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Chapter 7: Dreams of the Past

Later that night I was dreaming again.

Dream

I was in the middle of a battle field and was fighting a man dressed all in black. I finally hit him in the stomach and ran towards Luke and Will. "We're losing!" I yelled to them "We need to fall back before we lose too many others!" Luke and Will nodded agreeing with me. "Retreat!" I yelled and as we were retreating I saw another man dressed in black go up to Will and start to fight him. Will had no choice but to fight back, I ran over to help him when the man in black stabbed Will in the stomach.

He fell to the ground and I ran over to him but as I got there he looked at me and said "Tell Sarah… tell her… I'm sorry" then he collapsed on the ground. And at that same moment I heard a heartbroken scream come from 'the Palace of the Guardians' just a few miles away.

End Dream

I awoke I a cold sweat and after I caught my breath and looked at my alarm clock I saw that it was three in the morning so I laid back down and hoped that I wouldn't have that dream ever again. And when I fell back to sleep I fell into a better dream.

Dream

Princess Marie was standing in front of me and was looking beautiful in her black dress. She offered me her hand and I kissed it respectfully, she smiled down to me for I was kneeling before her.

"Rise." She told me, I did so. "Nico," she looked at me worriedly "are you ok?"

I knew what my past self was thinking so what I said next was a lie "yes of course why wouldn't I be?"

She looked straight into my eyes. "You're lying." A few moments passed by before I sighed

"It's that new boy. The one Luke is training."

She looked confused "Will? What about him?"

I took a deep breath and said. "a few days ago I saw Luke training Will, and while I was watching I noticed that Sarah was watching too. She seemed like-" I looked at Marie trying to explain how Sarah had looked. "It was like… like she was being drawn to him, he's only eleven and he just arrived a month ago, yet… it looked like she'd known him for years." What I didn't tell Marie was how I felt betrayed by Luke, I had told him this and he said that Sarah could make her own choices about her life. He didn't seem to care that his younger sister was being drawn in by Will. I also didn't mention that Will had caught Sarah watching and worked harder when he did.

"Nico," Marie sighed, and then she started fiddling with the ring on her left hand ring finger. Looking closely at it I saw that it was a ring made of Stygian Iron with a small single diamond on the top, an engagement ring. She looked like she was at a dilemma then she looked into my eyes and said "we started out the same way." I stared wide eyed at her and she said "it's true and you know it! I was drawn to you after you had only been here for a couple of weeks as a boy of six if I remember correctly. She likes him, is that so wrong? Look at us."

"That's different." I said quickly.

she glared at me "how?"

"He's human" I said scathingly.

She closed her eyes and said simply "that isn't why you hate him. You hate him because he's getting close to Sarah; you hate him because when he gets close to Sarah, he gets close to me as well." She opened her eyes and she looked hurt.

I didn't want to admit it, but it was true. Rose and Marie had been spending a lot of time with Will, while I didn't mind that Rose was hanging out with Will, however, I did mind that Marie was. Marie and I were already on rocky ground and I didn't want to lose her. Marie made me look into her brown-green eyes and she said to me softly "Will is sweet, Nico, but he's not you," she gave me a kiss on the lips and when she pulled away she said "I'm not going to leave you Nico, I meant what I said. I'm your for the rest of time."

I took her hand and looked into her eyes again "I'm sorry."

She smiled "I know, Nico, I know."

End Dream

I woke up and blinked at my alarm clock 5:30 am.

I groaned loudly. the dreams were really messing with my need to sleep.


Okay, first off I'm going to tell you that this series is going to be crossing over with The Dark is Rising Sequence and thank you to all of my reviewers especially ZoeNightshade2214. I was worried that no one would realize what I was crossing this over with. I think I'll be crossing it over with the movie but keep some of the qualities of the books. So I'm sorry if it's confusing. also I'm almost done with this story because I have no idea what to make them do for the rest of the summer and I don't think you'll want to see Nico dream for the next 5 chapters so the next chapter will be my last as for the rest of the series I'm going to give you a list of; the stories in the series, what order there in, what their state is currently, and where you'll be able to find them. By the way The Dark is Rising Sequence is under books and it's in the D's (just to make it easier for you to find

This is the List:

1. Battle of the Balance (In Progress) Percy Jackson & the Olympians / The Dark is Rising Sequence

2. Luke Castellan & the Princess of Light (Complete) Percy Jackson & the Olympians

3. Nico di Angelo & the Princess of Darkness (Complete) Percy Jackson & the Olympians

4. Will Stanton & the Princess of the Balance (In Progress) The Dark is Rising Sequence

5. The Second Battle of the Balance (Not Yet Written) Percy Jackson & the Olympians / The Dark is Rising Sequence