A/N: Hi to everyone. Reviewed yet? If not, please do. PJO and HoO are not mine, they belong to Rick.

Chapter 8:

When they set sail, Leo walked off, Hazel, Frank, and Piper went to their rooms, but Jason, Thalia, and Annabeth hung around on deck. She was still having trouble believing in the whole demigod, monster, Greek and Roman stuff.

"Want me to show you around?" Percy asked her. She nodded.

He took her around the top deck, which had a kitchen and eating area, infirmary, controls, a library, a pool, a small fighting area, and an exercise room, and then to the bottom deck which was all bedrooms and one extra bathroom on the outside, even though all the rooms already had one.

"You can have my room," he said, when they reached the door resembling the ocean. The inside was beautiful. The floor was sand colored; the walls were covered with waves, sea gulls, and a beautiful sky with a pinkish, orange-ish, baby blue sky, and very light purple and blue clouds: a sunset on its way. She could smell salty water, and she could almost hear the waves and the cries of the sea gulls, and she couldn't help but notice how much she really enjoyed it.

"Thanks," she said. He already had all his things together. She realized now that all he had were clothes and a beaded necklace. No pictures, books, or personal belongings of any sort. She wondered why.

"Why don't you have any pictures or anything?" she asked before she could stop herself. He looked at her. He looked sad and angry at the same time.

"I went to a camp around your age, Camp Half-Blood. That's a camp for Greeks. I went there when I was 12 and have been there since 9 months ago," ha paused, anger burning in his eyes. "And then Hera erased my memory and put me in the Roman camp, Camp Jupiter, with no warning. I didn't have anything with me. But she switched me and Jason, who was leader of that camp, so the Greeks would join the Romans in defeating Gaea." He forced a smile, and concluded, "So here I am. With nothing." The anger and sadness returned to his eyes for a split second, but he covered it up.

"It's almost dinner, we should go back up," he suggested.

"Sure," she said, following him out of the room.

For dinner, they had hamburgers, hotdogs, chips, and sodas. They all ate hungrily. She noticed that only one other person there was her age: the girl named Hazel. Maybe she would talk to her later. They finished dinner and then had dessert in their own different areas. Percy, Annabeth, Thalia and Jason sat by the pool, and Piper, Frank and Leo at the table. Hazel came over to Angelie.

"Want to sit with me?" she asked her.

"Sure," Angelie said quietly. They went over to sit in deck chairs away from the others. Angelie was sort of grateful for that.

"You nervous?" Hazel asked. Angelie gave a weak smile and nodded. Hazel smiled back.

"No need to. They are all really nice. Frank is fun and nice to be around, Leo is goofy, so if you need to get your mind off something, he's the guy to go to, and Piper is cool and helpful. Thalia and Annabeth are somewhat more of the strict ones, but they're not bad. They can be really nice, just don't make them mad," she winked at her. "Jason is cool too. He's funny, but that's all I really know. Percy is nice. He's modest, confident and loyal to everyone. He has a good sense of humor, and his mood changes often, but he can be really dumb sometimes," she concluded with a laugh. Angelie took it all in. They all seemed nice, but so far, Hazel was really the only one she would confer with for a while.

"Well, I wanted to talk to you because you're more around my age. How did you fit in with them so easily?" Angelie asked.

"I went to Camp Jupiter before this, so I was sort of used to people older than me, and I went on a quest with Percy and Frank, so I know them the best," she said. "Want to tell me something about yourself so I can get to know you better?"

"Well, I'm sort of shy, as you must have noticed by now. I can get over it fast, though. I'm an artist, love to read, and I did some sports during school. I'm dyslexic so I can't read. Well, I can, it's just hard," she said.

"Yup, you're definitely a demigod," Hazel confirmed. "Demigod's are either dyslexic or ADHD or both. I'm dyslexic."

They finished their dessert, and talked until it was time for bed.

Leo had first night shift so he had time to rest before the morning. Then it was Jason, Frank, and Percy. He walked around the ship, bored. He really hoped no monsters showed up. Of course, he was plenty loud when he wanted to be and he was pretty sure all his friends were on guard even though they were asleep. He didn't want to fight another monster though. Charybdis had been bad enough, but he didn't want anything happening to anyone like what happened to Percy. He'd been worried, though he didn't show it. He though it made him look weak, and might make his friends think he was mocking them. He didn't want that. He most certainly didn't want them to mock him, either though.

His shift started at 11 p.m., and ended at 1 a.m. He walked around the ship some more, keeping himself awake. He stopped and looked up at the sky, with its millions and millions of stars above him, and the Milky Way.

"Admiring the stars?" a voice said.

"Go to sleep, Percy. You did this last night and you need your sleep to regain your energy, and your shift is an hour longer," Leo said.

"I can't, Leo. That's why I'm up here."

"Then let me sing you to sleep," Leo said sarcastically. Percy sat down next to him and put his hands behind his head. He looked troubled, but Leo knew why.

"Don't know what to do or think about Angelie?" Leo asked.

"Bingo," Percy mumbled. "I'm also sort of ticked at my dad for not telling me."

They didn't talk for a while. Leo was just about to open his mouth, when he realized Percy's breath had steadied. He looked over and Percy's eyes were closed, his chest rising and falling calmly.

"Percy?" he asked. No reply. "So much for not being able to sleep," he mumbled to himself. Pressing the light button on his watch, he glanced at the time. The illuminated screen read 12:58 a.m. He sighed and got up to get Jason. He walked down the stairs, yawning. He opened Jason's door and shook his friend awake.

"Already?" Jason mumbled, rubbing his eyes and sitting up.

"Yeah, and Percy's up there asleep. Apparently, he couldn't sleep so he came up. Don't wake him up," he said. Jason nodded and relieved Leo, who stumbled off to his room.

When he got up to the deck, he saw that Percy had fallen asleep in one of the deck chairs. Jason busied himself, practicing air tricks, finding constellations, and thinking about the quest. It seemed to take forever, and finally, after checking on the time five times, it was Frank's turn.

When it was Frank's turn, he turned into whatever he could think of, practiced fighting against the dummies and then pretending he was actually fighting someone. He, too, looked at the sky, but not for constellations. Eventually, it was time for him to switch with Percy, so he woke him up.

Percy took his shift and after a while, the sun rose, the sky turning soft and gentle pinks, blues, oranges, yellows, and purples. It was a scene worth remembering. Percy's shift passed quickly, at one time it was 5:30, than 7:10, than Leo came up to make breakfast.