Sorry for the long wait. There was a death in the family and there is a lot of stuff involved with that... But I am back and ready to write, So I hope you like chapter four!
I do not own POJ…
Leo's POV
I navigated the Argo II to our new destination for the next two and a half hours.
I was really glad that we were flying, because the Ocean looked stormy again. Ever since Percy died the Ocean hasn't been a friendly place. When we had been in the town that had a crevasse in a Dry Cleaner, Frank and I had seen a newspaper. Frank, being the least dyslexic read it… we found out that many small boats had gone missing in the past few weeks and there were reports of an extended typhoon season across the globe. Drowning statistics weren't very good across the country either.
It looks like barnacle brains wasn't in a good mood. And I can understand why. His only demigod son… dead.
No one else was too happy either. We had told the others who were there at the battle that he had died… there were cries of protest, anger and disbelief. No one wanted to believe the Son of Poseidon was dead. But it was the truth. I remember that one mean girl, Clarisse, when she found out.
"Where's Prissy! That punk has another thing coming if he's disappeared again… where is he?"
"Clarisse, he's, he's dead…" Annabeth choked out.
"What…?" Clarisse studied her for a minute. "You're serious." She said quietly. "Wow. I can't believe it. After all that, he just dies…"
After that, despite her reputation, Clarisse had done her best to comfort Annabeth. When it was time to leave she threatened me when Annabeth wasn't looking.
"If you hurt her or say something insensitive, I'm going to come back and eat you. Understand Punk?"
Why did she choose me! I don't say stupid things… all the time.
Anyways, after everyone had found out, they had gone back to their respective camps and then the remaining six of us went on our way. Destroying baddies without the guy who I had heard about forever, but had only known for a little while.
When land was in sight I called out. "Land Ho!" Who said demigods can't be pirates. That's right no one.
Annabeth, Hazel and Frank came out from below to look.
"What's the plan?" Asked Piper.
Annabeth looked at us all. "Same as last time. Hazel, Jason, Piper and I go ashore to find the crevasse. Hazel, you lead us to the crevasse and close it while we watch over."
"And Leo and Frank," Said Jason. "Keep the ship out of enemy hands and make sure you're ready in case we need to get away fast."
I groaned inwardly. So basically, I babysit the ship. Again. Everyone gets the cool jobs and I just get to sit here… and do nothing. Sure Frank is with me too, but he turns into a hawk or whatever to relay messages. But nothing ever happens anyways, so why can't I go too? Nothing happening out there is at least a bit more interesting than nothing happening here.
But there's no arguing with Annabeth or Jason. Everyone does the same job as last time, the time before that, the time before that and the time before that. The first time, we had no jobs… and then you know what happened. The jobs ensure that everyone always has backup… to try and prevent it ever happening again.
While we had been 'planning' I had been bringing the Argo II close to shore. "Okay then everyone. All who's going ashore go ashore. The sixth crevasse awaits you."
Everyone donned their armour and grabbed weapons. Except for me.
"I'm not even going ashore though," I whined. "So why do I have to put on my armour?"
Annabeth spun around. "If something happens, and you're not wearing armour… you will regret it. Go put it on." With that she tucked her two camp necklaces underneath her armour and stalked off.
Fine. I put on my hot, heavy armour and watched as the four of them walked down the gangplank onto the rocks.
