Percy
I really wanted to destroy Piper's knife. She called a meeting in the mess hall at 5 am. She said it was an emergency so I had no choice but to go.
"Piper! It's five am and you want to call a meeting now!" Leo whined. "Stop complaining Leo!" chided Piper, "Besides, its an emergency, I saw some bad stuff in the knife earlier today." "Did you even sleep! if you can't sleep I'm sorry but some of use do want to sleep!" Leo exclaimed. "Shut it Leo, anyway I was looking in the knife earlier and it showed an army walking in the sea. The leader was-" She looked at me, "Polybotes, and he had a number of monsters marching with him in the sea. I think they're close."
"Leo..." I said slowly, "Where are we?" "Ummmm, close to the shores of Crete why?" "No reason" I said quickly.
I glanced over at Annabeth, she was eyeing me suspiciously, I quickly dropped my gaze and started eating my pancakes.
"As I was saying, the army is close, I think they are trying to destroy us before we get to Athens."
"No doubt." I said. "Percy?" Annabeth asked, "Have you had dreams on this?"
Man she was good, "Uh no, its just common sense, Polybotes hates my guts, he wants to tear me apart. They don't want us to succeed so I guess attacking was their plan." She looked at me in the eye, saying, "Yeah you're right, we had to see this coming."
"But now we have to focus on the problem, what do we do about the army?" Annabeth asked. "Well, I don't think we have a choice, they're coming for us, I say we sail towards them and fight." I said.
Everyone just stared at me, "Percy, we can't do that! There are seven of us and like a thousand of them, and that's only a fraction of Gaea's army." said Piper.
"Well what do you suggest we do!?" "I, I, I don't know." she stammered.
"Is it too late to change course?" asked Hazel, "I mean, if they can't catch us, they can't fight us."
"I don't know Hazel" said Leo, "We are quite close to shore and its a sharp turn, the water is really shallow, a turn like that and the ship might capsize, I mean have you SEEN the waves here!"
Everyone went silent. "There must be another way, we can't fight, were not ready." said Annabeth
"I think we can do it." Said Jason "We've trained hard, we can beat them."
"I mean I guess we can do it. It's not impossible." Said Frank, "We can catch them unprepared if we take the fight to them, I guess."
"A vote then?" I said, everyone slowly nodded, "Everyone in favor of taking the fight to them raise your hands." Everyone's hand went up except Annabeth's but she looked at everybody and reluctantly raised her hand. "It's decided then, we take the fight to them."
That was the end of the meeting, slowly everyone went back to their cabins to sleep, we were all tired. Well everyone except Leo, he slept in the engine room.
I heard a knock on my door, "Come in." I said.
It was Annabeth, "Hey" she said, "Hi, what are you doing?" "I just came to see how you were." "I'm fine." She laughed at that and I returned a smile.
"Are you sure that was the right choice, to fight them?" She asked. "I believe I was correct, I think we can beat them if we catch them unprepared. Why? You don't trust me?
"Well if you think that than I will gladly fight alongside you." She smiled. "I know you will." I said.
"Just, did you have a dream about the army?" "Uh, no. Like I said before common sense." I forced a smile at her.
"Oh, ok then, it just seemed like you did." "No, I didn't have any dreams about that."
She was still eyeing me suspiciously, I didn't know what to do. She would now always look at me like that when we brought up the subject.
I was starting to feel guilty, I lied to her, three times now, just to keep Dad's warning a secret. My guilt was only going to add on, especially after what I was going to do
"Alright Percy, I believe you!" She said cheerfully, then she walked out of my cabin.
The moment she left I crashed onto my bed, wondering if what I was going to do was the right thing to do. I had two choices, I could use my plan, or I could fight alongside them.
I wondered if Hecate was messing with me, she was the goddess of magic and crossroads, I was definitely at a cross road now.
I hate Hecate.
I had bad dreams that night. It started out with Polybotes, he was talking to someone. I zoomed in and I realized that he was talking to Porphyrion, on an Iris Message!
How he got Iris to accept his offering, I don't know, but he did it somehow.
"The demigods know we are coming, we are thinking of postponing the battle, in case they try anything tricky." Polybotes said.
"WHAT! I GIVE YOU ONE JOB! TO DESTROY THE DEMIGODS AND BRING BACK PERCY JACKSON! IS THAT TO MUCH TO ASK! YOU MAY NOT POSTPONE IT. NOT AFTER I GAVE YOU HALF MY ARMY!"
"But it's just to make sure the demigods-"
"NO! YOU WILL BRING BACK PERCY JACKSON TOMORROW! OR I WILL TEAR YOU APART LIMB BY LIMB AND THROW YOU INTO TARTARUS! IS THAT UNDERSTOOD?"
"Yes, your highness, understood." Polybotes didn't seem to like calling his brother "your highness" but what can you do?
"I SHALL CAPTURE PERCY JACKSON AND TAKE AWAY HIS POWER, TORTURING HIM IN THE PROCESS!"
"FINALLY YOU GOT THAT THROUGH YOUR LITTLE BRAIN! WE WILL USE HIS POWER TO MAKE US POWERFUL."
"YES, POSEIDON WILL BE USELESS IN THE BATTLE IF WE ALL HAVE CONTROL OVER THE SEA HAHAHA!"
"YES BUT FIRST YOU NEED TO GET HIM, I DON'T CARE IF YOU DESTROY THE OTHER DEMIGODS!"
Polybotes gave him a confused look, "But if we don't destroy them then they will come to Olympus and fight."
"YOU IDIOT! WE DON'T NEED TO DESTROY THEM... THEY WILL DESTROY THEMSELVES! THEY WILL COME FOR PERCY JACKSON."
"YOU WILL SET UP A TRAP FOR THEM WHEN THEY COME TO RESCUE HIM."
"Oh you are a brilliant one Porphyrion!" Polybotes said.
"Yes, yes I am, I have faith in you Polybotes, DO NOT FAIL ME!" Then he cut the connection.
"Don't worry dear brother, I will capture Percy Jackson, I will tear him apart limb by limb."
Percy started to fade from the dream. I woke up gasping and sweating, I knew what I had to do.
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