(AU: For those who don't know, Orlando, Florida is home to a theme park called Universal Studios. In this place, there's Jurassic Park, the Simpsons, Marvel/DC, Harry Potter World, and more)
Thankfully, the rest of the way to Orlando was pretty uneventful. Casey was busy yelling at Max and Jonathan to notice where she was walking and fell off the side of the boat but besides that, nothing big. When we got to Orlando, Nico managed to somehow port at the dock next to four large cruise ships, hoping the mist would disguise us. The problem was, Nico wasn't very good at driving a warship. We were running low on supplies and Nico had run into a few floating islands and birds and a plane or two, so we needed to make repairs too. Charlie spent most of his time in the engine room, trying to figure out how the magical ship worked. He didn't seem to want to spend a lot of time with the rest of us and was still pretty upset about just know finding out about this world. Casey had been working- with Jonathan, Max, and I to try and figure out where in Orlando we should be searching. We weren't really getting anywhere. Max and Casey and Charlie were doing their best to repair the ship, which also wasn't working, and Will was watching Oliver and Adora. Nico, of course, was still pirating the ship. That wasn't going so well either.
"How are we supposed to fix this thing? We don't even know how to drive it!" Jonathan said, growing increasingly frustrated.
"Hey!" Nico yelled. "I take offense to that!"
The boat suddenly swerved and nearly knocked me off my feet as if to prove Jonathan's point. Will scoffed, holding his hand over his mouth to muffle the laugh.
"Well, we aren't completely clueless. We need celestial bronze, some more Greek fire for the canons, and some food for sure," Charlie spoke up from the corner of the room. He had navigated his way around the Greek and Roman technology surprisingly well. I guess that isn't too shocking, knowing who his father is.
"Where do we get that?" Kat asked.
"I didn't even know all this Greek stuff existed a week ago. I know where to get food though," Charlie offered with a shrug. Nico rolled his eyes and muttered something about damn Valdez genetics.
"There's Celestial bronze nearly everywhere if you dig deep enough. We're most likely to find it near a body of water through, where the Naiads and water Nymphs are," Max said. He'd gotten his powers over the underground from his mom so I trusted his insight.
"Looks like we've got a supply run to make," Will smirked, crossing his arms. Nico elbowed him in the gut and his husband grunted in pain, causing Nico to smirk this time. Casey looked to be thinking as she made the face my mom usually did.
"I think we should do a group of three, just to be safe," she finally decided. I nodded in agreement, as did the others in the group.
"So, who's going?" Max asked sheepishly. He was always shy, even with a group of people that he's completely comfortable with.
Casey pondered this for a moment before handing out rolls, "Max, obviously, because he'll know where to find the bronze. Charlie, because he knows what we need to get,"
"Sorta," Charlie muttered.
Casey ignored him. "And Jase, because Max said it's probably going to be near water and you've got the most power."
"But there's also a problem with that," I said after she had finished. She raised her eyebrow in a silent question. "I have the most power," I explained. I wasn't trying to show off or brag. I was usually modest, but I knew this. I was powerful, and going out may be dangerous.
"That's why there's only three of you going. Plus, Charlie should deter most monsters," Casey mentions.
Charlie's eyebrows creased together. "Why would I scare them off? Because I just found out about all of this?" he asked. Casey scoffed.
"Why would that make a difference? No, dummy. Being half god and half titan? Monsters won't pay it much thought if they get a whiff of you,"
Charlie didn't look like he understood. "Excuse me, what?"
Kat answered this time, "They'll think you're one of them, so they probably won't attack. Especially if they don't know who your parents are," she explained. Charlie still didn't understand.
"Why would they think I'm one of them? Do Hephaestus kids have a different scent or something?"
Gods, this kid really didn't know anything.
"Your mom," I said plainly. He looked at me as if I'd just made an unfunny joke.
"What about my mom?" he asked defensively. Max looked slightly concerned, as did Will. The rest of us just looked annoyed.
"Calypso," I hinted, hoping he'd get it. "Your mom is Calypso."
"Yes, I know," he said as if he were talking to a child. I motioned with my hands for him to keep going. "My mom is Calypso." Then his eyes went wide. "My mom is Calypso!"
"Will, you might want to take care of him," Kat muttered. Max backed away from the hyperventilating boy.
"My mom is Calypso! The Calypso! The Calypso!"
"Yeah, I'll get right on that," Will said, taking Charlie by the arm and leading him to the medical bay. I wasn't exactly sure how Will was going to fix him or make Charlie feel better or whatever, but I had faith that he would.
"So… What now?" Jonathan asked. Nico had followed Will so the others looked to me for an answer.
"Until Charlie is ready to go we can't do anything for supplies, so in the meantime let's work on finding that dam goblet."
Yes, my dad told me about that dam Dam incident.
"How are we supposed to find a single goblet in Orlando? The place is a tourist trap! Plus, Universal studios is full of goblets! What if she just chucked in in the middle of one of the theme parks and now it's in some random garbage can?" Kat said. Casey nodded in agreement and Max tried not to look like he agreed with them.
"Even if Aphrodite just tossed in down here, it's still a godly object. It will find somewhere to go. So we just need to find where a goblet would belong," Jonathan pointed out, thankfully taking my side.
"Yeah, let's just visit every tourist shop in Orlando!" Kat continued.
Jon looked at me to take over, so I did. "Not likely, the gods don't like when Mortal get their stuff, so if this wine goblet has any lasting residual effect from Dionysus, then it will most likely be somewhere that mortals can see it, but not somewhere they can access it. Gods like when mortals ogle over their things. So even if Dionysus didn't put the goblet there himself, it's location will still be influenced by the gods," I explained. Casey nor Katrina had a response for that, so I assumed that Jon and I had won the conversation.
"Max, get a bag ready. As soon as Charlie is somewhat sane, we're need to get supplies as quickly as possible. Casey, while I'm gone you take a team and start looking. Iris message me if anything happens. And at least one person has got to stay here and watch the kids," I ordered before turning on my heel and going back to my room to pack a bag.
