The Son of Artemis Book 2

Chapter 14: I Become A Captain

Percy's POV:

I awoke to Annabeth nudging me in the side, and saying that there was land ahead. Good thing is my headache from the concussion is gone, so now I can operate somewhat normally. I took my shirt off my face and took in my surroundings which unsurprisingly was just an island ahead of us which we were drifting into. However, the worrisome thing about the island was that it was two modern to be any island, but one, and I don't want to be turned into a pig.

"Annabeth please tell me that isn't Circe's island" I stated, hoping that she could tell at least.

"I don't know, I can't really tell from here" she stated. Well, shit it's likely Circe's island.

We continued drifting closer and closer to the island until we were about 100 feet out and I decided to wake Peter...and sacrifice him to be turned into a pig. "wha...what happened" Peter asked waking up as we were now 50 feet away and I could see a well defined outlined of a person standing right around where we would be making landfall.

"You got knocked out from the fall into the water when you were being carried by one of Scylla's mouth's into the air" I explained quickly as we were now 25 feet away.

"oh" he said, looking around only to see that we were approaching an island, "it has to be here" he continued, only looking at the person, whom is clearly a young girl, who is waiting for us to arrive on the island. I feel sorry for that girl, but on the bright side Peter most definitely will be getting turned into a pig now, the only question I have though is where are the other pigs that should be on this island.

"Hello" the girl said, who is holding a clipboard and is dressed in a blue business suit, "Welcome to C.C's resort and spa. Is this your first time here" she finished asking us

I wanted to say no but I just kept quiet while Peter was mumbling about not really saying anything coherent.

"I'll write that down as a no" she said, looking down disappointed at her board. She then started checking all three of us out before speaking again, "why don't you three follow me. We'll start with a wrap for the Lady, and for the gentlemen, well I don't really know yet, but I'm sure CC will" she said, leading us to the docks where I found an assortment of vessels and could see an airstrip and helipad both of which were occupied.

Great maybe I can negotiate with CC and trade Peter for one of the boats. We continued walking along a path that had many small homes off of it and eventually found ourselves at the main building and entered into a room with a pool and many women tanning around it and a few swimming in the pool. So apparently CC opened up her island to house women, which leaves me again to wonder where in the world are the males turned pigs.

Eventually, we were being lead up the stairs and I would assume entered CC's office as it had floor to ceiling windows on one side overlooking the pool, and on the opposite wall was mirrors much the same way which made the room seem infinitely bigger, however opposite to the entrance there was a bed that had a cage next to it, and from what I can tell from the squealing, they must be the only male inhabitants of the island, and were warning of the witch that turned them into Guinea pigs. 

However, away from that and pushed up against the mirrored wall was a giant loom that a woman, which I'm guessing is CC, working on creating a tapestry, of what I am assuming is one of the waterfalls on her island.

She turned around to see us three, well, four if you count her employee, standing there looking at the tapestry. Annabeth said something about how amazing the work was while I was thinking of how did she make it seem like it was three dimensional. 

I don't know how long I was studying the work but I was drawn out of my mind by Circe commenting on how Annabeth had good taste. And she also formally introduced herself as CC which the guinea pigs were calling bullshit on.