Chapter 4

The next day she made a plan to run away. She had thought about bringing Percy with her but she had realized if she told him about it he would try to convince her to stay. So on Tuesday night she got into bed with black jeggings, a tight black t-shirt, black stealth sneakers, and a black sweatshirt. She also had a black duffel bag with clothes and all the other essentials. When she was sure the whole castle was asleep she got up out of bed and grabbed her duffel bag from her closet. As she was walking to the window she walked past her desk and saw the locket her parents had given her right before their trip. It was a gold locket with their family crest on the front, the chain was a metallic silver and it was one of the only things she had from her parents that had the family crest on it. She walked over to her desk and grabbed the locket. As she looked at the 2 pictures in it a stray tear slid down her cheek. 1 picture in the locket was of her Percy and Emily when they were 7 ½ standing in front of the candy shop, their hands full of candy, percys of course was all blue candy because he was obsessed with blue. Emily's hands were full of pink candy and Emma's hands were full of purple candy. Then she looked at the other picture. It was her parents and her when she was 9. That day they had been forced to do a family portrait for when Emma was to be crowned queen but they had been in the kitchens laughing and eating mallowmelt and custard bursts. They had been laughing because Keefe, the cook, had kept yelling at them for eating his famous desserts. Then Harry Potter, their advisor, had come running in telling them they were late for their family portrait so they had stuffed their mouths with custard bursts and ran upstairs. When they got situated for the portrait Emma had looked at her parents and started laughing then they looked at her and started laughing. It turns out they had custard all over their faces. They decided to leave it and do the portrait with it on their faces. It had been one of the best days of Emma's life and one of the only fun ones. As she looked at it another rebellious tear rolled down her cheek. She quickly put the locket on tucking it under her shirt. She walked over to the bay window and opened it smelling the fresh salty air. As she looked out the window she saw a couple boats getting ready to depart even though it was the middle of the night. Once she had decided how to get down to the boats she threw her bag out the window and it landed with a soft "thump". As she started climbing out the window and down the ladder she had put there during her horse ride that day she started thinking about where she was going to go. She decided to see where the boats were going. When she got down to the docks she looked around at all the destinations. There were 4 boats, one going to Cedrics kingdom. Another going to New York USA, one going to Florida USA, and the last one going to France. Emma had always wanted to go to France but that boat had too many people that would recognize her. The NY boat had a lot of about 15 people which wasn't a lot compared to the other boats plus a lot of them were not from her kingdom and they were just going back to NY. She decided to get onto the NY boat. As she walked towards it she looked at the name of the boat. Its name was the Argo 2. What kind of name is that? She thought. A boy that looked like a latino elf was barking orders at everybody. "Piper raise the sails!" The latino elf yelled. "Aww can't they raise themselves, leo!" The girl Emma guessed was piper asked. "No," the boy who was apparently Leo answered. "Fine!"

Switching to Emma's first person pov.

"Jason get ready to fill the sails!"

"Aye Aye repair boy!" The boy named Jason answered. Repair boy? I thought What kind of nickname is that? "Shut it blond superman!" Leo answered. "Fine!"

"Percy Clean the hull!" Leo shouted. Wait percy? "Aye Aye captain!" Came a voice from the far end of the ship so i couldn't see him. "Wise girl can you help me?" I Heard Percy's voice ask. "Sure seaweed brain!" I heard a girl answer and I looked in that direction and I saw a girl with piercing grey eyes and blond hair. Also What kind of nicknames are these? Seaweed brain? Wisegirl? "Beauty Queen are you done yet?" "yea" answered the girl piper. "K go train with Hazel and Frank." As they stopped yelling I started walking to their ship. Their ramp was down so I walked up it and walked onto the boat. The closest person was Jason so I started walking towards him. He whipped around when he heard me coming towards him with a sword in his hands. Wait a sword?? When Jason saw me he relaxed a little bit but he didn't put the sword away.

"Why do you have a sword?" I asked him. He gave me a confused look.

"You can see it?"

"Yea why wouldn't i be able to see it?"

"Umm no reason. Who are you?"

"Im Emma you don't recognize me right?"

"umm no why would i."

"No reason. Hey you guys are going to NY right?"

"Yea why do you care?"

"I was hoping i could come with you guys i just ran away from home and i want to get as far away as possible"

"Maybe let me call the gang over here." he said to me. "Guys get over here!" When he called the gang I thought I saw a flash of raven black hair. No it can't be him….. As they gathered around Jason introduced everybody.

"I'm Jason, Piper, Hazel, Frank, Leo, the captain of the ship you could say and Annabeth." As he said everyone's names he pointed at them. "Oh and here's Percy, late as usual." as he said that he pointed behind me. I turned around and gasped he had raven black hair, sea-green eyes and scars. "Percy?"