A/N Just to let people know, I wrote a one-shot spin-off of this story. If you're curious as to what happened to the wedding stuff, check out 'Who's wedding is it?'

Chapter 10

The next day after breakfast, Zeus called a war meeting in the Big House. The Elementals left their forces under the command of their lieutenants. After breakfast, the Elementals were the first to arrive at the Big House using their special means of transportation, with the gods arriving next, and finally, the campers and Chiron.

"Now," said Zeus, "even though of recent events, we are forced to confront Gaea sooner or later, so I suggest that we try to prolong the time until the next battle until we know that our campers will be able to defeat her forces."

"No," said Percy, "that is a terrible plan."

"Oh," said Athena, "and you have something better?"

"I didn't mean it like that Athena," said Percy, "I was just commenting on the plan, but now that you mention it, I do have a better plan: we take the fight to her."

"How is that better?" asked Annabeth, "You're going to risk the lives of the campers just so you four can get away from this place faster?"

"It is not about us," said Percy, "we have a job to do, and we'll do whatever it takes. Besides, Gaea is overconfident and believes that our forces are weaker than she expects. If we take the fight to her, then we'll be doing the one thing she doesn't expect: a full-on frontal attack, in simple terms, and will catch her and her army by surprise."

"That does make sense," said Athena, deep in thought.

"What about the spies?" asked Jason, "Weren't you telling us earlier about your theories on how Gaea knew we were getting married, and when?"

"Great," said Zeus, "Another war with spies."

A small smile tugged on the Elemental's faces.

"Don't worry Zeus," said Thalia, "we already know who the spies are, isn't that right, Vicky and Alli?"

Everyone heard a slight gasp and two sets of feet running away, before a bunch of shouting and fighting.

"What's going on out there?" asked Ares excited, "Sounds like a fight."

Everyone dashed out, except the Elementals who simply walked out after everyone else. Most people, except the Elementals and their troops, were surprised to see Vicky and Alli struggling in trying to get away from the two troops holding them with ease.

"Give it up you two!" said Perci, "These two have had plenty of experience dealing with spies and POW's to not be even affected by your movement, let alone your pleads. We specifically told them to hold on to you two if you are seen dashing away from hear after we say your names. Now I will ask you a question, and I will ask you once: What were you doing eavesdropping on the war meeting?"

"You see," said Alli, still struggling, "since Mark and Jake are still in the infirmary, they told us to check up on you guys whenever you have a meeting, and since we're not the councilors for our cabins yet, we can't go in, so we settled for eavesdropping on you guys."

"Oh, really?" asked Thalia. "If that's true, then tell me why in the world did we burn their shrouds yesterday after the campfire and songs?"

"We have no idea, honest," said Vicky, "we weren't paying much attention because we were too busy trying to get over the fact that someone harmed our best friends."

"Okay, now you're playing hard-to-get!" said Thalia

"Thalia?" said Annabeth, "I think they're telling the truth."

"No, they're not," said Percy, "they have classic signs of lying. They've practiced it a lot if they can conceal them so well, not even the Stolls can conceal it fully. See: they have a slight sweat coming out, Poseidon can help you there; their eyebrows are twitching slightly, hardly noticeable because it's so fast; they're not making eye contact, another classic sign; and the last sign that they're lying—they have a bracelet hanging out of their pants that says Gaea."

"He's lying!" said Alli

"I do not lie" said Percy, "and neither do the other Elementals. We have never lied when we are doing our job unless our job demands it. Admit that you two are the spy, and we will have less deaths here."

"Oh yeah," said Vicky, "and who's going to do something about it?"

"Oh, I don't know," said Percy, "how about you fellow spies?"

After the last part, the ground opened up in front of Percy, and out came Jake and Mark, fully healed.

"B-bu-but how?" asked Annabeth

"Easy," said Percy, "the night you two broke in, was the same night that Vicky and Alli broke into the Chaos cabin and took the antidote, though we did leave a simple path to it. What they did not expect, however, was the fact that we had entered a tracking signal that records their movements, and anything from their senses and transports the data via Wi-Fi. I bet they also didn't know that they had also taken the wrong one. The real one cures people from Herendic Poison within three days, with bathroom breaks included, while the ones these two dunderheads took cures people of anything within a day, but at the price of the person's body decaying slowly after ingestion. This side effect also effects the person entering the poison, and since I can safely presume that the two female dunderheads gave it to them, they two have been affected and they all will die within the next half hour."

"How the heck are we affected," said Alli, "if we were the ones who gave it to them?"

"Another question with a simple answer," said Jason, "and that answer is: the bottle which stored the cure that Dundergirl One and Dundergirl Two took was formed out of poisoned glass, and the poison can only affect those who are not in Chaos's army and those who made the glass."

"Wait," said Jake, "are you telling me that me, Mark, Vicky, and Alli are all going to die?"

"Yup," said Thalia, "unless you want to do it quicker. I'm sure I can come up with a torture and death worthy of such Dunderheads as you four within a minute."

"Fine," said Jake, "I'll take your death."

"JAKE!" yelled Alli and Vicky

"You said that we'd stick it out until the end Jake!" said Vicky, "You said that we'd be able to get the recognition that we deserve when we joined Gaea!"

"I know what I said Vick!" snapped Jake, "I know what I said, but now I'm starting to think otherwise. I mean, do we really need that much recognition. All we did was kill a hydra and force the two most powerful twins out of camp, and I'd much rather end my life now knowing what's going to come then wait for the poison to take its toll and do who knows what! I'm sorry Vick, but I'm not on Gaea's side anymore, I'm on my own, and that side is going down with whatever torture Thalia can come up with."

Everyone went silent at the end of Jake's rant. Jake looked at Thalia with pleading eyes.

"All right," said Thalia, "Follow me. Aquos, if anyone else wants my torture and death sooner you know where to take them."

Thalia then went to the Chaos cabin, with Jake following her. As soon as they were out of ear-shot, Perci said, "Do any of you three want to follow in Jake's footsteps and end their lives with Thalia's torture and death."

"I will," said Vicky, "if Jake isn't there, I'm not staying. He promised that we'd be together, brother and sister, until the end, and even though he made the promise, I'm going to do the same to him."

Perci nodded, and looked at the other two, who stayed silent and still. Perci then nodded again to Vicky, and they headed off towards the Chaos cabin.

"And then there were two," said Percy, "you know, you should have taken Thalia's option. It was much more safer and quicker than what you're going to go through. Thalia may be the expert on torture out of the four of us, doesn't mean that the rest of us don't know a few techniques. Plus, since you two and I are all biological children of Poseidon that means that I know what the most horrendous torture for you two are."

Mark and Alli gulped, but stayed silent.

"Jason," said Percy, "you know where to take them, I'll be there in a second."

"It'll be my pleasure," said Jason as he walked away with the two troops holding Mark and Alli following him. Percy dismissed everyone else, and as soon as all the troops left, Percy turned around.

"So," said Percy, "what's next?"

"What's going to happen to them?" asked Annabeth

"Nothing that I wouldn't call bad." said Percy, "Frankly, Vicky and Jake have it better off than the other two. Mark and Alli better have a high tolerance of whatever scares them, because if they don't, I still wouldn't feel sorry for them."

"What's going to happen to them?" asked Ares, "I want to be able to torture my next POW's"

"Nothing much, really." Shrugged Percy, "For Vicky and Jake, it's probably a few hours on the electrical chair while hanging about twenty feet off the floor above a 50 foot-radius aquarium filled with sharks, electrical eels, and other harmful and/or carnivorous animals/fish/birds that live in or near the water."

"How is that nothing much?" asked Athena, "That's horrendous torture, with no way out of it alive. They either die due to too much electricity or they die of sharks, eels, and whatever else you four put in there."

"It's not that bad," said Percy, "I was stuck in there once for accidently ruining Thalia's favorite armor, and I was able to get out of there within a minute. Besides, when you hear about how the other two are going to be tortured, you'll think that previous two's torture is a run in the park."

Everyone shivered at that.

"Well," said Percy, "if there's nothing left, then I'd better be going. I have two traitors to torture."

Percy then left everyone and sunk into the earth, presumably going towards the Chaos cabin.