Superman
As I fell asleep in my civilian identity, I immediately came to a small white room, where I saw the league, all except for Tern. In my mind, J'onn spoke.
I decided to try and unite the league in the dream using my powers, he said. I'm trying to contact Tern. She has mind barriers of iron.
J'onn... said Bruce. This might not be very good. Percy has nightmares, and they aren't good. Also, just because we're dreaming doesn't mean we can't actually ibe njured.
I snorted. Surely her nightmares aren't that bad.
Suddenly, we were pulled into a scene. A twelve year old Percy was dodging the Minotaur. She saw us.
Why are you here? she asked.
J'onn's trying to get us to meet in a dream, said Batman.
J'onn, that's foolish! you never know when some divine being is listening on in our conversation, even if it is telepathic. Also, my head is not a place you want to be- my dreams are controlled by Tartarus. This is a memory, so I won't be able to do much, said Percy. J'onn, wake us up! If Tartarus spots you, he will try to harm you.
We watched as twelve year old Percy yelled for her mom to come, only to watch her mother dissolve into light. Luring the monster over to her, she backflipped over the monster, clinging onto its back and twisting and turning its horn. At last, the horn came free, and she drove it into the monsters furry ribs. The monster dissolved into dust. Percy dragged Grover to the shadow of a large house before collapsing. How could she have done that? I thought. She's even younger than she is right now, but still she managed to defeat whatever that was.
The scene changed.
We were standing in the front of a rock. Many warriors, mostly in their teen years, were dressed in armor. The were in formation, with archers positioned in trees. Traps were positioned around the rock with sharpened sticks. Two catapults were ready to fire. Boulders were piled near them.
A centaur near us said "It isn't enough."
Percy looked equally depressed.
The ground trembled.
"Lock shields!" commanded a girl.
An army exploded out of the rock. A bunch of giants carrying bronze shields and clubs crawled out. One smashed at the formation with a club and sent the warriors flying.
"Fire!" yelled a young boy. The catapults fired.
The scene changed.
All of a sudden, we were standing in the middle of a battlefield. Fallen teenagers and yellow dust littered the ground. Only seven teenagers were still fighting against the waves of monsters, but soon they fell as well.
A girl with kaleidoscope eyes fell when a spear from a monster hit its mark.
"Piper!" cried Percy. She rushed over, but she was too late. She stood and fought with more energy, her eyes blazing with anger. Alongside her fought a boy in a purple shirt, A gray-eyed girl wielding a dagger, a large grey dragon, a boy with his hands on fire, and a girl with brown hair.
They fought like demons. In their path, everything fell, but the heroes were starting to slow. They had not stopped to tend for their wounds. Another teenager fell at the hands of a large giant, his hand blazing with fire.
With a savage roar, the remaining teenagers surrounded the giant, beating him back with their various weapons. A lightning bolt came from the sky, striking the giant on the head, and the giant dissolved into blue gravel. They ran over to the boy.
"Leo..."
They kept fighting. Each swing came slower, each dodge more sluggish. They grew exhausted against the onslaughter of enemies.
The gray dragon roared its anger as the brown haired girl was taken out by a snake woman. It changed to a burly boy who knelt. "Hazel, please..." he said, faltering.
Percy's eyes burned with anger as the remainder of the group kept fighting on toward an earth woman, who was cackling evily.
The ground swallowed two of them. The burly boy and the blond headed girl both sank into the earth.
Percy glanced at the remaining boy. "Jason, don't you dare join them."
"I'll try not to," he replied.
Together, they summoned a large storm, knocking aside approaching monsters. They fought their way to the earth woman and attacked from different sides.
The woman managed to sink her blade into the boy's stomach.
"Jason! Please, stay with me." Begged Percy.
"Avenge us," said Jason before closing his eyes.
Percy stood up from Jason's side. Her eyes glowed with new power. I saw her loyalty for the first time- and the reason she had gone so far to heal bats.
Percy attacked the earth woman with a flurry of blows. She became a blur, riptide a pure arc of destruction.
The scene changed.
A looming figure stood over Percy, who was shackled on the ground.
"Do you join our side?" he asked.
"Never," croaked out Percy.
"If you join us, I will spare that stupid league of heroes. I swear on River Styx" thunder rumbled.
"You won't hold to that oath," said Percy.
Suddenly, the being spotted us. He moved threateningly toward us. "What do we have here?" he sneered. "A stupid league of 'heroes'?"
We were petrified. I couldn't imagine how Percy managed to talk back to this being.
"Remember, Tartarus, I am the sea, and the sea does not like to be restrained," she said before breaking out of her chains. She stood protectively in front of us, sword and shield out.
Keep trying to wake us up, J'onn, said Percy. Or else we'll never get out of here.
"Did you know, Persephone, that it was I gave Kronos strength to rise? That I coaxed Gaea to conscious?"
The earth cracked. A light surrounded Percy. She was literally glowing with rage.
"Well, she did make you promise," said Tartarus, who was smirking mischievously.
"Don't you dare say her name!" growled Percy.
"Oh, I think I can say Annabeth's name."
With a yell, Percy made the rivers burst open. Poison that littered the ground streaked toward Tartarus.
She attacked. The harsh clangs of metal rang throughout the chamber. Percy was weakening. She was a mortal, and Tartarus was a primordial. All of a sudden, Tartarus managed to land a glancing blow on Percy's arm. Blood flowed out. If J'onn didn't wake us up soon, Tartarus would overpower Percy and get to us.
A bright light filled up my vision, and I woke up.
That day we met in the Watchtower.
Percy looked more tired than usual.
"Did that..." said the Flash, referring to the dream. "Actually happen?"
Percy silently rolled up her sleeve. There, where Tartarus had struck her, was a dark red scar.
"I have news," she said. "If you haven't figured it out already, Tartarus is rising. Also, Chiron has informed me of another war via dream message."
Both Diana and Arthur groaned.
"Why do we have to go through so much? Why couldn't this have been left to a different generation of us?" ranted Diana.
Percy sighed. "Di, would you rather have others do this? We've gone through two. Why not go through three?"
"What do you mean?" I said.
Aquaman, Diana, and Percy shared a look. "Something," they said in complete unison.
I hated it when they do that. Often Batman, J'onn, Percy, Diana, and Arthur would exchange looks, leaving the rest of us in the dark.
"Tern..." said Batman. "Maybe it's time."
Tern sighed. "Fine. But I'm not doing the storytelling!"
"You won't have to," said Aquaman. "Your father wrote a whole bunch of books on your adventures. I have them in Atlantis."
"We could also use an IM," said Batman
"An IM? An instant message?" asked Green Lantern.
Diana snorted. "No, an Iris message," she said. "Tern, create a rainbow."
She flipped a coin into the rainbow. "Oh iris, goddess of the rainbow, accept my offering. Show me Percy's life from her first quest to the end of the giant war."
We watched as the rainbow showed us pictures. We went through her first quest, second quest, and basically all her quests. We watched as she fought Kronos and Gaea in the second titan and second giant wars. I understood her better now.
When she returned, I apologized to her. From that time on, the league was better united.