- I apologize if it took me longer to write this chapter then the other ones. I don't have a lot of free time to write so most of my writing is from ten to twelve in the morning. I'm also just realy slow. Potatoe Man out!-
Chapter: 10
Both Grover and Annabeth look from me to Nico as if to confirm what we just told them. I look to the ground self consciously as their stares move back to me. I couldn't tell from their expressions what was going through their minds. Based on what just happened I can only assume they think I am a monster with violent tendencies. I shift my weight from one foot to the other nervously as I wait for one of them to say something. I hear Annabeth clear her throat and I prepare for the worst. "Well…...Besides the fact that I was nearly killed by a wave a few minutes ago, I think that this is the coolest thing I ever heard." I look up quickly in confusion. "Wait….You think this is cool. I thought you would think I was a monster and you would hate me."
She stood up and walked over to wrap her arms around me. "I don't care if you grow wing and start drinking blood. You're my best friend." I hug her back and we stand there for a minute. We pull apart and smile at each other. Grover stands up. "Well…..We should do what you came here to do." I take a deep breath. I feel like the luckiest person on the planet to have friends like these. We all start walking towards the water. We reach the edge and stop. "Ok. Lets try this again." I go to take the last step one once again someone calls out behind us. This voice was also familiar, but not in a good way. "Stop!"
I spin around to see the sprinting angry bler that is my mother. I didn't even know that she could move that fast. "What do you think your doing! Get away from that water mister! You don't know what you're doing! And you two! I expected better from you!" as she got closer, the louder she got. She made it to us and she grabbed my arm and pulled me away from the water. "What were you thinking! I told you to never come here! It is dangerous for you to be here! And you!" she said as she pointed a finger at Nico. "None of this started happening until you came into our lives! Did he send you!? Are you here just to steel my son away!? I don't care how powerful he is, he can't have my son! Do you hear me!?" This last part she said facing the ocean instead of Nico. "You can't take him away from me!" she bent down, picked up a rock and trough it into the waves. "You can't have him!"
She grabbed my arm again and started pulling me towards the parking lot. "You are never coming here again and you're banned from ever seeing that boy again!" I pulled away from her to free myself from her grip. She lunged for me again but I moved away from her. "Perseus Jackson! We are leaving this instant young man." I take another step away from her. "No! I want to know what's going on. Who were you yelling at? Who can't take me away and take me where? What are you not telling me?" she stepped closer and I took three steps back. She sighed in realization that I wasn't going with her without an explanation.
"I have always told you you were special, and that is more true then you know. I meet you father after I fell off the pier when I was twenty years old. I had tripped, fell over the rail and landed in the water. I wasn't much of a swimmer and I was slammed into one of the columns by the waves. I was knocked out and when I came to I was in the arms of your father. He had seen me fall and, against the rules of his people, swam over to help me. He had found a remote part of the beach where we couldn't be seen. He set me down on the beach and made sure I was breathing properly. My eyesight came into clearer focus and I noticed that his legs were covered in sky blue scales. I couldn't believe my eyes as they reflected tiny rainbows across the sand.. He followed my line of sight and realized what I was staring at. With a snap of his fingers his legs shone brightly and the scales were replaced with long blue swimming trunks. I couldn't handle what I had just seen and I blacked out." She paused for a moment and looked out to the ocean.
"When I awoke I found myself alone on the beach. I tried to shrug it off as a drowning induced dream, but it felt so real that it always nagged at the back of my mind. When I decided to return to the beach I couldn't help but notice once in awhile a bright glimmer in the waves, as if the sun was glistening off scales beneath the water. I thought I was going crazy and decided to go for a walk down the beach. Without realizing where I had gone, I found myself back at the part of the beach where I had meet the man from the ocean. As I was about to leave a dark form in the water caught my eye. He rose from the water and approached me cautiously. I walk forward to meet him and found myself staring into bright sea-green eyes. He held out his hand to me and I accepted it with my own. In a voice almost as deep and mystifying as the sea he said, 'I am Poseidon the third. Future king of the sea.'"