𝐖𝐄 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐓𝐄𝐄𝐍𝐀𝐆𝐄𝐑𝐒 𝐓𝐑𝐘𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐎 𝐌𝐀𝐊𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐃𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐇𝐒, maybe that's why I fell for Percy, because I knew I would die for him in the end.
#1-pjatp 12/30/23
"THERES THINGS I WANNA SAY TO YOU, BUT ILL JUST LET YOU LIVE." -LANA DEL REY.
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I noticed Percy walking up the Spar deck, his face plastered with a nervous and overwhelmed look. "Another nightmare?" I asked as he walked up next to me.
He nodded "yeah." I reached for his hand to hold it, giving it a reassuring squeeze. I guessed Percy didn't want to talk about it since he had gone quiet. Or he just went mute.
"How'd we get here so fast?" I asked as Clarisse who came up the stairs of the ship "this isn't a normal ship, obviously." She boats.
"Um.. is that who I think it is?" AnnaBeth asked "it's Scylla, and her sister Charybdis." Clarisse rolled her eyes
"You're heading right towards them! Are you guys crazy?" Percy interrupted the girls. "We have to sail through them if we want to get to the sea of monsters."
"They will just appear wherever we go." She started to give the captain orders. "Scylla is to high up for our cannons, but Charybdis sits right in the middle. We will blow her to Tartarus!" Clarisse shouted.
"That isn't gonna work, not against them!" Percy argued back "so what you think you can control all that water seaweed brain?" AnnaBeth fought against him to.
Tyson poked my arm "too much strain on pistons, not meant for deep water." He mumbled holding onto the doorway to the lower deck.
The boat shook roughly and we all rushed to grab onto the chain railings before we fell overboard. "What's happening!" I shouted
"We aren't reversing! This is bad!" Percy shouted as he pulled along the chains to get closer. "We are in the vortex! Full reverse!" She yelled as one of the captains came up.
"Boiler room is over heating! She's gonna blow!" The Skelton yelled, "I can fix it!" Tyson started to offer but Percy grabbed his bag.
"No Tyson it's to dangerous!" Then another Skelton appeared and told Clarisse the guns were ready, and in an instance she told him to fire.
The cannons fired towards Charybdis hitting her in the mouth. "Reload!" Clarisse shouted "the canons are ineffectual, prepare to die!" The Skelton shouted but he was already dead.
Then the ship got rocked again but it seemed like she was pushing us higher into the air. Then it clicked for Clarisse.
"She's pushing us towards Scylla! Get us away from those mountains!" Clarisse yelled to her workers on the ship.
"We have to abandon the ships! She's tearing apart!" He referred to the ship. "Everyone below deck!" Percy shouted.
Then it's like the ship blew up and everyone scattered everywhere. Percy got knocked out but me and AnnaBeth only got minor cuts and scars.
Me and AnnaBeth found a lifeboat that we could use, and we hauled Percy on board as best as we could the only bad thing was that we couldn't find Tyson.
I don't know how long we sailed for exactly, it was atleast two days and me and AnnaBeth had to switch shifts sailing the boat.
Percy woke up the third morning right as we started to see an island in the distance. "How are you feeling?" I asked sitting down next to him.
"Hungry." He mumbled and I handed him a can of ambrosia on which he drank. I put my hands on his bare arm.
I sang a hymn to my father, I used what I know to see if anything was wrong with Percy's body internally. "Your heart rate is very fast." I teased.
I noticed him looking around the boat for something, or someone one. "Where Tyson.." he asked his cheeks a shade of pink, I didn't want to answer.
"I'm so sorry Percy. Me and AnnaBeth searched the waters but we couldn't find him in time." My tone dropped as I mentioned his brother.
We didn't really know if he was actually dead or not, but he was in the boiler room when it exploded so he must have been hurt atleast. Yet he was prone to fire.
"Guys.. the island." AnnaBeth broke the silence that had taken over us, if heaven was an island this was it.
The dock was filled with different boat sizes, "take it easy when we get off. You took a hard hit to the head."
I helped him get off the boat and we noticed the big hotel in the center. It was weird because it didn't seem like a threat at all.
We walked along a pathway until we reached the hotel, women were dressed beautifully. Their hair neatly done and dresses flowing in the wind.
When we got to the front of the hotel we were greeted by two women, ones who hair was shoulder length and dark. She wore a black dress and heels.
The other one looked completely opposite, blonde hair in a ponytail with a baby blue suit on."oh good newcomers!" The one in the black hair smiled.
PERCY JACKSON. "We should start with makeover!" The black haired woman smiled excitedly. "Makeovers?" AnnaBeth asked and the woman nodded.
"Here at CC's resort and spa we help you gain your full potential!" She didn't let anyone else talk "Hylla take the two girls on a V.I.P tour."
"Percy needs my personal help." Now I guess she was the boss since she said almost too confidently, and I wondered how she even knew my name.
She led me to this room as Sawyer and AnnaBeth got led away from me. "I'm afraid you need serious help Percy Jackson. But the first step is admitting you're not happy the way you are."
My body started to feel fuzzy inside, Mrs. CC walked over to a mirror and I took the time to examine the room.
There was a bar with a bowl of fruits, a couch, tv, and a mirror. I stood infront of the mirror and i started to notice everything I hadn't before.
The small acne around my nose, my limp body and the way my hair covers my face. I didn't know how someone could even like me.
The mirror changed into a picture of someone else, well it was me but wasn't at the same time. I looked older, I had clear skin and my hair was neatly combed to the side.
"You can make me look like that?" I turned towards her and she nodded, "it's simple, really." She walked towards the bar.
"Just one of our patent smoothies in replace for a daily meal.." she started to make the shake "I guarantee you'll see results almost immediately!" Mrs.CC smiled.
"The hardest part is Percy.." she paused walking over to me and handing me the glass. "Is giving up control and having to decided whose judgment is more important; Mine or Yours."
