Daydreams and Nightmares

It was the last day I had to be in the infirmary. I sat on a bed in the infirmary, I was reading a book on the greek gods to pass the time. I was trying to find more about my dad, Hades. I knew the story of how he'd made Persephone his wife very well since my mom had always wanted me to read stories about Hades. I'd never understood why, until now.

I wore a black and white sweatshirt that said: You're Somebody Else by flora cash another favourite of mine and black jeans.

It had been a long three weeks since I had gotten claimed. I'd been at camp for almost a month. I'd made five friends, four Demigods and a satyr. Sadly August the satyr had to go look for more Demigods, Alex was busy with a small quest and Will was busy doing other things. The only friend that was free was Juniper, I was fine with that.

But for now, I was alone in the infirmary, apart from the two other kids, one was from the Hermes cabin who had pranked the other kid an Ares kid. The prank had gone wrong and both had been injured.

I set my book down and laid back on my bed at least it wasn't as cramped as the Hermes cabin. I sighed and closed my eyes, maybe sleeping won't be as boring. Soon I was asleep, dreaming.

In the dream, I saw Juniper, Alex, August and myself helping a kid. We were defending them from some monster but I couldn't see it. I realized we were all older at least a year older. August was running along with the two Demigods back to camp while we three Demigods defended them against monsters.

Juniper wore blue jeans, an orange Camp Half-Blood shirt and a jean jacket that had random spots of red. Alex wore some light blue jeans and a dark green sweater. I realized my older self had short hair that reached above my ears. I wore a black sweatshirt that had been cut by something with claws on my right sleeve and back, they revealed claw marked scars.

"You two get back!" Alex snapped slicing with his sword making a monster vanish into dust.

"No! We won't leave you!" Juniper responded and a monster lunged at her.

My older-self blocked the attack with my sword and took down the monster by stabbing it with my knife it turned into dust. "Alex we're not leaving you whether you like it or not."

"Fine, I guess we-"

Alex stopped when he saw something in the distance. His green eyes widened. "Peck, you can summon some skeletons right?"

I nodded.

"We're gonna need them," Alex said as the dream started drifting off.

The last thing I saw from the dream was a monster that I'd faced before. The bloodcurdling roar echoed through the dream as I woke up in a cold sweat. The roar echoed in my head as I sat up.

"Your awake, that's great," Juniper said. She wore a golden sweatshirt and blue jeans, her hair was up in a braid.

I took a deep breath trying to calm down.

"How's your ankle?" Juniper asked.

"It's fine."

"Good, how are you?"

"I'm... fine."

"You don't sound fine, let me guess, a nightmare?"

"How'd you know?"

"You talk in your sleep."

"Oh."

"Don't worry we all get them sometimes."

"Really?"

"Yep, the dreams are either just nightmares or warnings. Do you want to talk about it?"

"No, not really, sorry." A chill ran up my spine.

"Alright then, let's get you outside for dinner." Juniper took my hands and stood me up.

Juniper and I walked/limped together to the Dining Pavillion. Most of the kids had returned to their homes for the fall and winter. I had decided to stay at Camp Half-Blood because I knew my mom would just be busy all day every day.

Six Hermes kids sat at their table, four Aphrodite children sat at their table. Five Apollo children including Juniper and WIll sat at their table, seven Ares kids sat at their table shooting small glares at the Hermes kids. At least four Athena kids were chatting at their table and three Hephaestus kids were arguing about some machine. Three Demeter kids sat at their table while the Dionysus table had two kids chatting quietly amongst themselves. The Zeus, Artemis, Hera, Hestia and Poseidon tables stayed empty and I sat alone at the extra table that was now named the Hades table. We scraped part of our meal for our godly parent when our table was called.

I prayed to my dad for guidance and sat down at my table again. I didn't bother eating all my dinner, I wasn't hungry. I thought back to when I saw my Socials Studies teacher, the way her eyes were grey and then I remembered, the Athena children have grey eyes. Was there a possibility that was a child of Athena? Or was it... no that's impossible, right? It couldn't have been Athena, no way in Hades was that possible.

A few kids from the other cabins were looking over at me, I looked up and realized what I'd done. The ground around me was dead and I was engulfed in shadows. I muttered a curse in ancient greek and calmed down, the shadows disappeared and the ground changed back to its original dead green. Overthinking was a serious problem for me, I'd had it since fourth grade. I always got very anxious and would overthink every situation.