Okay, so one thing before we start. Ch9 is no longer an authors note. I updated it and it is now a chapter. But it didn't send an email notification, so if the last time you read Ch9 and it was an authors note, go reread it. Oh and I do NOT own PJO. Or the Discovery Channel. Okay enjoy.
Annabeth shifted awkwardly. "So," she mumbled, "where to?"
"I can't see a thing!" Bianca yells.
Percy was confused. "I can see everything."
Nico squinted out into the distance. "Something over there is glowing," he says, pointing to his left. Everybody shifts so they can see out in the direction.
They could all see something glowing, faintly green. The glow got stronger and stronger as it approached them. But what was it?
That's when Annabeth yelled. "Wait a second! That's-"
Bianca squeals, "A MERMAID!"
Nico covers his ears and shuts his eyes. He was closest to his sister and she was facing him...or more specifically his left ear.
"Yeah..." Percy says rubbing his ears. "Because we wouldn't be able to hear it from any closer."
"Yeah Bianca, you need to chill," Annabeth mutters.
Percy snickers under his breath. Annabeth glares at him, "What?!" She demands.
"'You need to chill'?" He begins to laugh harder. "Look whose talking."
Annabeth crosses her arms over her chest and let's out a satisfying 'humph'. "Looks like Bianca's not the only one that needs to chill..." She mutters.
Then they hear a scream. "BIANCA!" Annabeth screams. "Stop screaming!"
Bianca looks offended. "Okay, first, you're the one screaming and second it wasn't me!"
Annabeth looks over at a blushing Percy. "He scared me," he mutters.
"Who?" Annabeth yells at the same time Bianca yells, (much more loudly) "HE?"
The mermaid, or um, merman, had swam up to the bubble and staring at Percy. The merman stared at Percy with a mask of disbelief. Percy squirms uncomfortably. "He's staring at me," he whispers. The merman places his hands on the bubble and mutters some language that Percy believed he knew. He never spoke it or heard it but he felt like he knew it. After the merman is done speaking those words he stares at the bubble. Slowly Bianca felt something happen to it. It felt more...concealed. Like anything that would dare touch it, wouldn't be able to get anywhere because they couldn't get through it. Apparently the merman wasn't afraid to touch it.
He quickly goes to the other side of the bubble where Percy was sitting and begins to push them away. His green tale, that Bianca would assume is slimy, was fluttering like butterfly wings as they sped off in a random direction. It just got darker and darker, not that Bianca could see much before, but now it was so dark she couldn't see her hand on front of her face. Human eyes adjust to darkness, but Bianca's eyes weren't doing a thing to help her see. Nothing but the glow of the merman was occupying her eyes. Bianca felt like she might as well be closing her eyes because not being able to see anything, wasn't something she was used to.
"What is he doing?!" A voice screeched. "He's gonna get us killed!" Bianca didn't know it, but Annabeth was flailing her arms around dramatically as she said this.
"Annabeth, that was you right?" Percy whispers.
"Yes it was me! Seaweed Brain..."
"What do you mean he's gonna kill us?" Bianca asked since nobody else was popping the question up, that started this conversation.
"I was once watching the Discovery Chanel-"
Someone in the group lets out a loud snort and Bianca can't help but laugh. "The Discovery Channel?" Percy giggles. "Is Treehouse too babyish for you?"
"Yes, but not the point. Anyways I was watching the Discovery Channel and a scuba diver couldn't go all the way down. I asked my dad why and he said that the pressure is too much for a regular human like us-"
Percy speaks out, "but we're not regular humans! We're demigods!"
"That doesn't mean we're all children of Poseidon," Bianca points out.
Percy puts this in to thought.
"What I'm trying to say," Annabeth continues, "is that we're gonna pop if we go down too far."
"Everyone but Percy, that is," Bianca mutters.
Suddenly, they're all thrown to Bianca's side of the bubble. "Ow!" Bianca screams. "My arm! My arm!"
Everyone piles off of Bianca. Percy picks up Bianca's arm, who flinches. He was the only one that could see. "Uh, let's see. Eww! The bone is popped out!"
Annabeth rolls her eyes. "I can pop it back in," she explains. Then realizing something, she adds, "if only I could see!"
Annabeth crawls back to her spot. "Wait! I can see!"
"It's a miracle!" Percy yells.
"Look!" Bianca yells pointing with her good hand (left) at a gleaming city. Bright lights hung around podiums and merpeople were swimming all over the place. Everybody looked so happy like it was the best day of their lives. But then everybody noticed the merman with a bunch of kids in a bubble, crashing the party.
"Get Lord Poseidon!" A merman yells at nobody in particular. "We have intruders!"
"It must be Atlantis!" Bianca yells, despite what everybody outside is saying about them.
"No way!" Percy yells pressing his nose against the bubble.
Poseidon was just attending to some business, when several people and sea animals came to him. Poseidon sighs. Probably another fish caught in a stray net or a mermaid that can't find her pearls (which, believe it or not, has happened numerous of times).
Poseidon takes a huge breath (of seawater?) before speaking slowly. "What havoc has happened to my domain now?" He asks.
Everyone begins speaking at once and Poseidon tries his best to listen directly to one voice, but with so many of their mouths flapping, he couldn't tell who was saying what.
He catches the words, "four mortals", "bubble" and "must be your son". That was enough for him to be flying out of his palace and towards the main part of his domain. He hoped that the words "must be your son", was referring to Triton. Of course, he was wrong.
As soon as he got a glimpse of the people, he knew what was happening. Everybody surrounded him, but he swam through the sea of people. He finally reaches the bubble and the person behind it. It was "Gale." He always wondered off way up to shore. But Poseidon didn't know how Percy and his peers got here in this bubble.
Poseidon sighs and demands Gale to follow him with the bubble. When he said that, he pointed his trident at him and motioned for him to follow with it. How would you like Poseidon to point a trident at you, for you to follow him? Gale nods and reluctantly follows Poseidon pushing the children along. People snickered as he walked past. His friend Ray muttered, "you are so screwed." As Gale swam past.
Gale gulped and replied, "I know." Once they reached the palace, Poseidon stares at the bubble. Amphitrite swims over and places a hand on his shoulder. "Poseidon. What is this?" She asks softly gesturing to the children.
"You may go, Gale," Poseidon mutters. Gale's eyes widen as he nods eagerly and swims out before he can change his mind.
"Dad," Triton asks as he swims into the room. "What was that about?"
Poseidon touches the bubble. "Water spell," he says. "Gale must've put a water spell on this bubble.
"Mortals?!" Amphitrite exclaims.
"Demigods," Poseidon corrects. "How did demigods get here?"
Percy waves at Poseidon. "Dad!" He yells. But Poseidon, Amphitrite and Triton can't hear them. And Poseidon wanted it to stay that way.
"Er, could you two go for a moment?" Poseidon asks.
"Why?" Triton asks.
"I need to talk to these ch-"
"Mortals? Sure, yeah, why not?" Triton says, but he doesn't leave.
Amphitrite steps in though. "Come on, Triton. Your father's the only one of us the demigods might've heard of." Triton leaves reluctantly with his mother.
Poseidon lets out a sigh of relief and snaps his fingers. Percy is immediately transported outside of the bubble and by Poseidon's side.
"Percy, what the Hades are you doing here?"
"Sorry dad," Percy shrugs. "We were in the river at camp and then we ended up here."
Poseidon sighs. How was he supposed to take them back? And two children of Hades in his realm? Not the best idea.
"Percy, Zeus just called a meeting and I have to go but I'll just get Triton to watch you guys."
"Triton!"
"Yeah?"
"Come here!"
"Okay..."
Triton swims in a few seconds later and examines Percy. "That mortal can breath? And his head isn't like...exploding?"
Poseidon sighed and admitted to Triton about how Percy was his son.
Triton laughs, "wait till mom finds out." He says getting ready to swim away.
Poseidon grabs his arm, "moms not gonna find out till I tell her. Right?"
"Right."
Poseidon nods and leaves for the meeting. Triton turns to Percy. "So, little brother..."
Percy smiles. Triton would love to hate Percy. Did his dad feel the need to have another son? Was he not good enough? But Triton didn't have anything against Percy. But he could hold a grudge against his dad.
"You and your friends wanna take a tour?"
"Okay," Percy nods. "But Bianca and Nico can't swim. Annabeth can though. She lived in California."
Triton smiles. Maybe Percy wasn't going to be so bad after all.
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Poseidon appears in Olympus with a flash. He takes a seat and awaits for a few more gods to show up. Athena walks over to him.
"Poseidon," she starts.
Poseidon looks up at her. Athena pulls Poseidon away from the other gods. Her face is filled with worry. "I couldn't find Annabeth anywhere. Have you seen her?"
Annabeth? They were missing? Poseidon knew where they were of course, but he didn't know they were MIA.
"It's fine, I know where they are," Poseidon reassures.
Athena raises an eyebrow. "You...wait what? Did you take them or something?" Athena demands.
"No," Poseidon says, as if it were obvious. "I simply found them."
"You 'found' them?" Athena asks, like it was a stupid statement.
"Yeah. They were in the lake and then-"
"Poseidon? Athena? Care to join us?" Zeus asks, glaring at them from his throne. Poseidon begins to walk away, but Athena grabs his arm. He looks back at her and her look clearly says, 'tell me later'. Poseidon nods and they depart. Zeus is staring at Poseidon as he sits down in his throne. Him and Athena not like, yelling at each other? Weird enough, but Athena gave him that look. Was that a pleading look? Or was it more like a demanding look? Whatever the look, it shouldn't have been shared between them. But Zeus had to go on with the meeting anyways.
"Okay, this meeting has been called because we've had some complaints-"
Apollo interrupts, "My complaint was about stupid meetings, like this one for example."
Artemis rolls her eyes, "Apollo my complaint was about you, if you were wondering."
"Me? Why me?"
"Flirting with my hunters? Coming up with those awful poems. Limericks, were they?"
"They're haikus. And I feel one coming on!"
A series of groans fill the room. "Thanks Artemis," Athena groans.
"Trust me. I'm no happier than you are," she replies, crossing her arms.
Apollo stands up, "ahem.
Artemis brought up
The lovely poems I recite
That everybody loves!"
"Last line: 6 syllables," Artemis points out.
"What?" Apollo asks sitting down.
"Your last line was six syllables. 'That everybody loves'?" She says counting on her fingers. She waves her hands at Apollo. "Six syllables."
"Hmm," Apollo begins whispering to himself different choices.
Zeus continues the meeting over Apollo's voice.
Artemis leans over at Athena. "So what was that about?" She whispers.
Athena glances at Zeus before looking over at Artemis. "What what was about?"
"Athena, you're the goddess of wisdom, not a person with the brain of what Apollo and Hermes offspring would have."
Athena smiles. "Okay, my daughter is missing," she admits.
Artemis's face drops. "But, lots of your children have gone missing. Especially looking for 'you know'."
Athena frowns. The Mark of Athena. "Don't remind me," she groans.
"Still, what's so special about this child?"
"I know her on more of a...personal level. She's only five and she's close to Poseidon. I was letting him know."
Artemis's eyebrows raise. "She's close to Poseidon?"
"Uh, yeah, he took her to camp. A personal favour he owed me," she whispers.
"And now she's MIA?"
"Uh, no, not anymore," Athena explains. "Poseidon says he found her but then when he was about to explain Zeus interrupted-"
"Artemis? Athena?"
They both snap their heads to Zeus.
"Yes?" They asks, like everything was normal.
Zeus studies his daughters carefully. They weren't usually like this. Athena was usually eyes and ears, not daring to miss a word. "Care to share your conversation with the rest of us?"
"No," Athena replies. Zeus's eyes narrow.
"I was asking her if she knew of the latest animal my hunters and I captured," Artemis says.
"Which is..." Apollo asks.
Artemis gives him a look before continuing. "A wild boar." It was true though. Her and her hunters did actually capture a wild boar. She didn't want to pile on anymore lies. One lie would lead to others and she didn't need that.
"Mmhmm and you wouldn't mind showing us this boar?" Zeus asks.
Artemis shrugs, because she planned ahead. They'll always ask to see it and then you would have to add more lies.
"Sure," Artemis says. "I'll see if my hunters are within a twenty mile radius." She gets up. "Oh, but I'll need two people's help."
Apollo jumps up, "I'll do it! Come on Arty!"
Artemis glares at him. "Don't call me Arty! Athena...and," she looks around dramatically even though she already knew who she would choose. "Poseidon. Lets go." She turns without waiting to see if they would follow. Poseidon shrugs and follows Athena out. Artemis immediately pushes them into the elevator because she was pretty sure Zeus was getting smart ideas.
"We need to talk," she says.
"What about finding your hunters?" Poseidon asks.
"Here," Artemis says, slapping a device into Poseidon's hand.
"Uh, thanks?"
Told you it would end in the word thanks. Enjoyed? Leave a review please!