Wake Up (A Percy Jackson Fanfic)

The dreamer-Nico

"Alright, Nico, sit down or I can't tell you the story!" Bianca laughed. As I finally sat down, Bianca started. "There once was a man. He had dreams every night, but they weren't normal. He would fight to survive, and every morning, he would wake up and find a cut on his arm, where the monster in his dream had lashed at him. Eventually he realised one thing. If he died in the dream, he died in real life. It was a scary realisation, but he knew there was a way to beat this. In other words, he had to find a way to overwrite his dream. For days, he walked in the vast emptiness of his dream, which he had named, Arkenham. Finally, on the 17th night, he found a small village. He was overjoyed at the fact of seeing other life. As he talked to the people living there, he found out they were like him. Humans living in a dream. He asked them how they managed to survive, and they told him the answer was simple, but most people were afraid to use it. After finding the answer, he woke up. But the next night, he wasn't afraid of dreaming. When a monster approached him, he imagined that the monster just wasn't there. And sure enough, the monster turned to dust, swept away by the gentle breeze. He felt warmth behind him, and turned around. He was facing the sun. But everyone in Arkenham knew that there was no sun, only darkness. But by unlocking his true potential, he had found the way out of here. He stepped into the light, and he woke up again. But the next night he wasn't in Arkenham. He never dreamt about Arkenham ever again." When Bianca finished telling the story, she turned to the four year old me. I stared at her in wonder. She smiled, "But of course it's just a story."...