"General Hector, the demigods have arrived," hissed a dracaena who was eyeing the giant warship in the sky hovering above them on the over rocky cliff they were standing on.
"Obviously," said Hector scornfully. Then he turned to his colleagues standing near him. "Right then, I will leave you this matter, General Polyphemus and King Minos, in your very capable hands," smiled Prince Hector of Troy and now the head General of Lady Pallas's army.
Hector would have been a handsome man if it were not for the many bite marks, talon marks, scars, scratches, and scrapes that covered his body from head to toe. His previous life was not so kind to him. Besides the brutal lacerations though, he had a charming appearance and he was well muscled.
The humungous, one-eyed, blind cyclops grinned and licked his lips hungrily. "Finally, revenge! Nobody shall pay!"
"The little wretch known as Theseus will suffer," Minos snarled.
"Oh, they will my friends, they will. Achilles and the rest will wish they were never brought back." Hector smiled. "I take my leave then." He walked away from the group, heading deeper into the mountains. A company of Trojan Warriors followed him acting as personal body guards. As he walked, Hector wore an evil smile on his face.
"What are your order sires?" a Telekhine asked turning to Polyphemus and Minos.
"Prepare the catapults, assemble the troops, and take me to my bunker!" Polyphemus barked.
"As you wish sire," the Telekhine smiled.
"Splendid idea sires," agreed a Dracaena. "They won't even know what hit them!"
Polyphemus and Minos cackled with delight as they were lead away to their bunker were they would oversee the battle from safety. In Polyphemus's case, he would listen. The two of them laughed hysterically as they fled to the safety of their bunker.
There was a great fog that swelled around the Argo II when it's final destination was reached.
"We're here," said Leo from the machine gun he was operating at the bow of the ship.
"LAND HO!" Perseus called from the crows nest.
"I can't see anything, the clouds are in the way," Piper complained as she tried to peer behind the great obstructing balls of moisture and grayness.
"It's not clouds," Grover explained as he sniffed the air. "It's the Mist, these parts of the mountains are crawling with so many monsters that the Mist is heavy here, just like San Francisco. There have been recent reports in this region of the coast about a bunch of cargo ships and mortal vessels disappearing here. This is also where Death's Doors are hidden. Thanatos wouldn't want any random mortal to stumble upon them, would he? Just give it a sec and your eyes will adjust."
The, 'clouds,' eventually parted to allow the onlooking Argonauts to see the Atlas Mountains in it's true nature. The mountains differed between low and gentle slopes, rocky cliffs, and towering summits that pierced the sky. The crew of the Argo II planned to land on one of the cliffs that was bordering the ocean. The cliff chosen was one of the lower ones that jutted out of the ocean fifty feet in the air. The ocean waves crashed and broke against it's surface. The gulls flew in and out of its rocky face as they landed or left their nests. The cliff was about two miles wide and it was connected to a ravine that led into the Atlas Mountains. The cliff would have been beautiful and serene landscape if it wasn't for the large army of monsters gathered on it and in the ocean below it, there were a fleet of about two dozen warships staffed with even more monsters.
The monsters gathered on the cliff and in the warships ranged between Cyclopes, Empousai, Laistrygonian Giants, Scythian Dracaena, Telekhines, Centaur, Hellhounds, Scorpions, and Earthborn. There was at least five-thousand in total and they were armed to the teeth. Every monster roared, howled, yelled, shouted, screamed, barked and shrieked up at the Argonauts who were hovering in the flying Warship above them. They yelled out taunts and cat-calls to the heroes. They were armed with swords, spears, clubs, axes, scimitars, bows, and many more deadly devices. They manned catapults, several other war machines, and there was even an old WWII tank. Their warships were armed with cannons and giant crossbow-like devices that looked as if they shot giant grappling hooks. The Argonauts had studied the weapons and knew they were called ballistas. Several Earthborn pounded on humungous drums that boomed throughout the entire mountains and echoed across the Mediterranean Sea. The drummers pounded their instruments at slow ominous pace that made the Atlas Mountains seem as if it had it's own heart beat. The monsters began to chant in an old language that none of the Argonauts understood.
Some of the Argonauts, who were packed tightly on the upper deck of the Argo II, gasped at sheer size of the Gaea's army. They looked down anxiously at the army of monsters roaring up at them. A few silent prayers were recited to every god they could think of, some gulped nervously, and others rethought why they had even signed up in the first place. Their hearts pounded against their rib cages begging to escape from their chests and the sweat of apprehension rained down their faces.
"And that's only a fourth of their army?" Frank asked in disbelief as he looked down at the armada of ships and the horde of monsters below them.
"They're just the appetizers," Clarisse grunted nonchalantly.
Tyler nodded in agreement, "When do we get to start the killing?"
"I'm with Horace, when do they get to die?" Coach Hedge nodded.
"Easy tiger," said Hazel, patting both Tyler and Hedge on the shoulders.
Annabeth adjusted a strap on Percy's armor. "Are you ready?"
Percy sighed and shrugged, "Ready as I'll every be."
From manning one of the fifty-cal machine guns Leo said to Achilles, "Everything is all set General."
Achilles nodded and climbed up onto the helm where he overlooked all the Argonauts. Each one of them looked up back to him expectantly. He saw loyalty, trust, and dependance in their eyes, but fear was the dominant emotion.
Achilles, at that very moment, realized he would die for any single one of them. In his past life he arrogantly believed that the rest of the soldiers, who fought with him, were cannon fodder and nothing more; but there, aboard the Argo II, he found comradeship in the faces of the Argonauts. This life was very different from the last indeed.
"Argonauts," he hailed to them. "My brothers and sisters of the sword, spear, and bow! I would rather fight beside you than any army of thousands!"
The Argonauts yelled raising their fist into the air and pounded on the deck of the ship with their spears.
"We are fierce! Let them know how fierce we are! Let them-" Achilles said pointing down at the monster gathered on the cliff below them, "Let them understand how menacing and vicious you are with the thrust of our spears, the cut of our swords, and the aim of our bows!"
"AHOO! AHOO!"
"Your enemy will not show you the slightest bit of mercy or compassion, you will not do the same for them!"
"KILL!" Leonidas yelled.
"KILL!" The Argonauts shouted back as they beat their weapons to their shields.
"Down their, in those mountains is immortality, take it!" Achilles yelled. "Show the Gods that Gaea can be defeated! Show Gaea that she will be destroyed!"
"Now, WHO ARE YOU?"
"ARGONAUTS! AHOO! AHOO!"
Achilles smiled proudly as he looked over all the brave face. He jumped down from his perch, gripped his spear, and nodded to Leo. Leo nodded back to him and cocked his machine gun. Leo took one last deep breathe along with his fellow Argonauts who made last minute adjustments to their armor and weapons.
"TO YOUR BATTLE STATIONS!" Leonidas ordered them.
Most of the Hephaestus/Vulcan children manned the cannons aiming at the biggest targets; such as the catapults, warships, and the tanks. The archers had their bows drawn and trained on the monsters. They prayed to Artemis and Apollo that their arrows would fly straight and true. Bellerophon had his Pegasi Riders stand at the ready who would take off in moments notice if an aerial attack was launched at the Argo II.
"Hello ugly," Odysseus murmured as he took aim at a specifically mean looking cyclopes as his first target.
"NO ARGONAUTS DIE TODAY!" Leonidas shouted from a high perch.
"How long is he expecting this battle last exactly?" Travis Stoll asked his younger brother standing by his side.
Connor shrugged, "Maybe he's planning on making it last through the school year. I rather fight a war than go to school any day. Am I right?"
"I would rather die than going back to that place," Travis said.
"Really, then why haven't you killed yourself yet, because you seem to go every year?"
"Cut it out you two," Katie Gardner ordered them.
"Let's make it rain fire!" Leonidas roared from his perch. "Mr. Valdez, start us off!"
The monsters on the cliff below noticed that the Argonauts were preparing to start their bombardment. The Cyclops moved forward with giant shields to create a wall to defend the main army from projectiles, the Dracaena archers took aim with their bows, the gun of the tank zeroed in on it's target, the warships prepared to fire, and the Telekhines readied the catapults.
Leo took another deep breathe. It was the time, it was the moment they had trained for.
He thought of what Coach Hedge would say, "RISE AND SHINE IT'S BUTT WHIPPIN TIME," No wait Coach Hedge was actually there and he did in fact scream it in Leo's ear. Leo shook the thought or words or whatever it was out of his head and refocused his attention. He aimed down the sights of his machine gun, picked the largest and ugliest group of monsters he could makeup; then he screamed with all his might:
"FIRE! FIRE!"
"ALL BATTERIES FIRE, FIRE!" Jake Mason ordered to the rest of the cannon operators while he lit the fuse on his.
"FIRE!" the rest of the Argonauts echoed. The word rang across the Argo II and resonated throughout the sky.
"FIRE!" The Telekhine commander ordered to his fellow monsters at the catapults, the warships, and the archers.
At that precise moment in time everything seemed to slow down. History was about to be changed. Then...the entire area erupted into thunderous noises, screams, shouting, and explosions. Leo's Mark II fifty caliber machine gun roared to life as it launched forty bronze bullets per minuet into the mass of monsters below him. The cannons boomed as they launched greek fire cannon balls packed with imperial gold shrapnel into the army of monsters. Bow strings twanged as the archers released their arrows. Spearmen grunted as they hurled their spears. A large chunk of the monsters exploded instantly into bronze dust as the projectiles impacted with them. Most were blocked by the wall of Cyclops shields and the catapults swung into action flinging fireballs.
The flaming fireballs that were launched by the monsters' catapults merely bounced off the hard hull of the Argo II but some managed to leave a few dents in the ship's hull and caused it shutter. The thousands of arrows soared up toward the Argonauts but either missed completely or bounced harmlessly off their shields. The flaming boulders thrown from the Laistrygonians and the Earthborn were dodged or blocked. Leo outstretched his hand controlling the flame of the fireballs; he stopped them in midair and returned them to their senders.
"Seven, eight, nine, ten..." Odysseus counted as he fired arrow after arrow into the bulk of monsters.
Frank was beside him, firing energized sun arrows from his bow, Oriens. He felt like Zeus launching lightning bolts from the sky. "Hydra arrows!" he called out to his fellow archers.
All one hundred archers selected a Hydra arrow from their quiver, notched it into their bow strings, and fired. The result were devastating. Even if the arrow missed it's mark, the Hydra arrows' tentacles wrapped itself into nearby monsters, dragged catapults off the cliff, and sunk a couple warships
"Whoa!" Will Solace said with awe in response to the pure destruction. "We're definitely doing that again! HYDRA, SONIC, ROCKET, AND FART ARROWS! GIVE 'EM' EVERYTHING YOU GOT!"
"With pleasure," Odysseus said with glee as he knocked in a rocket arrow and let if fly. It exploded into a pack hell hounds and caused them to evaporate into dust.
Frank loaded a rocket arrow into his bow. Since Oriens had an unlimited supply of sun arrows, the idea of loading regular arrows never crossed his mind till that very moment. Frank wondered what the results would be but there was no point in thinking about it when he could do it. He pulled back on his bow string and the sun arrow that materialized seemed to mold together with rocket arrow creating one giant super arrow. His hands vibrated as Oriens hummed from the energy build up. Frank released his grip on the string and the mega arrow zoomed through the air and impacted with the Cyclops shield wall on the cliff below. The explosion instantly vaporized thirty Cyclopses and caused their shield wall to falter. The arrow left a smoky mushroom cloud and where the Cyclops once stood, there was only crater.
Odysseus gave Frank a sidelong glance and managed to whisper, "Beautiful."
Frank nodded as he notched in another rocket arrow. "Round two," he grinned as he took aim at a warship. His smile widened as the ship was blown to Davy Jone's Locker.
"Hey, Hazel!" Frank called after firing a few more arrows.
"What," Hazel said as she held up her shield to block a giant rock that was flung at her.
"Wouldn't you say those monsters are pretty well armed."
"What are you getting at?" Hazel asked curiously.
"What do you think their weapons are made out of?" Frank grinned mischievously while giving her a wink.
Hazel smiled in understanding, "I'll try my best."
She closed her eyes and outstretched her sword hand. There was a rupture in the monster ranks and suddenly their weapons started to float out of their hands knocking them off balance and sending a few dozen off the cliff into the ocean below. A score of monsters exploded into dust as their own weapons impaled them. Hazel's eyes snapped opened and she sighed from lightheadedness.
"I did the best I could," she breathed. "How did I do?"
Frank looked down at the cliff and analyzed the damage she caused. "Not too shabby, not shabby at all."
The machine guns continued to thump and the cannons continued to boom, and the projectiles it launched left craters in the cliff where monsters once stood. Warships continued to sink, catapults were being blasted to smithereens, the tank was destroyed, and monsters continued to explode into dust by the digits. They were getting wiped out and they weren't offering any sort of resistance. They were target practice for the Argonauts. Panic and confusion flooded throughout the monsters' ranks.
From inside Minos's and Polyphemus's bunker a Dracaena asked, "What to we do My Lords? We are getting slaughtered!"
"Have the warships use their special weapons!" Polyphemus boomed.
"Send the Gryphon and the Venti," Minos snarled.
"Yes, My Lords," the Dracaena slithered away.
"AND DON'T COME BACK TILL THAT SHIP IS BLOWN TO TARTARUS!" Minos barked after her.
"Things seem to be going very well," the original Jason shouted to Hercules. He almost had to scream to get his voice projected over the yelling and explosions.
He dodged a flying boulder and got out of the way of passing Argonauts who were rushing back and forth around the ship delivering ammo and what not. Jason looked over the railing to see the progress they were making and observed that the monster were getting decimated.
"Things are going very well indeed," Hercules chuckled as he caught a boulder thrown by a Laistrygonian. "You have to do better than that," he shouted as he threw it back and took out a couple of Earthborn in the process.
"I concur," said Theseus joining them at the railing. "However, it's only a matter of time till we run out of arrows and ammunition for the cannons; or maybe they'll launch an aerial assault."
"I forgot, you're the optimistic youngling," Odysseus put in sarcastically after shooting an arrow and grinning at it's results, "and I'm the handsome one."
"I'm afraid you have spoken too soon my dear Theseus," Jason said while pointing to the warships below them who were prepping their awkwardly giant ballistas.
"What in the blazes are they doing?" asked Hercules as he squinted down at the Warships.
Theseus eyes widened in realization. "HIT THE DECK!" he shouted.
Out of nowhere a giant grappling hook inserted itself onto the railing where they once stood. Further down the railing, on both sides of the ship, several other grappling hooks latched themselves into place. There was a vicious grinding noise and the Argo II began to descend rapidly.
"They're reeling us in," Odysseus hissed as he understood the intentions of the warships; which was to launch the grappling hooks onto the Argo II and like a fishing rod, they would pull the ship out of the sky.
"Crap, crap, crap, crap! N-n-n-n-n-NOOOOO!" Leo screamed as he jumped from his machine gun to the ship's controls.
He picked up the Wii-motes and began swinging his arms wildly in windmill formations, whiles slamming on the other controls of the ship, trying to wrestle the Argo II out of the grappling hooks' death grip.
"Its like the Gods damned tractor beam on the Death Star!" he exclaimed in exertion, now fighting with the ship's steering wheel.
A few Argonauts tried slashing at the cables connected to the hooks but they were to thick. Others tried to lift the grappling hooks but they were too deep and heavy. Hercules was the only one who seemed to be able to make any headway with the hooks but even if he removed one, another latched on, taking the previous's place.
Achilles registered what the situation was on and using his tactical brain discovered what counter-measure was needed.
"MR. JACKSON, TAKE CARE OF THOSE WARSHIPS!"
From trying to slash one of the cables with Riptide, Percy looked up to Achilles, and nodded in understanding. He ran to the railing of the ship, dodged a few arrows, regained his balance, and prepared to dive into the ocean.
"Percy, wait!" Annabeth shouted as she tugged on his arm, spun him around, removed her helmet and his, and then pulled him into a passionate kiss that lasted more than a good ten seconds.
"Good luck," she whispered breathlessly and encouragingly onto his lips when they finally broke apart.
Percy gave her a charmingly cocky smile and shrugged, "When do I ever need luck?" He tried to act like he was indifferent to the kiss but he was so dazed by it he forgot to put his helmet back on.
"Jackson, once down on that cliff you must secure a beach head and hold it all by yourself! I repeat, you will be alone!" Achilles explained.
"No, he won't!" Theseus pronounced.
Percy looked surprised when Theseus joined him at the railing.
"Son of Poseidon also! Remember that I told you?" Theseus reminded him.
Percy nodded and clasped Theseus on the shoulder. Theseus returned the favor. Both of their sea green eyes of determination locked and they nodded.
"Do I get a kiss as well?" Theseus grinned.
"Shut up," Percy said shaking his head.
He vaulted over the railing and gave a salute to his fellow Argonauts before he fell out of sight.
Theseus continued to grin at his previous joke and jumped over the railing after his half/quarter/whatever-he-was brother. The two of them rocketed down through the air like missiles toward the ocean below them.
"CANNONS CEASE FIRE!" Achilles ordered the Argonauts. "We have men going down there. ARCHERS GIVE THEM COVERING FIRE! Don't shoot too close to them!"
The cannons ceased fired; they were low on ammunition anyway. The archers slowed their rate of fire and instead of shooting just too shoot, they began firing expertly aimed shots.
"GENERAL!" Perseus yelled from the crows nest.
"NOW WHAT?" Achilles cried exasperated.
"WE HAVE GRYPHONS INCOMING!"
"Which direction? How many?" Achilles questioned.
"Eastbound, I count about fifty and Venti as well, and they're coming in hot!" Perseus answered.
"Bellerophon!" Achilles called.
"Sir," Bellerophon asked.
"You and your Riders are up!"
Bellerophon nodded and turned to the Butch, Reyna, Hazel, and the rest of the Pegasi riders. The Pegasi spread their wings and took off into the air and soared east to intercept the small army of Gryphon and Venti heading their way. Perseus, from the crows nest, activated his Hermes Boots, and took off into the air following the Riders.
"Thalia come on," Jason Grace said to Thalia while flipping his coin and wielding his gladius. He tugged on her arm and led her to the railing.
"Jason, I don't know about this!"
"Flying is easy, you can do it! I believe in you!"
"I can't," she stammered.
"Why not?"
"Because I'm afraid of heights!" Thalia snapped.
"Well, today is about facing your fears! Besides, your instincts will kick in," then he flashed her smile of mischievous intent.
"What? Why are you smiling at me like that?" Thalia said panicked. "Wipe that smile off your face before I do it for you!"
Her response only made his grin grow.
Thalia caught on, "Don't you think about, don't you even dare!"
Too late. Jason pushed her with his arm and shoved her over the railing.
"Screw you!" she managed to scream before she fell. Thalia closed her eyes expecting to fall to her death but then she felt the sensation of being weightless. She opened her eyes to see that she was floating in the air.
"Don't look down," she whispered to herself while taking in quick and short breathes.
Jason hovered next to her. "I don't like to say I told you so, so I'll shout it with my hands cupped over my mouth. I TOLD YOU SO!"
"You're lucky there's a battle going on or I would kill you! You do not understand how pissed I am right now. What if I did fall to my death?"
"I would've caught you," Jason said. "Now let's go before they kill everything without us!"
The two flew in the eastern direction to aid the Riders and Perseus with the task of repelling the aerial assault.
Percy and Theseus shot through the air like twin meteors. They had their arms and legs locked together which allowed to cut through the air like arrows. They passed by the cliff in a blur and saw the ocean and warships below them. Fifty feet till impact, then ten, then five, and splash down! They landed closely in the center of all the warships with a little and unnoticeable splash.
The monsters on aboard the ships near Percy's and Theseus's landing spot looked curiously to the disturbance in the water where Percy and Theseus hit. All they saw was small little ripples. They shrugged and turned away assuming it was only a couple stray arrows.
Then suddenly the two ripples transformed into a giant whirlpools. It's radius was as large as Charybdis whirlpool. The warships began to drift towards the massive vortex and one by one they were sucked into it never to be seen again. Their cables attached to the grappling hooks snapped and the Argo II was released from it's hold. Then suddenly the giant whirlpool/vortex of death exploded into a giant tsunami sending parts of smashed warships rocketing into the sky and into the cliff above. The warship wreckage acted as shrapnel and cut monsters to shreds. On top of the tsunami stood Theseus and Percy who appeared to be surfing it. Theseus wore his shield on his back and dual wielded his cudgel and sword. Percy had his wristwatch shield opened and Riptide drawn. The tsunami towed over the cliff and crashed down on it like a breaking wave on a beach but just twenty times more ferocious. It engulfed a quarter of the cliff's land mass and swept a coupled hundred monsters to sea. The moment the tsunami broke; Theseus and Percy jumped off the tip of the wave and hit the ground rolling. They rose to their feet swinging and entered combat with the monsters that surrounded them.
Percy ducked under a club swing from a Cyclops, bashed a Dracaena with his shield, and stabbed into a Telekhine. Theseus cut down an Earthborn with his sword and smashed a Hellhound into dust with his cudgel. From there, the two fought wildly as monster after monster lined up to meet them. Percy and Theseus stood back to and called upon the sea, creating a hurricane that acted as a force field around the two. Any monster that tried to enter the hurricane were flung into oblivion or were so disorientated they walked straight into Theseus's and Percy's swords.
After a few minutes of cutting down monsters, Percy turned too Theseus. "They better hurry up and land because I don't know how much longer I can keep this up.
"Aye," Theseus nodded as he decapitated an Empousai and then crushed a dracaena's skull with his cudgel.
The fighting continued, Percy and Theseus hacked, cut, sliced, bashed, twirled, and rolled inside the protection of their mini hurricane. This dragged on for a while longer but was soon interrupted by a blood curling and familiar roar that could even be heard over the high speed winds of the mini hurricane. All the action paused. The monsters stopped fighting as well, backed away from the duo, formed a ring around them, and parted to allow three giant men, hairy men, to enter the ring. They had normal human legs, and human bodies, but where their heads should have been, there were bull heads with massively long horns instead.
"Three Minotaurs?" Percy exclaimed in disbelief.
"Didn't someone say something about duplicating monsters?" Theseus remembered.
"This is going to be fun," Percy said sarcastically.
Theseus nodded.
The Minotaurs on the left and right charged forward. Percy took the left and Theseus the right. Percy rolled out of the way easily, regained his footing, and stabbed at the side of the monster. It roared and exploded into bronze dust. Theseus met his Minotaur head on, swung his cudgel at it's head, causing it to reel back, and while it was stunned Theseus swung down with his sword and cudgel at the same time. The Minotaur exploded.
"Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumbass are out of the picture leaving only this ugly bastard left!" Percy said looking at the final Minotaur.
"This one seems different." Theseus said studying it.
This one was different indeed. He was twice as big as his brothers and his eyes were filled with rage and hate. This one happened to be the original copy, the first Minotaur. He was back to exact revenge on both his past killers.
"The bigger they are," Percy began.
"The harder they fall," Theseus finished.
Percy charged first and Theseus followed. They executed the same plan as last time. Percy went left and Theseus right. The Minotaur waited and at the last moment he put down his head, struck Percy's with his horns, and swatted his fist at Theseus. Percy managed to block the horns with his shield creating two large dents in it's surface and Percy's arm to go numb. Theseus wasn't so lucky and he was sent flying backwards. The Minotaur advanced on Percy, picked him up with both hands are the boy's throat, and began to strangle him. Percy hacked at the Minotaur's arms with Riptide but he only caused it to scream in rage and it squeezed harder. Theseus, scrambling to his feet and spitting the blood from his mouth, charged forward at the Minotaur who had it's back turned to him. Theseus hit at it's ribs with his cudgel causing it to sink to his knees and also dropping Percy. The Minotaur looked up to the sky and roared in rage. With it's mouth open, Theseus and Percy stabbed down it's throat with their swords. The Minotaur screamed for a few seconds but his bellowing was muffled due to the two swords in his mouth. Finally it exploded into bronze dust.
Percy and Theseus looked up each other with smiles but their celebration was short lived. The ring of monsters around them went back on the attack. The two sighed, and restarted their hurricane. This was going to be a long day.
Meanwhile, in the skies there was another fight happening. The Gryphons and Venti were doing battle with the Bellerophon, the Riders, the Grace Siblings, and Perseus.
Bellerophon zigzagged through the air as he mounted Pegasus. He fired arrows rapidly from his bow as he zoomed past Gryphons and Venti. Then he slung it over his shoulder, drew his spear, and impaled it into three Gryphons at once. The other Riders followed their leader's example and slashed left and right with their swords, shot with their bows, stabbed with their lances and javelins, and thrust with their spears. Jason Grace used his wind and lightning abilities to zap Venti out of the air or sent them hurtling across the sky. Thalia had his back and shot at any Gryphon with her bow that tried to get at him. Perseus did his usual disappearing act as he cut way through Gryphon and Venti with his Adamantine sword and bashed with his Silver Shield.
Soon they had the Gryphon on Venti on the run.
"HOWS IS THAT POSSIBLE?" Minos wrathfully screamed at the Telekhine who cowered in fear.
"We did not prepare for the two Sons of Poseidon or the fact that the Pegasi Riders are very good My Lord," the Telekhine said hiding behind his flippers.
"NO!" Polyphemus roared as he smashed the Telekhine with his fist.
"You," Minos barked as he pointed at another Telekhine. "You are the new commander!"
"Yes, my lord," the Telekhine whimpered.
"RELEASE THE DRAGON! I WANT THOSE PEGASI DEAD! I WANT THOSE SONS OF POSEIDON DEAD! I WANT THAT WARSHIP DEAD! DEAD, YOU HEAR ME? DEAD, DEAD, DEAD!"
"Yes, My Lord," the Telekhine whimpered again as it scurried out of the bunker.
"Theseus and Percy have done it! We're free!" The Argonauts cheered as the cords attached to the grappling hooks snapped.
"Whoa, look at em go!" Frank said as he watched Percy and Theseus cut down monster after monster.
"No fair," pouted Clarisse. "There going to kill them all before we even get there."
"Yeah," Tyler agreed.
"Fine," Achilles said. "Leonidas, take the flying chariot, have La Rue and Horace accompany you, fly it down to that cliff, and aid our beach party."
"Yes, sir," Leonidas saluted. "You two with me!" he ordered Tyler and Clarisse. Then the the three of them raced to the lower deck to take the flying chariot to the cliff below.
"Hey, it looks as if the Gryphon and Venti attack has been turned away." Piper said as she looked to the East to see the Riders returning back to the ship.
"All right, Percy and Theseus are going to need us down there. Mr. Valdez, if you would be so kind and take us down," ordered Achilles with a hint of a smile on his face.
"Yes, sir!" Leo said with a smile of his own.
"Wait, what the Hades?" Annabeth asked quizzically as she scrunched her eyes to make out what that floating speck was flying up to them. The longer time lapsed the bigger the speck grew.
"What?" Piper asked confused while joining Annabeth at the railing. She tried to look at what Annabeth was looking at.
"No!" Annabeth said with her eyes widening, "It can't be?"
"What?" Piper asked again, now worried.
"DRAGON!" Annabeth screamed.
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