The Mist's Misfortune: The Child of Wisdom

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    Nico slept the whole day. I didn't try to bother him and neither did Victoria.

Victoria thought I should also take a rest. I didn't want to but he insisted. So, I headed towards the room next to Nico's.

The design of the room was exactly the same as to the other room except for a single portrait above the bed.

A family portrait.

Before I got to study the portrait clearly, my eyelids felt heavy and I managed to get on the bed before I was engulfed into another dream.

I was in a school hallway.

The same hallway I have been walking on for a whole year.

    I saw the door next to me. It was the Science lab where Percy blew up his project oh so long ago.

    It seemed that it was just recently renovated.

    The door opened and a girl ran out of the room and into the hallway.

    Her jet black hair was tied into a messy bun that unraveled itself as she ran. And she ran like her life depended on it.

    As she ran, her fingertips released ice and snow, freezing everything in her way.

    Chasing after her was a dark figure that I couldn't see, as if the dream prevented me from doing so.

    The girl, with her hair now hanging loose on her shoulders, stopped running momentarily and focused her hands on her pursuer.

    It seemed that her trick has worked. She bought herself some time to catch her breath.

    She held a few strands of her hair. "Oh no." She said.

    They had turned into to a white-blondish shade.

"You cannot stall your fate, demigod." Her pursuer warned.

The girl tried to calm herself as she continued running across the hallway, heading straight towards the exit.

Before I could see what happened next, I was brought to another vision.

    There, I saw Percy running.

    "Percy!" I shouted at him. He ignored me.

    "Percy!" I called again.

    His hand twitched as if he had heard me but he continued running.

    I ran after him and tackled him yet I passed right through him. "What?"

Percy kept running. I turned behind me and saw a shadowed figure that I couldn't see clearly like the one from before.

"Annabeth!" Percy shouted in relief. I turned my head in surprise yet disappointed greeted me in the face.

Someone else was infront of him. A person that looked identical to me. I figured it was me but I was over here.

   "Trust is of utmost importance. Yet, do we know if the one we trust is the real one?" A voice echoed sinisterly.

I raced after Percy. "Percy! That's not me!"

    Percy turned at the last moment, right at the instant that my decoy turned into an enormous sludge of black.

    It screeched and grabbed him. I ran towards him yet I felt everything turn into mist.

    "Be careful of who you trust, daughter of Athena." A voice whispered as I slowly regained consciousness.