The Quest for the Magic Sword

Part 4: The Underwater Forge

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"Look! There's Camp Half- Blood!" Grover pointed at the camp that was engulfed in fire.

We dismounted our hippocampi and ran off towards the big house. Then I saw the problem: about ten or more giant cyclopses using enormous arrows and bows to destroy Camp Half- Blood. Campers were running around screaming and trying to slash and stab at the cyclops impenetrable skin.

"Um, cyclops? Um, wasup bro's??" I said as I cautiously approached the cyclops.

"Whut do you want, human," One of the cyclops said, eyeing me closely, its bow notched at my face.

"Um… I'm a son of Poseidon?" I said. "And I order you to stop destroying Camp Half- Blood?"

"Ha we will not listen to you, foolish human," The cyclops said.

"Why are you attacking Camp Half- Blood?" I asked, trying to sound brave.

"That is not your business!" the cyclops spat in my face. I drew Riptide and held it out in front of me. The cyclops retreated a little bit. I walked closer. "Ok fine! Orders from Luke!" The cyclops said.

"Luke…" Annabeth's face darkened. "Where is he!"

"That I will not tell you!" The cyclops shouted and fired his bow. I couldn't see who he aimed it at but right after I felt a searing pain in my arm. I looked down and saw an arrow sticking out of it.

"Percy!" Annabeth gasped.

"Here-," Grover pulled the arrow out.

"OOOOOOOOOW!!!!!" I shouted, and Thalia started dragging me towards the pond. When my feet touched the water, I instantly felt better, and the wound started healing.

"So you really are the son of Poseidon…" Another cyclops said.

"Yes I am so now will you listen to me??"

"We will stop attacking Camp Half- Blood under one condition: all four of you are to come with us to the Underwater Cyclops Forge," the biggest cyclops said.

Without thinking I replied, "Sure of course," I wanted to see Tyson for real so badly.

I asked for a moment and then went to go see Chiron. He thanked me for saving the camp and told me where to go next.

"So this is what the Underwater Forge is like…" Annabeth looked around at the huge fortress- like building. When we got inside it was so hot. Everywhere was magma and cyclops and blades and shields and armor and lots of other stuff.

"TYSON! HI!" I shouted to a cyclops I hadn't seen in a long time. Then I realized he was in the bathroom. "Oh um sorry, you should really build a door for that restroom you know…"

"Hi Percy," Tyson said without smiling. A bit odd…

"How ya doing?" I said as Tyson finished up washing his hands.

"Oh fine." He looked like he was almost crying.

"Um, Tyson is everything all right?"

"Yes."

"…" I took a step closer. Tyson just stood there. Suddenly the cyclops behind me grabbed me by the neck, and the other cyclops grabbed Thalia, Grover, and Annabeth. Tyson started sobbing.

"HA!" A familiar, sinister voice said.

As the person stepped forward out of the shadows, I was filled with rage, "LUKE!!!" He wasn't dead, though I had hoped he would be after that fall on the Mountain of Despair.

"See, I'm not dead, ha!"

"What did you do to Tyson, Luke!"

"Oh nothing, I just threatened to kill you if he didn't… play along."

I reached inside my pocket and uncapped Riptide. I slashed behind me and the cyclops jumped back.

"You idiotic cyclops! You forgot to disarm them!" Luke shouted as he took out Backbiter.

I slashed down and Luke parried, sending me back and slamming into one of the cyclops's stomachs. I quickly leaped forward and Luke stabbed at me, and I slashed again. Luke dodged and stabbed again, this time I blocked it and kicked him in the nuts.

"That's…not…fair…play…" he said. By now the whole forge of cyclops had gathered to watch us. Even Tyson was a bit happier now that I was winning. As he slashed and I blocked, over and over again, I thought back to one of our first lessons, where he had shown me how to disarm the opponent in combat. I felt a surge of power and I tried the technique, and a moment later, Backbiter clanged onto the floor, and I had my sword at his chest, just like the first time. Thalia, Grover, and Tyson were cheering, but Annabeth just stood there looking sad. I thought about it, and picked Backbiter up. I lowered my sword.

"Get out of here, and don't come back," I said fiercely, and thrust Backbiter back into Luke's hands. He walked off into the water and disappeared. All around me was silence. Then cheering.

Annabeth walked up to me, out of the crowd, "Thanks. We can still get him back…" She smiled, and I smiled back.

"That was awesome Percy!!!" Tyson ran up to me and squished me with a hug.

"Thanks."

"Oh um, I'm sorry about letting you into that trap."

"That's ok, it's always good to have a little battle and beat the hell out of Luke every once in a while," I hugged Tyson back.

"I still you should've killed him, but oh well, that's that. So where is that next piece of the Magic Sword?" Thalia said.

"Right here, in the Underwater Forge," I said. "What a coincidence, eh?" And with that, Annabeth, Grover, Thalia, Tyson and I started searching. I explained our quest to Tyson, and he presented a sword to Grover, just as a gift.

"Wow thanks Tyson," Grover said as he played around with the blade.

"Hey look I think I found it!" Tyson exclaimed as he held up a shining shard that he had pulled out of a furnace. But then, one of the giant cyclopses that we had completely forgotten about pushed Tyson out of the way, and snatched the shard.

"After that cyclops!!!" Tyson shouted angrily. We all ran after the cyclopses, and I got ready to blast water at ones butt. SPLASH. The shard flew out of the cyclops's hand and I did a flip in the air (yay) and grabbed the shard.

"C'mon let's get out of here!" I lead my friends out of the forge and we got picked up by our hippocampi and rode away.

"Congratulations, you have three shards now, and you defeated Luke again." Chiron put his hand on my shoulder.

"How many shards are there, exactly?"

"Ten."

"Wow that's a lot."

"I believe you can do it, Percy."

"Thanks."

"And the next location is… the Tower of Monsters."

"And where is that located?"

"In the Underworld."

"OMG."

Wow the Underworld, how scary!!!!