Chapter 20

Percy POV

'Why did Triton have to live so far away from Manhattan' I thought. Sure I was just being bratty because of how I woke up, but everyone is entitled to having a bad day, and I was supposed to be meeting Malcolm and Emily in a hour to hang out. I was so engrossed in my thoughts that I almost missed the giant tail swinging in from of me "What the Zeus!" I said to myself. Up above me I saw the rest of the massive beast along side a medium sized boat and accompanied by flashes of light.

Curious I swam up to the surface and took a look. On the boat was a blond haired boy about my age maybe a little younger and there was a dark haired girl with a bow. A large ball of fire lit up the morning sky as a red and black dragon sailed past. The dark haired girl fired an arrow driving the dragon back if only for a moment. The blond boy was doing his best to keep the Sea monster, which looked like a cross between an eel and a shark, busy but was unable to keep it from hitting the boat and knocking the girl off the side. "Reyna!" The boy shouted, I dived under the water and went after Reyna. She was sinking to the bottom but I caught her easily. Thankfully we weren't down that deep so I didn't have to worry about her getting the bends.

Jason POV

"Reyna!" I shouted, I went to go after her but the dragon cut me off. I could feel my heart racing but there wasn't much I could do I The trojan sea monster was immune to my lightning bolts and the dragon was fire incarnate. On my left something shot out the water shaking the whole boat and scaring off the dragon. Something landed in the boat behind me, on instinct I spun in place slashing wildly. "Down here dude" a boy with black hair said without looking away from Reyna who was in his arms. I went to ask who he was but a roar from the overgrown sea snake cut me off.

"You get the snake, I'll take the dragon" the new guy said diving back into the water. Hoping he could take the dragon I turned back to the sea monster. Thankfully that little cut I gave it earlier had left it a little more wary of snapping at me letting me have a bit more rest between strikes. I dived to the left as far as I could to avoid it's next strike the top of the deck splintered and the wood shuddered in a very worrying way. Before I could even stand up it's head back in the air. 'this is bad' I thought 'he attacks so quick I can barely even dodge let alone counter attack and if the boat take another hit we're going down'. I risked a glance behind me and saw the new guy using the seawater to propel himself up to the dragon so he could fight it.

'Wish I could do that… wait I'm a son of jupiter if he can do that with water maybe I can do that with wind!'. I closed my eyes and concentrated as hard as I could and almost instantly I felt myself shooting into the air. I opened my eyes and tried to steer myself behind the snake but riding the wind was a lot like riding a bull, it just keeps trying to throw you off. The snake snapped at me again and let the air drop me so its head sailed straight over me and letting me get a good swipe at its neck.

Thankfully I landed back in the boat sadly it was a lot harder than I wanted, the black haired boy dropped right next to me and his necklace rolled away, he was bleeding golden Ichor profusely from a set of cuts on his chest. But rather than worrying about his cuts this new guy just seemed to get mad and jumped in the water. I glance back at the serpent grateful to see it disintegrating, over head the dragon circled.

I readied my sword to take it down but turns outs it wasn't necessary as a geyser of water shot out in a very rough out line of the Trojan sea monster. The water construct swallowed the dragon whole and dived back into the sea. A few seconds later there was an explosion below the surface and the new guy surfaced "Well that was interesting" he said climbing into the boat "Names Percy by the way".

"Jason" I replied holding out my hand. "Nice to meet you." Percy said sparing a look at Reyna "She okay?". "I think so, she has a nasty bump on her head but that's it." I said "So did the Olympians send you?". "Nope just happened to be passing through on my way home from my brother Triton's place." Percy said. "Well either way thanks for your help you showed just in the nick of time." I said. "Hey no problem...crap I got be home in a home soon or my mother's going to kill me!" Percy said grabbing his necklace and jumping in the water.

Hermes POV

"Lets have another round of drinks" I slurred. "Maybe you should slow down a bit" Ares said. "Say's the guy who downed a bottle of whisky" Apollo laughed. "Hey I use that stuff instead of milk for my morning cereal." Ares shot back. "Just because you drink whisky all the time doesn't make hardcore…" Hephaestus said. As the three of them went on to debate what was and was not hardcore I focused the hotties in the room. I wasn't actually looking for someone to go home with but a little fluttering couldn't hurt. To my left was a very delicate looking girl sitting at the counter probably out with friends. My guess is she just turned 21 because she seem completely out of place and vulnerable.

I let out a sigh and moved on, although she was pretty Apollo would never even let me talk to her. Any girl that reminded him in even the slightest way of Artemis A.K.A young and Naive (at least in his eyes) was off limits to everyone. How Apollo saw her that way was beyond me, I thought she was just plain scary, I guess he's just trying to hold on to his to how things were when they were kids. Out of the corner of my eye I saw a biker walk up to the girl "Hey baby whats a pretty little thing like you doing in a place like this." He said sliding his arm around her shoulder. "I-I'm just waiting for a few friends" she stuttered.

"Well how about you come join me and my friends till they get here" He said. "U- um I don't think I should." She replied. "Come on I bet they'd love to meet you." He said darkly, the girl tried to lean away but the man's grip held strong. I was about to head over myself but Apollo beat me to it "Hey I believe the lady said no." He called. "Stay out of this blondy, this is just between me and the girl." He said. "Bad move dude" I said under my breath. "I'm not moving till you let the girl go." Apollo said audaciously. I honestly had to do a double take Apollo wasn't acting like himself even in war he's never this serious. "You really want to mess with a member of the angels." He said. "Angels" Apollo laughed "man what are they going to come up with next the flying nuns?".

Biker boy let the girl go and aimed a right hook at Apollo's jaw. Apollo stepped to the man's left, caught his punch at the wrist, and used his arm as leverage to slam his head on the counter. Poor sap didn't even see it coming. "You just made a big mistake pal." I looked back to see twenty or thirty more bikers walking in "You're going to pay kid" a tall bald man said. The three of us got up to help Apollo but he waved us back. "What is that moron doing he can't handle all of them" I said, true we are gods but the fates decreed long ago that we couldn't interfere with matters involving our own children A.K.A Demigods. There were a few ways around the law like we could retaliate if provoked. With your average mortals we do anything we wanted but kill as long as acted as like mortals, no godly powers or weapons, and no magic. I'm not even sure Ares could handle all thirty at once with those limitations .

"We'll stay back until Apollo needs us." Ares said. The bald man came straight at Apollo only to be met by his fist, turns out he had a glass jaw. The next one took a knee to the gut and an elbow to the head before collapsing. "What the heck is he using." I asked. "Muay thai" Ares said as Apollo flipped one onto a table "and maybe so jujitsu." one after another got knocked out by Apollo till all thirty were down and most of the furniture in the bar was broken. The girl Apollo defended had hearts in her eye's…but he turned her down and walked out. I elbowed Ares "Now that's hardcore!".


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PS. Percy never saw his own blood muahaha.