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The trident was glowing like someone had just finished polishing it. I could feel the power pulsating off it, so much so that it felt like there was a physical force hitting me. I stepped up closer to the trident and examined it.

It was around six feet tall and made of pure Celestial bronze, but with streaks of some kind of gold that I didn't recognize. Now that I right next to the trident, it felt like I was simultaneously being pulled towards and repelled from it. I leaned in close and looked at the designs on the trident: patterns that I had never noticed before, and infinite series of waves swirling around the base and continuing up to the top of the handle. It ended there right before the trident split up into its distinct three-pointed end.

I was sure that this was the way to defeat Oceanus. Any half-blood- maybe even mortals- could feel how powerful this item was. I could instantly see how my father could control something as powerful as the ocean with this weapon. It seemed to contain the entire rage of the ocean which could be unleashed in the hands of the right person.

I was a son of Poseidon. I was that right person.

I reached out and grabbed the trident, my grip tightening around the bronze and golden handle. The second my skin made contact with the metal, however, I felt a heat wave travel through my body. There was a rush in my head and I was forced back so hard and fast that I hit the wall with an audible THUD!

Annabeth rushed to my side. Percy, are you okay? She asked, concerned, as she helped me up.

I shook the hit off. I'm fine. I wasn't expecting it to be this powerful… this hard to control. Let me try again.

Um, Percy, said Travis nervously. Are you sure? You got blasted back pretty hard.

I nodded vigorously. This is the only way that we will stand a chance against Oceanus. I have to do this. Besides, Annabeth's plan revolves around this, and her plans never fail, right? I winked and Annabeth and walked over the trident again.

I reached out to grab it. I felt the warm wave travel through my body, but I was ready for it. I gritted my teeth and grabbed on tighter. The heat may have been powerful, but it still seemed friendly, like it wanted to help.

I felt the force come back to try and knock me down, but I stood my ground. After what felt like an eternity but was probably only seconds, the force died down and I was left standing there holding the trident.

I looked around at my friends. They all looked really impressed, even though Annabeth was trying not to. Let's go, she said. We have to get back to Tyson before they discover him.

She was right. We walked back out of the closet and rushed back down the hallway. This time, though, we didn't go through the secret door. We were trying to be discovered. We walked carefully down the hallway, peeking around to see if anyone was there. We were in luck; there was an open room, where two telekhines were standing at a table looking at some map. I had thought that the telekhines all got destroyed or cast into Tartarus after Kronos had been defeated, but I guess some of them hung around with Oceanus. It makes sense, them being sea-demons.

We snuck up behind them. I looked at Connor and silently mouthed a countdown: THREE, TWO, ONE.

At one, Connor hit the first telekhine with the butt of his sword. Not hard to make him unconscious, but hard enough to hut. I took out Riptide and cut the head clean off of the second one. Hey, we only needed one to raise the alarm, and we might as well get rid of as many as we can.

The one that I killed slowly disintegrated as the one that Connor hit got back up. He looked at us nervously. He was young and it was easy to see that he was nervous. But he advanced shakily on us. We turned and fled as he looked stunned.

Yeah, you better run! He said. The louder, he yelled out Intruders! Intruders in the building! Follow them!

All of sprinted down the room back into the hallway and turned the corner. We kept running into the first hallway until reached the secret door. I put my hand on the stone where the door should be. The outline of the door slowly began to light up.

Don't get me wrong, we were faster than the telekhine easily. However, when we had to wait for the door to open, he caught up. We saw him turn the corner and come up after us. He was still yelling as loud as he could and I could hear the beating of many feet coming from somewhere else in the castle. Finally, a few seconds before the telekhine reached us, the door opened. We pushed through and ran out, not bothering to take cover this time.

I could still the telekhine shouting, his voice growing more confident with each step he took as we continued to run away from him. They're outside! Alert Oceanus! Prepare for battle!

I allowed myself a grim smile as the door closed, obscuring us from the telekhine's view. Annabeth and I continued until we met Tyson standing on top of the hill.

We stopped for a minute to catch out breaths. I told Tyson what had happened and showed him the trident that I was still holding in my left hand, with Riptide still in my right.

Good, Tyson said. Plan is working. And you will need trident soon. He pointed behind me and I turned to look.

Filing out of the castle was more sea monsters than I had ever seen in my life. And they were all headed straight for us.