I finally remembered to give an author's note. Ok guys umayma here. I hope your liking the story. I will try to update every week when school starts next week. But right now, enjoy...

Chapter 3

Percy Pov

It took me a minute to realize that they were charging toward us. I raised Riptide, and charged. I went through merman after merman with my sword. My body went on autopilot. Slash, dodge, slice.

After a few minutes, I finally remembered that Lyra didn't have a weapon. I panicked. I frantically searched for her in the crowd of mermen. When I finally found her, I realized that she had everything under control.

She slashed and sliced with her, wait- sword? Where did she get that? Wherever she got that, it was beautiful. She fought like a demon. Whenever she got close to a merman, they marveled at her sword's beauty. Then she sliced up the merman before he could realize that he was supposed to be fighting her.

In fact, she finished off so many mermen, that I didn't have any left to kill. I marveled at her work. We were going to go ask Chiron about the mermen, but we decided to wait until tomorrow. We figured that he was too busy pulling arrows out of his tail to worry about something that hadn't hurt anyone at camp. I hoped that more mermen wouldn't come tomorrow.

Lyra Pov

After I finished off all the mermen, which Percy did not help me at all in (some brother he is); we decided to go swimming in the canoe lake. Percy wanted to swim at the beach, but we decided against it when I recalled that the mermen had risen from the beach.

We were in the water for a long time. We spent most of that time chatting with a hippocampi and a dolphin. They invited us to have seaweed tea and kelp biscuits, which were strangely tasty. They even gave us a ride to the surface. I got to ride the hippocampi. It was the best ride of my life. As we climbed out of the water, we heard a conch horn in the distance, signaling that it was time for dinner.

We ran to the pavilion as quick as we could. I hadn't realized that we had stayed underwater that long. That's the thing about having ADHD, when you're having fun, hours could pass by and you wouldn't even realize it.

Lucky for us, we didn't get wet unless we wanted to, being children of Poseidon, so we didn't have to use my emergency hair dryer that I carry around everywhere (long story) to dry ourselves.

After all those cookies, I wasn't very hungry. I almost didn't touch my piece of brisket, at least, the bit I left for myself. I sacrificed three quarters of it for Dad. Percy didn't look any more different than me. For some reason, we both drank Blue Cherry Coke.

I kept on worrying about what quest was going to happen and what my dad said about Percy probably not coming back from it alive. I looked at Percy. He was just sitting there. I tried to struck up a conversation with him, but we didn't have much to talk about, which kept our topics limited.

Suddenly a light bulb appeared over my head. I mean literally, it fell on my head. "Ouch!" I said. The light bulb fell on the ground. I picked it up and examined it. There was a note attached to it. It read "Lyra, your father is worried about you. Even though I couldn't care less about you, it pains me to see my brother like this. Please Iris-Message him? Here's a drachma." Suddenly a drachma appeared out of nowhere. I continued reading. "Good luck with your "quest"! Signed Zeus."

Who sends a message on a light bulb? I thought. Leave it to Uncle Zeus to do dumb things. Well he was the youngest of the Big Three. I could understand why he would go crazy trying to be the king of the gods. So after dinner I secretly went into the forest with a spray bottle and a flashlight to Iris message Dad, while wondering why Zeus would worry about his worst rival.

I wasn't only Iris-Messaging dad to see if he was okay, although Iris-Messaging is kind of like a normal payphone for the mortals. I was also going to ask him about the quest he was talking about. I only ran into the forest so that Percy wouldn't hear our conversation and get I was far enough from the camp, I shone the flashlight right in front of me and kept on spraying water at the spot where the light was shining. Soon a rainbow appeared.

I dug a gold drachma out of my pocket and threw it into the rainbow. It disappeared into the rainbow. "Oh Iris, Goddess of the Rainbow, accept my offering." I said. The rainbow glowed. "Show me Poseidon" The rainbow rippled and in it I saw…., "Dad!" I was pacing around his palace looking more worried than I had ever seen him. When he heard me, he smiled. "Lyra! How are you? I was so worried!" he said. I smiled back. "I'm fine dad." I said. Then my smile turned into a frown. "You said that a quest was going to be offered." I said.

His smile melted as well, into a puzzled expression. "And?" he asked. "Well, it hasn't happened yet….." I continued before he could say anything. "….and I was wondering if you could maybe tell me when it will happen. You know, so I could get Percy ready for it." He looked at me pitifully. "I'm afraid I can't. The Fates have forbidden me from doing so." He said "They only let me warn you."

My hopes shattered. "But I do wish you luck on the quest when it happens" he said. As he said that, the image started to blur. I was still spraying. Before the image dispersed he said one final thing, "And I'm sending your brother Tyson the Cyclopes to go with you on the quest. Goodbye!" Then he disappeared. A voice, probably Iris said, "Please insert one more drachma for another five minutes."

I ignored her. I let go of the spray bottle's handle and put it in my pocket. Then I used the flashlight to guide me out of the forest. Unfortunately, the light attracted a lot of moths. Seriously! I'm a demigod! I have worse problems to deal with than moths! I thought.

I shooed away the moths and ran away before the moths could catch me. I know, I felt stupid running away from moths when I could be running away from giant poison scorpion monsters. I regretted thinking about giant poison scorpion monster as soon as I heard a rustling in the bush. I kept on thinking Please don't be a giant poison scorpion monster. Please don't be a giant scorpion monster.

Then…a giant poison scorpion monster came out of the bushes! What a surprise! I took out my sword, ready to fight. My dad gave me that sword on my sixteenth birthday. My sword was just like Percy's, I could put it in my pocket in pen form, and I could never lose it. I heard that a poison scorpion monster can pierce you with its tail with deadly accuracy. I could just run, but he would pierce me before I got out of my place. Then the poison from its tail would start to kill me, and I'd be dead within sixty seconds.

I checked my surroundings to see if there was any water that could help me. Nope. Then I remembered what my dad had said the day he gave my sword to me. It is very similar to your brother's sword, but you can call on the sea no matter where you are and how many times you ask. All you have to do is say, "I call on the sea."Call on the sea. What can I do by calling on the sea? I thought. Then it struck me. I could call on the sea and use that water to shield myself. Why didn't I think of that before? I concentrated. Then I said, "I call on the sea!" At least twenty gallons of water raced to my aid.

The scorpion apparently thought that I was trying to escape, because he raised his tail. Then everything seemed to be in slow motion. As the scorpion's tail approached, the water surrounded me to shield me from the attack.

When the scorpion's tail hit the water, it bounced off so hard that its tail and the scorpion went flying into the forest. I made the water shield disappear and I ran out of the forest for my life. When I was out, I checked to see if anyone saw me. Since I saw no one, I ran to my cabin.

The whole camp was I walked in to my cabin, I saw that Percy was waiting for me in our cabin. "Where have you been? I looked all over the camp for you!" he said. "Um, why?" I asked confused. "I waited for you here for hours. The whole camp was asleep and you hadn't come. That's why I went looking for you. Where have you been?"

"Zeus told me to Iris-Message dad because dad was worried about something and Zeus was getting worried about him." I said. Percy burst out laughing. "Zeus, is worried about Dad. What is the world coming to?! And I don't mean world as in Gaea if you're wondering." He said it as if he couldn't believe it.

"Well we better get some sleep. Capture the Flag games are tomorrow night and I want to win." He said "Me too. Good night!" I said. Then we went to bed. Even after Percy fell asleep, I stayed up all night thinking about how I'm going to protect him in the quest, and if the mermen were part of the reason we were going to need a quest.

Okay guys this is so sad. I haven't even gotten 5 reviews. How sad is that!? Please, please review. In fact, I'm going to make a deal. If it reaches at least 20 reviews, I will update faster. No pressure. Take your own sweet time reviewing. But please review. Also, who do you want to be the one who attacked? Is it:

A-Thalassa

or

B-Oceanus

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