Earth and Delphi

I wake up. How many days!

I had that same exact dream I had with the boy again. When I woke up I was laying near a fire. Leo must've made it. There was a taco next me with a note.

Hello Sydney! We have gone to explore the island. We left you a taco to eat and some nectar. So you don't ask nectar is the drink of the gods. You hit your head pretty hard. Well Jason kind of electrocuted it, but all ends well!

                                                                                          ---Leo

Thanks Leo! It is just so nice to leave me a note that you guys are out exploring with me very confused. I ate the taco quickly and then drank some nectar. This stuff is amazing! The nectar tasted like warm chocolate chip cookies I used to have when I was little.
Cammie? Where are you?!
Exploring. Didn't you get the note?
Yeah, but where are you guys
Um...Where we were fighting each other. We are just looking for clues. Hold on I will tell them that you are awake.
I waited for about a minute until Cammie talked to me again through the link.
Nico's coming to you right now. He is practically running to you. Just wait a minute or two and he should be there with you.
Ok...
There was a silent between our thoughts. Two minutes later Nico came running towards me out of breath. I crossed my arms and popped out my hip.
"Sorry we were just looking for clues how that happened." Nico said still out of breath.
"I know. Cammie and me's empathy link." I said. "So did you guys find anything?"
"Yeah. I found an eidolon. They are these spirits that take control of people's bodies and make them do very bad things. It's all taken care of now though." Nico reassured me.
"Are you sure?" I asked.
"Yeah and plus Piper charmed spoke them to never coming near us ever again. So..."Nico said awkwardly. He put his hands into his pockets. "Is your umm... head ok now?"
"Yeah I'm fine now." I replied. I have a major headache but didn't want to tell him that. There was a tension between us and we started to walk towards the others on the other side of the island.
You know you should tell him about your headache.
Shut up Cam, I'm fine.
No you're not I can feel your headache.
Yeah well get used to it because I have headaches a lot.
Joy.
Nico could tell I was in thought. He must've known that I was talking to Cammie because he didn't say anything. Right when our friends were in sight Nico pulled me away to a large rock like cliff.
"Now can you tell me about your dream with that boy?" Nico said.
"Why?" I said.
Cammie please help me on this one.
"Because it looks like you are afraid of your dreams. You have Hypnophobia. If you don't tell them you will go insane." He told me.
"Wow you're so observative." I rolled my eyes.
"No this is serious. You'll go insane if you don't tell them." Nico said to me with concern in his eyes.
Just tell him your dream. He's right you should tell the dream.
Thanks Cam. Nice one. The thing is that if I do tell him he will not let me go or do anything.
Your right. At least that's better than going insane. Trust me I know. Hera is like the queen for insanity.
"You have to promise not to freak out about the dream." I said with wild eyes. "The end of it is very dark and very bad."
"Ok. I promise not to freak out." Nico said sitting down. I sat down next to him and told him about the dream with the boy in it. He stayed very calm for most of it but then started to ramble on how bad it is at the end.
"I know it is bad. What am I supposed to do now? It's not like I can change the future." I said annoyed from his rambling.
"It could be the future. If we take the right path."Nico said.
"Wow. Looky, looky at the Hades child that is speaking like a wise old man." I smirked.
"Well I'm really, like, seventy years old." he said like it was no big deal.
I was speechless about that sentence. How can Nico be seventy?! I just makes no sense at all.
"Oh I was trapped in a hotel that keeps the people from leaving and they never ages." Nico said. "I was let go because a Fury came to retrieve me and my sister..." A shadow crossed Nico's face. I wonder what happened to his sister...
I just asked Percy your question. Her name was Bianca and she died on her first quest.
Now I felt extremely bad for Nico. I could see the pain in his eyes. I didn't know what to do. I started to rack up a conversation.
"Don't worry I'll support you the best I can just like I did with Cammie." I said looking into his eyes.
He looked up at me and asked, "What happened?"
"Cammie's older brother died in a car crash like two years ago. That was when we met.It was at lunch one day and she looked upset and sat next to her making sure everything was ok. Then we just became friends." I told him careful not to think any of this or Cammie will get upset.
Upset about what?
Don't worry about it. I'm just talking to Nico.
There was no answer from Cammie and then continued to talk to Nico.
"I can relate to her a lot. Except that my older sister died from her first quest... She joined Artemis's hunt which they were made immortal if they swore off men. They would live forever unless they died in battle. Which Bianca did..." Nico said. I could see his eyes tear up. I kept on staring at him so he blinked them away. "Are you going to join the hunt?"
This question caught me by surprise. Did I want to? "No."
"Ok."He nodded. "I didn't know Cammie had an older brother." He said changing the subject
"Yeah." I nodded. "The sad part is, they couldn't find his body afterwards."
"Weird." Nico muttered, like he was thinking something.
"Yeah." I whispered.
"Where'd ya'll run off to?" Cammie yelled.
"Speak of the devil and there she is." I muttered.
"There you are!" Cammie cried, running towards us. Her hair was now in a ponytail, with her bangs clipped back in an intimidating plastic pink skull barrett. "Having some one on one time, hm?" She wiggled her eyebrows at me.
"Cammie, I am going to kill you. But I'll give you ten second head start."
"Ahh!" She screamed with a grin and turned running. I bolted after her, casing her towards the cave. Once I arrived, Cammie was standing in front with a smirk.
"I win."
I rolled my eyes. "Still won't go in?" Percy asked, approaching. Cammie's smirk wavered.
"Hades no. I will never, ever go in a cave again."
"Why, you scared or something?" Percy teased.
"Shut up, fish jesus!" Cammie yelled, her face red of embarrassment.
"No." Percy smirked.
"C'mon, seaweed brain." Annabeth sighed. "Cammie's gone through a lot, all having to do with caves." Percy shrugged and walked in.
"It's gonna get dark soon." Piper said, following Percy. "We should all head inside."
Cammie glanced nervously at the cave mouth. I gave her a reassuring smile even though I didn't want to go in there either.
"Cammie if you don't want to go into the cave I will stay out here too. I honestly don't want to go in anymore caves either." I said sitting down outside the cave.
"No... I guess I could go in the cave..." Cammie said unsure.
"Well I'll be staying out here no matter what. I will take first watch! I call dibs!" I said sticking my tongue out at Nico. Leo ran over from some unknown place and took Cammie's hand.
"C'mon, Princess." He started in, but Cammie kept her feet planted.
"No." She said, shaking her head. Leo gave me a questioning look, but I gestured him saying I would tell him later.
"It's ok." Leo smiled. Everyone went into the cave except Cammie and me. She fell asleep almost immediately. I sneaked into the cave to talk to Leo.
"Listen she's done with caves. The thing that happened in the cave when we were fighting the boy. It happened when we were first separated." I told him.
"That makes sense now." he said slapping his forehead. "Why didn't I think of that?"
"Because you have no common sense." Annabeth said. Only Leo and Annabeth was awake. Everyone else was sound asleep. I walked out of there in silence. I stayed awake. I heard Leo and Annabeth whispering to each other, but they finally fell asleep along with everyone else.
I started to hear things about the prophecies in Cammie's head. She must've been dreaming about them. I think she was talking to a lady. It sounded like Hera!
I tried my best to not listen to her dream. Then Nico walked out of the cave with his hands in his pockets.
"Nightmare?" I asked.
"Yeah." he told me. " I had a dream about Bianca..." Then he had very sad eyes.
I stood up and started to walk around. My legs felt like jelly, I haven't gotten up for almost the whole night. Nico walked around with me.
"Um... What happened to her in... your dream?" I asked not sure what to say.
"In my dream I saw her die. Right in front of me. At least for her real death I didn't have to see that. Now I have." Nico said. He moved a little closer to me. We walked back towards where I have been taking first watch.
"My turn for second watch." Nico said sitting down. I sat down next to him.
I yawned and said, "Whatever, Death Boy." He put his arms around me and I fell asleep with no nightmares. I did have a dream but as of right now it is not important at all. Maybe I will explain it later on. I woke up when I heard the fire's crackling and the air smelled of tacos.
I stood up and saw that Cammie was still sleeping while everyone else is awake. Nico was at the fire and left where I fell asleep. I sat by next to him again, and started to eat. Cammie started to stir and Leo ran over to her leaning over and said, "Hello."
"She's gonna punch you." I said really fast.
As if on cue she threw a punch at him in surprise, but Leo dodged it. Leo started to laugh.
"That's not funny!" She wined. "Listen if you ever scare me like that again next time I'll kill you!" Cammie's being evil again.
Leo continued to laugh. "No you won't. You love me to much." Then he kissed her. Percy, Annabeth, and Piper looked surprised. Meanwhile, Jason was giving a thumbs up saying things like 'That's my bro!'.  Nico and I was just used to this but we turned our heads away anyways.
I heard Cammie's thoughts. I blocked her out again because I don't want to listen to all of that mushy gushy stuff right now. Or ever. Seriously I know I said this like four times now but we gotta control this empathy link!
When they stopped the mushy gushy stuff they ate and started to take a walk on the beach. This time she kissed him.
Control that mushy gushy stuff Cammie! I don't wanna be listening to it!
Oh shut up. Just cause I'm actually kissing my crush and he's my boyfriend now doesn't mean you have to be mad about it. Just kiss Nico already.
I started to blush madly.
"Why are you blushing like that?" Percy said wiggling his eyebrows to me.
I threw my shoe at him, of course asking Annabeth if it was ok. And of course she said yes.
"What was that for?" Percy said rubbing his forehead.
"For making fun of me." I replied.
"All I asked was why were you blushing." Percy said.
"That is making fun of me. I wish I could do that to every bully Cammie and I had at school." I said.
"Can you name them all out?" Piper asked.
"It would probably take about three days to name them all. But to sum it up..." I said thinking. "All the snobbish girls, and almost every boy in the 8th grade."
Nico stayed quiet. Maybe because of his dream with his older sister.
"Wow that's a lot." Percy whistled.
"Yeah." I said hanging my head down.
"Two questions, Sydney." Jason said. "Did that fight that happened about three days ago happen in your dream?"
"THREE DAYS AGO?!" I yelled. "I was unconscious for two days?! I was awake yesterday. I didn't know that it was three days ago!"
    "Yeah and now answer my question." he said.
"Yeah. Now what is your second question?" I said more calm.
"Yeah. Do you have anymore dreams that we should all know about?" Jason said. "No." I replied giving a glance at Nico. He didn't say a word. Thank the gods on this one! Though he gave me a look like 'You have to tell them at some point. You're the one to tell.'
I stood up and walked away in the opposite direction of Cammie and Leo. I started to talk to myself making sure not to include anything in my head.
"When is Cammie and I gonna have a friendship crease? Wait! Maybe it has already started. Rhea is having the boy do all of her dirty work!" I said before running back towards everyone. Wow that was a very short walk for me.
"What's wrong?" Nico said.
"The prophecies! That's wrong! No more caves! Let's get off this island to a place where the boy can't get to anyone of us!" I shrunk my sword into my bracelet and picked up my notebook and looked at the prophecies on the marked page.

"Two of your own shall go to Rome,
The other two shall never go home.
The queen of Titans soul will cease,
By the daughter of Hera and Earth's friendship crease."

I circled the last two lines in the prophecy with a rock. The rock turned into a chalk like pencil. Thats pretty cool, I thought to myself...Or Cammie.
I started to float a rock about an inch from the ground. "What about the rest of us?" Annabeth asked.
"Well," Jason said. "I can fly, and I can carry one person. And depending on earth size Sydney can carry about five if that piece of earth would be large enough.."
"That leaves one..." Piper was cut off by Leo, yelling from the beach for them to come quick.
I arrived to the beach first, being the fastest. Cammie was alright but, her hands were covering her mouth, her eyes wide as she stared at something. Tears threatened to fall.
"What?" I asked, grabbing her shoulders. "What's wrong?" She only pointed.
"It's him." She whispered. "It's Vinny."