HI guys! sooooo sorry this took so long with all the snow days and midterms messed up this took me a lot longer than i thought!
Sorry the chapters really short but ill be writing again soon!
"Right now, that's just about as useful as a solar powered flashlight"
Keep writing! :)
The hydra was huge and had too many heads to count at the moment.
"You've got to be kidding me!" I practically yelled. Leaping to my feet I uncapped Riptide charging towards the monster. I dodged the flying acid racing to where Reyna and Hazel were holding their own.
"Don't cut off its head!" I shouted a warning a little too late. Hazel had narrowly missed being eaten and had sliced off one of the heads. Instantly two started growing.
" Σηιτ!" I cursed in Greek.
"How do we kill it then!" Reyna shouted. She was shooting arrows at the many eyes trying to blind it.
"We need fire." I yelled back.
"On it!" Hazel said and with amazing speed ducked below deck. She didn't even need to get to the door, the acid was eating through the deck so she just jumped through one of the many holes.
"Percy!" Reyna warned. Not having time to look behind me. I forced the water up from the ocean then freezing it mid air and watched it pierce through three of the Hydra's head.
"Well that backfired a little." I said.
Reyna just glared at me as six new heads formed spitting the acid in every direction. We spent the next couple minutes jumping around in circles trying not to fall through the floor. If anyone had seen us they would have seen two teenagers acting like frogs.
Hazel appeared in the doorway with two shiny rock like things clutched in her hand. Quick and agile she made her way toward us. Before she could reach us though, a Hydra head lunged at her. She saw what was coming and tossed the rocks to Reyna who caught them as she did an aerial over a huge gap in the floor.
Instinct took over and with a massive leap I sprang towards Hazel. A split second before the Hydra head smashed into the deck I knocked Hazel across the ship. Thank the gods it was timed right. We landed right next to the rail all the way on the front of the boat.
Unfortunately, Hazel was pinned underneath me. Under different circumstances I would have been bright red. In a flash Hazel had shoved me to the side with surprising strength for someone so much smaller. Then she rolled over me as another reptilian head smashed into the front of the deck.
Infuriated now I felt the water and felt it bend to my will, like flexing a muscle. With a huge tug on my gut the water exploded and wrapped around the Princess Aria. It created a whirlpool, whipping around the boat at furious speeds. I could vaguely see the greenish outline of the Hydra trying to break through but the current was too strong. It swirled around creating our own little bubble.
"Do I want to know how you did that?" Hazel asked. I ignored her, partially because I had no clue.
Reyna ran towards us. "What do we do now?"
"I don't know," I said panting. "But you better think of something soon, I don't know how long I can keep this up."
"Okay," Hazel announced. "I have a plan. But it's not going to be easy."
Sure I thought, cause this whole trip's been super easy.
Hazel quickly explained her plan while I struggled to hold up the whirlpool. We followed her below deck or what was left of it anyways.
The boat was sinking fast, we would only have a few minutes. Hazel instructed me to make a air bubble surrounded by the water. Once we were enclosed in it we would sink to the bottom and walk to shore.
"There's no use in getting beat up before we start our quest." Reyna reasoned.
As soon as we sunk to the bottom I released the power that was circling the boat. The waves had a huge impact on our bubble and I took a lot of effort to keep it up. Reyna began hyperventilating. Hazel quickly explained that she was much more afraid of drowning than she was with flying. I guess that happens when you grow up with a son of Zeus.
Using the currents I propelled us toward the shore. When we got there I let the bubble collapse and we swam the last few feet. As soon as we clambered onto land Hazel and Reyna began ringing out their hair. It was strange since I was perfectly dry.
We watched the Hydra spit acid at the boat, attacking it with extreme ferocity now that we weren't fighting back. The Princess Aria sank below the ocean. We could hear the sizzling of the acid as it made contact with the water.
"Guess we owe Robert a new boat." Hazel muttered.
Reyna and I just nodded. We turned and broke into a sprint heading towards a small patch of woods. There was a small clearing so we decided to set up camp with what we had left. I went back after the Hydra left to recover some of our stuff that survived but all I could find was my small backpack, two sleeping bags and a blanket.
Hazel made a fire in seconds. Her face was illuminated by the flames and she honestly looked pretty, even if she was soaking wet. I blinked trying to clear my head. Had I really just thought that? Shaking my head I sat down on the ground, completely exhausted from using all of the water.
Reyna made a quick meal and I inhaled it. "So what now?" I asked in-between mouthfuls.
"I don't know how we can make up the time without the boat." Reyna said frowning.
"I can always find another one." Hazel suggested. Reyna glared at her. "Just a thought." She mumbled.
"We should probably travel over land…" Reyna began but I cut her off.
"Not a good idea." I said. "Didn't the green mist thing tell us to 'beware the earth'."
"Hmmmm…" Hazel said. "Well we can't fly cause of you."
"Gee thanks."
"Just pointing out the obvious." She defended. "Anyway we're too far away from camp to get help."
"Wait a sec." I said fingering my necklace.
"I'm not going anywhere." Hazel said annoyed.
"I have an idea. We can fly."
Reyna just looked at me as if I was nuts. Hazel shrugged and said, "Whatever floats your boat, Kelp Head."
I unhooked the whistle from my necklace and blew two long tweets into it. At first I thought it didn't work because we couldn't hear it but thanks to Hazel's 'finely tuned ears from sneaking around so much' she picked up the sound and we waited.
Having ADHD doesn't help with patience. Eventually I think we all fell asleep for a few hours. I seemed like part of me wanted to dream but all I got was a thick fog. I aimlessly wandered around when I heard someone call out to me.
"Seaweed Brain!"
I whirled around but no one was there. The voice called again. It was a girls voice, one I recognized. I began to run towards it but it was coming from all around me. The fog was thick as if I was trying to watch TV on one of those annoying days when the cable reception was horrible. All you got was a bunch of sound and a flickering screen. Suddenly it felt like my stomach dropped and I feel into… a lake?
I looked up and there was a girl sitting in a canoe. She had blond hair and piercing gray eyes. She was holding out her hand smiling at me. "Come on Seaweed Brain. Grab my hand."
Before I could grab it the image vanished and an owl landed next to me in the fog. It looked up with the same intelligent gray eyes. Except these were as if they were looking right through me, as if they were planning on the best way to take me down in a fight.
I swear the owl hooted, "Aphrodite is going to kill me for this. But it was best you knew." The owl gave me one last look that I took to mean don't-do-anything-stupid-or-I'll-kill-you. Then it unfurled its wings and took off.
I woke up gasping for breath and seeing three huge figures flying straight at me.