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Ch 1

PERCY

We were just swimming around the seafloor when the anchor dropped. Up until then, it was a normal day under the sea. Piper, Nico, Hazel, Leo, and I had snuck out again.

You see, Piper's mom, Aphrodite, Nico and Hazel's dad, Hades, Leo's dad, Hephaestus and my dad, Poseidon, were all on the Atlantis Council. The Council was basically royalty (I mean they had crowns and everything), so we were counted and guarded like princes and princesses. And as the only children of any of the Council members, we were treated very nicely. So, we made as much trouble as possible.

"Did you see the look on their faces?" Piper laughed. "The guards were all like oh crap they got out again!"

"I should've taken a picture," I quipped. "It was awesome."

Nico pulled out a seaweed ball. "Come on. Let's make the most of skipping those stupid merfolk history lessons."

Hazel looked around nervously. "Are you sure that we should be doing this? That it's okay?"

"Of course it's not okay! We're breaking rules here!" Leo said. "But honestly, who cares?"

"All we're actually missing is Hedge going on and on about stuff that happened two centuries ago," Nico said. "The merfolk have a long and honorable history," he quipped in a nasally voice.

"That all begins in the year to forget with the battle of no one really cares," I followed.

"That random merman swam up to the shark and said no one is actually going to remember this," Piper said. "Come on, Hazel, lighten up."

Nico started bouncing the ball on the end of his tail. "Heads up!" He passed the ball to Piper, who ducked.

"Oh, now you're fish food!" Piper straightened her circlet. Those circlets. We all had them. They marked us as Children of the Council. Piper's was silver, with a pink pearl embedded in the center. Mine was green, like the sea. It matched the color of my tail and my eyes. Nico's was black steel. Hazel's was black too, but she had gold filaments wrapped around hers. Leo's was fiery orange, commemorating his ability to conjure fire, even underwater, and keep it burning. Piper and Hazel had simple white shirts on, with a strand of seaweed around their waist for a belt. Nico, Leo, and I had ditched our shirts before we snuck out.

We played around with the seaweed ball for awhile, until we all got tired. "I told you we should have brought snacks!" Piper grumbled. "I'm hungry."

"Go back if you want," Hazel said, snuggling into her brother's arms, "but I'm taking a nap right here."

Nico wrapped his arms around his sister protectively. "Just don't snitch."

"Oh! And bring back snacks for us!" I called.

"Gods! I'm not going!" Piper said.

"Party pooper," Leo said. "Come on, Percy, let's go exploring."

"Yes. Let's." I swam off with Leo. We hadn't gotten five feet away when a gigantic silver anchor dropped right in front of us.

Someone screamed. Someone else sniggered.

"Percy screams like a girl," Nico sang. Apparently I was the one who had screamed.

"What, you scream like a man or something?" I retorted.

"Yes. Yes I do." Nico looked smug. I pouted.

"Guys!" Piper held her hands up. "You both scream like babies. I've heard."

"Hey, ladies?" Leo was looking up. "There's a ship connected to this anchor. And the ship's staying."

"Leo! I'm not a lady!" Nico and I shouted at the same time.

Hazel shot up, tiredness forgotten. "Let's go check it out!" She swam up the chain, heading to the surface.

"Right behind you!" I yelled. Nico and Piper followed, with Leo behind. Once we reached the surface, we stuck our eyes out of the water, in what Hazel called 'stealth mode', and snuck a look at the ship.

It was big. There were a lot of people running around on the ship, all of them seemingly following orders from one person. I kept looking around until I singled that one person- there. Standing on the edge of the quarter deck was a girl with a three cornered hat perched on blonde curls. Her eyes, too far away to tell the color of, swept the ocean with a turn of her head. She looked down- right at me. I dove.

The others were already underwater.

"That ship is huge!"

"I know!"

"Did you see how many humans were on it?"

"Like the entire population of the human race!"

Nico suddenly smiled mischieviously. "Last one to touch it is a shark corpse!"

We all shot off to try and touch the hull of the ship.

Okay, fact time. For the sake of the story, all of them (except Piper) have any of their special powers (charm speaking would just make this entire story go poof) (also except for shadow traveling- same reason as charm speaking) (also Hazel only has power over gold). Nico is a happy little merman who grew up happily- (no traumatic experience that turned him into a goth man). The gods aren't gods, they're just rulers, and they don't always know each other. And yeah, then it's weird that they have their powers, but it works. It just does. Call them kissed by fairies or whatever. It works that way. There is Iris Messaging, though. Sheesh! Lots of words!

See ya 'til next time! *blows bubble with gum* *pops bubble* *disappears*