Hey there readers here's the next chapter and well it took me forever to write because I didn't know how to explain the part in italics...I hope you like it because I wound up liking it when I finally finished typing it. I look forward to your feedback. Enough of my blah...blah...blah on to the...disclaimer...yay!(heavy sarcasm)

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Chapter Three: Traveling to the Windy City

"J.J. what do you want to do today?" his mother asked him as she tied his shoes. "We can do anything you want, since it's your birthday."

"I wanna go see the fishies at the aquarium." five year old Jayden said. He took his mother's hand and led her in the direction of the aquarium. "Momma, who's my daddy and did he like the ocean too?"

His mother's eyes widened and Jayden could tell that she had been expecting him to ask the question just not so soon. "Your daddy is someone very important and he loved the ocean, he practically lived in the ocean." Jayden saw his sea green eyes widen. "You look a lot like his side of the family, except you kind of have my hair." she said ruffling his mop of black and brown hair.

"After the aquarium can we get some ice cream, please?" Jayden asked.

"What kind of ice cream does my big boy want?" his mother asked paying for their tickets.

"Mint chip." he made a face realizing that he had said it wrong. "No it's Mint and chip ice cream. I know it's green and has chocolate chips in it." he said looking up at his mom with wide eyes.

"Okay we'll get the green colored ice cream."

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"Momma the shark wants to go to the ocean." Jayden said pointing to the shark behind the glass. "He don't like being stuck behind there."

"How do you know that honey?" his mom asked.

"He told me." Jayden said.

"Quite an imagination your son has." a man with blond hair said.

At the sight of the blond haired man Jayden hid behind his mother. "Momma, that guy has a bird for a head." Jayden said quietly.

Sixteen year old Jayden looked at the man that would be his step-father Vince and saw that five year old Jayden was right. His mother couldn't see it despite the fact that she was a clear-sighted mortal but his step-father had a falcon for his head. A falcon was Ra's symbol. He watched as his mother scolded him for saying such things and inviting the man to get ice cream with them. The more Jayden looked at his step-father the more he was reminded of Ra's human form.

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"Jayden can see through the Mist, Lord." Vince said to the mirror, his head was a normal human one.

"Of course he can you idiot!" the reflection yelled at him. "He's Poseidon's demigod spawn! We have to cloud his vision, lend me your body so I can do it properly."

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"Do you see it Jayden, a connection between you and Ra?" Poseidon asked. Poseidon was at the wheel of the ship and Jayden was down below on the deck. "Welcome to the S.S. Neptune."

"Vain much?" Jayden asked joining his father up at the wheel. "Ra was my step-father?"

"I thought the name fit. Sometimes he was your step-father other times Vince Marinella was in fact Vince Marinella. Aura is a daughter of Vince Marinella as she was conceived by him." Poseidon said. He pointed to one of the sails. "Can you help me with that sail, move it just a tad to the right." Jayden moved the sail. "That's left!"

"Sorry I'm dyslexic." Jayden said moving the sail in the correct direction. "What are you doing out here anyway?"

"This is my home away from home, I told you my wife and son are arguing about the palace renovation and just about everything else. I guess you could say Triton's going through his rebellious phase...again." Poseidon said, he looked at Jayden. "Are you wondering about Marco?"

"Yeah." Jayden said. "And some other stuff. So is Marco a—"

"Marco is an Egyptian demigod and Ra's second son." Poseidon said sadly.

"I don't get it, what was my step-father to Ra?" Jayden asked.

"Think about it like this, you have to do whatever Hades asks of you because he possesses your soul, Vince has to do Ra's bidding because Ra has possession of his body. Your step-father served as Ra's vessel for some time, he was a servant to Ra." Poseidon said.

Jayden mulled over what his father had just told him. His little brother was an Egyptian demigod, Seth's brother. "Why did he choose my mother of all people?"

"Because he wanted to get to me through you, little did he know that I didn't know that you were alive. Hades had told me you died and that he had your soul in the Underworld, both of which were true. I just didn't know that you were alive. I didn't know that he tortured you psychologically, I didn't know that he made you claustrophobic, and I didn't know that he blinded you until I met you this past summer." Poseidon said turning the ship. "What else were you thinking about?"

"My powers drain me much more then they did during the summer. I get super tired to the point where I almost pass out doing the smallest things, like pushing and pulling the water." Jayden said looking down at his hands. "What's wrong with me?"

"The moment Osiris awoke he cursed you for defeating Ra, he despises you so much because in a sense you're a child of life and death." Poseidon said. He looked up at the sky, the clouds were dark gray and Jayden could tell a storm was coming. "His curse weakens you after you use your powers, it's to give him an advantage in any fight you and he have. Either you use your powers and leave yourself vulnerable afterwards or you don't and leave everything to your skill with a weapon."

"How do you break a curse?" Jayden asked.

"That I do not know yet but what I have noticed is that you need to be constantly around water. It keeps you from collapsing completely, so here take this." Poseidon handed him a small vile on a string. Inside the vile was the bluest water Jayden had ever seen. "Water from Mount Olympus, the water of the gods. Don't lose it, because it has special properties and will come in handy when you feel the time is right. Dawn is approaching and you have a quest to go on."

Jayden woke up and found that his hand was tightly clutching the small vile. Percy's bed was empty and he could feel that he was alone in the cabin. He got dressed and picked up his backpack and headed out into the cold morning. He pulled his hood up and waited outside of the Aphrodite cabin for Isabelle, when she walked out she didn't even bid him good morning.

"Isabelle, you seriously can't be mad at me for yesterday's swim." Jayden said jogging up to her. "It was all in good fun."

"Jayden were you seriously all over Kylie at lunch on the last day of school?" Isabelle asked turning around to face a very confused Jayden.

"She said that to you, what a bitch." Jayden said turning around and heading back in the direction of her cabin. Isabelle reached for his wrist and stopped him at the door. "Let go so I can get her to tell you that she was lying."

"Why don't you tell me, I think I'll believe you more then her." Isabelle said.

"She's been all over me since school started and she was desperately trying to get me to go out with her during lunch and when I say desperately I mean desperately." he said.

"I'm sorry." Isabelle said hanging her head down in shame.

Jayden nodded and took her hand in his. He knew that in a way Isabelle was insecure and some of her siblings didn't help her they only brought her down. He guessed Kylie was going to be one of those, and he was glad they were going on a quest because if his powers were failing him then he would sooner or later be affected by Kylie's ability to charmspeak.

"Roulette's going to miss you." she said after they walked in silence for a bit. Roulette was this black pegasus with abnormally blue tinted wings, he was brother to Blackjack, Percy's pegasus. "He missed you when you left for school."

"You should have seen Munchy when I left the Underworld." Jayden said thinking of the hellhound that had grown super attached to him while he and Nico were training them. "He followed me home, people mistook him for a German Shepherd...a very big German Shepherd."

"Why is he called Munchy?" Beck asked when they reached the property line where instead of a cab a Camp Half-Blood van was parked waiting for them.

"Because he liked to munch on the skeleton warriors we practiced on and he just ate everything." Jayden answered climbing inside and taking the seat next to the window, he rolled it all the way down.

The four of them took their seats and Argus drove off. Zeus had allowed Jayden to fly just not out of New York so they were taking a train to Chicago and then they would finish their journey to Seattle by plane. Needless to say Jayden was freaked out about going on a plane as he'd never been on one. Argus handed them their tickets and they sat in the Amtrak station waiting for their train, they had about a three hour wait.

They had an early lunch at a nearby McDonald's. "I don't understand why this is called a Big Mac, it's not even that big." Tristan said looking at his meal.

"Stop insulting your food and eat it." Aery said taking a huge bite of her hamburger.

"You do know that you're eating a cow?" Tristan asked. "You have cow meat in your stomach right now and since you ate one of my cows brethren they're gonna come after you and rip you open and take their brother's meat out of you and give him a proper burial." Tristan said in a scary deep voice that had everybody shivering. Aery put her hamburger down and went to go order a Chicken McNugget meal.

"You're such a jerk." Aery said when she returned with her new meal. "It was really good and now you had to ruin it for me."

"Yeah well it was fun for me." Tristan said stealing about five of her chicken nuggets in one go.

Later...

Jayden watched as Tristan and Beck played a form of poker through the window. Aery and Isabelle were talking about the last prank Aery pulled on Drew and Kylie—her favorite targets. His thoughts drifted toward his baby brother whom he loved more then anything and who loved him more then a three year old could. The thought of one day Marco facing some of his fellow campers and being killed was just way too much to bare as was the thought of Marco killing his friends. There had to be a way to unite the Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians but he was just being hopeful because of his situation. He flipped through the pictures on his iPod and stopped at the one of Marco and him making a silly faces at the camera. He continued to flip through the pictures, there was one of him pushing Marco on the swing, one of him giving Aura a piggyback ride, one of him and Isabelle sitting on the beach, one of him and his friends goofing off, one of Percy digging his knuckles into Jayden's hair, one of Jayden covering his ears as he listened to Apollo, and one of Jayden and his mom.

"Penny for your thoughts." Aery said tossing a penny at him. "Why you so pensive Jay?"

"Marco's an Egyptian demigod." he said quietly. "He's Ra's second son."

"Oh Jayden, how did that happen?" Isabelle asked, she had met Marco once and had grown very attached to the little boy.

"Well when two people love each other they—" Tristan started

"I know how babies are conceived." Isabelle said. "I meant how did his brother turn out to be a son of Ra."

"What I was saying applies still." Tristan said.

Aery threw one of her heavy flashlights at him and hit him in the stomach. "Now that he's finally quiet go on and tell us Jay."

Tristan held Aery's flashlight like a javelin and aimed it at her head, he made the throwing motion but didn't throw it because he was listening to Jayden say, "My step-father was or is Ra's human vessel and servant. Ra possessed his body and had a child with my mom."

"What do you mean vessel?" Beck asked wincing as Aery's flashlight hit her. "Did you really have to hit her back?"

"That was a complete accident." Tristan said waiting for Aery to round on him. She did, she jumped him and slapped him repeatedly.

"You know like a body he could take over and use until he got one of his own." Jayden said. He looked down at the photo of him giving Marco his first bite of a pop-tart. "Aura is completely human because my step-father wasn't possessed at the time she was conceived. To know if he ever loved my mom or if he was always just using her to hurt me and in turn my dad would be nice but something that I don't think I'll ever find out."

Later...

It was almost four o'clock when they arrived in Chicago and Jayden was grateful because the roar of the cars could drown out Tristan and Aery. Even through his headphones he could hear Aery and Tristan bicker and it was driving him up the wall, he was ready to shoot them both with an arrow but remembered that they were his friends and decided against it. Isabelle once told him that she wouldn't be surprised if Tristan and Aery wound up together, he had laughed and he still does at the very thought of those two ending up together. Their plane departed at eight o'clock and he could wait an eternity for it because he could go his entire life without a nine hour flight while Aery and Tristan were snapping at each other.

To be continued...

So what will happen in chicago and I hope everything made sense. Please review :)