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"I have a bad feeling about this."-Kayla

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No words. THANK YOU. It means a lot to me.

When I showed my sister she was just as happy as I was. (She told me to upload this story. So blame her.) yes I know I am rambleing.

ok, so kittyKofficial said I should explain the corrupt kingdom/spy stuff. And I agree, In fact I so much that I am doing that.

I debated over whether to do Malcolm's time on the ship and everything but I decided to do it, hopefully it's good. I wont revile everything just the basics.

Also thank you kittycat3000 and modern demigod hero for your reviews it means a lot.

I hope you enjoy the next chapter of my story.

Disclaimer:I am a teenage girl. The writer of POJ and HOO is an adult male. Do I need to say more. YES! Fine. I DONT OWN THE POJ OR HOO SERIES.

Pov:Malcolm

At the time I was taken. I was on a ship coming 'home' (I haven't considered the palace home for a long time.) from a long meeting with Olympia.

My father was busy, Annabeth said 'you should go, you need a better unstandment of how our kingdom works.' So instead of one of them going, like always, I went instead. I hated it.(I said Annabeth is hair to the throne not me, right? I think I did.)

Even before this happened I didn't want to be a prince. I'll a admit it I wanted to rule went I was younger, I was jealous of Annabeth. Then, when I got older, around 15, I was like, 'No thank you I want nothing to do with running Athens.'

I just didn't think I could handle to responsibility. Now I just can't even imagine myself being king with everything that's going on, right now.

Anyway I was just looking out toward to water, just thinking about everything that I knew at the time.

I suggested we stop by this town so I could get a souvenir. The town Zarla, it's suppose to be a rich banking community. (Key word, suppose.) I heard it had beautiful roses I wanted to bring back, but the captain said the town was 'to far away.' So we just went on our way to the palace.

I remember seeing a small dot in the distance, where we were headed. I didn't tell anyone about it till I could clearly make out that is was a ship. That's when I pointed it out to the captain of my ship.( I forget his name.)

He said it looked 'dead in the water,' because it haven't moved the whole time we stared at it.

"Get closer to it. See if anyone needs help." I commanded.

The captain nodded and started barking orders.

One this that annoyed me on that ship was how everyone treated each other. People like the captain and first mate treated the other members, of the crew, more like slaves than anything else. But I just ignored it.

It's not my right to tell them how to treat each other, beside they may do it while I'm here but once I'm gone, they'll continue doing it like nothing happened. That was my thinking anyway.

Once we got close enough to the boat we put a plank across, to connect the 2 ships.

My royal gaurd made me put a black cloak on, to hide my identity. I didn't like it but I had no choice in the matter.

4 people went on to the deck of the other ship. I was forced to stay but I managed to get a good view of everything.

The ship was a bit bigger than what is considered normal, everything looked normal. The strange thing was it look too normal. Everything was clean, no sighs of a fight, no sighs of really anything. It was like the whole crew decided to drop everything and jump over board. I knew something wasn't right.

The 4 on the other ship started to call out but no one of. One of the crew members even suggested it was haunted, it was so creepy.

All of a sudden someone yelled,

"All hands on deck!"

Everything happened at once, people came poring out of a door at the back of the ship and from below deck. Some went for the 4 already on the ship while others went for the ship I was on.

I was scared. I heard that there where pirates in these waters, i just didn't expect to come across any.

Once I got ahold of myself I made a dash for bottom deck. I never made it. Before I could even open the hatch that lead down, someone grabbed my wrist and knocked my feet out from under me. I landed on my knees and the person behind me (who I later found out was Travis Stoll. I personally didn't believe it either.) tied my wrist together.

After I was tied up he guided me toward the others and he sat me down. By some miracle my hood stayed on. I don't even know.

Once everyone was tied up someone with blonde again and blue eyes yelled,

"We have our orders, get going." Every pirate cheered and started heading toward are supplies.

What I found weird was sometime they would just look at the label then leave or sometime they would only take half then leave. There was about 12 barrels of water below deck and, as far as I counted, they only took 7. I new they were raiding our ship but why didn't they take everything, like every pirate crew did.

After what seemed like hours they all gathered around the pile me and their 'captors' were in.

This time a slim built man with a wispy goatee, ( his name Grover) said,

"It's Leo turn." About 3 people groaned. While a tanned skinned boy while dark eyes pointy ears and mischievous smile cheered.

"Whoo Hoo! Which one of you unlucky ladies gets to face the wrath of TEAM LEO!" (Yes by the way his ego is way to big for him.)

I just prayed to the gods that I wouldn't get picked.

"This guy. He looks like he is about to have a heart attack." I felt someone grab me by the arm and hauled me up, onto my feet.

Great, I'm good as dead now. Just fantastic.

Someone stepped forward and pulled down my hood.

As soon as it was down ever stared at me with wide eyes. Shock filling their eyes. Great.

I closed my eyes trying to figure out a way out of this. I came up with a big fat blank.

I heard footsteps comeing close to me and that made open my eyes. A male about 20 years old was standing In front of me. He had black hair and blueish/green eyes. (don't get mad I'm saving the sea green stuff for Annabeth. Waaa hhhaaa) He took one quick look at me and turn to the pirate crew. He said something in a different tongue that I couldn't understand. The crew shouted back in the same language the guy In front of me did.

They man said something and 3 people raised their hand. He said something else and only 2 people raised their hand. The man who seemed to be in charged said something else and the rest of the crew raised their hand. (It went like this. Percy said 'who says we take him on the ship.' 3 people raise their hand. 'Who says it's too dangerous and just leave him.' 2 people raise their. 'Who has no idea and wants me to make the decision.' Every one else raises thir hand.;))

"It's up to you captain." The blonde hair blue eyes boy said. (His name is Jason.)

So this is the Captain? He look one last look at me and said, "Let's bring him."

I was lead onto their ship and sat down. After what felt to me like hours we started moving. We left. Everyone gathered around me. The Captain of the ship came over and stood over me. He took off my bounds.

"Welcome," He began,"To the Argo ll. My name is Perseus Jackson but you can call me Percy. I am the captain of this fine vessel and I hope you enjoy your stay here." He turned to the crew. "Treat him like the others."

It was almost 6 weeks.

I learned from my stay here that most city's and towns were corrupted by non-faithful guards and Knights. I was intending to talk to my father about it when I got 'home.'

I also learned a lot about how the crew worked. It was amazing how well they worked together. I made some friends with some of the crew members but everything I felt I was getting to close I just remembered they were pirates. Traitors.

I looked at the town we were stopping at. A small rich mining town called Bixton.

The town I saw in pictures was not the town I saw then. Everything was in ruins and the people were dressed in rags.

What in the world...

"Malcolm," I heard someone say behind me. I turned to see Percy."Follow me. We need to talk."

I nodded and followed.

We ended on top of a cliff over looking a bunch of houses. Both are feet dangled over the edge.

Percy was staring at something so I followed his gaze. I saw 2 royal guards basically kick down a door. The men pulled out 3 people, 2 little girls and 1 mother.

They all cried and screamed so loudly. It was horrible.

Percy sighed.

"What's happening?" I asked. Percy continued to stare. Finally he spoke. He said,

"Athena was a good ruler, kind and fair. She was smart and caring. Despite the fact she hated me because of who my father was, she one of the best. When she died and your father took over. Everything fell apart. He started raising taxes to the point where even wealthy cities like Bixton started looking like this.

Then if that wasn't bad enough he started accusing innocent people of unbelievable crimes. Murder, abuse, sexual assault, kidnapping. Anything. They would get sentences without a trial and there children would be given away. To kings, nobles or wealthy families in other kingdoms, like in Olympia. Or nobles in Athens. The children would be neglected, abused, abandoned, if they're unluckily, and younger girls like them have a higher chance, sexually assaulted.

The king doesn't care he lets it all happen if fact I wouldn't be surprised if he ordered it to happen. He runs this kingdom with fear as an ally.

I don't want to lead a revolution or anything I just want someone to put him is his place. When I saw you on that ship I saw my chance and took it. You could tell someone with power and they can set him straight or do it yourself.

I've been fighting for something better than this for years. I'm hoping it won't be for nothing." Percy stopped for a second. I couldn't believe he was telling me this. The worst part was I new it was true I was witnessing it. I saw a ton of hints that lead to this and I bever put two and two together. I also had a strange feeling.

"Malcolm, this is the world we live in. I've been trying to change it spence I was 13. Will you help change it and will it be for better or worse." With that he got up and left.

I didn't know what to do.

Started to listen more carefully to stories about how people joined Percys crew and I made deeper connections with everyone on the ship. By my last day I didn't want to leave.

Wheni got called to Percys office. He told me what would happen when we landed and then told me to leave.

But instead I told him I wanted to be apart of his crew. At first he was shocked and hesitate but he agreed.

There are 3 groups full time crew- they spend most of there time on the ship rarely going on land to spy. The spy crew-they spend half their time on the ship and the other half spying. They go for a few months and spy then come back and work on the ship for a few months and the cycle repeats. Then there's the spy group- they spend most of their time spying and rarely spend time on the ship. They may drop by if the ship comes to a nearby village or something but we rarely see them.

I chose 'spy crew.'

I don't regret my decision. I have a lot of friends and I think the Argo ll is my home now. I don't know why though.

Thats how I decided to change the world I live in, for the better, by gathering derect information from the palace.

That was my first 2 months on the Argo ll

Sooooooooo, was that good? Was is bad? Did I clear some things up? I know I only uploaded yesterday but I just wrote when I was bored and I was really bored. I don't have a schedule I'll just upload whenever I'm done. I hope you all enjoy. I know this chapter was long sorry.

Thank you for reading.

-Kayla