'Are you sure that he'll be there?' I ask Cathy.
She nods, 'He told me that there is where he will be if he can get away from the others.'
We're sitting around an aftermath campfire in the morning. We're getting ready on our journey while Cathy is telling us all about her brothers, the sons of Poseidon.
'… Do you really want to go back there? Going back to all those horrible people?' I ask hesitantly.
Cathy is sure that one of Poseidon's sons is going to be there, waiting for us.
She looks down, 'They're the only family that I have left…' Cathy then smiles full of confidence. 'Besides, not all of them are bad. John is always nice to me; he told me that he wasn't even sure that vengeance is the answer.'
Jonathan River or John for short… The youngest of Poseidon's sons.
Cathy told us all about him, how that he is different from the rest. That he might actually support Percy and us in this fight.
Cathy believes that John can help us get out of this island, but I'm still having a hard time trusting an enemy. This all sounds like a trap.
I shrug, 'I don't know Cathy… This all sounds… Too suspicious…'
'If he's that nice, why did he let you go to this island?' Lisa rests her head on her right hand.
Cathy looks sad.
'Lisa's right. I don't think we can trust someone who just tried to kill us.'
'No!' Cathy rises and yells. It surprises both Lisa and I.
Cathy looks down, 'He didn't want to send me here. He was against it. But the others insist and it left him with no choice.' Cathy looks at me with teary eyes, 'He said that he'll be waiting for me on the mountain top… He couldn't have agreed to send Orthrus after us… John isn't someone like that!'
Lisa scratches her head, 'Alright, Alright. Calm your boots.' Lisa looks at me; I smile to her and nod. Lisa looks at Cathy, 'If it means that much to you…' Lisa sighs. '…We'll go there and meet him.'
Cathy lights up like the fourth of July, she waltzes out of our sight.
Lisa looks at me, worried, 'Are you sure about this?'
'We don't have many choices to begin with.'
Lisa looks at the mountain, 'I suppose you're right.'
We follow Cathy up on the mountain, but I carry worries in my heart.
At first, I'm worried that the journey might be too much for Cathy. Strangely enough though, the way there isn't that difficult.
We begin by walking the hillside, even though it's quite far, it's easier and far more safe.
As if mother Gaia has laid down a path for us to walk.
We keep walking as Cathy told us all about herself, where she's born and raised, how she got here in the first place.
Cathy doesn't exactly remember what year she's born. But she remembers Seattle and her mother. She lived with her mother, a travel agent, in peace until the day her mother got into a boating accident a year ago. The sea swallowed her mother and Cathy never heard from her again.
William found Cathy three days after Cathy's mom died.
William said that Poseidon turned a blind eye when the sea swallowed her mother. That Poseidon might as well be the one that killed Cathy's mother.
Cathy has been following them ever since,
John has always been there for Cathy, even when her other brothers were either ignoring or giving Cathy a hard time.
We spend the next two days walking to the mountain top while listening to Cathy about how nice John was.
Lisa looks pretty annoyed but half of the time, I didn't even listen.
My thoughts are filled with something else, Percy.
Is he okay? Are we going to meet again soon? My thoughts are filled with questions like that.
The path to the mountain top consists of the hillside, and the next one is a spiral path leading to the top.
We're getting higher and higher each day, I can see the forest way down there right now at this moment.
It took us three days, but we finally reach the mountain top.
The entrance is really easy to recognize. A platform on the left and right side, with a torch placed in it.
The mountain top is a circle like place, around eight times five meters. There's a big hole in the middle, and smoke is coming out of there.
The smoke finally clears up, and then we see a small bridge right on top of the hole, but it only goes halfway to the middle of the hole.
There are two tall white poles on the end of the bridge. It looks a bit like a gateway, but it's hollow in the middle. I wonder what that is.
A boy is there, standing and staring at something. His back is exposed to us.
'John!' Cathy yells loudly.
The boy turns around, he looks surprised.
Cathy dashes straight to him, she looks happy. She jumps straight to his arm, the boy looks surprised.
We stroll closer to them.
The boy is around the age of fourteen, maybe fifteen. Short spiky dark hair with a pair of blue, slightly green, eyes. He looks a bit pretty, a girl pretty. Like one of those boy band singer. He's about 5'6" tall, wearing a bronze chainmail and blue jeans.
So that's Jonathan River… He has a face like an angel, but there's something about him that disturbs me… Something about his expression reminds me of someone.
Cathy looks really happy, so I try to erase the disturbance in my mind.
The things that happen next are something that I curse the gods for it.
Cathy is still smiling, hugging John. Then she looks at us. Lisa smiles in relief, but I still am unable to erase the disturbance in my mind when I look at John.
Cathy turns to John and everything seems going to be okay. But then John isn't smiling, his expression is as cold as a winter night as he looks at Cathy like she's some sort of a pest.
John draws his knife from his holster on his back waist. I turn grim and I try to shout but the words seem to have stuck in my throat. The words are coming out slowly, and then the thing I fear most happens.
John stabs Cathy in the stomach…
Blood spills down from Cathy's stomach. Cathy slowly looks up to John, her eyes are filled with horror.
John smiles wickedly…