Chapter 13: My dad and I have a chat.

"Hey there, dad." I said as I glared at the man in front of me.

He seemed to look like he was sizing me up, looking me over, being quiet for a few seconds before speaking again. "You don't seem happy about it." He said.

"Ha! No shit Sherlock." I scoffed, crossing my arms, he was definitely my dad, we had the same habit of stating the obvious. Now I knew it was genetic. "I mean let's see, I'm talking to a primordial being that happens to be my father, but also happened to give my mom cancer and leave me alone. Yeah I'd say I'm not happy."

Tartarus seemed to be amused at my snarky comment. "Child, the only reason why I abstained from trying to mold you into who I wanted personally, was because of the Olympians and their insufferable children."

"What are you talking about?" I questioned.

"Do you honestly think that I put that seal on your back? That mark was put there to cut me off from being unable to communicate with you until you reached the right age." He said.

"Wait so this thing on my back, it's a seal?" I asked.

"A stain on my greatest masterpiece, I created you for one reason, to become my vessel in the physical world, one that, unlike the forms of those fools, Kronos and Gaia, would not be so easily beaten." The primordial continued, pretty much ignoring my question. "But the gods of Olympus, in their fear, placed that seal on you to thwart my plans."

I smirked. "So much for your epic comeback, huh pops?" I really loved how I could taunt him right now.

"Do not be so arrogant, boy, every seal can be broken, including that one, they simply prolonged the inevitable. And when it does break, I will take over your body and I will take my revenge on the gods and demigods." He scoffed.

That pissed me off. "Over my dead body." I snapped.

That caused the old man to smirk a smug smirk. "Oh I know." He said as the dream suddenly started to end.

I woke up as I cover my eyes with my arm, it was morning now, I shook my head as I tried to wake myself up, I guess now I knew exactly what my dad thought of me, though I honestly didn't care, the guy just saw me as a tool, I didn't want or need to make him proud.

I slowly got out of bed as I got dressed. But as I slipped on Suppressor, I noticed that it was heavier than usual again. I didn't know why, but I knew for a fact it wasn't good.

I walked into the dining room of the suite and sat down at the table, Jason and Reyna were already there as they apparently started eating some room service they ordered.

"Well look who decided to wake up." Jason said, clearly trying to tease me.

I rolled my eyes as I sat down. "Shut up Grace."

I sat down at the table and started eating breakfast with the two, Reyna looked at me as she ate some fruit and meat.

"Everything Okay?" She asked.

"Yeah, just had a...weird dream." I said as I ate the omelette Jason had ordered me.

This got Jason's attention, probably because of the talk we had yesterday. "Was your dad in it?" He asked.

Wow, not beating around the bush are we? Was all I could think as I nodded. "Yeah, and you know that theory about how he wants to use me as a vessel? Yeah I just heard it straight from the horse's mouth. He seems to think I'm his masterpiece, I'm pretty sure he just means he thinks I'm a tool."

Jason's face contorted in both disgust and anger. "So he just straight up told you, to your face, that he thinks of you as nothing but a tool?"

"Exactly." I nodded, drinking some coffee.

"Wow, father of the year." Jason said, his words dripping with sarcasm.

"My thoughts exactly." Reyna added.

I chuckled as I finished eating, after breakfast we got our stuff and left the hotel, as we walked out of the hotel I tried to hail us a cab.

"So what are we gonna do?" Jason asked.

"We are gonna go to a dock, if we're gonna get to Florida we're gonna need a boat." I told him.

"Why a boat?" Reyna questioned as we entered a cab I managed to hail.

"Because we were warned to avoid the sky, and driving will take too long, a boat is the quickest way." I replied. "And as luck would have it, I happen to know a guy who owes me a few favors who happens to have a boat."

I told the driver to bring us to a ship yard outside of Manhattan, as we pulled up about fifteen minutes later, I paid the driver and we started walking down the dock.

"So who is this guy?" Jason asked.

"He's a guy who used to go to my school three years ago, and got his own boat after he graduated, he does boat trips as a business." I said. "In fact, there it is right over there."

The boat I directed them to was a large sailboat, not as big as a yacht, but it was decent sized. It was white with silver accents. The name on the side of the boat read "The Hudson Lee."

I walked up to the ship and gave the cab a good knock. "Hey! Robby! You home?" I called loud.

There was a loud clang then a guy came walking out of the boat, he jumped down onto the dock and started walking towards us.

This guy was Robin Hudson Lee, he was around twenty years old and had long sandy blonde hair, a small goatee of a similar color, green eyes, and tanned skin. He was wearing a pair of silver aviator sunglasses, a light tan colored Sailor Jerry spiced rum T-shirt, a short sleeved orange over shirt and a pair of brown cargo shorts, he also had on some flip flops.

"What the hell Nige? Ya do realize you just made me fall out of my hammock right? I don't feel like having a knot on my head from hitting the floor ya know." He said in a mixed Brooklyn-Miami beach bum accent.

"Not my problem Rob. Listen I need a favor." I told him.

"Again? What is it this time? Did you piss off the Chinese Triads again?" Robin asked.

As soon as he said that Jason and Reyna gave me weird looks. "Don't ask." I told them. I looked at Robin again and gave him a serious look. "No, me and my friends need to borrow your boat to get to Florida."

"Florida? Why?" Robin asked. "And more importantly, who are those two?"

"It's a long story." I told him. "And this is Jason and Reyna, their friends of mine from a camp I go to."

Robin seemed a little suspicious. I gave him a look that I only gave him when I wanted him to know I wasn't screwing around. "Come on man, remember you owe me." I told him.

The blonde scratched the black of his neck and sighed. "Alright alright. Let me get the boat ready." He then started walking away.

Reyna grabbed my shoulders. "What do you mean by, he owes you?"

"I helped him build this boat and helped get his business up and running by working with him during the summer." I told her.

She nodded and backed off as Robin came back as he gestured us to come on board. As we got on the boat Robin stole a glance at Reyna as he started getting ready to shove off. Then he looked at me and smirked.

"So, that girl with the braid, she your girlfriend?" He asked as he opened up the sail and tied it off.

I felt my cheeks burn as I looked at Reyna to make sure she didn't hear him, then I slugged him as he got on the wheel of the boat.

"Dude, Shut up." I snarled.

"I guess that's a 'no' then." He chuckled. He then looked at Jason who was on the other side of the boat away from Reyna. "So, what's his story?"

I shrugged. "He had an estranged relationship with his older sister because his mom gave him to foster care." I lied about the foster care part because of well, you know.

"Yikes." Robin hissed then he looked at Reyna. "And her?"

"Not sure, she never really said." I told him, that part was true, Reyna never really told me much about her past. "Why?"

"Well I'm no love gooru but I'm getting a feeling that those two used to have a thing for each other at some point. I mean, they ain't exactly sitting with each other, not to mention they just seem, awkward." The sailor stated.

I wasn't at all surprised that he said that, Robin was really good at reading people, I mean he could take one look at you and could make a pretty accurate description of what your personality is most likely like.

That got me wondering if that was one of the reasons why Reyna joined the Hunters, to get away from what had hurt her, men. It did make sense, Piper did mention that they had gotten into a fight over who should be with Jason once, and I think Percy mentioned that she actually told him she liked him, but was pretty hurt when he rejected her.

"I don't really know." I told him.

"Well then why don't you ask?" Robin asked. "I'm sure she'll tell you if you ask."

I looked at Reyna and felt my curiosity get the better of me. "Ya know." I told Robin. "I think I'll ask just that."

I walked towards where she was. "Hey, Reyna?" I asked as she looked at me. "Mind if we talk?"