"She isn't coming yet Tyty" Percy looked down at his small furry dog. Tyty had been Percy's loyal friend ever since he adopted him. Tyty was like most dogs except he had one eye in the middle of his fore head. Tyty blinked his one brown eye up at Percy. They both shared the same look of terror thinking about Mrs. Polyphemus, their grumpy next door neighbor who wanted to rip Tyty to shreds. Percy picked up Tyty and strolled out into the front porch which creaked under his foot.
As far as the eye could see was ocean. Ocean, ocean, and nothing but ocean. Percy, Tyty, his Auntie Di, and Uncle Chiron lived on a small lonely island in the middle of nowhere. Auntie Di as a nickname that Percy made for his aunt when he was very little. Dionysus was her real name, but Percy still had trouble pronouncing it. Auntie Di had a terrible addiction to wine, which left her drunk most of the time. Percy stroked Tyty's fur and gazed at the horizon. Suddenly he heard the sound of an engine coming around the island. His eyes widened as Mrs. Polyphemus came around the corner with her small motor boat.
"Percy Jackson I'm gonna get you one day and your little dog too!" Percy ran in the house and slammed the door hoping to avoid the old wrinkled lady. He sighed in relief as she turned the corner and drove out of view. Percy returned the the porch and set Tyty down. Tyty pranced through the front door flap and into the house. Percy returned to his dreaming about what life was like over the horizon. He cleared his voice, suddenly he felt a song coming on! There was no stopping it. Percy stood up and started to sing softly.
"Somewhere, over the water,
Way under the sea,
There's a place that I've heard of
Once in fantasy
Somewhere, over the water,
Fish are blue
And the sharks that you dream of
Really will eat you.
Someday I'll wish upon a fish,
And wake up where the waves are far behind me,
Where seaweed sways and mermaids swim
Away where nobody's ever grim
That's where you'll find me."
Percy sang his beautiful lullaby almost putting himself to sleep. Suddenly Auntie Di and Uncle Chiron burst out onto the porch.
"Percy look at the horizon!" Uncle Chiron yelled. Percy looked to where Uncle Chiron was pointing. A giant wave loomed above them minutes away from crashing over the house. Uncle Chiron and Auntie Di ran to the safe house under the porch. Percy was following them when suddenly he remembered. Tyty! He dashed back into the house scooping up his precious dog, but it was too late. Water burst in through all the windows and doors. Percy took Tyty and locked themselves in the air tight closet where they wouldn't get wet. Tyty whimpered and Percy held him tighter. Suddenly The water pooling around Percy's feet jerked with the tide and Percy fell, bumping his head on the closet wall. All he could see was blackness and he couldn't feel Tyty's fur. Percy fell to the floor unconscious.
Hours later Percy awoke. He couldn't quite remember what he was doing in the closet holding Tyty. He had had the strangest dream. A tsunami hit the island. Then Percy gasped. He was underwater. It was real. He slammed frantically trying to break free of the closet before he ran out of breath. Then he realized, he could breathe under water! He finally broke through the door. There wasn't much left of the house except small remains. Percy looked at Tyty who was surrounded by and air bubble and flipping happily. Percy swam through the house until he managed to find the door. Tyty rolled behind him as the swam out into the open water. The bottom of the ocean was sandy as Percy dove deeper. He gasped as he realized there was an arm sticking out from under the house. It was holding a lightning bolt. Percy managed to pull the bolt out of the dead hand. It was light enough the carry, so with the lightning bolt in one hand and Tyty in the other, Percy kicked off the bottom. Emerging into the light surprised him.
On the shore only a few feet away was a large meadow. There were kids his age running everywhere. A large white house loomed over them. The scene was full of so many things Percy had never seen before. He swore in one field he saw half kids half goats. There was an arch held up by two pillars with writing on it. Percy swam easily to the shore line, there the writing on the pillars was easy to read. In large upper case letters it read three words "Camp Half-Blood".