"Perfect, lets go," I said when Poseidon finished telling Percy, Annabeth, and me the plan. My first goal- find Lily, the real Lily, even if that meant slapping her senseless. We all started walking up the mountain each splitting off at the top." I saw that the other gods where battling in the mountain, while lava was rising. Then I saw Lily walking towards me, her sword drawn and in a defensive position. I did the same.
"Well, well, well, isn't it daddy's favorite little girl," she said sarcasticly and swiped at me, I easily deflected it.
"Lily, wake up, you don't know what your doing," I said and she attacked me again, going for my feet, but I blocked it again.
"Ya right and be the weakling again? Not a chance," she said.
"Fine, we'll do this the hard way," I muttered and clashed my sword with hers. I swiped again and she disarmed me.
"Who's the weakling now," she said as she pressed her sword against my neck.
"Neither of us," I yelled, making another sword and disarming her. Then when she was dazed I pinned her on the ground against her struggles. I had both her hands in one of mine and I was sitting on her legs.
"Let go of me, so I can rip you limb from limb," she yelled still struggling against my iron grip I had on her.
"Lily, wake up," I yelled turning my sword to water and splashing it on her face. She stopped struggling, but she looked confused. "Lily," I said cautiously.
"Why am I all wet and why are you on top of me," she said in an irritated voice.
"Your back," I squeaked and hugged her.
"Where did I go," she asked confused.
"Never mind, I'll tell you later, now we need to go and help Percy. Go to the North side of the volcano, and when we give you the cue, start flooding the island, okay," I told her and she nodded her head and ran off. Then I went to join Annabeth on the West side, Percy was on the South.
"Now," I asked Annabeth. I could see the God's battle and they were winning.
"Yes," she said and I looked at Lily and nodded, Annabeth did the same thing with Percy and the three of us lifted our arms and water came crashing up and flooding the Western half of the island. On the Eastern half was a strait drop off towards the ocean so we didn't worry about that side. When the island was almost completely under water and the volcano was the only thing above the water, the part were Annabeth and I were at broke and wefell into the volcano. Percy ran towards us, but Lily couldn't see because there was a thick smoke rising out of the volcano, which was now starting to fill with lava. Annabeth and I were hanging on the wall ledge about five feet apart and three feet down. The rocks were scortching hot so I tried to put ice beneath our hands, but started slipping. Soon we both had blisters on our hands and we weren't doing too well. Then I heard Percy,
"Annabeth, grab my hand, I'll pull you up," Percy yelled over the battle of the Gods that was still below us, oblivious to the drama going on above them.
"Percy, what are we going to do about Sapphire, she too far away from either side, and we can't crawl down and get her, we might fall in too," she said distressed.
"Go and finish the plan, I'll be okay," I said to them, but they weren't listening.
"GO," I shouted and they finally listened. When they left they got Lily and jumped off the edge of the mountain, pulling Lily who was weeping. Then all the Gods disappeared and I let go. When I did the whole place weren't underwater and burning steam erupted.
Lily's POV
When Percy told me what happened I tried running toward Sapphire, but Percy grabbed me and started running towards the edge of the mountain.
"No, we can't leave her," I cried, but he jumped holding Annabeth's hand and we crashed into the water, and then Percy made the currents carry us a safe distance away. Then he made the ocean swallow up the mountain and a big burst of steam came out of the water where the volcano was, where Sapphire was. Then I saw Poseidon above the water looking at something on a snowboard made of... ice?
"We have to go over there," I pleaded to Percy and he reluctantly let me go. I had the currents carry me over to Poseidon. Then I saw what he was looking at and I started rushing over to her, but Poseidon held me back.
"Don't touch her, her wounds are very serious, and I don't think nectar and ambrosia can fix this, nor water. I've called Apollo, but I don't know when he going be here," he said in distress. Then I looked at her for real for the first time. She was all red, and covered in scratches and bloody patches. Her hair was singed and almost all gone. She was going to freak if she had to grow her hair back again, she loved her long hair. She would never let anyone but me and her closest sister do anything with it. Her clothes didn't look to well either, but it covered most of her surprisingly. I started crying again, right as Apollo showed up.
"I'm here, who's-" he stopped as he saw Sapphire in the water next to us. "This isn't good, we need to get her back to Olympus if she's going to live, but no one touch her," he said in an urgent tone.
"Can she disappear with you up to Olympus," I asked still crying. He looked at me for the first time and a look of pity crossed his face.
"I'm gonna try to get her back to normal, don't worry about it, I am the god of medicine right," he said trying to make me feel better, but it didn't really work.
"I'd best be getting to work. I'll give you an update after a few hours, okay," he said to me but looked at Poseidon during the last part, as if saying don't come in. Then he vanished and Sapphire was gone.
"We can only hope for the best," he said and I hugged him and started crying uncontrollably.
"Let's go back to camp now," Percy said and held Annabeth's hand, I'm not sure when they swam up. Then Percy grabbed Poseidon's free hand and we ended up on the beach near camp. Annabeth could tell I was weak, so she took me to the infirmary, or maybe so Percy and Poseidon could be alone.
Poseidon's POV
"Not to sound pessimistic, but how is she alive," Percy asked me.
"I'm not sure, but what I think she did was use that ice board as a snow board and try to fly out. There's water in the air, and she discovered how to manipulate that, but when the steam came I think she tried to cocoon herself in an ice ball, but it didn't work and she ended up getting thrown into the ocean. I don't know why it didn't heal her," he said thinking.
"Wow, can you manipulate the water in the air," he asked me with surprise in his voice.
"To a certain extent. I can definitely cool a room down if I need to," I said as I tried to put a smile on, but I know he saw right through it. "I'm going to go see how Apollo is doing with Sapphire. Help Lily and Annabeth, I know they're hurting, help comfort them," I said and disappeared. When I arrived on Olympus, it was relatively quiet. I know Apollo ment not to come but when I went to him I saw that he was putting some type of cream on her burns.
"She has severe burns that only this cream will heal. I know what your other daughter said about her hair so I'm going to try to grow it back. Oh the Aphrodite children will be very jealous of her after I'm done," he said with a smile.
"Thank you so much Apollo," I said and he turned to smiled at me.
"All in a day's work. Nice to actually have something important to do around her for a change," he said and turned back around to put more cream on her.
"Now, it's going to take a while for it to work, a few days at the least, so once I'm done with her, I'm going to lock the door and no one under any circumstances is to come in here, except for me, understand," he told me sternly and I nodded my consent.
"If she's anything like your son, she'll be as good as new in about three or four days, maybe sooner," he said as he locked the door and started away. Then he looked back and said, "your kids aren't half bad ya know. They're kinda fun to hang around, they almost seem normal," then he disappeared with a smile. Although I was glad for the compliment, I was curious how he would know that.