Hey hey hey! Candy here! I brought in Near and L to do the disclaimer!

Near: *plays with toys*

L: *talks to president of USA on his cell*

Dammit guys! Do. It. Otherwise... I'll call Light here to kill you!

L: He doesn't know my name, so I'm not afraid.

STOP BEING AWESOME GUYS!

Near: I'd rather not. Might as well do it... neither Bobby nor Safire is amazing evough to own Percy Jackson and the Olympians or The Heroes of Olympus.

L: Did you know that I'm not only Elraldo Coil and Denueve, I'm also Rick Riordan?

Okay... I've been calling you Uncle Ricky for like, ever. Let's just get started...

Piper, Percy and I shiver, feeling the presece of evil home in on our radars.

"Anybody else feel that?" I ask. Percy and Piper nod nervously.

We hear the wild neighs of multiple horses, and Percy pales.

"Okay. Sometimes I wish I couldn't understand horses." Percy says. "These ones are worse than Arion..."

"They swearing?" Asks Piper.

"They also mentioned human flesh. Which is appealing." Percy adds, fidgeting slightly.

"Yes, my horses do so love human flesh." Says a new person. His voice is deep and threatening, and he's... huge. Like, as big as a giant.

Also naked, I may add. I blanch. He has short, curly blond hair and sunglasses.
He rides on a chariot with 4 horses. He sounds like... Ares. Yep.

Add that to what Percy said...

"It's Diomedes. He's a son of Ares and Cyrene. And... those horses eat human flesh. Heracules defeated him one time and used them for his... 8th labor I think."

"Oh joy." Says Percy. "So now you hate all demigods right? And you've been growing angrier and angrier in Taurturus waiting for the day of revenge, right? And now, thanks to the dark lord, you get a second chance, right? And you intend to murder us now, right?"

"There goes the dramatic speech. Okay, I can wing it. I have orders to defeat you, young demigods. And unfortunately, I have to do it today."

"Good job, couldn't have thought of it better myself." Says Piper. I snicker.

"Thanks. I've always had a way with words." Says Diomedes. His eyebrows furrow. "Wait, was that sarcasm?"

"You know, you're not as infuriating as your father." Says Percy. "I know, first-hand, because I defeated him myself. So... you a real giant?"

"Of course! You still require a god to defeat me! Now, enough with the small talk. Let us fight!" Then, he brandishes his club, pulls the reigns on his horses, and charges.

My thoughts as he charged.

Run. No... dodge. No... fight.

Luckily, Percy thrusts his hand and a wave springs out in fron of us, blocking even the strongesy man eating horses.

"I... will... pass... through!" Yells the giant with rage.

"Yeah, whatevs." Says Percy. "So. Wise girl. Plan?"

"Uh... you two distract him. Especially you Pipes. I'll sneak in and try to call a god. Use an IM. Then I'll get them here and we'll kill him!" I whisper. Then I say loudly, "I'LL DISTRACT HIM! YOU TWO GO IN FOR THE KILL!" They nod.

Then, the water shield drops and we go in to fight.

Percy and Piper make a big show of pretending to be the real killers while I distract.

He falls for it and goes for them.

"Annabeth! Your plan actually failed!" Wails Percy.

"What'll we ever do now? We're gonna die! No god can help us, I bet that Diomedes can just drop his weapons and kill us with his hands! We're so helpless!" Piper cries. Hopelessness spreads over me until I remember it's just the charmspeak. It works.

"You're right about that, child of Aphrodite! I'll show you how right you are!" He jumps off his horses and drops his club, walking over to them, cracking his knuckles.

They'll be okay. I think. Just gotta focus on my task.

"Oh Iris, goddess of rainbow," I whisper to the conveniently placed- when did it start raining? Percy winks at me.- rainbow.
"Except my offering," I flicked my last drachama into the rainbow and smile as it disappears. "Show me Athena, empire state building, 600th floor." The image ripples and I see my mother.

"Annabeth. What's wrong?" She asks. I point at Diomedes, who's being distracted by Piper and Percy and Percy shoots him in the face with salt water, and Piper shouts random commands while shooting him with cantaloupes. Umm... ow.

"Can you come?" My voice is unsure but steady.

"Of course." She runs her hand through the image and it disappears. Oh wow. That was fast.

Then, Diomedes catches Percy with the back of his hand, and he goes flying.

"Percy!" I yell. He crashes into an old abandoned cabin.

I run over to him and feel his pulse.

It's shallow, but there.

"Yo." Says Percy. His voice is strained.

"I'd slap you if you weren't in pain." I whisper. I feed him a piece of ambrosia and kiss him briefly. "Sit tight, seaweed brain." I stand and run over to Diomedes, my sword in my hand.

"Okay bud. Now you've made me mad." I say under my breath. Then a beautiful white owl flies out, flapping her wings threateningly. She lands next to me, and turns into my mother.

"Hope I'm not late." She says. She's dressed for combat, her spear in one hand and Aegis in the other.

"Join the party, mom."

He didn't have a chance.

We both charged at him. I sliced across his chest, then jabbed him in the- well, his no-no sqare.

I mentioned earlier that he's naked?

Yeah.

Athena showed him Aegis, which is only effective on mortals, (I wasn't looking) but it's pretty damn terrifying.

He screamed like a little girl, and Athena stabbed him with her spear.

"Bye bye Diomedes." The horses take one look at us, and start galloping away. But 4 melon to the head stops them short.

Piper blows on her conucopia.

"Wow." Says Percy, who I hadn't noticed was standing here. "You ladies are scary." I smile, lacing my fingers through his.

"Let's keep it that way, eh?" I say.

"Thanks, Lady Athena." Says Percy.

"Yeah. That was cool." Says Piper.

She smiles.

"I'd best be off young demigods. Good luck on your quest." She turns into an owl and flies away.