

"I'm so ashamed!" she said, in between sobs.

"Annie, don't cry!" I said sitting next to her on the floor. "Why are you even down here?" I said.

She took a few breaths, calming down. "I got hot."

"So, you decided to sit in the fridge?"

"Seemed logical." She shrugged.

"How did you even fit?"

"I went in stomach first." She said. "And then I wanted cheese, so I got cheese." She looked up at me. "I'm sorry."

"You don't need to apologize, just get out the fridge." I said, extending a hand. "And you can't take the cheese to bed."

Nico

"What do you want to eat?" I asked Reyna through the phone as I entered the grocery store.

"Anything smothered in marinara sauce."

"Anything?" I laughed.

"No, just get me a bottle of it so I can put it in a bowl."

"That's disgusting."

"It's what the baby wants."

"Alright then." I laughed as I hung up.

I turned into the next aisle and saw Jason standing there. I tried to turn before he saw me but it wasn't long before I heard…

"Nico?"

Is it too late to shadow travel away? I turned and saw Jason waving at me. Yup, too late.

"Hey, Jason." I said.

"Hey Nico." He said, smiling. "How are you?"

"I'm fine, thanks." Maybe if I act uninterested we wont have to have this talk…

"So, how's Reyna?"

"She's fine."

"That's good." He said. "So, you and her are like… what?"

"We're… I don't know what we are." I said truthfully.

"You should ask her." Jason said. "If you don't say anything, Reyna never will."

"How would you know?" I snapped. "You hurt her. And she wouldn't be in this predicament if you hadn't."

"I know." Jason looked hurt and I immediately regretted stooping that low. "And I wish I hadn't, but I couldn't just fake feelings I didn't have, you know?"

"Yea, I understand." I said. I turned to head to the cash register.

"Hey Nico!" I heard him call after me. I turned around and he sighed. "Will you tell her I'm sorry?"

I contemplated it before sighing.

"You should tell her yourself."