Larissa stared out at the oncoming wave. 'Is it worth trying?' She thought. She saw the wave build and grow higher and higher, she smirked and began paddling her board towards it. She suddenly spun her board around and started to paddle in the other direction as the wave began to pull her up. She continued to dig until she was up on the wave. She pushed herself up onto her feet and kicked out the back of her board quickly. She grinned as the salt spray coated her lips and face. She watched as the other surfers stared at her, amazed. 'Pay attention boys.' She thought angling her board towards the top of the wave. She did a rapid kick flip and landed back towards the center of the wave. Larissa pushed herself back to the top of the wave and shoved her weight upward and took off into the air, doing a full three hundred sixty degree turn. She landed back on the wave without even wobbling. When she felt the wave was starting to fall she jumped into the air and dove off her board and over the wave. Larissa stayed under for a few more seconds then necessary, like every smart surfer should, and then popped back up above the water. She towed her bright blue board towards her and examined the green hibiscus flowers on it. She loved this board. She smiled and climbed back on top of it and started to paddle back to the small group of surfers.

"Nice work Lars!" Her friend Callie said holding her hand out for a high five. Larissa sat up on her board and slapped her friend's hand. Callie had her pale blond hair pulled up into a ponytail while Larissa let her own fiery red hair hang loose around her shoulder.

"Thanks Cal, you up next?"

"Nah, I think I'm going to bail and head to the mall with Alice." She said referring to her younger sister. "Mom's been bugging me to take her."

"Alright well have fun, I think I'll catch another wave and then head back, these posers seem ready to go anyways." Larissa laughed as she looked over at the two boys that had come surfing with them. One of them, Keith, was Callie's boyfriend. The other was Keith's best friend Jake.

"Oh thanks so much Lars, beside how are we supposed to show our skills if your hogging all the waves?" Keith asked smiling through the fake anger.

"You just have to be faster!" Larissa said hugging Callie and paddling back out towards open water.

"Don't go too far! I don't I wanna have to explain to your mom that you got turned into shark bait!" Keith called after her as Callie leaned in to grab a quick kiss and a ride home from her boyfriend.

"Whatever! Like your watching anyways!" Larissa called over her shoulder. "'Sides I'm the best surfer out here!" She said laughing. She was joking but it was actually true. Larissa was the best surfer on the beach, even though most of the guys wouldn't accept it. She turned her attention back to the oncoming wave and spun her board around. She dug hard into the water as the wave lifted her. She popped up onto her feet and began to carve up the wave with every trick she had waited all day to do. Suddenly something slammed into the bottom of her board, launching her off her board and into the air. She didn't have time to scream before she hit the water. She saw something green and scaly grab at her and it scraped her leg before something scared it off. Larissa tried to claw her way back above the water but the force of the wave knocked her back under. Suddenly something pushed her up out of the water and onto her surfboard. She clung to it and coughed harshly as Jake dragged her all the way onto her board and out of the water.

"Dude! You're going to get your self killed going after a wave like that and pulling all those stunts! What is wrong with you!" Jake screamed as he towed her board in. "Best surfer my foot…." He mumbled. 'Ignore him, Jake's a jerk.' Larissa thought.

"Did you push me out of the water?" Larissa rasped, still coughing.

"No, you got yourself back up somehow and then I dragged you up." Jake said. Larissa went to argue but decided against it. 'Who, or what pushed me up?' she wondered as she laid back down on her stomach on her board and paddled the rest of the way to shore.

Percy stared out the window half asleep.

"Are we almost there?" He asked. He had wanted to go to North Carolina, he could spend time in the ocean and maybe even get to see his dad. "You're really not coming?" Grover had asked over an Iris message before he left. "I may come later in the summer but even though I'm gonna miss Camp I'm pretty excited to go to the beach."

"Well of course you are seaweed brain. Just don't get eaten by anything and put on sunscreen." Annabeth said firmly.

"Yes mom." Percy responded rolling his eyes. Annabeth and him were pretty good friends and a rumor had been spread that they had started dating, they were lies but it was all cleared up. "Hey tell Connor and Travis not to go spreading any rumors about me while I'm gone or I'll beat them up!" He said laughing.

"You got it buddy, see you later!" Grover responded closing the message. Then Percy was down the stairs and out to the car for the trip. The long drive is what was killing him. "I swear my legs are going to never work again if I stay sitting for another hour." Percy rubbed his cramped legs and leaned back in his seat. "Can I drive now?"

"No you can't drive now, there's no where to stop. And we're here." Sally Blofis, formerly Jackson, said while smiling at her son in the rearview mirror. Her husband was out cold in the passenger seat and was snoring softly. Percy was more focused on the ocean though. His mouth hung open slightly at the waves crashing on the shoreline. He could see some surfers on the beach including two making their way from the water. There was a skinny kid that had brown hair with blond highlights and he was yelling at the girl he was walking with who interested Percy more. Her hair was a fiery red color and her skin was sun kissed. She carried her board expertly up onto the sand and pulled her cut off jean shorts up over her blue bikini. She completely ignored the guy who was yelling at her and walked to a slightly run down car and lashed her board to the roof. She climbed into the passenger seat and avoided looking at the guy. 'Probably her boyfriend.' Percy thought. 'He looks like a jerk.'

"Um hello?!" His mom knocked on the glass of Percy's window causing him to jump.

"What? Sorry."

"Do you want anything from the gas station before we head to the rental house?"

"Um yeah, cherry coke if they have it." Percy requested. When his mom moved and he looked back at the beach the girl was gone. He sighed slightly and opened his DS and loaded up his game.

Jake informed Larissa multiple times the whole way home about how she could've died. When he finally pulled up Larissa's driveway she had had enough of him.

"Look, your not my father so I don't need to be lectured for 10 minutes straight about my 'irresponsibility'. Like I said something hit my board, stop acting like you're so superior to me. You may be two years older and have a car but you have no right to ridicule me. So knock it off!" She said firmly. Larissa kicked the door open and unbuckled her seatbelt.

"Someone has to make sure you don't die since your mom works and your dad skipped out." Jake said nonchalantly. Larissa leaned back into the car and landed a hard slap across Jake's face. She grabbed his jaw and made him face her.

"If you ever say anything like that again I'm going to hurt you." She said seriously. Jake pulled away and put his car into reverse.

"Whatever." He moped. Larissa unlashed her board and carried it up to the garage. She leaned it up against the wall next to her mom's old jeep and closed the large garage door on her way out. She grabbed the newspaper off the front porch and stuck her key into the lock of the front door. She pushed the door open with her shoulder and kicked off her blue flip flops.

"Mom! I'm home!" She called pulling her keys out of the door and tossing the paper on the table. She glanced at the head lines, not being able to make out what any of the words said at a first glance. The words seemed to vibrate along the page before her eyes. 'Thank you dyslexia.' She thought.

"Hi." Her mom said distractedly from the couch, not looking up from her book. "How was surfing?"

"Good, I nabbed some pretty gnarly waves and got to practice some of my kick flips." Larissa responded tugging her hair into a ponytail.

"Mm-hmm…" Her mother said nodding distractedly.

"What are we doing for dinner?"

"There's still some Chinese in the fridge, I think there's some pizza in there too. And we have some of that ramen you like." Her mom said setting aside her book and moving on to some paper work sitting on the coffee table. "There's a family coming to stay in the rental house." It was Larissa's turn to be uninterested. She pulled some chicken lo mien from the fridge and scraped it onto a paper plate with a fork. "They have a son that's around your age unlike the last people who just had little kids, they were cute though." Her mom said reminiscing slightly. Her mom owned a house that was down a little ways from their own that she leased to vacationers who decided to visit the sunny state. Larissa's mom checked her watch, "They should be here to check in any minute." She stood and brushed herself off. Larissa pulled her plate of food from the microwave and sat down on the edge of the counter with a pair of chopsticks and started to eat. Suddenly the door bell rang and Larissa's mom flung herself towards the door and pulled it open. A woman with dark brown hair and blue eyes stepped in through the doorway.

"Hi I'm Sally Blofis." She said smiling.

"Nice to meet you! I'm Carla Owens. I own the property." Larissa's mom said returning the bright smile. Her honey blond hair that grayed a bit at her temples was pulled into a tight bun and her brown eyes were partially hid behind her glasses. 'Sales lady personality time.' Larissa thought while focusing on her food.

"This is my husband Paul and my son Percy." Sally said as a happy looking man and a teenager shuffled into the house. Larissa looked up at the mention of the son. She was met with a pair of green eyes as he gazed in her direction. 'It's the girl from the beach.' He realized. The one he had seen climb into the run down the car. He quickly noticed her eyes meeting his and averted his stare. He had black hair and was around six foot tall. He had on a blue Hollister t-shirt and a pair of navy jean shorts on. Percy glanced up at Larissa again and shot her a quick smile. She quickly looked away and shoveled another mouthful of lo mien into her mouth. 'Violet eyes?' Percy thought trying to get another glance at her eyes.

"Your eyes are purple." He said before he could stop himself. He kicked himself mentally. 'Nice going doofus, of course she knows that's what color her eyes are.'

"Oh um yeah." She said looking back up at him.

"They're… nice. It's pretty uncommon to have purple eyes uh, which is cool." He stumbled.

"Thanks." Larissa hopped off the counter and set her plate of food on the table. "I'm Larissa."

"I'm Percy." He responded stuffing his hands into his pockets. "Um I saw you on the beach earlier, when we were leaving. You surf? I saw you had a board so um…"

"Yeah. My board's in the garage. I had just finished when you saw me I guess." Larissa said. They stood there in a few moments of awkward silence as the adults continued to chat like old friends.

"Um, is it hard? To learn to surf I mean. I think it would be pretty cool to try." Percy asked trying to fill the silence.

"Well it all depends on the person I guess. Some people can pick it up pretty easily and for others they may never be exceptionally good at it. One key thing is that you need to have good balance or else you end up face first in the water. But if you get it down it's a ton of fun." Larissa explained.

"Yeah it seems like it. Maybe I can learn while we're down here."

"Maybe…" Larissa said. There was another silence. "Do you wanna see my board?"

"Sure."

"Mom we're going to look at my board." Larissa called on her way out the front door.

"Mm-hm have fun." Her mother said more focused on Paul and Sally.

"So Percy Blofis, what do you think of the small amount of North Carolina that you've seen?" Larissa asked padding to the garage in her bare feet.

"Percy Jackson actually."

"Hunh?"

"Jackson was my mom's last name and I wanted to keep it. It sounds cooler than Blofis anyways but don't tell Paul that." Percy said holding a finger to his lips. Larissa laughed as she tugged up on the garage door.

"So he's your step dad?" She asked.

"Yep. My mom was married to a real jerk before then, also not my dad. So I'm on step-dad number 2. But this one is better."

"Oh ok. Yeah my mom's single and I don't see a step-dad in my future, not that I want one." Larissa led Percy over to her surfboard and pulled it off the wall.

"Cool board." Percy said examining it closely. He ran his hand along the side.

"Thanks. If you wanted to learn we could get you a rental. There are a couple places out here that rent boards out, just as long as you bring them back in one piece." She said leaning her board back up against the wall. "So how old are you?"
"Sixteen." Percy responded.

"Cool. I just turned sixteen last week." Larissa said walking to exit the garage. Percy then noticed the shallow scratches along her left leg.

"What happened to your leg?" He asked as he followed her out of the garage.

"Actually that happened today. I was surfing when something slammed into the bottom of my board. I went flying into the wave I was on and then I saw this big green and scaly thing trying to grab me, and I swear the thing had hair. But then something scared it off and all of the sudden something shoved me up out of the water and onto my board." Larissa pulled the garage door closed and pushed her hands into the pockets of her damp shorts. "I was telling Jake, um that guy I was riding home with, and he said I probably hit a piece of coral or something. But I don't think so. I know what I saw and it wasn't coral. It was something else."

"Oh really? That's… interesting." Percy said his mind racing. 'Was it a Dracanae? Is she a half blood? What saved her? If she is a half blood who's her parent?'

"You don't believe me do you…"

"No I do. If that's what you saw then it has to be what happened. I don't think you would make something like that up. You know in the five minutes I've known you." Percy said chuckling. Larissa laughed and smiled at him.

"Yeah. Well thanks. I'm glad you believe me. I just… I don't know what it was. I've never seen a fish that big or that had nails and hair." Larissa started to walk down part of the driveway and Percy followed her.

"Yeah sounds pretty weird. Maybe it was a giant snake woman!" Percy said laughing.

"Yeah, and pigs fly!" Larissa laughed. Percy stretched, 'She has no idea…'

"Larissa! Take them down to the house okay?!"

"Alright mom!" Larissa called. Sally and Paul joined the two teenagers. "Come on, it's just little ways down here." While she led the small family down across the grass Sally and Paul talked while Percy and Larissa focused on each other. "So where are you guys from?"

"New York. We have a apartment in Manhattan." Percy said kicking a rock.

"Oh so you're a city boy." Larissa said smirking.

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"Nothing, nothing…" They both laughed.

"Yeah, usually during the summer I go to this pretty awesome camp. There's a ton of activities and its a lot of fun."

"That sounds cool, what kinds of activities do they have?" Larissa asked.

"Um, er, well we play capture the flag." Percy said trying to explain Camp Half Blood without, explaining it in too much detail. She gave him a look showing that she wanted him to go on. "Um we do archery, and… fencing." It was technically true though they didn't focus on all the fancy moves, basically it was to keep yourself alive. "And we do crafts, and other camp stuff."

"Sounds cool! I've always thought archery was cool, and learning how to use a sword! Maybe could go one of these years. Where is it and how much does it cost?" Larissa asked.

"Um it's in Long Island and it doesn't cost anything but you have to get asked to go." Percy said awkwardly.

"Like?"

"Well you have to have ADHD and dyslexia…" It was basically a requirement, if you were a demigod then you had both of them.

"I actually do." Larissa said.

"Oh really? Well me too obviously and um, well you have to have a specific…. Parentage." Percy struggled to explain.

"So your dad is that specific parentage I'm taking it?"

"Yeah…"

"Well maybe my dad helps me qualify." Larissa said happily. "Well here's the house." Larissa said stopping in front of the two floor beach house. "I liked talking to you, maybe we could hang out tomorrow?" Larissa asked shyly.

"Yeah that'd be cool. I'll see you later." Percy said smiling.

"Bye!" Larissa waved and then started to run back to her house. Percy carried his back pack into the house and into the room that he would be using over their vacation. Suddenly an Iris Message opened and Grover was on the screen.

"Hey buddy!' He said happily.

"Hey Grover! You wouldn't believe how gorgeous the beach is and the house is great." Percy responded.

"That's great, but there's some news. Apparently there's a demigod living around where your staying, really close actually." Grover said examining a clip board.

"Oh yeah?" Percy said. 'Its probably her isn't it? I knew it…' he thought.

"It says she's sixteen and her name is Larissa Owens. She has red hair and purple eyes and she's about 5'6. Obviously we don't know who her parent is. Have you seen her?" Grover asked glancing up.

"Yeah, I've seen her. The lady who rents this house, well Larissa's her daughter. And I think the monsters are already starting to realize who she is." Percy said.

CHAPTER END

Hey guys I hope you liked the first chapter of my new story, and I hope you like Larissa. If you do I would love reading a comment/review by you! I will love you for it! Lol. I will write more when I can and would you like it if the chapters were shorter? If so let me know! Thanks!

~Sadies