Chapter 3

"Vice, stay here and kill as many birds as possible. I have an Idea" She said, then ran to where Percy was and talked to him. They caught the Poseidon-Athena-Zeus chariot and went full-speed towards the big house. Thanks, Annabeth.

I tried to kill the birds, but they would just dodge; and then I saw it: they had celestial bronze beaks. Damn it. Just when I thought we were lost, Percy and Annie returned with… a music player? They touched the 'Play' button and horrible music started to play and the birds got off the campers almost at the same time, making them an easier target to the Apollo dudes. Not that I blame the poor birds; the music was REALLY horrible. The Apollo campers shot several arrows, hitting the birds perfectly and making them transform into golden dust.

"Thanks, guys. That was awesome!" I shouted while several campers sighed in relief.

"Now, now, what do we have here?" Tantalus asked, while trying to catch a cookie, which simply dodged out of sight. "You, Perseus Jackson and Annabeth chase are grounded for making the birds attack the campers" He said. I said nothing, because I knew if I did, they would only be in more trouble.

From what I know, the next whole week was a hell for Percy and Annabeth. They had to clean the plates with magma, which wasn't in my top five things to do. After the 'doom' week ended, Annie had had enough time to do research and confirmed our teory.

It was dinner time and we had just thrown food into the bonfire. Annabeth stood up.

"Me and my friends have a way to save camp" She started to say, almost at the same time Percy and I stood up. "We have to drag the golden fleece, that is on Polyphemus's Island and put it into Thalia's tree before it dies" She finished. Everyone approved.

"And how do you plan to do this, Athena's daughter?" Tantalus asked.

"Actually" Percy said "We have the Island's coordinates. 30-31-75-12." Tantalus just groaned.

"Okay, prats. Then, do you want a mission?" He asked. The bonfire, that before was only some centimeters high, now was almost nine feet tall. Everyone started shouting 'YES!' and once again, Tantalus just groaned.

"Okay, then" He said, obviously annoyed. "Our Ares camper, Clarisse, who defeated alone the two bulls will lead the mission" He finished. "Come here!" He said, pointing at Clarisse, who obeyed.

"Now, go ask the oracle for your mission" Tantalus said.

"But-" But she was interrupted.

"Go" He insisted, once again in an annoyed tone. Clarisse marched towards the big house. After ten minutes she came back.

"Okay, you'll go now. Pack your things and pick whoever you want- the rest of you, go to bed!" He shouted.

I went to my cabin and tried to sleep, but couldn't. I looked at the clock and saw it was midnight. Damn. Then I heard a door open and the shut coming from the Poseidon cabin. Was Percy awake? Well, I didn't want to go, since the harpies would eat me alive if I did so, but I decided to go either way.

I was following Percy closely, but he didn't notice me. When we arrived at the beach, he sat in it.

"Can I take a sit?" I asked. He turned around and sighed when he noticed it was just me.

"Sure" He told me, and I sat. He handed me a coke and I remembered the day when Luke betrayed us. Some days after that, I heard Annie crying silently on her bedroom at the Chase residence. That son of a bitch. She considered him a brother, but no man deserved Annabeth's tears.

"So, doing what here, Percy?" I asked, but at the same time a man behind us with a runner outfit asked. He had a face similar to Luke's. Hermes.

"Who are you?" Percy asked.

"Oh, stupidity of mine" Hermes said, then grabbed a microphone and muttered 'real form' and the microphone transformed into a staff.

"Hermes!" Percy exclaimed.

"Indeed. And I notice your friend, Percy, knew who I was since he saw me. Didn't you, Vice?" He asked.

"Yeah, your face's similar to Luke's" I said. Silence.

"It seems that you're as smart as Athena said. You've got photographic memory" He said with a smile on his face. "I know you want to enter this mission, and I'll help you" He said, then clapped his fingers and four bags appeared in front of us. "Now I'll have to go. You may wait for your friends, they're on their way here" Hermes said, then disappeared, leaving behind the smell of a newly-built road.

"Percy! Vice!" Tyson and Annie shouted while running towards the beach.

"What're these?" Annie asked, while pointing towards the yellow bags Hermes had left for us.

"Later we explain" I said. "but right now, we have to find a way not to be eaten by the harpies" I finished, while pointing towards the harpies that were coming towards us screaming 'FOOD!'.

"Hey, I have an Idea" Said Annie, while pointing at a ship that was passing. "Percy, ask help from your dad, I'm sure he'll help us." She finished.

There was a minute of silence and suddenly four horses (One pretty big because of Tyson) appeared out of the water.

"Hippocampus!" Annie cried. We mounted the horses and headed very fast towards the ship in the distance, the cries of deception of the harpies behind us. Once we arrived near the ship we saw it's name. It said 'Princess Andromeda'. We climbed the stairs that were on the side of the ship, gave goodbye to the hippocampus (Tyson crying because he was going to get away from Rainbow, the large Hippocampus he got). We walked around the ship, but found no one. How could a ship drive without no one? Well, that I didn't know and wouldn't until tomorrow morning.

The next day I woke up at the exact time as Percy as some voice was going through the speakers saying something about visitors going to the captain's room. Suddenly, the door opened and Percy automatically uncapped riptide while I summoned my sword, but when we noticed it was Annabeth, we sighed and Percy capped riptide while I dispatched my sword.

"Hey, guys, get dressed! We're gonna explore the ship!" She said in an annoyed tone at our we-don't-wake-up-at-six'o-clock attitude. We got dressed and went to join Annabeth. There were mortals queuing up at a bar while there were monsters with them. But that wasn't the scariest part. The scariest (or not) part was that the monsters weren't attacking the mortals. The mortals were with their looks locked in front of them saying things like 'we're having a good time at this ship!' or something like that. Then we heard a pair of footsteps and a snake-like sliding with two voices. Tyson hid inside a toilet while we ducked behind a pillar. Oh, yes, I forgot to mention. The boat had Greek architecture. We were able to hear the two voices. One, as expected, was snake like, but the other one was human, but at the same time familiar.

It was Luke's voice.