Thank you to all the people who reviewed. And to answer your question, no, I will not be doing anyone else's POV, but I will show what they are up to via dreams.

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I dreamed of my friends, I might as well not have left.

Grover put his panpipes to his lips. He played a quick little tune and Vines lashed out and wrapped around the skids of the rapidly rising helicopter, halting its progress.

The helicopter tilted to the side, the blades almost brushing the ground.

The door to the helicopter slid open and Dr. Thorn jumped out and slashed the plants until they broke.

I could see my unconscious body strapped into one of the seats on the helicopter. That was a little unsettling.

Thalia charged the manticore again, this time she didn't have to worry about me getting in the way.

I really messed up this time, didn't I? If I had just waited for my friends, this wouldn't have happened.

I dimly watched the helicopter, flying farther and farther away until it was gone, but my focus was really on my friends who were getting beat up by the manticore, they were fighting a losing battle and I couldn't even help them.

I could see that Annabeth did not have the same concern as me. "Percy!"

She ran towards the cliffs, only to get tackled by Grover as one of Thorn's spines was shot at her back.

Thalia took on the manticore, jabbing with her spear.

Dr. Thorn sent her flying. and I could tell it hurt because she wasn't getting back up.

That's when I heard the sound of a hunting horn come echoing through the trees.

Dr. Thorn sent volley after volley of spikes in that direction.

But if my vision didn't deceive me, arrows came flying out of the forest, somehow intercepting the projectiles in mid-air.

Who were these people? Not even the Apollo cabin could shoot with that much accuracy.

Girls in silver jackets came bursting through the trees, shooting bows at the manticore.

Seriously, who were these people?

Dr. Thorn snarled. "If I can't have them alive, I'll have them dead." He lunged to where the Di Angelo's were standing.

It didn't look like anyone was close enough to do anything.

A girl with fiery red hair ran at the manticore and jumped on its back. She drew a hunting knife and plunged it into Dr. Thorn.

Dr. Thorn turned and jumped off the cliff with the girl in tow.

I could feel myself waking up, but I didn't want to. I wanted to see what would happen to my friends.

But a millisecond before I left, I noticed that Annabeth was standing a little ways away from the group. I went over to her just in time to hear her whisper a single word in that broken tone that I had already heard too many times today.

"Percy."


I heard the sound of a helicopter before anything else.

My body was still numb from whatever they had injected me with.

I could feel a harness strapped across my chest, keeping me on the chair, but not a restraint.

I waited for the feeling to come back into my limbs. But I forgot something. My arm came throbbing back to life. My eyes flew open and I couldn't help but cry out.

That's when I noticed the two mortals sitting in the seats next to me. They grabbed onto my arms as if to hold me in place, but I wasn't going anywhere. They seemed to realize that too and let go.

The noise of the helicopter made it nearly impossible to make out what they were saying, but I tried my best to eavesdrop on their headset conversation.

"Jeez, he's really just a kid." the one on my right with a mustache stated.

The woman responded, "Of course he is, you knew that it would be a kid when you signed up for this."

Mustache sighed, "I know, it's just that, actually kidnapping a kid is different than it sounds."

They started talking quieter than that, so I could no longer hear them over the steady roar of the helicopter.

Helicopter. I was in a helicopter. The sky is Zeus's domain. Why the Hades was I still alive? Didn't he say that if I ever flew again he would strike me out of the sky?

It must be Kronos' doing.

After a while, I felt the helicopter descending. Where were we?

"Sorry kid, they said it was best to keep you sedated."

Before I could even process what he said, another needle was plunged into my neck.

Here we go again.

I faded into unconsciousness.

There you go, chapter two! Please review, I would really appreciate your support.