"RUN!" Bailee screamed to Percy, who was busy fighting off the Minotaur. Percy knew better than to stay when she said run, so after giving the Minotaur a swift
kick in the crotch he sprinted to her, panting. "Man, I really wish that guy would stay dead!" Percy panted. "Yeah. Me too. He's a big pain in the mythical neck." I
replied, also panting from a short but hard battle with an arai. I think I got a nausea curse. I don't feel too hot. Who curses you with nausea? I should
introduce myself. I'm Claire, daughter of Aphrodite. Yes, most of you are thinking: shouldn't you be in your cabin doing your nails or something? That, is a cruel
and demeaning although quite accurate stereotype. I'm actually an excellent fighter! Bailee is a daughter of Hades, and she's dang creepy. But awesome.
When she says run you better start running cause it usually means shes gonna summon an army of the dead soon right where you're standing. No biggie. But
it wipes her out and she can only do it once a battle. Bailee has only known she is a demigod for a few short weeks, so her powers aren't very developed. But
she's working on them with Nico at Camp Half-Blood. And you all know Percy. We were fighting off an army of monsters on Half-Blood Hill. Our saytr, Gary, was
trying to get a new half-blood to the gates. This one is supposed to be super powerful. Yay. That means more monsters. Bailee squatted at the front of the
wave of monsters with her hands on the ground. She closed her eyes and shouted "WORLD WAR TWO TO ME!" Instantly the entire losing side of WWII erupted
out of the dirt and began fighting. Bailee promptly collapsed into my arms. I dragged her under a tree and ran into the battle next to Percy. He's been working
with Riptide and can now literally shoot water out of the tip. He blasted a few monsters and they vaporized on touch. My jaw dropped. I knew he'd been
working on it but how in Hades did he do that? I looked over at him and he grinned. "Celestial Bronze in the water. It rubs off the sword." Huh. Genius. I
nodded in approval and attacked a dracaenae with my dagger, Fierce. I stabbed at her double snake trunks and she vaporized. On my right Percy jumped over
a skeleton warrior and went after the Minotaur again. That stubborn grudge-holding idiot. According to Annabeth, when Percy was 12 the Minotaur took his
mother to Hades to lure Percy to the Underworld because Hades wanted Zeus's master bolt, which Percy supposedly had. But he didn't, and then it got
complicated. I decided to ignore Percy's stupidness and continue with the main battle. I rolled, stabbed, and slashed my way through the wave of monsters.
"RETREAT!" I heard Gary shout over the roar of the monsters. I turned to see him waving from the gates where he had gotten the half-blood to safety. "Come
on Percy!" I called. Percy stabbed the Minotaur in the gut and when the monster doubled over did the trick that killed the guy the first time. A spring jump from
a tree onto the things head, breaking off a horn, somersaulting off and stabbing the horn into its chest. All in about 5 seconds. That's Percy for you. Percy and I
hauled Bailee through the gates and let the monsters crash head first into the magical barriers. It's pretty funny. Imagine a 6 foot tall snake lady running
straight into a glass door, face-smushing and all. That's basically what it looked like. I pulled Bailee up to the Big House with Percy right behind me. The medics
in the infirmary were all too use to Bailee's post-skeleton-warrior-summoning comas. They can usually bring her back to normal in about an hour. That has to be
a record. Of course, I doubt mortals would get it if we put it in the Guinness World Record books. After dropping Bailee off I walked through camp to go find
Annabeth. She's my best friend. She and Percy are madly in love and since I AM a daughter of Aphrodite after all I am pretty good at the love advice thing. I can
also charmspeak. Very useful. How else is a demigod with only drachmas on her supposed to get a stinking burger at McDonald's? I spotted Annabeth on the
porch of her cabin with her nose buried in Daedalus's laptop. She looked up to see me coming and her stormy gray eyes lit up with happiness. "Claire! Hey! Oh
my gods I just found the most amazing idea on the laptop it's a plan for this building that has all these-" "Whoa. Stop right there." I laughed. "You know I just
came out of battle with Bailee and your boyfriend right?" "WHAT?" Annabeth sprang up and the laptop fell off her lap. I bent down and caught it just before it
hit the ground. Whew. "Oh...that boy...goes into battle without even telling me..." Annabeth mumbled as she hurried off to go find Percy. "Annie?" I called after
her. "Yeah?" Annabeth stopped and came back. "We were fighting because that super special half-blood? She's here. The monsters were all after her." I stood
back and carefully watched Annabeth's face. She stared at me with her mouth open. "Oh gods. Here?" "Here." I repeated.