Five years later
"Heros, I will castrate you!"
"Tech! My cat needs more SKITTLES."
"Anger! Help! Huntress is trying to castrate me!"
"Angeli, its your turn to stop Huntress."
"Light, stop Gillianne from reading on Wattpad. She's eating up all the Skittles."
"ITS NOT ME ITS THE CAT!"
"Nightmare?" They all asked me.
I rolled my eyes.
"Michael, give Gilli some Cheetos. Zoë, leave Luke's ability to have children alone. Luke? Leave Zoë alone. And Ethan, don't try to pin saving Luke on Bianca. And Castor, you know it was your turn to save him. Gilli...just do whatever you want."
"YES!" Gilli said while everyone else groaned.
"Don't hate guys. 'gilliannepeck' is totally famous. Everyone likes Cheetos. And toasters. I wonder what they will do if they knew I named my mechanical toaster cat Toasteeto..."
Everyone groaned again, including me.
later that day
It was a long day. I was going to try to go to sleep.
Earlier we had gotten back from a mission to Dimension 754 (D.754). We had to see why our payed food deposit was going down, because we needed resources for the Chaos civilians. (Lea and I would be able to provide for the food, but we needed all three of us. If we tried to touch the Orbs without Leo, we would die from the pain.) When we got there, we found out that all the food was taken to an army of alien monsters as a sign of peace.
Long story short, we assassinated them. A whole army against twelve people and a toaster cat.
On the bright side, we got all the food back. But on the dark and evil side, we got back early and have been arguing all day.
Every time, they turned to me like I had all the answers in the world.
Now, I could finally go to sleep. My room was decorated with black and red.
There was a shag carpet rug and a giant red and black checkered comforter on the bed. There was a 50 inch flat screen TV with speakers built into the wall.
I would have thought about the description a bit longer, but I was too sleepy. I fell face first onto the bed and fell into a dreamless sleep.
Not.
*Dream*
A boy sat on the hill with his back against the tall pines tree, his face was hidden by thick, brown curls.
He stared up into the realm of Artemis, leaning into the tree as if its life depended on him being there.
He leaned further back, and his hair fell our of his face to display sharp, pointed facial features. Even his ears were pointy.
He sighed and closed his eyes.
"Nico..." He whispered. "Where are you? I know your listening Dream Walker. It's been like... I don't know, eight years? If you were here, I know you'd say something like 'Seven and a half, actually Leo.' But that's not the point-even though I know I'm right."
He chuckled darkly, eyes still closed. A phantom figure started to appear next to him.
The form was see through, because it was just an apparition. The only thing you could make out was pale skin and ebony black hair. He was sitting crossed legged and staring intently at the boy.
"Well then kitten, its time to come back." He continued. "I can't take it. These idiots arare driving me insane. It used to be the the other way around. But on the bad side, there's going to be another war."
The boy ran his hands through his hair and huffed.
"The way things are looking now, I don't think we can live through this one. This camp will be annihilated. Not that I'm complaining or anything, but you have to save them. Some of them are still stupid. And who else will keep the oblivious mortals alive anyway?"he laughed and arched his back.
He sighed, all the happiness gone. The apparition beside him cocked its head to the side.
"So, I guess what I'm trying to say is... I miss you. And I need your help. Desperately. I... I'm breaking...I can't take this..If I leave, this camp will be destroyed forever. And now, most of them are innocent. Come back man. I miss you."
He waited for an answer.
"Come on kitten, I know your out there." He growled, his eyes still closed.
The image beside him touched something around its neck before fading away.
The boy suddenly froze, before opening his eyes, smiling.
The three way necklace under his shirt glowed white-hot.
*Dream change*
I stood in a white room.
There was something bad going to happen. I mean, come on-who goes to sleep to wake up in a white room?
I did a full 360 of the room, then whirled back around to the sound of clashing and banging.
The wall had been replaced by a full sized looking glass. In it was showed a terrible scene. Half Blood hill was a war scene. In the literal sense.
Demigods lay dead everywhere. Titans and Giants were chilling around as if they had enjoyed killing everyone. In the midst of all that gore, three giants stood by a fire. In the fire was a cage made out of imperial gold infused with celestial bronze. I could almost hear Leo screeching profanities at them in Spanish and English from inside while they laughed at him openly.
I heard another noise behind me and turned to find another looking glass right at my nose. The walls had gotten closer, but I was too busy staring to care. Camp Jupiter was in ruins. There was actually just smoking piles of ash laying around. In the middle of camp, there were stakes planted firmly into the ground. On each stake there was a praetor tied up on it, with a spear going straight through their stomach. The Amazons were there, and they seemed awestruck by the horror before them. The watched helplessly as their queen wept loudly at the feet of her sister Reyna, who was tied up on a stake.
I backed away, only for my back to meet another wall. To my left there was a giant group of random people that were wandering around. They seemed to all be from different dimensions, because there were lookalikes standing around and sneaking glances at one another. There were like three kids that looked exactly like me.
On the right, there was a second giant army fighting a big group of baddies. They seemed to be regular people. Or not. They all had crazy happy looks on their faces, like they might explode into confetti and reappear somewhere else like Spongebob in 'The Best Day Ever'. They fought with random weapons, ***like books, guns with candy as ammo, workshop tools, pets, electronic pets, hot coffee, and in one case, a super high pitched scream.** And they were winning.
But not so much on the bright side, there were four magic mirrors enclosing me into a box that was rapidly shrinking. The images grew closer, I could hear Leo screaming and cursing and I could hear Hylla screaming and sobbing. Louder. Even louder.
It hurts my ears. I cover them.
It stabs at my heart. I try to block my pain.
This is killing me. I need to kill myself before it gets the chance...
It BURNS!
I claw at my neck, because WHEN IN THE FLIPPIN CHAOS DOES A LEATHER STRAP GET WHITE HOT?!
The damn necklace wasn't burning me, but it sure as hell was irritating me. Who wants to be stuck in a glass box of dimensions with a three way necklace charm that was making it uncomfortably hot?
Nobody that's who.
"Hey Night, wake up. Important sibling problem- including Gilli of course."
I woke quickly. "Yeah, yeah. I know your necklace burned. Me too. Who cares. We've got to go back. Get the Omega team. Now, please Lea. We are about to go help your brother."