Chapter 3: The Criminal's map

Jason's POV

I glanced over Annabeth's shoulder, the map in her hands. It looked old, the once white paper now yellow, it showed the map of the world. There were little red dots in some countries.

"The red dots? Do they present a criminal?" Annabeth asked.

"Yes." Zeus nodded. "But the island were looking for is in the Atlantic Ocean, right there in the middle, of course it doesn't exist on a mortals map, but very Ancient Greek map has it."

Piper shivered, "that's a lot of red dots. When do we set off?"

"Tomorrow morning." Zeus said. "By then you would be fully immortal."

Leo started jumping up and down, "do we have more powers when we become immortal?"

"Of course not!" Ares roared, he looked at the countenance of the rest of the Olympians, "right?"

"Nope." Athena said, "but they'll be more powerful, they'll need it."

"Okay." Annabeth said, "we have to go back to camp, we'll figure out a way to get to the island." We turned to leave but Poseidon stopped us.

"You'll stay in my place tonight, and in the morning I'll give you one of my ships."

"Lord Poseidon." Leo started, "I would like to remind you, we can't breathe underwater!"

"You'll be immortal right?" Poseidon said, "you'll be able to breathe."

"When will we become Immortal?"

"Right now Leo." Zeus said. "Stand in a line next to each other."

We nervously glanced at each other. Once we stood Zeus snapped his fingers and the world around us faded.

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My eyes fluttered open to find a clown fish staring at me. "Ahh!" I jumped out of the bed but I didn't hit the floor instead I floated, it took me a minute to figure it out that I was under water. "What the-"

Poseidon walked into the room Annabeth and the rest following behind her.
"What- what- what's going on?"

Piper sat on the edge of the bed next to me. She kissed my cheek. "Well we're immortal now, we can breathe underwater."

"It feels normal." I said.
"Of course it does. What do you expect to feel like? Superman?" Poseidon joked. But his eyes didn't show any laughter or happiness. I knew why. His only son, his pride and joy, the hero of Olympus, is now the enemy of Olympus. I didn't know how he felt like. But I could tell it was a horrible feeling, losing someone you love.

And worse, Annabeth. She never spoke of Percy after the incident, but I could tell she's broken inside. Annabeth Chase is broken

And how I felt about it? I didn't know. Half of me believe Percy the other half doesn't, my mind and heart fighting each other. They always say listen to your heart. But at this moment I don't know what my heart thinks. I don't want to hurt Percy, not like I can. He's powerful, in a good way. Now? I'm not so sure about it.

"How many hours did I sleep?" I said breaking everyone's deep thoughts.

"Three hours." Annabeth said.

"Is there anyway to know how Percy is like now?" Piper asked.

Poseidon shook his head but not in denial but in pain. "Percy?"

"Yes." I said, "what's wrong?"

"Percy's the leader. Their king."

Like a knife slicing through my heart. That's how I felt when the words rang in my head.
Silence fell over the underwater room like the invisible mist.

"Really?" Frank asked.

"Yes. Unfortunately." Poseidon said. "That island you'll see horrors.

"Not like Tartarus, I'm probably sure." Annabeth said.

"Well since Percy arrived it became worse. Percy was in Tartarus too." Poseidon added, "well we better leave Jason to get ready, we'll be down in the dinning room. Dinner's ready."

Once everyone was out I was able to marvel at the room. It's walls were deep Aqua blue. There was a huge window, with no glass, that viewed the palace's garden. I got up and made my way to the bathroom, I took a shower. Asking how you shower underwater? It's normal you don't feel the water or get wet, it's just like air.
I love being immortal.
I found another pair of clothes on the couch. I put them on, they fit perfectly.

They were jeans, a white shirt and a military jacket with a pair of hiking boots. Perfect for a quest.

I left my room to find myself in a huge hall. Lighted by crystal chandeliers. I didn't know which place to go so I decided to go left.
I walked around for a couple of minutes, marveling at the coral palace. I found a huge door in front of me. I thought it was the dinning room because of its huge grand door and the two mermaid guards guarding it. They didn't stop me. The door was open, when I walked in I found myself in a humongous bedroom. A huge king size bed was in the middle, a huge window from the bottom to the top viewed Poseidon's kingdom.

"This is Percy's room." I jumped back at the sudden surprise of finding Poseidon behind me.
"Sorry I shouldn't have been here."
"It's okay. I knew you would find it.
"Really? How?"
"Gods can play with ones mind."
I crossed my arms. "I'm immortal now."
"True." He smirked. "Immortal but not a god."
I rolled my eyes jokingly. "Whatever."

"Sit Jason." I obeyed and sat down on the huge couch that was in front of the huge black TV screen.
"Does Percy know this is his room?"
Poseidon sat down. "No. But I wanted Percy to come live with me. Or if he didn't want to at least a small visit. But well you know it never happened."

"You care about him?" I asked.

"Jason." Poseidon said enter lacing his fingers together. "We gods don't show our love to our kids. But we're always there. Don't judge us. Although everyone does. But we gods are different when it comes to our kids we have to resist helping them but we always do. And yes Jason I do care about him. He's my son."

"Lucky Percy." I said.

"He isn't really lucky. He suffered a lot in his life. And Jason your dad does care about you."
I looked up surprised. "He does?"
"Yes. He has a room for you in his palace. Don't be surprised his palace is your home too. This is Percy's home as well, I could never stop him from coming here."

I nodded. "What did you want to talk to me about?"
Poseidon leaned closer. "Jason when you arrive to the island I want you to talk sense into Percy."

"Lord Poseidon I still don't know what to do when we get there?"

"The demigods on that island let anyone in. Good or bad they'll let you in. Sure they might give you a hard time there but your goal is to talk sense into Percy, or at least figure out his problem. Percy isn't himself. I know him. Please try to talk to him. Zeus wants you to bring him back, to punish him but of course I don't want that."

I nodded. "I will. Promise."

"Thank you. Give this to Percy for me."

He handed me a trident. Not a big one. A small one. Smaller than the size of my palm.
"What's this for?"

"Give it to him. He'll know what to do."

"Okay. I will."

"Now come I'm probably sure your hungry."

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Frank's POV:

"Thank you lord Poseidon. We'll take care of your boat." Annabeth said as she walked up to the huge war ship Poseidon gave us.

"No problem."

"All aboard!" Leo yelled from the captain's room in the ship.

"Good luck." Poseidon said as we climbed onto the boat.

"All ready?" Annabeth asked. We all nodded none of us were feeling good about this. Leo, as usual, tried to lighten things up but even he couldn't make us smile.

"Okay Leo start it up."

With a command from Annabeth, Leo started it up. In a matter of minutes we were sailing away, the dock slowly getting smaller as we sailed away. Once we so far I couldn't even see it anymore I turned back to find everyone in silence. Leo was stirring the boat humming song, Annabeth was studying the map with Piper and Hazel and Jason was starting at the sea.

"Hey pal." I said as I stood next to him.
"Hey," he whispered.
"What do you think is going to happen?"
"I don't know Frank." Jason buried his head in his hands. "But it's Percy I'm worried about. He's changed Frank. And he'll kill anyone who comes in his way. Including us."

Author's note:
I deeply apologize if this chapter was horrible. Although I enjoyed writing it. Anyway I would like to thank all of you for your amazing support!! I just started this story and all your comments make me keep going. Your guys are fantastic people just for commenting or voting so thank you thank you thank you thank you!!!!!! Next chapter will be up in a few days or maybe next week because I'm really busy lately.
Until next time!!
Stay alive Demigods!!
-Sassy Demigod Wizard (thats what my friends call me.)

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