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Poseidon's Bounty
"Wow, Poseidon actually told you a scary story? Cool, but if it has satyrs in it I will kill you," said Jason.
"Don't worry this is a real scary story. It all started in ancient times, Greece to be exact. There was this fishing boat that the crew had named the Poseidon's Bounty to win the favor of my father.
On one fishing trip things started out well. The sea was calm and they caught enough fish to feed their city for days. However they caught a dolphin in their net and dolphins were sacred to Poseidon.
The crew debated on what to do with it, some wanted to set it free to please my dad but others thought it would be good meat to feed their families. Eventually the captain decided to kill the dolphin out of mercy, big mistake.
That same night a huge storm hit, winds were so strong that they knocked members of the crew off the ship and the waves were so big that each of them seemed like a tidal the storm cleared the crew realized on horror that they were way off course and that somehow the fish they had caught had come alive and flubbed off the deck.
They were lost in the ocean with no food. At first they tried to catch more fish but every single time they tried their nets came up empty. The crew decided to have a meeting.
The debate was fierce, some crew members wanted to pray to Poseidon for forgiveness but others wanted to try and sail to land. In the end they decided that everyday one crew member would jump into the ocean depths to meet their fate in the underworld.
And so they did, ever day one crew member drowned until there were only three people left. A thief whose fate was sealed in Tartarus for he had stolen from the Temple of Hades. The good captain who had a family back in Greece and a stowaway who had run away from her parents to find adventure.
Now they calculated that there was enough food and water on the ship for one person to sail back to Greece. But the thief and stowaway were madly in love so they hatched a plot to kill the captain. That night the thief crept into the captain's quarters with knife in hand.
Just as he was about stab the captain through his sheet the captain woke up and grabbed the thief's arm. "Take care of my family if you kill me," he said.
At that the thief dropped the knife and ran out screaming. He couldn't live with himself knowing that he had almost killed a father so he jumped off the boat. Then there were two.
The captain said that he would lay down his life for a lady, but since he had children to look after he would challenge the stowaway to a boxing match since he was champion back in Greece.
As the captain but on his leather boxing gloves the stowaway searched desperately for away to survive. Then she saw a wooden stake and while the captain had his back turned she killed him.
The stowaway now delighted with her victory rushed to the storage closet to eat some of her well earned food since she was starving. In horror she found that the captain had burned the food and dumped the water, as if he knew the stowaway was going to cheat.
She began to cry frantically as she realized that only the captain could steer the ship back to Greece. Then Poseidon cursed her for killing the good captain.
The curse was this: for all eternity she would be forced to sail the ocean, crying and clutching the bloody stake as a reminder of her crime. And sometimes she sings...
Yo Ho, Yo Ho,
Poseidon please let me die,
Poseidon please let me die."
Percy ended in a ominous tone. A silence hung over the group.
"That was nice Percy, but I bet I could do better," said Nico. The group began to chant his name until he stood up to tell his tale.
"Have you guys ever heard of the Hades Express?"
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