The First Goddess Alexis - Heroes of Old and New

Chapter 6.

Hello readers! Since I have nothing to tell you guys about-

Except for the terrible weather.

Yeah, yeah. Now, since we have nothing to tell you about. On with the story!

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I followed Percy and the pegasus all the way to the beach. Once there Percy plunged into the water like it was nothing, I guess it wasn't. Seeing as he was a son of Poseidon.

As soon as I had decided that Percy wouldn't resurface. I crept towards the pegasus. He turned around and I could hear his voice in my head.

"Who are you!?!??!" Since I was 'caught', I walked up and spoke.

"I am Alexis," The pegasus sighed.

"Okay, I heard a lot about you from my boss. My name is Blackjack by the way!" My brows scrunched together.

"Who's your 'boss' Blackjack?" I asked him.

"Oh, right. He doesn't like me calling him that. It's Percy! The guy who just went underwater!" I nodded my head, showing that I understood.

"Okay, can you tell me why he went underwater?".

"Some animal is stuck there so I decided to call him and let him help!" I nodded again.

"Okay," I walked towards the water.

"What are you doing?" Blackjack asked me.

"I'm going underwater, after Percy. I want to see what does," I felt a slight shock in my toes as I touched the cold, wet water.

"But you can't! You can't breathe underwater and you'll die! Speaking about that, how do you understand me?" I sigh and turn around.

"I have many secrets Blackjack, so how about you go fly around for a bit and once Percy returns you don't tell him anything. Got it?" Blackjack slowly nods and flies away. Leaving me alone. 

I turn back to the water, and go under. 

Since I am a goddess, I can make myself dry underwater, so as soon as my whole body is in the water, I dry myself and plunge into the darkness, after Percy. 

8m, 10m, 12m, the pressure wasn't uncomfortable. I could basically live underwater if I wanted to, the pressure could never squash me into a human (or godly) pancake. I know most humans can't go past 65 meters without crumbling into a tin-can. But me being me, I can go as far as I want, and not even Poseidon will know that I'm here.

As I got closer to the bottom, I saw Percy and three hippocampi - fish-tailed horses - swimming in a circle round an overturned boat. The hippocampi were beautiful to watch. Their fish tails shimmered in rainbow colors, glowing phosphorescent. Their manes were white, and they were galloping through the water the way nervous horses do in a thunderstorm. Something seemed to upset them. 

I got a bit closer without Percy noticing and saw the problem. A dark shape - some kind of animal - was wedged halfway under the boat and tangled in a fishing net, one of those big nets they use on trawlers to catch everything at once. 

Apparently this poor creature had been mucking around on the bottom of Long Island Sound and had somehow got itself tangled in the net of this sunken fishing boat. It seemed that it had tried to get out and managed to get even more hopelessly stuck, shifting the boat in the process. Now the wreckage of the hull, which was resting against a big rock, was teetering and threatening to collapse on top of the tangled animal.