Hi, I know it seems like I pretty much disappeared off the face of the earth. Sorry

Disclaimer: The world of PJO would be an extremely scary place if I owned any of it, but fortunately for you, all rights go to Rick.

Annabeth's POV

The rumbling coming from the ground jolted me awake.

For a second I had no idea where I was or what was going on. Then it hit me like a raging Cyclops.

I was in the middle of a cabin challenge, and losing this game was not an option. I surveyed the area, but I was still not fully awake, and nothing made very much sense.

Questions exploded inside my head: Where was I? How long was I going to be stuck here for? How could I make an escape? Did I already eat dinner? (I was getting pretty hungry). Unfortunately, I had no answers. One thing was for certain though: seaweed brain is so dead.

I mean, seriously? Who goes and kisses someone and then traps them in some kind of prison? Well, I guess I could see myself coming up this type of scheme, but kelp head does not do this sort of thing. It was such an easy and brilliant plan, and so not his style that it made me furious.

Remind me to kill him when I see him again. Or kiss him. Maybe I can do both at the same time.

"Boys are so confusing," I mutter almost inaudibly, so it surprises me when someone replies,

"Hon, being lost in love is half the fun!"

Oh. My. Gods.

You can forget kissing anyone when I see them again. In fact, I might just throw the kelp head in to tarterus after this. Thalia and Nico can come too.

But I swallow a retort and summon the nicest voice I can manage,

"What are you doing here, Drew? I thought you were on our side?"

She simply beams at me (Making me want to puke).

"Change of plan, Nico offered to go on a date with me if I helped him out! Isn't that great? Besides, you so need this Annabeth! I'm doing you a favor."

I had no idea what she was talking about, but her 'favor' she was doing me made me uneasy. Drew never does anyone favors, unless they are sure to end up horrible. Never.

"What exactly is this so called favor?" I said in what I hoped was not panicked voice. But that's when I notice the boxes she has with her. And if I am correct, there is a ninety nine percent chance that by tomorrow, none of the big three will have any more kids.

She just smiled mischievously, confirming my worst fears.

"It's time to give you a makeover! You're going to love it!"

Thalia's POV

Fish boy's little stunt did not happen without a cost. By the time the earth began to stop moving, he looked as though he would pass out. Unfortunately, there was no time to help him.

Fortunately though, it left the campers looking just about as winded as he was. By the time that they recovered from their shock and were able to regroup, death dude and I had made pretty good distance to the boundary.

I could see the river from where I was standing. Just a few feet across, and we'd be home free. Just another hundred feet, and the game would be over! Just like that, we would prove that three could beat three hundred. That size of the team isn't important, and that the people on it are what truly matter.

But as much as we wanted to beat the camp, they would never go down without a fight, and I wouldn't expect them to.

Let them try, I thought to myself, we'll show them not to mess with the big three.

I charged into battle.

After about half an hour, I began to realize that we were in trouble.

We had barely made any progress toward the river, and although were holding off pretty well against the campers, we wouldn't be able to keep fighting forever.

Their numbers seemed endless, and no matter how many we defeated the enemy would eventually overrun us, and we would be forced into their prison with no protection left for our own flag.

By the looks on both Percy and Nico's face, I could tell that they reached the same conclusion.

But there had to be some other way.

Maybe there was some way Percy could just strangle them all with water or something. Or I could imbalance the electrical charge of atoms in their body. Maybe Nico could swallow the whole area up in a shadow.

Hmmmm…..

"Nico!" I yell out as loudly as I can. Out of the corner of my eye, I can see he is in the middle of fighting some intimidating looking Hephaestus kid. He doesn't look up. So I try harder.

"EARTH TO , GET YOUR BUTT OVER HERE NOW!"

Apparently I was more intimidating then the other camper, because he is able to make his way over to me just as I knock out the camper I was in combat with by slamming my shield into her face.

I tried to tell him about this new idea I had come up with, but campers kept on disrupting us.

Between all of the stabs, thrusts, and parries I focused on, I was barely able to let him know anything.

We needed a distraction, not a long one, but just enough to get my plan across. I caught locked eyes with Percy. He seemed to understand what I was asking. I guess aqua idiot does have something other than just sand in his head. Who knew?

Either way, he caused a massive wave from the river to wash over the battle, protecting me and Nico with an air bubble.

I turned to give him a silent thank you, but I'm pretty sure that he passed out.

So I turned my attention to Nico.

"Shadow travel the Flag over now. We could have easily won a long time ago if we'd just thought of it." I shook my head at my own stupidity.

Zombie man just laughed, which was the last thing that I expected from him.

"Wha-"

"You don't think I haven't already tried that? I don't know why, but there isn't a single shadow, I bet Apollo just doesn't want his kids to lose. But that's not going to work, unfortunately. Got any other ideas?"

I tried to think of a plan, but really Apollo, no shadows? I didn't even notice, because he must have only direct shined the sun on our side, after all, there were plenty of shadows over here. Oh!

"Got it! Shadow travel to the border of the clearing, and try and run it in without being noticed. I'll cause a distraction with Percy, and hopefully they won't notice you."

I highly doubted that seaweed brain would be in any condition to fight, but I decided not to say that. Death breath looked pretty apprehensive as it was.

"Are you sure about this, Thalia? There are a ton of risks if I get caught-"

But I cut him off before he can finish.

"So don't get caught! I know it's risky, but it's our only plan, now go, the campers are already coming!"

It was true. Our talk was getting to be a little bit too long, and I could already them positioning for attack.

I gave Nico one last final look and turned to try and re awaken Percy. When yelling didn't work, I just gave him an electrical shock. That seemed too do the trick, although he was grumbling and cursing a lot.

Not that I was paying that much attention. I was currently fighting off yet another enemy.

The boy jabbed at me experimentally. I stepped away. I slashed. He rolled to the side.

I lost my sight of Percy. I scanned the crowd frantically, for any sign of him. There were none.

I carelessly tried to jab my opponent in the stomach. He was able to snap my spear as I thrust it toward him. When the camper was about to bring down his sword on my chest, he suddenly fell to the ground.

I looked up to see kelp head standing in front of me, with his hand still clenched into a fist.

"You're welcome." He smirked, before I could even find my voice. "Now how about that distraction?"

Annabeth's POV

I hated this.

I hated Percy for taking my knife; I hated Drew for doing this to me, but most of all I hated myself for getting into this mess.

It must have been at least half of an hour of being tied up in a chair and having to endure Drew and her hideous makeover supplies. Not only that, but I had no idea what was going on during the game.

I absolutely hated not knowing. And stupid seaweed brain knew it, and set up this stupid prison, because he knew I would go crazy being tortured by Drew and being left clueless about everything.

But not for long.

"Drew?" I said in my most sickeningly sweet voice that made me want to gag. She just turned to look at me, so I continued,

"I absolutely love this treat from you but I really need to get out of here. Do you know any way?"

The first part was so untrue that I had to struggle to get the words out. She just gave me a nasty smile.

"Of course I know how to get out, but what would be the fun in that? Besides, I wouldn't be able to paint your nails!"

I gritted my teeth. Obviously, the nice way wasn't going to work out, so I tried a different approach.

"Look," I started, all the friendliness in my voice gone, "I am getting out of here. You won't be able to stop me. But if you can help me out, I can give you something in return."

She cocked an eyebrow, obviously interested. So I continued

"Percy. I'll let you go on a date with Percy."

By the look on her face I could tell we had a deal.

OoOoOoOo

I made my way to the big three's flag. The entire area was completely deserted, but the last traces of the battle around here could be seen.

Typical, they wouldn't leave a guard. I couldn't wait to see their faces when I carried the flag to victory. And Percy being told he had to suffer through a date with Drew. Heh, that's what he gets for leaving me in prison.

I carefully picked up the flag, which thankfully did not shock me again because I 'borrowed' a camper's pair of rubber gloves. (I have no idea why they even had them in the middle of this game).

Slowly, I made my way to the river. I could see all the way across. A huge battle was raging, although something seemed to be brewing on the left side especially. I had no idea what it was, but it must have been pretty bad, because every single camper seemed to be over there, trying to put it to a stop.

Well, at least the big three idiots will have their hands full.

Oh, I can't wait to see their faces!

I began to make my way toward the boundary. Fifty feet….

I wonder how surprised they'll be to see that I got out of prison…

Forty feet.

Maybe, just maybe I wouldn't have to kill seaweed brain. After all, suffering through Drew would probably be more torture anyways…

Thirty feet.

I was so close, just a few more paces…

Twenty feet.

That's when I noticed. So caught up in my thoughts, I didn't even see Nico sprinting toward me with the flag in his hand.

Crap.

I willed my legs to run faster. I was almost there; I would be able to beat him! 10 feet away…

Splosh!

A solid wall of water crashed strait into me. I staggered to the side, and the world began to go fuzzy.

However, I dimly remember a splash through the water, a triumphant scream, and a horn that signaled the end of the games. Then the world went black.

Up on Olympus…

"I believe you owe us a total of one thousand three hundred and fifty drachmas between all of you." Zeus said, doing the math in his head. The rest of the counsel groaned.

Then he continued "Athena, you get one hundred from Poseidon's winnings for predicting your daughters escape, and Hades is allowed to take fifty drachmas of my winnings for his son carrying over the flag. Now pay up!"

The Big Three smiled widely as the other ten Olympians handed them over the money.

It had been a very interesting day. A betting pool was set up by Hermes, and every single god and goddess had ended up betting on something, though they were mostly watching for the action.

They had not ended up disappointed, even Areas had been pleased, and Aphrodite almost screamed with delight when Percy had kissed Annabeth.

It had actually been a kind of nice day, as the Olympians watched all of their kids practically battle to death with the rest of their family.

The strangest thing of all though, was that the big three were able to stay in the same room for over five minutes without causing some kind of explosion to happen in the world.

Maybe it was the fact that they're kids were all on the same side, or maybe they had been too engrossed in the challenge.

But either way, all three of the Gods left the throne room with a huge smile on their face, more proud of their kids then they could ever say.

Still have the aftermath of this story to do…

To say sorry for taking so long to update, I made this chapter over double as long as normal chapters. Hope you enjoyed :) (sorry if it is not the most epic kind-of ending…)

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