To start off I have to say thanks to Shorty and KG Inc.: thank you for telling me who died in BOTL. I really appreciate it. Now that my thanks are done, I am sorry that I took so long to put up that last chapter. I was busy having fun on my cruise…I know it's a crime sorry! Anyway…the last chapter was really stupid, I know, and there was no point to it. But I had to have a slow chapter after the battle (that was also really bad) so this chapter will have more Thalia, who I love so much, because she is like the coolest character besides Annabeth. By the way…I know everyone thinks I need more details and such. I'm working on that but I'm only 11 years old so my writing experience isn't as good as a teenagers. Like I said I'm working on it, so please keep r&r-ing!

P.S. I usually make a reference to the title at the end of the chapter, but this time I did it at the beginning!

Disclaimer: You know what…I'm not even going to bother!

Summertime

Oh CRAP! It's already summertime. One week had passed since the battle at Half-Blood Hill. This year has gone by way to fast. It's already been a year since I came to Camp Half-Blood and stayed the whole year. I have known I was a half-blood for five years now, and nothing had gotten easier.

One day Annabeth and I were watching the sunset, and drinking coke that Connor Stoll had…um…gotten for us. "Annabeth," I said, "what's wrong?" she was staring out into the horizon with a scared look on her face.

"Percy, I see something in the distance." She said white-faced.

I looked out to where she was looking, and I noticed there was a large ship about three miles out in the sea. "Oh my gods!" I said. "Annabeth, go tell Chiron. I'm going to try to stop the ship from coming closer. With that she ran away with her blonde hair swinging behind her.

I studied the ship from far away. There was a lot of fog surrounding it, that I thought was the mist because of all of the monsters on board. I focused harder on the ship, and I felt a familiar 

tug in my gut. I watched as a giant wave washed over the bow of the ship. I watched as I crushed the entire ship, pulling to the depths of the ocean. However it wouldn't go down. Some very powerful force was keeping it from staying down. I couldn't believe it. Here I was, so close to defeating Luke/Kronos's demon ship, but it wouldn't go down. I wasn't going to be able to bring it down by myself, I would need help. Then I noticed a flash of lightning coming from a storm that was just forming.

My help was here.

"Stay focused." Said a voice I knew to be Thaila's.

She was right: if I broke my concentration the wave would disappear. The tug became more intense, almost painful. "Thalia, I can't hold it much longer!" I yelled.

"I can't either!" she yelled. She sounded as if she was being tortured.

"Can you make another lightning bolt? I think that will do it."

A few seconds later, a huge bolt of electricity came shooting out of the storm. It lit up the sky, with an eerie glow.

Then I summoned all of my strength and I pulled the ship down, with a whirlpool.

Both Thaila and I collapsed next to each other breathing hard.

"Oh you think you won do you?" said a voice from behind me. I knew who it was. It was Kronos.

"Oh crap!" I said getting up, and drawing anakulomous. "Thalia get up!" I looked down and saw that Thalia was unconscious. Oh crap. My summertime wasn't going so well so far.

I was all alone.

"Oh young demigod, your battle has not come yet. I have only come for some of your friends." With that he snapped his fingers, and Grover, Thalia, and Annabeth were all tied up, and gagged, at the Titan Lords feet.

"Oh I don't think so!" I said. "Fight me Kronos, or are you just like Luke and your afraid to let me win."

I saw the look in Annabeth's eyes. They were warning me to stop, or we would all meet our doom.



"No matter how much I would like to see you lose, and I do plan to kill you very soon, but first I have to take my hostages somewhere. Maybe you can come and find them sometime, and then we can have a fight."

"No, I won't let you take my friends!" I said indignantly.

I don't think he listened to me because he snapped his fingers again, and he disappeared, along with Annabeth, and Grover. For some reason he spared Thalia.

After struggling with the ropes that bond her hands and ankles together, and the gag that was in her mouth, she was finally free.

The bad part was that she was still unconscious. "Thalia!" I yelled. She still wouldn't wake up.

Now for the second time in a week, I had to carry my unconscious friend to the Big-House infirmary. Oh crap, I wasn't liking my summertime so far at all!