Malcolm had broken the tip of his spear off inside a Laistrygonian's knee, so he hurled the shards at one of them and sprinted to behind a car where his spares were, and he grabbed another. He called over the campers, and some part of him sadly realised they'd taken heavy loses.

Then he devised a plan to eliminate the Laistrygonians and not lose half the campers with a heavy assault. He filled a car with the last of their Greek Fire, and drove it into enemy lines.

He was actually doing pretty good: He'd sent one of the cannibals into the water and driven over the foot of another, when one of the larger giants tried to throw the car off the bridge and left it hanging off the side of the bridge. Then they attacked. Huge bodies threw themselves at the car, trying to get at the meat inside while several tried to pull the car off it's dangerous position so they wouldn't have to watch their lunch fall into the river. Then, when they were all desperately close to catching him, he pressed the detonator to the Greek Fire and five off into the water .

As he fell, he heard yelps as the Laistrygonian giants burst into flames and wailed in pain, and then the Pegasus dove down past him and Maria caught him.

"Good... Catch." He panted.

Maria yanked him up and he scrambled on the back of the horse.

"Come on." She said. "We have to go join the charge! Without a leader, archers of Armoured Giants, they'll have to fall back!"

Malcolm nodded, and they soared through the air for a few seconds, before he dropped down onto the bridge and ducked under a crossbow bolt and charged. Steve was already fighting, but had been pushed against an SUV by Dracaena, and a pack of Hell hounds had circled the rest of the campers. Not good. Maria's Pegasus, Dominic, who was light brown with a black mane, dived down and Malcolm jumped down on top of a Hellhound, stabbing it through the neck and diving off as it began to dissolve. Another one stood up to maul him and he stabbed it through he jaw, before throwing his spear and biting a bear in the side to disract it from a camper it was pouncing on. Then the camper stabbed at it releatedly, killing it.

Malcolm dodged a Dracaena's spear thrut and disarmed it before hittig it with the butt of the spear. He took the spear and stabbed it through the head, and looked at his new weapon. It was a brutal Stygian Iron Halbeard with several spikes sticking out near the handle. It wasn't his favoured spear type, but it would do. He ran over to Steve, who was slamming the last Dracaena with his shield, and nodded to him.

"How'?" He asked.

"I'm alive, at least. You?"

"Alive. Excited. Good to out in the real world, you know? I've even got some tropheys. He held out two necklaces: A beaded Camp Half-Blood necklace, and a black necklace with three long white teeth on it, a large, brown toenail and a burnt Scyth Charm.

"I took out three Hellhounds, a Fire Giant and a Traitor. Impressive, right?"

"Yeah, yeah. We need to take out Victor and his Lieutenants. Then they'll fall back for sure."

Maria appeared, and nodded at them. Then they drew their weapons and charged towards the Goddess of Victory's son.