I'm horrible I'm in the middle of another story but I really wanted to write this. So I hope you like it:)

disclaimer: I do not own Percy Jackson but i wish i did.

Standing on the quarterdeck of the HMS Intrepid I stare into that thick fog. We've sitting here for three days and it shows no signs of lifting soon.

My name is Jason Grace; I am the second mate on the Intrepid. We are sailing for Tortuga to find and capture, dead or alive, the infamous pirate Percy Jackson, were only about a day out from the island but without wind we're dead in the water.

I almost jump when I hear a voice through the mist, "Do you think the wind will start any time soon captain?" the voice is more annoyed than anything else, and the tone in not one that any man on our ship would dare use with the captain.

"Thalia says the wind will start up again in the morning, Leo," the new voice sounds familiar but what sends a shiver down my spine was that name, that was my sister's name, but she's been dead for sixteen years. The men on the other ship must be talking about someone else.

A voice on my own ship brings me back to reality, "Sir, there's a fight going on in the galley,"

I sigh and go to sort it out.

The brawlers are two seamen who came on the last time we were in port, I don't know their names.

"Enough!" I shout over the yelling, the two men are ripped apart by their friends. When I get a better look at them I see that it's Nico Di Anglo, and Bobby Write. "What's this about?"

Nico wipes the blood from his mouth and Bobby says, "Sir, he was insulting the king," I had to keep from sighing, Nico had no reason to like the king, he had been caught by a press gang and had been pressed into service when the captain decided we needed another hand, he was only nineteen and had been in London on vacation from his home in Italy.

"I have already warned both of you about fighting, clean yourselves up and go with Mister Johnson to see the captain," I look at Dakota, the third mate on the ship and one of my only friends. I don't want to take the men to the captain, brawling is forbidden on the ship and the punishment is a wiping. As a midshipman I was under the command of a horrible man, he hit me and I brought my hands up to protect myself and I got three lashes, the captain was interrupted after I got two and he gave me another three when he returned. I still have a scar on my back from it; I passed out after the third lash. One of my friends killed the captain afterward and was almost hanged.

I turn on my heel and head back to the quarterdeck.

The fog still hasn't lifted.

"Sir?!" I hear from up in the rigging, "I think you should see this,"

I should have called the man down but I was feeling the need to be up high after what happened with Di Anglo and Write so I start climbing up the rigging.

The man up in the rigging is Frank Zhang, he's a good man but he's not the best seaman.

"Sir I think I can see a flag out in the fog," he hands me his spyglass.

Through the fog I can just make out a flag but I can't tell what color it is. For all I know it could be pirates. I'm thinking it might be a good idea to tell the captain when I hear voices through the fog.

"Fifteen on a dead man's chest!" I almost fell out of the rigging, when the sole voice came through the fog, "Yo Ho Ho and a battle of rum!" shouted what sounded like the crew.

"Drink and the devil be done for the rest!" "Yo Ho Ho and a bottle of rum!" the song would have sounded creepy but the person not singing the chorus had a comical voice.

"Stop singing that song or the captain will cut out your tongue Leo!" I almost fall out of the rigging; the person who had given the threat was a girl!

"He won't do that Piper! He likes my jokes to much!" if anyone on our ship had spoken like that they could be looking at a wiping.

"She's right Leo cutting out your tongue might help with not getting hung," It was the voice from before; I can't shake the feeling that I should know that voice.

"Sir?" says Frank, shaking me from my thoughts "Are you alright?"

"What? Oh yeah, yes I'm fine," I hear the sound of the bell ringing for the next watch; Frank seems reluctant to leave, "Go get some sleep Zhang. Looks like you'll have the eight to ten tomorrow if the wind doesn't come back," he nods and leaves I stay in the rigging for another minute but Dakota looks at me from the quarterdeck. The second mate on a ship should not be sitting up in the rigging at eight o' clock at night so I climb down and go to my cabin.

I thought it would take a long time for me to get to sleep but as soon as my head hit the pillow I fell asleep.

I was tired but Thalia was still awake so I fought to keep my eyes open. She saw how tired I was and said, "Go to sleep Jason, there's no point on staying up if you can't even keep your head up," she grinned at me, she would never do something like that during the day mother would never have approved.

I went to sleep but I insisted on sleeping in one of the closets, I didn't really know why but sleeping in the closet made me feel safe.

I was woken up by crashing. I heard gruff voices from outside the closet, "We found his wife and daughter sir but we can't find the boy,"

"We'll have to make do. Kill his wife and take his daughter with us. Anyone else kill,"

"Yes sir," I could hear the footsteps leave the room.

For a while I didn't hear anything but then two screams ripped through the air followed by shouting. I was tired and scared so I just curled up and went back to sleep.

When I woke up again I saw a face far too close to mine. It pulled back and I could see it was attached to a boy about eight years old, two years older than me.

"Where are my mom and sister?" I ask.

The boy looks at me with pity in his eyes, "I'm sorry kid but we found um dead when we went exploring after the pirate attack,"

I woke up in a cold sweat, the voice in my dream was almost the same as the one I had heard through the fog today. Perseus, that was the boy's name, he had taken me into his street gang after that but he left two years late and none of us knew where he went, I signed onto my first ship two years after that.

I hear knocking at my door. I find a shirt and answer it, Dakota is standing in front of me, judging from the sky it was about three in the morning. I also see that the wind has started up again, we should be docked in Tortuga by morning.

He looks a little scared, "Jason, the captain has called an officers meeting in his cabin right now,"

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I was thinking that Octavian would be the captain sense hes a horrible person but the other option is Luke, who do you think should be the captain of the intrepid? tell me in your reviews witch you should totally leave for me because constructive criticism is awesome!