Looking warily at the palace, she pulled out her sword, careful to keep it away from her long, jet black hair. Swimming closer, she growled when several mermen dressed in armor attacked her. Baring her white teeth at them through blood red lips, she parried several strikes and knocked two of them out by banging them on the head with the butt of her sword hilt. She hated this. It was so easy. And she was at her strongest in the water. Smacking another one with her tail, she knocked him too out. Then there was only one out. She punched him in the face and he was out like a light.
The next thing she did was swim closer to the palace. Some people might have turned back, but not her. Swimming over the palace walls, she turned to Strike and whispered, "Go home." Strike did so. She then went down to the cobbled lanes and sheathed her sword, uncaring of the eyes on her. She soon made it to a courtyard just outside of the palace walls on the othe side of the palace. There was a myriad or mermen there, including two obviously royal ones. She swam closer. They turned.
One of the mermens' eyes widened. He spoke. "Arethusa?" She nodded. "Yes? Should I know you?" He shook his head. "No. How are you a mer?" She rolled her eyes and concentrated, quick to keep her tail as shorts, as she changed into a human and then back again. He swam closer, sticking out his hand. She shook it. "Since you obviously know me, or of me at least, who are you?" He shrugged. "Poseidon." Her eyes narrowed. "Really?" she hissed.
Quick as a flash she punched him in the face and ducked the other mermen and their weapons. Swimming off, she ignored Poseidon as he swam after her. She hid in a cave and wathced as he swm by and then she swam out and towards her cave and the portal inside it as fast as she could. She whistled. A shark swam towards her. She climbed on and quickly spoke to it. "Take me to the cave with the clothes and portal."
Casting a spell on it for speed, she flattened herself against its back. Poseidon soon caught up to her, some of the other mermen about five minutes behind him. Patting the shark, she jumped off and swam upwards, taking off her helmet and shrinking it. She then put it in a pocket and transfigured her tunic into a skin tight, waterproof, spandex, strapless top.
Swimming as fast as she could, she cast several spells for speed onherself and then quickly dove downwards. Poseidon took a minute to do so himself, and by then she had veered upwards. It continued like this for a while before her cave came into site. Willing it unnoticable to all but herself, she willed herself disillusioned and swam inside. Quickly changing into a human, she untransfigured the shirt and took it off.
She then dressed in the clothes she had been wearing before that (including the weapons) and dove into the portal. Appearing in her cabin, she sighed and walked out of it, and into the dining pavilion. As she ate at the Poseidon table, he listened to Chiron and the announcements. So there would be a capture the flag match after dinner. Against the hunters. She grinned, knowing that she would make the camp win for the first time. After all, she could read minds and was very, very, very powerful. Also, Artemis and Diana had blessed her family line. They'd also blessed her herself.