Aqualad (Aquagirl Companion)

3

"Ready or not here I come!" I yelled and opened my eyes. I swam around the room, looking in every place I could think of.

I did not find a single person in the three minutes I was searching before our teacher came back into the room.

She swam over to me and picked me up. She carried me over to one of the cots.

"Nap time everyone." She laid me down.

Everyone slowly came put from where they were hiding. Kaldur came over and laid next to me. We cuddled together and we both said thank you as a blanket was laid over us.

"Sweet dreams Percy." Kaldur kissed my cheek.

"To you as well." I closed my eyes with a smile on my face.

I fell asleep without a problem.

Then something woke me up.

My eyes shot open and I sat up. Two big sea serpents were in front of my face, mouths open.

I giggled and wrapped my hands around them. I started playing with them, but soon after they stopped moving.

Not to say I stopped playing with them, I kept shaking them.

"Snakey! Snakey! Wake up Snakies!" I smiled.

A yawn came from beside me. "Sister? Percy!" Kaldur yelled, pulling the snakes out of my grip and throwing them away from us.

He pulled me into a tight hug, one hand keeping my face pressed to his shoulder. "It is okay. It is okay. You are safe."

"What is all the-" Our teacher stopped talking, probably when she saw the snakes. "Everybody outside! Now!"

Kaldur did not release me, instead choosing to carry me.

When he let me go, I turned to see our teacher swimming back and forth and back and forth.

She was speaking quietly and running her hands through her hair.

"What's wrong?" I looked up at Kaldur.

"Those were some of the things Mommy warned us about." He said, looking around. "I do not know if there are any more of them."

I tilted my head. "They did not seem scary."

"You killed them, Percy. You ended their lives without an issue."

I floated, trying to figure out what he meant.

I frowned. "Does that make me a bad person?" Tears welled in my eyes. "Like Ocean Master?"

Kaldur quickly shook his head. "No! You did not do it purely because you wanted to!"

"But I still killed them..."

He wrapped his arms around me. "It is okay. You were not trying to kill them were you?"

I shook my head. "No."

"Then it does not matter." Kaldur held me in the hug until I stopped trying to pull away.

"Everybody go play while I call your parents."

Kaldur let go of me. He grabbed my hand, pulling me towards the playground.

"Do you wish to finish our game?" He asked the other kids.

"Can we talk about how she was playing with serpents?" A boy crossed his arms.

"There is no reason we need to speak of it." Kaldur sat on a bench, pulling me to sit with him.

"Then we will not play any games with you."