A Song to Sing

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Disclaimer: I do NOT own Percy Jackson, nor Heroes of Olympus, Rick Riordan does


Percy's POV:

I made my way silently over to my cabin before I remembered I didn't have anything I would need in it. I then changed course and walked to the beach where I sat in the sand and sighed, Instinct shimmered into existence next to me. We both laid down and looked at the sky, noticing the absence of the moon.

"Do we know who the General is?" I ask quietly and Instinct nods

"Atlas, Titan of strength and endurance, Father of Zoe Nightshade" Instinct says and I sit up and grab a rock before I skip it across the lake

"We can't kill him, who else would hold up the sky?" I ask and Instinct shrugs before he sits up and picks up a rock and skips it

"We could get Prometheus but then we would have to find him. I think the best course of action is to put Atlas back under his burden again" Instinct says and I nod as we both skip rocks for a few more minutes

Just as we were considering going for a swim, blackjack, the black Pegasus trots up to Instinct and me and just stares for a moment looking between the two of us.

'Uh... Boss? Why is there two of you?' Blackjack says to me and Instinct and I smile slightly

"Don't worry buddy, we are the same person. But you can't tell anyone about this alright? Not until we say" I said and Blackjack nodded

'Anyway boss, the hippocampi are worried about a sea creature and had asked me to get you. They don't know what it is but the creature is tangled in netting and can't get it out' Blackjack explained and I nodded as Instinct shimmered away and I jumped onto him

"Alright, just take me to the spot then I'll take care of things from there" I say and Blackjack takes off and flies over the water slowly and calmly

'Right here boss' Blackjack says and I leap off his back in a flip before diving into the water

I willed the water to create a small air bubble for me to dive into so I kept falling through the water until I saw the bottom. I then collapsed the bubble and pulled up and rocketed through the water until I found a small shipwreck surrounded by Hippocampi and tangled fish netting. I speed toward the netting before slowing down and creating an ice sculpture that Instinct shimmered into and 'possessed'.

We figured out that if given an empty shell, instinct could 'possess' it and use it as his own body. We also found out that he could turn 'solid' but that requires a lot of concentration, and at the moment, that is the one thing we don't have.

I summoned Lunar's light and the sea creature that was tangled up squirmed viciously and I willed it away.

"Okay, so no sharp things. I guess we do this the old fashion way" I say and Instinct nods

I turn to the Hippocampi and count how many there are.

"18, alright, I want you all to press up against the ship and move it away so that it doesn't fall on us" I order and the hippocampi move to the ship and slowly but surely push it away from the sea creature that I could see clearly now

It was part cow and part fish.

"Well, that is something you don't see every day" Instinct commented as we moved forward and slowly started to unknot the fishing net

After an hour or two, we finally got the upper half of the creature's body untangled. It mooed at us as and whenever our hands where near its head it would nuzzle us and 'moo' happily. The creature made me smile and actually lifted my depressed mood a bit.

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