Son of Chaos || Percy Jackson

Jiper

Percy POV

My eyes flew open in shock as I sat up immediately, only to feel a set of hands gripping onto my shoulders immediately. "Percy!" Amber's terrified voice called out to me, causing me to snap my wide eyes up to meet the tearful eyes of my terrified sister, the rest of the people in our cabin gathered around her in concern. "W-What-"

"You were screaming and crying out for us." Jason said in concern as Amber immediately lets out a terrified sob, pulling me into a tight hug as I slowly hugged her back, feeling my body being left in a layer of light sweat. "We've been trying to take you up for the last five minutes, but you didn't budge." He explained as I nodded slowly, feeling my eyes tear up as well as my arms tighten around my shaking sister. 

It was all a dream. I told myself as I buried my face into her shoulder, letting the tears slide down my cheeks as I took a few deep breaths to calm my thundering heart. It was all a bad dream. After a few minutes, I slowly pulled away from my sister, wiping the rest of my tears with my hand before I cupped her face in my hands, giving her a sad smile as she sniffles and tried to blink the tears away. "I'm sorry for scaring you." I told her quietly as I wiped her tears away from her face with my thumb. "I just...I had a bad dream."

"What to talk about it?" Silena offered as she leans against Beckendorf sleepily, to which I just stared down at my lap for a moment to gather my thoughts. Slowly I started to share my horrible dream, letting Jason use his powers to collect the sweats from my body and tossing it out the window, leaving me feeling cold from the wind instead. I told them everything, how I was being tortured and how End showed me all the scenes of what would happen if we continue with the mission. Amber had yet to move, her arms still wrapped around me as her head was tucked under my chin, my arms still wrapped around her firmly; using her as my anchor point to the real world. It was all just a terrible dream.

"End is probably trying to mess with you." Lee said after awhile, giving me a concerned once over as if he was trying to check to see if my body had any of the wounds that I said were inflected on me. "I mean, it's not that it hasn't happen before. Someone hijacking your dreams...best we can do is try to ignore it now." He explains, giving me a reassuring smile. "With you as our captain, there ain't not way we are going to go down without a fight. So why worry about the outcome of something we yet to know of yet?" He offered, his calm reasoning starting to calm me down as well as I nodded slowly. "Y-Yeah...you're right." 

So after a few more moments, and apologies from me, the rest started to leave my room; but not before giving me reassuring hugs and words of comfort as they left. Soon it was just Amber and I, who had shifted to the end of my bed to give rooms to others to comfort me. She gave me a soft and tired smile as she sniffles softly, getting up before she walks towards me; running a soft hand through my slightly damp hair. "Go to sleep, Perce...it was just a dream."

I nodded slowly at her words, slowly laying back on my best as she tucks the blanket around me again. She continues to run her hand through my hair in a soothing manner, causing me to start blinking sleepily at the action. Before I knew what was happening, my tired eyelids slid shut again, and finally I was welcome into the warm embrace of peaceful sleep, feeling myself relax more and more before I became numb to the rest of the world.

Amber POV

I had just walked out of the cabin with a mug of tea in my hands when I heard two men yelling, making me jump and almost spilling the hot water all over myself. 

"SQUIRREL!" Both Luke and Jason exclaimed before they ran after whatever that thing was, making me stare at their retreating backs with the most done expression I have ever muttered. "...you sure you want to choose that one?" Silena asked from where she was cuddling with Beckendorf underneath a tree, giving me a very confused look whilst I just took a long sip from my mug. "I am debating that myself." I sighed tiredly just as someone opened the door from behind me, Percy poking his head out the door with the most confused look on his face. "Did I just hear Luke and Jason screaming?"