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Percy's POV

The ride was not smooth.

Monsters attacked us at every turn and at every hour. We had lost five men of the royal guard to a huge water serpent that sucked in the air. My crew was okay, but we were banged up and tired as all hell.

I had heavy bags under my eyes from using my water powers too much, and from staying hours at the wheel.

It was a week into our journey, which was originally supposed to take two weeks, was probably now delayed to three.

Back to the present, I slumped heavily against the wooden wheel, and rubbed my eyes to stay awake. I needed some sleep and probably some good food, and I almost collapsed. It was early dawn, the sun peeking out behind the morning dark fog, and the grey clouds.

I slipped, and was sent crashing to the deck. I tried to get up, but I couldn't, and my vision was blurring in and out. Oh, shit, my brain spoke, we might get lost. Then the other part of my mind spoke, and said, But sleep, man.

My consciousness drifted in and out, and I tried to get up, I really did, but I was just too tired. I tried to cry for help, but my voice wouldn't cooperate.

Then I heard some footsteps, and a gasp. Soft, beautiful hands helped me up, and I leaned heavily on whoever the hell was helping me. He, or she, helped me to my room, and set me down on the bed. Whoever it was ran off, and I drifted off to my world of dreams. Weirdly for me, I didn't even dream, which showed how tired I was.

When I woke up, a girl with choppy brown hair was sitting next to me talking to another girl, who was out of my blurry vision.

"-drakon poison, he got a cut on his chest. Probably made his tiredness even worse. But he'll survive."

"Ow." I said. I tried sitting up, and my brain just went, LOL, nah and I fell back down.

"Percy!" Twin voices sounded, and Piper, the head medic and Annabeth, with her cute, uh I mean, regular, yeah, blond hair.

Piper immediately checked my pulse, and unwound a bandage around my chest. She nodded, satisfied, and said, "You were knocked out for quite a bit, Percy, maybe two days."

My eyes widened. "Two days?! Is everyone okay?"

Annabeth nodded, and smiled, "Yeah, just be worried if your okay, Seaweed Brain."

I saw Piper smirk, and said, "I'll going to get some dressing for your wound, Percy."

I nodded, and then panicked, "Wait-" I was cut off by the slamming of the door, and Annabeth and I were alone. There was a ten second awkward silence, and then we looked at each other, and blushed.

I felt really awkward, but decided to break the silence. "So, what's been going on when I was out?"

Annabeth, still rosy red, from her striking face, to her neck, said, "We've had no trouble, and great sailing, or so says Tyson. We probably have a week left."

I nodded, and shyly, asked, "Well, how about you?"

Annabeth blushed again, but was confused. "What about me?"

I blushed this time, and said, "How have you been doing?"

"Oh, oh! Um, good," she replied, blushing hard.

Piper interrupted our very interesting conversation. She burst through the door, and handed Annabeth some disgusting, bubbling green thing.

"Uh, what's that?" I asked, pointing to the container of seemingly slime punch.

"Dressing, for your wound!" Piper said cheerfully, "Now I've got to go find Jason, Annabeth apply that on him, will you?" And then she left before either of us could protest.

Annabeth blushed again, but then she hardened her resolve and pulled up my shirt, and applied the dressing in two seconds flat.

"Thanks," I muttered.

She was still red, so we left, and I slowly walked to the wheel, where, Leo was driving. He was wearing a fake pirate hat, and was joking and making stupid jokes.

"Argh!" He said, waving his very real sword back and forth. I ducked, and punched Leo.

"Ow!" He cried, rubbing the spot where I had slugged him, "What was that for?!" he asked indignantly.

Then he noticed who I was, and said, "Percy! Man! It's good to have you back!" He then scurried off to do whatever Leo's do in their spare time.

I shrugged and took the wheel, glad to be back to my work, and my love

for the sea.

The journey took over three weeks, but we got to the northern lands, but we still had some ways to go before reaching the dragons.

The seven of the quest, including me, decided to leave my crew, and most

of the royal guardsmen back on the ship to defend it.

We had decided that we would bring a small party of guardsmen, about five, and us seven.

We walked and chatted on the long, winding paths that led to incoming Kingdom of Flaks, a human race of people, who had no interest in war, but made most of their money from fashion, or something like that. Whatever it was, it sure was boring.

Our small party settled down for the night, camping under a blanket of stars, and the cover of the roofy forest.

Leo was cooking some food from his culture, something like tacos, or something like that. Whatever it was, it was good.

"This is good, Leo," I said from my perch on a huge oak tree standing like the king of the forest. I was keeping watch, and I wanted to scout the land around us.

"Chef Leo always makes good food!" he agreed.

Everyone laughed and talked quietly, sharing plates of food and hot drinks. This was good for morale, I thought.

Eventually everyone settled down for the night, setting up long, narrow tents that was home to three people. They were nice and roomy, and kept us warm through the night.

"I'll take first watch," I said, and Leo said he would stay up too, to tinker with his weapons.

Leo and I chatted about the upcoming war, and our families. I didn't like to talk about my family much, but I trusted Leo.

My mom was Sally Jackson, a peasant girl who had fallen in love with Poseidon, king of the sea. They had loved each other so much, that she was now Queen of the Sea, ruling next to Poseidon. I loved them very much, and wanted to make them proud.

Suddenly, I heard a twig crack, and my senses and alarms went up. Leo was still tinkering with his tools, but his eyes wildly scanned the area.

We needed to keep up the casual game, and I said, "I need to go get some water, and walked towards my tent.

Or so what the person who was stalking us thought. I walked towards the tent with Piper, Annabeth, and Hazel, and shook each of them awake.

"Shhhh," I said, and quickly explained the situation to them. They nodded, and I walked out with a water bottle in hand, and nodded to Leo.

He instantly understood, and said, "I'm going to go to sleep, and went towards the tent of Jason and Frank.

I sensed the stalker shift, and moves toward me after a couple minutes, convinced I was the only one awake, and it could take me alone.

I sat with my back against a tree, my eyes closed like I was dozing off, my sword out of reach. What was not out of reach though, was a dagger concealed in my hands.

The stalker carefully put its hands around three, and I struck, pulling out a dagger, and twirled around, putting the knife at the assassin's throat, and told him, or her, "Drop it."

I flung off the person's hood, and nearly dropped my knife. It was girl with black, straight hair, pale skin, and she was wearing a leather tunic, with combat leggings on, and hunter boots. She was drop-dead gorgeous.

"Who the hell are you?" I asked, not letting my dagger waver for a split second.

She turned around, and I kept my dagger pointed at her throat.

"I'm Kayla, daughter of Nyx."

Kayla will be a OC, and cliffhanger. Bye!