Chapter 3: Hazel Nearly Falls Off A Boardwalk

Disclaimer: King Rick owns it all! *bows down*

Note: This is in Percy's POV

This might be short chapter. Of course, you hate me more than anybody possibly could. It's okay. I get it.

I used my last drachma to message Leo.

"Hey, man."

"Hey, bro."

"Is the ship ready?"

"Yeah. Is everyone coming?"

"Yeah, everyone is flying in from California. I'm picking them up and taking them to Daniel's."

"And then?"

"Can you dock the Argo on the East River? It's not that far."

"Okay, but are you eating at that fancy restaurant?"

"No, it's to give you some time."

"Okay man, see ya."

"See ya, bro."

The Iris-message shuts off. I suddenly get a very good idea for surprising everybody.

After picking everybody up, I am pretty nervous.

"Okay, Percy, why are we at Daniel?" Piper asks.

"And where's Leo?" Hazel asks.

"Leo couldn't come. He had some special stuff at Camp."

"Oh." Hazel looks sad.

"Anyway, before we do anything, I have a little surprise for you. You'll need to put these on." I hold out five blindfolds.

"Okay." Piper looks skeptical as she takes a blindfold from my hand.

After everybody puts their blindfolds on, I carefully steer them in the direction of the ship. After Hazel nearly fell of the boardwalk, I decided it would be a good time to remove the blindfolds.

"Alright, on the count of three. One, two, three!" I yell as everybody removed their blindfolds.

"Is that…...is that the Argo?" Jason asks as if he's never been on the ship.

"Oh my Gods, Percy, you doofus, you planned this!" Annabeth yells kissing me.

"Leo! It's Leo!" Hazel runs up to him and hugs him. Piper runs after her and hugs him too.

After everybody hugged Leo and after Annabeth kissed me a hundred times (but I won't complain), we went on board into the mess hall and had dinner.

"This was genius, Percy!" Frank says.

"I have to give credit to Poseidon." I say.

As if on cue, a Iris-message appears with Poseidon in view.

"Percy!" he said gravely.

"Dad?" I slowly get up from my chair.

"Percy," he swallowed, "It's about Estelle."

"What?" Piper whispers.

"Estelle is a demigod." he says darkly.

My heart starts racing as my worst fear comes true.

As I said earlier, short chapter.

But a lot of information and plot. So be happy, kids.

Hopefully I will update soon, so sit tight. I love feedback, please drop in a review!

Thanks for your support,

Padma