Chapter 2

Joanie

If Joanie had not regained her wits a second later she would have been stabbed in the stomach.

"Now listen here I did not ask to get carted along, I simple saw the ship land and came to check it out. I have seen kids with horns, teachers that spit fire and now a ship that flies I wanted to make sure I wasn't going crazy. My name is Joanie West, does that answer your question?" Joanie said now glaring at the boy called Percy. He looked shocked and so did Annabeth, it seemed like an hour before Percy said.

"Your that girl that was running past us the other day, how did you get on board?"

"Simple I shimmed up the oars. Now do you think you can tell me where we are?"Joanie said still glaring. Percy shook his head and only said seven words.

"You look familiar, do I know you?"

"Wait Percy, as in Percy Jackson? Dude, I went to Yancy Academy you were a grade ahead of me."Joanie now the one staring, she remembered him standing up for people who got pushed around. It seemed like so long ago, but apparently Percy remembered her too because he said.

"That was you? That black haired girl, which was always looking at me?"

Joanie looked down sheepish and nodded. Percy lowered his sword and looked at Annabeth, they stared at each other like they were having a conversation final she nodded and they turned to Joanie.

"Hey I'm sorry about that lets go up stairs for breakfast and talk about why you were in Greece," Percy smiled and capped his sword with a pen cap. It was a little strange until the sword shrunk into a ballpoint pen.

"Uh do you want to explain that now or later?"Joanie said pointing to the ball point pen. Percy just smiled and put an arm around Annabeth and took Joanie's hand pulling her along.

"Come on I'll explain everything up stairs," and with that Percy hauled her up stairs. When you're not looking or a place to hide from monsters the Argo ll was a pretty cool place. It seemed to be a place for teens to hang out and get some coffee. That thought faded fairly quick when they passed a room with a bunch of weapons in it, they reached the deck below the surface and came to a big room that looked like the lounge to a hotel. Five teenagers (the ones Joanie saw the other day) were sitting around a picnic table chatting, but when they saw Joanie they fell silent and stared at her. She fell like an intruder but Percy kept smiling and towing Joanie into the room.

"Uh Percy who is that?" the boy with short blonde hair said getting to his feet.

"It is fine Jason she's with us," Percy said still smiling. Annabeth got Joanie a seat next to her and Percy sat across from them, they all focused on Percy and two raised an eye brow. Percy explained how they saw Joanie in the stable and became curious, and how Percy had gone to school with Joanie. It seemed that Percy won over a lot of them but the Jason kid didn't look impressed.

"Okay but how do we know she is not a spy for Gaea, I mean it is a little odd that you two know each other and meet half way around the world," he said. That was when Joanie stepped in and told them about why she was in Greece, about her mother and step-father, and what she had seen.

"The only thing that bugs me about my past is that I don't know who my real father is he had to leave us and go out to see the day I was born," Joanie explained. That was what really got Jason's attention.

"Percy that sounds like you," Jason said.

"You know what that means," he turned to Joanie and said

"We need to contact Chiron, Joanie you might be one of us," he said it as if us was a bad thing.

"What do you mean one of us?" she asked.

"You might be-"

"A half-blood" Annabeth finished.