When I woke I was in the ships infirmary. I slowly sat up my head was buzzing. There was a glass of nectar on the bedside table I grabbed it and took a sip for too much would burn a demigod to ashes. It tasted just like my moms home cooked brownies.
After I got dressed and made sure my head wasn't buzzing like a bee hive I went to find my friends. I found them in the map room again making final adjustments to the plans. "Your Ok!" said Kayla as I walked in the door. The others looked at me like I was a monster for some reason Echo was the only one to come up and talk to me "Well are you ready to go we leave in three hours" she said as she moved her compass over the map. I looked around "Three hours how long was I out?" "You've been out for three days" Greg said as he polished his helmet. "Well I guess I have to be ready" I said as I turned the ring on my watch and my bow sprang into my hand.
Three hours later we were on a small rubber zodiac headed into the mouth of a small river. The night was quiet but I could feel the attitude of the team get more serious the farther we went down river. Then I had the worst feeling in my gut that we were being followed "Stop the boat" I told Echo she pulled the boat to the bank of the river "What is it?" she asked "Just give me a second" I said as I stepped into the water I felt the currents of the water and there it was that same feeling but this time I knew what it was it was a small patrol boat headed straight for us, I turned around and convinced the team to hide the boat in the bushes and hide. And just as we all got down in our hiding spots there was the slow rumble of an engine and the boat came around the bank. Its spot lights were scanning all along the river.
We all ducked down as a spot light flashed in our direction. The boat just kept tugging along. We waited for what seemed like forever for the sound of the engine to fade on down the river "I think its clear but we should go on land from no on" I said standing up from behind the bushes. "I agree it's too dangerous to take the river" said Alex. So we walked along the side of the river taking cover anytime a patrol boat tugged on by.
We reached the drop point a few minutes late of the original meet time but the team of rebel fighters were still there they led us a few miles in to the thick jungle bush to a opening where the canal was. Moving along the canal were Japanese battle ships and troops walking up and down the canal watching for intruders. Echo came up to where I was crouching behind a tree trunk "This is as far as the rebels can take us they have to head back" she said as she watched over the tree trunk with me "Tell them thanks, We can handle it from here anyway" I said putting my binoculars away. After the rebels left we skirted around the edge of the jungle so we could take cover from the search lights that blared in our direction every five minutes.
"Up there is the control room for the canal" Alex said pointing to a small building with two men working the controls "But the ships will see us if we just go up there and do that" Kayla said pointing to all the big ships with big guns "I have an idea" Geoff said taking off his helmet "Give me your grenades" he said as he took the tops off his and poured the gun powder in them into his helmet. We all did the same "I'll mix in some mud and make a fuse out of this" he said pulling the Para cord off his knife handle. "Conrad can you snipe out the two guards in the control room?" Ronald asked I looked up at the guards they were about 300 yards away easy "Yeah I think so" I said pulling my bow off my shoulders I notched two arrows aimed and released the string the arrows cut through the air and hit each guard dead in the chest.
"Done" I said smiling "good now as you guys go around to the control room I'll stick this to the fuel station pumps" Geoff said pointing to two big tanks just past the control room " alright but don't get caught in a search light or were all dead meat" I said.
We split up Ronald went with Geoff. Echo took Steve and Alex to secure an exit point. That left me and Kayla to take care of the control room as we made our way up the small hill to the room dodging behind trees and boxes of equipment we could see Geoff making his way to the pumps. We finally made it to the little shack I looked at Kayla " Ladies first" I said holding the door open for her she rolled her eyes and walked in "how do we destroy the controls with out making ourselves noticed Kayla lifted her hand "Hello Daughter of Zeus here" she said as electric sparks danced across her finger tips she placed her hand on the control panel and small bolts of electricity shot from her hand and fried the panel "well that was pretty cool" I said looking at the control panel "lets get out of here" Kayla said as she walked toward the door I felt something I wasn't sure what it was but before
I could say anything the door opened and in walked to armed guards they had their rifles at the ready I slowly moved my hand to my watch and turned the ring and with the bright light that came from my bow transforming they were stunned long enough for Kayla to knock them out with a shield smack. We ran for the top of a hill where Echo and the others should be but before we could make it to the top gun shots rung out behind us the enemy had spotted us and were shooting we were almost to the top of the hill when I felt a burning feeling in my side and collapsed. I put my hand where the pain was brought it back to my face not surprised by the blood "Kayla get over the hill" I said she had been standing there next to me with her shield over us "No your hurt we need to get you back to the ship" she said peeking over her shoulder "Go they'll take me prisoner" I peeked around the edge of her shield and saw them coming up the hill "If they take me prisoner they won't let me die I'll be to valuable if they want information" I said looking her in the eyes the whole time " Now go! I'll hold them off" then she bent down and kissed me than ran up the hill. I pulled a couple explosive arrows from my quiver notched them in my bow I aimed at the fuel pumps Ronald and Geoff had made it out so I fired the arrows they sailed through the air with a small whistle struck the pumps and exploded.
I turned back toward the enemy and before I could grab a new set of arrows they had me surrounded one smacked me in the head with the butt of his rifle and knocked me out.
I woke in a small damp and dark cell. I checked my side it was bandaged but I think there might still be some bullet fragments in there I was still wearing my watch but it won't do me any good if I don't know what I'm against I stood up slowly because of the pain. I walked toward the cell bars in front of me but there wasn't much to see there were some steps leading up to a big steel door and a small desk with a type writer on it but not much else.
I sat back down and closed my eyes in my dream I was back with my friends they were outside a compound trying to find a way in. "I don't think he's in there" Geoff said skeptically "I know he's in there I can just feel it" Kayla said than just as they went into the bushes I woke up to a bright light in my face when the light died down there was a guard standing out side the cell holding a flashlight in one hand and a tray of slop in the other.
He turned off the flashlight and put back in his belt than pulled a set of keys off his belt and unlocked the doors. If I wanted to escape this was my chance he opened the door took one step in and I pounced. He and I went tumbling into the desk the tray of slop hit the floor with a clang he threw a punch and clocked me with a good one I rolled off him he jumped up and took off a whip that was wrapped around his shoulder he cracked it at me and it cut a gash in my leg I dropped to one knee. He went to hit me again but this time I expected it I caught it with my hand and wrapped it in my hand. I stood up and yanked it he tried to resist but he couldn't he flew forward and smacked the floor pretty hard I pulled the whip from his hands and threw it across the room.
I rolled him over and took his keys he tried to get back up but I kicked him in his head and knocked him out. I walked up the steps and tried each key until I found the right one and unlocked the door I stepped out into a long hallway that stretched out to the left and right. I went left but I heard voices so I turned around and ran to the other end of the hallway there was another door but it was locked then I heard what I was dreading guards yelling that the prisoner had escaped. I put my back to the wall and turned the activation ring on my watch and my bow sprang to life in my hands I could hear foot steps coming my way so I reached for my quiver and pulled out an flash arrow I turned down the hallway to face twelve guards running toward me they were forty feet away and closing I fired the arrow at there feet and shielded my eyes as a flash of bright light stunned them long enough for me to crack four of them over the head with my bow sending them to dreamland
The other three leveled there bayonets and charged I side stepped as the first one thrust his bayonet at my midsection. I grabbed the front of the rifle ripped it from his hands and smacked him on the top of his head. The other two charged me together I tried to side step but he expected it spun and smacked me in the gut with the butt of his rifle the other hit me jabbed me in the back with the butt of his rifle. I tried to get back up but they all jumped me and before I knew it I was cuffed and dragged back into the same room. They sat me down in a chair and cuffed my hands to the arm rests and tied my feet to the legs. They interrogated me for hours they tried burning my skin with a branding iron but because I have the power of the ocean in me I didn't burn they tried drowning me but you can guess how that worked I just sat there with my head under water for about an hour before they gave up. Now I was sitting in the chair while they stood around the desk trying to figure out what to do next when there was a knock at the door they all straightened their uniforms.
One of them ran up the steps to the door and opened it and in walked Richard he had a small smirk on his face and he looked a little pale since I had last seen him after our fight on the ship. "Well hello again, how are you?" he said standing over me "Let me go before I kill you" I said back to him but he just laughed in my face "You are not in a very good position to be making threats" he said as he walked around the chair inspecting the bonds "Oh yeah I forgot you never could beat me unless I was down" I said. He walked over to the desk ignoring my last comment. He turned around and continued talking "You're friends abandoned you and you have no way of contacting them" he said and just as I was going to come back with a snappy comment a phone rang. He walked over to the desk and answered it a few minutes later he hung up and walked toward the door.
When he reached the door he turned and said to the men around the desk "He is of no further use to the master, Kill him" then he walked out the door the guards turned around to face me. One pulled out his pistol and put it to my temple the other two untied my feet and unlocked my cuffed hands and re cuffed them in front of me. They walked me toward the door but before they opened it they put a burlap sack over my head and then lead me out side we walked into the same hallway but this time they took me left when we reached the end of the hallway we went right walked through three doors and then made another right walked through two more doors and then made another left. They walked me through two more doors and we were out side they took the sack off my head and the light of day blinded me. When the blur of light went away I was standing in front of a brick wall that was peppered with bullet holes they turned me around to face a firing squad.
Their commander came over to me he had a cigar hanging from his mouth. "Well kid do you have any last words?" he asked taking the cigar from his mouth and tapping the ashes to the ground. "Yeah I got something to say tell Richard dead or alive I will hunt him down and kill him" I said staring straight at the commander but he jut laughed "Ha and how do you plan to do that my friend look around you you're surrounded you have no where to run" he said holding his arms out wide gesturing to all the guards around me.
"You'll see just wait" I said but he just laughed again and walked over to the soldiers "Ready" he said as they all cocked there rifles "Aim" they all leveled their guns "Fire!".