The Return of Evil | A Percy Jackson Fanfiction

=7= IS IT... CONTAGIOUS?

[A\N: Hello my fabulous readers! :3 Sorry for the wait, but anyway, we must have a dedication! And this chapter is dedicated to:

@123sema

For being the first person to add my story to her\his reading list! Thank you <3]

=PIPER'S POV=

"I'm sorry, I-I don't remember anything."

Percy's words hit me with the force of Apollo's sun chariot. No- scratch that. Harder than Apollo's sun chariot. It just couldn't be true. Percy was playing a trick on us, that's all. Yeah, that was it- this was all just a huge prank and-

"Um..." Percy said uncertainly.

I turned my gaze towards him. I felt everyone around me do the same.

Percy looked like he wanted to curl up in a ball and hide. The poor guy was scared. He had no memory and was probably really freaking out. He had leaves and twigs tangled in his already messy hair- most likely from falling out of that tree. His orange Camp Half-Blood t-shirt had a massive rip in it and he was covered in dirt.

Dirt.

A shiver ran down my spine. A flood of memories rushed back to me: I remembered Gaia's evil, physcotic grin as she watched Roman and Greek demigods alike, die right in front of her. I watched as the Argo II exploded in a shower of flames- with Leo still in it. I watched as Percy and Annabeth plunged into the pit that led to... Tartarus. More and more of my worst memories filled my mind.

Oh no.

I was brought back to reality by the horror of what was about to happen.

Flashback.

I hadn't told anyone about them- not even Jason. Not even Hazel, who used to have them and would probably be the best person to talk to. Ever since we destroyed Gaia, I'd been having flashbacks- they'd been getting worse and worse. I tried to keep it a secret. And so far it had been working. No one knew. No one needed to know. I didn't want to burden them with my problems. They all had their own issues to deal with- especially Percy.

But now, everyone was going to know. They would know that Piper McLean, the weak daughter of Aphrodite, needed help again.

As my vision started to turn black, I was dimly aware of Jason shouting to the others and Percy's terror-filled face.

"What's wrong with her?!"

"PIPER!"

"No, not her too!"

"BEAUTY QUEEN!" Guess who that was.

"Are Percy's nightmares contagious?!"

"Wait- who's Percy?"

"Dude it's you!"

Everything was rapidly becoming dimmer, until I could barely hear or see anything.

The last thing I heard was Gaia's maniacal laugh echoing around my head.

=PERCY'S POV=

Of course I had to be pulled back into this nightmarish world.

Nothing in my life ever goes right anyway.

Black. Black was all you could see for miles and miles. I surveyed the area- although there was nothing really to survey. The ominous dark color was everywhere. The only thing I could see was myself. Other than that, there was only Bla- okay, I think you get the idea.