Percy was numb when Nico came by. Nico had tears in his eyes when he sat down next to him. Poor Nico, so young and he had lost both his sisters, his mom, and his friends. The only reason he was still hanging on, even if just by a thread, was because of Will Solace. At least he still had Will.
Percy was staring at the bottom of the lake, his feet in the water. Nico placed his arm on Percy's shoulder.
"Tomorrow is the funeral. You're coming right?" Nico asked with tears in his eyes.
"Yeah...yeah I have to, are you?" Percy breathed out, little more than a whisper.
"Yeah" Nico said.
They sat there until dark, then Percy and Nico went back to their cabins. Percy collapsed as he entered his room. He lay, crying on the floor until finally sleep took hold of him. His nightmares were as vivid as ever.
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"I will be back for you, you puny little demigod" Gaea said in a sleepy voice. "I am weak for now, but I will become strong again. You have already lost so many, even before me. Zoë, Luke, Charles, Selena. And now Jason, Piper, Leo, Hazel, Frank, and that annoying insignificant girl Annabelle."
"It's Annabeth." Percy said through gritted teeth.
"It won't matter when your dead." Gaea said replaying the scenes of his friends dying.
"Your friends hopes and dreams died with them, young hero. Leo will never find Calypso, Annabeth will never finish constructing Mt. Olympus, Jason will never find a camp to call home, Piper will never outlive her strive against Aphrodite and her constant fashion critics, Frank will have been burned in the end despite his fear of fire, and Hazel will never catch up with the future always, to be haunted by her past." Gaea taunted while Percy watched the images of his friends flash through his mind. As Percy heard her list the names, new wounds were reopened from years ago. Zoë, Charles, Selena, Luke. And the new wounds that hadn't even started to scab over, started pouring blood again.
"You can never escape me, demigod, I will always haunt you. Forever."
As Percy awoke with a start, he decided that his friends might not be able to fulfill their dreams, but there was nothing stopping Percy from accomplishing them for them.
AUTHORS NOTE: This is my first fanfiction and I don't know how to do everything yet like bold and italicize my writing yet and it's REALLY frustrating but hopefully I'll figure it out soon. Thanks for reading and please vote and comment! Also, see even if I kill of some (actually almost all) of the characters I still let solangelo live on (please don't kill me for killing everyone)
authors note from the future: please excuse how cringed this is i am trying to fix it but can i ever really
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FanfictionIt's after the war with Gaea and everything is ok, except only one of the seven survived: Percy. He can barely bare to live with the memories of his friends death, and he blames himself for it. Now he has to try and rebuild his life, starting by fin...
