Mortals meet Percabeth (and others)

Hazel's Power AU

Power AU part 3 this time it's Hazel's turn and like the other one I saw this as a head cannon on instagram that I fleshed out and if you haven't read the first one or the second one or the head cannons then they can be quite dark (this one in particular) so I'm putting up a trigger warning for those who need it to read with caution but I hope you enjoy it regardless

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 Power AU

NO MIST

The fourteen year old daughter of Pluto shook her head as tears streamed down her face getting caught in her chocolate brown hair. Why had she been the one to find Piper? Her body all mangled and almost unrecognisable the only thing that identified the body as the daughter of Aphrodite was a single feather laying in the mud and her choppy brown hair as the eyes that were once ever changing colour were now lifeless and gritty as they stared at the stormy sky overhead 

Hazel shook her head her as tears fell down her cheeks, she didn't know what she do, she was just a child for god's sake, they all were for God's sake and yet they always find themselves facing misery and pain no matter what was happening or where they tried to go 

Choking back a sob Hazel fell to her knees and she reached over Piper's dead and mangled body to close her eyes at least if she did that, Hazel figured that the she could pretend the daughter of Aphrodite wasn't in pain anymore 

At least she'll be with Percy Hazel tried to reassure herself 

But that thought brought no comfort to the girl as she tried to collect herself and get to her feet, she knew what she had to do, go back to Camp and inform the others of Piper's tragic demise, nobody wanted to ignore the charm speaker on purpose but they were left with no choice as every word that came out of  her mouth was so powerful and riddled with charm speak that they didn't know when she was telling the truth and or whether she was trying to convince them she was telling the truth 

So they thought it best that they just to ignore her

Hazel could see now that that wasn't the right decision 

"Chiron!" Hazel panted as she burst into the Big House, doubling over in order to catch her breath before she looked up to the half horse panic and horror laced in her eyes "I-I was in the woods and I-I--"

A sob got caught in Hazel's throat and she found herself unable to complete the sentence, Chiron saw this and due to this his eyes widened slightly but he was able to keep a calm face for the most part as he put a calming hand on Hazel's shoulder "Speak child, tell me what's wrong" 

"Piper's dead" Hazel eventually rushed out 

Panic immediately spread across Chiron's face and he immediately looked at Hazel just to make sure she was telling the truth and while Chiron didn't doubt that the young teenager was telling the truth and he immediately trotted into the woods wide the young daughter of Pluto stumbling after the centaur 

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It had been a few months since Hazel had found Piper's mangled body in the woods killed by a variety of monsters and Hazel had took the death especially hard because while she believed Piper to be the older sister she never had, the two of them hadn't been especially close like Piper and Jason or Piper and Percy but she had been the one to find the dead body and she had been having nightmares about it ever since 

Sometimes she would see Piper's dead corspe walking over to her and screaming at her to rescue her and Hazel would stutter and stammer over her words the haunting nightmare of the walking corpse burnt into her brain and she would scream and scream until her voice ran course  , other times it was the coffee skinned girl how she usually would and the two of them would spend hours talking to each other and it was like she had never died

But of course she had and the other campers knew this 

The campers didn't know what to do with the daughter of Pluto who was imagining the images of her dead friends and it only got worse as the months went on and so while they had tried to stay beside her side at the beginning, she wasn't getting any better and while the visions were getting worse she would lash out at some go the campers that were trying to help so eventually they just gave up

A sob caught in her throat as Hazel caught another vision of Piper -- it was a bad one this time -- her eyes were lifeless and dull and was almost white and her choppy uneven hair was clumped with mud and blood and her once tanned skin now had a greenish tint to it and was rotting 

"Hello Hazel I see you're getting no better, have you always been this weak?" Piper asked tauntingly, a wicked smile spreading across her face as she advances on Hazel and Hazel flinched at the words "You couldn't save your mother and you're half brother had to pull you out of Elysium because you couldn't even do that yourself. You are weak."

"No" Hazel whispered falling to the ground on her knees

"What you don't like the truth? That's what you are and this is what you've made me I'm nothing more than rotting flesh and a walking corpse you could have saved me. I didn't have to end up like this but because you weren't a little bit quicker this is how I ended up" The vision Piper taunted, and part of Hazel knew that this Piper wasn't real that her words were just meant to hurt the girl and yet the way her eyes flashing dangerously in Hazel's direction made everything seem all too real  

 "It's not my fault" Hazel cried, as she covered her face with her hands trying to make herself as small as possible. She could still feel Piper's eyes burning into her and she could feel more tears leaking out of her molten golden eyes down her cheeks and ending at her jawline where one single tear dropped onto her purple t-shirt

"Leave me alone" Hazel sobbed, curling up into a ball "Leave me alone"