Chapter 33: Nyx is sponsored by Coca Cola!
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When I got up to the main deck, I saw Nyx and Katie talking to Thera and eating salad and drinking Coca cola, where did they get that?
"How long have I been out?" I asked worriedly, looking at the sun that was hovering about the horizon and it seemed to be getting darker.
"A half day, we moved you to the sleeping quarters, and we waited for you to wake up." Nyx explained taking another sip of her cola, "Seriously this stuff is good, why have I never tasted this before?" Nyx lifted her bottle of cola.
"Where did you get that?" I wondered and Katie pointed at the floor, "Anne gave it to us."
I blinked a few times,"Did you just say our ship can make salad and cola?"
Anne crackled and a nearby cannon began to turn around and aimed at me.
I sighed, "Of course Anne can make salad and cola."
The barrel lowered which probably meant Anne was satisfied with my answer.
"So did anything happen while I was out, except Anne being able to make salad?" I asked and Thera pouted.
"I tried to pray to Poseidon, but he won't respond." She said saddened.
"Why do you pray to Poseidon?"
Nyx sighted, "Because she hopes Poseidon will hide her in his kingdom from Zeus."
"I think you should just face Zeus." I said but Thera shook her head, "No I don't want to cause any trouble, especially not with Kronos rising."
"Maybe if I pray Poseidon would answer." I suggested, and Thera's eyes lit up, "would you do that for me?"
I nodded and closed my eyes.
'Dad?' I silently asked.
'Percy what's wrong?' Poseidon immediately responded.
'Hey, dad, is Tyson okay?' I asked.
'Yes, he fell of your boat, and I brought him down to my palace.' Poseidon said, and I felt a little bit of jealousy.
'Can you send him back to me? We are on a quest. We might need his help.' I asked.
'No!' Poseidon said a bit angrily.
'Why not?' I asked a little bit shocked about his reaction.
'It's too dangerous, I don't want him to get hurt.' He explained.
Okay, that doesn't make sense, being in danger is basically the description of a demigod life, I guess it would be the same for a cyclops. And beside that, Tyson lived on the streets for years alone.
'What about me? We need his help.' I protested.
'I know you and your friends are strong enough, in fact it was Demeter who is annoying me to dead with questions like,' Poseidon mimicked Demeter's voice.'is Percy taking good care of Katie? Are they eating enough cereal? Seriously, she is the most overprotective mother ever.'Poseidon laughed.
'We were talking about Tyson remember?' I said.
Poseidon grunted, 'He's staying down here, where it's safe. I know you can do it without him.'
I decided there was not a lot I could do to convince my dad so I decided to drop the subject.
''I have someone who needs shelter and protection, could you do that for me?' I asked.
'Who?'
"A titaness.' And Poseidon went silent.
'It's a peaceful one. She needs help and she hopes you could help her.' I added.
'Why would I help a titan?' Poseidon argued.
I thought about it for a second.
'Do you want to piss of Zeus?' I asked.
'Yes.' Poseidon said after a few seconds of silence.
'Then take her in, I promise you won't regret it.'
'Fine but only because you ask it.' Poseidon said and I opened my eyes.
"He will provide you shelter." I said and Thera smiled.
I walked over to the port side of the ship and leaned over the railing and saw a whirlpool being formed underneath us.
It was small, maybe a 15 feet wide and it seemed to form a tube to the bottom of the ocean.
"Awesome." Nyx said with awe.
"It doesn't look safe." Katie noticed, I looked at Thera.
"Won't the water hurt you? You know with all the flames and magma?" I asked but she shook her head."Don't worry about me. I will be fine." she said and she gave us a warm smile.
"Are you sure you don't want to com with us? We could use some help," Katie asked, and I saw she was about to break down but Thera shook her head. "Sorry, I wish I could help you but if Zeus finds out, you three would be in trouble too."
Katie blinked a few tears away and gave Thera a hug which seemed painful to me but then I noticed the flames did not hurt her. She then went downstairs to the lower deck, mumbling something about checking the lower deck.
Thera turned toward me and gave me a hug too.
"You are a lot like your father." She whispered in my ears, and she stepped back, "I'm forever in your debt." she added, but I just waved it off.
"Don't worry, it was nothing." I said blushing, she smiled and turned toward Nyx and embraced her in a hug too.
"STOP!" Nyx shouted, but I guess Thera was to strong, "You're killing me!" Nyx protested as she was being embraced.
'I'm taking pictures mom.' Hemera laughed.
Thera let go of Nyx who now glared at her. She jumped over the railing, and she fell down the whirlpool.
"We should've left her." Nyx complained, and she threw the empty cola bottle at the dissolving whirlpool. A new bottle of Coca cola appeared on the railing next to Nyx who immediately took it and started drinking it. I silently prayed she would not get addicted to Cola.
"I'm gonna check on Katie." I told Nyx and went down the lower deck.
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Katie was hard to find. I found her after walking four times pass her. I only noticed her when she moved and I saw she was doing that camouflage thing again. I found Katie at the sleeping quarters where she was sitting on a bed playing with some black dirt in her hand. When I took a closer look, I saw the dirt was constantly changing its state. One moment it was black and coarse, next moment it was gray and dry.
"Everything alright?" I asked as I sat down to Katie, she hadn't noticed me.
She nodded, "I'm just worried about Meg, I hoped Thera could help us, it would be a lot easier with a Titaness on our side and even Tyson is gone."
"He is safe." I reassured her. She gave me a questioning look an I explained the conversation I had with my father.
"Did my mom really say that?" Katie asked laughing and I nodded.
"Don't worry, we'll make it out alive, all of us." I reassured her.
Katie was about to say something but was interrupted when the shadows in front of us solidified into the shape of a human, after that the faded away revealing Nyx. "We are closing in on the Sirens."
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Katie and I had candle wax in our ears. Nyx was listening music with earbuds in and was headbanging to a song I did not recognize. Nobody was interested in becoming wiser, so I had not to worry about suicide attempts this time. The fog became thicker, and it was hard to make see anything.
The sun was almost under, and it made it really hard to see.
Nyx raised her hand, and the darkness slowly faded which allowed us to see a bit. There was an island ahead of us, jacked rocks were pointing out of the water, threatening to destroy ever ship that came to close. Anne, however, easily sailed around them.
After a few seconds we sailed past a half moon shaped bay that had at least a dozen creatures on it that were a mixed of vultures with human heads.
The Sirens.
Last time I sailed past them they were continuously changing heads but this time all I saw were shriveled woman faces that seemed to be singing, I thought it was odd but decided not to dwell on it.
Nyx gave them the finger and shouted something I couldn't hear.
Apparently she was being really rude because all the Sirens were in rage.
Within a second they flew up, using their wings and began to fly towards the ship.
'You really had to give them the finger.' I said glaring at Nyx who had summoned her daggers.
I uncapped Riptide and summoned FrostSilver and got ready for a fight.
Katie raised her hands, and I saw the floor under us move and branches sticking out of the side the ship, growing thick thorns and moving around like venus fly traps.
The sirens flew up high before diving down at high speed at our ship and I instinctively knew this was something we could not fight off. There were at least five sirens for each one of us and they were a lot more agile than we were.
Nyx threw both her daggers at a pair of Sirens before rolling away from one that tried to grab her, and she summoned a new pair in her hands.
I saw one diving down at me, straight from above, I stepped aside and slashed her with Riptide which caused her to combust, another one made a dive towards and I jumped forward to its surprise and caught her mid-air, making us both fall to the ground. I summoned Frost silver again and stabbed her in the stomach.
I got up after that and picked up Riptide that was swung across the deck.
Nyx and I were doing quite a good job at defending ourselves but if the Sirens would decide to do a group attack we would sure be overwhelmed. I turned around to see a few Sirens being crushed by branches that began to sprout from the deck.
I tried to find Katie and I saw she was being cornered by four Sirens, they we're too agile to get hit by the branches and Katie's dagger would not help against the Sirens.
I was about to run towards her when all the cannons on the upper deck began to move, like they were being controlled by regular humans they took aim at the sky above us. And shot.
We had had six 24-pound cannons on the upper deck that we had no idea how to use them nor did we had any ammunition for them so I wondered what they were about to shoot when A beam of fire erupted from all the cannons aimed at the sails.
We had fucking flame throwers on our ship.
The Sail was on fire and within a second, like it was magic, the entire ship was on fire. Everything was engulfed in orange flames but strangely it did not produce any heat nor did it hurt or damage the ship.
The Sirens however,
all the Sirens that were on the ship combusted into golden dust, they could not even flee. The fire caught them all by surprise and was everywhere. The Sirens that were airborne looked with terror at the flaming ship. They decided to call it a day and flew back, waiting for a better prey.
The flames disappeared when the Sirens were out of sight and I pulled out the wax from my ears.
"What the Fuck?" Nyx and I said at the same time.
Katie looked exhausted but I could see she was as flabbergasted as we were.
The cannons went back to their original position, and it was like nothing happened. No burn marks, no scratches. Everything was perfectly fine.
The lower deck beneath us cracked, followed by the floor we were standing on. Katie's eyes lit up.
"What did she say?" Nyx asked.
"Well apparently she can copy the abilities of her passengers. She used your control over fire." Katie said and she looked at me.
A bottle Coca cola appeared next to Nyx.
"Well I guess she found out how to summon food too." I mumbled still flabbergasted.
However we had no time to discuss this new information, on the horizon a new island appears.
The island of the cyclops.
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