Annabeth

I dashed around the corner to find Leo with his head stuck in an enormous vase.

"Leo!"

"MMMPHH"

I helped him out and he gasped for air. "I was looking inside the vase and I…uh…" I laughed, "Try not to get your head stuck in any more decorative objects, okay?" "Okay." He said sheepishly.

Hazel yelled, "Guys! Come check this out!" We found her in a room staring at a giant statue of a hellhound. Glowing in golden lettering were the words 'find me'.

"This is starting to sound like a scavenger hunt." Percy said.

"Maybe it is. The gods are threatening Frank's life if we don't play their game." I replied.

"Either way, it sounds like we've got a hellhound to kill." Leo said

Hazel

This is ridiculous. I can't believe that the gods would be so bored that they would create a scavenger hunt for us, threatening to kill Frank if we don't play. I stormed out the front door. Looking up, I found myself face to face with a hellhound.

Well, that makes things easier, I thought. Then I realized that I had no weapon and my friends were nowhere in sight. I made a mad dash to the Argo and yelled, "We've got a hellhound to kill, Coach!"

"ALLLLLL RIIIGHHTTTT!" Coach Hedge pumped his fist in the air and went to get his lucky baseball bat.

"Leo's going to kill me", I thought as I stepped into the engine room. Breaking open the safe, I grabbed two vials of Greek Fire and dashed off the ship after Coach Hedge.

Summoning huge rocks from nearby, I formed a wall around the angry hellhound. Coach pushed his way between two of the rocks and began beating the hound with his baseball bat. The monster nearly ate him whole, but I yelled, "Hey, you! Yeah, the big ugly dog! Take a piece of this!" I threw one of the vials. The explosion knocked me off my feet, but Coach Hedge and I weren't hurt.

Unfortunately, the one vial didn't kill the dog. Bloody and enraged, the monster broke through the rock barricade and chased after me. An enormous paw swiped at my head; I dove to the ground just in time. Before I could stand up again, the hellhound's massive head lurched, and its jaws opened wide to devour me. In one last attempt for survival, I threw the other vial of Greek Fire into the monster's mouth. Instinctively, I rolled over and ran as fast as I could away from the dog.

The sound and force of the explosion threw me across the field as I blacked out.

Percy

Don't you hate it when you get locked in the building by your idiot friend (cough, Leo, cough) and miss all of the action, finding your other friend and chaperone unconscious next to a dead hellhound? Yeah, me too.

Leo decided to bump into the alarm controls on the way out, automatically locking all of the doors and windows. We spent the next fifteen minutes trying to disarm it as we heard two explosions nearby. Hazel must have left before us, found the hellhound, and attacked it with Coach Hedge.

Once we reached Hazel and Coach Hedge, the hellhound had already begun to disintegrate. We moved them to their bedrooms onboard, but left the monster right where it was. Coach Hedge regained consciousness after a few minutes, but Hazel slept for six more hours. In the meantime, Leo discovered his open safe in the engine room.

"Oh I am so going to kill her when she wakes up! She broke both rules! What did I say? Don't go in the engine room without permission. Don't touch my stuff. And what does she do? She goes in the engine room, opens my safe and takes my Greek Fire!"

"Dude, chill. She killed a hellhound, saved Coach Hedge, found the next clue, and stayed alive." I said.

"Both rules…both of them! The only two rules…" Leo mumbled.

"Leo, you're starting to sound like my stepmom." Then Annabeth added, "Hazel's awake. Leo, don't kill her. Remember, she just regained consciousness after a very difficult battle." She instructed Leo with a glare.

"Okay, okay!" Leo raised his arms in surrender.

"Whoa, what did I miss?" Jason asked, yawning and stretching.

"You were sleeping? Coach Hedge was helping Hazel kill a hellhound, and you slept through it?" Annabeth yelled at Jason and folded her arms across her chest.

I explained everything, from Leo getting stuck in the vase to finding the note from Pluto on the ground where the hellhound had died. "I think Hazel needs to tell us the rest."

"Maybe you should go in first, Leo." I said, winking subtly at Annabeth.

She caught on fast. "Yeah, I think you should." Annabeth added, suppressing a smile.

Leo

"Hey," I said, opening Hazel's bedroom door. "How are you?"

She smiled weakly. "So you're not mad at me for touching your stuff?"

"And going in the engine room." I added.

"Sorry, but it was kind of necessary." She said apologetically.

"I'm just…" I took a deep breath, "I'm just glad you're okay." I smiled at her, then said, "Plus that was totally awesome. You killed a hellhound singlehandedly!"

"With Coach Hedge's help…" She added modestly.

"You're welcome to go in my engine room anytime. Just don't mess stuff up." I said.

Hazel laughed, "Okay, Leo." Then she surprised me. She reached up and kissed me on the cheek. "Thank you."

I asked, "For what?"

"For everything." Hazel replied.