Chapter 6 Powers of dreams

Will ran as hard as he could when he had finally located Nico, but his heart almost stopped when he saw him fall to the ground in pain and pass out. "Nico!" he cried out desperately as he ran to reach his boyfriend who now lay on the ground unmoving.

Will felt as though his heart would shatter from just looking at the state Nico was in, this was only supposed to be a dream but Nico looked like he had really been through literal hell and Will wondered if his healing powers could help him here.

"Nico please stay with me! Please open your eyes! Please Nico, please!" Will's eyes filled with tears as he picked up Nico's hand and held it close to his own chest as he knelt on the rocky ground next to his unconscious boyfriend and his mind raced as fast as his heart while he tried to figure out what he could do to heal the very real seeming damage that Nico had sustained while trapped within this nightmare.

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Back in the Hades cabin at camp, Will and Nico lay side by side on the two beds, both of them seeming to be in pain and were unresponsive to anything the others had tried to do in order to reach out to them, even Piper's Charm-speak couldn't penetrate the hellish nightmare that ensnared them.

"What do we do now?" Piper asked after another failed attempt at reaching their friends, she looked over at Annabeth but the daughter of Athena seemed just as lost as the rest of them.

They all looked over at Clovis who had tried once more to dive back into the dream scape to try and reach the two boys, but he didn't appear to be getting anywhere either.

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Clovis wondered around in the empty dream scape trying his best to try and reach out to either Nico or Will. Normally he had no problem finding people in dreams but he was being blocked now and he had never felt so frustrated or useless as he did right now. He was a son of Hypnos and this was supposed to be his domain but still he felt so lost.

But he pressed on as best he could. That is until the shadows condensed around him and unnatural, uncontrollable fear began to consume him, suddenly there was a terrifying beast like growl before something lunged at him-

The next thing Clovis knew he was wide awake and sitting in the chair he had fallen asleep in in Nico's cabin. Sweat ran down his face and neck as he tried to get his breathing under control once more and the others watched him with concern.

"Any luck?" Percy asked once Clovis was able to catch his breath, but Clovis only shook his head in response.

Everyone was quiet now; no one knew what to do or what they could do at this point.

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"Is he okay?"

Will looked up at the girl standing beside where he was kneeling while cradling Nico in his arms. She was dressed like the Hunters of Artemis and carried a silver bow and arrows in a quiver over her shoulder. She reminded him of Nico so much that he knew that she must be his late sister Bianca di Angelo who had died while on a quest back when Nico had first been brought to camp.

"How are you here?" Will asked in a small voice, Nico had told him about how Bianca had been in Elysium and had chosen to be reborn, so then how was she here in this dream seeming as real as they were?

She seemed to ignore his question as if he hadn't even spoken to begin with; instead she knelt down beside him and ran a hand through Nico's hair and brushing it out of his face. "He's in so much pain…" she said and Will knew that she was sincerely worried about Nico just as he was.

"He's reliving his journey through Tartarus; no one would be okay after that." Will said. He had done all he could to heal the damage Nico had suffered, though with this being a living nightmare he wasn't too sure how long it would last.

Will stood up and lifted Nico into his arms and held him close as if hoping to shield him from any further pain that just being there would cause, he didn't know what else he could do since he wasn't even armed.

"We need to find somewhere…" safe didn't seem like the right word, not in this place, "somewhere to rest."

Bianca nodded and together they set out to find someplace that they could rest and keep an eye out for danger, not that there was any shortage of that here.

Will just hoped that if Nico was unconscious inside of this nightmare that it would stop his mind from experiencing anything else, was it possible to dream inside a dream like this? They were demigods so maybe even that was possible, Will hoped not because Nico needed rest now more than ever.

Okay, Sorry sorry sorry for the wait and sorry for this being kind of short. Also I will eventually explain Bianca's presence and how that works so I hope this is okay, it's supposed to add mystery and suspense to the story, I hope it's working anyway.

And just so you know, because the power of the nightmare is so strong Nico is slowly losing his grip on reality and so he really believes that this is all real thus adding to his pain (Sorry my baby you don't deserve this!) but Will isn't the intended target so the affects aren't as strong on him.

As always, Please let me know what you think! I love hearing from you and if you spot anything I need to fix I'd love to hear about it!