Here's Chapter 3.

BTW this is in 1st person.

Disclaimer: I do not own PJO nor HHO, and I never will. All rights go to Rick Riordan.

Crash III

(Percy)

You know how it feels, after days of excitement and action, everything suddenly becomes boring, and you can't take it. Annabeth, being who she is, brought a set of chess on board, and we had a chess tournament. This went great if you were smart, but it was hell if you are not. And it was hell for me. The only time that I won was because Hazel got sucked into one of her memories again, and had to forfeit. All the other times, I kept committing suicide with my queen. It wasn't like I was trying to or anything, it just happened. I just couldn't see how my queen would always get killed, until it actually happened. I always lost in the first round, except when Hazel forfeited. The only consolation was, Jason was even worse than I was. So every time Annabeth would start a chess tournament, what would happen would be, I lose, Jason loses, we hang out and talk, we have nothing to say because we have already done this 109 times, we get bored, we talk about the most random things. I was almost hoping for a monster. Well, now I realize, don't wish for something you don't actually want.

Jason and I were talking about exactly how it feels when a ship crashes into a sperm whale (this is the biggest whale in the ocean). I'm not even sure if the scenario was real, but hey, like I said, we were really bored and had nothing else to talk about.

Suddenly, a huge green sea monster burst out of the ocean, nearly flipped the Argo II, and sprayed poison everywhere. Fortunately, the poison missed us. Still, Jason and I yelled for Annabeth and the rest of them to get up here. As soon as Leo saw the sea monster, he jumped on its neck, and burst into flame.

Oh I should explain, Leo got a new fighting technique. Jump on your enemy, and burst into flames. We tried to point out to him that if he used that method on a normal person, he'd most likely get impaled by that person's sword. He proceeded to tell us that he would only use it on monsters.

The rest of us drew our weapons and leaped to the attack. Well, that would've been a great strategy, except for the fact that nobody had bothered to steer the Argo II. Now it was headed for this island. We first dealt with the sea monster, doing enough damage for the monster to sink back into the sea, hopefully for a long, long time. Most of us were unharmed. The only serious injury was Annabeth, who had broken an arm trying to stab at the monster. Instead, the monster had whipped its neck around and smashed it into her arm. Now she was slowly sinking. I grabbed her around the waist, and pulled her to the surface. She kissed me, before passing out. I tried to will the waves to bring me to the Argo II, but too late. It smashed into the island with crushing force. We could feel the shockwave, even though we were about 1000 meters away from the impact. Everybody either grabbed on to Jason or myself, and we managed to make it to the island without anybody drowning. I laid Annabeth down on the beach, and ran toward the wreckage of the Argo II. When Leo got there and saw how bad the damage was, he burst into tears. Nobody blamed him, he had built that ship carefully and lovingly, and had spent a lot of time on it. Most people sat down, but Jason and I walked up and tried to assess the damage. I looked at the boat, and realized that it was very bad. The hull had been smashed, as well as the mast. It would be hard to rebuild this thing. Now, we had to make a difficult choice. Do we build a new, smaller boat? Or do we try and fix the Argo II. This was when one of the bitterest fights erupted. Everybody, who were already on edge, turned on each other at the slightest provocation. It only took Clarisse one word in disagreement to set off a fully-fledged argument. Most of the campers from Camp Half-Blood wanted to build a new ship. Leo, however, was adamant. He said that the Argo II was definitely the ship that should sail to Greece, therefore it must be repaired. Soon, the group had split up. Within five weeks, the group in favor of building a new ship had already set sail and left. The people who chose to build a new ship were Will Solace, Connor and Travis Stoll, Malcolm, Annabeth, and a few other people. The only people left were Leo, Hazel, Frank, Jason, Piper, me, and Nico. When we found out that only seven of us were remaining, we knew we were the seven. We were sure of it. Nico seemed surprised that he was part of the seven. He had always thought that the seventh member would be Annabeth. Then, we set to work rebuilding the Argo II.

It took two months to repair. We had to fix the hull and the mast, repair damages along the sides, and put the head of Festus the dragon back onto the mast. We were pretty sure that we now had only about two months before the Giant War began in full force. We were cut off from the world on this island, so when we got back into a place with satellite connection, we were shocked to hear that huge earthquakes and tsunamis had been ravaging the world. People were starting to think that "2012" was real. The world was going to end. You know, I'm not sure how far off their predictions might be.

When we neared Greece, another bitter fight erupted. Leo wanted to keep the Argo II in the air near the battlefield to provide air support. Jason and Piper backed him up. Hazel and Frank told him it wasn't a good idea. They pointed out that since the demigods were at a huge disadvantage in numbers, they had to compensate for that fact. Nico and I said that we should use stealth, and if we were to use stealth, there would be no way we could use the Argo II. Even a giant who's colorblind, had taken a few punches in the head, and had one eye swollen shut, could be able to see the Argo II. In the end a compromise was made. The Argo II would be used to scout, but not attack. That way it wouldn't get in the way of stealth, but it would be able to have some use in the war.

Now, that we reached Greece we had two things we needed to do. One, persuade the gods to fight with us, and two, stay alive, because we were fairly certain that Gaea would send thousands of monsters after us, give us nightmares, and basically make life hell for us. Well, we are the seven in the Great Prophecy, so we have to live up to it.

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Chapter four should be up tomorrow.

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