"Stop now!", Annabeth said exhausted. We were now walking west for almost a day and nothing had happened. I was hoping that Annabeth had some sort of a plan and luckily I was proven right.
"Why? We must not waste any time!", Phoebe asked angrily but I could hear in her voice that she was as exhausted as everyone even if she would not admit it.
"Yes, you are right. But haven't you noticed? In fact we are wasting time right now. We won't find Artemis, if we are just walking west. We need to think about the other parts of the prophecy.", Annabeth replied clearly annoyed about the stubbornness of the huntress.
"You are right, but what do you mean we should do?", Zoe asked softly.
"We can stop for a while and eat something. Then Annabeth can tell us about her plan.", Thalia suggested and laughed as my stomach grumbled when she said the word "eat".
We all agreed to her idea. After another hour of walking we finally found a good place to take a break and I created us some food. Zoe and Phoebe looked impressed by my powers but I just shrugged it off.
"So Annie, what's your plan?", I asked and hoped that she had a good one, because I was really tiered of walking.
"Are you serious Percy? "Annie"? What is that for a name?", Annabeth asked. I just shrugged and Annabeth continued.
"Remember that line of the prophecy? "Help shall be granted through the god of thunder and rain" Since this line obviously mean Zeus, maybe Thalia could ask him for help."
"You want me to ask my dad, who turned me into a tree, for help? Seriously?", Thalia asked a little bit mad.
"Thalia, you are too proud. You must learn to get over your grudges.", I remarked and she shot me a glare.
"Thalia, you know, that void brain is right.", Annabeth added. Thalia sighed.
"Okay! You win! I will pray to him, okay?", she said and walked away to have silence.

"I hope that will work.", I told Annabeth and she knew that I was worried of Thalia.
"What do you think could happen?", Annabeth asked annoyed.
"Well, Thalia could offend Zeus and then he could blast her out of existence."
"You really think he would do that? And: Even she is not that dumb."
"Yeah. You are… Oh look she is coming back.", I said and ran towards her.

Thalia grinned and I could see that she succeeded in something.
"Dad helped us. He gave me that ring", she said and showed us a ring, which seemed to me made out of lightning. "He said that it would show us the way to "the bane of Olympus" and we would know what we will have to do from there."

"Then, let's go!", Phoebe said and was already running away. I just sighed and run after her.