Nico's p.o.v
Percy was having another nightmare, he screamed and thrashed in his bed on the other side of the room, we shared a cabin now. We choose my cabin not for the fact that it is far less pleasant to live in than Percy's but because I had made it soundproof for nightmares like what Percy is having now. In these nightmares which me and Percy have they are often flashbacks of the second titan war were all our friends died, all of the seven were killed by giants Jason smashed, piper fell down a cliff after being chased for miles, Leo dunked into a vat of boiling metal, frank suffocated when he was strangled, Hazel burned to death in my arms and Annabeth stabbed in the stomach with her own dagger.
I ran to the bathroom and grabbed a bottle of cold water and a pot of ice and ran to pour them onto Percy, the cold shock instantly woke him and he froze and then started to sob. Percy curled up into a ball in the middle of the bed and shook as he remembered all those people who died "I...I could h..h..have done somethi..ng t..they di..dn't have to d..ie." Percy muttered while sobbing into the bed covers. I sighed "you did everything you could Percy, they wouldn't have wanted you to sacrifice your own life from them when they had already made their choices. You had to respect that and now try to move forward with your life." We had had this talk many times and I already knew this answer. "b..but I could have done s..omething to help them" he had stopped crying a bit now "a..annabeth wouldn't.. " I interrupted him "she wouldn't want you to do this almost every night, she would want you to remember her and all the good times but in the end move on and live the rest of your life and do all the things she couldn't" Percy had calmed down now and sat up in his bed. "thank you, Nico," was all he said and then went to take a shower. I went back to my bed and collapsed. Looking at the time I saw that it was only a hour till the breakfast bell, Percy will be in the shower that long, we didn't technically need to sleep but percy like to still feel like we are human and I just pretend to be asleep then when he is get on with doing stuff in the cabin.
Oh, I forgot to mention that after the second titan war when all our friends died, we were made Gods. Wow what a big honour you are saying but for us who were given no choice it is hell. Percy is a major God of the sea and swordsmanship while I am now the heir to the underworld and god of Greek fire, Percy now has even more enhanced water abilities, can grant another person underwater breathing and can bless someone's sword skills. I being the Heir to the Underworld have command under hades when I am there and am sometimes called in to take my fathers place in the judges platform to judge were the dead go when he is busy, and I can control and summon Greek fire. And we never tire using our powers anymore.
Percy got out of the shower right as the breakfast bell rings and we get dressed to go and face what is left of the camp, I wear a black top, jeans and my bomber jacket. There was a long walk to breakfast and all the new demigods stared at us as the older ones just looked sad, there has been a massive influx of people recently as more and more gods are claiming their kids but we are still well under half of the amount of campers we had before the war.
When we got to breakfast the cabin tables were once full of life and chatter looked empty and sad. Percy and I now being Gods did what we wanted and sat together on the Posidon table and i just watched everyone else chatting and percy eating his blue pancakes. We will be going to Percys mums soon, sally is great and even though we don't fit in at camp halfblood any more she said we would always be welcome at her house. "Nico are you going to eat anything?" Percy asked but he knew the answer "no im not hungry percy" "you need to eat something" he insisted every day. I haven't really eaten much since the jar and gods don't even need to eat, Percy just enjoyed it. "No, im fine I don't need to" percy sighed know i have a point and finished his food. "Well shall we go to training then?" He asked, everyone questioned why we still went when we were gods but well... we wanted to still be a part of the camp and by we i mostly mean percy and he drags me along. Today was a high up obstacle course I looked up at it sceptically (zeus still hates me) but percy was confident it would be fine, I made him go first. On the second challenge he was blasted out the sky by lightning and fell about 50feet to the ground. That would have killed any normal mortal person, but we weren't mortal anymore. People hadn't seen who fell just someone falling and a crowd ran over to help but i just stood there looking down at percy laid on the floor looking a bit sheepish with a raised eyebrow and said "oh yes it will totally be fine zeus totally doesn't still hate us" my voice laced with sarcasm "that is why i made you go first"
