Maisie tossed the smooth rock in her palms a few times, lined it up and—
ka-sploosh
It sunk below the surface immediately.
"You can't skip rocks for shit," Percy laughed.
"Ok," Maisie said, rolling her eyes, "you're better than me at canoeing and rock skipping, congrats."
"Thanks, I-"
A howl broke Percy's train of thought. "Did you hear that...?"
"Yeah," Maisie whispered reaching to unsheathe her sword, but her hand air felt open air. She looked down to see she in fact did not have a sword on her. Nor did she have armor. Same with Percy.
"Perce, where's our armor?" Maisie said, dreading something bad was about to happen.
"I don't know," Percy said taking a step closer to her. They listened intently for any more noise.
Suddenly, a ginormous hellhound burst through the trees. Out came another. And another. All with gray fur and glowing red eyes. One swatted her away and all three viscous dogs closed in on Percy.
Something felt oddly familiar about this scene, but...3 hellhounds, Maisie thought. There shouldn't be 3.
Maisie watch in horror as one of the dogs pounced on her friend.
3...why's there 3...?
Percy cried out in pain.
Not real, Maisie realized. Not real!
Dream.
Dream.
Dream!
Maisie blinked hard and opened her eyes. The scene had changed. No creek. No hellhounds. No Percy. Just an endless black void.
It was a dream, she told herself to keep calm. You were dreaming.
Being surrounded by dark nothingingness definitely made it harder to stay calm. She walked forward, searching, hoping something would materialize out of the void. She continued to see only see black.
She thought the darkness would swallow her whole.
She did the cheesy thing she always recommended to her younger brother when he had nightmares. "Think of happy things." So she did.
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𝑳𝑶𝑵𝑮 𝑳𝑰𝑽𝑬 || 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒚 𝒋𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝒙 𝒐𝒄
FanficMaisie Kline didn't want to be a half-blood...but she is. So you might as well read her story. percy jackson x femoc 🩵 tlt: ✅ tsom: ✅ ttc: ✅ tbol:in progress tlo:... -cover art from @samdoesart on instagram