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Percy opened his left eye, to find that for some reason his right eye wouldn't open. He touched it with his bruised hand, to find that it was swollen shut. He looked around, and realized he was in the Apollo cabin. He sat up in his bed, and groaned as pain flared through the entire left side of his body. He looked under his shirt to find that his upper torso was extremely bandaged.

The demigod stood up, ignoring the great of soreness he felt in his legs, and walked into the sleeping quarters of the Apollo demigods.

No one was there, and the sun was still out, which meant that it must've been the training hour. Percy limped to the door, and opened it to be blinded by the sun's rays. He shielded his left eye, while still holding on to the left side of his torso, and walked towards the Big House.

His presumptions were true, for he heard the yells of pain, and triumph coming from the practice arena. He saw the Athena cabin's blinds hanging open, with the children in there with books glued to their faces.

Percy finally made it to the Big House, and opened the door. "Chiron?" he croaked.

"Yes, I'm coming Percy!" Chiron yelled from the back of the house. He rolled into the room in his wheelchair form. "Hello Percy. Are you alright?"

Percy smiled as he sat down into a chair. "Well, other than the fact I can only see out of one eye, and my whole left side hurts, yeah."

Chiron smiled as well. "Very good. Zoe told us what happened. She said you were able to control water."

"It would appear that would be the case," Percy said. "It just kind of happened out of instinct. Hey, by any chance, do you have a bottle of water?"

The man nodded, and wheeled himself out the room. In the other room, he yelled, "I would like to know more about this Minotaur situation. Zoe said that he approached you two while on the beach surrounding the top of the camp, but that part is still protected from Thalia's tree. Monsters shouldn't be able to get in there." He came back into the room, and put a bottle of water on the table next to Percy. "There you go."

Percy felt a pang of hurt in his heart when he heard Thalia's name. "Maybe we've been asking the wrong question. Instead of asking 'How are monsters getting in the camp?' we should be asking, 'Are monsters getting into the camp?'"

Chiron gave a confused look. "What do you mean? We already know the answer to that question. Clearly you should know the answer as well."

The son of Poseidon opened the bottle of water, and swallowed a gulp-full. Immediately, the pain in his left side went down, and the swelling in his eye went down. Now, he could see a line of vision on his left side. "The barrier hasn't failed before, has it?"

"Only when Thalia's tree was poisoned, but after Clarisse brought back the Fleece, all went back to normal."

Percy took another swig of water. He could now see clearly, but it was foggy. "Exactly, and the Fleece is still here, isn't it?" Chiron nodded. "Therefore, maybe the monsters aren't coming from outside the camp, but inside of it."

Chiron digested everything Percy told him. "Are you saying that monsters are somehow hiding inside the camp?"

Percy shrugged. "I'm not saying anything until I go see what's going on at that beach. I'll be back soon," Percy said walking towards the door.

"Wait, you're injured!"

The demigod gulped the rest of the water down, and tossed it at the centaur, who caught it. "Not anymore," said Percy with a perfect eyesight now.

He walked out the cabin, to see Zoe dragging Lee Fletcher by the ear, towards his own cabin.

"You mean to tell me that you left your patient here? Alone? Get in there and watch him you idiot," Zoe said, shoving Lee towards his door.

The counselor of the Apollo cabin walked through the door, and a few seconds later ran out with a scared look on his face. "He's not there."

Percy smiled, and hid behind one of the pillars holding the Big House up. He was gonna want to see this.

Zoe grabbed the poor counselor by the collar of his orange t-shirt. "You idiotic boy! He's probably broken the rest of his damn ribs by now. Don't just stand there, go and find him!"

Lee turned and ran, gods knows where.

Percy walked behind Zoe, who was massaging her temples in annoyance. "Looking for me?"

Zoe turned around, and slapped Percy across the face. Immediately after that, she said, "Yes I was, where were you?"

Percy smiled. "In the Big House."

"You should have waited until someone came to check on you. You could have really hurt yourself even worst. You should've-"

"You should've not slapped me, you could have hurt yourself," Percy said with a lopsided grin plastered on his face. "Come on, were gonna go see where that Minotaur came from."

Zoe looked like she wanted to argue more, but she eventually stormed off towards the forest, mumbling. Percy laughed to himself and ran after her.

*LINE BREAK*

Steven thrusted forward with a dull sword, only for Clarisse to parry the blow easily. The daughter of Ares swung a feint towards the neck of Steven, only for him to duck under it and elbow Clarisse in the gut. She stumbled back, and then the tip of the sword poked at her throat.

The son of Poseidon smiled. "Were even now Clarisse."

She grunted in annoyance and shoved the blade away. "Yeah whatever, pretty boy. We'll see who wins this next one."

The two took their stances again, only for a voice to be heard yelling. "Clarisse, its Chris. He said he remembers what happened."

The pair looked at each other, then bolted towards the Big House. He and Clarisse walked in to see Chris Rodriguez, with large black bags under his eyes. Talking about his eyes, his pupils were like tiny dots, and he had a crazed look in them. "I remember."

Clarisse kneeled next to him, and held his hand. "What is it Chris? What is it that you remember?"

Chris continued to stare at the floor, blankly. "I-I remember…Luke. The Ghost King told me, that I and Luke would…destroy Camp Half Blood from the inside out. He had me in that maze, gods knows how long." He then grabbed Clarisse's arm violently. "Luke approaches. Thousands of monsters at his command. Those eyes…oh those eyes…" The grip that he had Clarisse's arm went limp, and he sat shivering in his seat.

Chiron put a hand on Chris's shoulder. "Come on buddy. Let's get you back to bed." He led Chris down to the basement, and appeared back in the meeting room a few minutes later. "I fear Percy is right."

Steven raised an eyebrow. "What do you mean?"

"He said that he thinks that monsters haven't been coming from outside the camp, but from within its borders. I fear that an entrance to the Labyrinth is inside our camp."

"Wait, where is Percy?" asked Clarisse.

Chiron groaned. "He's where the Minotaur attacked him. He's looking to see-"

Steven didn't hear the rest, because he ran out the Big House and bolted towards the forest.

*LINE BREAK*

Percy walked along the beach with Zoe to his left, approaching where they had seen the Minotaur when it attacked them.

Zoe had told Percy all that had happened when he passed out. She said that Percy had truly controlled water, and he had formed a water spear of sorts to kill the beast. During hearing this, Percy realized that he must've found his anchor if he was able to control water. Did he want to save Zoe so bad, that it became his anchor?

Percy looked at the ocean and tried to make any sort of disruption by thinking of when he saved Zoe. Nothing.

He shook his head with a large sigh as the two approached the location where they spotted the Minotaur. The footprints were gone, most likely from the high tide of the sea.

"Do you see anything?" asked Percy.

Zoe didn't speak for a few seconds, until her eyes stopped on a large rock. "What is that?"

Percy saw it too. It looked like this boulder was shimmering, and its image distorted, like the road from far away on a hot day. "That is some rather strong Mist, if it can even hide its true nature from us."

The ex-hunter nodded, and began to walk slowly to the rock. The closer the two got to the boulder, the clearer it began. Finally, when they were two feet from it they saw a delta symbol implanted on the surface of it.

"This is an entrance to the Labyrinth," said Zoe.

Percy looked at her shocked, "Really? How do you know?"

Zoe grinned. "The hunters have walked across all states about a dozen times each, I think I know a Labyrinth entrance when I see one," she said in a matter-of-factly tone.

Percy put his hands up in surrender. "Sorry for asking a question, meanie." The demigod looked at the delta symbol again, and placed his hand on it gently. The boulder slid back, revealing a descending staircase to the maze itself. Laying on the steps limp was the Oracle. "Found the Oracle. And this is definitely where they've been coming from."

Zoe looked down into the descending abyss. "How can we keep monsters from coming up here?"

"I don't really know, maybe if I-" Percy started.

"Maybe if you do nothing," said Steven with Riptide in his hand.

The second she saw it, she scowled. "Where did you get that?"

Steven raised an eyebrow. "What do you mean?"

"I mean, where did you find my blade?"

Steven looked at the sword with a puzzled look on my face. "Your blade? Chiron gave this to me. He said that it was of the sea, therefore I was the rightful owner of it."

Zoe frowned. "Your mentor told you wrong. That blade was stolen from me, from a disgusting male long ago. It is the reason I am the way I am today. When Anaklusmos was taken from me, I was disowned and thrown away like trash. Then Artemis found me, and showed me the way of the hunters. So, naturally when I see something that has caused me as much pain as that did, I'm usually not pleased to be introduced to it again."

Steven looked at the sword, then capped it. He handed it to Zoe, who grabbed it carefully. "Here, take it. You've protected my brother from much, so I trust your words if you say Riptide is yours."

Zoe looked at the blade, back at Steven, then walked off towards camp.

"Pleasant meeting," said Steven smirking at his brother.

Percy smiled. "That was noble of you. She thinks differently of you now."

Steven waved it off. "Whatever, it's nothing. Now, if you'd close that Hades forsaken door to the death maze, it'd make everyone happy."

Percy nodded, and grabbed the Oracle and placed it on his shoulder carefully. He climbed to the top of the staircase, before touching the delta sign again, making the rock slide back over the hole. "Is that the only reason you came here, to accidently give away your best weapon?"

"No, actually it's not. It's about Chris. He's awake."

Percy's eyes widened. "What did he say?"

Steven sighed and scratched the scalp of his head. "Apparently he had travelled in the Labyrinth for a while, so that might explain why he's gone loco. He said that Luke was leading an army of monsters to attack Camp Half Blood, coming from the Labyrinth. He also mentioned something about the ghost king, and something about eyes."

"He's going to attack Camp Half Blood? Isn't there going to be less demigods here than normal, since the winter break ending?" Percy asked.

Steven shook his head. "He won't do it during the school year. You can probably estimate how many people are in camp now, right? Probably, 200 to 300. Well, take a quarter of that and that's the number of campers during school. He's going to attack the camp to kill demigods. Therefore, he'll wait until there's the most amount of campers here."

"How is he even going to get here? The Labyrinth travels underneath the whole of America, how are they going to magically come here?"

"Well, sadly many of the cabin leaders have been suspecting that there are many spies among our own. Other than that however, I have no clue how they think they can get to this one entrance out of thousands."

Percy pointed towards camp. "Maybe that's why Chris was in the Labyrinth in the first place. Maybe they send one dummy at a time to try to find the doorway here. There may be hundreds of others looking at this second. We have to question him more."

Steven shook his head. "He's gone mental Perce. He won't even acknowledge your existence if you try to start talking to him. He'll talk when he wants to."

Percy sighed in defeat. "When do the campers who's leaving, go home?"

"They usually leave a few days before school starts, so Chiron has scheduled pickup from the camp tomorrow."

"Great," said Percy.

"Should we tell the camp before they leave?" asked Steven.

Percy shook his head. "No, if we tell them then that's the rest of the school year for the spies to relay the information to Kronos. We'll tell them when they come back, and we're sure of what we're talking about."

Steven smirked. "Enough of the negative, I wanna hear about this occurrence with the Minotaur and the water spike."

"Soon. I'll tell both you and master when our training begins."

"Fair enough," said Steven. "Come on, help me find a new sword."

*LINE BREAK*

The Kraken and Steven listened intently as Percy explained the encounter with the Minotaur in great detail. When he finished with the story, the Kraken was nodding with warm orange eyes. You have found your anchor Percy.

Percy shook his head. "I don't believe so Master, I tried to control water after the incident, and thought about when I saved Zoe, but it didn't work."

The Kraken shook his head. You misunderstand again. You must search within yourself and find out what drives you. If you really think that saving Zoe is your anchor, then you are much dumber than you should be. I believe your anchor is similar to Steven's.

Percy looked at his half-brother in confusion, then it hit him. "Zoe herself."

The Kraken hummed in satisfaction. Very good, child.

Percy looked at the floor. "Does this mean, that I am in love with her?"

It would appear so, Percy.

Steven sucked his teeth while shaking his head. "Not a good idea bro. She was like, the biggest man hater not even a week ago. If Percy falls in love with someone else, does that person become his anchor?"

It's possible, but very unlikely. Love is something that takes a long while to forget. It is not very often when you find a person you would do anything for.

Percy bit his tongue. "What about…Thalia?"

The Kraken hummed again. It's very possible that she could be an anchor as well to you. However, the thing is, is that the less or more you feel about someone affects the strength of that anchor. Since you have almost gotten over Thalia, that anchor could be very weak, or not there at all.

Percy shook his head and tried to put all these new realizations to the back of his mind. "Alright, I found my anchor. Can I try this out?"

The Kraken nodded, then they were teleported to the shore of the same island they were training on the day before. I'm not going to tell you what to do. You killed the Minotaur with your abilities, you should be able to do it yourself.

Percy nodded, then took a deep breath. He held his hand up, and begin to erase his minds of all thoughts. Then, he closed his eyes and imagined Zoe. An imaginary picture appeared in his mind, of her flawless face.

The picture was perfect, down to the small dimple that appeared on her left cheek. Her volcanic rock eyes were beaming with confidence and extravagance. Her thin but full lips were curled into a beautiful closed smile, and he could imagine her smell of pine trees.

Still thinking of her, Percy opened his eyes, and with all the concentration he put into making the mental image of Zoe, he poured it into wanting to make a ball of water. He felt a slight tug at his gut, and then the water began to ripple. After a few seconds of concentrating, a sphere of water floated above the ocean. A few seconds passed, then Percy let go of his control of the water. He dropped to a knee and began to breathe heavily with sweat dripping down his face and neck.

The Kraken's eyes turned green as he hummed loudly. Fantastic! You did it Perseus!

Steven walked over and clapped Percy on the shoulder. "Good job, man."

Percy grinned happily and stood to his feet. "Thanks."

Now, the Kraken said, rising to his webbed feet. The real fun begins.

*LINE BREAK*

Steven sat next to Thalia's tree as he watched his camp-mates drive away from Camp Half Blood. He had a slight headache, still not completely recovered from the training he and Percy went through the day before with water control. Ever since he joined camp three years before, he's hated seeing his friends leave. A few people shed tears, some said heartfelt goodbyes, and some simply left without a word. But he didn't care. He loved them all like family.

After being in that gods damned orphanage for all those years, he came here, and he was welcomed like an equal. Something people never did.

His mind drifted to the fateful day he escaped that orphanage.

Steven was sitting at a table with his tutor, Ms. Patchett. He hated Ms. Patchett.

Ms. Patchett was different from the other tutors, nuns, headmaster, etc. But Steven still hated her just like he did everyone else in that place. How was she different you ask? She hadn't touched Steven.

He hadn't been touched in a few years since he became what the headmaster called, "unclean." When he hit puberty, and started to grow hair in his genital area, they had left him alone. But they still treated him like shit, and would still discipline him with the paddle.

Ms. Patchett hadn't sent Steven to the Headmaster for disciplining yet either, but she still acted like a cunt.

This day she was acting particularly bitchy for some reason. Steven thought it was because she was in her special week of the month.

"Steven, I'm leaving," said a sweet voice behind him.

Steven was drawn out of his daydream, turned around and saw Annabeth with a white t-shirt and jeans on. She had her blonde hair pulled back into a ponytail, but she still looked beautiful in Steven's eyes. "So soon? Is your dad already here?"

Annabeth nodded and pointed to a white sedan with a middle aged man in the driver's seat. "Yep." She walked up to Steven and gave him a hug. "Be safe, okay? I'll be seriously pissed if I find out you die while I'm gone."

The son of Poseidon nodded. "Yeah, I'll be fine." When she pulled away, Steven realized he couldn't contain himself any longer. "Annabeth, I know this is a super bad time to be saying this, but I need to tell you something."

The blonde girl smiled delightfully. "You can tell me anything Steven."

"It's about Chris. He started talking."

Annabeth frowned and looked disappointed, but then raised an eyebrow in interest. "What did he say?"

"He said he was in the Labyrinth, and that Luke was raising an army to destroy Camp Half Blood. After this happened, Zoe, Percy, and I found an entrance to the Labyrinth on the beach north of camp. That's definitely where the monsters have been coming from," said Steven.

"What did Chiron say?" Annabeth asked.

"Well, he said he agreed with me and Percy, in deciding not to tell anyone until next summer. Luke wouldn't attack unless he knew he could kill as many demigods as possible."

Annabeth still had a slight sign of hurt in her face whenever Steven talked about Luke so harshly, something he despised. She said, "Yeah, most probably." She looked at her car. "I don't think it's smart for me to go home, things sound grim with this Labyrinth situation. We need as many people looking for ways to safeguard this entrance as possible. It also wouldn't hurt having the counselor of the Athena cabin here researching it."

Steven wanted to say, 'Yes! Please stay, I'm pretty depressed every time I don't see you!' But instead, he said, "No, its fine. It's January, and next school break is during summer, you can relax for a few months."

Annabeth laughed. "Relax? You must be as crazy as Kronos himself if you think I'm going back home to relax."

"Listen, I'm telling you we're fine. The only counselors that are leaving are you and Katie. I know how much you care about school, and getting a good education so you can go to college. Go, we'll be fine."

Annabeth looked towards the cabins one more time, then sighed. "You're probably the only person who could talk me out of this." She kissed Steven on the forehead. "Be safe." Then, she walked off towards her car.

Steven stood there, grinning like a love struck fool.

*LINE BREAK*

Percy ducked underneath Zoe's overhead swipe, and elbowed her in the gut, and put the edge of his sword to her throat. He laughed triumphantly. "Finally! Holy shit that took forever. What's my record now?"

Zoe pushed the blade away and began to unstrap her armor. "I think it's around 8-14."

Percy frowned when he heard that. "I'm not stopping until I pass you."

Zoe smiled. "Good, at this rate you'll pass me a few years after Kronos is dead. "

"I hope your joking."

"Of course I am!" Zoe said.

Percy began to take off his armor. "I still don't believe you when you say the hunters have a sense of humor."

Zoe rolled her eyes. "Lady Artemis is actually very funny."

Percy looked surprised. "Really? That's very surprising."

The lunch horn blew throughout the camp. The two walked to the dining area, to find about a quarter of what the camp used to be. Not only that, but there were only three tables and people from all cabins were sitting together.

Percy picked a table with the fewest people sitting in it. He burnt sacrifices to his mother, and sat down across from Zoe. In the distance he could see Steven walking out of the lake with no shirt on. He saw Percy, then put on his shirt and ran to their table.

He quickly burnt a sacrifice to Poseidon, and noticed that there was no room next to Percy, but there was next to Zoe.

"Oh, what a predicament I have found myself in," said Steven looking at Percy for help.

Percy stood up and grabbed his tray. "Here Zoe, you can have my-"

"No, I'll manage," she said gesturing for Steven to sit down.

He looked at her sheepishly, and sat down slowly. "So, see how many people there are now?" he asked Percy.

Percy looked at the other tables, and made some observations. Almost all the Ares children were still at Camp, as well as the Hermes cabin. None of the Demeter cabin remained, and a few children from the Aphrodite and Athena cabin remained. About half of the Hephaestus and Apollo cabin remained. He relayed this info to Steven.

"Well," he started. "The Ares cabin as well as Hermes' children all got expelled from their schools, and the rest in the Hermes cabin still haven't been claimed, and they don't have anyone to go back home to. The only people that haven't left from the other cabins, are the older children, like the counselors and such."

Percy nodded. "I'm guessing that they're staying because their scents are probably the strongest?"

"Yeah, basically."

"So," Percy started. "The only counselors that left were Annabeth and Katie, right?"

Steven shook his head. "Silena didn't show up to camp at all this winter break because she went on vacation with her grandparents."

Percy gave a confused look. "Who's cabin is she the counselor of? I don't really know any demigods that can go on vacation when they please."

"Aphrodite. She's the oldest child of their cabin, and Drew is the temporary counselor while she's away. I asked her the same thing about the vacation, and she just said that she was able to manipulate the types of monsters found in the wild."

Percy nodded his head, impressed. He would need to talk to this daughter of Aphrodite. "Interesting. Oh Steven, by any chance did you ever get another sword?" Percy asked, glancing at Zoe nervously.

Steven cleared his throat awkwardly. "Um, no. I was going to ask Father if he would supply me with a new one tomorrow at dinner."

Zoe stood up suddenly, startling both boys since she'd shown no interest in their conversation. "No need," she said handing Riptide back to Steven. "You will need this sword in the near future, so I will not allow my selfish wants outweigh your needs."

Steven offered it back to her. "No, it's yours. You should have it-"

"No, it is not mine anymore. It's yours. Plus, I've grown clunky with the sword," she said, walking towards her cabin.

Percy scoffed. "Clunky? Sure doesn't seem like she's clunky everytime she beats my ass at swordfighting."

Steven looked over his shoulder, and waited until Zoe was inside the Artemis cabin. When she was, he turned around and said quietly, "Listen Perce, I've been meaning to tell you something. I don't know how this whole you and Zoe thing is gonna work. I mean, she's hundreds of years old, while your just turning 15 this summer. Your practically a child in her mind. How about the fact that she not only was in the hunt, but the lieutenant of the damn thing? If you thought Thalia's rejection was bad, I don't even wanna think what this one would turn to."

Percy sighed as he heard his half-brother echo his thoughts. "I know it's wrong, but I can't help it. We've spent so much time together, I guess I've kinda fallen for her. What am I supposed to do? It's not like I can just fall in love with someone else. You heard Master, he said one of the hardest things to do is change your anchor."

Steven shrugged. "Maybe you don't have to change your anchor, just get someone to soothe your want for love."

Percy gave a dissapointed face. "Are you telling me I should get a fuck-buddy?"

"I'm not telling you anything, I'm just giving advice. Listen man, you saw how many girls there were this winter break, right? Well, there's probably 50 more that are like Silena and just didn't show up to camp this winter. Some of them are smoking hot, and their racks?" Steven whistled with his hands cupped around the air in front of his chest.

Percy laughed, and a comfortable silence enveloped the two. Then, Percy broke it. "I couldn't, I would be betraying-"

"Please do not tell me you would be betraying Zoe. She's never had a boyfriend before, and she's had the woman who practically started feminism as a mother figure for hundreds of years. I doubt she would care if you got a girlfriend."

Percy still wasn't convinced. "It wouldn't be fair for the girl. I would be her boyfriend, and in love with another girl."

Steven stood up. "Percy, you've driven yourself into that shady part of town. It's your choice whether to take that left turn and go back home, or you can start doing donuts in the street in front of a crackhouse full of gang members." He crouched by Percy. "I know how depressed I get when I think about Annabeth, I don't want you feeling the same about a girl that it might never work out with."

He walked off, leaving Percy to his thoughts.

This chapter actually took a long ass time to write, for the main reason of getting back into school. Its been pretty busy, but it shouldn't stop me from writing. Maybe only slow down the frequency of the updates.

Thank you guys so fucking much for 1000 followers. I was so happy when I got that email for that 1000th follow, I literally shouted out in joy. I can't believe that 1000 people wanted to keep up with my story, but it's a reality. Thank you guys so much.

I'm also approaching 800 favs, and we just surpassed 400 reviews, so once again, thank you.

Thank you guys with all the kind comments from my Author's Note from Friday, it warms my heart that I know I have readers that will support my decisions, and not judge me for them.

Many people pointed out in my last ACTUAL chapter that M rated stories technically couldn't post graphic sexual themes, according to the Terms and Conditions. I know that, because I actually read the Terms when I read both my stories. That's why I don't keep Author's Note chapters up on my stories, because I know it's against the Terms. I will say however, if I ever do decide to post a chapter with strong sexual content, I will do it without a second thought. I will because at least half of the M stories on this website has had sex in them, and a quarter of them are literally sex stories. That's the last time I'll say anything about that.

Review time ladies and gents!

TheMasterTrident13- "Story's going real well and I only have one gripe so far: Greeks didn't use long swords. Bronze isn't a material capable of the stresses which a long sword must go through and would bend much too easily. The Spartans used 1 foot long lakonian short swords while most Greeks would either use the leaf-shaped Kopis sword or the Xiphos sword. A Xiphos is usually around 3 feet long from what I remember. The Kopis were one-sided cleaver-like swords while the Xiphos were double-edged and designed more like Roman Gladii (one type of Gladius was inspired by the Xiphos) and from the way it is shaped you can tell it's more weighted at the end for slashing rather than stabbing. Oh and remember if you ever do a forging scene, you CANNOT forge bronze. Bronze has too low of a melting point and was cast into shape. Forging was first developed by the Romans (and China too probably). In PJO it is Celestial Bronze but only steel weaponry would be graded on carbon content and needs to be forged. TSA is definitely worse. Bought three TSA-approved suitcases and used the built in locks. TSA are supposed to have a master key for TSA approved locks but instead they chose to rip the fucking locks out of all three suitcases. What did they find? Absolutely nothing. Now I'm gonna have to buy new suitcases when I next go on vacation. It's not like they're cheap or something!"

Dude that actually sucks. I despise TSA as well, and they definitely need to be punished for lost/broken equipment that they handled. I just had a super bad experience with Border Patrol this time.

As for the whole Greeks didn't use longswords thing, that's a cool little history lesson there. I will definitely be using that in my Throne of Want story. However, I chose longswords as what they train with because this story is in modern time, not Ancient Greek time. Oh, and since they didn't use longswords, what does that make Riptide, since that was made during Ancient Greek time? Questions, questions...

The Star Breather- "Good chapter. Love the Eragon reference (I think) for the sparring match between Zoe and Percy :) Keep it up man !"

Yeah, that was a reference to when they sparred in Inheritance. I really liked how Paolini described that bout, and I thought it fit the situation here well.

And like I said, there were a lot of people supporting my decision to drop the schedule. So I just wanted to say thanks for that again.

That's it for this chapter, I hope you guys have a good day. My next update for Throne of Want will be as soon as possible. This is Soap signing off.