Heroes of Olympus: Thirteen Years Later

Chapter 7

Leon's POV
"Finally, we've arrived!" I sighed loudly.

"Yeah, you've been saying 'Are we there yet?' for the past hour, " Lukas snapped, " I'm GLAD we've arrived."

"Couldn't have said it better." Uncle Nico commented, his arm still around Uncle Will.

Next to me Uncle Frank, Uncle Jason, Aunt Hazel, and Dad were playing Mythomagic. Anais and Zoey were playing their own game too.

"Yeah! I won!" Uncle Frank said.

"Rematch! And I'll beat you this time!" Uncle Jason shouted.

"There's no time, guys. We've arrived." Uncle Percy and Aunt Annabeth said together.

The RV had stopped in a pretty cove (whatever that is, my mom said it's a cove so). We all got out and started setting up. Dad secured the RV, while Mom pulled out some food. We had a picnic near the shore.

"Leon, help me set the campfire on fire!" Emilie said.

"Don't burn the forest." Bianca reminded.

"I won't. Promise."

The sea was calm and blue. Anais and Lukas charged straight in. A full-on splash fight happened. Uncle Percy jumped in too, splashing Aunt Annabeth.

"HEYYY! PERSEUS!"

"Gotcha, Wise Girl." Uncle Percy grinned.

Suddenly a shimmering person appeared. He had black hair and sea-green eyes just like Uncle Percy. He looked about 40.

"Grandpa!" Anais and Lukas ran to him.

"Dad, what are you doing here?" Uncle Percy laughed, "Nice seeing you here though."

It was Poseidon, God of the Sea.

"Percy, it's good to see you here as well. Look at you, all grown up. A husband and father too," Poseidon smiled, "my, Anais looks just like you!"

Then Poseidon turned to Aunt Annabeth. "I don't say this enough, but it seems as though I've misjudged you, Daughter of Athena. I guess not all children of Athena are unbearable."

"Aw, no problem," she stopped, thinking, "... Dad."

"Anyway, who wants to go adventuring underwater?" Poseidon asked.

"We do!" Anais and Lukas said.

"If it's okay with you, Dad." Lukas continued.

"Of course!"

And they set off underwater.

Lukas' POV
Grandpa took us to his underwater palace, which looked amazing. All of the colourful coral and tropical fish were beautiful. Poseidon introduced us to his immortal wife, Amphirite. She's a beautiful sea nymph. Mom gave me Greek mythology books, so I should know.

"Dear, these children are Anais and Lukas."

"And they are..." Amphirite looked at us.

"Not mine, I promise. Well, not directly, anyway. They're my grandchildren from Percy." Poseidon explained.

"Oh, how lovely! I just realized how similar you are to Percy," Amphirite noted, "please, come in!"

We marveled at the interior of Posiedon's palace. It was stunning. Being an architecture nerd like my mom, that was saying something.

Anais and I took a cookie each from Amphirite's cookie jar and ate it. It's nowhere near as good as Grandma Sally's blue chocolate chip cookies, but hey, they're cookies. She always keeps them around for her stepchildren, if any happens to stop by. She's nice like that, unlike some other goddess stepmoms I've heard about.

Just then, a lumbering figure moved towards us. A light brown eye and a wide smile appeared. It was Uncle Tyson!

"Hey, Anais. How's it going, Lukas?" He said.

"We're great! Hey, wanna come with us to the surface? Dad is totally gonna flip if he sees you!"

"Brother! Yeah, let's go!" Uncle Tyson dropped the tools he was holding and said goodbye to Poseidon. We all left the ocean floor, swimming towards the beach.