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Prologue
Percy's POV
'Welcome class.' Mrs. Hotchkins said cheerily. That's odd. She's never this cheerful. Mrs. Hotchkins was a 30 year old woman teaching Marine Biology. She was a way too cheery for her own good teacher. After the Giant War, Annabeth and I had gone our separate ways to graduate from high school. She went off to Yale, one of the best schools in the world. She was smart enough to pass the entrance test and she skipped a grade or two. I wasn't so lucky. I still had to finish studying at Goode High, which I got held a year back, simply because I missed a school year for being one of the Seven in the Giant War. Anyway, back to the topic.
'We're going on a field trip in a cruise! Everybody has to go. An expensive benefactor has funded our trip, so there is no need to pay.' Mrs. Hotchkins continued, excitedly. Mrs. Hotchkins had to stop her little speech because the class suddenly broke up in excited whispers. I, for once was also excited. I rarely went on exciting trips partly because I was Oh only a little too busy fighting to save the world and partly because my mother and I could never afford it. Not to mention the fact that it was in my home turf! However, my excitement soon gave way to suspicion. Things rarely even went my way because I'm a son of a Greek Gods and usually resulted in a monster attack or two (if I'm lucky). Something big was about to happen I could tell. And who's this benefactor? Honestly, why couldn't the Fates give me a break or something. Isn't saving the world twice like the maximum even for a demigod?