AN: Hello everyone, welcome back to another chapter. So now Clarisse, Thalia, and Percy will be traveling together in the wilderness across the US. And still we don't know whether to trust the person that teleported Clarisse to camp Jupiter. And why was Reyna motivated to kill him? The answers will be revealed in the coming chapters, and even more questions will arise as well, and with that, enjoy :)

(California, Percy POV)

We had made it near the border of California, and we were walking in a forest, when I realized something was off. "Do you guys hear that?" I questioned as they turned to me, puzzled.

"Hear what, seaweed brain, I don't hear a thing," Thalia said, looking at me with a smile that clearly said, I think you are going insane.

"Exactly, nothing. No birds, no insects, no animals, nothing," I said as their eyes widened in shock.

We suddenly heard voices from our left. We quietly walked over to them, and saw several figures surrounding a formidable looking person. Except the figures were monsters, and the person was wearing lightweight Stygian iron armor, depicting a sun rising over a calm looking ocean. His body was that of pure ice, and was holding a finely tailored Oceanic silver sword. It had lapis lazuli and opal gems encrusted in both the hilt and the blade, with an egg shaped ruby resting on the pommel of the sword. His silver shield was intricately designed. It depicted several scenes of an entity made of pure water surrounded by ice soldiers. It also showed said ice soldiers scaling Olympus. In the center of it all was that rising sun over the calm ocean.

The icy being was radiating power. I didn't doubt for a second that it could give any of the Olympians a run for their money.

We watched in sick fascination as the icy god began chanting in ancient Greek, the gems on his sword beginning to shine a soft blue. A minute into his chant and the blade was illuminating the clearing with a beautiful serene blue, like combining the blue of the ocean with the white shine of ice.

We looked on in horror as the monsters began turning blue. When the light faded, they were made of ice.

Without uttering a word, the figure pointed towards our hiding spot, and the monsters began to advance on us.

There were only seven of them, but they were rippling with power, so we readied our weapons cautiously. We stepped into the clearing, and they snarled viciously. The griffon took to the air, while the Three laistrygonian giants began walking towards each of us. They were trying to separate us, but we only grouped together closer.

The other monsters consisted of two Dracaenae, and a hellhound. The hellhound bounded over and swiped viciously at Thalia. She ducked, and impaled it with her spear. Or rather, tried to. The spear cracked through a measly centimeter of its icy body. It snarled as it swiped at the spear, knocking it from her hands, before it landed at the feet of the armored entity.

One of the dracaenae swung a gleaming sliver sword at Clarisse, which she promptly dodged, before flinging her spear at its watery eye. Her aim was good and true, and the spear lodged itself deep into its head. It dissolved into water. "The eyes! Its their weakness!" Clarisse shouted before picking up her spear and preparing for the oncoming laistrygonian giant.

I knew there was no way I could hit the eyes of the dracaenae, especially now that it was guarding them, wary of its weakness, after seeing its friend fall so easily. I uncapped Riptide and parried a strike sent by the icy monster. I struggled as its blows were extremely powerful, and my blade just kept glancing off its body. It screamed, before slamming the Oceanic silver blade into the ground I had stood on seconds before. Suddenly a thought came to me as I remembered the ease in which my silver blade had cut through the shark men.

I capped Riptide and began to draw the silver blade before realizing I had dropped it somewhere during our travels. I cursed inwardly, before noticing a pool of water where the dracaenae Clarisse had slayed had stood. I drew in the water, before using it to melt the hand of the dracaenae. My eyes widened as its hand did not melt, but it did scream in pain, causing it to drop its blade.

I rushed over and grabbed the blade, before thrusting it into the now exposed chest of the dracaenae, hoping my plan worked otherwise I could end up with a broken arm. I felt the blade stop as it reached the body, as fear gripped me, I closed my eyes, waiting for the pain. But none came. I opened them to see that the blade was buried to the hilt into its chest. The dracaenae melted into water similar to how monsters crumble into dust.

I turned, seeing Thalia struggling with the hellhound, and saw the laistrygonian giant almost on top of her. "Thalia," I screamed. "Take my silver blade, it works on them!" I screamed. I was about to throw the sword when she smiled and shook her head. I saw her reach into her backpack and pull out two silver knives, and I knew they were not the standard hunting knives, if the watery looking surface of the blades were anything to go by.

Suddenly the ground I was standing on began to shrink, as I rose higher in the air as the laistrygonian giant reached me and picked me up. I nearly dropped my sword, but was glad I didn't, as I sliced its arm off with ease. I wasn't thinking when I did that, as I fell to the ground with a thud. I quickly got up and noticed that a glob of water was surround his stump of an arm, as his arm began to grow back.

'Oh no you don't,' I thought as I tried controlling the water, trying to make it heat up instead of cooling down. I was shocked to find that I could not gain control of the water. How could this ice soldier have more power over the water than I do? I suddenly remembered that this monster gained its power over water from that armored figure, who was extremely powerful. I sighed. I ran at the monster, who swung its newly reformed fist at me with extreme speed.

It caught me in the stomach as I flew into a tree. I looked over at Clarisse and saw her battling her laistrygonian giant and the griffon. Looking at Thalia I saw her fighting the hell hound, who was currently using water to restore its mangled claws, and the laistrygonian giant. 'If they can hold their own against two monsters, then I can beat this one,' I thought as I struggled to stand. The laistrygonian was descending on me quickly, his fist rushing at me. I barely managed to duck. I retaliated by slashing his arm off, which began to heal as parts of him began to melt, forming enough water to restore his arm.

I took advantage of the time I bought myself as he healed by stabbing him in the back, and I saw him melt rapidly until nothing was left but a small puddle.

I turned towards Clarisse, and saw her stab the griffon in the eye as it was flying down to attack her. It melted, but this move cost her, as the giant slammed his fist into her abdomen. I ran up to him and stabbed my blade through his head. He melted and I began to turn towards Clarisse, but a punch in the shoulder stopped me.

"Ow what the hell Clarisse!?" I questioned, rubbing my arm where she punched it. "That was my kill, Prissy," she growled menacingly. I rolled my eyes. We turned to Thalia to see her throw one knife at the hell hounds head and stab the giant in the chest with the other. They melted quickly. We then turned towards the figure who turned them into ice monsters.

His icy face morphed into a smile. He picked up his sword and shield, and kicked Thalia's spear to the side. He rushed at Clarisse, and just as she stabbed at him with her spear, he melted into water and rushed at Thalia. He splashed her face, before reforming right behind her, his sword poised to strike.

I watched as he was getting ready to stab her, before a spear crackling with red electricity impaled him in the eye. 'Man she is good at aiming those things,' I thought as he screamed in pain. Instead of melting he pulled the spear out if his eye and glared at Clarisse with rage. Ichor began to drip from his eye as he took water from the ground and healed himself in an instant. He then pulled some more water to him as he used it to make a barrier of ice around his eyes.

He turned his gaze to the sky as a bolt of lightning blasted him in the face, shattering the barrier he had just made. I threw Clarisse my sword as she was close to him. She caught it and drove it into his now exposed eye. A scream of pure hatred issued from his mouth as he began to glow a terrifying shade of dark blue. The glow faded, as the ice was replaced by water, then it disappeared in a flash of white.

"You think he's dead?" Thalia asked, slightly put off by the scream. "No, he would have left a spoil, like his sword or shield," Clarisse answered.

We picked up our weapons, new and old, and continued our journey to camp.

(Nevada, Thalia POV)

We had passed the California border, and were making camp in a nearby forest, and it was Clarisse's watch first, then Percy. I would go a full night sleeping tonight, I smiled as I laid down and began to drift off.

I found myself in camp Jupiter again, as I looked around cautiously. Suddenly a man appeared next to me, except he was a swirling vortex of water. He looked at me with silver eyes that looked like my silver blades.

"I see you have survived an encounter with one of my Hydrocines,"(It is pronounced Hydro sins) he said, his voice rumbling and loud. He pointed at the now familiar ice figure standing in front of me, unmoving. "Hydrocines are creatures of my creation, you see what I did was turn willing minor gods into beings of immense power. They gave me their domain willingly, and I absorbed the power that came with it, and used the power to create a water based domain. Then I added my strength to the domains, and gave it to them. Once that was finished I gave them my blessing, making their powers match that of an Olympian. That is my power Thalia," he said explaining. "You are resisting a primordial who can turn minor gods into forces of destruction," he said, looking at me, gauging my response.

His words hit me as I realized that this was Pontus, the one waging war on Olympus. Seeing his power firsthand shook me to the core. A feeling of hopelessness enveloped me as I weighed the odds. They most definitely were not in our favor. "I just want you to consider joining me, imagine the power you will have. No one will be able to boss you around," he said as I felt power rush into me, eradicating all traces of fear.

I marveled at the power Pontus wielded. It was humbling to realize that there was someone this powerful, yet managed to not go power hungry. Sure he wanted to topple Olympus, but only because they thought they were all powerful. I felt the power leave me rapidly. "Or choose not to and fall with the rest," he said as my power left completely. I felt saddened that I no longer held that power, but I remembered the lesson I had learned when Artemis was tricked into holding the sky. The whole reason I wanted to join the hunters was so I could not be tempted by power again.

I heard him sigh in defeat, as if he had heard my thoughts. "Very well, if you feel that way then who am I to change your mind," he said dejectedly as I felt myself waking up, the dream turning black. I bolted upright, seeing that Percy had woken up Clarisse and was just about to wake me. My sudden wake up startled him so that he fell and landed on his butt.

"Woah, didn't mean to startle you," he said, completely misinterpreting what had happened. Clarisse face palmed. "Did you have a dream?" She asked. I nodded. "Oh," I heard Percy exclaim. I began to tell them of my dream, and when I explained, Percy's eyes widened as he told me of the dream he had before Clarisse killed Reyna. Clarisse then recounted on the dream she had, before being teleported to camp Jupiter.

(Olympus, Artemis POV)

I was seated on my throne as I was telling the council how I had found Percy. "The Roman camp, what's he doing there?" Poseidon growled. "I don't know but I sent my lieutenant to go see him because she was dying to see him," I said.

"Perfect, that means we can IM them now," Aphrodite said as she had quite possibly her brightest idea yet. We did just that. We happened to find them talking.

"Did you have a dream?" Clarisse asked as Ares fell out of his throne. "What's my daughter doing with them?" he asked. "I could ask you the same thing," I said indignantly. We watched as Thalia explained her dream. We heard Percy recount his dream. When Clarisse retold hers, Ares' question was answered.

We all were astounded by the information Pontus had revealed. "Well, then we were lucky to survive that encounter with the Hydrocine," Percy said, revealing that they had fought one of Pontus' minions.

The IM faded. "As much as I would love to watch the heroes, we need to discuss what to do about the new threat," Zeus commanded. An hour later we established that all the gods were to prepare to fight Pontus to the best of our abilities, and that weakness would not be accepted.

Then Zeus said something that chilled me to the bone.

AN: And look at that. Another cliffie. I wonder if any of you can guess what he is going to say. Hopefully not, and with the Hydrocines who knows how this will all go down. As always, I hope you enjoyed the chapter, if not, well, sucks to be you, you just wasted your time. Well, have a good day, leave some reviews if you like it, and leave some reviews if you didn't. Have a good day and thanks for reading :)