On The Seas of Destiny

Questioning

A/N. Reviews.

"(000dart) sick." -perzoeOTP

Hi son! Glad you liked it.

"Ooo, nice chapter! can't wait to see what happens next!" -allisonj1008

Thank you! Wait no longer!

"I feel like the setting was easier to swallow if there were no gods at all. Seems odd that the gods exist but Percy (and everyone around him) is a mortal for some inexplicable reason." -aerium

It would probably be, but I was inspired by Pirates of the Caribbean for this fic, so like how those movies had the supernatural while most of the main characters (Jack, Will, Elizabeth, ect.) were human, it's like that here. I hope this explains why I went the way I did. I also decided to do it this way because if they were demigods, then the danger they face wouldn't feel as threatening. At least this way, they face problems that are harder to solve than if they could fly, or control the sea. (It would make Percy kind of OP here, ngl.) I hope this didn't come off as rude!

Onto the chapter!

Chapter Thirteen

     Olympus was in the spyglass's sight. The sun was high in the sky, almost midday. The Andromeda cut through the waves at an even rock. Luke collapsed the spyglass and put it in his pocket. The wind rustled in his blond hair.

     He climbed down the rigging from the crow's nest. He called to Ethan, who was scrubbing the deck with dirty water. "Ethan! Why are you using such dirty water? It looks like you took a shit in it."

     "It's from the bilge, Captain."

     Luke raised an eyebrow. "And why are you using bilge water?"

     "Where else did you expect me to get water from?"

     "What do we drink?"

     "Rum?"

     Luke paused. "Don't get smart with me. I'll break out the cat next time you do." Luke smiled. Well, more like he bared his yellow teeth.

     Orion came out of the captain's quarters. The Fleet Admiral had claimed the room for himself when he came aboard, something Luke had disagreed to. But since Orion technically outranked him, he was fighting a losing battle.

     "You're sure that Percy would come to this... settlement." Orion hesitated on the word, obviously questioning if pirates could even be capable of creating such a thing. Surely they were too brutish and violent to come together to form any kind of community. Though they did form crews, maybe something similar on a larger scale was possible. Unlikely, but possible.

     Luke nodded. "Percy would've come here hoping to join a crew. He loves the sea and would never give it up. He would definitely come here."

     Orion nodded. "He did leave Othrys on a ship that would have taken a crew to sail away as fast as it did."

     Luke smiled grimly. "See, there we go." He turned to the poop deck where another pirate stood, silent for fear of being reprimanded. "Alabaster, prepare to weigh the anchor. Not yet, but prepare."

     The pirate nodded and walked away, disappearing out of Luke's sight.

     The time that passed as they waited to make landfall with Olympus was tense. Orion didn't like the pirates, just as they didn't like Orion. The Fleet Admiral almost wanted nothing more than to rid the seas of these scourges, but Zoë was more important. Maybe after she was safe and wed to him, then he would kill them. As a wedding present, perhaps. She would be so happy with that.