Divinity |Percy Jackson|

.2. Quite a disastrous school trip

"Students, I would like to introduce you to Professor Clemente, who is going to be your guide for today." 

All the 40 students looked up from their pamphlets towards the blonde haired, freckle faced, young aged professor who was giving such a huge smile as if he was starring in an advertisement for toothpastes. 

He coughed as if he was going to give a long speech before beginning. 

"So, here's the plan for today. We are going to these following spots today: Statue of Liberty, Times Square, Central park, Empire State Building, the Art Museum, Museum of Natural History, World Trade Center and finally we will be ending the day at one of the largest Industry in New York City. I will leave that as a surprise for later."

The students were excited. They had a long day ahead of them. Antony hoped that the day might hold something new in store for him. 

"Hey Rollins, catch this." 

Matthews Castor, one of the school bullies, who had been a jerk to Antony since the first day he joined school threw his pamphlet, crunched up in a ball at Antony. It hit Antony right on the face and Castor and his crew doubled up in laughter. 

Antony gave up hope. 

It was almost 4 in the afternoon. The tour bus was on its way to the last destination of that day - The Seaman Industries. 

Apparently this was the largest naval related industry in the world. It had a vast workforce and produced thousands of ships, submarines and under water machines every year. 

Now, this place already sounded more interesting to Antony than all the other places he had visited that day. 

The industry occupied a complete separate island near Long Island South. It was a huge space, with 2 sky rising towers and a huge factory on the South East part of the island. 

Clemente got up from his seat, and announced, "Welcome to the Seaman Island."

This announcement was followed by the general rush of excitement. Everyone jumped off the bus and grouped together near a large fountain where a man in a brown suit and glasses was standing with an expression saying I-got-the-kids-again. 

Wow, mood. 

"So, kids, you are all in luck." The guy said, trying to cheer us, and mainly himself up. "Today, all of you get to skip the tour of this building which is all very boring by the way, and get to directly go to the main facilities where the greatest naval vessel ever to be built is being constructed."

This sparked some interest in Antony. He was always interested in ships anything related to water. It helped to calm him down. 

The line of students followed the guy across a large green soccer field. They reached a warehouse, adjoined to the sea. Huge cranes surrounded the area. There were at least two hundred workers in and near the warehouse. Everyone looked busy running around with instruments and machines in their arms or in trolleys. 

In real, the place looked like a real treat for Antony. His brain processed his surroundings at high speed. They could not see the ship as it was on the other side of a huge metallic wall separating the warehouse from the sea. A large sliding door provided entrance to the other side. The 'guy' led us across the door to the ship, and it was just Wow. 

If the workhouse was amazing, this place was simply spectacular. About 20 decks were prepared yet, and the ship body was more than 1300 feet long. There was a place for airplane landing and take off and place for about 30 planes to be stored. The lower decks which were completely prepared were all surrounded by hundreds of machine guns and turrets. 

It was the greatest piece of machinery Antony had ever seen. 

All of a sudden, something happened. 

Antony knew that something happened because he could feel it in the atmosphere. The whole demeanor of the place changed. The chatting paused, as if in respect. 

Soon Antony realized why. 

A black haired young man with extremely handsome features and piercing green eyes entered the work zone through the gate from where we entered. 

The whole place went silent. The man walked at a fast pace towards one of the employees and had a quick chat with her. Then he turned towards us, the visiting students, and raised his eyebrow. His piercing eye scanned each and everyone of us. Perhaps it was my imagination but his gaze lingered a little longer on me than the others. I was slightly taken aback by this, and my feet automatically moved a step back. 

The man inhaled sharply and shook his head, as if trying to convince himself of something he wanted to believe, but could not. 

Clemente walked slowly towards us and announced slowly: "That man in front of you, he is the man guy in the place here. That's Seaman. His grandfather built this entire place from scratch." 

That news was interesting to Antony. Grandfather? That would make the company around 40 to 50 years old. It was quite impressive that just within 50 years, this industry went from nothing to building the modern Titanic. 

The raven haired dude walked towards us with a warm greeting smile. 

"Welcome to Seaman industry, students. Anyone want an experience of being one of the first people to step on this magnificent piece of art?"

Everyone agreed and cheered. Seaman took out a remote from his pocket, and tapped on a button. A ramp mechanically appeared from the hull of the ship to the ground. Seaman lead us inside the ship, and it was simply wowing. 

The architecture inside was amazing. Beautiful pillars supported the upper decks, transparent floors made the underwater life visible. The wall was adorned with beautiful sea life images. There were more than 10 swimming pools in the ship. 

"Everyone, be careful. Do not go towards the edge of the ship there's nothing there preventing you from just plunging in the cold sea." Seaman advised. "You may all explore the ship. Do not touch the guns, and they are unarmed anyways. Meet me back here in 20 minutes."

After that everyone split in different directions, all going to explore different parts of the ship. Antony moved towards the top decks of the ship. The upper decks were still under construction, and Antony wanted to see it. 

As Antony walked up the stairs, there was a sharp whistling sound he heard, followed by a cracking sound. He looked down at the stairs hoping that they were not going to collapse down with him. All of a sudden there was a galloping sound and this surprised Antony. Why the hell would there be a horse on the upper deck. 

Antony hesitated, and then climbed up the stairs at high speed. He reached the top in another 2 minutes. 

There was a black colored horse on the top deck, but that was not what surprised him the most. That creature had wings. It neighed as it saw Antony and slowly approached him. 

Antony blinked once. Then twice. This was not something you saw every day. 

There were many construction workers around. Antony wondered how they were so calm about it and acted as if there was a bird that just flew in here. He thought he was going crazy. Flying horses. He definitely needed to get a psychiatrist. 

The horse kept on walking towards Antony. Antony backed off slowly and wisely, until Mr. Seaman appeared right from the back. 

"E- Excuse me, but is that - is that a- a- " Antony stammered. 

Seaman frowned due to some reason. 

"Kid, why don't you and I have a talk?"