Chapter 1 : Somebody Has Daddy Issues

Claire looked over her shoulder to call to her mother, telling her that she'd always have Charlie's back. Never to let anything bad happen to him. She laughed when Charlie said that mom needed to worry about his sister. Claire ran on the white sandy beach. She breathed in deeply, smelling the salty sea air. She closed her eyes for a few steps and snapped them open. Charlie was slowing down now, but Claire wasn't. They had just come down the sandy hill, which had only increased their speed, and were just barely at the water's edge. Claire abruptly stopped her running and skidded in the sand. She came to a halt right as a small wave was rolling back into the ocean. Charlie was jogging slowly to catch up, he was weighed down by their equipment. Claire turned around to face him and found that he as already unpacking everything. There were two lawn chairs, an umbrella, two pairs of sunglasses, multiple towels, fins/flippers for swimming, and some cash for a snack later in the day.

"How much money did mom give us?" Claire asked Charlie, she started unfolding the green lawn chair. She set it down on the left side of the beach umbrella that Charlie had put up.

"Twenty bucks." Charlie replied holding up two ten dollar bills. He set up Claire's lawn chair (the blue one) and put the empty bag on his chair. Claire tossed him two towels and kept the other two for herself.

"You ready?" She asked her brother.

"Just a sec, let me stick the money under towels," he said and tucked the twenty dollars into a towel, "Yup now I'm ready." Charlie said standing up and handed Claire her flippers.

Claire grabbed them and waded through the water. When she had gone deep enough that it was at her rib cage she slipped on her fins. Claire had no need for goggles, both she and Charlie could see perfectly underwater. The salt didn't bother them. She sunk under the water and swam gracefully through it. She saw movement out of the corner of her eye and turned her head to see Charlie swimming up to her. He as holding out the little baggies they used to catch the fish. They fish they caught were small ones, like what you'd see at a pet store. Today they needed to get bettas and some clown fish. The fins that she used were the type were your feet were in sheath, and attached to that was a large whale tail design. Charlie used the single fin for each foot, the rectangle-ish shaped ones. Clarie reached out and took the offered bag from him.

She swam deeper, heading for the coral reef. Claire kicked her legs with more force, propelling herself forward in the water. Her hands were at her side as she swam. Claire's brown hair was streaming behind her, her hair came about four and a half inches below her armpits. She looked up and saw the midday sun's rays sinking below the ocean's surface. Claire looked back down below to see that they were coming up on the coral reef now. She angled her body and began to descend downwards.

They quickly approached the reef and began their routine. The reef wasn't too big, but it was good enough to provide a healthy habitat for the fish. Claire immediately spotted a group of clown fish. Their orange bodies with white stripes stood out against the coral. Plus the fact that they started swimming straight for Claire when they saw her. She wasn't freaked out by this, aquatic animals always acknowledged her presence. Clarie and Charlie joked that if they asked all the fish would just swim right into their capturing bags. Claire smiled to herself at the thought.

Since the group of six clown fish were swimming right for Clarie and she was heading for them they met in the middle. Claire opened up one of the larger baggies and easily grabbed the fish (not physically grabbing them but with the bag). The six little fish were going around in circles always looking at Claire. She had never known a sea creature who didn't behave this way to her, or Charlie. The thought of her brother got Claire wondering where he'd gone. She did a slow 360 and saw him multiple yards to her left he was in the process of attaining some bettas. By the looks of it he had four or five.

Claire watched her brother catch the group of five betta fish. She loved betta fish, their colors amazed Claire. The way their wavy fins had little whips of it flowing out, she adored watching them. Claire saw Charlie point a finger up to the surface, Claire nodded and began to swim up. She put on some speed and kicked very hard and wanted to breach the surface. Gripped tightly in her hand was the top part of the bag, she would't let it slip out of her grasp it was carrying the clown fish. Claire looked straight up and let out a burst of energy to get the required speed. Claire shot out of the water and flew threw the air. Much like a whale when they emerge from the water. For a couple of seconds she was flying, sailing in the wind, then gravity brought her back to the ocean. Claire reached her hands up into a dive form and slipped back into the water. What she had just done probably wasn't the best for the fish she was holding but Claire knew they'd be fine. The fish always were. She looked over her shoulder to see Charlie shoot up, heading for the surface. Claire smiled as her brother put on way more speed then she had. Claire turned around and treaded water waiting for him to come back down. Seconds later Charlie entered the ocean, he came back down much more gracefully then Claire had but she wasn't going to let that bother her.

Claire waited as Charlie swam over to her. He held up his bag of the newly caught betta fish and smiled. Today's job was finished, some of the other divers for the aquarium could take hours just to find a single fish. Not Claire and Charlie, they could be done with a weeks work in just an hour. Now they had a few hours until they had to go to the aquarium and drop off the fish. For now they could relax and swim around.

◄ Two hour time skip ►

"I totally beat you on that dive!" Claire shouted to Charlie.

"What? You think you can beat this?" Charlie yelled back, he ran a few steps and dived into the water.

They had taken off their fins and gone over to their diving rocks. The rocks made nice platforms to dive from, or just to jump from. There were about five feet above the water and the water was deep enough so that you weren't at risk for hitting anything below. Claire did have to admit, his dive was better. Charlie had more force and grace with his while Claire went faster and leaped farther from the rock. She tread the water while she waited for her brother to resurface. Suddenly something grabbed her foot and pulled her under. Clair struggled for a second, then realized it was only Charlie. She thrashed her legs to loosen his grip, but it didn't work. Claire quickly looked down to see that it was most certainly not Charlie.

She screamed and bubbles came spewing out of her mouth. Claire couldn't believe her eyes.(okay sorry readers, I am going to switch into first person point of view. I will stay will it for the rest of the story, my apologies.) I(Claire) was being pulled down by a freaking squid. I stared down at it and felt that it was indeed little suction cups around my ankle, not Charlie's hand. I immediately began to thrash around and scream even more. I swallowed water which led to gagging and surprisingly I didn't choke. Another tentacle grabbed my other leg and wrapped around my knee. I was freaking out, I mean seriously a flipping squid was pulling me to my certain doom. What. The. Heck.

I looked up, or what I thought was up, trying to see the surface. It was dwindling fast from my eyes. I started thinking that I was going to drown. To be honest I was as shocked that I hadn't drowned yet. Something grabbed my back from behind and I was smashed into something hard, probably a rock. I could feel the slimy and sleek tentacles wrapping around my body. I was going to die, and I was absolutely spazzing out. I started kicking and squirming as hard as I could. No way was I going to die like this. The light as beginning to flicker, as if the sun was being turned on and off. The squid was slowly engulfing all of my body in it's tentacles. Then I saw it, the sun wasn't flickering, it was fish swimming and blocking the light. I strained my eyes to get a better view and saw that it was a school of clown fish. Great, a group of tiny orange and white fish were going to save me. Meanwhile the squid was tightening it's hold on me and squeezing the day-lights out of me.

The whole swarm of clown fish had reached me and just swam in circles around the squid and I. My constant thrashing around water was making me tired. All of my limbs were now being held tightly together, my arms were plastered to the side of my body and my legs were stuck together. Then it hit me, where was Charlie? I started panicking again trying to fail my arms around to break free. Maybe the squid already killed Charlie and now it as going to eat me. One of the many tentacles was making its way up my back and wrapped itself around my neck. I immediately went limp hoping that somehow I would get out of this.

By some miracle the squid let go of me. I didn't know why and I didn't care. I swam up to the surface with all of my remaining energy. I was very supervised that my lungs had not yet burst from the lack of air. As soon as I emerged from the water I scrambled to get my footing. I needed to get out of the water and get home. But most importantly I remembered that I needed to get Charlie. I heard someone gasp behind me and quickly spun around in the water to see. Charlie had resurfaced and was swimming over to me.

"Charlie!" I cried, so relieved to see him alive. "Did you see the giant squid?" I hollered.

"Yes, I tried to save you but I couldn't." Charlie admitted.

"Then what made the squid let go of me?" I asked, curious about this. As we were talking the two of us headed over for the rocks. We hauled ourselves up and into a sitting position.

"That would be me."

I whipped around to see this random guy standing, completely dry, on the rocks beside us. I have no idea how he got there or where he came from, and I was highly doubting that he made the squid let go of me. This guy was dry, not a drop of water on him. He was wearing an orange t-shirt with a faded name on it. I couldn't make it out. He had converse on and blue jeans. His hair was the same shade of brown as mine, but a similar style to how Charlie worn his hair. He looked about our age, maybe older.

"Who are you?" Charlie asked, looking dumbfounded.

"Oh... um. I'm Percy." Percy said, he looked uncomfortably down at his shoes.

"Well Percy, how did you save me from the squid? Did you kill it? Thanks by the way." I asked.

"Kill it?" he looked offended, "why would I kill it?"

"Because it was trying to kill me!" I exclaimed, utterly confused why this guy was even here. I mean yay, great he saved me from certain death. But how?

"It wasn't trying to kill you. It just wanted to play." Percy explained.

"Yeah, right." I said with sass in my tone.

"Uh, how did you save Claire?" Charlie asked, looking less dumbfounded then he had before.

"I just told the squid that you weren't in a playful mood and that he can play with his other friends." Percy said with a shoulder shrug.

"You must be on drugs, you expect us to believe that you 'just asked the squid to let me go' what do you take us for?" I said, absolutely done with this conversation. This guy, Percy, must be on some kind of medication or something. You can't just ask a freaking squid to let go of someone.

"Why would I lie to you?" Percy asked, looking hurt.

"Because you've never met us. Or we've never met you." Charlie said, getting to his feet. He had a stern serious look about him. I noticed that Charlie and Percy shared some similar facial features. They both had the same body figure.

"Yes you have. Claire, Charlie, I'm your father." Percy said.

I could have dropped dead. I had to be hallucinating and having a bad dream at the same time. What was this guy even talking about? How could he be our father? He looked just the same age as us! Maybe a few years older, that can't possibly work for him to be our father. Someone had to be pranking us, probably video taping the whole thing. I mean seriously, there was absolutely no way this guy was our dad.

"Not cool. What kind of sick twisted joke is this?" Charlie said, getting furious.

"It's true. I can explain." Percy said, trying to save this conversation from going far worse then it already had.

"Prove it." I hissed, so mad. What was this guy playing at? What could he possibly achieve from this?

"Alright. Brace yourselves." Percy said. He slowly raised his hands until they were level with his head and then something magical happened. The ocean, the water around the rocks we were on flew up. It crashed against the rocks and splashed up on every side. "I am a Greek god, your mother Annabeth is your mom. She is a demigod, daughter of Athena. Your mother is half god half human. She'll tell you all of this and more."

Whoa, thanks to these people for following the story and/or making it a favorite of theirs:

ILovetoFly - I am hikaru321 son of hermes - Mourning Waters - katerocks123 - shadowhunterDemigod1 - xxXTheBelieverXxx - Pudding21 - humbid123

Sorry this chapter took a few days, we had finals/exams this week and I was pretty busy.