Demigods in Miami
Chapter I-
Percy POV-
Demigods and vacations don't mix. Alright, while it technically wasn't a vacation, it felt like one when Annabeth, Nico, Thalia, Clarisse (her, I could have done without her), and I were sent to sunny, Miami Florida. Chiron had told us that he suspected that another group of monsters, working for Gaea's army, were stationed in Miami. So far, we hadn't seen anything so we were just enjoying some well-deserved relaxation on the beach.
Of course, our relaxation didn't last very long.
"Percy! Stop!" Annabeth shouted through a fit of giggles as I picked her up out of the water and swung her around, giving her a kiss.
"Oh get a room!" Clarisse complained, as she stabbed at fish with a broken piece of fishing rod. I rolled my eyes, glancing back to the shoreline. On the sand, Nico sat, not even in a bathing suit, just in his usual dark apparel, while Thalia, sat beneath an umbrella, also still in her Hunter's of Artemis attire. Suddenly, Nico stiffened, clutching his sword, and, even from where I stood, I could tell that something was wrong.
I scanned the crowded beach, looking for any signs of trouble. Annabeth noticed my sudden shift in mood.
"Percy, what's wrong?" she asked, pulling out her dagger. Where was she hiding that thing? She's wearing a bikini.
"I don't know-," I replied, still searching for what would have made Nico tense. Then I saw it: a fat woman dressed in a denim moo-moo, walking a Chihuahua, "Annabeth look." I told her pointing to the woman. With a second look we could see through the mist, which revealed the Echidna and Chimera in their usual forms; a woman with two snake-like tails and a goat with the head of a lion and a tail as a venomous snake.
She recognized the woman the instant she saw her, "That's the Echidna we met in Saint Louis!"
"Yeah, and her ever so friendly Chimera," I scoffed, "Come on, let's go." I told her pulling Riptide out of a pocket in my swim trunks. Quickly I uncapped it and Riptide transformed into my sword. Using the currents I pushed Annabeth and I, and Clarisse (who I dragged under by her ankle), to the sand. By the time we got there, the Echidna and Chimera had already attacked and Nico and Thalia were fighting them off. Clarisse stood up on the sand, spitting salt water and sand out of her mouth.
"Jackson!" she bellowed, eyes flaming just like her dad's.
"Kill me later, monster attacking!" I shouted back, pointing with my sword to the Echidna and Chimera. Still managing to scowl at me, Clarisse turned her attention to the monsters, pulling her electric spear out of the beach bag, she charged. Annabeth slipped on her Yankees cap, immediately vanishing and taking her dagger to sneak around the beasts. The Echidna turned her attention to me, her slitted snake eyes flashing dangerously as her tongue flickered out of her mouth.
"So we meet again, Perseus Jackson," she hissed, awkwardly half-wobbling-half-slithering over to where I stood. I gripped riptide tightly, eyeing the crowd that had gathered behind the Echidna, anxiously waiting. The sirens in the background told me that the police were already on their way. I lifted my hand and sent a wave of water toward her, throwing her to the ground. Before she had a chance to roll herself back up, Annabeth appeared, and we stabbed her at the same time, watching as she dissolved into a pile of dust. I looked over and noticed that Thalia, Nico, and Clarisse had just finished the Chimera too. I capped Riptide and everyone else put away their weapons too.
The crowd of people stared, wide-eyed at us. I'm not sure what they just saw, probably five teenagers, killing an old lady and her Chihuahua, several tourists took out camera's snapping our photos.
"Freeze!" shouted a voice to our left, where several police officers pointed guns in our direction, "Miami Dade PD!" we slowly put our arms in the air. They came over and strapped on the handcuffs, loading us into several police cars.
'Why can't this ever be easy?' I wondered as the police cars pulled away from the beach and took us downtown for interrogations.