Disclaimer: I don't own any of this Rick Riordan does. Lilly's POV.
I Have the Worst Family Reunion Ever
Annabeth offered to go alone since she had the cap of invisibility but Percy told her it was too dangerous to go, either we all went or nobody did.
"Nobody!" Tyson voted. "Please?"
But in the end he came along with us, nervously chewing on his huge fingernails. We stopped at our cabin long enough to pick up our things. I think it was safe to say we would not be spending another on board this creepy ship.
I made sure my stones were in my pocket and headed out the door with Percy. Percy didn't want Tyson carrying all our things but Tyson insisted, and Annabeth told him not to worry about it. He could carry four duffel bags as easy as I could carry a backpack.
We sneaked through the corridors, following the ships YOU ARE HERE signs toward the admiralty suite. Annabeth scouted ahead invisibly. We hid whenever someone passed by but most of the passengers were just glassy eyed zombies. As we came up the stairs to, deck thirteen, where the admiralty suite was suppose to be, Annabeth hissed,"Hide!" and shoved us into a supply closet.
I heard a couple guys coming down the hall.
"You see that Aethiopian drakon in the cargo hold?" One voice asked.
The other laughed. "Yeah, it"s awesome."
I knew the guys voice. It was Chris Rodriguez.
"I hear they got two more coming," Chris said. "They keep arriving at this rate, oh, man no contest!"
The voices faded down the corridor.
"That was Chris Rodriguez!" Percy said.
"Yeah, from cabin eleven remember?" Annabeth said.
"What's another half-blood doing here?"
Annabeth shook her head, clearly troubled.
We continued our journey down the corridor, I could sense Luke's presence getting closer to us, and I'm sure he could feel mine by now.
Annabeth stopped abruptly,"Percy look." she said. I immediately saw what she was looking at. A group of monsters had assembled in front of a candy shop:a dozen Laistrygonian giants like the ones who had attacked my brother with doge balls, two hellhounds, and a few stranger creatures- humanoid females with twin serpents instead of legs. The monsters made a semicircle around a guy in Greek armor who was hacking on a straw dummy. A lump formed in my throat when I realized the dummy was wearing an orange Camp Half-Blood t-shirt. As we watched, they guy in armor stabbed the dummy in the stomach and ripped upward. Straw flew everywhere. The monsters cheered and howled.
Annabeth stepped away from the window, her face was ashen.
"Come on," Percy said. "The sooner we find Luke the better."
At the end of the hall were a set of double oak doors that looked like they must lead to somewhere important. When we were thirty feet away Tyson stopped, "Voices inside." He said.
"You can hear that far?" Percy asked.
Tyson closed his eyes like he was concentrating hard. Then his voice changed, becoming a husky approximation of Luke's.
"- the prophecy ourselves. The fools won't know which way to turn."
Before I could react, Tyson's voice changed again, becoming gruffer and deeper, like the other guy we'd hear Luke talking to outside the cafeteria. "You really think the old horseman is gone for good?"
Tyson laughed Luke's laugh. "They can't trust him. Not with the skeletons in his closet. The poisoning of the tree was the final straw."
Annabeth shivered. "Tyson stop that! How do you do that? It's creepy."
Tyson opened his eyes and looked puzzled. "Just listening."
"Keep going," Percy said. "What's he saying?"
Tyson closed his eyes again.
"Quiet!" He snapped in Luke's voice.
"Um guys, we should-" I started but Annabeth cut me off.
"Shhhh..." She said.
"Yes," Tyson said. "Right outside."
"Run!" Percy yelled. The stateroom doors burst open and there was Luke, flanked by two hairy giants armed with javelins, their bronze tips aimed right at our chests.
"Well," Luke said with a crooked smile. "If it isn't my three favorite cousins. Come right in."
The stateroom was horrible in my opinion. On a velvet dais in the back of the room lay a ten-foot-long golden casket. A sarcophagus, engraved with Ancient Greek scenes of cities in flames and hero's dying grisly deaths. Despite the sunlight streaming through the windows, the casket made the whole room feel cold.
"Well," Luke said, spreading his arms proudly. "A little nicer then cabin eleven, huh?"
"No." I said honestly. He'd changed since last summer. Instead of Bermuda shorts and a t-shirt, he wore a button-down shirt, khaki pants, and leather loafers. His sandy hair, which used to be so unruly, was now clipped short. He looked like an evil male model...the kind that is so evil you want to run away in disgust. He still had the scar under his eye- a jagged white line from his battle with a dragon. Propped up against a sofa was his magical sword, Backbiter, glinting strangely from it's half-steel, half-celestial bronze blade that could kill both monsters and mortals.
"Sit." He told us. Four dining chairs scooted themselves to the middle of the room. None of us dared to sit. Luke's large friends were still pointing their javelins at us. They looked like twins, but they weren't human. They stood about eight feet tall for one thing, and only wore blue jeans. I guess they really didn't need to wear shirts. They had enough chest hair to do the job. They had claws for fingernails, feet like paws. Their noses were snout like, and their teeth were all pointed canines.
"Where are my manners?" Luke said smoothly.
"They took a flying leap when they saw your stupid face." I said. He glared at me but kept talking.
"These are my assistants, Agrius and Oreius. Perhaps you've heard of them."
I could tell that Percy was nervous. His hands were shaking terribly.
"You don't know their story?" Luke asked. "Their mother...well it's sad really. Aphrodite orded the young women to fall in love. She refused and ran to Artemis for help. Artemis let her become one of her maiden huntresses, but Aphrodite got her revenge. She bewitched the young women into falling in love with a bear. When Artemis found out she abandoned the girl in disgust. Typical of the gods, wouldn't you say? They fight with one another and poor humans get caught in the middle."
I thought Luke had finished but he kept talking.
"The girls twin sons here, Agrius and Oreius, have no love for Olympians, they like half-bloods enough though..."
"For lunch," Agrius growled. His gruff voice was the one I had heard talking with Luke earlier.
"Hehe!Hehe!" His brother Oreius laughed, licking his fur-lined lips. He kept laughing like he was having a asthmatic fit until Luke and Agrius stared at him.
"Shut up you idiot!" Agrius yelled. "Go punish yourself!"
Oreius whimpered. He trudged over to the corner of the room, slumped onto a stool, and banged his head against the dining table, making the silver plates rattle.
Luke acted like this was perfectly normal behavior. He made himself comfortable on the sofa and propped his feet up on the coffee table. He looked at my brother.
"Well Percy, we let you survive another year. I hope you appreciated it."
"You poisoned Thalia's tree." Percy said without question.
Luke sighed. "Right to the point eh? Yeah, I poisoned it. So what?"
"How could you?" Annabeth sounded so angry I thought she'd explode, but I didn't blame her one bit. Thalia saved your life! Our lives! How could you dishonor her-"
"I didn't dishonor her!" Luke snapped. "The gods dishonored her Annabeth! If Thalia were alive she'd be on my side."
"Liar!"
"If you knew what was coming you'd understand-"
"What I understand is that you want to destroy the camp! You're a monster!" She yelled.
Luke shook his head. "The gods have blinded you Annabeth. Can't you imagine a world without them? What good is that Ancient history you study? Three-thousand years of baggage! The west is rotten to it's core. It has to be destroyed. Join me! We can start the world anew. We could use your intelligence, Annabeth."
"Because you have none of your own!"
His eyes narrowed. "I know you Annabeth. You deserve better than tagging along on some hopeless quest to save the camp. Half-blood hill will be overrun by monsters within a month. The hero's who survive will have no choice but to surrender to us or be hunted to extinction. You really want to be on a losing team...with company like this?"
He pointed to Tyson.
"Hey!" Percy said.
"Shut up Luke! You don't even know him!" I yelled.
"Travelling with a cyclops," Luke chided. "Talk about dishonoring Thalia's memory! I'm surprised at you Annabeth, you of all people-"
"Stop it!" She shouted. She buried her head in her hands like she was about to cry.
"Leave her alone." Percy said. "And leave Tyson out of this."
Luke laughed. "Oh yeah, I heard. Your father claimed him."
Percy looked surprised but I wasn't even phased.
Luke smiled. "Yes Percy. I know all about that, and your plan to find the Fleece. What were those coordinates again...30,31,75,12? You see, I still have friends at camp that keep me posted."
"You don't have friends. You have brainwashed spies." I said.
He shrugged how many insults from your father can you stand, Lilly? You think he's grateful to you? You think Poseidon cares for you anymore than he cares for Percy or this monster."
Tyson clenched his fists and made a rumbling sound in his throat.
"I don't think anything. I know he loves us equally."
Luke just chuckled. "The gods are so using you Lilly."
"How is it any different than the way Kronos is using you?" I asked.
He looked so startled I thought he'd seen a ghost. Then he narrowed his eyes at me.
"I don't need to explain anything to you!" He yelled before picking a glass up off the coffee table and throwing it on the ground. The glass shattered.
I stayed calm.
"You mean you can't explain anything to me. If you had a reason you'd be shoving it in my face." I said.
Luke was about to fire back something else but Percy cut in.
"Listen Luke, your father sent us."
His face turned the color of pepperoni. "Don't even mention him!"
"He told us to take this boat. I thought it was just for a ride, but he sent us here to find you. He told me he won't give up on you no matter how angry you are." Percy continued.
"Angry!" Luke roared. "Give up on me! He abandoned me, Percy!"
"I want the Olympians destroyed! Every throne crushed to rubble! You tell Hermes it is going to happen too!Each time a half-blood joins us, the Olympians get weaker and he gets stronger!" Luke yelled. He pointed to the casket.
"He'll never win Luke. Evil will always lose." I said.
"He is re-forming," Luke said. "Little by little, we're calling his life form out of the pit. Each time a new half-blood pledges to join us a little piece appears-"
"That's disgusting!" Annabeth said.
"Your mother was born from Zeus's split skull, I wouldn't talk Annabeth." Luke said.
I narrowed my eyes.
"You have a split skull." I told him.
"You're insane." Annabeth told Luke.
"Join us and you'll be rewarded. We have powerful friends-" I finally thought of a way to get us out of here, I didn't hear the rest of what Luke was saying. I started to mutter a spell, and I silently prayed to the gods Luke wouldn't hear me. When I reached the last line of it Luke had just finished his speech.
At first nothing happened. Then the ship rumbled. A tsunami came and knocked the boat on it's side and we were all thrown off board, hopefully a long way away from Luke.
When we did hit the water, I made sure Annabeth didn't have any injuries. It had worked. All the was around us was a tiny life boat. The Princess Andromeda was no where in sight.
"How did you-?" Annabeth started.
"A spell I memorized a long time ago, I'm a little tired but I'll be fine." I said.
Percy grabbed the life boat. "Everybody get in."
Author's note: Hey guys, I hope you all like this chapter. The last one didn't have much of Lilly in it. Also, I found a better couple than Lilly/Nico or Hermes/Lilly. I wasn't sure if Hermes/Lilly would work cause of Hermes being immortal. And a couple of you did point out Nico is too young for Lilly. I though about making him older but decided against it. I'm keeping this new couple a surprise though, he isn't in the fanfictions I've written so far but he'll start to show up more ;p.