They arrived at the harbour thirty minutes later. Kat paid the driver and the girls quickly piled onto the curb with their things.

"You sure there's nothing else I can do for you?" The driver asked.

"No, thanks. Bye!" Kat passive aggressively hinted. She smiled, then turned on her heel and pulled the girls with her towards the water.

"Where do we get a boat?" Rose wondered.

If Jase were there, he would have summoned a herd of dolphins for them to ride, because he knew Casey loves dolphins. But Jase wasn't there.

"Why don't we just steal one?" Casey suggested.

Rose grinned in agreement. Kat, of course, did not like the idea. Her roman rule-following side was convinced that stealing a boat was wrong.

Casey smirked and looked at the expensive yacht a few yards away. Nothing secured it but a singular rope.

"It's can't be wrong if it's so easy to steal."

Kat didn't get a chance to argue. Rose took Casey's hand and pulled her towards the boat. The name across the bow of the small ship read Neptune's Cradle.

Casey had never driven a boat that moved as fast as the Neptune's Cradle. The experience was nothing like riding a dolphin. Actually, it was much easier. If Casey wanted to stay on a dolphin, she had to wrap her arms around its neck and hang on for dear life until the ride was over. If Casey wanted to ride a yacht, she only had to sit back on her nice reclining leather seat and watch for debri. Rose didn't like the water much. It made her feel sick to be so far away from land. But she was the only one who knew how to read the tourist map the taxi cab had given them.

It was basically a straight-shot towards the island. The girls docked their stolen speedboat and locked it up so they could ride it back when they were done. Most of the island was covered in tall buildings like the rest of New York, but there was a small part of forestry on the beach of the East side of the island. The trio decided to head to the forest. Demigods and other mythical beings didn't tend to do well in the big city.

"Should we split up?" Kat pondered. "Casey and I could head to the city. Rose can mess around the wildlife or commune with the furry critters."

Rose wasn't listening. She was too busy messing around with the wildlife and communing with the furry critters. The squirrel in front of her was chirping wildly and Rose was responding as if it were a normal conversation; nodding her head and looking up when the squirrel went quiet. Kat and Casey turned away and continued their own dialogue.

"No, we'll stay together. This group is too small to split up. Demigods are most likely to be in the woods, so the thieves would too," Casey decided. Kat nodded in agreement. Before the girls could try to make some sort of plan, Rose approached them. She was holding the small furry beast in her hands. Casey never realized how big and malignant a squirrel's teeth were until that moment.

"There's some sort of demigod camp on the North face of the woods. The campers got there about to days ago," Rose relayed.

"There's a good chance they've seen something." Kat looked around as if the camp was somewhere behind a tree nearby.

Casey rolled her eyes. "Can the little dude lead us to the camp?" She did not like talking to animals. It was weird. She was reminded of the time her dad was forced to converse with a poodle, and decided he probably felt the same way she did now. The squirrel didn't seem to care that she didn't want to talk. It let out a defiant squeak in her direction, then jumped from Rose's arms and bolted into the underbrush.

The squirrel obviously knew the lay of the land much better than the girls. Rose had kicked her shoes off at some point when they were running. She now jumped through the weeds and roots with her cloven feet out in the open. The other two girls tripped and skidded their way along and wished they were satyrs. Casey took out her sword and began swinging at everything that got in her way. Kat and Rose kept their distance to make sure they weren't included in that spectrum. They lost the squirrel a few times, but it always appeared again, clinging to the side of the tree and angrily screaming at them in whatever language varmint spoke.

Rose stuck her hand up in the air in a tight fist- the symbol to stop. Kat stopped so suddenly that Casey ran into her and made all three girls fall over.

"Is that the demigod camp?" Kat asked.

Casey rolled her eyes. "No, it's just a random campsite that has a sword leaning against the tent."

The trio approached the camp with their weapons drawn. A figure was hunched over the campfire. She had long brown hair that was pulled into a loose ponytail, and she was wearing an old worn blue Goode Swim Team jacket. Casey frowned and lowered her sword.

"Estelle?" She recognized her aunt from the back. She looked a lot like Grandma Sally. It helped that she was wearing Percy's old school jersey.

Estelle turned around with a smile as worn out as her jacket. It had been Percy's before she stole it. "Casey! What are you doing here?"

"We're on a quest, what are you doing here?"

Estelle frowned and fiddled with her necklace. "Your dad can't know, not until I know for sure. And your grandmother can never know that I'm out here."

Kat raised a single eyebrow and crossed her arms over her chest. "Don't worry, we are pretty good at not telling people things."

Estelle sighed and stood, dropping her hand onto Casey's shoulder. "I was talking with the huntresses when they caught some kind of monster who had been working with some thieves. I heard your brother's name and the hunter's gave me some supplies to track down the guy's story," she explained.

"Wait, so you're tracking down Jase?" Rose stepped in.

Estelle shook her head. "No, I don't think so. I think I'm tracking down a monster that ran into him at some point. But it might know something."

Casey was frowning at a nearby tree. Rose hoped she was just thinking and not glaring at another squirrel. "That might have something to do with our quest," she suggested. Casey finally turned away from the tree. The hopelessly victorious look on her face made Kat wonder if she just won a staring contest with the poor plant.

"Do you know where we should be going?" she asked,

Estelle nodded and pointed in the direction of the water. "Yeah, but they stole my supplies. I don't have the resources to go after them. Now that you three are here, maybe we stand a chance."

"Ah, no. Kat, Rose and I will go check it out. You will either stay here or go back home before Grandma Sally finds out what you're really doing" Casey said. Estelle was a senior in high school, she was eighteen. She was almost three years older than Jase, who was just over fifteen. Jase was about to be a junior in high school (he skipped two years.)

Estelle looked like she wanted to argue. But she knew Casey was right. Sally was already worried enough every time Percy walked out the door, she didn't need another kid sucked into this life.

"Fine. I'll go home. But only if you promise to keep me updated, and Iris Message me as soon as you get back." Estelle sounded a lot like Sally. Casey nodded in agreement, smirking.

"Ok, just go down that trail there until you reach the beach. The giant wooden boat there is the one you're looking for. There's a person, or at least it looks like a person, inside. He's the one that I tracked down from the monster that the Hunters got," Estelle explained.

AU: Are there any other characters you'd like added to the story?
Also, the last author's note did not mean the book was ending, I just wanted to kow some of your ideas :) I've got a long ways to go before I'm finished