Hayy I'm home sick so you get an extra chapter this week.

Note: Small chapter compared to the last few

Part One: Chapter Six: The Sea Of Monsters

=Percy=

The room was barely lit as I stood against a support beam watching the child of Hades sleep. The moons light was distorted with the colored glass, some of it the natural white light it should be but most an array of blue, purple and green. He had, of course protested much to sleeping on my bed. Demanding that he was brought to his sister and allowed to sleep with people he trusted. But the fighting wore him down and eventually he just collapsed on the bed, it was another hour or so before he actually fell asleep. He looked like his namesake while he slept. His curly black hair covering his forehead and his peaceful expression. Though it didn't make my heart flutter like some of his other expressions had. Being completely honest with myself, I had fallen hard for this boy. I knew it the moment I had first seen him, walking down from the steps of his mansion to greet us.

Being myself, I had earlier passed it off in front of him and Silena as part of my hobby, collecting beautiful things. That was part of it, yes, but, as Silena had told me when I guided her back to her room for some rest. "You were struck by Cupid's arrow." And yes, the child of Aphrodite was right. I let my eyes drift from the Angel on my bed and over my desk, the top most paper was clearly visible in the white light of the moon. The Pendant, a simple thing truthfully though it was just a black and white sketch. It was a circle, no one knows what the circle's made of. Most people assume gold, but I think it's silver. Silver is a much more beautiful color than gold, and it reflects things clearly, it shows something for what it is. Then in the center, is a stone, it's colored black, and again you can only guess what stone lays there, or stones. It's quite possible that more than one stone was merged together by the god of riches himself.

I was looking at Nico again, he was a jewel himself. One of those untouchable ones, I have him in my collection but he wasn't mine. Not yet at least, possibly not for a while. And quite possibly the boy wont even be mine, but the thought reversed. I sighed and leaned my head against the wood supporting me, my eyes drifted closed and for a while I just listened to the waves crashing against the boat. And the creaking of the few people above piloting the ship. I heard the small creaking of my door being pushed open, and the almost silent footsteps coming towards me. I kept still, even as the sword pressed against my stomach, and there was a pause. "Don't stop half way through." I told them, and a sharp intake of breath answered me. "If you're going to kill me, then kill me already." I told them. The sword pressed harder into my side, but it was shaking now.

I opened my eyes to see Hazel, after she met my eyes, the sword fell out of her hands and clashed with the ground. That woke Nico, he was sitting up and looking at us. Hazed had me pinned to my spot against the pole but she was trembling to hard to do anything. Only a moment passed before her legs gave out, I was quick to catch her. "If you're going to kill someone, you should go through with it." I told her. She couldn't respond. After a minute or so, I carefully picked her up and brought her over to my bed, giving her to her brother. He held her protectively.

"You're a monster, you know that?" He glared at me. I studied him for a long moment.

"Maybe," I agreed. "But it doesn't chance the fact that you're still in my care." I walked over to my desk, and silence was answered for a few calming seconds. Then the door burst open.

"We've reached the entrance." Leo said, a sort of panic in his voice.

"Get everyone below deck." I ordered. "Take these two with you," I glanced at them for a moment. Leo nodded and went to guide them. I left the room, quickly making my way to the helm and releasing Chris who was on duty. The task to get between the two guardians of the Sea of Monsters was not an easy one, but it all depended on the exact location of the boat, as well as how much water I could force down my half sister's throat. I saw the whirlpool forming as Charybdis prepared to blast us into oblivion. I saw the others rushing to get below deck, almost everyone was in the small shell of safely I could provide.

I felt the common tugging sensation in my gut, the same feeling I always get when I use an excessive amount of water, and large waves came up alongside the boat, shielding the sides. From any damage that could come to it.

There was a pause at which nothing happened, and then the boat jerked forwards, being pushed by a massive energy, the whirlpool was becoming larger as Charybdis's teeth rose to the surface. I forced the boat to move straight, on a persist line that would be our salvation. We were nearing it, being propelled forwards by the power of the Whirlpool, and slowly, as we passed, waterspouts shot out of the water, forcing themselves into my sister's mouth. Almost through.

I pushed us into the harder end, the water was now pushing against us, instead of sending us forwards. It wanted to bring us back into the Whirlpool and certain death. I felt the wind speeding up, not necessarily a good thing. I mean, yes we're going faster in the right direction but it's a bit stronger than I'd prefer it to be. From the corner of my eye, and second look to make sure I wasn't seeing things, I saw someone returning to the deck. Moron get back below deck! I wanted to yell at him but it's not exactly my top priority. We were out of the worst of the danger at least, but not clear yet. My sister still has one more trick up her sleeve, if I haven't given her a stomach ache by now. But no, I felt the pressure in the water stop, "this will be fun." I mumbled to myself,forcing the water protecting the sides up into the air and wrapping around the whole of the ship, enclosing us in a large water bubble. Seconds later I felt a huge amount of pressure against my back, pressure enough to knock a sane man out.