Percy kneeled down on the dock and looked into the water of the lake. Chiron stood behind him, in wheelchair form. 'Yes, I do see something. The bubbles are also a sign that she's here. Yet, we can't be sure it is truly her.' Chiron sighed.

'Well, I am not going to take unnecessary risks. Get back to the shore. From now on, campers will not be allowed within ten metres of the lake.

'They won't be enough if it is really the Kraken.'

'Nothing will be enough if he is really the Kraken.' Percy had to agree to that.

Nobody knew how the monster got into their lake. Their inflatable trampoline had disappeared one day, and when somebody went to look where it went, all that happened was that a giant tentacle came out of the lake and flung the camper away. They had been carted of to the medical department. Immediately, Chiron had gotten a hunch about who the tentacle could belong to.

Right now, after it was confirmed that it was, indeed, the kraken that was in the lake of Camp half-blood, Chiron had no idea what to do. If it had been any other monster, he would have probably had an answer, but he didn't even know what to do with a giant octopus. He and Percy walked away from the lake. 'Percy, do you know of any way to fight that... thing off?' Chiron asked. Percy shook his head.

'I could ask my dad, but I think fighting of Cthulhu might have been easier.' Even though everything was horrible, Chiron chuckled. 'Luckily, Cthulhu doesn't exist.' Percy shrugged overdramatically. 'Do we know that for sure, Chiron?'

'I'd rather you stop talking, Percy.'

'Kayla, please go find the cabin captains! We'll have a meeting in five minutes!' Chiron yelled over Percy's head. 'Percy, you get inside already.'

Slowly, the room with the ping-pong table started to fill up with the different cabin captains. 'What's going on? Piper asked, while walking inside with Lou Ellen. Percy took a deep breath.

'Well...'

'Let it go. I'll hear it in a few seconds. So that you don't have to explain it three times, you know.' Percy nodded and couldn't help but smile. 'Thanks, Piper.'

When everyone had gathered around, Chiron and Dionysus walked into the room. Chiron immediately started talking: 'To say it in a very short manner: The kraken is currently in our camp lake.' He waited for some time. People around the room gasped. Some of them looked at each other in panic. Travis got his agenda out of his pocket. 'Alright, it isn't april fools, so we probably have an actual emergency.'

Chiron had to resist the urge to give a not so nice answer back to travis. 'I think we can speak of something slightly more than just an emergency, Travis. Now, it is still in the lake and has only wounded one child. Soon, it might go to bodies of water in the mortal world and also start eating people.'

'Why didn't it do that before? It must have been somewhere, all this time!' Will Solace asked.

'Because it was slain about two Thousand years ago - we are in luck that it takes so long for it to be reborn.'

'So it got reborn... in our lake.'

'I think it got reborn somewhere in the deep sea. Yet, it does not stick to usual human or monster rules - it can get to any body of water it wants...'

'So tomorrow it could decide to just hang out in the Hudson river?' Piper asked, even though Chiron was still speaking. She sounded a little panicked. Everyone looked at Chiron, desperately wanting him to say No! Of course not! But sadly, he nodded. 'Yes, Piper, that is a possibility. Which is why we have to find a way to expel the monster.'

'Can't the gods help?' Katie Gardner asked, while side eyeing Dionysus. The god shook his head. 'Zeus doesn't take up my Phone calls or Iris Messages. I could ask Poseidon, but the kraken kind of hates him after the incident with Kimoplea... She'll get mad when she sees Poseidon.

'But what can we do then? I mean, we are just demigods...'

'We thought Kronos and Gaea, of course we can...'

'Think of the names, please...'

Percy was tuning out. His dad had told him of the Kraken before. Somewhere during that one conversation, Poseidon had mentioned how he could get rid of the giant octopus for another two Thousand years. What was it? It had something to do with flashing colours and smoke, he remembered that...

'Chiron, do you remember who the last person was who killed the Kraken?' Percy asked, unaware that he interrupted Clarisse. The daughter of Ares shot him an annoyed look, but Chiron still answered Percy: 'Not really. It was a long time ago. I do remember that they were a child of a norse god... of fire and smoke, I believe... And Odin told me they had a gender neutral name...' Percy got up.

'I think I might have an idea about what we need to do...'

'Percy has an idea people! Take cover!' Travis Stoll yelled. Percy saw that Annabeth rolled her eyes. 'Percy's ideas might be crazy sometimes, but they have gotten people out of trouble more than once!' She told him. Percy gave her a wide smile.

'Thanks, Annabeth.' She gave him a small smile back. Percy took a deep breath. 'So, my dad once told me how to get rid of that thing. I, eh... wasn't really paying attention, ADHD you know.'

'Then what...'

'Let me talk, Lou! But I do remember that he said something about vibrant colours, loud sounds and smoke. Chiron just told us that a child of Hephaestus was the one who destroyed the Kraken last time. I think they might have used a machine to create sounds and lights and, of course, their own hands to make smoke, lots of smoke...'

'So, what's more important, smoke or sounds and colours?' Clarisse asked.

'Smoke. The thing really hates smoke. They found that out during the event Dionysus mentioned. Kymopoleia somehow weakened the thing with smoke, after which the Kraken got back to the norse seas, where that demigod killed it with more smoke.'

'How is it so weak to smoke? It is an aquatic animal!'

'Nico, how should I know?'

'You're the son of the sea god, I think you should have some knowledge of animals in your domain! I mean, everyone Always expects me to know everything about ghouls, ghosts...'

'Yeah, yeah, yeah, well, if you want to know anything about crabs, I am your man. Yet, for some reason, the thing hates smoke. Which we are going to use to get him out.' He heard a groan somewhere in the back of the room. 'Leo, it is your camp too!'

'Yeah, but now we will have to build a smoke machine! Why don't we at least get some Norse kids into this camp so that they can help us?'

'That shouldn't be too much of an issue,' Dionysus said, while looking at Chiron. Chiron sighed and got a Phone out of his pocket. 'I'll call the hotel manager.'

About fifteen minutes later, Magnus and Alex arrived. 'Helgi said that we had to come. Because we know some of you all,' Magnus told Chiron. Chiron nodded.

'It's alright, Mr. Chase. Yet, we have an emergency on our hands.' Alex had already walked further. 'Yeah, yeah, Kraken. We can do it.'

'You don't have to do it on your own, eh... How are feeling today?'

'Miss.'

'Miss Fierro. Over there is your team.' Chiron pointed at a group of kids standing close to the big house. A team had been formed, consisting of the hephaestus kids (but not Harley, who was eight years old and considered to young to fight a huge squid), Percy, Annabeth and Malcolm, Clarisse and Will Solace (To heal the people who got hurt). The rest of camp half blood was anxiously hanging around by the cabins, hoping the tentacles wouldn't be long enough to snatch them from there.

'So, Greeks, what are we going to do?' Alex asked, while stepping into the middle of the circle. Nyssa turned towards her. 'We are going to use sound and music to get it to the surface and then smoke it out.' Leo created fire with his hands to emphasize what she said about the smoke. Alex nodded. 'Alright, alright. And how do we rule out the possibility that the sounds of music and bright lights and colours will only drive it deeper to the bottom of the lake, out of the lake or will make it so angry that our small little team doesn't stand a single chance?'

Nobody answered to that for a few seconds. 'We'll see when that happens. We don't really do planning to far ahead here.' The rest, even Malcolm and Annabeth, nodded. Alex started to laugh. 'I like you all. Let's go and smoke out this giant, dangerous, mythical squid.'

They all collided around the lake. The hephaestus kids were pushing a tower onto the dock. It was covered in a layer of plastic and glass - a material only Hephaestus kids could make - but inside were a powerful music installation and a disco light projector. Originally, it was meant to lighten up the campfire evenings, but it worked in this situation as well. Percy walked onto the dock. He stepped in front of the tower and kneeled down.

He wished he hadn't done that. Deep under the surface, he saw a big yellow eye. The pupil narrowed when it saw Percy. A loud, blubbering sound rose up from the lake. A few kids of the rescue team stepped back. Percy stayed were he was. The squid did the same thing. Percy took a deep breath. 'Alright. Turn on the machine. Don't start calmly, then it might try to snatch one of us to try and make it stop.' He said it softly, hoping that the beast didn't have ultrasound hearing.

Nyssa did hear him, just like Percy had hoped. She turned the volume as high as she possibly could and reached for the turn on button, before retrieving her hands. 'Wait. Mason...' Mason rummaged through a large bag which they had also brought along. He got out a bunch of earplugs.

After they had all protected their ears, Nyssa punched the button. The music was so loud that Percy could hear a faint sound through the specially designed earplugs. He wondered what the people by the cabins did about the eardrum destroying sound. They must be hearing it. Well, too late to do anything about it.

Nyssa turned on the lights. Percy hoped they didn't have anybody with epilepsy in there team. The monster, deep down in the lake, certainly heard and saw everything. Percy saw it's pupils growing wide, before another scream erupted from the lake and five tentacles shot out. Percy jumped through the little door that lead to the inside of the tower.

He slammed the door shut and looked through the see-through walls. He saw a hawk flying through the sky - well, a hawk with teeth. It soared through the tentacles, before diving down and biting one.

Alex Always thought being a bird gave her a sense of freedom. A hawk with teeth was one of the best things she had ever turned into. Yet, she realised soon enough that she hasn't fully thought the plan through. As soon as she bit into the tentacle, it retrieved into the water and pulled her with it. Another blood curdling scream, which she felt rather than heard. She let go of the tentacle and changed into a water flea - something so small the kraken wouldn't be able to get her. Yet, she still realised that a single hit with the tentacle could knock her out.

The other four tentacles still tried to grab what it could above the surface. They almost got a hold of Will, who managed to dart away just in time. Leo screamed and made a fire with his hands. 'Mason! Nyssa! Malcolm! Whoever! Grab the firewood! Find more of it!' Nyssa threw a branch in front of his feet, which Leo immediately put ablaze.

They threw a few branches into the water. One of them hit a tentacle. The monster yelled as soon as he felt it hit him. Alex flew out of the water again, in the shape of a Phoenix (Show off, Annabeth thought, which is kind of weird considering that a Phoenix is really powerful and they needed that right now).

Percy was still in the tower, looking at the squid aimlessly throwing its tentacles all over the place. He saw that the squid reached out again - only to throw it's tentacle straight against the tower. Percy didn't hesitate. He threshed open the door and dove into the lake.

The first thing he saw was the giant squid eye focusing on him. Slowly, he sunk to the bottom of the lake. The pupil of the eye followed his every single move. Percy took another deep breath. He saw that the others were still throwing smoke and fire at it.

Percy reached the bottom of the lake. Now, Percy saw the second eye as well. Percy realised that he had not seen anybody be angry before seeing this thing right now. She pulled back all of her tentacles and positioned them around her head in such a way that she could easily attack Percy. 'Uh, darling... I am sorry about all that... please wait...'

'It's a little late for talking, don't you think, son of Poseidon? It was too late right after his daughter pulled that stunt on me...' One of the tentacles shot out and grabbed Percy by the neck. 'Yet, I would like to have a look at you... Owh!' Another scream, which Percy felt through his entire body. 'What is this... bowl!?'

'Uh... our lake. Of about two hundred by one hundred and fifty metres,' Percy answered. 'It uh... might be a little cramped.'

'It is, Son of the sea god. Yet, I cannot...'

'The ocean is about four hundred metres to the left. There is more space over there. I believe the deeper ocean is one kilometre away from thaaatttt...' Percy felt something tearing at his stomach. His head spun. Little sunspots appeared in front of his eyes.

When they disappeared, The water around them felt different. Colder. Salt. Percy realised that the Kraken had pulled both of them into the deep ocean - the really deep ocean. This was definitely not just a kilometre away from Long Island. This was somewhere around greenland.

It was dark all around him. 'What are you...'

'The Kraken, a Norse god.'

'I didn't want to ask that.' Percy turned his head around. He saw the squids' giant yellow eyes. 'Yet, uh... this place.'

'I am staying here.' Percy swallowed. He realised there was nothing he could about it - he couldn't fight against the Kraken on his own on the bottom of the sea. 'That's fine. This seems like a nice place to stay for a huge squ... for a the mighty Kraken.' The kraken narrowed her eyes. 'I'll forgive you for that, but only if you tell Aegir, Poseidon and whoever else meddles with the seas not to attack me ever again. Then I'll leave them alone too.' Percy opened his mouth.

'I could also break your spine, of course...'

'No, I'll do that. It's fine. I just, eh... don't know how to get away. What's the surface.' The Kraken sighed, which felt more like a gust of wind.

The next moment, Percy was laying on the bottom of the lake in camp half-blood. He blinked, shook his head and swam to the surface. With a gasp, he put his head out of the water.

'Percy!'

'Oh, hey Annabeth.' He swam to the side of the lake. The tower was still standing on the dock. He climbed onto the surface. Will Solace came running towards him with a first-aid kit. Annabeth softly lowered him to the ground. 'Percy, where did you go? Where did… she go?'

Percy shook his head. 'Somewhere… somewhere on the bottom of the deep seas. I thought Greenland when I first got there, but it might as well be the arctic or something in a very deep cave of the bermuda triangle.' He sighed deeply. 'I think… I think she might leave us alone if we leave her alone. She… said as much, out of nowhere.' Will tapped him on the shoulder.

'Easy does it, Percy.'

'Thanks, Will.' He yawned and smiled at Annabeth. 'I have a few letters to write, I think.'