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Bianca startles, eyes blinking in confusion when she sees she was in a gymnasium at her old school... days before her death, the school with Dr. Thorn the Manicorn she can see him staring at her and Nico hungrily. Bianca doesn't know why she was here, she was on her way to rebirth heading for the door, then the moment she had gotten to the river of Lethe, something a bright white flashes in her vision then it was gold and then Bianca felt like she was falling into the river. Then she was here, or well felt like she was shoved in this body, she would say it's her brain trying to make her relive her past to actual rebirth before she gets her new life, or it was a dream that was a product of her head hitting the ground and when she looks at her wrist as her brother rambles about Mythomagic, there was a black bracelet on her wrist that had a multitude of charms on it.
Bianca looks around and she can spot Grover, Percy, Annabeth, and Thalia easily. They were dancing, and she debated going up to them and just staying away from Dr. Thorn, but he stalks towards them, and Thorn grabs her arm and the Nico’s and for the first time since she came to be in this new dream she was scared. Bianca does go along with Thorn; she doesn't think she’ll escape but she does shake her head hard enough that her hat falls from her head. Leaving a sign for the others to track her down. Bianca tugs anxiously on her new bracelet, and she sees the glints of the charms of the bracelet, they seem to be modeled after weapons she sees people used at the camp and the hunters.
The bracelet was such a strange new feature, she never had a bracelet like that in her original life, so she has no idea why she does in this dream, and it was a dream because it definitely wasn’t a part of her original life, so it had to be a dream. She looks over to Nico and sees him walking beside her, his deck of cards in his hand, and he is shuffling it nervously, and with a glance behind her she sees a card trail on the ground. If it was on purpose then she would be impressed, if it was on accident, then that's how Percy had found them beforehand.
The urge to pull a charm screams at her, but then she hears Percy coming towards them, he was jogging and the glow of his sword was lighting up the way, giving him away to Thorn. Thorn seeing the glow as well had disappeared from sight and into the shadows just as Percy had gotten to them. Thorn was waiting for the time to strike and Percy was his target.
Percy speaks the moment he sees them. He was advancing towards them slowly and cautiously “It’s okay, I'm not going to hurt you”
Bianca had stared at him for a moment processing those words, and she felt a strange version of deja vu, she felt like she had to scream, had to protest, had to protect.
"My name's Percy," He said, his voice was a a calming soothing tone and it seemed to have worked on Nico slightly even though he was afraid of Thorn still "I'm going to take you out of here, get you somewhere safe."
Nico was staring into the shadows with wide panicked eyes, and Bianca looks over for a moment at Percy and opens her mouth
“Look out” she screams, and just in time Percy dodges the spine that Thorn had thrown at Percy, Percy gives her a thankful smile, and raises his sword, Riptide. Nico makes a noise of pure awe to him that was awesome.
“Ahh yes Perseus Jackson, I know who you are and it's a shame the girl warned you in time” Thorns accent was quite thick, he was still in his human form just like how it went during the first time, but the words were new, she guesses she can affect her dreams minorly, but it still doesn’t explain why she is having this dream to begin with, the flashes of light had happened moments before. While she was think Thorn had thrown several more of the spines like projectiles, and while Percy had deflected several of them, one had pierced Bianca’s side, it had burned, so very much, the pain engulfed her senses, and she heard distinctively Nico gasp and cry out, he was clinging to her arm, and Thorn was tsking in disappointment, and she can taste blood in her mouth, she must’ve bit her lip or tongue, to stop a scream, it wasn’t as bad as dying though.
Bianca spits out the blood, more was still pouring out from her mouth but she watched how Thorn had recoiled. The burn seems to slowly fade away, but her body seems to light in excitement, then she realized she was covered in shadows, and her wound was trying to heal up around the spine, she pulled it out and watched how the wound was stitched up by the shadows. She felt more alive then before, and then she realized the pain felt more real than it normally did in her dream-like states. Was she actually alive again?
Bianca had been given a second chance, and she was going to make it worth it, and make it everyone else's problem… the first being Thorn who she thinks she’ll at least make him regret trying to kidnap her and her brother
A spine getting thrown centimeters from her face, startles out from her thoughts, and her grip on the one in her hand tightens, to where her knuckles were white. She was so very tempted to just stab Thorn in the face with his own spine or perhaps just punch him hard, after everything he had put the questers through she thinks he deserves it.
"All three of you will come with me," Dr. Thorn said. "Quietly. Obediently. If you make a single noise, if you call out for help or try to fight, I will show you just how accurately I can throw. I only need to keep the di Angelo siblings alive, your however Perseus I can kill"
Percy stares for a moment, a million thoughts are probably going through his head, and Percy gives a small sigh and starts to follow Thorn’s order. As they start to walk forwards, Bianca can feel Percy's eyes on the wound that she was supposed to have, and Nico was clinging to her, scared and worried.
Bianca breathes in deeply, a fake version of a pain filled gasp. Something that catches the attention of the other three.
“Shut it girl” Thorn snapped at her, duel colors eyes were narrowed at her annoyed
Bianca whimpers in pretend pain “Sorry sir, it's just my side, it burns” she had done her best to sound like a scared, in pain little girl even though she had just wanted to stab Thorn so much. She blinks confused for a moment on where that violent thought had come from, it wasn’t like her at all.
Thorn laughs harshly “The poison just hurts girl, it won’t kill you even if you wish it did”
Thorn guides us all outside, the transition from smooth floors to crunchy snow was nonexistent. Each step brings them closer and closer to the cliff, and if the others don’t get there soon, then Bianca will have to find a way to keep Nico safe, Percy was able to fend for himself, he would survive. When she looks over at Percy, his face scrunches up in concentration and then she remembers the link Grover and Percy have between. He was trying to contact the others, which means soon they will come for them.