Discontinued!The Queen Of The Sea And The Dead {Nico x Reader}

Ch. 10

As day soon turned to night. I left the Stoll Brothers and went to my cabin. It felt weird to share a cabin with someone not Candace. As I tired to sleep since I needed it, but I couldn't fall asleep. It didn't help that I had just been out for three or four days. "Maybe a walk will help." I put on some shorts since I can't really sleep with pants on as well as some shoes so I wasn't walking barefoot around camp. I carefully exit the cabin so I don't wake Percy, but he seemed to be out cold. I sigh softly as I walk outside. "This place is actually pretty silent when no one is awake."

I wander around the camp with no destination in mind. "Late night stroll?" I look to my side to see Candace. "Yeah. Why are you up?" She shrugs as she walks beside me, but I know it's because she's still not use to this even though this is what she wanted. "I see. How is it in paradise?" Candace rolls her eyes as she gently shoves me. "It's not paradise. Though this place is cool. I know you were overwhelmed at first, but I'm sure you'll grow to like it." Of course she would say that. Candace had this tendency to say things to make me feel better when in reality she was just reassuring herself of things. It's something she's done since we were children and it bugs me because she's gotten me to do it sometimes without realizing it. "You still haven't been claimed." I looked at her confused as she disrupted my train of thought. "What? What does... Being claimed what?" I couldn't wrap my thoughts around what she just said. "It's where our god parent claims us so everyone knows who's child we are." I nod slowly nod completely understanding what she said.

Being claimed by a god or goddess sounds stupid. Why should it matter who your parent is or isn't. They should be happy with who is in their lives not those who aren't. It seems stupid, but some would disagree. Though I can see why they would disagree. I just think people should be happy with what they have and cherish those close to them because they'll never know when someone will leave your life and you'll never get them back. Most don't understand, but what should I expect.

I had been so lost in my thoughts that I hadn't noticed that Candace left. "Oh, I'm alone now. Now what was I thinking about." I softly exhale as I try to remember what I was thinking about. "I guess it wasn't that important to remember at this time." I look ahead to see the beach coming into view. "I guess I'm just naturally drawn to the water." I walk quicker to the sand without realizing it. Once my shoes hit the sand, I slip my feet out and onto the sand. I walk closer to the water as I clear my head which isn't too difficult. "Alright (Y/n). You can do this." I stand there with the water up to my ankles. I slowly close my eyes as I take some deep breaths. I carefully and slowly raise my arms. As my arms rise water slowly floats up. I move my arms from left to right in a cautious manner. I open my eyes to see the water floating up while still being connected to sea. "No way." I smile as I close my eyes again. I try imagining the water separating from the sea and forming a ball. My arms move to make what I'm thinking. I open my eyes to see the water forming a ball while separating from the sea. "This is so cool!" As I say that the water loses its shape and falls back to the sea where it came from. I groan and try it again. I do this all night so I can show the others what I can do. As night turned to day the others start waking up while I am still out in the water practicing. I am so focused that I'm oblivious to what is happening with the others.

"Where is she? Have any of you seen her?" A worried Candace asks her friends at breakfast. I had not shown up to breakfast and this is worrying Candace. Percy is confused thinking she was at breakfast since she wasn't in their cabin. "I didn't see her when I woke up this morning. She didn't run away last night, did she?" Candace shook her head as she looks at Percy. "No. She did go on a stroll last night. I'm not too sure where she went to when I walked back to my cabin." She started biting her on her nails and the skin beside it out of a bad nervous habit. "I'm sure she's fine Candace." Alex reassures her as he places his hand on her shoulder. "If you're truly worried we can check everywhere in camp." He smiles sweetly at Candace as he hesitantly removes his hand from her shoulder before he goes back to eating. That action goes unnoticed by Candace, but the others see it. "Alex do you-" Percy is interrupted by Annabeth. "I think the best thing to do now is to eat. If she is anywhere in the camp I'm sure she's probably near a body of water. She is Poseidon's daughter after all, even if he hasn't claimed her." Candace nods slowly as she looks at her food. She hesitates a bit before eating her food. She tries to not worry too much, but she can't help it.

Once they all finish eating, they separate to search for me. I am in the water, that is up to my waist, or should be to my waist if I didn't have it pushed back. I am concentrating on how to separate water, but it's taking a lot out of me since I've been doing this from dusk to dawn. "(Y/n)!" That's when all of my concentration on the water disappeared and shifted to whoever was calling out to me. As I lose concentration the water all comes rushing towards me, which knocks me down from the force. Luckily I could keep the water from soaking me completely. I pop up out of the water as I look at who had distracted me. "Oh my," Hazel rushes over to me with Frank, "Are you okay?" She asks as they help me up. "Yeah just a little sandy. I'll be fine." I ran a hand through my hair, gently shaking my hair to make sure there isn't any sand in it. We get out of the water and stand in the sand. "So what do you guys need?" I ask nonchalantly as I take my hand out of my hair. I also make the water, that made their clothes wet, go back to the sea so they are dry. "Oh right! Candace is looking for you. She is super worried that you didn't come to breakfast." I let out an annoyed sigh as I make my way into camp. "She's such a worry wart. I can't do anything without her worry about me." They follow after me quietly.

We meet up with others. Candace rushes over to me and hugs me tightly. "Don't scare me like that!" I roll my eyes as I push her away. "Seriously Candace? Did you really think I was going to leave camp? I have nowhere to go! This is the only place I have. I'd rather be stuck with all of this nonsense than be out trying to find some sort of home!" Candace seemed taken aback by the anger. "I..." I raise my hand to stop her. "No. Don't even. I'm sick and tired of everyone deciding who I am, where I belong, what I can and can't do!" I yelled, but my tiredness started to get the best of me. I felt quite dizzy and felt like I am falling. I guess I was because something, more like someone, caught me. I look at the boy from when I woke up. "Whoa there, are you alright?" I lean against the blonde boy. "I just need to rest a bit. I guess pulling an all-nighter wasn't a great idea." The boy sighs and picks me up. I blush lightly as I rest my head on his shoulder. "You look like the sun. Are you an Apollo kid?" I giggle as if I was tipsy. "Is she okay?" Percy asks to no one in particular. "She's tired and hungry." Candace responds as I keep giggling. "I'm starving. Take me to eat!" The boy laughs and hands me to Percy. "I can't take you to eat, but Percy can." I pout as I watch the boy walk away. "Bye William Solace! Till we meet again!" He waves a bit while walking away.