After Breakfast, Chiron called a councilors meeting in the wreck room of the big house. The head councilors from all 12 cabins all gathered around the Ping Pong table; Chiron in wheel chair form headed the table next to Mr. D.

"I take from the silence that we all know why we are here?" said Chiron

Mr. D sighed putting down a now empty diet coke can.

"Yes, yes my little sister is no longer a Blue Spruce." He complained.

Percy clenched his fists, but Annabeth who was standing beside him stepped forward before he could, which in hind sight was probably a good thing.

"It's not as simple as that, Mr. D." said Annabeth.

"Indeed, you all know of the pack that the big three made after World War II. But you what you don't is the real reason for the pack." agreed Chiron

A murmur broke out at the table. Percy was sure this was his cue sins Chiron can't tell them because of his pack with Zeus and it would make more sense coming from somebody that it directly effects.

Percy leaned against the ping pong table. "Towards the end of World War II the oracle gave a great prophesy that some people believe we aren't ready to here yet so I don't know the exact words. But it apparently says the next child of the Big Three to reach the age of 16 will have the power to decide the fate of Olympus. That's the real reason for the pact between the big three to have no more Demi-God kids."

There was silence. Nobody said anything until either Connor or Travis Stoll, Percy was quite sure which, stepped forward. "But Thalia is already older than 16, she's been a tree for 6 years. So wouldn't the prophesy still apply to you, Percy?"

Annabeth and Chiron shared one of their scary looks and Annabeth spoke up. "No, if you do the math. Thalia was twelve when she ... was transformed and trees age slower than we do so if you take the average of a pine tree and compare it to the length of human life span it ages about half as fast of a human. So her 6 years was only like 3." said Annabeth like it made perfect sense but everybody else looked completely lost except Chiron.

"It's like dog years. They have short life spans so what their teenage years are like when their four and five years old. Thalia was aging pine tree time so instead of ageing 6 years she only aged 3." said Percy. It seemed like everybody understood and the idea started to sink in.

"So you're telling me instead of Thalia being 18 she's 15, that means we only have year!" said Clarisse.

"Less than a year Thalia's Birthday is in December, we only have 5 months." said Chiron. "Mr. D, I think you should go up to Olympus and report this morning's events directly to your father while I take care of things down here."

"Yes of course, any excuse to escape the limits of probation." said Mr. D. taking out a plastic card and with that he disappeared.

"Is there any more questions?" asked Chiron

Nobody moved.

"I think we all completely understood our situation. In five months my cousin is either going to destroy the world or save it." thought Percy.

"Alright, then the council is adjourned for now." said Chiron. "Percy, Annabeth, Grover stay with me. I want you there when I break the news to her." he said as the others were leaving.

Percy and his friends stood next to Thalia who had just woken up from a long nap. She sat up and eyed them.

"I told you all I remember so are you going tell me what happened or not?" she questioned.

"It's complicated Thalia. Really, really complicated we are just trying to figure out where to start." said Percy

"Why are guys even here? Shouldn't the camp director be here with Chiron explaining to me not a group of kids?" snapped Thalia.

"Calm down my dear, Mr. D is busy and they are here because they are the best people to explain to you what happened." said Chiron.

"Well then what happened!?" asked Thalia

"You said you were fighting at the top of the hill and you were. You said you were stabbed by a dragon women and you were indeed stabbed by a Dracaena. But you did not fall asleep my dear, you died." said Chiron sadly.

"But that's not possible I'm not dead! If I was I wouldn't feel so tired and I'd be in Elysium." argued Thalia

"You said your father spoke to you as you fell, he was upset by your death so as you took you last breath he transformed you into that pine tree at the top of the hill and your soul has reinforced the camps borders ever sins; that is until today." added Annabeth.

"Ok even if all this is true and I'm not saying it is, how am I out here healing in a lawn chair? And what do you mean ever since; it couldn't have been that long? And were are Annabeth and Luke and Grover if I protected the border, Hmm?" reasoned Thalia

Annabeth got tears in her eyes again but she pushed them back and came closer.

"Thalia, it's been 6 years sins you stood atop the hill to protect us. I am Annabeth Jane Chase and I'm 13 years old now. Grover come here." reassured Annabeth

Grover came closer as Annabeth knelt next to her.

"Hey Thalia long time no see?" said Grover obviously trying not cry.

"How O- My Gods! Annabeth you got so big! Grover you have a go-t!" Thalia gasped.

"Yeah Percy calls it my Goat-t." Grover joked causing the group to laugh.

"Percy, you're a camper here?" asked Thalia

Percy walked over to Thalia from the porch railing and stood behind Grover and Annabeth.

"Yeah this my second year here Grover found me at my school last year." He replied.

Thalia looked back at Grover and Annabeth and smiled but then it faded into a look of confusion.

"I'm so happy to see you both, but it still doesn't explain that if I was a tree how I'm here."

"My dear, do you see that gold glittering object hanging in your tree?" Asked Chiron. Thalia nodded. "Well that is the golden fleece from the Argonauts story. At the beginning of the summer your tree was dying so a girl named Clarisse LA Rue daughter of Ares was sent out on quest after the fleece. Meanwhile our young satyr here got himself in a bit of trouble and Percy, Annabeth, and young cyclops named Tyson left camp to rescue him. It just so happened the two quests were intertwined and the 5 of them were able to retrieve the fleece and bring it back to heal the tree."

"But it heal more than your tree." continued Annabeth. "I was on guard duty for the fleece last night and I turned around and you were just there. I screamed, and Grover who was supposed to be on guard duty with me woke up and came running. He gasped and said that he was going to wake Chiron and Percy up. And you know the rest."

"Yeah, I wake up to a boy in his boxers." She said playfully.

Annabeth and Grover laugh and Chiron smiled.

"What? Grover bursts into my cabin at 5 in the morning muttering something about Annabeth and guard duty. I thought she was hurt I didn't have time to think about pants; I grabbed my sword and ran." said Percy holding up riptide.

"That's a pen." Said Thalia

Percy uncaps the pen and it extends into his familiar 3 foot long shining bronze sword.

"It's called Anaklusmos which means Riptide in ancient Greek." He introduced.

"That's cool; almost as cool as my agus" claimed Thalia tapping her bracelet and grows to a full shield with the head of medusa on it.

"Yeah I have one of those to." Related Percy as he hit his wrist watch and his shield grew to full size. "I also met the real medusa and that's a real good likeness so would you mind putting it away."

"Sure" said Thalia. "Who's your godly parent?" she asked Percy

Everybody shifted uncomfortably. All four of them knew that this the start to a much bigger conversation that none of them really wanted to have.

"Poseidon god of the seas, Lord of horses, earth shaker and all that other stuff." said Percy trying to make it sound normal.

"Wait, what about..."

"The Big Three Pack not to have any children? The whole reason why you were being chased in the first place. Yeah well let say it hasn't worked out so well for our dads." finished Percy.

"Which brings us to a dangerous ever harder subject to explain." continued Chiron "We must explain to you the reason for the pack."

Thunder rumbled.

Annabeth looked at Chiron and then back at Thalia. "The Oracle gave a great prophesy that said the next child of the big three to reach the age of sixteen will decide the fate of Olympus and your older than Percy so the prophesy could only apply to you."

"But how? You said I was... It's been 6 years." asked Thalia

"Do to the slower rate that that a tree ages your approximately 15 years old that is if my math is correct." said Annabeth

"Your math is always correct Annabeth. Even if I don't... wait a minute how can I decide the fate of Olympus in less than a year?" asked Thalia.

"There is kind of a war going on or trying to start." said Percy

"What?" Exclaimed Thalia

"Percy!" yelled Annabeth

"Well she deserves to know all of it and there is no easy way to break it to her that she was brought back to life because of it." said Percy.

"What, Explain!" demanded Thalia.

"Percy is right. No matter how upsetting the circumstances she needs to know all of it." said Chiron. Then he turned towards Thalia. "As of about a year ago we were informed that the titian lord Kronos was and is trying to rise. Percy's first quest revolved around this because he was to retrieve your fathers lightning bolt that Kronos had stolen."

"Yeah, because I was recently claimed as Poseidon's child Zeus thought I pinched it for my dad. My dad thought Hades stole it to frame me and Hades had his helm of darkness stolen which was also blamed on me but I didn't find that out until later…" Percy interrupted.

"Yes, Seaweed-Brain we all know you don't like being blamed for stuff. Don't interrupt Chiron." scolded Annabeth.

Chiron smiled.

"It's ok Annabeth he has reason to be upset. Well any way, Kronos had both the items stolen by his inside operative in hopes of starting a war. Percy, Annabeth, and Grover, however, was able to keep the peace and Kronos lost all hope of turning Percy to his side. That's why he had your tree poisoned. He knew we'd send out a quest for the fleece and somehow he knew that it would heal you so that he'd have another chance to control the prophesy."

Thalia sat there shocked.

"You mean I was brought back so that Kronos and his minions could try and use me to start a war because they gave up on Percy."

"Yeah that about sums it up." Sniffled Grover looking terrified.

"No it doesn't, your forgetting one major thing guys. The person that was and is Kronoses right hand man is..." started Percy.

Annabeth turned to face him.

"No, Percy don't!" she yelled

"Why not, Wise girl! She deserves to know."

"Not by you, by me."

"You will be too soft on him, you always are."

"You're all ways too hard on him".

"That's because he tried to kill me, you, Grover, Chiron, my mother and basically anything else I care about!"

"Both of you, Stop it!" yelled Grover. "I had to deal with a whole trip across country with you two fighting! It stopped now you to only fight when you talk about Luke! So stop!"

"You mean..." Thalia gasped.

"Oops." said Grover

Annabeth and Percy didn't say anything they just glare at each other. Chiron is the only one who didn't seemed fazed by the argument.

"Yes, my dear. After you ah... for a-lack-of-a-better-term "Died" he got angrier than before. Then he went on a quest for his father and he got hurt; emotionally and physically. He became resentful and this let Kronos in..."

"Kronos started whispering to him in his dreams. It warped his mind until he didn't act like his old self anymore." Interrupted Annabeth.

"It still doesn't, excuse him from his actions. I had Kronos whispering to me too and I still will fight against him until my last breath." said Percy. "When I first came to camp last year he befriended me then when I succeeded in my quest and came back not in league with Kronos he tried to kill me." he put his hand out to show her the pit scorpion sting. "He was the one who stole the bolt and the helm; and blamed it on me. After he failed to kill me he poisoned your tree to make us go on the quest after the fleece. On the quest we realized he has a whole army of monsters on the Princess Andromeda, his very own evil cruise ship that's sailing somewhere in the ocean right now. And he hasn't just recruited monsters there's demigods too; he even tried recruiting Annabeth."

A tear came streaming down Thalia's cheek.

"Look I'm so sorry I have no idea how hard it is for you, but I believe you would want to hear the whole truth now; then find out the rest latter. Am I right?" said Percy kneeling down next to her.

Thalia nodded. She stopped crying but still looked extremely unstable.

"I just want to take nap, right now." She mumbled as she rolled over not waiting for a response.

"Come now let's leave her to get some rest; she's had a trying day." said Chiron guiding Percy and them down the steps.

"Did I say anything unreasonable?" asked Percy to Annabeth as they were walking towards the cabins.

She just glared at him, then stormed off. Percy turned towards Grover.

"Did I?" he demanded with his glare still on.

"No, man. It's just hard for us you didn't know him before. Remember when you first came to camp and how cool he was to you then." Percy nods. "Multiply that by ten and that's how the real Luke acts, I mean the one before Kronos."

"Yeah, I guess but you guys can't confuse the guy he was to who he is now. The new Luke will kill any of us in a second if he had the chance." Grover looked at him pleadingly. "Look I won't mention him as long he's not brought up, Deal?"

"Yeah."

"I'm going to be in the lake if you need me." Percy said running off.