Hey guys! Hope you're enjoying the story so far. Comment what you think! Criticism is very much welcomed as it will help me improve my story. If you follow or favorite I would cry from joy. This chapter might be a little slower cause it's just Leo showing Sarah the ship but it's necessary. Any translations will be all the way down on the bottom.
We stopped in the beginning of the hall way in front of two doors. Leo decided to go into the one on the right first. "So, here's the kitchen," he said opening the door and waving to the inside of the room. It was a nice sized kitchen and, as far as I could tell, had just about everything you needed to live. I stared longingly at the fridge wondering what was inside. Leo must have seen me staring. He laughed at my look, "Are you hungry?"
"Am I ever," I said still trying to imagine what precious foods might be in there.
"You want something to eat?" he asked me.
I finally tore my eyes from the fridge and looked at him. "Yes, please," I said and followed him inside towards the fridge. Leo opened the fridge and revealed mounds of food. I think my mouth started watering.
"What do you want?" Leo asked looking back at me.
There was so much food, I was too overwhelmed. There was no way I was going to decide what I wanted. It all looked so good. "Anything," I breathed helplessly.
Leo laughed and handed me a box of tacos. "These are my favorite," he grinned. I didn't even bother heating them up, I just took a bite. I grinned happily at this amazing taste. I hadn't had tacos in so long, I had forgotten how good they where. Leo looked at me suspiciously, "When was the last time you ate?"
"Well," I said with a mouth full of taco, "before I passed out I had a bag of chips for lunch."
"And before that?"
I thought for a minute. "A small plate of almost written fish the day before," I finally said.
"That's it?" he asked incredibly. "Do your parents not feed you?" I knew he meant it as a joke but I still flinched at his words. He noticed. "Oh. Sorry. My bad, I shouldn't have said anything-"
"It's fine, you didn't know," I cut him off. He was quiet as I finished two more tacos. "Thanks for the food," I said giving him a smile and putting the rest back in the fridge.
He grinned at me. "No problem. So, wanna see the rest of the ship?"
I nodded, "Lead the way, Captain."
Leo grinned. "Captain. I like that." Uh-oh. I might have just fed his ego too much. We walked across the hall to another room. "This is the Mess Hall," he said as he walked in. I followed behind him and saw a big room with a table and chairs neatly set up around. Sitting at a couple of the chairs were some of the people I had seen earlier when fighting the monster. "Hey, guys what's up?"
The three kids looked up bored, "Hey, Leo," they said. Then their eyes shifted to me as the noticed me standing behind Leo. "You must be Sarah," said the boy with sea green eyes.
"Hi," I waved awkwardly.
"Sarah, this is Percy," He said waving to the boy who had spoken. Let's be real, he was beautiful. "This is Annabeth," he said motioning to a girl with messy blonde hair and steely gray eyes. Forget what I said about Piper having intimidating eyes; this girl was downright scary. "And this is Frank," he said jabbing at a less impressive boy. I realized that this was the same boy who was shooting arrows next to me during the attack.
"Hi," I said again, unsure of what to do.
"Right," Leo said noticing the tension, "You can chat them up later, right now, let's continue the tour." He walked out of the room and I managed to croak out a bye before following him out.
I waited until we got a little further down the hall and out of ear range. "Annabeth is scary," I whispered to Leo.
Leo chuckled. "Just a bit. Don't worry though she'll warm up to you eventually if you give it time. She's not much of a people person." I nodded and Leo continued being a tour guide. "So, to the left we have Coach Hedge's cabin. The satyr," he said answering my puzzling look. "to the right is Frank's cabin." We continued down the hall and he pointed at each cabin, "Annabeth, Jason, Piper, Percy, and Hazel; she's probably in there but I don't want to wake her u- oh, never mind," he said as the girl I saw on the horse walked out of her cabin.
She closed the door then looked up at me surprised, "You're awake! That's good. Are you feeling better?"
I smiled and nodded. "Yeah, Piper gave me some of that bar stuff and I felt better immediately."
"Ambrosia."
"I'm sorry?"
"The bar stuff, it's called ambrosia," she smiled sheepishly. "Anyways, I'm glad you're feeling better," she smiled kindly, then she looked at Leo. "Have you seen Frank?"
"Yeah, he's in the Mess Hall with Annabeth and Percy," Leo said pointing down the hall.
"Thank you," she smiled and walked down the hall.
"She seems really nice," I noted.
"She is," Leo assured me. Then he turned to face another door. "And this is my cabin!" He said rising his hands in the air for a dramatic feeling. He opened the door and revealed a smaller room with a bed in the middle and a small closet and table. There were tiny machine parts laying across the bed and a screwdriver on the nightstand. "It's not much, and it's a little messy, but now you know where to find me. All though, I must admit, I'm almost never in here."
I laughed a little, "Okay."
"Good," he said moving along. "This is the girls bathroom and the boys. Please remember which one is the right one to go into."
"I feel like you're talking from experience," I said looking at him.
"I may or may not have been really sleep deprived on day and walked in to the girls while Piper was in the shower," He said rubbing his head awkwardly.
"Yikes," I said trying not to laugh.
"Yeah, I'm just glad it wasn't Annabeth. Alright, time to go downstairs!" He said grabbing my hand again and pulling me down the stairs. When we reached the bottom of the stairs Leo pointed to a room to the left of us. "This is the armory. You're welcomed to try to find any weapons down here. We probably have more arrows."
"Thank the Gods," I sighed. "I was fresh out of arrows."
Leo turned. "And here's sickbay. This is where you were while you were unconscious. It'll probably be where you sleep too since there's really no cabins available. Maybe you can stay in someones Cabin while they're watching the ship. That's something you need to talk to them about."
"Nah it's fine. Sick Bay was pretty comfy anyways," I said. Truth was, I just didn't want to ask anybody or bother them, I didn't know anyone that well and still didn't completely trust them.
"Well, remember if you need anything, I'm right upstairs," he gave me a smile and I nodded. "Now, here comes my personally favorite part of the ship," he said leading me forward. He opened the door and walked in. "The Engine Room! This is probably where I spend most of my time."
I looked around the gigantic room filled with motors and machines. It was easily one of the biggest rooms on the ship, if not the biggest. "Wow. Impressive."
"I know right?" He said excitedly. "And over here is the motor. I built it all by myself!" He said proudly. "It didn't take me very long either, maybe a week, no more. And this little baby does what it usually takes hundreds of men to do. And not only on water, in the air too. Yeah you might not have known this but this ship flies too. It's pretty great. Anyways, this motor powers all of the oars. Upstairs are all of my controls. I hooked it up to the main frame and I use some Wii controllers to tell the ship where to go. It occurs to me that you probably don't know what a Wii is. That's a story for another time. Anyways, I'm the only one who knows how to fly this bad boy. Well, Annabeth knows a little but not as much. And Festus helps me fly too. He's like my more advanced eyes and ears." I smiled as he happily rambled on about the ships and all the machines within. Maybe it was the way he smiled brightly when talking about the ship, maybe it was the way his eyes lit up with knowledge when explaining the machines, whatever it was it was giving me the strangest feeling, a feeling I hadn't felt in so long. I did by best to swallow the feeling and stuff it down inside me as far as possible. Leo must have finally noticed that he was rambling because he stopped talking and looked up at me flushed. "Sorry," he mumbled.
"It's fine," I laughed.
"Anyways," he said walking out of the engine room and further down the hall, "Here are the storage areas," he walked further down, "And these are the stables, although nothing ever really stays here," He looked back at me. "Well, that's the end of the tour! Hope you enjoyed it, please leave a review on Yelp!" I gave him a confused look. "You don't know what Yelp is do you? Doesn't matter," he said waving his hand dismissively. He checked the time on a nearby clock. "It's almost time for dinner. Care to join us?"
"Are you seriously asking me if I want food? Is that even a question?" I said looking at him incredulously. "Of course I want food!"
Leo laughed. "Well then great, let's go!" He yelled grabbing my hand once again and running down the hall and up the stairs to the Mess Hall. It bothered me how he kept grabbing my hand to take me places. We stopped at the doorway and walked inside. I sat down in one of the chairs in front of an empty plate. I looked around the table, so far only Percy and Annabeth were here, already eating. I looked over at Leo and watched as food magically appeared on his plate.
I stared at it with wide eyes. "How...?"
Leo laughed. "You gotta tell the plate what you want."
I looked at him like he was crazy. "You're joking right? You want me to tell the plate what I want to eat?"
"Well, in your head yeah."
I thought for a minute on what I wanted to eat. I spoke in my mind arroz con pollo and it appeared on the plate. I took a bite happily. It tasted just like the kind my mom used to make all those years ago. The dinning room filled with the demigods slowly as I ate. The last one who came in was Frank who looked around distastefully for a seat, seeing that I was in his. I quickly got up, "Sorry."
"No, it's fine," he said looking around the room for another chair. He looked mildly annoyed though. Leo seemed to notice. He ran out of the room. I don't know where he went but he was back in less than a minute with a chair.
"Here you go, Beast Boy," Leo said putting the chair down for Frank.
Frank glared at him, seemingly upset for the nickname but grateful for the chair. "Thanks, Valdez."
I assumed Valdez was Leo's last name. Frank sat down and everyone continued eating. I was quiet while I ate, I couldn't help but feel that I was intruding on everyone. I didn't belong here and I knew it. They had all been nice enough to give me knew clothes, food to eat, and a place to sleep. It was more than I had had in a long time but I felt it was time for me to go. I was lost in thought when Annabeth finally spoke.
"Sarah," I looked up at her afraid of what she was going to say, her grey eyes stared into me and I gulped.
"Yes?" I asked quietly.
"You said you've been living in Greece since you were eight right?" she asked me.
Next to me I felt Leo give me a weird look and I realized that he didn't know that. "Yeah, why?" I didn't like where she was going. She was hitting a little too close to home.
"So, you know the streets of Greece right? You know how to get around?"
I sighed relieved. "Um, yeah, yeah, I know it pretty well."
"Great, so you can help us. You can take us around where we need to go, show us the way. We'll be a lot quicker with you helping us," she said. Everyone looked around nodding, pleased with Annabeth's thinking.
"Uh, yeah sure..." I said returning to my food. I should've known there was something they wanted from me. They wouldn't help me out without expecting anything back. I didn't care what Annabeth wanted, I had already decided on leaving early tomorrow morning before everyone woke up. They could get around Greece without me. It wasn't that big of a place. They can figure it out. I didn't want to be in this ship anymore, I didn't want to be with a bunch of people I barely knew. I didn't want to risk my life for them. They attracted monsters, big ones. I wanted go back to my fountain, continue my life fighting my tiny monsters that were easy to beat. I didn't belong there with them. I stood up abruptly. Everyone stared up at me as my chair squeaked. I was speechless for moment. "Does anyone have any pajamas I can borrow?" I finally managed.
"Yeah, there's some in my room. C'mon," Piper said getting up and walking out of the Mess Hall with me close behind. We reached her cabin and she pulled out a pair of pajamas. Her room looked the same as Leo's minus all the machine parts. "Here," she said handing me her pajamas.
"Thanks, Piper," I said and turned to walk out of the room. When I reached the Sick Bay I quickly changed into the pajamas and folded the clothes up and set them on the nightstand. I figured I would wear them tomorrow when I left. I was leaving tomorrow for sure. They don't need me, they'll find their way.
I laid down on the bed and groaned happily. How nice to sleep in a bed again. I reminded myself not to get too use to it. This was the only night it was going to happen and then it was back to my alleyway box.
arroz con pollo = rice and chicken, a commonly eaten hispanic food, especially in Cuba
