Hello my guys! I hope you enjoy this chapter! For the person who asked, Percy is stronger than Alabaster in this-but he is incredibly manipulative-he knows her weaknesses-mostly that she cares, and that as much as she hates him, she's not a killer. Which he's already aware of, it's not in her nature to want to kill someone, not unless she's really, really pissed off because they've hurt someone she loves. Plus there is the fact that she's scared of him deep down which effects her fights.

Alabaster did manage to pull himself together pretty quickly, but not before Percy had hit him twice more-once again in the face and then blow to the stomach that winded him again and brought her the time to lunge for her sword, swiping it up off the ground-admittedly she wasn't the best at wielding it with her left hand but she was smart enough to know that trying it with her right hand would end up with her once again pinned down-and next time she doubted that she'd be able to get up.

She reached the door, grabbing at the handle-"

"It locks automatically." Alabaster managed to grind out, "And you don't have the keys."

"No, but I'm sure you do." Percy surged forward, pointing Riptide at Alabaster's neck, "You're going to let me out-"

"No I'm not." Alabaster let out a laugh, "Because I don't have the keys on me." he was smirking slightly, completely uncaring about the fact that Percy had Riptide to his neck, "And my allies won't let you out without being given the order."

Percy felt the color drain from her face as Alabster smirked, "You mean-"

"You're locked in with me."

"I could kill you-"

"Oh please." Alabaster snorted, "You might honestly hate me, you might be willing to maim me, but we both know that you're not a killer Persephone. You'd never be able to make yourself do that. You're too much of a hero, too good to your own good princess." he grabbed Riptide by the blade and pushed it aside.

He didn't have a glove this time but somehow the blade didn't slice his hand as he pushed it aside, tilting his head, "And listen to that. Silence. Sounds to me like the fighting is over."

"No-" who'd won? Oh Gods what if Luke, Annabeth, Grover or Tyson were hurt?

She twisted to rush to the door but Alabasted grabbed her arm, wrenching Riptide from her grip.

"You are so damn easy to manipulate Perce." Alabaster laughed and shook his head as he tossed Riptide to the floor and pulled her closer. "All it takes is making you worry about your family and you just freeze right up. They're your weakness."

"Fuck you Alabaster." Percy spat the words as she drove the heel of her foot into Alabsters foot.

He grunted in pain, letting go of her arm and grabbing her right wrist again-and Percy gritted her teeth to try and block out the near overwhelming wave of pain as he squeezed, grinding already broken bones together painfully.

Percy swung her other hand, fist hitting Alabaster's cheek hard, making his head snap to the side.

"Why are you so damn stubborn?" he snarled the words, "I keep giving you chances Perce, I wanted us to do this together-"

"I would rather die-" he twisted Percy's wrist and she screamed, legs almost giving out beneath her.

Then the door was swinging open and there was a blur and Alabaster was being ripped away from her and Luke was throwing him into a wall with a yell of pure rage.

"DON'T TOUCH MY SISTER!" and Percy half fell into Annabeth's arms as the other girl rushed to grab her, Grover and Tyson helping as Luke lunged at Alabaster as he started to stand up, fists flying, the sound of fist hitting flesh, sickening thuds that filled the room over and over as Luke punched the other teen.

"I'll kill you! No one hurts my sister no one!"

Percy had never seen Luke so angry, not ever.

He looked half feral, his lips pulled back into a snarl-and he had blood on his clothes and his face.

Alabaster was a bloody mess-his face coated in the slick liquid.

"Luke! Luke we have to get out of here!" Annabeth yelled the words, "Before more monsters try and stop us."

"Not before I kill him-"

"LUKE!" that was Grover, "Come on! Percy's hurt we need to get her in the water-"

"No-"

Tyson rushed forward, grabbing Luke around the waist and dragging him off of Alabaster-and as he did Grover and Annabeth were half carrying half dragging Percy out of the room.

A moment later Luke and Tyson were following-Luke had snatched Riptide off the floor and together they rushed through the ship.

Tyson and Luke took the lead, slashing their way through the monsters that rushed at them-and Percy knew that there were too many monsters.

They didn't stand a chance of escaping without something else.

But... they were on a boat weren't they? That meant that they were in her element.

She closed her eyes, trusting Annabeth and Grover to get her up onto the deck as she focused on the water all around them. She focused on the thought of waves, big waves.

She felt herself being dragged up a set of stairs, and the felt the boat start to rock slightly-it was starting to work.

Then they were on the deck and there were monsters surrounding them as Percy opened her eyes and Luke cursed "What do we do?"

"Everyone hold onto each other." Percy ordered quickly as the boat rocked harder-the waves getting bigger and bigger as they hit the boat.

And then the biggest wave yet came-tall enough that it came up above their heads..

Then Luke and Tyson were grabbing Annabeth and Grover's arms respectively.

The wave washed over the deck, and Percy could feel Annabeth and Grovers grips on her tightening as they were battered off the deck by the water-along with all of the monsters that had been surrounding them.

As they were swept into the water Percy focused, summoning up a large bubble of air around all five of them, using the currents to push them out to the sea away from the boat.

"Are you okay?" Luke was turning his head instantly so that he could look at Percy, "Your wrist-"

"I'll be fine-we're in the water."

"You can't keep this up all the way to camp." Annabeth pointed out weakly, "What do we do?"

"We can ask daddy for help?" Tyson suggested hopefully.

"Worth a try." Percy said after a moment, "He did give me a boat and he sent the Hippocampi when I asked for help before."

"Go on then Tyson." Grover gave a smile, "See if you can get Lord Poseidon to send us some help."

Tyson closed his eyes, his lips moving as he prayed silently, and less than five minutes later there were five shapes in the distance in the water-and within minutes the shapes became clearer-familiar half horse half fish shapes.

"He sent the Hippocampi again." Percy beamed widely as they came to a halt just outside of the air bubble.

"Fish Ponies!" Tyson surged forward, a wide smile on his lips as he burst out of the air bubble and wrapped his arms around one of the Hippocampi's
necks, shifting so that he was sat on it's back.

"We all need to get on one." Annabeth said, "Hopefully they'll take us back to camp."

"It's our best chance." Luke nodded, and together they made their wait out of the air bubble, Grover, Annabeth and Luke holding their breaths as they climbed onto the back of their Hiccocampi.

Percy of course didn't have to, and soon they were surfacing, once more speeding along the water on the back of the Hippocampi, Percy's was leading the way, with Tyson's and Luke's on either side of her, and Annabeth and Grover bringing up the rear.

When Percy glanced backwards as they sped away she could see the shore in the distance, see the Princess Andromeda, which had been washed too far onto the dock by the wave that Percy had summoned up and was hopefully now stranded.

Luke must have caught where she was looking because he managed to urge his Hippocampi closer to her so that he could lean over and lay a hand on her arm. "Seph-"

"I'm okay." Percy turned her head to focus on her big brother rather than on what was behind them.

"Are you sure?"

"Let him drown." Percy's voice was tight, "Let him and all his monsters drown for all I care."

She tried to ignore the twisting guilty sensation in her gut. To ignore the voice whispering that even if he was evil it wasn't right for her to have done something like that-that it wasn't her place to kill him.

Then she looked forward, letting out a breath, "Well, let's get to Camp Half-blood."

"Hopefully Nico is already on his way." Luke looked ahead too. "I guess all we can do for now is let the Hippocampi take us there."

"Yeah. Percy paused, "Hod did you guys unlock that door by the way?"

"Hermes kid perk apparently. I've never done it before but Travis and Connor told me about it-we can sort of understand locks and most of us can, if we focus enough, unlock most doors."

"You saved my ass in there I know that much."

"I'm your big brother. That's what I do." Luke shifted, looking down at his clothes-the water had washed the blood off his face at least but there were pinkish stains on his t-shirt. "Though I admit I've never gotten quite that angry before-"

"If you didn't get there first I'd have pummeled him too." that was Annabeth, and she urged her Hippocampi that bit closer, so that they were all grouped together tightly.

"Me too." Grover bleated, "No one hurts my best friend."

"He hurt Percy." Tyson sounded incredibly upset, "I don't like him. He's a meanie."

"That he is Tyson." Percy let out a faint laugh, "That he is." and with that a comfortable silence filled the air around them as they sped towards Camp.

There was no way to know what they'd find when they arrived, but as they sped away from the Princess Andromeda, away from Alabaster and his monsters Percy felt herself relaxing, letting the water around her sooth her frayed nerves.

They'd get to Camp and figure things out from there. Chiron had a phone they could use to call Percy's mom, then they'd know for sure what was going on-if Nico had made it home, if he was on his way to Camp or not.

Of course, unfortunately for the little group it wasn't the shortest journey, so they ended up dozing for some of the time.

It was safe enough-nothing would attack them as they rode home on the backs of the Hippocampi after all, and they weren't likely to fall off unless the Hippocampi wanted them to.

The sun was high in the sky by the time they were approaching land again, and Percy was woken from her dozing by Grover reaching over to shake her awake, "Percy." he bleated her name, voice bright "We're nearing land."

That made Percy yawn and straighten up, looking ahead towards the beautiful white sand of the beach in the distance-it was still a little distance away but they were approaching rapidly.

"Doesn't look like anyone is around." Percy frowned. Usually there were one or two kids on the beach at this time of day-she was pretty sure it was midday and a lot of campers liked to relax on the beach when they had free time.

"We know a lot of campers are at your place." that was Annabeth, "Maybe that explains it."

"I really hope so."

"There were lots and lots of kids at home." Tyson piped up.

"There were supposed to be some staying at Camp." Luke said slowly, "Only the older kids though."

"I really hope everything's okay." Percy found herself leaning forward slightly as they got closer and closer.

"It will be." Grover frowned, "I hope. It was around before Thalia's... well, before what happened. It's just... it's been a long time since we've had to guard the borders so we're not used to it and there's more Demigods than there used to be."

"A bigger draw for monsters." Percy said grimly, "And most of the Campers aren't used to real fights-all they've had to do is train."

"We need to get there and make sure everything is okay."

"I don't think the Hippocampi will take us much further." they'd slowed down massively-the beach was easily within swimming distance now.

"We can swim that easy enough." Luke nodded to himself, "We're nearly home guys, you all feel up to swimming-and I'm not even really asking you and Tyson Sephie, pretty sure you'd be up for a good swim no matter what."

"Of course." Percy gave a faint playful grin as the Hipppocampi came to a halt, sliding off of the back of hers as the others did the same, though she noticed that Tyson looked incredibly upset as he hugged his.

"Bye bye Rainbow-"

"You'll see her again." Percy told him gently, "But we gotta get to Camp."

"I would say we'll have to invite Tyson past the border but I don't even know if we will." Annabeth shook her head, "We don't know how much of the border is left now."

"It's been over a week." Percy bit her lip worriedly, "I really hope we're not too late."