Chapter 6 the sudden drought

Percy's POV

It amazes me how far Annabeth and I had gotten these past few weeks alone. At the beginning, we were just demigods that were dating, but now, we were Bounty hunters for the Lord of the Dead himself. How many people do you know that can say that, huh?

So here I am with Annabeth searching for Pontus. I figured that this would be easy for me because I could sense immortals related to water from a mile away, not to mention that Pontus only has water powers while I have water and fire powers.

Suddenly, I sense a massive aquatic power to the west. I yell to Annabeth, "Pull over. I think I've found him!" So we turned to the west and saw a town that must've been abandoned for at least 400 years, that's how old and run-down it looked.

As we looked over the hill, we saw a small lake. That must be where he is hiding. Annabeth whipped the reins and I told Blackjack to run to the lake. When we reached the lake, Blackjack was going too fast, but we didn't crash into the lake. We started to ride on top of the water. How cool is that? Blackjack started to go forward, but before he got two steps in, a man with blue skin, shimmering scales, and shark teeth came out of the water and grabbed me and pulled me into the water and tried to drown me. "Doesn't he know that I'm a son of Poseidon?" Deciding that he didn't know, I started to use that to my advantage and pretend that I couldn't breathe. When I was about to 'pass out' I suddenly opened my eyes, started to change into my Rider form, and said in my demonic voice, "SURPRISE" and got his scale-covered hands off my throat and started to laugh that he actually fell for it. Annabeth told me that my acting skills were terrible and if I tried to lie, even Clarisse wouldn't fall for it. Guess I showed her. When Pontus tried to hit me, I simply sent my hellfire into his body and he blew apart like the worm he is.

Then I remembered Annabeth must be worried that he won, so I walked out and joined her. When I walked out of the water, Annabeth ran up to me, slapped me in the face, and then nearly crushed me in a bear hug. "Don't you ever do that again, Perseus Jackson."

I simply hugged her back, then took her face in my hands and…suggested that we go to fin Aeolus, the Spirit of the Air

Bet you thought that I was gonna say they kissed, didn't you? Anyway, I'm sorry for not updating for so long, but I had to study for my exams which are coming up. And to Zydeko, that was really nice. THX. PEACE OUT Y'ALL