Who I Truly Am

Ch. 13 *Edited*

Percy POV:

"Hah, I win!" Jordan shouts. I drop my cards in frustration and hand them a Snickers.

"That's the third time in a row! I'm the Son of the Sea, I should win Go Fish, but no."

"Dars an attack on the ship me mateys!" Leo shouts.

"Stay down here," I tell them.

"But I wanna fight!"

"I don't want you to get hurt; please just stay here." I run to the deck. "What's the trouble?

"Just a buttload of Strix that brought some Empousai on board," Leo says.

"Great."

Frank was shooting the Strix down with arrows along with Will, well Will was trying to help him. Honestly, Will should stay in an infirmary, he just isn't the best with a bow . . . or any weapon. But he's trying his best. Leo's helping them by shooting fireballs. Jason's being Superman and distracting the Strix while they shoot at them. Calypso is working with Grover. Nico and I are working at the five Empousai. No clue where the Stolls are, or what they're doing. Jordan's shooting at the Strix next to Frank. Wait, I told them to stay down! Focus, Percy. I spot Kelli, she's back already? Wow.

"Hey, Kelli! Thought I wouldn't see you until next year at least!"

"Perseus, your time has come."

"I don't think so," I uncap Riptide. She lunges at me. I dodge. I slash Riptide towards her. It misses the mark. Her eyes red with fury, her hair on fire. Great. She kicks me where Apollo doesn't shine with her metal leg. One word. Ouch. I hiss. "Thanks."

"My pleasure," Kelli smirks. I look over to Nico. He looks fine, thankfully. "You are coming with us."

"Not if I can help it," I sweep my leg under hers, causing her to fall. "Say hello to hell for me."

I move on to the next Empousa. Her hand scrapes my arm, I get her back by punching her in the face.

"Hey! That's not fair!" she yells. She tackles me, and Riptide falls out of my hand. "No more playing nice."

"Wasn't planning on it," I roll over so I'm pinning her to the ground. Her flaming hair catches my hand. "Stupid fire."

"I heard that!" Leo shouts.

"Wasn't talking to you!" Leo distracted me. She's back up on top of me. I get my knees under her and launch the empousa off of me. I grab Riptide and watch her closely.

"Percy, look out!" Jason shouts. I turn around to see a different emposa trying to sneak up on me.

"What do you want? Wait, wait. Let me guess, to kill me."

"We want you to come with us."

"I'd rather not," I stab Riptide at her. I managed to scratch her side as she tried to dodge it.

"Oh, you're gonna get it now," she lunges at me. Before she got to me, she exploded into dust.

"Thanks, Neeks!" Now, where did that other emposa go? I feel arms wrap around me. Great.

"Stop struggling," I hear the charmspeak in the empousa's voice. I try to resist it. I feel myself relaxing. What am I doing? Fight back!

"Stupid carmspeak."

"Sleep." the Empousa says.

"No."

"Guess I'll so this the hard way," she pins me to the ground and hits me with her metal leg. Ouch. I black out.