Curse of the Triblood

Chapter 31

Percy POV

When we finally got out of the junkyard, we found a large truck that looked run down. When we got to it, it wasn't starting up, but somehow, Silena knew a thing or two about how to fix up the engine. Apparently, she learned a few things about machines and things like it from someone she spent more time with recently. From what I gathered; it was someone from Hephaestus cabin.

She fixed up the car, and we drove off. Thalia had to shoot some lighting into the engine every few seconds to make sure the thing worked. We were driving in the middle of the desert, but it didn't feel like it. I was enraged, and my eyes sparkled with life. With Olethros, I subconsciously was making a storm, rain pouring down as giant cold droplets. The entire dessert was practically soaked with a foot of water. I had to make sure the road was cleared enough for us to move in.

"It should have been me," Thalia told me while I was driving.

"I may not have liked him, but I didn't want that to happen to him. He deserved better. I'm sorry," I answered.

"Children of Zeus and Poseidon are either the greatest of friends or worst of enemies," Thalia told me.

"I like to think I was winning him over at the end," I told her truthfully.

We ran out of gas in the truck near a river canyon. But due to the amount of rain I had made, the river was more of a giant lake three football fields across. I had to call off the storm before I made it any bigger.

We thought about going around but found out we had to go upstream. Aperio and Aioniotita didn't like the giant body of water. Silena had pointed out my eyes were a sapphire blue, almost like hers, due to the blue river. I could feel the surge of water moving reasonably quickly. It didn't take long to realize where the waters were rushing to. We found three canoes and used them to go upstream. I had left a thousand dollars for the person's trouble of losing the canoes.

"The rapids are strong; we need to go upstream," Silena told us.

"I'll worry about that," I replied.

Everyone got on the canoes and on the water. I ended up having Zoe in my canoe with Aperio and Aioniotita sitting next to me. I was going to use my abilities to change some of the currents to move us upstream until I noticed a few river nymphs. I would have thought they were regular teenagers, but...they were breathing underwater. I guess that's a case of the pot and the kettle. They were beautiful. I hate to admit it, but as a son of Poseidon, I'm practically genetically altered to want to be with sea-related deities and nymphs. That also meant that whenever I am a son of Poseidon, I always fall in love with Aphrodite in half the time as usual.

"Hey," I told a river nymph. Her eyes were teal in color. She giggled and blushed when I spoke to her. "We need to go upstream. Can you..." Before I could finish, she called several other naiads to help her move our canoes. Some of them continued to wave and giggle at me. I could hear Aphrodite screaming and cursing the nymphs that were trying to flirt with me.

"Aphrodite hates when I get close to water-related deities or spirits," I said. "She was close to Clymene. She thought Clymene was going to kidnap me. Aphrodite told me that she was only friends with Clymene just to make sure I wasn't taken from her."

"Clymene, as in my grandmother?" Zoe asked. "Atlas's mother?"

"Yes. Apparently, in exchange for Aphrodite possessing Iapetus, Atlas's father, and making Iapetus sleep with Clymene, she promised to never pursue me in any romantic endeavor," I told her. "Clymene wanted children, and Iapetus was worried Ouranos's curse on Kronos that his sons will kill him, and their sons will continue the never-ending cycle would rub off on him."