The mist had vanished as soon as the voice had stopped talking. Reyna stood awestruck and Lupa was, well she's a wolf. I couldn't exactly tell what she was thinking. Reyna opened her mouth as if to speak but closed it instantly.

"Wait until the campfire tonight." Lupa said. "Shame we will have to cancel capture the flag…"

Reyna nodded. Then we both bowed and backed out of the cave. As soon as we were outside Reyna picked up speed and sprinted towards the cabins. I raced after her.

"Where are you going?" I asked catching up.

"We have to talk to Dakota. We need to discuss what we are going to do."

"Wait," I stopped. "Us?"

"Well it's obvious who you should take. The sun? Well my father's Apollo."

"Oh." I said as if I knew that.

We caught Dakota as he was entering his cabin. He saw Reyna's expression and let us in. The room was huge inside. It was still pretty plain but it was geek heaven. One wall was lined with books floor to ceiling there were posters spread around with different battle plans, maps of the woods and all sorts of posters with equations and stuff. No one was inside which seemed odd as it was right before diner and everyone had an hour free time.

"Door lock." Dakota said. "Window sound proof. Alert system on." I heard a distinctive click of the door lock and a strange soft buzzing from around the room.

"So what was the prophecy?" Dakota asked sitting down.

Not even bothering to wonder how he knew that Reyna repeated the exact lines. Dakota scratched his head. I saw an oddly familiar look across his face. He was deep in thought and was muttering to himself. He began pacing across the room. Reyna patently watched him.

"Got to make a plan…" He said then shook his head. "Well it's obvious who should go."

"I know but do you think…" Reyna asked.

"Has to.." He answered.

"Ok but where should we…?"

"I was thinking east."

"Well duh. How?"

"Hmmm… We can't fly."

"Boat?"

"That's a good idea. But where?"

This conversation went on for a couple minutes. I was getting more confused by the second. They kept finishing each other's sentences and answering unfinished questions.

"Okay," I broke in. "Can someone catch me up? You lost me like ten minutes ago."

They looked at me funny. Then Dakota spoke.

"So listen, I'm going to make a plan. I'll give it to Hazel who will catch you up as soon as you get on your boat."

"Boat? Hazel?" I asked. "What?"

Dakota just shook his head. "Your head is full of kelp."

"Yeah, " a voice sounded from the bookshelf. "You're a Seaweed Brain."

That name again! It sparked something. I saw a flash of blond hair like a memory and like lightning it was gone. Then Hazel stepped out from behind the bookshelf eating an apple.

"Hazel!" Dakota exclaimed. "How'd you…?" Then he smacked his head."Ok but I'm fixing that."

Again with all these inside conversations! I thought.

"So when do we leave?" Hazel asked.

"Right after the campfire." Reyna responded. "You'll be able to get us a boat?"

"Do you doubt my skills?" Hazel asked teasingly.

"Okay," I said annoyed now. "Just completely leave me out of this. That's cool. I'll just do everything you say and not ask questions."

"Sorry." Hazel said with the same tone of voice. We glared at each other. Then Hazel walked over to the door and kicked it open.

I looked to Reyna and Dakota for help.

"I'm the sun, she's the thief." Reyna stated.

"Oh…" I said finally getting it.

"She'll come around." Reyna said.

We dispersed and I went to my cabin to pack. To be honest I wasn't too sad about leaving. This place gave me the creeps. I was trespassing. Lupa had even said I shouldn't be here. I threw all my stuff into a small backpack that had appeared on the floor. I knew it must've been Hazel so I made sure nothing was going to explode in my face if I opened it. I figured she'd be mad at me she might make it shoot things at me. Luckily it was safe.

My only belongings were an extra set of clothes and then some Ambrosia and nectar that Hazel had left along with the bag. It was strange how I knew what that was but I didn't know who I was. More than anything I wanted to see that newspaper. I wanted it to give me a clue. Anything but if I didn't have it then I was stuck.

I sat down on my bed and ran my fingers through my hair. It was driving me nuts! I tried to reason with myself to think about what Hera had said but it wasn't helping. Sighing I fell back onto my bed and glared viciously at the ceiling.

Not knowing what to do I pulled out Riptide and read the inscription again. A voice seemed to speak in my head. Not like when the pegasi did it but as if I was recalling something. "This blade has a long and tragic history. One that we need not go into."

"A long and tragic history…" I muttered to myself. I tried to think of something, anything. It just felt like I kept running into a blank really hard brick wall. Recapping Riptide I sat up and stuffed it in my pocket. Snatching up my bag from the floor I left the room without one look back.

I got to the campfire to find nearly all the cabins were there. I sat down on an empty log near the edge of the clearing. The sun was just beginning to set. Then suddenly a shadow loomed above me and I jumped.

"Geez." Hazel said sitting down next to me. She handed me a plate of food. I eyed it suspiciously. "Come on you really don't think I poisoned it or something."

I shrugged and took it. "Why are you sitting over here?" I asked.

"Because I want to." She retorted. "Anymore stupid questions?"

I smiled at that. "So where exactly are we going?"

"East. Duh."

"Um okay. But why?"

"First of all you can't get much farther west without hitting the ocean and second, Dakota had an idea about where Juno is."

I would have asked a thousand more questions but Reyna came up standing next to the fire with clipboard in hand.

"Alright everyone. Unfortunately capture the flag has been canceled."

All of the Ares- Mars campers groaned and yelled stuff in Latin. Reyna just went on ignoring them.

"Percy Jackson has received a quest." All eyes went to me. "Can you repeat the prophecy?"

I cleared my throat and stood up. "Umm…Child of the sea, beware of the earth, the giants revenge the seven shall birth, the thief and the sun will break the chains, Juno released and memories regained."

There was silence as they took this in. Then Dakota stood up.

"So Reyna and Hazel will be going," He said. "Objections?"

One of the Mars kids stood up and opened his mouth. Dakota cut him off.

"You don't mess with prophecies." The kid sat back down. Dakota then turned to the three of us. "You can go as soon as you are ready."

Reyna nodded and Hazel stood up to brush off her jeans. Hastily I followed them out scrambling to get my back pack. Having no clue where to go I followed them out.

"That's it?" I exclaimed as soon as we were out of ear shoot.

They gave me confused looks.

"No advice or can't Lupa do something for us."

"Didn't you tell him?" Hazel said pointedly to Reyna. She ignored her. "Listen, the gods aren't allowed to interfere with us. Especially you. You were born in violation of some oath. Also the gods don't care for us. We are on our own. If we don't survive…. well that's our problem."

"Wait… what?" I asked just even more confused. Reyna quickly explained that I wasn't supposed to have been born because of the pact the big three made after world war two.

After that I was silenced and we had picked up the pace to a fast jog heading west. We stopped at a small harbor that was filled with expensive boats. There was a high chain linked fence around it with barbed wire on the top. There had to be at least fifty security cameras that I could see along with the ever so friendly guard dogs. I saw a couple of guards walking around too but they were all um… 'slightly' heavier than most people.

"Okay," said Hazel. "I'll sneak in and grab the boat. Percy you and Reyna swim around the outside. I'll throw down a ladder and bring you up."

"How do we know which boat?" I asked. "There has to be like fifty of them." But Hazel had literally vanished from my side.

"You know what." I said. "I don't want to know."

"Come on Kelp Head." Reyna rolled her eyes.

We stealthy crawled around the side. Well stealthy if you consider rolling down a hill and literally crashing into the fence then yes we were like foxes. To our surprise Hazel was waiting for us there. With one quick motion she used her blade to slash through the fence. Then she disappeared again.

I caught glimpses of her shadow of where she'd been but not once did I actually see her. We crawled through the gate and I jumped into the water. Reyna hesitantly followed. I dropped underwater. I instantly knew where Hazel was. I could feel all the vibrations through the water. I popped back up.

"This way." I motioned for Reyna to follow as I lead the way weaving around the labyrinth of boats.

I found the boat in less than a minute.

"At least she didn't choose the obvious one." I muttered.

The boat was huge with three sails and it had a pretty spacious room underneath. It was white with a double blue stripe along its side. It was called The Princess Aria. That name and the fact that I saw Hazel's blond hair on board really freaked me out. I froze startled before I got wacked in the head with a rope ladder.

That snapped me out of it. I climbed the ladder with Reyna right behind me. The deck was elaborately decorated. There was two styled fisherman chairs up front and in the back was a huge old fashioned wheel.

"I hope you know how to drive this thing." Hazel said sitting down. "Cause I have no idea."

"I think I can figure it out." I said eyeing the ship.

I walked up to the captains place and eyed the sails. "Mizzenmast!" I shouted.

The ropes began pulling themselves, the sails stood at the ready. I smiled to myself. This is cool. I willed the waves to propel us backward. That way there wouldn't be any sound from starting the engine. Hazel came up to me.

"You might want to create a fog or something to hide us." She said ever so innocent. "You can do that being a son of Neptune right?"

Without responding I made the water create a thick fog surrounding us. Thankfully I didn't need to see to know where to go. I could sense how deep the water was and where other objects were. It was like a sixth sense.

I steered the boat into the Pacific. So we need to go east, I thought. Do they really think we can make it all the way around America in three days. Sighing I turned the boat. Hazel came up holding a map.

"Ok," She said. "So Dakota mapped out this route for us. There's a river that can take us straight to the Mississippi River, it's only known to demigods. Very, very strange story you can ask Dakota about it. Or if you want to we can miss our deadline and take the Panama Canal."

"So strange unheard river it is." I said. Glancing over at the map I made a wave spin us around heading towards the coordinates marked on the map.

Surprised by the sudden change in direction Hazel was thrown into me. I was squashed by her as she fell on top of me. Then of course Reyna who'd been behind Hazel tripped over us. I became the bottom of a sandwich.

"Can you get off of me!" I tried yelling but it came out like I had my head in a pillow. They scrambled to their feet and had to grip the railing for support. The waves were acting up, some coming close to the top of the boat.

"Percy calm down!" Reyna said. It surprised me that I was actually angry about that but once I did calm down the waves went back to normal. Gently rocking the boat.

"I'm going below deck," Hazel muttered. She stalked off slamming the door behind her. Without a word Reyna followed her.

Frustrated I willed the waves to propel us faster through the ocean. If we could keep up this pace we could make it there just in time. It really did suck that I couldn't fly. Then all we had to do was get a plane ticket. Of course not. What was cool was that I felt like the ocean was at my command.

It was actually a nice night out. The stars were out and I could clearly see the constellations. One looked oddly familiar. It looked like a girl running across the sky. She had a bow drawn with an arrow notched ready. It strangely made me feel sad. I don't think I had a very happy life if everything seems to freak me out or make me sad.

A couple hours later I walked to edge of the boat. Looking down at the water I saw a group of hippocampi swimming around. I waved and they nickered back before disappearing into the ocean.

"They're really cute." A voice said behind me. Startled I jumped around and whipped out Riptide. It was only Hazel who had crept up on me. I frowned at her.

"Why are you up here?" I asked.

"Because you have to sleep at sometime. You aren't a machine."

"Fine." I said suddenly realizing just how tired I was. "I'm pretty sure you can figure out how to turn a wheel."

She nodded and I went to the front of the boat. No way I was going to go below deck especially if she crashed the ship. I unrolled one of the sleeping bags and crawled inside. As soon as my head hit the pillow I was out like a light.

Unfortunately I didn't sleep too long. I woke to the sound of something sizzling next to my ear. I forced my eyes open to see green acid eating away at the ship.

"Whoa!" I jumped up. Then I looked towards where Reyna had taken over Hazel's watch. She had drawn her bow. Then Hazel burst through the door and her eyes widened. Glancing up I saw the Hydra bearing down on us.