Chapter 4:
Percy POV-
'Maybe if I just ignore it, it will go away…' I hoped, the boat lurched again, throwing my classmates against the opposite wall, 'Or not.'
"What's going on?" Woody demanded to no one in particular, especially considering nobody (with the exception of me) knew what was happening. We (well mostly they) stumbled out of the cafeteria onto the main deck to see what was going on. I ran out too, slightly ahead of the others.
"What is…that?" London asked in a frightened voice when she saw what was terrorizing the ship.
"Um…" Cody gulped, "You mean those…" he said as another monster rose out of the water, "And I'm pretty sure that they're Charybdis and Scylla, sea monsters from Greek mythology. Usually Charybdis would make a whirlpool to suck ships in, and the ships that weren't sucked in would be eaten by Scylla."
"Ohhhh," London said like she still had no idea what was going on or what it was that was attacking the ship.
'Well, at least I know what I'm up against now," sighed, pulling Riptide out of my pocket.
"Well don't just stand there, RUN!" Zack exclaimed, running in the opposite direction, followed by a mad rush of students and buffet eaters, their plates still stuffed with shrimp and dessert.
'Gee, the ship is being attacked, but I better save my food,' I thought sarcastically, uncapping Riptide. I'm not quite sure what the other passengers saw, or if they saw anything at all through their panic, but, at the moment, I really didn't care. Scylla or maybe it was Charybdis knocked into the boat again, causing me to trip, and one of them swooped in at me.
I slashed at it with Riptide, but I only managed to slice it's catfishy mustache, which, only succeeded in pissing it off more than it already was.
'That's just perfect,' I cursed in Greek, standing back up and walking until I was at the very edge, holding onto the rail.
I cursed again when I realized that one of them, Charybdis, I guess, was already making her whirlpool not to far away. Scylla dove for me again, and I ducked flattening myself onto the deck. But this time, I jumped up, landing Riptide in the soft scales under its chin. It shrieked and tried to pull away, which only made Riptide go longer and deeper into its skin. I pulled Riptide out, and slashed at it's neck, drawing, at least what I think was blood, because it was a dark blue color. Scylla shrieked again, pulling back and whipping back and forth with fury. I controlled the ocean to make it wrap around the monster, strangling it.
It thrashed violently again, allowing me to get a more direct opening to its throat. I dove riptide in deeply, leaving a gashing waterfall of dark blue blood. With one final shriek, the creature dove back into the water, flicking its tail as it left.
'Okay, one monster down, one to go, but first, I have to stop that whirlpool,' I told myself. The ship was already headed in the direction of the vortex. I controlled the water to reverse the direction of the current. Which, was not an easy task considering how strong the monster controlling it was. Which gave me the idea that it might be easier to stop the whirlpool if Charybdis was out of the way. It took a ton of effort, but I managed to lift the monster mostly out of the water, with the exception of the wave I was using to keep it up. The monster wailed, obviously not liking being out of water, and, in one motion, I used the water to throw it, far away from us. I saw it turn tail and leave like Scylla did, but now the more pressing matter was the still-raging whirlpool.
With the last amount of energy I had left, I reversed the current of the whirlpool, returning it to normal right before the ship did a nose dive into the center.
I collapsed on the deck, completely exhausted as I capped Riptide.
I looked around the deck, which was deserted. Some of Scylla's blood had splashed over onto the side. No way was I cleaning that up, I would just leave it for some poor janitor to ponder what had happened.
"What are you doing out here?" I heard. I looked up to see a very overweight black man in a security guard uniform coming my way, "Don't you know that we were in the middle of a sea monster attack?"
"I…yeah, I guess I panicked and passed out here. But it's gone now, right?" I asked.
The man took a look over the deck.
"Hmm," Yeah, it's gone now, but you lucky you okay, you could have been eaten by that thing," he told me, offering me a hand, and helping me to my feet.
"Yeah…lucky," I lied.
"Come on, let's get you back to your class. Ms. T is probably worried about you," he said.
She wasn't. Well, actually, she was hiding under the desk in hysterics and didn't even notice I was missing.
However the students had noticed my absence.
"Percy?" Cody asked, "Are you okay, man, when we all started running, we turned around and you weren't there."
"Yeah, I passed out on deck," I told them, most of whom seemed relieved, Zack however, looked at me suspiciously, like he didn't buy my story at all.
"Ms. T," the security guard, who had introduced himself as Kirby on the way to the classroom, said, "The attack is over."
"Oh, of course…" she said, getting out from under the desk and dusting off her skirt with her hands, "Is everyone alright?"
"We're all fine," Cody assured her.
"Um…well, after all of that, I think it would be best to dismiss class for the rest of the day. I'll see you all in here tomorrow," Ms. Tutweiller announced, and we all left the classroom.