Percy and his friends were finishing up their meals when the skeleton warriors caught up to them. Percy knew this was coming since he lived through it before, Zoe knew it was coming since she had a front row ticket to see Percy's memories, but the others didn't know and began to panic. Or at least Grover was panicking. Thalia and Cyrus simply gotten their weapons out and prepared to fight.

"Guys. Split up and run. Only Cyrus and I can fight them and there's too many for us two to fight at once." Percy told them calmly. He was in the middle of throwing his trash away while he was telling them that, which only served to heighten Grover's panicking.

"HOW CAN YOU BE SO CALM RIGHT NOW PERCY?!" Grover yelled. It almost looked like the young poor Satyr was on the verge of hyperventilating. Percy just placed a hand on his best friend's shoulder and sighed.

"I've lived through this before remember? I know what's going to happen." Percy explained calmly.

Grover blinked twice and nodded his head slightly. He had forgotten that small detail after that whole thing with the defective automaton and the long uncomfortable ride in the pickup truck.

The group decided to split up and meet back at the food court in an hour to head to their next destination. Percy headed to where he first "met" Rachel in the last timeline. Where he sliced through her with Riptide.

Five minutes later, he stood outside of a service door waiting for the red-headed female. She came a few seconds later, looking a bit down, but that mood was lifted when she saw Percy waiting for her.

"Hey Rachel. It's been awhile." he told her with a smile on her face.

"That is has Percy." Rachel said with happiness in her tone. No wasting any time, Percy hid inside of the storage closet while Rachel did her part to mislead the skeleton warriors. Percy came out of the storage closet after he heard the skeletons running in the opposite direction.

"I'm surprised that you remembered what I told you over a year ago. Most people would've forgotten after a few months." Percy commented. A small frown appeared on Rachel's face, since she just felt like she was being insulted without really being insulted.

"What is that supposed to mean?" she asked him in irritation. She even folded her arms across her chest for emphasis on her current mood. Percy had to use every bit of self-control that he had to keep himself from laughing at Rachel's reaction. It just made her even cuter than she already was.

"Relax Rachel. A lot of people don't remember things from last year or the year before that. I wasn't trying to insult you." he consoled her quickly. She almost didn't believe him since a small smirk appeared on his face while he was talking to her.

"Better not be." she muttered under her breath. Her arms were still folded across her chest and Percy was still struggling to keep from laughing at the act she was putting on.

Footsteps echoed in the opposite end of the hall that they were in and Percy (correctly) assumed that it was the skeleton that ran by a few minutes earlier. Both he and Rachel looked down the hall, then back at each other as if they were having a silent conversation. After a very brief moment, Rachel nodded and Percy smiled before taking off towards the food court. He was planning to wait and talk to Rachel for an hour, but obviously the skeleton ruined that.

There were a few places that he could hide in the food court without being seen. It was a good thing that both he and Cyrus were Sons of Chaos. Neither of them gave off a scent that monsters could use to track them, until the skeletons had a scrap of his shirt that they were using as a basis for his scent. It was a good thing that the food court could confuse the skeletons' sense of smell. As far as the monsters were concerned, both Cyrus and Percy were normal human beings. At least the ones who didn't know that they were demigods did.

He made a straight beeline towards the vendor he and the others got their food from earlier. Ducking behind the vendor's shop, he went to catch his breath for the next fifty minutes. The vendor looked down at Percy in confusion and frustration.

"Excuse me sir. You cannot be behind here. I must insist that you leave." the vendor told Percy sternly. Percy looked up at the vendor and gave him a warm smile.

"If you'll allow me to sit here for the next fifty minutes, I will buy a lot of food from you for my and my friend's journey. Do we have a deal?" Percy asked the vendor. The female nodded at him rather exuberantly and continued flipping burger patties and dunking frozen fries into the fryer. Percy could hear the skeleton coming into the food court of Hoover Dam and looking around. The only reason he could hear it is because the skeletons made this weird low growling sound, along with the sound of rattling bones.

"This is going to be a long wait." Percy thought to himself.

"THALIA! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" Cyrus yelled as he and the Daughter of Zeus were running from four skeletal warriors who had caught Thalia's scent. She had taken to running with both of her eyes closed with her hands grasped together. Six times. That was the amount of times that Cyrus had to stop Thalia from blindly running into a wall or another person.

"I'm desperate. I'm praying to my father." Thalia answered calmly. Cyrus gave a nervous chuckle as he momentarily looked up at the sky. He and his brother, Percy, weren't exactly on Zeus' good side as it was and now Thalia was praying for the Lord of the Skies to help them out right now. Something told Cyrus that that wasn't going to go so well for two reasons. The first was the reason that was painfully obvious: himself and Percy. The second reason was that he heard that the Gods couldn't help their children on Quests.

Up on Olympus, the remaining Olympians were watching the plight of Percy and the others. Internally, Zeus was enjoying watching both Percy and Cyrus struggle, but he also didn't want to see his little girl get hurt for merely being associated with the Sons of Chaos.

"What are you going to do brother? She would never ask for your help unless she truly needed it." Poseidon boldly stated. A small amount of electricity crackled in Zeus' eyes as he directed his gaze towards the Lord of the Seas. That was enough to silence (and get an irritated sigh from) Poseidon.

"Let them face this themselves or give them a hand?" Zeus thought to himself. Hera noticed her husband musing it over and gave a small sneer.

"You may as well help them. As much as I want that Thalia girl obliterated, she is your daughter." Hera commented. It was no secret to anyone that Hera was sick and tired of her husband's indiscretions over the past few millennia. There was the whole thing with: Echo, Alcmene, Leto, Semele and Lamia. Echo was forced to repeat the words of other people, Alcmene's legs were turned into knots, Semele was tricked into seeing Zeus' true form and Lamia killed her own children after she saw Hera transformed into a monster. Zeus frowned at his wife's choice of words and looked back to his daughter and her companion.

Meanwhile, poor Grover and Zoe were running from six of the skeletons. Grover was nearly on the verge of tears and Zoe was angry at the fact that she didn't have the ability to defeat the skeletons like Percy, Cyrus and the di Angelo siblings had. As a Huntress of Artemis, this was a huge blow to her pride but so was the fact that Percy was right about most of the Olympians.

"We all need to regroup and fight. Let's head back to the food court." Zoe suggested. Instead of forming coherent words, Grover mumbled gibberish and nodded his head at her. She sighed at how the Satyr lacked a spine in these types of situations. Taking a left at the first possible chance, the two headed back to the food court.

Cyrus and Thalia had came to the same conclusion that Zoe and Grover did, but it was easier for them. Two of the skeletons managed to get in front of them and Cyrus used his weapon encoated with his father's essence to effortlessly destroy the two. Thalia kept the two behind them at bay with simultaneous lightning strikes, while Cyrus destroyed the two in front of them.

Percy, however, was enjoying a nice specially made Double Bacon Cheeseburger and a medium Chocolate Shake. It wasn't on the menu, but since he was going to be paying for a lot of food anyway he decided to get a few specially made meals.

"I'll need about sixteen more of these burgers and five more chocolate shakes and five orders of fries to go please. I'll need that as soon as possible. My friends are on the way and we're about to leave really soon." Percy told the female vendor. Rolling up her sleeves, the vendor got to work and surprisingly managed to finish the order by the time the others got back to the food court. She was just bagging it up when Percy heard his friends' voices. Handing his credit card to the woman, he smiled at his friends.

"I was wondering when you guys were going to show up. Your father's gift should be here any moment and I got food for us to go." Percy told Thalia. A small smile appeared on Thalia's face at the good news that Percy just told her. Grabbing his credit card and the massive bag of food from the woman, Percy had the others grab the milkshakes and ran back towards the dam.

"Umm….where the hell is this gift?" Zoe asked Percy as she looked around in worry. There was nothing around them and all of the remaining skeleton warriors were converging upon their location. As the last warrior arrived, two giant metal angel statues appeared out of nowhere between Percy's group and the skeletons.

"Hop on everyone, that's our ride to San Francisco." Percy told them before hopping onto the right shoulder of the second angel. Cyrus followed his brother's lead and hopped onto the left shoulder of the same angel. Cyrus had the look of a kid in a candy store when it came to the metallic angels they were soon to be riding.

"This...is...so….AWESOME!" Cyrus muttered out loud in adoration. The angels had taken off quickly when their passengers had gotten on safely. A small smile appeared on Percy's face as he looked on at the horizon in front of him. The first time he went through this, he didn't have much time to appreciate the scenery since he was worried mostly about catching Nereus and rescuing Annabeth. He was starting to figure out that it really was the little things in life.

"Where are we going next?" Thalia asked Percy as the angels took to the skies. He couldn't hear her however since the sound of rushing wind blocked out most noise. He did see her lips move and noticed that she was talking to him though.

"WHAT?!" he yelled back so she could hear him over the wind. She repeated herself again and raised her voice to help, but he still couldn't hear her. It was a good thing that Cyrus was paying attention to the both of them. He was a master when it came to reading people's lips.

"She wanted to know our next destination." Cyrus translated. Since he was literally sitting a few feet away from his brother, it was easier for him to act as a relay. Percy nodded his head in understanding at his little brother.

"SAN FRANCISCO!" he yelled back to Thalia. She smiled as she thought that they were finally going to rescue her best friend. However, they still had a few things that they needed to do. The first was capture Nereus, the Old Man of the Sea, then make sure the Ophiotaurus was safely taken to Camp Half-Blood, then go see Annabeth's father. After they did all of that, it was finally time to go rescue his ex-girlfriend.

"Don't worry Annabeth. We're on our way." Percy thought to himself as he looked on at the horizon.