The Nieuw Nederland and Immortality

by Grandma Zhang

It is 1624. The Dutch ship Nieuw Nederland has set sail to find the fountain of immortality. The fountain across the great ocean promises great riches, but at what cost among the sailors a man called Percy. In the power struggle between England, Spain and the Dutch. Percy gains immortality but to stay locked in the chamber for 375 years when he finally emerges in a lighting storm

4. Chapter 4

I still do not own PJO or HOO

"Go Luke, I am tired of running. Look after Annabeth for me." "No Thals, I won't leave you" "Luke Annabeth will need someone. If both us die it will do her no good," she said glancing at Annabeth, who was staring up at them, with her grey eyes. He nodded crying, before picking up Annabeth, and running up the hill, Annabeth crying as they went. Then Thalia spun around to look at the mass of monsters. There were countless hellhounds, and the three furies were circling overhead. Damn, she thought, uncle Hades went all out on me. "Time to pay for you crimes honey." said the middle as they swooped down towards Thalia. The army taking this as a sign to attack leapt towards Thalia. Thalia released a lightning bolt that came arching down from the sky. It struck two hellhounds, turning them into dust. Thalia charged forward, holding Aegis in one hand, and her spear in the other. She shouted, "For Zeus," before the two powerful forces collided, monster dust flying everywhere. Thalia ducked and weaved, stabbing with her spear at every bit of exposed monster skin she could. She sent down lightning bolt, after lightning bolt, but slowly her stamina started to wane. The more monsters she killed, two more appeared in their places. She used the last of her energy to summon a bolt that killed a hellhound, before collapsing to the ground, but before the monsters could kill her, the biggest lightning bolt she had ever seen, came down from the almost black clouds, and hit her square in the chest. She remembered the feeling of peace, before drifting away into the darkness.

Meanwhile an earthquake shook the ground. Zeus' fist trembled, and a gap opened up between the rocks. Down in the forgotten chamber, boulders shifted, revealing the entrance to the smooth stone room. On top of the fountain, the prone body of the sailor called Percy, shifted. A pair sea green eyes opened. Poseidon had awakened his long-lost son.

Percy groaned, where am I? He thought. The last thing he remembered was a push to his back, and darkness enclosing him. I must have got knocked out on the fountain, he thought to himself. He got up looking around the chamber, it looked exactly the same, but, he thought to himself, where was his companions? He pulled himself up, using one of the statue's arms as leverage. He looked up the path and heard a noise. A noise he knew too well from his time at sea, the sound of thunder. He looked around again, and again there was no sign of his crewmates. He started to trudge up towards the smooth stone room. As he got closer, he could see no rain, and when he got even closer he realized it was a purely electrical storm, something so rare only some of the oldest sailors at the taverns had seen it. As he hauled himself up through the gap and on to the nearest boulder he saw a huge lightning bolt, the size of ten masts on top of each other, hit the ground, around a mile away. He collapsed his body felt like it hadn't moved in a week, his arms and legs stiff, and he couldn't move forward, he felt like he had just sprinted 5 miles. He saw light, a lantern! Maybe it was the crew. He called out over the crackling of lighting and the wind. The person turned, but before Percy could figure out who, she or he was, he fainted letting darkness enveloping him, for the second time in 377 years.