Chapter 7
Percy s POV
When I saw that they had Annabeth, my heart sank to know that they caught her but what happened to Beckendorf and Silena and did that mean that they failed to get the explosives set and Beckendorf and Silena were dead. Just as I started thinking the worst, I looked at Thalia and she mouthed to me, "get ready to move in."
I nodded that I understood but Ethan saw it and he said, "hey, what s going on here?"
"Nothing," I said.
"Well, try anything and the daughter of Athena is going to pay the price," Ethan threatened.
Then, Thalia yelled, "Percy, Clarisse, now."
Then, Thalia raised her spear and blasted lightning at Ethan but missed him but it was just to distract him. When he was distracted, Clarisse and I went in; I went to distract Ethan by fighting him while Clarisse went and attacked the dracaenas that were holding Annabeth to free her. When I got to Ethan, I made the first strike but he barely blocked it and he kicked me away and he tried to hit me but I side stepped his strike and I quickly get in back of him and I smacked him in the back of the head with the butt of my sword and knocked him out. When I knocked Ethan out, Clarisse got Annabeth free. When Annabeth was freed, Thalia and I came running over to Clarisse and Annabeth and we both hugged Annabeth and Thalia said, "Annabeth, are you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm okay," Annabeth replied sadly.
"But where's Beckendorf and Silena, Annabeth, I thought that you were with them?" Clarisse asked.
"I don't know when we got out of the engine room, we ran into Ethan and a lot of other demigods and monsters so we split-up but I don't know what happened to them, I haven't heard from them yet," Annabeth explained.
"So you were able to get the explosives set were you," I said.
"Yeah, we got them set and we hid them pretty well so they shouldn't find the explosives until it's too late," Annabeth said.
"Well that's a good thing," Thalia said.
"Um guys, would you mind coming over here and releasing me?" Grover asked.
"Oh, sorry about that man," I said.
So we turned around and ran over to where Grover was laying. When we got to him, Annabeth went to get her knife back from Ethan. When Grover was freed, he stood up and the 4 of us waited for Annabeth to get her knife and when she had it, she came over to us but when she got to us, her watch started ringing. "Um Annabeth, your watch is ringing," Clarisse told her.
Then, Annabeth pressed a button on the watch and all of a sudden, Beckendorf's face appeared. When he appeared, he said, "Annabeth, where are you?"
"I'm in the stateroom with Percy, Thalia, Clarisse and Grover why, where are you and where's Silena?" Annabeth said.
"Silena is with me and we're fighting right now," Beckendorf answered.
"Where are you, we'll come and help you," Annabeth said.
"No, I'm about to activate the explosives so get out of here," Beckendorf shouted.
"We're not going to leave you Beckendorf," Clarisse said.
"Well you're going to have to because I'm not going to tell you where we are so you'd better get out of here while you can because you guys are more important to this mission then we are," Beckendorf said.
"Charlie's right, you are more important to this mission then we are so get out of here now," called Silena.
"We're not going to do it guys, we're not going to leave you and your wrong, no one on this mission is more important than the other," I said.
"Just do it guys, just do it already," Beckendorf told us.
"Fine, we'll do it," Clarisse said.
Then, we saw Beckendorf press a button and then, Beckendorf said, "now you've got 20 seconds to get off of the ship before it explodes so I'd hurry if I were you."
Then, his picture disappeared and we ran out the door onto the deck. "So how are we exactly supposed to get off of the ship guys?" Grover asked worriedly.
"Thalia, do you think that you could fly us off?" Annabeth asked.
"I don't know Annabeth but it's always a try," Thalia said.
Then, I noticed Thalia turning green and I spoke up. "You don't have to if you don't want to Thalia."
"Yeah Thalia, we all know of your fear of heights," Annabeth backed me up.
"How did you find out about that, did you tell them Percy?" Thalia said angrily at me.
"No, I didn't tell them a thing," I said right away.
"Then how did they find out then, could you tell me that Percy?" glared Thalia.
"We could tell by the way your face turned green when we mentioned flying back," Clarisse said.
"So how are we going to get off now, how much time do we have left to get off the ship Annabeth?" Grover asked.
Then, Annabeth looked at her watch and she said, "we've got 10 seconds left."
"We'd better hurry up then," Clarisse said.
"Percy, do you think you can do anything?" Thalia asked.
"I may be able to, everyone jump off of and I'll take care of the rest," I said.
"WHAT, jump off, that's got to be a 100 feet drop into the water Jackson," Clarisse said.
"Don't worry, I'll take care of it, I promise; Annabeth, Thalia, Grover, you with me?" I said.
"Alright, as long as you know what you re doing Percy," Grover said.
"Alright everyone, jump," I ordered.
Then, the 5 of us jumped off of the ship and on the way down, Thalia yelled, "Percy, whatever you're going to do, do it now."
So I whirled my arms and the water shot up around us and made an air bubble around us and when we hit the water, I ordered the water to make a tidal wave under us and when it was created, we surfed away from the Princess Andromeda and when we were 5 miles away, it exploded. When the ship exploded, I called for some transportation and when it arrived, I dissolved the air bubble we hopped onto the hippocampuses and we left for camp. "That was a good plan you had Percy," Grover said.
"I've got to admit it Jackson, it was a good idea but it didn't save Silena and Beckendorf," Clarisse said.
"Thanks, but there was nothing that I could do," I said.
"We don't blame you Percy, we all know that there's nothing you could have done because he wouldn't tell us where he was," Annabeth said.
"I guess I could have used my powers to find him," I said.
"Well, it's too late now, let's just get back to camp fast," said Grover.
So I told the hippocampuses to pick up the pace and we were on our way back to camp.
Now the Princess Andromeda is destroyed but it costs Beckendorf and Silena their lives but they did rescue Grover and now their on their way back to camp to prepare to defend Olympus from the Titans.
