"Go, go, GO!"
Well this day was going great.
Annabeth's boyfriend Percy was sent to us (by Zeus, judging by his cursing). Of course, it happened to be just when Ratatosk decided to attack us on the world tree. "SQUIRREL!" He yelped, pointing at a tank-sized squirrel barreling down the trunk of the World Tree.
Yark!
Thousands of insults in the space of one bark. It was driving me to despair. Percy stopped, and turned around. "Is that the best you can do?" He yelled at the giant squirrel.
It skidded to a stop, confused. "I've been to the Cocytus, the river of despair itself in Tartarus itself, you—"
Percy launched into a tirade of insults so horrible, the giant rodent actually started groveling.
'I apologize, oh mighty master.' The squirrel said, the fear and awe evident in his bark. 'I was not aware you have been to the mighty Cocytus river. Is there anywhere you would like me to take you? Will you teach me your ways?'
Blitz stared, open-mouthed. "You… Just… What?"
I, on the other hand, took charge of this surprising revelation. "Could you free our friend over here?" I gestured to Hearth.
Ratatosk nodded, and bounced over, easily cutting through the moss with his claws.
Percy said, "Could you give us a ride to…"
"That little hole down there," Sam pointed out.
'Yes, master of insults.'
We all climbed on to Ratatosk, and he scampered down to the hole. "Thank you. That will be all," Percy said.
Ratatosk bowed once, then scampered off down the tree. "Well that was easy enough."
Afterword:
So yeah, that happened. I just thought about how similar Ratatosk and the Cocytus were similar, at least how they attacked. So I figured, Percy was (more) immune, considering he'd already faced the Cocytus, he'd be able to bring Ratatosk to despair, kind of having the same effect that Ratatosk was having on Magnus. Just ignore my ranting.
Oh, also, I don't own anything, unless we're in some convenient alternate dimension. Are we? Lemme check Wikipedia…
—Dragoncraftertex