Thank you to the first two people who responded to my question! Your responses triggered my creativeness and this is what happened! (You'll see where your ideas came into play, unicornbarbi and Hibernia12)

Disclaimer: Fact. I'm writing a fanfiction. Fact. I'm not the author of PJO or HoO. Fact. I don't own.

Ch 10

PERCY

I woke up from my dream with a gasp. Something wasn't right. I groped around my bedroom, trying to find my sword, but all my hand felt was cold metal. A cold metal floor. Memories of what happened came flooding back. I yanked on the chain connected to my wrist, just to make sure I wasn't still dreaming. Unfortunately, this was reality.

Light suddenly flooded the tank as Luke entered, walking up the others. He walked to the tank.

"Good morning, my lovelies," he said. "How did we sleep?"

I glared at Luke. "Just fine, no thanks to you."

Luke scowled. "Get ready."

Hazel frowned at this. "Get ready for what?"

Luke's smirk reappeared. "The auction. Your auction."

o.O.o (that's a line break that looks like a face)

The brutes opened the tank's door.

"You can swim up here without a fight or we can do this the hard way!" was called down.

"Hard way for who? You or us?" Leo yelled back up.

One of them, Kahale, I think, snorted, and muttered, "Us," under his breath.

Ethan smacked him, and snatched the net from his hands. He dipped the net in the water and started fishing. For us.

"Here, fishy, fishy, fishy," he called, smirking.

"We aren't fish," Nico grumbled.

The net swished through the water, missing all of us. Battle reflexes from training and dodging guards. It wasn't that hard to dodge a human operated net.

The net started to follow Piper around. She zigged and zagged, but she couldn't shake the net. It backed her up into a corner, then enveloped her, and dragged her upwards. I sighed. I knew exactly what they were going to do now.

We all swam to the surface, and let ourselves be chained and gagged. They wrapped chains around our forearms, exactly the way they were before they dumped us in the tank. Then they threw us over their shoulders and carried us away. I got one last look at Silena watching us silently.

I will return you to the sea, I thought determinedly as I saw Silena's hopeless face.

We were carried into a large room filled with seats. There was a raised platform at one end of the room, where we were set down.

"Kahale!" Octavian shouted from across the room. "Take Nico home with you. Luke decided to give him to you."

Kahale looked confused. "Why?"

Octavian shrugged. "Something about him being too gloomy to decorate anyone's walls. Don't question Luke's motives. This is a generous gift he is giving you. Be grateful!"

"Yes sir." Kahale slung Nico over his shoulder again, and carried him away. I swallowed hard as Ethan pressed his sword against my throat to stop me from struggling. Tears burned my eyes as Nico was carried out of the room.

Luke entered the room, wearing different, fancier clothes. "People are coming," he said. "Are they ready?"

Ethan nodded, and Luke opened the doors. Lords and Ladies swept in, each with a cold, evil glint in their eye. I could hear bits and pieces of their conversation as the walked by us.

"-really Children of the Council-"

"-dazzling specimen-"

"-just look at the color-"

"-can't wait to dissect it-"

"-wonder what color it's blood is-"

"-tail flesh eaten raw with carrots-"

Those comments chilled me to the bone. We were nothing but worthless beings for sale.

"Ladies and gentlemen!" Luke's voice boomed inside the room, as the humans took their seats. "I, Luke Castellan, the infamous merfolk merchant, have caught the Children of the Council! And now, five of you lucky purchasers can own them! Let the auction begin!"

Luke gestured to Octavian, who grabbed Piper, and hoisted her up.

"First for sale, is Piper! This beauty of the sea has a lovely pink tail, gorgeous brown hair, and eyes that just can't decide on a color!"

The humans started to shout out numbers, which I guessed were money values, until one roaring voice silenced them all.

"Sold!" Luke cried. "To Ma Gasket, the famous chef! I'll expect to see some mermaid stew on your menu soon, eh?"

The large woman just smiled in response. Piper was horrified as the woman wrapped her burly arms around her waist and lifted her up. I could hear her muffled shrieks, but remained still because of the sword Ethan still had at my throat. Mermaid stew. Piper was going to be made into mermaid stew. She was going to die.

"Next up," Luke cried, as cheery as ever, "Hazel! With a black tail, this mermaid is a lovely offset to all the gold in your house."

The bidding started again. Poor Hazel was sold to a woman, Lady Hylla. Lady Hylla didn't have that evil glint in her eyes like Ma Gasket had. Maybe Hazel would be okay...who was I kidding. Hazel was going to be a wall decoration.

Next was Leo. Leo was sold to Lady Khione, a girl with absolutely no emotion in her eyes. She still looked dangerous, though. As Leo was carried out by her henchmen, I realized that she was the one who made the comment about dissection. Oh no.

"And finally, we have Percy!"

I was lifted onto the stage. The humans started to bid, but it stopped when a woman stood up, followed by a teenage boy who could be her son.

"I will take it," she said.

"L-lady Gaea," Luke stuttered. "What an honor."

Lady Gaea inclined her head. "It shall be a gift for my son, Polybotes," she declared.

The boy straightened. "Thank you, mother."

She nodded. "Take him to the carriage," she ordered. Her henchmen picked me up and carried me to a lavish carriage, where I was unceremoniously dumped in the seat across from Lady Gaea and her son.

Polybotes pulled out a sword almost immediately. "Mother, may I?"

She waved her hand. He made to cut me with his sword, but I started thrashing. He frowned. "Mother, it's being bad."

"Then you'll have to wait until we're home where you can take it to your laboratory and strap it down, Polybotes."

He sat back in his seat and sheathed his sword. "I hate waiting."

Laboratory? Straps? This was going to be difficult to get out of.

So, what'd you think? (well, let's see: the auction should've been more action, and it definitely wasn't the best writing ever. In fact, I think minotaur poo is better) Gee, thanks, tiny voice in my head.

For the record, Polybotes is going to be some spoiled rich brat with sadistic mind.

Also: I feel like there aren't a lot of people reading this...please review if you want me to continue this story.