Page 59 of Poseidon's Trident
How are the trees and the stream here with no nature spirits? That doesn’t make any sense. Where are they? Are they hiding and where is the crab? Is it in the ocean? What will happen to Triton and the boat?
“Maybe we should get back to the boat.” I chew my lip. “What if the crab is in the ocean?”
“It would have attacked us on the way to the island.” Jayden squeezes my shoulder.
“Or it would have attacked us while we were on the boat.” Raven shrugs.
“But what if it was waiting for us to leave the boat before it attacks?”
“I’m pretty sure that Triton can take care of himself.” Jayden grips my arm when I fall.
“I’m not worried about him. I’m worried about the boat and the hippocampi.” I dust the sand off my pants.
“Right. The boat is our way off this island.” Jayden pinches the bridge of his nose and turns.
“We can’t leave yet. We need to defeat the thing before it destroys the city.”
“Let’s just go back to the beach and check on the boat.” Jayden sighs.
“He’s right, B. We should go check. It may be the only way to find the stupid crab fucker.” Raven steps next to me.
“Okay, yeah.” I trudge down to the beach with my friends at my sides.
As we follow the trail of blood and bones back to the beach, dread fills me. What if the crab took out the ship? We will be stuck here with no way to get hack to Monterey.
I stumble over the huge femur but Jayden catches me before I fall in the trail of gore. Thank the fates. I do not want all that nastiness all over me.
“Where is it?” Raven gasps as we get back to the beach.
“I didn’t hear a crash or anything getting destroyed and we haven’t been gone that long,” I grumble.
“There.” Thad points to a ship in the distance. “He fucking left us here.”
The boat is small in the distance but moving quickly away from the shore. Why the hell would Triton leave us out here when he was told to help us? Could Poseidon really be in on whatever’s happening? Did he tell Triton to drop us on the island to fucking rot? I hope not, for all our sakes.
“Motherfucker. I knew I didn’t like him,” I growl.
“How are we going to get off the island?” Raven asks.
“I don’t know, but we’ll have to figure that out after we find the crab,” I say.
“No one wants to address the elephant on the island?” Jayden folds his arms over his chest.
“What is that?” Thad asks.
“He said your father asked him to bring us out here, but he never said anything about taking us back to Monterey,” Jayden says.
“What are you getting at? My father didn’t do this,” Thad growls.
“How do you know that? He could be the one trying to overthrow Zeus. It wouldn’t be the first time.”
“Enough, guys. It’s not Poseidon.” I throw my hands up.
“Triton is an asshole. This is just like something he would do to me.” Thad shakes his head. “He’s done shit like this to me before.”
“How do you know it’s not Poseidon?” Raven asks.
“Every time we have spoken to one of the minions and let them go on about their plans, they have sworn it was a woman that would finally overthrow the gods and become the matriarch of humanity,” I say.
