Son of Khione Chapter 25

Piper's POV

The fighting was over and everyone was all clear to take off their ear protection. I looked around to make sure no one was hurt. Stephanie tended to Simon as he had a nasty looking gash on his abdomen which I flinched at before Stephanie wrapped it in gauze. Alex was over there shoulder watching as well. I walked further and saw Malikai sitting on a box of crates. I sighed in relief, but as I got closer I saw him trembling, his head was in his hands and he was shakey.

"Battle nerves? I still got adrenalin in me too." I said with a small laugh hoping that's what it was.

"No, no. It's not that." He said evasively.

"Well?" I said pushing harder

"It's… They took my headphones." He said looking up at me.

I looked confused, "Er, You can have mine if you want?" I offered.

"No," he said with a small, hollow laugh, "I could hear them." He replied, rubbing his face. "I felt so weak and helpless, I tried resisting but they almost pulled me into the water." running his hands through his hair.

I sat next to him with a concerned look on my face, "What did you see?".

"If you don't mind, I think I'd keep that to myself for now." He said, looking at me with a small smile and almost pleading eyes.

"Sure, it's fine you don't have to tell me anything.", I stayed next to him with my hand on his in silence. Not an awkward silence but a comfortable silence.

Alex's POV

I walked to the front of the ship looking out across the sea, passing by a shaken Malikai holding hands with Piper, awkward. Now I understand Simon's little PSA back there. After looking at the ocean for 10 seconds I felt it was safe to leave their space without looking suspicious. I head into the yacht and down the stairs into the cargo bay, unblocking the crap that we put in place to stop the servants. All the servants were their wide eyed, they could obviously hear the song and the skirmish that ensued. I looked at the inside of the door to see a lot of small dents and scratches, I turned and raised my eyebrows at the girls. A few of them looked away in embarrassment.

"Olly Olly Oxen Free, let's go." I shouted to them heading back up. The sound of my boots hitting the metal stairs echoed down the hall.

"Ahoy, Captain Frosty! Be there land ahead?" Simon said in his 'pirate' voice. I hid my laugh, keeping a straight face.

"Yes, and shut up." He replied getting up. Clearly not in the mood. What's up with him?

Simon's POV

After seeing his reaction I followed him back to the bridge looking back to see Piper give a small frown and turn to walk to the front and lean on the rail of the ship.

Finally catching up I said, "Hey man, sorry I called you that, won't happen again sir" I said with a mock salute as we made it onto the bridge.

He sighed, "It's not that Simon, don't worry about it." He grabbed my hand we shoulder bumped (Don't question it, it is a ritual that is performed by man since before time). I nodded, I knew he wasn't telling me everything but he's a tough cookie he can handle himself.

"So where to Captain?" I asked walking up to the controls.

He put an eyebrow up at me, "Don't touch anything, and we are headed to California."

"Why?" I asked. That was a long way away. Besides, weren't we still in the Bermuda Triangle?

"I had a dream, some of those servants back from the island are very important in the future." I didn't question him anymore as I knew he wasn't going to give me any more so I just nodded and went to inform the others.

-Line Break, have any of you played Bioshock Infinite? It's so trippy and complicated omg-

Malikai's POV
A long long long time later we made it to the coast of California. Near San Francisco in fact. I drove the yacht straight onto the beach, thankfully it was empty as it was still 2 am. I dropped the anchor into the sand just for fun and jumped onto the squishy sand (Finding Dory reference) as well, using my wings to glide down a bit, man I wish I could fly already.

"Not all of us have wings Malikai." said Piper with an eyeroll at my theatrics.

"Jump, I'll catch you!" I shouted back up in a joking way holding out my arms. We can easily say I was... Surprised, when Piper took me up on that offer and jumped. She landed in my arms but took me to the ground too. We ended up in a pile laughing and covered in sand. I finally got up and helped her up, as I was dusting off my knees I looked up to see Simon leap off the deck. I caught him as well but ended up on the sand. This time there was more groaning in pain and less laughing, other than Piper who thought it was the funniest thing in the world.

After a while we made a makeshift ladder you could call it, out of the crates' wood. I stood in front of all of the servants from the island. Hands on my hips I said to all of them, "Well, disperse." They all deadpanned at me.

"Need a little help here" I thought to ALL of the olympians. Then I had a feeling to take 5 specific girls out of the group and talk to them in private.

"They will go in the woods to find a Wolf who will take care of them" A deep voice in my head said, at the same time I said.

"You will go in the woods to find a Wolf who will take care of you" I said kinda monotonously.

They looked around, "We're on a beach..".

"Just follow your instincts, it will lead you there." I said to them patting one on the shoulder.

One of them came up to me, a girl probably my age or younger she had dark skin and black hair, "Thank you, for saving us from the pirates, my name is Reyna if we shall ever see each other again."

"It's Malikai, if you don't know already, and I have a feeling we will." I sent her off with the other 4.

"Take 7 of them with you back to Camp Half Blood" The voice said again and I immediately knew which 7, and separated them accordingly.

"The rest we will handle", well, that was creepy, I guess the rest were mortals or something, not my problem.

"We have to go back to Camp Half Blood.", I said to the group + 7.

"Then why did we crash the ship?" I stood there, then shrugged. And everyone showed their exasperation in their own way. But then I heard a phone ring, Piper looked around sheepishly and pulled a cell from her pocket. She got into a small conversation, which turned into a quiet argument but then she resigned with a sigh, putting it away she looked at us.

"I have to go home, apparently camping trips aren't supposed to be this long." She said to us in reply. We all stood there in silence, she went around giving everyone hugs, and she gave me one too, 1-2 seconds longer than the others I might cheekily add.

"Maybe next time guys." She said walking towards the city, I looked back at my friends and chased after her, I turned her shoulder around making her face me.

"Malikai… about us… I don't think it's gonna work." She said in a sad tone. I knew it too, didn't make it feel any better.

"You're an adventurous demigod killing monsters and going all over the globe, I still have my dad, and my life. Even though I am a demigod I can't be right by your side all of the time. And you deserve someone who can.", She continued.

"Hey, we're still 14-", I said in a cheery tone

"I'm 13.", She interjected.

"Whatever- and we still have a lot ahead of us, besides all we did was make goo goo eyes and almost kiss that's nothing serious.", She smiled at that, "You go get 'em tiger, oh, and if anyone hurts you be it monster or douc- I mean boyfriend. Then you contact me and I'll make them regret their ever laying eyes on you, got it?", I said and grabbed her in a hug.

"Got it.", She said with a laugh hugging me back before letting go.

"How're you going to get home?" I asked her.

"My dad's rich he'll just send his stupid servant bitch" She added in disgust, changing emotions rather quickly. I walked back to the others.

"Anyone know any stupid servant bitches?" I asked with a cocked eyebrow.

-Line Break-

I settled down by the lake at Camp HalfBlood. It had been about a month since Piper left and since Percy and Ann- wait no it was "Clarisse" who brought the fleece back. Yeah right. I looked to my left to see Simon playing catch with his turtle, except the balls were potatoes, and he wasn't bringing them back. I couldn't see them but I was sure Alex was at the arena, and Stephanie was at the Range. The servants we brought back fit in just fine, finding a life of servitude wasn't as great as Circe made it out to be.

I sighed and walked out onto the lake the water in front of my feet quickly freezing and the ice behind my feet quickly melting. Once I made it to the center of the lake I looked up at the sky and thought, "No more god damn quests".

The End

Of Sea of Monsters

Author's Note:

The writers (Mostly me (Malikai)) are tired of this first series shit (nothing against it just it's boring to write about with how the plot is figured out) so we're mostly gonna not be involved in a lot of stuff until later. So skimming through the rest, we're just gonna be there for major events like Battles n stuff or maybe Titan's Curse. Alsoooo... idk... just follow/favorite/review/share idk just help us pls. lmfao. PM me if you want to Beta.