Percy caused an earthquake to uproot Gaia's conscience from the earth, then jason whisked her into the sky and THEN Leo burst upon her. But that does not kill her. Why? cause she is a primordial. Then the extremely tired Percy and Jason engage her in jaw dropping battle. Just when Gaia is about to kill them, Frank the elephant crashes into her. This subdues her for a while. The demigods have managed to vanquish the monsters for the day.

They take body count. People like Chris and Sherman are dead. Gaia returns at dawn. The demigods are not at all prepared for that. Along with her, an organized ARMY of monsters breaks down the boundary of fleece. Monsters begin to flood the camp. The demigods fight back. Clarisse fights with vengeance and is blessed by Ares. She destroys hordes and hordes of monsters. Reyna recuperates from her injuries and helps in fighting the monsters. She boosts others too because she is a daughter of Bellona. Annabeth is leading the demigods. Tyson and Mrs. O Leary too are helping out. Soon the demigods have the upper hand.

On the other side of the battle, Percy, Jason, Hazel, Frank and Nico have engaged Gaia in a dangerous game of tag (Piper got injured the previous day and Leo is still healing from his injuries). Even all of them combined are no match for Gaia. Percy condenses the water vapour in air and Jason calls down a thunderbolt. This blinds Gaia. In this period of time, Hazel encloses her in titanium, Frank repeatedly bonks her on the head in the form of an extremely huge grizzly bear and Nico begins to suck her essence in his Stygian Iron sword. But her essence is too powerful to be enclosed in the sword. The sword cracks and weird light begins to come out of it. Nico throws the sword on her. Frank quickly ducks and manages to scramble to a safe distance. The sword shatters and releases the spirits of all the monsters that Nico has ever killed. Nico becomes involved with them. Gaia launches another attack on the 4 demigods. They fight back.

*The narrative shifts back to the monster attack.*

Only two demigods have died in 4 hours (yes, it has been that long) and that is because of Annabeth and the Athena kids' battle strategy and also because of Reyna's powers. Reyna is too tired to fight and Annabeth takes over from her. Clarisse and Tyson have formed a destructive duo and are squashing monsters like they are gnats. The cohorts adapt to the environment and use intricate battle forms to kill the monsters. Even after killing so many of them, the number of monsters do not seem to decrease. They keep on coming from all directions. Mercilessly. Wave after wave.

*The focus is back on the battle against Gaia.*

The 4 are still holding Gaia back from destroying camp and all the demigods in it as Nico is being taken to the infirmary. Hazel manipulates the mist to make Gaia see things that are not true. She keeps on attacking mirages. Meanwhile, Frank, Percy and Jason relentlessly attack Gaia. They are covered with ichor. But all of Gaia's wounds seem to heal as quickly as they are inflicted. Percy relates that to Antaeus. He asks Jason if he could shimmy up Gaia when he calls on an earthquake. They try very hard but draw on empty. They are forced to resume fighting. Frank too is not able to turn into animals. Hazel is to exhausted to continue the fight and now it was just the three boys, their wits and weapons. Frank calls upon his last reserve of energy to turn into a freaking Chinese DRAGON. He spewed fire on her. Due to the constant raining of fire, Gaia began to turn into glass. She was utterly shocked by this and began to attack the three with renewed vigor. Jason and Percy made a plan spontaneously. They asked Frank to repeatedly spew out fire while Jason tries to hit her with a lightning bolt. So Frank began turning her feet into glass. Jason gave out a guttural shout as he summoned one of the biggest lightening bolts in the history of lightening bolts right on top of Gaia's head. Percy concentrated very hard. He prayed to his father to give him enough strength to do what he was about to do. He caused an earthquake so big, it could be felt all over Manhattan. Gaia shattered. The glass impaled all three of them and they collapsed.

Annabeth saw the explosion. She left battle and ran towards Percy. She didn't care about anything at that moment. She saw Percy falling down and instantly went to his side. She checked his pulse. Nothing. She checked his pulse again. Nothing. She gave him the mouth to mouth to mouth resurrection. She checked his pulse again. She heard the slightest beat. She cried tears of joy. With a jolt, she realized that Frank and Jason were down there too. She instantly left Percy's side and checked on them. Thankfully, they were alright. Will, after rescuing Hazel and Nico, was called on again to help the three. He took them to infirmary. The monsters saw this and attacked them. Annabeth stayed to defend the infirmary while Will brought the three inside. A Minotaur and two empousa charged towards her. She skillfully brought them away from the tent and began to slice and dice. She managed to kill the two empousa but the Minotaur proved to be a daunting task. She then made a grave mistake. She left her left flank open and was run down by the Minotaur. She recalled the myth of the Minotaur in a split second and formulated a plan. She cooed out the Minotaur's birth name and he got distracted. That distraction was enough for her. She quickly got out of his grasp and slashed his knee. The monster fell. She then got up and slashed his neck. She felled the Minotaur. Everyone saw this and gave out a cheer, but just then, the ground changed its shape next to Zeus's Fist. They saw Gaia reforming. Demigods ran towards her, they started slashing sand in attempt to stop her from reforming. The sand eventually went quiet. The demigods never saw it coming. As they were going down the hill giddily, five spikes of sand impaled right in the chest and they instantly died. All the demigods saw the scene horrified, wondering how Percy, Jason, Hazel, Frank and Nico managed to survive their gruelling fight with Gaia. Then, the spikes struck again. Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty. Demigods were falling down like raindrops. Annabeth saw the whole thing. It pained her to see her siblings, friends and comrades die like that. Their faces contorted in shock and pain. Only the most skilled demigods survived.

With tears in her eyes, she rushed towards the tent and saw that Leo and Piper were conscience and were checking up on Percy and Jason. She dropped her head on Percy's chest and cried her eyes out. For the first time since facing Tartarus, she felt hopeless. Utterly and totally hopeless. They were in a war they could not win and they were going to lose it all. All of the seven were present in the tent. Frank and Hazel passed out next to each other, (miraculously) holding hands and doctors looking after them, Piper and Annabeth feeding Jason and Percy ambrosia and Leo pulling his hair dangerously hard, muttering Gaia should have been killed by him.

The war halted for the day. They took body count. A total of 85 demigods were killed from the legion and 38 from Camp Half Blood. Such numbers were unheard of. The normally jovial and easygoing Greeks were heartbroken. The steely Romans uncharacteristically showed emotions. They were crying out loud. Everyone was so dejected that they didn't want to fight anymore. They thought that they had lost their best fighters, their leaders, their idols but they didn't know yet that Percy and Jason were still alive.

Annabeth realized that they would die if they did not call upon backup. So she searched for Connor and Travis. She was relieved to see them alive. She asked them to search for and ask Amazons and the Hunters of Artemis to come to their rescue. The two brothers went their different ways to attempt to find the women and convince them to come to camp on time. The monsters struck on twilight again. This time, the demigods fought in a destructive mood. They did not fight smartly and as a result, a lot of lives were lost. With all the children of the big three and the strongest son of Mars on beds, it was now up to Reyna, Clarisse, Piper and Annabeth to inspire their forces and lead them to battle. *insert long inspiring speech*. The demigods cheered. The satyrs and all spirits of nature also joined them. Annabeth and the other children of Athena (the ones left that is) made a battle plan. Reyna and the remaining leaders of the cohorts also helped them out. They were then ready to fight back.

Even though all the demigods fought bravely, there were only 5 real MVPs, Clarrise, Reyna, Annabeth, Tyson and (surprisingly) Grover. Clarrise, Reyna, Annabeth, Tyson fought like animals. Taking down anything and everything that had the misfortune of facing them. They were the ones that made the difference. Grover saw the fall of Percy too. His stomach had done a nasty flip and he had puked when he saw Percy down. He visited his best friend and he, Tyson and Reyna were the ones that looked after the demigods after Piper, Leo and Annabeth had fallen asleep. The scene was continuously running in his mind and then he opened his eyes. He saw monsters destroying the meadow where Juniper lived and he just could not stand anything. He let out a shriek. He had channeled the spirit of Pan again. It was so loud that half the monsters turned to dust. The remaining fled. Demigods fell too. They fainted and encountered temporary deafness. But all of them (fortunately) survived. Grover too fainted after this brief power surge.

Three hours after the initial attack a horn sounded. This was followed by an earthquake that rivaled Percy's. The demigods looked towards the source of all this chaos. They wanted to believe that what they saw was not true, but it was true. Gaia had revived the giants. (to be continued)