We took a boat and traveled by sea. We hoped that Poseidon would help us since we were trying to rescue his favorite son. Grover and I also brought along Dylan, a burly kid from the Hephaestus cabin. We figured we might need someone who was good with technology. That and three is the normal number for a quest. He wouldn't be much use in a fight but he could make us weapons and would be able to fix our ship if needed.
"Are we almost to Europe?" Dylan asked as he arrived on deck, "It's getting really boring." The going was slower than usual without Percy and there hadn't been any monster attacks lately so yeah, the trip was pretty dull.
"Sadly, no," said Grover, "but I've been thinking about the lack of monster attacks so far on our journey."
"Yeah, no kidding something has to be up," I replied, "a quest never goes on for this long without at least a few monster attacks."
After a long day of very boring sailing we all sat down for dinner below deck. Dylan had rigged up an autopilot type navigation system so we didn't have to worry about steering. The only problem was that it wasn't programed to avoid obstacles, which was a problem since we were currently traveling through the Arctic Ocean and there were Icebergs everywhere therefore rendering the Auto-Nav system pointless.
After dinner we received an Iris message from Chiron. "Is anyone hurt so far?" he asked.
"Nope," replied Grover as we all stepped into view to show that we were all unharmed, "in fact there haven't even been any monster attacks yet."
"That's very strange indeed." Chiron said "Well if everything is all right then I better get going." We all said goodbye to Chiron as he wiped his hand in front of him and the Iris message dissolved.
That night I awoke to a huge crashing noise from above deck. I rushed up to find Grover and Dylan with reed pipes and sword drawn fighting none other than two krakens!