Did you like the last chapter? It was kind of short, but it gets better. The weird thing about this is that I had this in a dream.

Chapter 2

Percy's POV

It was the middle of the night and the ship was quiet. Everyone else was down below the deck sleeping, while I was taking watch. It was a quiet night. We were above the clouds so no mortals would get freaked out. Zeus was probably freaking out by now I had been in the sky so long. He probably would have blasted the boat if his two children weren't on board. The boat was on autopilot somehow, so I didn't need to steer it. I almost dozed off when Jason came up to take the next shift.

"You can go ahead and go to bed Percy, you look horrible."

"Thanks man"

I walked down and took my place in my bunk. As soon as I laid my head on my pillow, I fell asleep.

Jason's POV

I woke up and headed towards the upper deck. I couldn't get anymore sleep, so I let Percy take a break from watch. Nothing much happened, until the monsters came. Halfway through my watch, a greenish looking cloud came toward me. I recognized it immediately as a storm spirit and flipped my coin. It landed on heads and turned into my golden sword. As the spirit got closer, I saw it was a horse form. I almost sliced it in half when it backed up and whinnied. I realized with a shock that it was Tempest, my old friend.

"Is that you Tempest?" He jumped happily and galloped closer. I decided to put up my sword. I hadn't seen him for a while. He came over and we did a sort of telepathy talk while I caught him up on what happened lately.

We talked until daylight and everyone came up on deck. Piper and Leo didn't seem as surprised as the other ones. I had to explain to keep several people from vaporizing him. Percy said it reminded him of his Pegasus, Blackjack. To prove his point, he whistled once. After a short while, a dark black shape swooped down and landed on the boat. Tempest seemed to get along with him and they talked for a while about which winds were the best nowadays.

We sailed for several more hours, looking for what was supposed to be the Lastrygonian layer. It was a large castle with huge stone blocks. They were so big; it would take a giant to carry them. Then again, this was a giant's layer. We docked the ship up in the clouds. A long rope bridge led to the ground. Those who were scared of heights (Thalia) and I took the animals down to the ground. Jason, the show off, flew Piper down to the ground.

As soon as we all made it to the ground we walked towards the giant doors of the castle. How in the world would we get inside? As if answering my question, the doors slowly creaked open.

"That's disturbing." Leo said.

We all trotted inside and looked around. Everything was bigger than it should have been. There were torches lining the walls. Tapestries shone in the eerie light. A stack of bones lay in the corner. As we walked farther in the castle of cannibals, I heard a groaning sound. I wished I could have gotten on Blackjack and flown away, but the horses refused to go inside the dark place that smelled like monsters.

As we got farther in, the groaning got louder. It gave me strange memories of the Labyrinth. We took a left, and then a right then, I don't know what. Finally we found the source of the moaning. There was a huge prison with tightly knit bars. Inside the bars, I could see the slumped form of a girl. Annabeth! But, that wasn't the source of the groaning.

Before I could run to her, a Lastrygonian giant came around the corner with a large club in his hands. His stomach was growling noisily, so it was very hungry. He had a huge grin in his face and he waddled towards us. We all drew our weapons and prepared for a fight.