Jack's POV

I pull out my sword as we all charge. Suddenly I feel my feet lifting from the ground, I'm flying! Elle screams,"Jack take me up too."

I pick her up and drop her on it's shoulder. Percy is throwing water at it, the children of Apollo shoot at it and Elle stabs it in the eye, it happens in slow motion it swats her into a tree and she falls, the body of the thing falls too, I fly towards Elle as she falls, catching her just before she hits the ground. I pull up but can't hold on for long. Soon we both fall to the ground, I fell Elle, with the last of her strength grab me to hold on. I feel us hit something, and soon I'm engulfed by darkness.

Rachel's POV

"Jack, Elle!"

Percy turns and does his best to catch them with water, but the fall could still be fatal. My only friends could die. I run towards them, only to be held back by John, I scream at him, he picks me up and throws me over his shoulder. He takes me back to our cabin, tosses me on a bed in a room and locks the door. I sigh and give up. I slump against the wall, my face in my hands I sob. Suddenly someone knocks on the door, I see Percy opening the door he says,"Rachel can I come in?"

"Sure."

"The doctor says that they're going to live, ambrosia works every time. But…"

"But what Percy!"

"Elle, was pregnant the test was wrong, we think the baby will be fine but we can't give her ambrosia while she's pregnant. We think she'll live, we aren't sure."

"Elle, she's pregnant!"

"Apollo."

"Ugh! Elle could die, she would never be able to tell Jack that she liked him."

"She saved him, she grabbed him as they fell and she took most of the damage."

"She was stupid, brave but stupid."

"As a worst case scenario, we could do ambrosia, but the baby, we don't know, he could be immortal, he's already more god than man."

"Elle would be mad."

"The rest of the group from your school, they want to talk to you, they're scared."

"Percy, what about the barrier?"

"Before you came there was a kid named Luke, he stole Zeus' lightning bolt, Annabeth and I stopped him. He sent in that cyclops and a bull. He poisoned Thalia's tree. Annabeth and I are going on a quest, we were going to ask you, Jack, and Elle to come, but Elle is hurt and pregnant."

"Elle, we can have earpieces on, or she could just come. I think she would want to come, and she can handle herself. We need her and Annabeth, you, Jack and I have no brains of our own. She did kill the cyclops and would've been fine if Jack hadn't flown away. We just need a little bit more training, and Elle has been obsessed with mythology for years, she could name any creature we come across."

"Fine, if she's better than she can come, go meet your group."

I stand outside facing nine kids, one, Bella, asks,"Why was that monster here, I thought we were safe here?"

"Jack, Elle, Percy, Annabeth and I are going on a quest to save that big tree, and restore the barrier."

Another kid, Scott asks,"Are Jack and Elle going to be ok?"

"I think so."

Then a girl, Brenna, asks,"Is Elle really pregnant? She's only thirteen."

"Apollo, fell in love, and got her pregnant then left."

I hear a chorus of gasps when Brenna says,"Apollo wouldn't do that, he's my father!"

"How do you think you happened?"

I answer a few more questions when Annabeth said,"Rachel you need to see this."

I follow her to the infirmary where Jack is sitting up, staring at Elle. She's turning muttering two words. I can't understand but Annabeth says,"Golden Fleece."

Then I hear it,"Golden Fleece, Golden Fleece."

I ask,"The what?"

"The Golden Fleece can keep living things alive. Like a tree, Thalia's tree."

"Even when she's comatose she's a genius!" Jack said.

I say,"Annabeth, Percy told me about the quest, she needs to go."

"She's hurt and pregnant also, we have to sneak out. With Tyson." she says Tyson with hatred in her voice.

Jack says,"Tyson, he was so nice he came in to visit earlier, he-"

Jack stops when he Annabeth giving him a look. Suddenly I hear Elle say,"Thalia, killed by cyclops."

Annabeth says,"What she said."

I ask,"Is she awake?"

"I don't know. I need to give her ambrosia, but her baby."

"Her baby the test-" Jack says.

"The test was wrong." I say.

"I'm doing it anyway, I can't let her die." Annabeth says.

Annabeth takes a golden brownie thing and shoves a small bit into her mouth. Soon Elle sits up and says,"What, Jack?"

Jack just hugs her and says,"Stop getting hurt, your scaring me."

She puts on her glasses and says,"Sorry."

Annabeth says,"We'll leave you alone with Rachel so she can tell you what's going to happen."

Elle's POV

Rachel says,"Elle, your pregnant."

"Fuck this, it isn't funny Rachel."

It has to be a joke, it can't be real, I'm only thirteen!

"Elle, I'm serious."

It wasn't a joke, it is real, I'm only thirteen. I just cry, I wish I was home. If I was home none of this would've happened! Rachel says,"We also have another quest to get the Golden Fleece."

"To save Thalia's Tree."

Rachel says,"Yeah, we're sneaking out tonight, we have to cross the Sea of Monsters."

"Shit!"

We go back to our cabins, ready for what tomorrow has in store.