Chapter Three! Woop Woop! This chapter is unique because it provides character POVs that are quite rare to a story like this. Get ready for Grover and Blackjack's POVs.

Percy:

"Percy. Percy. Percy!"

I jolted upright and nearly brained Annabeth. She had been shaking me trying to wake me up. I don't know why. It was like, five o'clock. I groaned, and whined, "Why are you waking me up this early?"

"Because it's your birthday Seaweed Brain!" she said smiling.

"My birthday?" I repeated stupidly.

"You are such a Seaweed Brain," she said, and pulled me into a kiss.

"Come on Percy, Blackjack and Porkiepie are waiting." She hopped off my bed and ran out the door. It took a minute for my brain to process what she had said. Blackjack was waiting? Wait, we were going somewhere? What was wrong?

Finally my brain decided to start working properly. Annabeth had planned something for my birthday and we were going to ride the pegasi there.

"Wow, you do have everything figured out don't you?" I panted after I caught up with Annabeth. Wait, don't say it: "Athena always has a plan."

She rolled her eyes at me, "Seaweed Brain."

"Wise Girl," I said giddily.

She giggled and shouted, "Race you there!" She took off sprinting for the stables.

"Oh no you don't" I shouted, and chased after her.

I glanced to my side and saw the creek that went into the woods. The creek that healed me exactly five years ago. I felt like I had lived an entire live time in those five years. Then, an idea popped into my head.

I glanced up at Annabeth, blonde ponytail bobbing as she ran, and reached out for the water. Immediately, the water responded. I stopped running and raised my hand above my head. A lot of water rushed up out of the creek, forming a giant hand.

Annabeth glanced over and saw the hand. She laughed and ran faster. I maneuvered the hand over to her, scooped her up in my palm, and pulled her back towards me.

I jumped into the hand beside Annabeth. The water created a sphere around us. "You are such a cheater!" she said, laughing. "I can't beat you when I'm in a giant sphere made of wa..."

I just pulled her into a kiss, and that shut her up. When we pulled away, she was still laughing.

"Let's go now," she said. I started to release my water sphere, but then I had a good idea. I know, you're thinking, when has Percy Jackson EVER had a good idea, but seriously, this was a great idea!

"Wait a second," I said. I concentrated, and felt a rumbling in my gut. I had never tried to do something this complicated before. Besides, it would be a stretch, considering I was trying to make machinery out of water. Go ahead, sue me.

Hephaestus, Umm, could you help here? I have a machinery problem I need help with.

Apparently Hephaestus heard my prayer, and was in a good mood, because suddenly we were sitting in luxury chairs made from water. Annabeth was facing a steering wheel made from water as well. I didn't know how this could possibly work, but it was worth a try.

Annabeth looked at me as if I had grown three heads. She put her foot on the pedal. The water pod zoomed forward and crashed into the nearest tree. The water jiggled, but we didn't feel a thing.

"Wow..." said Annabeth. It took a lot to impress my girlfriend, so I was pretty pleased with myself.

"Yeah, got a little help from Hephaestus on that one," I laughed.

"Hahaha. Why do the controls of this thing look like the helicopter control r in Falcon 9, joystick and everything?"

"I don't know, that was just the first thing that came into mind." Annabeth laughed and took hold of the joystick. I felt my stomach leave my body as the pod zoomed into the air, and up over the Long Island Sound. Annabeth laughed, and said, "Well, I think we are going to be a bit early because this thing has horsepower."

"No. Blackjack has horsepower. This has Percy-Power." I said seriously.

"You are such a Seaweed Brain."

And with that, she thrust the joystick all the way forward, and we rocketed through the air. Zeus couldn't do a thing, because I had never left the water.

We went a long ways. Like, a really long ways. It took until eleven o'clock to get there. We had gone all the way to the California coast.

We stopped by and said hi to the Romans. Dakota spewed out his Koolaid when I walked in. We all had a good laugh about that one later. Annabeth took me to see the Golden Gate Bridge. Then, I taught Annabeth how to surf. She fell off most of the time, and came up sputtering for air.

Once, just for fun, I stepped off the surfboard to see what would happen. To Annabeth's surprise I just stayed on top of the curling wave, and rode it all the way back in without my board. It felt awesome, I'll tell you that.

It was approaching five by the time we finally called it a day, and went up to the beach restaurant to grab some dinner. When we finished inhaling the meal, we went to get in the pod, but it was missing. I could have sworn she parked it right beside the tree in the lot across the street from the restaurant. But my water pod was nowhere to be found.

Great. What were we going to do now? Annabeth frowned and said, "Well, we could always call Blackjack."

"Right, good idea," I said.

I did my best New Yorker taxi-cab whistle. We waited a few minutes, but nothing happened. I frowned and tried again. Five more minutes passed, and still no sign of my favorite horse.

"Why isn't he coming?" Annabeth asked.

"I don't know... Something must have happened."

Blackjack:

I heard Percy calling for me. Sounded like he was in California. He had Annabeth with him. I called over to Porkpie, "Hey Porkpie, looks like we need to get Percy out of another sticky situation." Porkpie shrugged, and said, "As long as I don't have to carry that Cyclops again. He almost broke my back!" "Na," I said. "He's only got Annabeth with him." "Okay, let's go then."

We took to the air. As we soared over the boundaries of camp, I suddenly saw a flash off to my left. Then, another one. I paused, hovering in midair. Porkpie ran into me.

"What's wrong?" he asked.

"I don't know dude, " I said.

Suddenly, I heard a whistling noise off to our right. I turned to look just as a net hit me and Porkpie. We tumbled out of the sky and landed in a heap near the Big House.

"Ouch!" complained Porkpie. "I think I broke a rib!"

"Shut it Porkpie. You didn't break a rib. Now stop flailing around. Someone will find us soon enough," I said.

I wasn't scared of the fact that someone had just shot us out of the sky. I was scared of that person's reason to prevent me from getting to Percy. Percy was in danger. I could feel it in my hooves.

Percy:

"Well, we could IM back to camp," Annabeth suggested.

"Right," I felt in my pocket for a drachma, but all I had was mortal cash. "Darn it. I don't have any drachmas on me. You got one?"

She reached inside her pockets and fished out a drachma.

"Now, where do we find a rainbow?"

"I dunno..." I said.

"Over there, look!" she pointed at a gift shop window. One of the objects in the window was a glass prism. She raced off toward the shop and in her excitement, accidently handed the cashier the drachma instead of cash.

The cashier looked very confused. I was wondering if we would be able to make a good enough rainbow with a tiny prism, when I felt a rough hand grab my arm. Something sharp jabbed into my neck. I cried out, and spun around to face my attacker. It was a mortal. A plain old mortal.

He was holding an empty syringe. Within seconds, I was on my knees, my vision swimming. The man threw me over his shoulder and ran towards a van. The last thing I saw as I was stuffed in the van, before my vision disappeared completely, was a shocked Annabeth running out of the shop door and at the weird men, who suddenly looked like werewolves. Then I blacked out.

Grover:

I was on my way to the Big House. A nymph all the way from Asia was here to see me. She represented China. Ohh, China made me so mad, I could bleat! Polluting the clean air, those filthy rats. I wanted to strangle all of them for what they did to Pan. I was so caught up in my thoughts, that I tripped over the two horses on the ground in front of me.

It was Porkpie and Blackjack! They were under a heavy metallic net.

"Umm, why are you under a net?" I asked.

"We got shot out of the sky by a sniper!" Porkpie told me.

"It wasn't a sniper you idiot," said Blackjack.

"I heard the boss call, so me and Porkpie were going to go pick him up, when a net flew at us from that direction. This was about an hour ago, at like five. So please can you get us out from under this net?!"

"Of course!" I said. I helped lifted the heavy metal links off of the two Pegasi.

"Ahh, much better," said Blackjack. "Now, where was I? Oh right. I think Percy's in trouble. I gotta go dude. Porkpie, let's fly. Grover, tell Chiron what happened.

Blackjack took off, with Porkpie in close pursuit. Percy was in trouble? It had only been 17 days since he helped defeat Gaea. That kid needed a break! What was it going to be this time. Only the gods knew...