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Chapter: 12
I stare at Luke in shock. What was going on here. The man standing behind Luke was looking me over like I was an object that he was checking out before he bought it. He looked just as my mother had described him. Tall, medium build, bright sea-green eyes and raven black hair like my own. Luke stepped closer to us. "You know, as amusing as it is to see that confused expression on your face, I'm starting to get a little impatient. I didn't come live on land for two years and follow you around just to let you stare at me like a moron." The tone of his voice triggered every memory I had of every time Luke spoke to me. I never understood why he disliked me so much until now. He had been told to follow me and make sure I came to line in the sea. So he blamed me for having to live on land.
I stepped forward and my mom reached out to stop me. "Percy wait." I looked back to her with sencer eyes and said, "Don't worry." I turned back to Luke and my father. "How did you even know where we were? She left so you would never find us." Luke's face turned up in a sneer and when he spoke it irritated my eardrums. "He is the king of the ocean. He can see across any surface of water anywhere in the world. Do you really think that he is so incompetent that he couldn't find a land scum and a low sum half-breed?" The comment towards my mother was what made me angry. I didn't care how much he insulted me, but my mother was a different scenario. I felt heat rise to my face and something in the pit of my being seemed to growl in my mind. It felt like there was something alive in my soul and it was rearing its head to strike. "Yeah? And where do you fit into all of this? Are you just the henchman of the king who sends you off to search for his 'half-breed' son?"
The insult work like a charm as I watched his eyes harden and his face become ugly with anger. "How dare you! Who are you, a slimy land crawler, to speak to me in such a manner. I am the captain of the royal guard. The might of the kings power. I do as he wishes and am rewarded for my efforts. You're just his bastard son who was stolen away by the land vermen." The creature hisses and snaps in my mind at another insult to my mother. "Shut the hell up. You're just some spoiled fish boy who is used for selfish reasons. You barely older than me. You didn't get swim captain so I doubt your captain of the royal guard." His face turned three shades of red. "I didn't have to come here and take insults from a land child. I was sent by my father to do this mission to help my uncle. I didn't care if you were found or not. I was next in line for the throne since the king hadn't found a mate. But the you mother had to fall of a pier and ruin everything!" As his temper rose the water around us began to quake. "She had to become a damsel in distress and catch the king's eye. She ruined my chance of obtaining the throne. I only think it fair to ruin the land witch's life in return." He moment he said it the thing in me roared in outrage. It seemed to travel through me and soon I was yelling in anger. I could suddenly feel the power of the water around me and see the hold Luke had over it. I took hold of it and wrenched it out of his control. It began to flow around me and fill me with strength.
Luke looked frantic as he tried in vein to reclaim control of the water. I felt his feeble attempts and shoved them back. The wave behind me began to double in size as I began to walk towards Luke and my father. Luke began to back away into the water as he realized I would not relinquish my hold on the water around me. It began to flow around my legs and I began to rise into the air. He tried to use the water around him but it was not responding to him. I lifted my hand and the water arched back. I pushed forward with all my might and the water shot through the air like lightning. It blasted into Luke like cannonball and sent him flying over the sea.
I turned to my father and rush at him. I raise my arm to repeat what I had just done to my cousin. He raises his hand and I fall to the sand, all the water dropping onto the ground with a great splash. I scramble to my feet and try to summon the water once more. I can feel it around me but it seems to be just out of my reach. I give up on the water and rush at him intending to us my fists if I have to. He snaps his fingers and I become wrapped in water. My arms and legs lock together and I fall to my knees. He steps forward and kneels down in front of me. He puts his hand under my chin and lifts my face so I can do nothing but look in his eyes. "All that that power. You wish to live a life that was never yours to have. You belong to the sea. No matter how much you fight it. You are the sea prince, start acting like it." I try to control the water around me to make it let me go. His power flicks mine away like a pesky fly. "You will come live in the sea, one way or another. Don't make this harder than it has to be. You won't miss these land worms. Trust me. Just let go."
I jerk my chin away and glare at the man That brought me into this world. My anger begins to strengthen at the way he called my friends and family "land worms" and the way he acted like my mother wasn't even worth what he had spent with her. "I will never live in the ocean! I will never be your son!," my power begin to over take that of the king has on the water. "I will never be the prince of the sea! And I never want to see you again!" I push off his hold and for the first time there is fear in his eyes. I wrap the water around him and pull him into the ocean. I push with all my power and fell him be carried of into the depths by my current. I release the power and feel it drain out of my body. I turn and walk back to my friends and my mom. "Let's go home-" before I even finish my sentence I black out from the loss of energy.