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AJ's POV: (Written by TeamPiper)

All I see is darkness, but I keep swimming. I don't know why I want to save this girl so badly, but I feel like I just... need to.

I swim fast and strong, discovering a few new powers about me.

1) I can breathe underwater, but I knew that already.
2) I can hear fish, etc. and hear a lot underwater. Ha! Take that Eme!

Huh. Not much.

I swim down to the bottom, and see a girl floating to the bottom. I swim over to her, grab her arm, and start to swim upward. Huh. I can't seem to quit saving people today, can I?

Another interesting thing? I can create air bubbles. I gather air bubbles around us, and turn them into one big bubble... somehow, and put it around us.

She coughs and gags for about a minute, then seems fine.

"Who the heck are you?" she asks.

"I'm AJ, and you have to promise not to tell anyone what just happened." I say pleadingly.

"What? That a son of Poseidon just saved me?" my eyes widen, in shock and confusion. How does she know that I'm a son of Poseidon? Is she a demigod too? Well, one way to find out.

"How do you know who I am? Are you a demigod too?" I ask her.

"Wait! Demigods are real?" she says. Crap, I think. Totally blew it. My face must have been pretty funny, because the mystery girl laughed and said, "Dude, it's fine! I know, I'm a demigod too!"

A smile of relief runs on my face.

"Well... lets save your back story for the others. Because, I'm assuming if you got pushed into the canals of Venice, it must be a long one."

"Wait, what others?" she asks me, her voice curious.

"Oh, I'm on a quest with my friends, but you'll meet them in a sec."

She shakes her head yes, and I start to move the air bubble upwards. We finally hit the top of the water, and it pops. We are about 15 feet away from the boat.

"AJ!" I hear Will scream out.

"Right here!" I yell back.

I swim us over to the boat, and Ray pulls Mystery Girl into it. I pull myself in, and we both lie down inside of it. After a few minutes, we sit up.

"Hi!" Eme says when Canal Girl gets up. "I'm Eme! It's short for Emerald. I say that because most people think its short for Esmerelda. Who would name a child Esmerelda? I know I wouldn't! But, I guess if it was a family name but-."

"Eme! For the gods names shut up!" Will yells. She shys back, and sits down.

"Well, like she said, she's Eme Avoc daughter of Apollo" I say as Ray gives me a 'dude-why-did-you-just-tell-her-Eme-is-a-demigod' look. "She's a demigod too." I tell him, and he eases off. I was a little surprised that they all took that so easy, and she was too. I'm guessing that they saw how many demigods there was, so they were expecting to find some sort of demigod.

"And, that's Mackenzie, or Mac Dreson my half sister. That's Gavin Williams, but we call him Will and he's a son of Ares. The big one is Ray Jones, son of Hephaestus and part hellhound, long story, and like I told you, I'm AJ."

I realize that I still don't know her name. I give her my 'now-tell-us-who-you-are' look, and she straightens up.

"Well, I'm Bailie Calister but I can't stand the name Bailie. Call me Bay. Well, your probably wondering why I was just pushed into the Venice canals, well...um..."

"Spill it Calister," Will says, a little harsh.

"Okay, fine. Don't get your panties thrown into an Ocean." Bay says.

"Umm, that's not the right idiom."

"It wasn't an idiom." she smirks. Will shrinks back down.

"Okay, well my mom is Hecate, goddess of magic. My dad has always been a total jerk. He married my step mom when I was about 2. My step mom, Isabella, was amazing. She realized what a jerk my dad was, and came up with a brilliant plan. She would teach me English. I was fluent in English by age 5, as you can see. When I was 6, she got us tickets on the boat to America." her voice got a little sadder every sentence, and you could tell.

It was getting lighter out, and I was able to see her. Honestly, she was gorgeous. Her dark brown hair was short and choppy, with thin bangs going straight across her forehead. Her dark brown eyes were almost back, but still brown. Bay brown.

"Well, the night me and Isabella were going to leave to America, she was getting the rest of her crap. It was about midnight. I was so young. I heard the fire. He shot her as we were leaving. He grabbed me, and shoved me in the closet. He's been 'home schooling' me ever since. I would've left sooner, but it was my dad. When he gave me this." she said, pointing to a scar that ran down her cheek. "I knew I had to leave. A few hours ago, I tried to make a run for it. Well, as you saw he caught me. I kept running, and he chased me to the canals. As you saw, he pushed me in knowing that I can't swim. He tried to kill me. He thinks I'm dead, and I intend to keep it that way." she finishes.

"Oh gods, I'm sorry! But, how did you know you were a demigod?" I ask her, putting my arm around her.

"My dad said it all the time. I heard 'I banged a goddess' at least 5 times a day." she says honestly.

"Let's get a hotel." Eme says, sounding upset.

"Eme, that's the shortest sentence I have EVER heard you say." Will let's out.

I wondered what was up with her, but I would learn later. I needed to focus on getting on shore.

Mac's POV:

I hated how AJ noticed everything about Bay, but didn't notice a thing about how crushed Eme was. She was right. Here comes Italian Cosette.

Ray's POV:

I want food.

TeamPiper AN: Hey ya'll! How life treating you? I wrote most of this chapter. And, to really understand the last part (Mac's POV) you really have to know the story of Les Miserables. You know, that's wassup.

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