Hey guys! Sorry for the late update, it wouldn't let me upload anything earlier in the day. As always enjoy this chapter-and also please please review-it feels like people are losing interest in this fic.
Also, just a word of warning, I'm a fair distance ahead in my writing, but there will be so so much pain, I made myself cry with one chapter.

The swim to the beach was fairly peaceful, it wasn't far at all and Percy and Tyson reached the shore first-he hadn't needed to be invited in, there had been slight resistance but he'd pushed through with barely any struggle, a fact that was incredibly concerning, Percy automatically drying herself off as she took off down the beach while Tyson waited for the others.

It very quickly became clear as to why the beach was deserted when she left the sand and headed up towards the mess hall and the Cabins.

In the distance Percy could hear the sound of fighting, and she sped up, mentally cursing the fact that she didn't have her sword-Luke still had it from snatching it off the ground during the chaos that was their escape from Alabaster's forces. Still she knew how to fight without a sword, whatever it was they could handle it she was sure.

The fighting itself was happening up on Half-blood Hill Percy realized quickly, near the border of camp.

Percy could see monsters-a bronze bull the size of an elephant that was being attacked by a group of Clarisse' siblings along with some of the Hephaestus campers, while the rest of the Campers dealt with three Lastrongian Giants and two Hellhound.

Gods but they'd arrived at a bad time hadn't they?

Chiron was stood at the top of the hill commanding the archers-no one had noticed her yet, and she sprinted towards him quickly, glad that she'd not bothered to remove her armor, "CHIRON!"

He turned his head, eyes widening in surprise, "Percy! You made it back. Where are the others do you have the Fleece?"

"Luke, Grover, Annabeth and Tyson are on their way up here! Ty is a Cyclops." she explained quickly as she skidded to a halt, "The Fleece should be on it's way now it's a long story, we were ambushed and we had to send the Fleece away to stop Alabaster from using it to help revive Kronos-"

Chiron cursed in Greek, shaking his head, "I hope that the Fleece is brought here soon- Ah I see the others." and with that Percy glanced behind her to see the others sprinting towards them, Tyson heading straight for the Bull while Annabeth and Grover ran towards the Giants.

Luke slowed as he approached Percy and Chiron, throwing something in the air, and Percy snatched her trusty pen out of the air.

"You keep ordering the archers to target the Giants. Luke and I will take on the Hellhounds."

"Sounds like fun sis." Luke gave devilish grin and together they were sprinting down the hill towards the two giant monster dogs, splitting up as they got close, each going around the sides of the huge dogs, who snarled and leapt at them, and Percy ducked down, the claws skimming the air inches above her.

She glanced sideways as the giant hound hit the ground with a thud, and Luke had done the same as her with his hound. He caught her eye and they both grinned at each other before they started sprinting towards one another.

"Like that one film?" Percy called quickly, a playful grin on her lips, and Luke burst out laughing.

"You are such a show-off Sephie."

"Y'know you love it." they sprinted towards one another as the dogs skidded and turned to rush at them both again-and then they were sprinting past each other, and Percy leaped into the air, planting her foot on the Hellhounds nose as it lunged to try and take a bite out of her.

She was midair when she heard the two dogs crash together in their attempt to eat her and Luke, then she landed on the Hellhounds neck, sword out and pointed downwards as she landed and drove it down into the monsters neck.

It howled with pain, shaking viciously, but Percy gripped Riptides hilt tightly, once again painfully glad for the fact that she healed when she went in the water-if she didn't she'd be more than screwed, she'd probably be a chew toy right about now because there was no way she'd have been able to hold on with a broken wrist.

As it was it was difficult even with perfectly fine wrists and she was half convinced that her left shoulder had been dislocated by the force of the shaking as she managed to steady herself, planting her feet on the dogs neck, using Riptide to keep herself from falling off as she pushed the blade in further before jerking it sideways.

The Hellhound howled in pain before it burst into yellow ash and Percy was falling, twisting as she did so that she wouldn't end up impaling herself on her own sword, hitting the ground back first with a grunt before rolling away from a stray rock that one of the giants had thrown in her direction.

She scrambled to her feet, cursing under her breath when she saw that Luke was struggling to get his sword in deep enough as he was tossed from side to side.

If it went on much longer the hound would either shake Luke's grip loose or shake the sword embedded in it's neck free.

Percy cursed loudly and sprinted towards them, heart pounding as she did, praying that Luke was a big enough distraction as she darted under the Hellhound and thrust her sword into it's belly-grimacing at the blood that poured over her as she rushed forward still, slicing it open-and much to her relief the Hellhound exploded into a familiar cloud of yellow ash and Luke yelled as he fell, though his sword ended up stabbing into the ground and he landed on his stomach.

Percy was moving before he even had the chance to so much as lift his head, twisting to look at the rest of the fighting.

Tyson was handling the Bull well enough with the Ares and Hephaestus campers aid, and as she watched Annabeth stabbed the last of the Lastrongian Giants in the back making it explode into monster dust.

As Tyson finished crushing the Bulls face in Chiron's horn sounded and he called out across the battle field "Apollo Campers help the injured, the threats gone for now! Everyone back into camp, help the injured back to the infirmary, make sure there's a patrol watching the border, a group of fighters who are uninjured. I need to talk to our questers at the Big House so meet me there."

"Did you do it?" that was Travis, who came sprinting towards Percy and Luke, Connor close behind him, "Did you get the Fleece? Is Camp going to be saved.

"It should be on it's way." Luke said quickly, reaching out to lay a hand on his brothers head, "We need to talk to Chiron."

"But Camp's going to be okay right?" that was Connor, his voice desperate, "All the younger Campers are all gone now it's only us older kids left please is Camp-"

"Travis, Connor we're doing our best but I can't promise anything until it gets here." Luke shook his head as Percy grabbed his arm. "Now you guys do what Chiron said he wanted to talk to us."

"Right. You go talk to Chiron." Travis nodded quickly, "Just promise you'll tell us everything when you get back?"

"Sure, why not." Luke let out a laugh, shaking his head fondly before he and Percy turned and walked away.

Annabeth, Tyson and Grover were already halfway to the Big House Percy noticed, and soon enough they were all in the Big House in Chiron's familiar office as the Centaur laid his hands flat on his desk.

There was a moment of silence before Chiron spoke, "I'm glad to see you all safe and healthy-though I wish you had the Fleece with you now. You can spare me the details children. You did manage to find it and get it from what Percy said. Do you know where it is now?"

"It should be with Nico." Percy spoke up quickly, "He was the only one of us who could get out of Alabaster's trap. He should have gone straight home."

"Nico, the youngest adopted member of your family yes?" Chiron asked calmly, expression careful, "How did he get out?"

"He.." Percy hesitated, "Has a special way of traveling-it's his place to explain. Not ours."

"If we can call Miss Jackson we should be able to find out if he made it home."Annabeth suggested quickly.

"I told him to travel with Clarisse." Percy added, "I figure there aren't many people as capable as her, if anyone can get him and the Fleece here safely it's her."

"I see." Chiron nodded, "Well by all means give your mother a call." that was directed at Percy and Luke, "To see if young Nico is on his way here. I'm afraid the situation is rather grim." Chiron shook his head, looking exhausted, "Thalia's tree is getting worse by the day and the Border can barely keep anything out- as I'm sure you noticed with Tyson." he nodded to the Cyclops, who was looking round with wide eager eyes.

"Yeah, I did notice that."

"In any case we've been getting attacks most days." Chiron shook his head, "I half suspect that someone's been sending monsters to attack-"

"Alabaster." Percy scowled, "Hopefully he's gone now though."

"What happened?"

"I summoned a real big wave. He was on a boat."

"I see." Chiron nodded, "Well, I find myself hoping the same. For now, Luke you call your mother, find out if Nico arrived home safely-and might I say
I'm most curious as to how he ended up with you-"

"He had dreams about what was happening with me." Percy shook her head, "He was really worried and he figured out he could use his powers to travel. It weakens him a lot though. I only sent him home like that because it was that or Alabaster was going to take the Fleece from him by force."

"I see." Chiron nodded, "Well, as I said, Luke you find out what happened with your brother, and the rest of you try and settle down if you can."

"Grover and I can give Tyson a tour of Camp. I know he's a Cyclops but he's not like most of them." Annabeth said quickly.

"Tyson's the best Satyr ever." Grover added, "If he hadn't helped stop Polyphemus we'd still be on that Island probably."

"Almost definitely." Percy piped up. "I'd have been dead without him."

"Well I've already heard all about young Tyson from Sally." Chiron gave the baby Cyclops a warm smile as Tyson flushed and smiled widely with pride, "I'm sure he'll be just fine. Most of the Campers saw him help take out the Colchis Bull."

"And if anyone gives him trouble we'll deal with it, explain." Grover declared quickly.

"Good. Now I believe I need to go and check on the infirmary, make sure that the Apollo children can handle the injuries." with that Chiron was leaving, and Annabeth, Grover and Tyson followed his lead as Luke moved quickly to the phone, dialling the number that both of them knew off by heart.

Percy sat down as Luke clicked the speaker button on the machine and he sat next to her, wrapping an arm around her as the sound of the phone ringing filled the room, and Percy let her head rest on her big brothers shoulder.

"Do you think everything's okay at home?"

"I'm sure it is." Luke's voice was firm, "They had Clarisse and some of the other older Campers to look after them-Chris is pretty handy with a sword, and so's Malcolm. They can handle themselves well enough to defend against any attacks and with less campers gathered together it should mean there's less attacks than if they'd stayed at camp."

"I hate thinking of what might have happened if there were a lot of younger campers here during a big attack like that one we just dealt with."

"Well there weren't." Luke sighed, "It's gonna be okay Perce. Everything's under control for now. We're gonna be fine. Nico's probably already on his way with Clarisse-"

"What if... if Alabaster sends more monsters to intercept him?"

"Hopefully Albaster's not going to be a problem anymore-you pretty much wiped that boat out Sephie."

"First an Island then a boat." Percy snorted, "What should I flood next?"

"Well as long as there are enemies there I don't care." Luke laughed, shaking his head, "Both times you did it you had some real good reasons."

They were distracted from their conversation by the clicking noise that signalled someone picking up the phone.

They could immediately hear chaos in the background-but it wasn't terrifying chaos, it was the sound of kids chattering and laughing.

Then a familiar voice came through the line. "Hello, this is Sally Jackson speaking, who am I talking to?"