Callie Jackson, The Redemption

Chapter VII

Callie's POV

I walked into the bunker and plopped down in a corner. Noah squatted in front of me.
"You ok?" He asked, gazing at me with a concerned look.
"Yeah, I'm uh... fine. Yeah, fine." I stuttered and tried to laugh. He sat down beside me and propped up a knee.
"No you're not." He said. His blue eyes were filled with sympathy. I gazed back at him, trying not to look scared. Then I turned away, staring at the wall.
"I will be." I whispered.
"So what was it about?" He said.
"Tartarus." I said, trying not to shake. "Seems like I dream about that a lot, huh?"
"What was it like down there?" He whispered. I looked back at him. "You don't have to tell me if you down want to." He blurted out quickly. I tried to muster up a laugh, but it was strangled.
"Just imagine monsters everywhere. Then there's one of the most powerful being on Earth that you battle with." I said. "It still terrifies me." I laid my head on his shoulder.
"It's ok." He said. "You'll never have to go there again. Not alone." He started to hum. I don't know what he was humming, but his lovely Apollo voice made it sound spectacular. Finally, I made out that he was humming "you are my sunshine." After a while, I fell asleep.

Noah awoke with a start, waking me in the process. He was breathing very hard as I sat up to look at him.
"What happened?" I whispered.
"I-I don't know what it was. There was just two girls screaming and-and a cruel, high pitched laughter. Then I woke up." He said.
"It's ok now." I said. "It was just a dream, wasn't it?"
"I-I think. Where's Malcolm?" He asked. I heard a scream.
"There's Malcolm. We need to get out there." I said. We both got up and revealed our weapons. I blew a single curl away from my face, and rushed through the door. I was greeted with the sight of all the marines rushing around. Then I looked up. There was a giant monster too horrid to describe. It had a flat face, a huge, 12 tall head, and flailing tentacles. And held tightly in one of those tentacles, was Malcolm, chopping at it with his katana, yet he was only making it angrier. I ran to the side of the boat. Using my powers to lift me into the air, water underneath my feet, I soared over to the monster. I picked up a large amount of water, and directed it towards the monster, hitting her in the face.
"Put him down!" I screamed. It quickly uncurled its tentacle from around Malcolm, and dropped him. He fell through the air and landed with a faint sploosh in the water. I turned to the ship.
"Noah!" I yelled. He looked up at me with wide eyes. "Handle that for a second!" And with that, I dived into the ocean.
The cool water hit my face with a rush, but it didn't wet me. After I was fully submerged, I started twirling around, looking for Malcolm. There he lay, trying to kick upwards, his moves slowing by the second. I swam over to him and wrapped my arm around his waist, then kicked upward, using the water as a speed boost. We surfaced. He hacked, gagged, and spit out water.
"Thanks." He breathed.
"No proble- go back under!" I hissed at him.
"Huh?" He said. I shoved his head down and went under with him, forming a bubble around our heads. He gagged once more.
"Thanks for that!" He growled angrily, wiping water from his face.
  "I hope that wasn't sarcastic." I snapped. "Because I just saved you from that monster. Again."
"Well how are we going to get on the boat to help Noah then?" He asked.
"We're not. We're going to attack it from behind."
  "What?!" He said, bewildered.
  "Oh, clean your ears." I snapped at him. I rose him up with the waves.
  "What the-" he said loudly.
  "Shut up!" I whispered. We crowded behind it, sword and dagger out, I picked up more of the water, and flooded it over the monster. Quick and suddenly, he flapped a tentacle, and knocked us onto the boat.
"So much for your plan." Malcolm snorted.
"Like you have a better one?!" Noah snapped.
"Actually I do. Make a boat with the water." Malcolm said.
  "Huh?" I yelled, throwing more water up at the monster.
"Shape the water like a boat, Aqua girl." He said impatiently. I splashed the monster one last time, and then turned to the ocean. Shaping a little row boat, I turned to Malcolm and said "What now?"
"Put three people in it." I did as I was told.
  "How's this helping?" I whispered. He ignored me.
  "Hey ugly, look over there!" Noah yelled over the rail. "They're much easier targets."
  "Make the boat go." Malcolm whispered out of the side of his mouth. I leaned on the side of the boat beside Noah, and pushed the fake boat to where it was traveling away from us. The monster zoomed away causing the water to quake. I felt my feet leave the ground, and suddenly, I was falling into the water. I screamed. After I hit the water, I remembered I could breath under it. "Idiot." I thought to myself. I spun around, looking. There was another body floating by me. Another body? I squinted to get a better look. It was a body all right, flailing around, trying to surface. I swam over and realized: it was Noah. I made a bubble around us. He gagged like Malcolm had, and then looked up at me.
  "Thanks." He said, running his hands through his hair.
"How'd you get down here?" I asked him.
"Fell overboard when you did. Thank the gods it was you who fell, or I'd be dead." He ran a hair through his wet hair. I placed a hand on his chest and dried him. Suddenly, there was another head in the bubble.
"What are you doing to my sister?" It yelled. I noticed the Raven black hair, and sea green eyes, just like mine. Percy.
"Percy, we weren't doing anything, honestly! I was just drying him, we're underwater, we fell overboard off the ship." I told him.
"Yeah, probably, just doing your business, alone!"
"Percy, we've been with Malcolm too!" Noah said breathlessly.
"Leave my sister alone!" He growled at Noah. "And you." He said to me. "Annabeth's worried sick because of the stupid crap-"
"Percy, do you not understand? You've been on tons of quests! We had to leave! You're acting dumb." I yelled angrily.
"You disgust me." He snarled. I felt my lip quiver, but I snapped back at him before he noticed.
"How do you think mom felt when you left?!" I screamed, but it was too late, he wasn't there anymore. My lip started quivering once more, and I could feel my eyes watering.
"He hates me." I whispered. Noah hugged me, and I lied on his chest. I could feel small tears leaking down my face.
  "No he doesn't." Noah said kindly. "He was worried."
  "Yeah." I sniffed. "Worried that we were in a relationship. We're 12 Noah. Does he not get that?"
  "I don't know." He whispered.
  "Yeah, and he was also worried about Annabeth. Because 'she needs Malcolm'" I said. He had no reply to this, so we sat in silence, except for the beating of water on the bubble around us, which distinctly reminded me of the Poseidon cabin.

A/N
Hey guys! Sorry it took me 9 days to update. I've been busy. Anyways, that's it. Vote and comment! Byeeeee💕