The return of this fic!

Lily: he he I've been so concerned with my other fics I forgot about this one. My bad.

Nico: Hades yes it's your fault! Now get on with it!

I felt the Helm slip from my hand. I scrabbled to pick it up as Scorpios stepped forward. He crushed the Helm beneath his feet and sent me flying with one claw. I am so not paying for that, I thought as I sailed through the air. My thoughts were interrupted when I crunched against a tree. Ouch.

I felt my arm crack between myself and the tree on impact. The pain that shot through my arm made me shriek. Never before had I been in more pain. I let out a sob as I tried to crawl to the river. I wanted the river. I wanted water to flow over me. I wanted someone else to show up and save the day.

I somehow managed to hold onto the trident when I went flying. I clutched it in my hand and willed the sea to come to me. I felt a familiar tug from somewhere in my stomach and felt a surge of power course through me.

A wave was headed for me. It crashed over the monsters, knocking them down. Water washed over me for a blessed moment. Then it pulled back, taking monsters with it.

I pulled myself towards the river with my good arm. Every jolting movement sent new pain through my arm. The world looked hazy. Sound was muffled. Everything faded. I was in blackness, blissful nothingness.

Then the damn giant scorpion landed on top of me.

It grabbed me and began to pull me down. But I am the daughter of the sea god, I reminded myself. I am surrounded by the sea.

With a large surge of energy I wrenched myself from the scorpion and propelled myself towards the surface, away from the scorpion, towards the bolt.

I reached the surface to discover a new fight had broken out, between the monsters and a large number of reanimated skeletons.

Luna is officially the best back-up ever.

I pulled myself out of the water to rejoin the fight.

"Luna!" I called.

"Over here Jen!" she yelled from the far side of the battlefield. I sliced through several monsters while I ran to her. Without Scorpios the ranks were losing confidence and becoming sloppy fighters.

"If we can hold them off until back up gets here we're good," I said as I arrived at her side.

"We already got some back up," she said pointing at a boy about twenty yards from us who was slicing through monster with ease.

"What? Who in Hades is that?"

"Turns out I have a brother and when dad felt his Helm get destroyed he sent him here to kill you," she paused, "Yeah that's pretty much it."

"I hate my life," I said.

"I hate your life too," she answered cheerily. "Did you really destroy the Helm?" she asked.

"It wasn't me, it was Scorpios," I am so dead.

"Are Percy and co. anywhere near yet?"

"How would I know? It's not like I can call them up and say 'hey what's taking you so long'. We're just going to have to wait and see."

Luna's new found brother slashed through the army of monsters towards us. He paused for a moment to call more skeleton warriors from the ground before turning to talk to us.

"You're the girl who stole my father's Helm of Darkness, brought it to Virginia of all places and then got it destroyed?" he asked with an "I'm going to kill you" look.

"Yeah that would be me," I answered while avoiding his eyes.

"Nice," he said, breaking into a grin. "You should have seen his face. I'm Nico by the way."

"Great, I'm Jennifer. You're not going to kill me are you? 'Cause if you are I'm going to run screaming like a little girl up that hill behind us."

"I'm not going to kill you. Maim you maybe, but not kill you."

"Glad we got that cleared up."

Luna and Nico periodically raised more skeletons while a creepy dead version of General Washington led charges.

I held my position between Luna and Nico, slicing down monsters, until I say the demi-god with the bolt make a break for it. He suddenly appeared from the bushes and sprinted towards the boat. I wanted that bolt.

"Jennifer!" I heard Luna scream as I sprinted towards him. I ducked and weaved through monsters on my way towards him. He was out of shape and I was a hunter, constantly training to catch my prey.

I tackled him from behind. The bolt went flying, right into the hands of Percy.

I looked up to see my brother leaning over the prow of a speedboat. I couldn't help laughing. I recognized the grey eyes of Athena as a girl jumped off the boat and the anger of Ares in the next girl, then the eyes of Zeus in a third. Kevy jumped off last and came to stand over me.

"We found you because of a barn!" he announced. "You cannot believe how much I missed you. We'll get this cleared up and you'll be fine."

Poor, naive, Kevy.

"Keep watch on this guy Kev," I extracted myself from the wriggling demi-god.

I fought my way through to where the sword of Ares fell. "Hey you! Daughter of Ares!" I called to her.

She scowled at me.

"Catch!"

Her eyes widened in surprise as she expertly caught the sword.

"Athena girl!" the girl with grey eyes looked up. I threw the shield discus style towards her. She grabbed it off the ground and nodded towards me.

"Percy," I said as I got closer to him. "You deserve this more than me." I held out the trident that I had kept in a death grip since I had picked it up.

"And what will you fight with," he asked.

"I was thinking of dragging myself into the river and crying until my arm heals. It's not too bad with the adrenaline running but that's bound to run out soon," I answered.

He chuckled, "I prefer Riptide."

"Of course, as I prefer Tide Breaker," I unsheathed my sword and slid the trident into my bag. "Friends, brother?"

"Friends."

Nico: My entrance! I'm alive!

Lily:-facepalm-