Release The SHRIMPZILLA! (Also,fpat)

That is, Fish People and Tails

Mwahahahahaha! Hi guys! And you didn't really think I was going to make Jason a merman, did you? And, GiraffesplayCello (hope I wrote that write) I'm glad your SO! Or is it SOOK! Or is it SOK! Or SOCK! NOBODY KNOOOOOOOOOOOWS! And, guys, I STILL DON'T KNOW IF THEY'RE GOING TO BE MERMAIDS OR NOT! I DON'T (read: never) REALLY KNOW WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN IN A CHAPTER BESIDES A VAGUE OUTLINE! My brain just tells me what to write. Hope you like it! Also, IT WAS MA BIRTHDAY RECENTLY! YAAAAAAY! Let's just say I'm between 10 and 20 years old. For safety purposes. Anyways, Enjoy!

Disclaimy: (in monotone) I do not own Percy Jackson and the Olympians or H2O: Just Add Water. All rights belong to Rick Riordan and Nickelodian, respectivley.

Piper's P.O.V.

The boys explained what happened to me in the moonpool last night in my cabin. Luckily we had gotten back before anyone had figured out we were gone. When they got to the tug-of-war part, I winced.

"Sorry, Jason." He scratched the back of his head. "No big deal." Percy finished the story- "And then we woke you up and we came back here and…. yeah…" I sighed. "Well, we won't have to deal with this for a month and after that we'll be done with this and…" I trailed off. Either we would defeat Gaea and live, or we could defeat Gaea and die, or we could lose to Gaea and survive, but we would die three out of the four times.

Not very good odds. Jason stood up. "I'm going to go take a shower." That was a good idea. The ocean water had partially washed away the sand, but now there was salt in it too. Percy wandered off to find food, and I grabbed a bagel from the dining hall and snuggled into my covers to read my book for a few hours. It was something Annabeth had lent me, a copy of the Odyssey written in it's original Ancient Greek.

It was pretty interesting, if a little thick. At first, I had struggled through the Ancient Greek writing, but I was getting more fluent. At about 2:00, Annabeth knocked on my door. "Hey. Whatcha doin'?" I looked up from my book. My friend was standing in my cabin holding two plates of food, both with a burger and fries, one being a veggie burger and the other a normal cheeseburger. "Just reading."

She smiled. "I thought I'd bring you some food." I gratefully accepted the veggie burger and fries. "Thanks. Just reading about Nobody." Annabeth smiled. "I was Nobody once. So was Percy." I looked at her, surprised. "Really?" Annabeth nodded. "My second quest. To the Sea of Monsters. Technically I wasn't supposed to go, but Percy was determined. Good thing too…"

I must have looked confused, because Annabeth then decided to tell me the entire story. I laughed at the thought of Grover in a wedding dress, and when she had finished, I told her some funny tidbits from my quest with Jason and Leo.

She then proceeded to regale me with Percy's greatest Seaweed Brain moments, and then Hazel ended up wandering in, and shared more on her, Frank, and Percy's trip to Alaska, and that dissolved into trading stories that were funny and weird, each trying to top the other.

About 5 hours later, we decided to go to dinner. Sometime over the course of the day, we had switched from sailing to flying. We were still trading stories. "So remember when Percy got kicked in the head by Blackjack? So Blackjack sneaks up so quietly for an animal with hooves! And I was like 'You won't kill him, you'll just knock him out.' And the eiledon possessing Percy was all like 'Whaaaa?' because he was about to kill Jason, and you should have seen his face! And then Blackjack kicks him in the head and he looks like one of those cartoon characters who just got hit on the head. It was hilarious!" I said.

"Oh, that's nothing. You should have seen his face during his first summer at camp when he got attacked by a hellhound during capture-the-flag! His face! He's like: 'What's that growling? Omigosh, big scary black thing! Oh, snap, it's jumping and it's got claws and teeth!' And then he gets slashed in the chest and falls into the stream and he's like 'OMG that hurts. Am I dead?' But then he was fine." Annabeth said. We all laughed. The boys looked at us as we walked in. "What are you talking about?" Leo asked. Annabeth replied.

"Oh, just talking. I just told them what Percy looked like the first time he was attacked by a hellhound." Percy grinned. "Oh, I remember that! That was when I got claimed! I broke Clarisse's electric spear then!" Hazel spoke up. "Remember 'Team Leo'?" Annabeth nodded. "Yeah, you and Leo came back from the lake and Leo had 'Hot Stuff' and 'Team Leo' written all over him. We never heard that story…" Leo looked horrified.

"How could we have forgotten?!" He then launched into an exact rendition of what had happened. You know, with the occasional, "Leo, that didn't happen." From Hazel. This turned into a huge trade-off of stories.

Eventually, at about 9 o'clock, we slowed down. I yawned. "I think I'm gonna go to bed." Hazel nodded in agreement. "Me too." Everyone murmured agreement. "So, we're sailing tonight, right?" Leo said, rubbing his eyes.

"Yep." Coach hefted his bat. "Any monsters show up, I'll whack 'em to the moon!" Leo nodded sleepily. "You do that. I'll bring the ship down." He got up and left the dining hall. We all dispersed to our cabins. A few moments later, the ship descended, and then with a slapping noise and a wave of water, we set down in the ocean. A few minutes later, I was fast asleep.

I woke to alarm bells. The ship rocked in the turbulent water. I threw on some normal clothes and rushed into the hallway. It was a madhouse. "What's happening?" I yelled to Annabeth. She shrugged and followed Percy, Jason, and Frank who were charging up the stairs. I heard Percy yell, "What's going- Gah! Shrimpzilla!" I tried to see what was going on, but all I saw was a flash of pink and the deck as the ship was rammed and I went tumbling towards the starboard railing and went overboard along with Jason and Annabeth.

As I stumbled to my feet, I finally saw what was attacking the ship and what Percy had so aptly dubbed 'Shrimpzilla'. It was the length of the Argo II and looked like a gigantic pink shrimp/cockroach hybrid.

I managed to take this all in before a wave of water came rushing towards me, only to divert itself midway. I looked around and saw Percy flash a quick grin at me before turning his attention back to the pink monolith alongside our ship. I internally sighed with relief. I wouldn't be much use with a tail. Annabeth pulled herself up with one of the rail shields.

"How did it get so close?" she shouted. "I don't know!" Coach Hedge yelled. "I'm stupid!" Leo yelled. "Stupid, stupid! I forgot the sonar!" Before anyone could reply, the monsters tendrils lashed across the deck. Percy was smashed in the chest and knocked down the stairs by one, and I was dragged, screaming, by my legs towards the railing.

"Nose-hair attack!" Yelled Coach Hedge. He slammed tentacles with his baseball bat, but it just bounced off them. Jason and Annabeth were busy with their own tentacles, and Frank tried to find a weak spot in Shrimpzilla's shell, which only seemed to anger it more. "Hazel! That box! Open it!" I heard Leo yell as I was pulled into the air.

Luckily the monster's slimy snot didn't seem to trigger my transformation, but I had bigger problems. I was dangling over the monster now, being lashed back and forth. It seemed too preoccupied with everyone on the ship to eat me. Yet. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Frank get slammed overboard by a tentacle. Hazel screamed, and I saw a faint toxic green glow.

I saw Leo and Hazel get raised by a tentacle to join me. Now that they were closer, I could see Leo holding a glass vial full of a glowing green substance. Then Leo pressed his hand to the tentacle and I saw a flash of white-hot fire before the monster bellowed, shuddered, and I fell as I was released.

I saw water below me, and I saw two forms slightly beneath me, and then two dark shapes in the inky black water. My vision flickered as a tingling sensation came over me, stopped when the point of a knife held by a man who had a pallid face, the color of lima beans. I found I could breathe, right before I fell unconscious.

I woke up thinking I was dead, because I felt like I was floating. My eyes slowly adjusted to dim light, at which point I realized I was in a cave with a floor covered in sea urchins and a roof covered with phosphorent moss. I drifted upright and saw Leo and Frank. "Hey, Beauty Queen!" Leo said, beaming at me. "Where are we?" I asked. My voice had a strange reverb to it.

The entrance to the cave was an abalone shell inlaid with pearl, rose, and turquoise. "Underwater somewhere, I think." I jerked and looked down. I was confronted by two legs ending in two feet. I wiggled my toes to make sure I wasn't hallucinating, and I really did have legs instead of a tail. "What? How?" Luckily, Leo didn't know what I was asking.

"Are you breathing underwater? There's some kind of clever magic that gives us a thin layer of replenishing oxygen which lets us breathe and stay dry." Dry. I was dry. I only got my tail when wet. I let out a breath I didn't know I was holding.

"Okay…" Frank spoke up. "Did you see anything that happened?" I shook my head. "There was this weird guy who poked me in the head with a dagger…" "The fish-horse guys. They took us and Hazel. They already took her away." I looked at him. "What?" Leo shrugged. Suddenly, the shell door rolled open. Three people stood in the doorway. People was a relative term. One was a thin man with a scraggly beard, with green skin. The second guy was muscular and huge, with blue skin instead of green, and a globe of frizzy blue-black hair.

The third wasn't even a guy. She was a teenager about my age with turquoise skin and dark black hair which rippled in an invisible current. They all had one thing in common. From the waist down, they had blue-green horse legs which morphed into long fish tails of the same color. "I am Bythos." said the green man. "I will interrogate Frank Zhang." Why did you capture us?" Leo asked. "Where's Hazel?"

The man's eyes narrowed. "You, Leo Valdez, will go with my brother." "Your brother?" "Yes. Try not to make Aphros mad." I assumed Aphros was the gigantic guy. He then turned to me. "And you, Piper McLean, will go with my uncle's-friend's-cousin's-fifth-cousin-twice-removed, Arianna." They must have kept really good records. I awkwardly swam up to her, and we started down a path stretching away from the cave.

I wasn't used to swimming without my tail. "Come. Let us talk." Arianna said. I heard Leo ask Aphros, "Is that why they named you Aphros? Because of the hair?" I mentally face-palmed. Only Leo would ask such a spur-of-the-moment question. Okay, maybe Percy, judging by the things Annabeth had told me. We swam between tall yellow-green plants, with a dot of pale white high above that must have been the sun. Eventually, we emerged into a beautiful underwater garden, with multi colored anemones and coral making beautiful colors.

"Oh!" I said. "Come. Tell me your story." Arianna swam over to a bench and sat, patting the section beside her. I settled down and awkwardly started with my childhood and my dad's acting career. I talked about how I had become a mermaid, and slowly eased into the telling of my story. I talked about stealing things for attention, and then camp, and then finally the quest.

After I was done, I sat for a moment. Arianna simply said, "I believe you." I looked up, having half forgotten I had an audience, and found she had woven a daisy chain with anemones. "Your tail…" she said, placing it on my head as a sort of crown, "Is both a blessing and a curse. Use it well, and do not become bitter, for that is the path to sorrow.

You should tell your friends about it." I shifted uncomfortably. "I don't know, I mean, what would they think?" She smiled and brushed a piece of hair out of my face. "Your friends Percy and Jason took it well, did they not? Wait until the time is right." I smiled, and hugged her impulsively.

"Thank you." I said. "You are most welcome. I remember once, when I was a little bit younger, I kept a secret from my friends. It was a trivial thing, but I thought they would be upset. When they found out, we all laughed about how silly the whole thing was." She proceeded to tell me all about how she distanced herself from her friends, and how good it felt to finally tell them.

Then she told me about one of the bullies in her school, and how he had been humiliated after a competition with one of his often picked on victims. He had turned around in the end, but we laughed about it. We swam up to Frank, Leo, and Hazel after trading phone numbers. "Doesn't that attract monsters?" I asked. "We have special coverage, but it was a one-time-only special offer. They don't offer it anymore, but it still works when people call us." "Bye!" I called, waving, as I joined my friends. I turned to Bythos, as he started to talk.

He gave us some warnings, telling me, "Be careful of what you do. Secrets among friends are easily uncovered." Then, Aphros gave us brownies and a letter of introduction for Annabeth, and then Bythos took out four pink pearls.

"And now, off with you, demigods! Good sailing!" He threw them at us and I had time to say "What?" Before we went rocketing to the surface inside giant pink bubbles. I hoped they would spit us out above water, close to the ship, but unfortunately they spit us out right at sea level and disappeared. I was instantly drenched in water and felt tingling spreading from my toes upward.

I heard shouting and saw the Argo II right in front of us, our friends waving from the side rails. Jason and Percy stared at me, and I stared back. Annabeth, Coach Hedge, and Nico hauled Leo, Frank, and Hazel up onto the ship, but I hung back. "Come on!" Yelled Annabeth. "Uh, guys?" I said nervously. I made eye contact with Jason again. "We need to talk."

Sooooooo, hope you liked it! I didn't really like the ending... especially not Arianna and Piper talking... it just doesn't feel right to me... Also, OOOOOH! PIPER'S SECRET IS OOOUUUUUUT! *in background* Who let the dogs out? Who? Who? Who? Who? Who? Who let the dogs out? Who? Who? Who? Who? *continues speaking* sorry, I think somebody hijacked my stuff... *whistles innocently* Well, tell me what you think! Also, CALLING ALL WARRIORS FANS! Check out my NEW STORY, Love Amongst The Stars, co-written with BrightStormWarriorCats Who nobody knows yet! Nobody will review it... *cries* HELP US WITH THE BUDGET CUTS... Anyways,

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