Percy felt consciousness slipping back into his mind and there were so many questions it was asking. Where was he now? What was that light? Where is the ground?
The last question brought him to open his eyes and when he did, his stomach sunk into his spine. There was no ground below him, just white clouds that floated in big puffs over a blue surface. The sea? It didn't matter, all Percy knew is that he was falling to his doom and conveniently where he was falling, was an island full of thick canopy. "Shit, Zeus please don't kill me… Ahhhhhhhh"! Percy screamed as he fell to his death, flailing with all of his limbs. Either it was real or he felt like he had some extra limbs, but he didn't care, there was more to worry about. What would happen? would he just get tangled in the vines? Would he get stabbed by one of the branches? Would he simply be a grease spot on this island?
Percy's life flashed before his eyes, his old schools, smelly Gabe, the old apartment, when he first met Grover, the Fates, the minitar, his first day at camp, his quests, the battle of Manhattan, training with Lupa, Camp Jupiter, the adventure of the Argo II, and Annabeth. What would Annabeth think, no, Percy didn't want to think of what she would do if he ended up dead. She would be devastated and they would never know what happened to him.
Percy braced for impact, only to yelp in surprise as he went through the canopy into a huge cavern and slam into a whole lot of blue and green scaly creatures that yelped and roared at him in agitation. He remember getting tangled in a very flexible rope, heard three shrieks of surprise, and claws rake his skin. Through the chaos, Percy somehow concentrated on whatever water in the room and imagined it pulling him in like the tide. He registered the claws of someone gripping his arm and cool water washing over him.
His aching muscles felt a little better, but there was still something tangled in him and he felt something thrashing on his back and also trying to break it, probably not able to breath. Percy felt like an idiot, whatever was on his back might suffocate on top of him if he didn't do something about it. He flung his hands up to the creature and felt a long scaly neck and the rope tightly around the neck, choking the creature. Riptide, Where was Riptide? Percy whipped his hand over to find that he had no jeans on and his skin felt different. Aw man, the thing stuck to him was going to die if he didn't do something, that or it would pulverize his back and they'd both die. When all hope seemed lost, his camp necklace floated in front of his face and he saw a pouch attached to it with a familiar ballpoint pen sticking out of the opening.
He grabbed the pen out of the pouch and uncapped it and it elongated into Riptide, his celestial bronze sword, glowed in the darkening water water as they sunk deeper. He reached up and found the rope on the thing's neck, wrenched Riptide under it and tried not to cut the creature. Riptide was celestial bronze, if it cuts you it either really hurts or if you are a monster, send you down to Tartarus an Percy knew what that was like and if this thing was friendly, he would feel really guilty sending it to that terrible place. He knew what that was like.
The rope cut easily and the creature calmed down a little bit, at least it gave his now sore back a little break. Percy cut wherever he felt rope on the creature's body. After a little few more pieces cut and as the thing wriggled free Percy saw what it was.
The creature was a light blue dragon with pink tints on its scales and stripes that glowed in the dark. It was fairly young by its size and had strings of pearls all over it. Some of them Percy accidentally cut with Riptide, now drifting around in the water. It seemed to be fine being underwater for it had gills running all the way down its neck and they flared as it breathed. She smiled and certain scales on its wings tail and front limbs lit up one by one. Percy guessed that he must've had a stupid look on his face because it giggled some bubbled and pointed toward the surface which was really far above where dragon like figures moving around above.
The dragon gave Percy a surprise look as he grabbed it, pulled it to his chest and willed the currents to take them up to the top. Looking down as the dragon hugged Percy's chest, he felt a little better that he didn't kill this sea creature. As they broke the surface, Percy regretted his decision for something strong grabbed his neck as soon as he let the little dragon go. The thing that had his neck ripped him out of the water, causing him to drop Riptide.
"I will rip out your teeth, tear off your limbs and feed you to the sharks for your actions you stupid creature", a large blue blue dragon with as many pearls as the little one Percy untangled was throttling him. Standing behind her was a little green dragonet covering her eyes. "MOTHER PLEASE STOP", Percy heard a voice yell and the dragon stopped. It was the little pink and blue dragon "Please, he helped me before he helped himself. Please don't kill him, just let me thank him".
"Ohhh. Where am I"? Percy tried to stand up on two legs again, but went back on fours because the upper half of his body seemed heavier than his lower half and his back felt like a giant was dancing on it. Now out of the water he felt like his bones were made of molten lead. He also felt every scratch bruise, and where the ropes tangled around him were tightest on his body, arms, legs, and beyond. He didn't understand that till he looked down at where his hands should've been. Instead of his regular hands, he had shiny light greenish blue dragon talons with large, black claws like fish hooks. He just sat there staring at his talons in amazement like an idiot.
When Percy looked behind himself he found that he had a long, scaly, greenish blue body with spines running down his back with a thin layer of scales to connect them to each other. He saw that he had stripes like the dragons around him running down his back all the way to the tip of a thick, powerful tail. He willed the tail to move and it did, lashing back and forth as he commanded even though doing so made Percy wince.
"Whoa, I am a dragon. I wonder if I can breath fire", Percy wondered out loud. The older blue dragon looked at him as if Percy was stupid, "Of course you're a dragon. What else could you be"? "I used to be a demigod", Percy answered her and checked out what else he had, Wings now battered and one still had rope on it and was pinning it to his body, gills, horns, and one stripe on his shoulder that was in the exact shape of his father's trident.
The dragons looked at Percy like he was talking in ancient Greek instead of English. "Who exactly are you" asked the big blue dragon. Percy took his attention off of his cool glowing trident and answered the dragon, "I'm Percy Jackson".
The other dragons began whispering to each other before the big blue on silenced them, "Anemone, you wanted to thank him. Go ahead, but hurry up I want to kill him for ruining the mood for the party for Tsunami". "Alright mother, but could you not kill him. I think he could be useful in a way", pleaded Anemone and she walked up to Percy. "Hello Percy Jackson, I am Anemone. I thank you for saving my life and I apologize for my mother, she always has to have everything perfect for her daughters". "Don't worry. Half the things I meet want to kill me. No wait maybe it is a quarter. Eh who cares, most of the things I meet want to kill me" Percy. Anemone giggled and the blue dragon, her mother, glared at Percy and studied .
Just then another blue dragon burst out of the water and landed on the floor next to Percy. "Hello sea kingdom, I'm back", said the dragon with a big smile on her face. She had blue eyes, but lighter than her sapphire scales. She seemed strong and she spoke loudly like Clarisse.
"Tsunami dear hello my hero daughter", the queen rushed toward her daughter so fast, the little green dragonet squeaked in surprise. "Hello mother, Auklet, Anemone and some dragon I don't know", Tsunami joked. "Hi I'm Percy Jackson, but most just call me Percy". "Percy? What kind of seawing name is that"? Asked Tsunami. "It's not. I don't entirely know what a seawing is. How I ended up here, long story, tell you later. Oh and sorry, I made a little hole in the canopy", Percy said and pointed to the hole he made. Tsunami laughed, "I think that is the exact spot that Webs dropped by in". Anemone turned her head toward the canopy above, "That's funny, I think Tsunami's right. That's where Web's hole was".
The the big blue dragon grabbed Tsunami's talon and asked, "How has it been? How have they been treating you"? That seemed to get Tsunami's attention and Tsunami started complaining about her life.
Percy backed into the water and curled his aching tail around his talons as he felt the water heal his scratches, bruises, and back pain. He sighed in relief as he continued backing up until he was in the pool and just floated there, relaxing in the cool water. Percy willed himself to get wet and willed the currents and bubbles to keep him afloat, granting him maximum relaxation. Riptide had returned to the pouch on his necklace and he uncapped it. When Riptide elongated into sword form, dragons moved out of the way in surprise. Pery used Riptide to cut off the ropes that he had on himself, rope tangled in his talons, up his back leg, wrapping around his tail, wrapping around one of his wings pinning it to his body, and finally ended in a tight loop around his arm. He cut some of it off with no problem, but his wing was badly damaged. He could see blood trickle where the rope was tied and when he cut the wing free. He yelled in pain, but it came out more like a roar, but Percy didn't care, all he knew was that his wing was in so much pain it might as well be broken. Anemone jumped in the water and swam to Percy's aid and asked if he was alright. "Yeah, I'm alright, my wing just hurts", Percy lied. "I'm so sorry, I shouldn't have freaked out. It's my fault". "Don't blame yourself Anemone. Usually when Clarisse used to choke me during wrestling practice, I would do the same thing… Anemone"? Anemone was staring at something on Percy's wing, a place where three big claw marks had been, but were now disappearing. "Y-Your healing. How is that possible", she stammered. "I'm a demigod or half blood. Half god, half human, but in this situation I think I'm more half god, half dragon. Anyway We heal fast". Anemone looked Percy in shock and amazement, "How can you tell when you are a demigod"? "Let's see, you can't read very well, the letters fly off the page, you get expelled from a lot of schools, you can't sit still for very long, you see monsters wandering around in the streets, and when you realize it you begin getting attacked", Percy answered. "Wow, that sounds dangerous. How do you survive that"? "Camp Half Blood and Camp Jupiter are the safest places for half bloods, they are places for us to train for the life ahead".
Before Anemone could ask any more questions, her mother called, "Come on Anemone, it is time for the feast for Tsunami". "Come Percy, I want you to sit by me at the feast", Anemone said and pulled Percy out of the water, dragging him to where the feast was taking place.