Welcome to the Sea of Monsters

Chapter 14

"Whoa!" Naruto yelled as he dodged yet another rock thrown by the giant dumbass. He just wished that Polyphemus would have impaled himself on a sharp rock right about now. Well…it was either that or Naruto get impaled and he didn't want that.

"You'd think he'd run out of rocks," Percy muttered.

"Swim for it!" Grover said.

He and Clarisse plunged into the surf. Annabeth hung on to Clarisse's neck and tried to paddle with one hand, the wet Fleece weighing her down. Naruto was in the surf as well before he smacked his head. "Damn! I forgot I could walk on water!" He said as he helped himself up and then saw that Clarisse was having trouble because Annabeth and the Fleece. "Here, let me help!" He said as he took Annabeth's form off of Clarisse, who looked a little relieved but pissed at that. "Hey, I was doing just fine!"

Naruto raised an eyebrow. "Eh…just to be safe." He was holding the blond girl bridal style and said with a smirk, "Man, Annabeth, you got to cut back on the Fleece. Geez you are heavy."

Annabeth knew he was just poking fun despite the situation, so she smirked and weakly punched the male blond, "Oh shut up you idiot."

Surprisingly the monster's attention was not on the Fleece.

"You, young Cyclops!" Polyphemus roared. "Traitor to your kind!"

Tyson froze and Naruto narrowed his eyes at the big idiot.

"Don't listen to him!" Percy pleaded. "Come on."

He pulled Tyson's arm, but he might as well have been pulling a mountain. Tyson turned and faced the older Cyclops. "I am not a traitor."

"You serve mortals!" Polyphemus shouted. "Thieving humans!"

"Yeah…you're not that much better." Naruto deadpanned.

Polythemus growled as he threw two boulders, one at Tyson and the other at Naruto. Tyson batted his aside easily while Naruto jumped up and kicked the rock full force back at the big idiot, hitting him in the forehead, making the group cringe a bit.

"GOOOOAAAAALLL!" Naruto shouted like he was at a soccer game while Annabeth rolled her eyes.

"Come one ninja boy, we have to get out of here, quit messing with him!" She yelled.

"Argh!" polythemus roared. "Stay out of this!"

"Not a traitor," Tyson said. "And you are not my kind."

"Death or victory!" Polyphemus charged into the surf, but his foot was still wounded. He immediately stumbled and fell on his already hurt face. That would've been funny, except he started to get up again, spitting salt water and growling.

"Percy!" Clarisse yelled. "Come on!"

"Heh, he sure has a good amount of tenacity!" Naruto chuckled as he ran.

"Like you?" The group around him deadpanned.

Naruto almost tripped at that. "Yeah….but for him that is bad for us!"

They were almost to the ship with the Fleece. If Percy could just keep the monster distracted a little longer ...

"Go," Tyson told them. "I will hold Big Ugly."

"No! He'll kill you." Percy had already lost Tyson once. He wasn't going to lose him again. "We'll fight him together."

"Together," Tyson agreed.

"Good luck with that!" Naruto yelled half playfully. He had Annabeth still in his arms, so it would be hard to fight with them. Percy could handle himself…right?

Percy drew his sword.

Polyphemus advanced carefully, limping worse than ever. But there was nothing wrong with his throwing arm. He chucked another boulder. Percy dove to one side, but he still would've been squashed if Tyson's fist hadn't blasted the rock to rubble.

Percy willed the sea to rise. A twenty-foot wave surged up, lifting him on its crest. He rode toward the Cyclops and kicked him in the eye, leaping over his head as the water blasted him onto the beach.

"Destroy you!" Polyphemus spluttered. "Fleece stealer!"

"You stole the Fleece!" Percy yelled. "You've been using it to lure satyrs to their deaths!"

"So? Satyrs good eating!"

Naruto had a deadpanned look at his face when he heard that. "Yeah? So are alligators."

Clarisse growled at that. "STOP BEING A SMART ASS AND RUN!"

"The Fleece should be used to heal! It belongs to the children of the gods!" Percy shouted back at the big idiot.

"I am a child of the gods!" Polyphemus swiped at Percy, but the water boy sidestepped. "Father Poseidon, curse this thief!" He was blinking hard now, like he could barely see, and Percy realized he was targeting by the sound of his voice.

"Poseidon won't curse me," Percy said, backing up as the Cyclops grabbed air. "I'm his son, too. He won't play favorites."

Polyphemus roared. He ripped an olive tree out of the side of the cliff and smashed it where

Percy hadd been standing a moment before. "Humans not the same! Nasty, tricky, lying!"

By now, Grover was helping Naruto get Annabeth on the pirate ship, where Clarisse was frantically waving at the two on the beach to hurry up.

Tyson worked his way around Polyphemus, trying to get behind him.

"Young one!" the older Cyclops called. "Where are you? Help me!"

Tyson stopped.

"You weren't raised right!" Polyphemus wailed, shaking his olive tree club. "Poor orphaned brother! Help me!"

No one moved. No sound but the ocean and my own heartbeat. Then Tyson stepped forward, raising his hands defensively. "Don't fight, Cyclops brother. Put down the—"

Polyphemus spun toward his voice.

"Tyson!" Percy shouted.

The tree struck him with such force it would've flattened Percy into a Percy pizza with extra olives. Tyson flew backward, plowing a trench in the sand. Polyphemus charged after him, but Percy shouted, "No!" and lunged as far as he could with Riptide. he'd hoped to sting Polyphemus in the back of the thigh, but he managed to leap a little bit higher.

Thankfully, Ella, who had been helping Naruto's side, came over and scratched the big idiot's back, wounding him further. "Ella thin you need to be punished for hurting Ella's friend!" She yelled

"Blaaaaah!" Polyphemus bleated just like his sheep, and swung at them with his tree.

Percy dove, but still got raked across the back by a dozen jagged branches. He was bleeding and bruised and exhausted. The guinea pig inside him wanted to bolt. But Percy swallowed down his fear. Circe would not get to him a second time.

Ella managed to dodged out of the way in time but got scratched on her leg. She was not a combat expert…she was more book smarts! So she flew back over to Naruto's side to wait this out.

Polyphemus swung the tree again, but this time Percy was ready. He grabbed a branch as it passed, ignoring the pain in his hands as he was jerked skyward, and let the Cyclops lift him into the air. At the top of the arc Percy let go and fell straight against the giant's face—landing with both feet on his already damaged eye.

Polyphemus yowled in pain. Tyson tackled him, pulling him down. Percy landed next to them— sword in hand, within striking distance of the monster's heart. But he locked eyes with Tyson, and he knew he couldn't do it. It just wasn't right.

"Let him go," Percy told Tyson. "Run."

With one last mighty effort, Tyson pushed the cursing older Cyclops away, and they ran for the surf.

"I will smash you.'" Polyphemus yelled, doubling over in pain. His enormous hands cupped over his eye.

Tyson and Percy plunged into the waves.

"Where are you?" Polyphemus screamed. He picked up his tree club and threw it into the water. It splashed off to their right.

Naruto watched all this with bated breath. He knew if her encouraged Percy, then the monster would use his hearing to target them and destroy their escape and he didn't want. Come on you two. I know you can do it.

Percy summoned up another current to carry them, and they started gaining speed. He was beginning to think they would make it to the ship, especially with his blond best friend smiling like that, when Clarisse shouted from the deck, "Yeah, Jackson! In your face, Cyclops!" Naruto groaned as he slapped his head.

Shut up, Percy wanted to yell while Naruto, while too late, had put a hand on the girl's mouth, confusing her with a blush on her cheeks.

"Rarrr!" Polyphemus picked up a boulder. He threw it toward the sound of Clarisse's voice, but it fell short, narrowly missing Tyson and Percy.

"Yeah, yeah!" Clarisse taunted after she ripped Naruto's hand offer mouth. "You throw like a wimp! Teach you to try marrying me, you idiot!"

"Clarisse!" Percy yelled, unable to stand it. "Shut up!"

"Hey. "Naruto said softly, the guy is mostly blind and now he is using sound to track us." Naruto whispered…although now it was useless. Why?

Because it was too late for any of the damage to be reversed. Polyphemus threw another boulder, and this time Percy watched helplessly as it sailed over his head and crashed through the hull of the Queen Anne's Revenge.

And then another. Naruto saw that it was coming right for them. "JUMP!" He yelled as he grabbed both Annabeth and Clarisse on either side of him and jumped. Grover not far behind him. Ella flew high into the air, as to not be caught and waited for her friends to surface because there was not much she could do since she was a flyer.

You wouldn't believe how fast a ship can sink. The Queen Anne's Revenge creaked and groaned and listed forward like it was going down a playground slide.

Percy cursed, willing the sea to push us faster, but the ship's masts were already going under.

"Dive!" He told Tyson. And as another rock sailed over their heads, they plunged underwater.

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Percy'sfriends were sinking fast, trying to swim, without luck, in the bubbly trail of the ship's wreckage. Especially with Naruto trying to carry both girls up to the top, but the Fleece was also adding to the problem.

Not many people realize that when a ship goes down, it acts like a sinkhole, pulling down everything around it. Clarisse was a strong swimmer, but even she wasn't making any progress. Naruto was the same, but he did not have the knowledge like Percy did and because of them, he jumped to close to the wreckage. Grover frantically kicked with his hooves. Annabeth was hanging on to the Fleece, which flashed in the water like a wave of new pennies.

Percy swam toward them, knowing that he might not have the strength to pull his friends out. Worse, pieces of timber were swirling around them; none of the water boy's power with water would help if he got whacked on the head by a beam.

We need help, Percy thought as he looked at Naruto's struggling form….trying to get his friends above him.

Yes. Tyson's voice, loud and clear in Percy's head.

Percy looked over at him, startled. He had heard Nereids and other water spirits speak to him underwater before, but it never occurred to Percy ... Tyson was a son of Poseidon. They could communicate with each other.

Rainbow, Tyson said.

Percy nodded, then closed his eyes and concentrated, adding his voice to Tyson's: RAINBOW!

We need you!

Immediately, shapes shimmered in the darkness below—three horses with fish tails, galloping upward faster than dolphins. Rainbow and his friends glanced in their direction and seemed to read their thoughts. They whisked into the wreckage, and a moment later burst upward in a cloud of bubbles—Grover, Naruto, Annabeth, and Clarisse each clinging to the neck of a hippocampus.

Rainbow, the largest, had Tyson to grab hold of his mane. His friend who bore Annabeth did the same for Percy. Grover grabbed one while Naruto grabbed Clarisse and then grabbed the last one.

They broke the surface of the water and raced away from Polyphemus's island. Behind them, they could hear the Cyclops roaring in triumph, "I did it! I finally sank Nobody and Somebody!"

Naruto, being the smart ass that he was today, asked, "You think I should rain on his parade?"

"NO!" The others growled while Naruto just chuckled light heartedly.

"Alright." Naruto said, hoping they were not too pissed at him.

"Ella is just glad you are all ok." She said as she flew above them, easily keeping pace with them. Naruto nodded and smiled. They may have gotten another monster on their side, but this proved that not all monsters were bad.

They skimmed across the sea as the island shrank to a dot and then disappeared.

"Did it," Annabeth muttered in exhaustion. "We ..."

She slumped against the neck of the hippocampus and instantly fell asleep.

Naruto smiled at that. "Hell yeah we did. Mission accomplished." He said.

Clarisse also smiled. "Yeah…and I am glad you came along as my partner." She paused as she looked Annabeth, with the Fleece draped over her back and them Percy passed out on her back. "Even though I don't like them, I am glad we ran into them."

"Yeah….we all did pretty well as a team." Naruto said with a big smile at what he saw with Percy and Annabeth. He glanced over at Grover and smirked. The satyr smiled but just rolled his eyes and slumped over as well.

Clarisse, who was stilling in front on her blond crush on the sea horse…thing, smiled softly and decided to mess with him for a second. She wiggled around to better seat herself on the animal. That made her rub her butt on Naruto's crotch some. However, that backfired some when she felt that something poking her butt and she blushed hard.

Naruto was not sure if she did that on purpose or not, but he had to admit that it felt good. When he saw the smile and blush on her cheeks, he knew his answer. He looked at her seriously before a smile spread on his face. She really like him, he knew that now. Maybe….maybe if did could not help Thalia….he would give her a chance.

Deciding to mess her on this, he leaned in and bent them both forward, making Clarisse blush harder as she felt more of him poking her. Naruto smirked at that before he said to the sea horse, "Think it is best we head to Miami from here." The sea horse nodded and made strange noises to its friends who nodded in return.

Clarisse, decided now was the time to rest and she too passed out on the animal. Naruto was feeling tired too, so he wrapped his arms around the girl and fell asleep. The sea horses looked at them and saw that they would occasionally move and groan softly. They felt sorry for their friend.

The two friends, however, would wake up in a compromising position….

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Sorry, I could not resist on that last part. I have been watching some Ecchi anime and my mind is out there…

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