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I've been dragging out the exposition a lot, but this chapter will wrap it up. Pinky promise!

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Previously...

I awoke with a start. Shakily, I tried to get out of bed but ended up face-planting on the floor.
"Ahh!" I screamed as I fell. Not my most dignified moment.
"Shhh! I'm trying to sleep, Seaweed Brain!" Annabeth hushed.
"Sorry, I had a nightmare," I mumbled groggily. I felt sore all over as I slowly tried to pick myself up. I realized I was still in the clothes I was wearing yesterday at the restaurant and the ensuing battles. As I started to wake up, I started to hear shouting and panicking coming from the other cabins. I looked out the window and saw the Ares cabin in armor, swords drawn and heading over to Thalia's tree.
"I can't believe my luck." I groaned. I tried to bang my head against the wall to see if I was just hallucinating, but it seemed like the Fates really had it out for me.
"Will you be quiet! I'm still sleeping over here!" Annabeth scolded.
"You might wanna wake up, Wise Girl." I droned grimly. "Another army is here to ruin our day."

Now...

Normally, when an army of monsters comes to threaten my friends, I'm usually gung-ho, ready to go. Today, I was not ready to fight again. I winced as I lethargically tossed on my armor. I shuffled over to where my helmet was, and as I picked it up, I lazily let it hang by my side. Out of the corner of my eye, Annabeth was hustling to find some spare armor I had in the cabin. Since this wasn't the first night Annabeth had slept in my cabin, she had some spare supplies stocked in one of the empty chests.
"C'mon, Seaweed Brain!" Annabeth prodded. "Get moving!"
"I'm coming, I'm coming!" I whined. It seemed absolutely ridiculous to me that I had to fight three major battles in twenty-four hours. I could tell Annabeth was also not happy with this by the way she was sniping at me. All I wanted was to have one nice night with Annabeth, propose to her, and go home. I've always known the Fates hated me, but this was sadistic even for them.
Together, Annabeth and I jogged out towards Thalia's tree. Various monsters were assembled at the bottom of the hill. The fan favorites included hordes of hellhounds, a pack of Laistrygonians, a battalion of dracanae, and even a group of telkhines, who took a personal interest in me. Apparently, word had gotten around about how I blew up their cousins.
Leading the army was an eagle. However, this eagle just so happened to be fifty feet tall. Its talons were the size of a compact car. Its beak could swallow a school bus. Its beady black eye tried to bore a hole right through me. The eagle's fog horn cry nearly burst my eardrums as it spread out its seventy-foot wingspan, and took off with enough force to blow back the camp's entire front line. The eagle seemed to be flying away, but I knew better. As the eagle reached its peak height, it tucked its wings into a nose dive as it bombed straight toward the camp's magical borders.
As the eagle made its approach, Annabeth tugged on my arm. "Percy, I think I recognize that bird. That's the Caucasian Eagle. That's the eagle that pecked on Prometheus' liver until Hercules killed it. If it's reformed, it's probably not happy about Zeus forcing it to eat liver for thousands of years," Annabeth deduced, "And it probably has enough power to break the barrier. The eagle is said to be a direct descendant of Echidna and Typhon."
I'll be honest, that kind of scared me. If it could break through the camp's magical barrier, it could do some serious damage. I shouted "Demigods! Find cover! That eagle is gonna take out the barrier!" The whole camp started to frantically run away from the tree, where it looked like the eagle was going to land. I saw the eagle get closer to the tree, which stirred up Peleus, the dragon in charge of guarding the tree. I had never seen the dragon take flight, but it was majestic to watch as his copper scales flashed in the morning sun. Peleus accelerated to meet the eagle, and the two collided in mid-air. Their crash sounded a loud crack that rustled the trees and kicked up the dust. When the dust settled, I couldn't believe my eyes.
Peleus was gone. I frantically looked around to see if he had just been lost in the woods, but deep down I knew the truth. My idea was confirmed as it started to snow golden dust and pine needles. Peleus and Thalia's tree had been completely obliterated. I could scarcely pick out where the tree used to be. My heart dropped to my stomach as I processed Peleus. Peleus was always constant at Camp Half-Blood. Every time I walked up the hill to camp and saw him wrapped around the tree, I knew I'd come to a safe place. Losing Peleus and Thalia's tree was like the camp losing its armor. Now, it was bare and vulnerable. One of the only safe places for demigods wasn't safe anymore. Slowly, my shock turned to anger. I was tired of seeing my friends get hurt. I was sick of having to live in fear of some dumb ass monster from showing up and ruining my day. I was going to have revenge on whoever keeps trying to kill me and my friends.
I whipped out Riptide and flicked the cap off. The three-foot xiphos extended from my hand. I swaggered up to to the eagle, ready to slice it to shreds.
"Listen up, bird brain! No one messes with my camp and gets away with it!" I jeered at the eagle, trying to get its attention. There was no doubt in my mind that my plan worked, because the eagle craned its head towards me, and flicked its wing in the blink of an eye. Its wing hit me like a freight train as I sailed backward and landed hard on my ass. My ears were ringing as I groggily stood up to face the eagle, but by then it was already done with me. It spread its wings and screeched, which seemed to signal the army to charge. The demigods charged with equal fervor to meet the monsters. While the death of Peleus and Thalia's tree physically weakened the camp, their sacrifice strengthened their resolve to beat back this army. Demigods were taking down monsters as ferociously as I saw when we were defending Olympus from Kronos' army. Actually, the demigods might be fighting more passionately since Camp was their home.
I turned my attention toward the eagle, which was fighting with power and grace like I'd never seen from a monster. It was able to use its entire body in combat as it batted away campers with its wings while pecking at the campers right below it. I knew it was going to be impossible to get close enough to kill it without getting swatted. I decided that I would need to throw it out of its rhythm in order to take out its eyes. Eyes are always a great place to stab a powerful monster.
I closed my eyes and felt a tug in my gut as a torrent of water came from the river and raced towards the eagle. It held up its wings to defend itself, but it seemed to be struggling to hold its position. While it was distracted, I dashed around it to try and scale it from the tail, but its beady eye caught sight of me. Just as I got to the edge of its tail, the eagle spun around and took flight. I almost fell off, but I managed to grab a hold of its back tail feathers. As it circled the camp, it craned its head to figure out where the extra tail weight was coming from. When it saw me, it screeched and took off straight up. The people on the surface slowly shrank as we went higher and higher. I hung on for dear life as its ascent began to slow. Eventually, it reached its peak height. As it did so, it slowly began to rotate, and I realized too late what it was trying to do.
The eagle rotated its body where its back faced the ground, and we began to dive bomb. My stomach churned as we hurtled toward the ground. I quickly switched my grip on its feathers so that I was belly down. As soon as the eagle flipped around, its momentum going into the turn was going to throw me off. I had to figure out how to get a grip on the eagle that would prevent me from being flung to the ground and splattering like a water balloon. Inching my way up its tail feathers, I found that the eagle had created a pocket of space where the wind wasn't strong enough to blow me off. I climbed my way up its body, and as the ground rapidly approached, I reached its neck just as I felt the bird try to flip. I started to crawl around to the back of its head when the bird flipped. The jolt felt like an overcharged mechanical bull, but I managed to hang on. The bird was upright but hadn't really considered where he was going to land after his little Top Gun maneuver. As such, we crashed through the trees, and undoubtedly we pissed off the nature spirits whose forest we wrecked. The eagle crashed headfirst into the ground, digging a trench the size of an Olympic swimming pool.
I have no idea how long the eagle and I were on the ground. It could've been seconds or hours. Eventually, the eagle's head popped into my vision and was bearing down on me. It seemed to be savoring its juicy meal as it drew its head back. I drew Riptide like a western gunslinger as the beak shot towards me. I tore the cap off just as the beak was six inches from my eyes. The eagle squawked as the sword burst through its head right between the eyes. All of a sudden, the bird burst into feathers that were carried off by the wind.
I breathed a sigh of relief as I watched the feathers go away. It had been too long since I'd taken a ride on a giant flying monster. My arms were filled with lead. I couldn't feel my thighs. I thought I was gonna need a neck brace from getting throttled around.
I looked around to see if anyone was nearby, but I couldn't even hear the fighting at Thalia's tree. I tried to sit up, but I could barely lift my head off the ground. with effort, I reached towards the sky with all the strength I had left, but to no avail. I flopped back on to my back sweating and panting from the effort. Silently, I prayed to the gods that someone would come and find me. Hell, I even prayed to Ares that the battle would end up back here.

After about eternity, I couldn't take it anymore. I slowly drifted unconscious, hoping someone would find me.
Of course, going to sleep meant having a demigod dream. Even compared to my dreams, this one was a doozy.
I was standing in front of my mom's apartment building. I started to go up to see her when the building burst into flames. I was blasted backward and tumbled head over heel. When I stopped rolling, I saw a familiar face.
It was the same man who'd appeared in my last dream. He looked so familiar, which sounds strange, but I felt like I'd met someone with purple flesh and Stygian iron boots before. He had his same suicide bomber face on. He looked like someone who would burn down a city to warm his feet.
"So nice to see you again, Percy!" he cackled at me, "I rather enjoyed our last visit."
I snarled at him and said "What do you want with me? Why are you messing with me?"
Despite my best death glare, he was giggling gleefully. "Oh Percy, it's just so much fun to push your buttons! I like seeing mortals get all riled up. They have no clue how pathetic their lives are, yet everything seems to matter to them. It's hilarious!" he said bubbly.
The figure made my blood boil. I hated how immortals think they can walk all over mortals just because they find our lives insignificant. "You better leave me and my family alone, or I'm gonna rip you to shreds!" I screamed. The man felt like Ares, only a thousand times worse. I wanted to shove my hand up his rib cage and tear out his heart.
However, the man acted like a sadistic five-year-old with all the energy he had. He just clapped his hands and jumped up and down like London Tipton from the Suite Life of Zach and Cody, bubbly and full of energetic madness. He smiled dreamily as he said "Oh, what a wonderful idea! Let's meet up. I'd love to have a chat with you about your family. I think you know where to go." He gestured behind him, and my stomach felt like it was just put in a juicer. I screamed at the top of my lungs before bolting upright.
I was in the camp infirmary. There were a couple faces around me, but they were hazy, almost like they weren't there. All I could think about is what that monster was going to do with my mother.
I whistled as loud as I could, and Blackjack swooped down. He said something about 'owing him one', but to me, it sounded like he had a bag over his head. I could only jump on him as I whispered in his ear where to go, and we took off towards the Manhattan skyline.
The closer I got to New York and my mother's apartment, the more my haziness disappeared. My disorientation was replaced with anger as I thought of the things that the man could be doing to my mom, and what I was gonna do to him.
As we flew right over my mom's building, I didn't bother waiting for Blackjack to take me down the last thirty feet. Instead, I yelled as I fell through the sky and burst through the ceiling into my mom's apartment. To my horror, I didn't see my mom anywhere. My heart was racing a million miles an hour as I ran towards my parents' bedroom.
I whipped out Riptide and charged into the room, but I was not prepared for what I saw.
Paul was dead. His wrists were nailed to the wall. Blood poured out of his stomach. I almost held onto the hope he was alive, but he was missing the top half of his head. His skull was sticking out of his head. His eyes were a familiar glassy look that I'd seen in my dead friends all too often. Tears welled in my eyes as the closest thing to a normal dad was dead.
My mom was alive. A gag covered her mouth. It broke my heart to see tears streaking down her face. Her breathing was ragged and irrational. She was shaking like there was an earthquake. I had never been more afraid in my entire life as a figure stepped out of the shadow.
As I stared into my mother's eyes, I watched helplessly as the figure I'd seen for half a second stepped out and sliced my mother's throat.
The silence was all I heard. Everything in the world turned gray. The sounds of the city drowned out. All I could think about was how my mother was bleeding out in front of me. Tears in my eyes, I blubbered something about trying to save her, but even I couldn't process my words after what I'd just witnessed. With her dying breath, she reached out her hand and stroked my face one last time. Her arm collapsed by her side, and I felt her soul leave her body. A tidal wave of grief and pity swallowed me, and I felt like I was choking. I felt a hurricane churning within me, and I felt something inside me break. I turned towards my mothers killer to see the man who took the woman who raised me away from me.
I was shocked to find it was a telkhine. The telkhine gave me a wolfish grin and bore right into my eyes. His eyes were a swirling vortex that seemed to swallow everything good and happy in this world. Out of its mouth, a voice I recognized all too well began to speak.
"My apologies, Perseus. I'm afraid I can't really talk to you in person," he said. It was the man that was haunting my dreams, who continued, "I'm afraid your dreams and the pit are the only places I can manifest myself. Let me properly reintroduce myself. I'm Tartarus. And I've never lost a prisoner." He laughed a sadistic laugh as though he was watching a city burn.
He finished by saying, "Don't worry, Perseus. We'll get in touch soon." The vortex left the telkhines eyes, and the telkhine burnt to ash.
I couldn't take it anymore. Life felt empty without my mother. I released my restraint on the hurricane, and it exploded from my body. I screamed as torrents of water leveled the building almost instantly and I shot into the sky. My last thought as I went unconscious is that I never wanted to feel this excruciating pain again.

AN: Yeah, you've probably seen a thousand "Sally dies" fics. He's gotta become an unfeeling ghost, and I thought this was the best way to do it without wrecking future pairings ;). Please review!