Once they got close to the address Chris had given them, they saw the dracaenae. There were at least thirty of them, swarming a small beach house. They were fighting to get into the house but none of them seemed to have much luck. For one, they were fighting each other to try to get in. And for another, as soon as they would cross into the house, they would explode into dust.
"Piper, you get into the house and help Chris and Clarisse. Jason cover for her. Luke, Percy, and I will stay out here and try to kill as many as we can," Annabeth directed and Piper and Jason started fighting their way towards the house. Luke, Percy, and Annabeth attacked the back of the bunch, killing six in a matter of seconds.
Once Jason and Piper get into the house, they find Clarisse standing in the center of the room, the farthest away from any windows, holding a screaming baby satyr in one hand and a spear in the other. She had a wild look in her eyes that Piper noticed to be desperation and adrenaline. Chris was zipping around the room, fighting monsters at every window. He'd put some kind of camouflage net over most of them but the monsters were clawing at it. When he noticed Piper and Jason, a look of relief washed over his face.
"Thank the gods you're here! Where is everyone else?" Chris asked.
"Outside," Piper said. "What do you need us to do?"
"Keep all of the monsters out of the house. Kill as many as you can." So, Piper and Jason turned to the open windows and started slashing the monsters to dust. Piper was yelling at the dracaenae to kill each other while stabbing them with her ice sword. Jason called on some lightning to strike outside of the house while simultaneously killing monsters with his Imperial Gold sword through the windows.
"Hey!" Percy yelled after he got hit with a bolt of electricity. He, Annabeth, and Luke were a whirlwind of swords and daggers as they cut through the dracaenae from the back. Percy had brought some water from the ocean nearby and was drowning the monsters while using Riptide to cut through them. Annabeth was using her new dagger to stab the snake ladies, every once in awhile putting on her Yankees cap to confuse them. Luke was the fiercest of any of them. He had missed sword fighting while he was in the Underworld and was glad to be back. He hadn't lost any of his skills (that were now equal to Jason and Percy's) and time seemed to slow as he fought.
In a matter of minutes, all of the dracaenae were gone and Percy, Annabeth, and Luke headed inside the house, covered monster dust.
"Luke?" Clarisse asked, hatred in her voice.
"Clarisse…" Luke started.
"Don't even…" Clarisse took a deep breath, tears forming in her eyes. "You are the reason S-Silena is dead." She said it so calmly, so unlike her that it caught everyone off guard. They'd expected her to scream at him. A look of despair formed on Luke's face.
"Clarisse. I loved Silena like a sister. At the time, my judgment was so clouded by my anger that I didn't know what I was doing. I should've never asked her…" Luke was cut off as Clarisse stormed out of the room, Chuck still in her arms. Chris glared at Luke and followed his girlfriend. Annabeth had tears in her eyes and went to sit on the couch.
Percy turned to Luke. "I think you should go. Give everyone some time to cool off." Luke agreed and walked out of the door.