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I always wanted to travel underwater in like a vacation or something, but I never really figured I'd be following serpent things through the bottom of the ocean trying to find their home. It's sad, though. We have been through so much with those snakes and we don't even know what they're called!

Carter was starting to get on my nerves. Asking one question after another, always worrying about the situation. Actually I was feeling kinda nostalgic. Now I know how Annabeth felt when I first got to Camp Half-Blood so I figured I'd apologize.

" Sorry, Carter; it's just hard, you know? Trying to keep your head from exploding from the deep- sea water and all." He sneered at me," You don't have to fake apologize, Percy. I don't deserve it." I felt hurt, I was being sincere when I apologized. I was about to retort that it wasn't a fake apology, but I decided not to for the sake of my better judgement.

He looked at me waiting for a reply, but I didn't answer him so he lost interest.

The snakes got out of the car, and I was about to die of shock. The pressure down here was enough to kill a ten whales! How could the snakes still be alive let alone the car! I subconsciously kept my hands up while my brain was still processing what my sea bearings could not. The snakes didn't walk for too long when they reached a giant hole in the seafloor.

My mind raced and my concentration was quickly leaving me. My sea bearings told me where I was, but it didn't make sense!

The hole was an entrance to the Hadalpelagic Zone. It is the deepest layer in any ocean with 6000 meters (19,686 feet) of freezing cold pressure and I knew we would be able to stand the pressure with my bubble, but that wasn't the problem. Something just seemed " off. "

The snakes jumped in and I knew what was going on, " WE ARE NOT GOING TO LOSE THEM!" My anger was rising past it's boiling point. I thrust my hands out even further and we shot forward with god-speed and we were soon being sucked into the void.

Carter screamed, " What are you doing?!" To tell the truth, I barely knew myself so I didn't bother answer.

I tried to sift through my memories to see what I could secure what my problem with this hole was. Something in my head told me that this was bad, and something was going to happen and lives would be lost, but it just made me so frustrated because my head wouldn't grasp what my subconscious is trying to tell me!(...Wait, I think that is one of the smartest things I have ever said!)

All I knew is that I just probably endangered both of our lives, but I didn't care. We needed to finish this, quick.

" Answer me! What are you doing?!" I looked at Carter and I realized what I was doing. He looked like a scared petting zoo animal. " Sorry, Carter. But this just feels personal somehow, and I can't just ignore that. I know I should've asked you first, but I didn't want to lose them." Carter softened up a little bit.

" It wasn't that you didn't ask me. I would've said, ' Let's go!' anyway. It was the fact that you killed one of the three. " He pointed below us, and I watched as a snake floated past us, and not too long after, the body froze and was slowly crushed into nothing. I looked in horror as to what I just did. But it didn't surprise me as much as I thought it would.

My hand was in a position where it looked like Darth Vader was crushing someone's throat and I realized I killed that thing using the water around it. My powers over water sometimes did that. But what I was really surprised about is that the other snakes didn't notice that one of their allies was dead!

I could still see them, but I didn't see whether or not they noticed so I hoped for the best.

We floated in silence, and I was completely grateful of that, too. If I had anything else on my mind I would have surely lost the ability to focus on one thing, and things would have spiraled out of control. We don't want that do we?

My head was still swimming in memories as I tried to remember why I didn't like this place. There were too many memories and not enough attention span.

I didn't even notice Carter was talking until he screamed, " Percy! Are you listening?" I snapped out of it, " What?"

He gave me a look like, ' Space out much?' , " We're already at the bottom and the snakes are moving into a cave over there." He gestured off to the right of our position. I torqued my hands so we could go in that direction.

We slowly moved into the cave and I lost my sea bearings so I knew we were in open air. I popped the bubble and took a breath of fresh air.

Apparently, Carter didn't get the memo and fell flat on his face, " Warning next time?" He looked up at me and I smirked, " Gotta keep on your toes!" His expression didn't change, " Let's get going before we lose them. " I saluted like, ' Yes, sir!' and carried on after him.

Sometimes we crawled; sometimes we climbed, but I have to say, the cave was a piece of cake compared to propelling a bubble through the deepest layer of the ocean. I passed Carter a wall or two back. I guess he never went through my kind of training. There was another wall in front of me so naturally I started to climb it. I was about to pass over the wall when I looked at the floor below. The snake people were laying on the ground.

My worst fear is that they were dead, but I decided to not think of the bad and keep a positive spin. I heard Carter about to go over the hill, but I stopped him before he could and showed him what I was looking at. His eyes got wide, " You don't think they're... I mean... Is it possible?"

" If you're thinking they're dead, I don't know about that, but if they are, we are totally lost. " My curiosity got the better of me. I started to tip-toe over to the snakes on the ground and Carter whispered, " What are you doing?"

I looked back at him, " There is only one way to see if they are dead or alive." He nodded from the safety of his hill. I was halfway there when I heard something... Snoring? I tried to make my way back to Carter.

" Sooooo?" Carter had an inquisitive look on his face. " They're asleep! " I felt like I was going to faint.

" Asleep!" I put my hand over his mouth. " Be quiet!" I tried to whisper. " How can they be asleep?" He was quiet now.

" I guess even un- identified creatures that try to kill us have to sleep once in a while." I shrugged it off. " Well what do we do now?"

I looked at Carter, " Well, I guess we need to rest too."

NEXT UP THE FIGHT AT BROOKLYN HOUSE, BUT I REALLY HAVE ENJOYED THE COMMENTS AND SUPPORT I'VE GOTTEN FROM YOU DEVOTED READERS!
I ALSO READ THAT RICK RIORDAN IS COMING OUT WITH A REAL CROSSOVER BETWEEN THE KANE CHRONICLES AND PERCY JACKSON! THERE IS ALREADY AN EXCERPT OUT AND I AM SO LOOKING FORWARD TO THE FULL BOOK! ANYWAY, THANKS FOR READING AND I HOPE YOU CAN WAIT FOR THE NEXT CHAPTER!