The battle against Gaea was raging.
"Annabeth!" Percy yelled, shocked to see her being beaten by a huge Cyclops.
His girlfriend was a lot of things, but she was never defeated. Now, he saw her being pushed away from a Cyclops and into a horde of snake-women (A/N sorry I forgot what they're called).
He sprang forward, and with a loud yell, caused several tons of water to fall upon Gaea's army, washing them into the ocean and pummeling them until they drowned. To Percy's horror, he saw Octavian being pulled down with them, but he couldn't stop, not without freeing the monsters.
So he poured all of his strength into drowning them all . . . even Octavian.
"Percy!" Annabeth gasped, "What have you done?"
Everyone was surrounding Percy, murmuring in confusion and sadness.
"Y-you have to understand!" Percy cried out, "If I didn't, the battle would have been lost for sure! Sometimes, you need to make sacrifices!"
Reyna stepped forward.
"Yes, but not at the cost of human life" she said.
"Yeah, Percy, man, c'mon" Grover said, clopping his hooves on the ground nervously.
"Aw, G-man. I don't think we would have won this time. We've been lucky, but this time the odds were completely against us." Percy said sadly.
Annabeth came up to him, touching his shoulder lightly.
"Lets go home," she said.
Camp Half-Blood. Home sweet home. But at the same time, not.
There were people dead, never to see another day. Thalia, Rachel, Octavian, Clarisse, Travis, and many more.
Percy expected their return to be happy, but word had reached camp that he had accidently murdered Octavian, and everyone was looking at him and whispering to each other.
Then Chiron came forward.
"Welcome back! Your tales of heroism have reached all corners of the camp, and we all hope that Gaea has been vanquished forever!" he said with a seemingly forced smile.
"Um, yes" Annabeth ventured, "but, Chiron, Octavian-"
"Lets not speak of this now!" he quickly said, but gave her a look that said, later.
"Now, feast!"
Several dryads came forward bearing large platters of food, which they set upon the picnic tables.
The feast, normally cheerful, was very subdued.
Afterwards, Chiron beckoned to Annabeth and Percy.
"Come to my office"
A/N: So, I hoped you liked! Reviews make a happy writer, and a happy writer writes more!