Sea Of Monsters And Love

Chapter Four

My arms are finally let go of. I'm standing on a boat. Demigods and monsters push past me. I notice I only have one shoe in like Cinderella. I must have lost it during the struggle. I take it off and throw it over the railing. Please forgive Poseidon. Luke is walking over to us. I run to the edge planning on jumping in the water to swim to shore. A pair of arms wrap around my waist before I can jump. Luke drags me over towards the group that captured Grover and us.

"I thought you were going top distract him," Grover whispers in my ear.

"Trying to escape is distracting him," I reply.

"Send Grover with the search team," Luke orders. Chris drags Grover off. Before I could try to help, Luke grabs my arms. I hate that he is stronger than me. He turns me around to face him.

"Don't do anything stupid," he tells me. He runs my lip with his thumb. I jerk away.

"My definition of stupid is way different than yours," I reply.

"Give me an example of something stupid in your opinion."

"Staying here with you," I reply coldly. He smirks and pulls me away from the deck. He pulls me towards the room I saw in my dream. He closes the door.

"Don't try anything," I say. "I'm engaged to someone else."

"So I heard," Luke replies. He comes closer. I grab the lamp that is right behind me. I through it at Luke. He ducks at the last second. I reach to grab my bobby pin. He grabs my hands before I can grab it. He pushes me against the wall. He kisses me. He pulls away from me. When he lets go of my hand, I slap him across his face.

"Elizabeth," he tells. His voice is full of anger. I flinch at the sound of my name. No one except Zeus or my mom calls me by that name. And it's on rare occasion does she call me that. It sounds so strange to hear it come out of the man in front of me. Especially since he is my ex-fiance. He slaps me across my face. The impact was so hard, I landed on my butt. My face starts to sting. I curse at him under my breath.

"Someone has changed since I last saw her," he says. I pull myself back up.

"More than you know," I reply. I lounge at him, knocking him over. He stands back up. He grabs my hands with one hand. He pulls out a pair of handcuffs. He handcuffs my right hand to the desk.

"You're fiance can't help you here," Luke informs me.

"I figured," I reply. "And I'm not helpless."

Luke laughs and walks out. I study the handcuffs. Luke was smart to handcuff my dominant hand. I sit down on the desk chair. I run my hand through my hair. The only bobby pin in my hair is my special. It would be useful to pick lock the cuff if I had another one. I let out a huff. I should have packed more bobby pins. I chose my eyes. I need to speak to Apollo.

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I'm standing in Apollo's throne room.

"Why did you plan something that stupid?" Apollo asks me. "I can't help you now."

"I know," I say. "I just need to save my home."

He pulls me in for a hug. He places his chin on top of my head.

"You're very reckless," he tells me. I pull away and punch him. He laughs at me. He still always find a reason to laugh at me. I have gotten use to it. I kiss him goodbye.

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I open my eyes. I look out the window. It is night time. Someone had come in here and opened up the window for me. I look out to to see Annabeth, Percy, and Tyson are caught. They are horrible at sticking to plans.

"I see Liz is here," Percy says. I can see what he means. A bruise is forming where I had slapped him. When Luke wasn't looking, I throw a small object at Annabeth. She turns around and sees me. She turns back around just in time. I sit back down as the guards pulls Percy, Tyson, and Annabeth towards the brig. Luke walks in. He unlocks the handcuffs and grabs my arm. He closes the door and toss me some clothes. I motion for him to turn around. He grunts and turns around. At least he can be a gentleman sometimes. I change into the clothes. It consists of a gray tank top and a pair of jeans. When I finish, Luke handcuffs my arm to the desk again. I plop back down in my chair. My eyes close again.

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Someone shakes me trying to wake me up. I swing blindly, making contact with someone.

"Ow," the person says. I open my eyes to see I hit Tyson. I look at my right arm. The handcuff seems to have disappear.

"Told you not to wake her," Percy says. I stand up. I follow the gang outside. It is so beautiful. We get cornered by a couple monsters and demigods. I kick Chris, who was right behind me, right in the jaw. That should teach him a lesson. While everyone was checking on Chris, the foot of us run to the life boat. Percy pushes the boat in the water. The other three hops in. Before I can go in, several people holds me back. I struggle to get out of their grasp, but I can't. Percy hops back on the boat to help me. I finally get out of their grasp.

"Get the boat moving," I yell to my friends. I run the opposite way. I'm going to jump in the water. Percy follows me. Maybe he knows what I'm going to do. We hop up on the roof and kick the other team down. Luke walks out. The bruise is gone. How did it heal that fast?

"What are you doing?" he asks. "Get off my roof."

Percy hops down, but I stayed where I am.

"Liz," he growls. I hop down. I look over at Percy. A wave bigger than the boat forms. It separates us from the life boat.

"Oh no," Luke says. "Not again."

The water falls in the boat sparing Percy and I. Annabeth has the boat far away from us. This is one of the few times I'm grateful she is daughter of Athena. Another wave appears. Percy grabs me and hops on the wave. It's start to move towards the life boat. I can feel the smooth water under my feet. Luke hops on the wave.

"Give up," he shouts. "Both of you, join us."

I turn around and kick him off the wave.

"That's for kidnapping me," I shout back at him. We finally catch up with Annabeth and Tyson. Annabeth us holding a canteen that's shooting out air that's pushing them along the path. I jump in the boat. Tyson jumps at my landing. Percy lands next to me. Annabeth hands him the canteen.

"You steer seaweed brain," she tells him.

"Okay wise girl," he replies. We spotted along the ocean. I put my hand in the water. I feel safest here.