Nereids

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I come up from my cabin ready to head out with Percy. I see him standing on the edge of the boat talking Annabeth. I lag behind them until they turn and notice me. I keep a crooked smile on my face.

"Ready to jump on?" He asks me.

"I don't think I've ever been so ready for something in my entire life," I say.

He turns back to Annabeth fir a moment.

"Good luck seaweed brain. Just come back to me ok?" Annabeth says.

"I will. You do the same," Percy says.

They give each other a kiss. I walk over next to Percy.

"Don't worry Annie, he's not going anywhere," I say looking at her.

Before she could say don't call me Annie, Percy and I jump into the harbor. We sink down a little ways. It still takes me a second to remember I can breath didn't here.

"This is good. After the aquarium I just fell unclean, you know," Percy says.

I nod my head. We've both always been weird about aquariums. We'd always tell people we just felt like the animals were trapped, I guess I know now they were really telling us they were trapped, but people would say they were happy in captivity.

"That was one mission I was happy to miss out on," I say.

We swim fir a minute while Percy senses for nereids.

"We're close," he says waving me towards him.

I swim to his side and look for the creatures. I hear them before I actually see them. They get close enough to us. There were three of them. They looked very similar though. The only difference really seemed to be their hair.

The one on the far left had blonde hair, the one on the far right had red, and the one in the middle had brown.

"Hello Perseus Jackson," the one in the middle says. My brother flinched at his really name, "and Phoebe Jackson I presume."

I nod my head. Percy steps up. He's had something he wants to talk to them about.

"Um may I ask you something?" My brother asks the Nereid. She nods her head, "there was this aquarium in Atlanta, and the goddess Keto had a bunch of sea monsters trapped in it, how can I save them?"

"Hmm so I've heard. We've wanted to do something about it for years. I would like to hear more eventually but for now I must warn you. Judging from the fact your here to have this conversation means you had to escape her? Am I correct?" The one in the middle asks.

"Yes," my brother says with a hint of confusion in his voice.

"Keto is the goddess of sea monsters. She can't follow you but her monsters can. Expect an attack, Perseus Jackson," the right one says says.

"How? What do we do?" I ask her, "I mean like what do we do to continue this quest?"

"Find Chirons brethren," the middle one says says.

"Where?" Percy asks.

"When the answer us clear, you'll know," the one in the right responds.

Why can't she just tell us? It's not that hard to do.

"Now I believe you should get back on shore. You friends need you," the one on the left says.

Percy looks at me with concern. We take off toward the surface. We see a group of Roman soldiers attacking the ship. My brother shoots a spout of water at the group as he shoots us onto the boat.

I see Jason struggling to fight them off with his powers without hurting them. Those were his comrades anyways.

"I git you bro," Percy says running to help Jason.

They stood back to back conjuring a giant storm. I felt a little useless in this moment until I saw the rest struggling to get on the boat. I see Frank fly onto the boat.

"Where's Leo?" I ask realizing that entire search part was here except Leo.

"I might of sorta dropped him," Frank says embarrassed.

We needed Leo to pilot this ship. I see him run towards us.

"Leo!" I yell extending my hand.

He jumps catching my hand as I haul him over the side.

"Thanks. I owe you one," he says.

Hazel and Piper make it on no problem. We just needed Annabeth. I see her talking to Reyna on shore. In the middle of this battle they were having a conversation.

And arrow come flying at my head but I quickly duct out of the way. I see Octavian pointing at me with a group of archers. That rat is targeting me.

I see Annabeth running towards our ship. The ladder was already pulled.

"Annabeth!" I yell extending my hands over the railing like I did for Leo.

The boat had started moving so it wa now or never. She rubs at us and jumps at my hands. I grab her arms grasping her tightly as I pull he up and over the edge.

"Go! Go! Go!" She yells.

The engine lets out a deep rumble and Jason changes the wind. Percy brings up a huge wave lifting us high up and pushes us out to the sea. By the time the ship was at top speed the fort was a distance and we were off towards the ancient lands.

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