disclaimer: I don't Own Percy Jackson or Harry Potter.
Chapter two: We have a bumpy start.
Piper POV.
I stood at the back of the ship with Marauder, watching as camp half-blood disappeared behind us. It has been hell the last two mouths, Harry being gone was killing me. And the way people was acting didn't help anything. Percy acted as if he was walking on egg shells around me, and if I was around he would be very careful not to bring Harry up, like he had died or something. Leo was never around, Jason spent all his time with Ginny, who at least try to comfort me, but only made things worse. Annabeth and Hermione spent all their time with books, I didn't really know Hazel, and all Ron did was complain. The other kids at camp just whispered when I wasn't around and looked at me as if I was about to explode when I was around. And most the boys at camp thought just because Harry was gone I was up for grabs. Harry was just kidnapped he wasn't dead.
Nico had been the only one that was of any help, he didn't try to comfort me and didn't act like mentioning Harry would set me off, and didn't think since he was gone he could make a move on me. Not that Nico would do that. But the one who has been the most comforting, and the most helping was Marauder. He knew when I needed comfort, and would chase off the boys that tried to hit on me. Nobody seems to understand that my heart belonged to Harry and always will. Forever, we promised each other forever. And that's what it was going to be. I was going to find Harry, my guy would be saved, And I couldn't wait to see him. I couldn't wait to see those green eyes sparkle when he saw me. I couldn't wait to feel his lips on mine, to hold his hand, to have his arms wrapped around me. To hear him call me one of his cute little nicknames. I loved when he raise up one eyebrow, the way he liked to cuddle after we make love. I had kept my hair long because I had loved the way it felt to have Harry running his hand through it. He was the best thing that had ever happened to me and I was going to get him back. I needed him, no one has ever loved me as much as he does, and I love him just as much.
When camp was out of sight a sighed and turned around and sat with my back up against the back of the boat. Marauder laid his head in my lap and I begin to run my hand through his mane. I was so used to the tears now, I just let them fall down my face.
"We'll get him back, don't worry." I said. Marauder just looked up at me, and I started to plait a little braid in his mane. "I can remember when I first met Harry. He had crashed his broom across the border at camp." I went on to tell Marauder all about meeting Harry, becoming friends with him, training with him, how we fall in love on the guest to save Hera, which we also had to save my dad. Marauder just laid there and listen, he was the only one to realize that talking about Harry actually helped. Everyone else but Nico was careful when they mentioned him or mostly tried to avoid mentioning his name all together when I was around.
"There you are, beauty Queen." Someone said. I looked up to see Leo standing there. He looked nervous when he saw the tears on my face. "We've been looking for you. I've made tacos so if you're..."
"I'm not hungry." I said, looking back down, but not before I saw Leo frown real deep.
"Piper, you know Uncle Harry is going to throw a fit when he sees you." Leo said. Looked back up at him.
"What do you mean?" I demanded. I could feel my hair growing back out, I wished it would just stay one length. It felt really weird when my hair grow out.
"Well, no offense, but look at you." Leo said. "Harry is going to noticed you haven't been taking care of yourself. He's not going to be happy that you haven't been eating or looking out for yourself because of him missing, he'll blame his self."
"I guess you're right." I said. "But I'm just not hungry."
"Try to eat anyway." Leo said, holding out his hand to help me up. I sighed and took it and let him help me up. "Harry is already going to kick our butts for not looking out for you, I don't want him to kill me also." I smiled a little, first time in two mouths, my face felt stiff.
Leo turned and led me to the front of the ship, to the compartment area, and to a dinning hall where everyone else was at, enjoying Leo's tacos. I couldn't blame them Leo's tacos were even better than Taco Bell.
"There you guys are." Percy said, looking up and smiling. He pointed to the two sets across from him. "Have a seat, the tacos are amazing." I walked over and sat in the chair that was right across from him. Leo sat next to me. I noticed Nico looking between him and Leo questioningly. I didn't know what that was about. But ignored it as Leo laid two tacos on my plate.
"These are the ones that doesn't have real meat." He told me. I nodded and picked up one to take a bite. Leo was right, when Harry saw how much weight I've lost and how bad I look. He's going to be worried about me, and not very happy, and Leo was also right about Harry blaming himself about it. I noticed Marauder had run off somewhere and looked around into I spotted him over in a corner eating raw meat out of a huge dog bowl.
"We need to come up with a plan." Annabeth said, as she sat down her taco and picked up her lemonade to take a drink. "We can't just go charging in." Annabeth sat her glass back down on the table.
"Could we possible go in at the side of the mountain." Hermione asked. She had changed out the dress mom put on her and had put on jeans and a t-shirt. But her hair was still straight and the makeup still on her face. She should keep her hair straight it looked better that way. I was still trying to get over the shock of mom claiming her. I couldn't wait to tell Harry and see the look on his face. "That way they might not see us coming."
"That's not a bad idea." Annabeth said.
"Hey, maybe Percy could make a big wave and wash the giants away. "Leo said. Nico frowned at him.
"And risk washing away the tomb Harry's in." Nico demanded. I shiver went down my back. I hated when ever someone mentioned Harry being in a tomb, it made me think of last winter when he dead and came back. If it hadn't been for Thantus being kidnapped. Harry would be lying in a real tomb right now and I would be going crazy.
"I didn't think of that." Leo said. Ron snorted.
"I just hope we get there in time." Hazel said. "I don't want anything to happen to Harry, he seemed like a nice guy, and the fact camp will be destroyed, if we don't make it. I lot of lives are ridding on this quest."
I couldn't eat anymore, I suddenly felt sick, so I laid my taco down and stood up. No one said anything as I walked out of the room Marauder at my heels. They can plan and strategize all they wanted. I was just planing on going right in there and save Harry, I didn't need a plan, I got three weapons on me, a large lion (whose dad was the Nemean lion) at my side. What more could I need. Besides my Harry. But if I had him we wouldn't be on this quest in the first place.
I walked down the compartments, Leo said he had made a room for everybody, I planed on going in there and laying down. I saw that the doors had little bronze plates with our names on them, so it would be easy to find mine. When I found it I had to smile a little, the name plate read: Piper & Harry. I smiled and traced his name with my finger, before opening the door and going in.
Leo had went all out, on this room, there was a big bed, the closet was full of both our clothes, the night table had a wizard picture of Harry and I standing outside his apartment building. In the picture Harry and I would stand arm and arm with each other waving at the camera and then we would turn our heads and kiss each other. I was happy to see I wasn't the only one that thought we were going to get my Harry back. Leo seem to believe it to, if I went by the room. I laid down on the bed, and fall asleep watching Harry and me kiss.
Falling asleep was a mistake, for the moment I fall into a deep sleep I had a dream, I was standing in Hera's cabin at camp, she was sitting on Harry's bed looking at the picture of me that sat on Harry's bedside table. She had a frown on her face, and when she sensed she was being watched she looked up with a glare that sent chilies down my spin.
"It is not only Zeus' fault that my son is gone." Hera said. "That my son may only have six days to live. It is also your fault." I frowned at that. "You let go of him, you could have pulled him back up, but no, you didn't I told him you were no good ,he didn't listen. You have my son blinded by your Aphrodite ways, you are just like your mother. Nothing but a slut. You guys had better find him soon. I'm sending you all a reminder that I'm watching. You all have six day, if my son isn't saved by then you'll all pay."
I didn't get to answer Hera, or defend myself I suddenly woke from my dream with a painful sting in my back, it felt as if I was being stung by a dagger. My eyes flew open and I jumped out of bed. And flying around the room was this giant gadfly, with this huge stinger almost as large as my dagger. It came at me again and I jumped out-of-the-way, but tripped and fall into the corner of the room, and the thing attacked me, stinging me everywhere.
"STOP!" I cried, throwing my arms up blocking my face. "Leave me alone!" I couldn't get to one of my weapons, because if I put my arms it would start stinging me all over the face. And that would hurt.
My little battle with the gadfly woke Marauder up and he jumped up with a big roar and jumped over me blocking the thing, then began to chase it around the room, knocking over tables and chairs.
Suddenly my door flew open and in came Percy, Jason, and Leo, weapons out as if ready for a big battle. They stopped, looking confused at the gadfly, Annabeth and Hermione squeezed past them and came running over to me. Leo suddenly yelped as the fly now came at him, stinging all over his body like it did me.
"What the?" He cried, trying bash it with the hammer in his hand. "Get back, get back." Marauder came back over to me and stood right in front of me. He was going to make sure the thing didn't come back over and sting me. The thing left him and started attacking Jason. Hermione and Annabeth helped me to my feet.
"What the hell is this thing." Jason cried. I saw Leo digging in his tool belt for something.
"Brize." Annabeth said. "That's the giant gadfly that Hera sent to harass Io, when Zeus has turned her into a heifer."
"What?" Jason cried. The fly left him and came over toward us heading for Annabeth, but didn't make it, Marauder jumped up with his massive paw, and knocked the thing across the room, it hit the wall and fall to the floor, where it flopped and moved, trying to get up, but was dazed. Leo pulled a glass jar out of his tool belt and opened the lid, he then scoped t up in the jar and closed it.
"Io," I explained, looking at all the stings I had all over me, they were all bleeding, and Leo and Jason didn't look any better. "Was a lover of Zeus, Hera almost caught them one day and to hide her Zeus turned Io into a heifer, but it didn't fool Hera at all, and she demanded Zeus give her the heifer as a gift; Zeus couldn't refuse, and gave her to Hera, she then sent Argus to watch over Io make sure she didn't escape, but Zeus sent Hermes to kill Argus, and Io was able to get away. When Hera found out she sent a gadfly after Io, it tormented her into Hermes caught it in a golden net. And Io made it to Egypt where she was able to hide from Hera and Zeus turned her back into a human. The gadfly was called Brize. That's her in that jar there."
"So, I guess Hera sent it after us." Percy scowled, looked over at Brize who was now flopping all over the jar and trying to get out.
"Yeah, I fall asleep for a bit and dreamed about Hera." I said. "She said she was sending us a little reminder that she is watching us. And we better find Harry soon." I choked up a little at Harry's name. "She also blamed me for Harry's kidnapping." I took a deep breath trying to stop the tears. "Oh gods, she's right. If I hadn't let go of him, he wouldn't have been dragged away."
"No," Annabeth said, she put her arm around my shoulder. "Don't listen to Hera, she's just upset about Harry, it's not your fault, it's no ones fault. But the giants that took him." With her arm still around me she led me to the door. "We are on our way to save him, you'll see Harry soon. But right now I think we should take care of yours, Leo's and Jason's stings." Annabeth led me out the door, Hermione walking by us, and the others following behind, Leo still holding the jar. She led us to the top of the boat where the others were standing.
"Where you all been?" Ron demanded. "And what the heck is that?" He pointed at the jar with the gadfly.
"It's a gadfly." Hermione said. "Hera sent it to sting us."
"Okay," He said. Nico took the jar from Leo and looked the fly over.
"Why?" Ginny asked, looking at the thing in disgust.
"A reminder that she is watching us." Percy said. He tapped on the jar, making Brize go crazy and fly around, trying to sting his finger.
"Percy, stop." Annabeth told him, as she sat me down on a crate. She had me take off my hoodie so she could look at the stings; it's a good thing Leo made this ship heated or we would all be frizzen on it. You couldn't tell it from inside camp, but this was supposed to be the coldest winter New Yorkh as seen in years. I for one was glad the weather didn't effect camp, I wouldn't be able to stand it. I hate the cold. Being from L.A. I wasn't use to it.
Leo sat the jar down and disappeared down the ship, he return moments latter with a first aid kit and handed it to Annabeth, she looked through it.
"I don't think your stings are bad enough to use nectar on them." Annabeth said. "We should save that for real bad wounds." She pulled out stuff to clean my wounds, which stung like hell. And then she banged up the worst ones and just left alone the ones that wasn't bad or barley even bleeding. Ginny then did the same to Jason's stings, but Leo wouldn't let anyone tend to his, saying they weren't that bad and he was fine.
"What are we going to do with this?" Ron asked, holding up the jar. "You think we should let it out over the side of the ship?"
"No," Annabeth said. "If you let that thing out it'll just fly back toward us and attack again. The best thing to do is just leave the thing in there."
"May I see it?" Luna asked, taking the jar from Ron, she inspected it with interest. "It's cute in a way."
"Are you mad?" Ron demanded, then flinched when Nico glared at him. "That thing isn't cute."
Hermione pulled out her wand and pointed it at the jar and said a spell. Then nodded and put her wand back in her pocket. "There I put an unbreakable charm on the jar, so now it can't break and the gadfly can't get out."
"Smart thinking." Percy said. I noticed Hermione's cheeks turn pink, she always blushed a little when ever someone, no matter who it was, mentioned how smart she was. But Leo must have took the blush the wrong way, because he shot Percy a dirty look. Only I saw.
"What do we do with it?" Hazel asked. "Should we just throw the jar over the side of the ship, since it can't break now." Leo frowned and picked the jar back up and looked it over.
"I think we should keep it for now." He said, and put it in his tool belt. He shrouded as everyone looked at him funny. "It might become useful, you never know."
"How could that thing be useful?" Ron demanded. Leo shrugged.
"You never know." Leo said.
"Anything can become useful." Luna said. "You just have to open up your mind." She smiled at Ron. "Wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure."
"Yeah, sure." Leo said, frowning. But Annabeth looked at Luna with a surprised look.
"Were did you hear that?" She demanded. Luna gave Annabeth her dreamy smile.
"It's cavered in the statue of Rowena Ravenclaw." Luna Answered. "That's in the Ravenclaw dorm at Hogwarts." Annabeth's frown left her face and she nodded.
"I believe Harry told me Ravenclaw had been a daughter of Athena." Annabeth said.
"It is also my daddy's favorite quoit." Luna added. "Daddy likes to invent things, people don't see it but he's actually very smart, he's invented all kinds of things." Annabeth's frown returned.
"Your dad is an inventer?" She demanded. Luna smiled and nodded her head. Annabeth continued to frown.
We were all silent for a moment and suddenly something hit the side of the ship. We all fall over.
"What in Merlin's name?" Ron demanded. As we all stood back up.
"Something hit the side of my ship." Leo said, he ran over to look over the side. But the yelped and backed up as a huge tentacle shot up out of the water. Then slammed down on the side of the ship.
"Hey," Leo yelled. "You're going to break my ship." Just then another tentacle shot up, and attached it's self on the side of the ship. Then a large arm shot up out of the water along with another one and started shaking the ship.
"It's a giant squid!" Ron yelled, as he got knocked down on the floor of the ship. "I thought they were friendly.
"Ron, just because the squid in the black lake is friendly doesn't mean they all are." Hermione said, she stumbled and fall. Leo immediately ran to her to help her up.
"Stop that!" Percy yelled at the squid, he pulled out Riptide and ran forward. And tried to slice at one of the long tentacles but it moved too fast. I pulled out my bow and started shooting arrows at it, they hit one of the tentacles and the thing went down in the water. But then more of its long arms shot out and started rocking the boat. Jason brought out his sword and ran forward and started slicing at its arms. Percy did the same, Hazel ran forward with her spear and started jabbing it in one of the arms.
I shoot arrow after arrow, Nico pulled out his sword and sliced at it, Hermione, Ron, Luna, and Ginny pulled out their wands and shot spells. Leo reached in his tool belt and brought out a cross-bow, something I've never seen him use before, and started shooting arrows at it. The Squid's arms disappeared and went down into the water. We paused weapons still out. I thought maybe we had chased it away, but then suddenly all at arms shot up and sent us flying.
Next thing I knew I was waking up laying face down in sand. I groaned and raised my head. All my friends were laying around me, raisng up like I was.
"My ship." I heard Leo yelled as I got to my knees, and tied to dust all the sand off my face, and my arms and clothes.
"Is everyone alright?" I heard Hermione ask, as I got to my feet and turned around. I saw Percy was already up and helping Annabeth to her feet. I saw Hermione dusting sand off her clothes, I saw Jason dusting Ginny off and Nico helping Luna up as Hazel looked around for what I guessed was her spear.
"Where are we?" Ron asked, picking his wand up.
"I have no idea." Percy said. I looked toward Leo he was looking around the ship, there was a massive hole in the side of the boat. I walked over to it.
"You can fix that can't you?" I asked. Leo frowned.
"Yeah, but it'll take a while." Leo said.
"How long is a while?" I demanded. Leo shrugged.
"Day or two." he said.
"What?" I demanded. "We don't have a day or two. Harry only has six days of air left, when need to get back on the road or sea or whatever now."
"I know that." Leo snapped. I glared.
"Don't snap at me, just fix the damn ship." I demanded. Leo glared back at me.
"I can only do what I can." Leo said. The rest came walking over to us. "I may not even have the right stuff on board to fix it."
"You better have." I growled. Hermione laid her hand on my shoulder.
"Here, maybe I can help." She pulled out her wand, pointed it at the hole and said. "Repreo" The ship made a creaking noise then the hole fixed it's self. Leo's mouth dropped.
"There now it's fixed." Hermione said, and stuck the wand back in her pocket. Leo looked at her wide-eyed.
"You can fix things." He said. "Can you get any better?" I saw Hermione blush a little.
"Well now that's fixed where are we?" Ron said.
"Some island looks like." Hazel said, looking around. "But how are we going to get the ship back in the sea."
"I guess we push it." Percy said. He went to walk toward the boat, but then stopped and turned looking around. "I heard something."
"I made the ship so it can fly." Leo said. "So maybe we should take to the air for a while. Make sure that giant squid thing is really gone."
"That's a good idea." Hermione said, sounding a little shocked. But I wasn't really listening, I had walked over to Percy and was listening too. He was right I could hear something too. I looked down at my dragon pendant. It was showing me the dragon side. I tapped on Percy's shoulder and he looked at me. I showed him my pendant and he nodded uncapping Riptide.
Hazel suddenly let out a scream, I looked toward her to see her fall to the ground, as this creature took a bite out of her leg. Nico immediately ran to her and stabbed the thing with his sword. I had never seen anything like that before. It had five club-footed feet, and was covered in reddish-brown hair. It almost looked something like a weird huge spider.
"What the Hades is that?" Hazel cried, as Nico got down to look at her leg it, was bleeding pretty bed. Before anyone could say anything more came running toward us.
Nico jumped up and stabbed one that ran toward him, Percy ran forward to help, both them standing in front of Hazel, blocking her since she was unable to fight. I could see tears falling down her face; as she held on to her bleeding leg. I pulled Harry's sword from my side and ran forward and started stabbing the creatures one after another. I usually used my bow, that way I didn't get injured fighting the creatures, but lately I have been a little reckless. I went on stabbing them. Percy and Nico did also, and Jason soon got into it. Annabeth too with her dagger. Hermione was throwing spells. Along with Luna, but Ginny had her sword out.
When we had killed most of them, more came running at us from somewhere.
"Holly Shirt!" Percy cried. same time Ron cried. "Bloody Hell!"
I backed up some, I didn't blame them one bite for swearing, there was like a hundred or more of these things, I didn't see that one was coming up from behind me, into Marauder jumped from out of nowhere and knocked it down. I had forgotten about him, I hadn't seen him anywhere. And don't know where he came from.
"Come on there's too many, let's get back on the ship and go." I heard Annabeth cry, and all of them ran toward the ship as they were fighting the things off. But I stayed, and stabbed one after the other. Taken my frustration out on these things what ever they are. I saw Ron pick up Hazel and headed toward the ship with her. I was the only one, besides Marauder not running toward the ship.
"Piper, come one!" I heard Annabeth yell. But I didn't listen, one of the things jumped at me, and I raised Harry's sword while I twirled around and cut it in half.
"Piper, there is too many! Come on." I heard Hermione yell.
I was soon surrounded by them and Marauder knock one down, then knocked my legs out from under me, making me fall on his back and I dropped Harry's sword. Marauder picked it up with his teeth, and ran toward the ship, I had to hold on to his neck to stop from falling off. I saw Percy, Leo, and Jason had been running my way, I guess to help and get me, but as they saw us running toward them, they stopped and waited. When we passed and Marauder leaped on the ship, they stay to make sure the other things didn't follow. Then climbed on broad, and after Percy stabbed one that had climb on after us, we took off up into the air, and Hermione ran around casting charms.( I guess protective charms.)
"What were those bloody things?" Ron demanded.
"Quintaped." Luna said. "They like human flash."
"No really, I hadn't noticed." Ron said. As he looked at a bite on his arm. It wasn't bad. and was barely bleeding. Ginny pointed her wand at it and said a spell and it healed.
"How's Hazel?" I asked, sliding off Marauder's back, and taking Harry's sword out of his mouth.
"She'll be fine." Annabeth said. She nodded over to her and I saw Nico bandaging Hazel's leg up, he had already put nectar into it. "Her jeans got the worst of it."
"Umm guys." Leo said. "I got some bad news."
"Leo, that's the last thing I want to hear right now." I said, hooking Harry's sword to my side.
"Well, I could keep it to my self." Leo said. "We'll just crash is all."
"What's the bad news?" Annabeth asked.
"There's some damage to the ship." Leo said. "I can fix it and quick too, it could be worse, but the hull is compromised, in several places. The port aerial oars have to be fixed before we can go full speed again. We'll need some repair materials."
"What materials?" Hermione asked. Leo looked at her.
"Celestial bronze, tar, lime-."
"What do you need limes for?" Ron demanded. Hermione rolled her eyes and went to say something but Leo talked over her.
"Dude, lime. Carbonate, used in cement and a bunch of other things. The point is, this ship isn't going far unless we can fix it." I growled and kicked a crate.
"We need to get to Harry as soon as we can." I said. "And you're saying, this ship isn't going to make it."
"Chill, Beauty Queen." Leo said. "I do have some good news."
"Good," Ginny said. "I like to hear good news."
"It's all in one place." Leo said. "On one island, and no not the one we just came from. Festus had already found where, I'm heading there now."
"Okay, when we get there we'll split up." I said. The others frowned at me. "No, listen, those monster found us pretty quick back there, because of so many of us together. Plus if we spilt up and different groups look for different things we'll find it faster."
"Piper has a point." Annabeth said. "Okay when we get there, Percy and I will go looking for the tar ."
"Marauder and I will look for the bronze." I said.
"And I and who ever wants to come along will look for the lime." Leo said.
"I'll help you." Hermione spoke up. Leo grinned ear to ear.
"Hazel will have to stay on the ship." Nico said. "There is something I need to do when we land ,so someone will have to stay with her while she rest below."
"Nico, I'll be fine I don't.." Hazel tried.
"I'll stay with her." Ron said. "Nothing else for me to do anyway."
"Ginny and I can stay here and be on the look out." Jason said. Ginny nodded.
"If we see anything wrong I can cast a patronus to you." Ginny said.
"Alright, then." I said. "When we land we split up and find what we need, then get back to the ship. Hopefully after this nothing else well go wrong." And if it dose I might just leave them all behind and go save Harry my damn self.
A.N. There is chapter two, hope you like it, and I got a Quitaped from: Fantastic best and where to find them. I thought I would use monsters from the wizard world too. And I'll probably have a different person's POV with each chapter. At least the first few, so you can get a feel on what everyone is thinking.