The rest of the day passed by slowly. After eating dinner, I got back a text from Magnus saying, What do you need me to do?
We have some valuable information about the evil maiden who stole the Golden Fleece and did all those other crimes. I need you to be on the lookout for a girl with long black hair and blue eyes. If you find a girl like that (aside from Thalia Grace-you know what she looks like) please tell me and give me as many details as you can.
Two questions. 1. Is that all that you know? 2. Should I get my friends involved?
We don't know very much about her. According to Hecate, she can use both the Mist and magic to her advantage, despite not being one of her children. She's also a rogue hunter of Artemis. Any help finding the evil maiden would be nice, but I can't ask you or your allies to confront her. The Queen of Ghosts has warned us that she's highly dangerous and I can't ask you to fight my battles.
Very well then. I'll see what I can't do.
After that, I spent the rest of the evening pacing around Camp Jupiter. Partially for some low level exercise and partially because I felt nervous. Why did I feel like this? I then realized the answer; I felt a terrible dread in the pit of my stomach. Camp Half-Blood is on the verge of destruction, an unnamed evil maiden is running around causing a lot of chaos and the fate of Camp Jupiter rests in Gwen's hands. If she fails, she will die and this camp will be cursed... Possibly forever. The thought scared me. I tried sleeping, but I had a hard time falling asleep that night. When I finally did sleep, my dreams were not very pleasant.
Gwen stood on a (somewhat) large fishing boat with two tiers. Unlike Clarisse, she had no crew and was completely by herself. I was surprised she didn't have undead soldiers like Clarisse did, especially since the former is the daughter of the death god. Then I saw the entire ship. She did have a skeletal crew, but it was a lot smaller than Clarisse's crew on the CSS Birmingham. There was one guy manning the engine on the fishing boat. There were only two other skeletal warriors, standing on the lookout for anything dangerous. Gwen looked at the map, looking at the tip of the triangle. There was a purple pin towards the tip. That's where C.C.'s Spa and Resort was located.
"Continue northeast. We must reach that island." Gwen ordered. She summoned another skeletal soldier. "Go down to the engine room and help your friend man the engine."
The skeletal soldier left the deck and went down below to the engine room. Gwen nervously paced the deck. She had several reasons to be nervous. For one thing, she was on a dangerous quest in one of the most dangerous seas to both humans and demigods alike, Roman demigods usually feared the sea. Suddenly a huge monster appeared. Gwen gasped. Karkinos emerged from the water. She instantly summoned more skeletons with weapons to fight the monster.
"Attack!" she commanded.
She folded up the map, put it in her pocket, and started ordering her crew to attack in various ways. Some soldiers charged towards the crab only to be tossed aside into the water. Some tossed their weapons at it. Unfortunately, the monster (which was about the size of her ship), began to crush the ship with its huge pincers. Gwen threw her gladius at the monsters eye, hoping it would go away. Sadly, that made things worse. The crab took off pieces of the ship and started eating them. The ship began crumbling and falling apart. Shortly after her skeletons managed to slay the monster, the entire ship was destroyed. Gwen swam away. Eventually, after swimming for several miles, she slowed down and stopped, kicking her legs to keep herself from drowning.
I knew that several monsters could appear, including; the Trojan Sea Monster, Sirens, Sea Serpents, the Skolopendra (aka what the Argo II Crew called Shrimpzilla), evil cyclopes (like Polyphemus), and who knows what else. Gwen looked at her bracelet. It was very tight around her wrist. She then resumed swimming.
I know I can't lose the bracelet, but... I still fear losing something. And it's not my own life.
I still can't believe you're doing this.
Oh Reyna. You're awake.
Of course I am. I can't believe you challenged your own father, who happens to be the god of death, to a race against time. You realize you're insane, right?
I do, but that doesn't change anything. You never knew that I was the daughter of Thanatos while you were alive, but on the Day of Misfortune, Nathan discovered my powers and my parentage. He blamed the invasion of the spirits and Curse of Camp Jupiter on me. In hindsight, I believe he's right about the curse. I didn't use my necromancy abilities because I was too scared. I was scared of what everyone would think of me, especially Michael, who was my fiance at the time. Now my powers might be the only thing that can save you, me and the entire camp.
And no one else knew the truth about you before the winter solstice?
Jason knew. He saw my claiming, and he swore on the Styx not to tell a soul without my permission.
Suddenly a loud shriek was heard. Oh no...
Gwen stopped in her tracks. What's happening?!
The shrieks grew in ever-increasing volume. I woke up in alarm. What just happened? I decided to keep this dream to myself until I knew for sure. I got up, got dressed and joined the others for breakfast.