Chapter Thirteen

Water-boy POV (Hahahahaha! I told you I had plans!)

We walked through the door-way and our eyes quickly adjusted to the brightness. We stared at the creature in front of us in shock. It was a golden ram. It was shining with long, curled, thick horns. Then it bleated.

I stared at it thinking. We were searching for the Golden Fleece, right? And the Golden Fleece originally came from a golden ram. And there was a golden ram right in front of us… Oh my gods. This was the original golden ram. I looked at it with new respect.

Annabeth's face was pale, I guessed she figured that out too. "Guys," she said quietly, "This is the golden ram."

Thalia's eyes widened, "You mean the golden ram? The one that its fleece was used as the 'All so Powerful' Golden Fleece?" Annabeth nodded. I rolled my eyes, but no one saw me. I was just little Water-boy.

The ram bleated and stamped its foot. "Is it… challenging us?" Nico asked wide eyes. I shrugged and thank the gods they saw me. "So it is challenging us?" Oh my gods, they should be glad I can't speak, because they'd be shocked by my vocabulary of colorful language.

"So what do we do now?" Nico asked.

Thalia cracked her knuckles, "Only one thing. We accept its challenge."

The next moments happened it a blur. Thalia roared and her eyes glowed. Her lightning bolt pendent flew to her hand and grew to a real, life-sized lightning bolt. It was like Zeus' Master Bolt. She threw it at the ram and it screamed as it got a direct hit. Then the bolt flipped back to her like a boomerang. The ram just shook itself. Thalia's eyes widened, "How…"

Annabeth's eyes became a stormy grey. Her owl pendant flew off its cord and became a real barn owl. I remember Annabeth asking "Where's the owl?" when she became calm again. Oh, that owl.

The owl dived down with a screech and ripped the skin of the ram's back. The wound bled golden ichor. Just as the owl attacked Annabeth ran up right behind it with her knife drawn. The ram flew in the air, barely dodging her knife's uppercut.

Oops, we forgot it could fly.

Nico drew his sword and plunged it into the ground. He closed his eyes in concentration. "Serve me." He whispered. A boney hand reached out of the ground. It was a skeleton. Then several others joined it. Nico looked like he was about to pass out, but he still tried to attack the ram. The skeletons attacked the ram too. The ram landed and, well, lived to its namesake and rammed the skeletons away.

Nico tried to stop so he wouldn't be rammed, but the ram just turned and flung him away. He flew in the air and landed back-first into the wall. From my point of view I could see that his forehead was bleeding with a deep cut and he was semi-conscious. I couldn't blame him.

"Nico!" Annabeth screamed and rushed over to him. Her barn owl looked in her direction and continued diving at the ram. The ram bleated its victory, its head high.

Thalia, angered by Nico so easily defeated, threw her lightning bolt at the ram, who dodged. Then as the lightning bolt swung back it split into multiple lightning bolt daggers. The daggers stopped when they reached Thalia and floated around her. Her eyes still glowing, Thalia pointed at the ram.

The daggers flew over the ram, surrounding it. Then they shot bolts of electricity at the ram. The ram was shocked (literally). Then I threw bullets of water at it. It stumble backwards. Grover played his reed pipes and strong vines snapped out of the earth. They hit each other as if they were doing a high five, and then strapped the ram down. Another vine slapped the ram all over multiple times.

Across the room, Annabeth was giving Nico ambrosia and nectar. He steadily was able to stand up, still shaken from summoning the undead.

He grabbed his fallen sword and walked over toward the ram. Then we all attacked at once. Nico summoned more skeletons and he and them attacked it. Thalia kept smashing the ram with Aegis and her lightning bolts. It bleated and tried to fly, but could only go about a foot in the air due to Grover's vines. Then Annabeth and her owl attacked from the sky. Annabeth jumped on the ram's back and stabbed it. Her owl grabbed the fleece in its claws painfully.

Then I being only water, went right through it. It's an experience I'd wish I'd never had. The ram shuddered and screamed in pain as I made myself turn icy cold to burning hot in less than a second repeatedly. Then with all of us combined the ram disintegrated.

Annabeth's owl flew up screeching its triumph with the fleece in its talons. Annabeth held out her arm and the owl landed on it. "Good job, Tuto," she praised. The owl puffed his chest out and let go of the fleece. Then it flew away.

We all had minor wounds. The biggest was a long gouge in Thalia's arm. "Ow," she winced, "That's going to leave a mark."

I had no injuries since I was water. Nico had the cut on his forehead and bruises on his chest. Annabeth only had a scrape or two and a few bruises. Grover really in truth had no wounds.

"Now," Nico asked as Annabeth wrapped his wounds, "How are we getting out of here?"

"I don't know," Thalia shrugged as Grover wrapped hers.

"Whatever we do," Grover said, "We have to do it fast. We don't know how much time had gone by. The whole camp could be in chaos because we were in here too long."

"You're right," was all that Annabeth said finishing with Nico. She gave him some more ambrosia pieces and ate a few for herself. Then she threw the bag at Thalia who caught it and ate some pieces.

Annabeth grabbed the fleece and it turned into a vest. She handed it to Nico who put it on. Immediately he looked better. "That's the cure," she said. Then an expanding light came from the fleece.

"Help!" Nico cried and Annabeth, Grover and Thalia grabbed onto each other. Soon the light consumed them and I was left alone in the cavern. I sadly turned to liquid soaking in the ground, traveling out of the cavern.

(A/N) August 16, 2011

Hahaha! I made Water-boy get left behind! OMG I think the story's almost done! :,( Don't worry! I still have many plans as I plot behind the cover of sleep…

Why don't people review anymore? I'm glad I get reviews and that I'm in the hundreds, but I only get now like three each chapter. And if I got the same number of review as hits that'd be awesome!

What are hits, yuri's, and lemons?

-wolfeclipse25

p.s. GUESSING WHAT THE THREE TESTS ARE STILL OPEN THOUGH YOU DON'T WIN ANYTHING!