A/N: I almost forgot about this! Why? I SAW THE FIRST TWO EPISODES OF THE LEGEND OF KORRA! Now I have to wait for more ... but the show is AWESOME! I love it! But it's sad about – erm. Maybe I should keep quiet for another week for fans who don't know you can find it online yet! Enjoy your chapter!

Percy: I Get a Nice Step-Family

When I woke up in the morning, the sun was up, and so were a few campers. My first thought was, Today is a quest, and I didn't have a dream. Yeah, most of the time before I head out on a quest, I got some dream. I wasn't sure if not having one was a good sign or not.

I got ready, packing a few necessities in a backpack. Riptide was in my pocket; in the bag was a bag of Ambrosia, a canteen of Nectar, several gold Drachma's for Iris-messages, some Denarii just in case. And a spare change of clothes. Though in my experience, it would probably become torched . . .

I looked over at Cora; she was still fast asleep. I frowned, thinking it odd, normally she was up much earlier than me. Her face looked troubled. I walked over and shook her. No response, so I shook harder.

"Cora? Wake up!" I said loudly in her ear; probably shouldn't have done that. Her arm swung out and she jerked up confused. Her arm was swinging full force and when it hit me, she knocked me to the ground. The bang I made woke her up.

"What? Oh my gods Percy don't scare me!" she exclaimed swinging her legs out of her bunk. I groaned and stood up.

"I was just trying to wake you up," I muttered getting to my feet.

"Oh . . . well sorry I knocked you down," she said; then she gave me a smile. "I had a dream!" I squinted at her.

"How is that a good thing?" I asked her. Cora frowned and thought for a moment.

"I don't see how it's a bad thing. Especially when it gave us a place to start," she told me.

I looked at her uncertainly. "That's good I guess," I replied.

"You guess?" she raised an eyebrow at me. I shrugged. Then someone knocked on the door, and, without waiting for an answer, Annabeth walked in.

"You two are late," she said. "Percy did you sleep in again?" I walked over to her.

"Come on Wise Girl, it wasn't me this time," I said. Annabeth raised an eyebrow at me then looked at Cora.

"Wow, has Cora finally learnt to sleep in? Careful, taking lesson from Seaweed Brain will cause problems," she said sarcastically.

"Oh I am well aware of that," Cora replied trying not to laugh. "But I didn't mean to sleep in."

"I can believe that, but come on. We need to meet up with Chiron," Annabeth told us.

After a good ten minute, when we finally did get organized (it was mostly me misplacing small things – and Cora being new and all), we headed to the top of Half-Blood Hill. Chiron was already waiting for us, along with Argus. Argus was going to take us into the city; from there we were on our own.

Annabeth had packed her own bag with necessities. Cora hadn't bothered, well when you had magic items like her, there doesn't seem to be much point; plus she was kind of clueless when it came to the mortal world. I know when I talked to her about it. Cora was wearing her bracelet/shield; and Her pouch had not only her normal items, but something else. I could only tell because it was noticeable if you looked closely. When I asked her she said it was for emergencies only.

As we said good-bye to Chiron the rest of the camp was doing their normal activities. We all still felt like this was going to be a more-or-less hopeless cause, but finally we were all ready to go.

We piled into the Camp's van and headed off into the city. Thankfully the drive into the city was uneventful, which I found a little surprising. Argus dropped us off at a bus station. It wasn't too far from my mom's and Paul's apartment.

We were standing around debating about where to go, when Annabeth had a sudden thought.

"Percy, did you ever even tell your mother and Paul what's happened? Or that you're going on another quest?" she asked me. I almost smacked myself in the head. I had completely forgotten to contact her; sometimes I was the worst son.

"Oh gods, no. I really need to remember more often," I said. Annabeth smirked, of course she remembered everything.

"We should go talk to her. Am I right Seaweed Brain?" she continued. I nodded and we headed down the road to the apartment. Cora just followed us; I almost had forgotten she was there.

When we arrived at my parent's apartment, I half felt like this was a normal day and I was just stopping to say hi. If you ignored the fact I was on a dangerous quest. I knocked on the door and it was answered by Paul. He blinked in surprise at seeing us.

"Percy? Annabeth?" He looked back and forth between us. "What are you two doing here? And who is that with you? You'd better come in," he said, his eyes wide with confusion. We followed him inside to the living room. "Sally? You'd better come here." After a minute my mom walked in. She saw me and her face grew into a warm smile. Then she frowned, because normally I never leave camp.

"Percy? What are you doing here? Why aren't you at camp? Is everything okay?" she looked tired; probably up late.

"It's a long story," I told her. She gave me a sad smile.

"Come on, we should all sit down."

We all arranged ourselves in the kitchen. Cora looked completely out of place; she was clearly uncomfortable, staring at everything with wide-eyed fascination. My mom got us all lemonade, and blue cookies.

"So what are you two doing here? And who is this girl?" she asked us. I glanced at Annabeth who nodded encouragingly. I took a deep breath.

"Mom, this is Cora. She's my half-sister," I told her. My mom's eyes widened in surprise. This was going to be a long morning.

Eventually we did explain everything to my mom and Paul. It took a while but we finally did manage to tell them everything. I explained about the quest, Cora's amnesia, the prophecy, the claiming, everything. My mom looked a little sad at the fact that Cora was also a daughter of Poseidon, because of the way Poseidon always talked about and treated her, but it wasn't any of our faults.

After everything caught up we decided that us demigods had better leave. Cora, Annabeth, and I all headed out and started walking around New York. We were mostly wandering as Cora was explaining her dream. She still thought it was good news.

She told us her dream was her's and mine's stepfamily discussing about how to aid our quest or something to that effect. They had been talking about heading to one of Manhattan's docks. Apparently they didn't say which one, just a northern one. Cora told us that we would supposedly receive help there, as well as guidance on the quest.

I was a little unsure about trusting it all. Dreams were either true, or used to manipulate half-bloods. And manipulation was something I could imagine Triton and Amphitrite doing to us. Eventually we all agreed to do what it said. Partly because it was Cora's quest and partly because she was extremely stubborn and her eyes got a dangerous edge to them when we kept arguing.

The three of us started wandering the northern side of Manhattan for the right dock. So far most had had shipping boats, the odd fishing boat, party boats, and maybe a yacht or two. It was a long and tedious search - all three of us thought this. Even I could tell this wasn't working out. And normally I took a long time to reach the near hopeless stage.

It was reaching well into the late afternoon when Cora suddenly broke into a run. Annabeth and I looked at each other before chasing after her. Cora ran until she hit 2nd Avenue, and she was fast. She hit the road and stopped suddenly and looked around confused.

I caught up to her slight winded. "What was that about?" I asked her.

She furrowed her eyebrows and glanced around. "I thought I . . ." she trailed off and shook her head. "Never mind."

"Did you see something?" Annabeth asked.

"I was mistaken, just forget I did that," she muttered. I glanced at Annabeth who was staring at Cora and thinking. Cora was still glancing around. I took the chance to look at where we were. The three of us were beside another dock. I scanned the murky water because I had a feeling we were being watched.

I stared harder at the water. One are started to boil, and then out rose the spirit of the Hudson. Well, only partly, his lower half was still submerged. He raised his hand and beckoned to us. I nudged Annabeth and pointed.

"Is that the spirit of the Hudson?" Annabeth questioned.

"Yeah, what do you think he wants?" I replied. She shrugged.

"Only one way to find out."

We all walked over to the spirit of the Hudson. He looked slightly annoyed at us.

"Finally, I've been waiting all morning," he told us sourly. "Cora, good to see you're okay." At that I whipped my head over to look at Cora. She was staring at the Hudson like he was insane.

"Uh . . . What?" she managed.

"Hm, right forgot about that," the Hudson muttered.

Cora made a strangled sound.

"Um, can we help you?" Annabeth asked him.

"Bah, if I had my way, I wouldn't be the messenger. I was just ordered to tell you your ride's here," the Hudson said; then he sank into the oily water. New York river spirits still got on my nerves. We all looked at each other baffled, and then went back to the task of looking at the boats.

About five minutes later we came across a different kind of boat. I couldn't tell if it was a sailing ship or a yacht. It looked like both. It was tied up at the end of the wharf and painted on the prow of the ship was a sea-green trident. Well, if that wasn't the right boat I didn't know what was.

Attached to the railing on the prow was a scroll. Annabeth pulled it off and unrolled it. The message was written in ancient Greek. I could make out what some of the words were. They looked smudged, like the scroll had been dropped in a puddle. Annabeth looked like she was having some trouble too, which was never good. Cora looked like she could read it just fine. She took the scroll from Annabeth and began reading out loud.

"The letter says: To the young Quester's: This vessel is to aid you as you journey north. The northern military unit will hold an answer. Follow the clues that will be revealed there. They will guide you. From, Amphitrite & Triton," she recited. She stared at the scroll for a moment before rolling it up and holding it tightly in her hand.

We thought about the words for a minute. It was strange that we suddenly got a boat and were told to go north. No explanation, just BAM! you're heading north. I got a bad feeling, to far north and we would be beyond the land of the gods.

"Well, what do you two think we should do?" Annabeth asked.

"I'm not sure. It doesn't sound like something they would do," I said. "Though sending us far away and out of their power to dangerous land does make me rethink that . . ." I added under my breath.

"Mm-hm." Cora looked nervous, as if scared to be out of the gods' power. She bit her lip. "I have a feeling they're not doing this for us," Cora said, "but for someone else." I glanced at her, she looked disturbed.

"So do we take it?" Annabeth asked us. I shrugged, it was either going to work or going to fail.

"We might as well," Cora sighed. "We don't have much else to go on." I think she meant to say that last bit to herself.

We all climbed aboard the boat. I walked up to the tiller while the girls untied us from the wharf. Closing my eyes I concentrated on the water lapping against the hull and the swaying of the boat. The right word formed in my mind.

"Rutterstat!" I said. The boat's engine started to hum and it started to respond to my body. Slowly, we back out of the dock and went off along the Hudson River. As we reached the Atlantic Ocean, our speed picked up. I hadn't wanted to do that.

I looked over to see Cora standing beside me. She looked like she was concentrating fiercely; her eyes were narrowed slightly and she was biting her lip. She was controlling the boat as well! Cora blinked and looked over at me.

"There's a northbound current 35 degrees starboard," she told me. I gave her a weird look; I sure can't tell where currents are and stuff like that.

"Oo-kay," I muttered.

"You have no idea what I mean, do you?" she asked raising an eyebrow. I didn't have an answer to that. I should have appeared smarter and said yes I did know what she meant, but the real answer was no. Cora gave a small proud smile. "I'll just take us there."

The boat slowly moved sideways. Then it hit the current. There was a lurch as we got caught in the current. Both of us knew we were heading north, so Cora and I just let the boat drift.

The three of us went exploring below deck. There was a main room with bunks built into the wall, an adjoining bathroom, and a small kitchenette that was full of food.

When we finished looking around and exploring everything the sun was starting to set. We were still going swiftly north in the current. So we all ate, since we had barely eaten, and crashed in our bunks.

I was extremely tired by this time. Controlling a boat all day did use up energy, even with my sister to help. I thought about how it was my stepfamily who gave us that boat. They despised me. Maybe they were learning it wasn't such a bad thing children of Poseidon were alive . . . only the gods could know. But I lay down in my bed and I fell asleep, thinking that that quest would be easier than most.

A/N: Lots of rewording . . . What do you think? Let me know whether through review, alert or fav I don't care! Just let me know! Right. Okay. Going to go and work on my other books ... If I'm lucky, I'll be a published author next year! Bye!