Racing down the halls towards no destination in particular, I begin to feel a bit woozy. Probably looking like I'm slightly drunk I start to jiggle doorknobs and swing open doors. All supply closest, bathrooms, more stairs, armoires, or just rooms filled
with mechanical parts like an auto parts shop.
Panic sets in when I realize I have no idea where I am on this ship. I start to slowly wander the halls a hand on my head and an ear tilted upward as if I where trying to hear someone whisper words to me.
After about twenty minutes of this I slid down a wall and for the first time in how many days I've been on this ship, let myself cry. The hot tears race down my face and I make no attempt to stop them. I cry out of helplessness at first then the tears
slowly turn into sadness, then anger, sorrow, guilt, and finally fear.
The fear settles down leaving me with the first panic attack I've had in years. A fist squeezes my lungs and heart and refuses to let go. My breathing turns into desperate gasps to swallow air, the tears coming faster. I sob and scream until finally someone
finds me. I'm not sure who but I feel them pick me up and carry me somewhere, I fall asleep on the way and don't get to see where the stranger takes me.
OooOoo
When I wake up there's yet again another weight on my stomach. Instead of panicking like last time I simply open my eyes and look down to find, big shocker prepared to be surprised, you guessed it, Leo!
"Get off me." I say shoving his head off my stomach. He grumbles and rolls his eyes apparently not wanting to argue.
"Why did you leave the infirmary?" He asks. So that's where I've been napping since he knocked me out.
"I wanted to get off this ship, and I was going too just I've never been the best with directions." I reply beginning to sit up.
"It doesn't matter you wouldn't have been able to anyway unless you had a parachute involved in your plan." He chuckles getting up to grab what looks to be my breakfast. Oatmeal in a normal non magical bowl and simple orange juice.
"Why would I need a parachute?" I ask him.
"Well I would have really hoped you noticed the ship is flying right now." He tells me. My jaw drops open and the only thing I can think to say is, "What!"
Leo starts laughing at me. His face turning beat red and clapping like a retarded seal. "Wait when you first kidnapped me and you mentioned this ship flying you were serious?" Leo starts laughing at me even harder.
"How the hell did you expect the ship to get off of the land? And yet you call me the hothead." Leo stands up and begins to walk over to the door. "Follow me firecracker I'm gonna show you a few things that you mortals would call magic."
OooOoo
"So the happy dragon just doesn't turn off?" I ask Leo after he shows me his dragon that is currently flying the ship.
"Yup his name is festus he brought me
Back from the dead once you know." Leo tells me petting the dragons back.
"And he used to be in the pole over there but you gave him a body so he could help you find calypso? And he controls the ship how?"
"I put a programming chip with his other chips. The chip connects him with the ship kind of like a family plan with cell phones." He tells me.
"Speaking of cell phones here's yours." He says tossing me my phone. I had nearly forgotten about it.
"Why is the screen cracked and why won't any of the buttons work?" I start frantically pressing buttons taping the screen repeatedly, "what the hell did you do hothead!?" Leo rubs the back of his neck sheepishly.
"Yeah sorry bout that, Annabeth wanted me to see why it worked with demigods, but she'll tell you about that." What the actual fuck is wrong with these people. I got knocked out because I didn't want them touching my phone so they do it anyway. Festus
makes his whirling clicking sounds, which Leo told me was morse code.
"Shut up." Leo grumbles to his dragon.
"You broke my phone!" I yelled at him. I punch him hard in the face my hand a flame. I punch him twice more before Nico appears in front of me coming from the shadows.
"The fuck!?" I yelp jumping back into Percy's arms.
"I guess she found out about her phone?" Percy asks a slight chuckle. My ears start to steam and my hair catches fire. "Oh sticks!" He shrieks jumping back letting go of me. Everything is flaming, my limbs, torso, head. I can feel my hair floating around
me like a wind is making it fly. I can see everyone panicking. I can briefly hear Percy yelling to get water before he remembers he practically is water. Yet I'm not worried of being put out because I know I can't be.
I meet his splash of water with my own wave of flames. I easily over power his water. Soon after everyone starts to almost cower away for me, even Annabeth looked defeated, I let the flames to begin to die down.
When the flames die down I see everyone is on the deck now, they had come rushing up when they heard all the gasps when the see me and it takes me a bit to realize I've had a wardrobe change. Instead of the pyjamas I had borrowed
I was in a flowing red gown. Ending in the front just above my knees and trailing behind me for a few feet. Sleeves that cover the full length of my arms and a plunging, yet not so that it would be considered slutty, neckline. I could feel my
hair had been done up too and I rushed over to a mirror on the wall.
When I saw my hair I gasped too. It was no longer the black that it had mysteriously turned, but my natural blond. My eyes where still blue but that didn't bother me I liked my blue eyes. My hair was done up in an elegant messy bun with a few strands
falling out to frame my face. I had a red and orange smokey eye for makeup, and red lipstick.
"You are not touching me with your beauty powers, my mom did that to me once and it was terrible." Piper tells me still cowering in a corner. Jason laughs at his girlfriends fear while Annabeth analyzes me like I'm one of her science experiments.
"Would you stop looking at me like that?" I ask all of them. Most of them look away except for Annabeth and Leo.
"I really hope I can do that to." Leo days bursting his torso into flames a look of concentration on his face.
"Leo!" Calypso yells at him, "stop it!"
When Leo does stop he's left standing in his under ware everything else turned to ash.
"I'm so glad calypso made you fire proof underwear." Nico states.
Leo turns to leave but I stop him. "Leo wait let me try something." I don'twait for him to ask what I'm doing I just reach a handout and cover him in flames. I'm expecting everyone to scream but I guess they all remember he has no problems
with fire.
When I release him from his firey cage he's dressed in a pair of jeans and black shirt that reads "The Big Pig Mountain Bike Race," decorated with a red big on a bike.
"What the hell is the "big pig?" He asks glancing pointedly at me.
"Read the rest of the shirt hothead, it's a mountain bike race which I hold a lot of records for." I say hands on hips.
Percy jumps up from his spot on the floor yelling, "Do me! Do me!" Everyone chuckles except for Hazel who just looks confuse as to why everyone's laughing. Percy's face turns red, "that wasn't how I wanted that to sound." He mumbles.
Annabeth claps her hands asking for everyone's attention, "Listen up guys! The most important thing right now is getting to camp half blood. Leo how far away are we,"
"We'll be there by tonight."
"Good. Elly should be claimed by the end of tonight then."
"Or right now but I mean that glowing thing could be something else I have no idea whose symbolthat is." Frank says pointing above my head. A glowing sunflower was dancing just above my head shimmering like the sun.
"Is that Apollos sign?" I ask.
"No," Annabeth says, "it's Helios. But that's not possible he's faded. He faded a long time ago." She says. But he couldn't have been, that would mean I'm centuries old.
"Would that make her a Demi-Titan?" Percy says. Piper smacks him in the back of the head earning a fist bump from Hazel.
"Leo,get festus to speed up, if Elly's a daughter of a Titan we aren't safe."
I really hoped you liked the chapter! I've actually had a lot of fun writing this. I know the chapters are short and I'd loved to make them longer but I've been having a hard time latley to find time so I've been making them a minimum of 1500 words.
Thank you so much to avalsawesome for reviewing.
How's everyone liking the story so far idlove to know also what do you think about Elly being a daughter of Helios.
Hope you all enjoyed! -Avril