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-Athena'sOwlet

Percy POV

I uncapped Riptide and prepared to defend myself, and my friends.

Annabeth yelled, "CHARGE!" at the top of her lungs.

What else am I supposed to do, Wise Girl? I thought.

I ran full speed towards the Minotaur, my old friend. I had fought him on my way to Camp Half Blood. I slashed with all my might.

"I see you've gotten better at fighting," I commented.

The Minotaur just grunted. I finally slashed through the Minotaur and he disintegrated into golden dust. Then, I took on one of the Dracaenae.

This is easy. I thought.

Wrong. I was totally wrong. Just as I thought that, five more monsters appeared out of nowhere. Thalia pulled out her daggers, and sliced through two of them, and ran ahead to slice through more monsters. I pulled my attention back to the Dracaena I was fighting. As she lunged for me, I ducked, and she missed me by an inch.

"Percy!" I heard Nico cry out.

I looked in his direction. He was pinned down by a Sphinx (one of the five monsters that just arrived) and his skeleton warriors were falling everywhere, one by one. I ran over, forgetting about the Dracaena, to help Nico. I arrived at his side just as the Sphinx was about to bite him, and slashed through the Sphinx.

All of a sudden, Nico's eyes widened. "Percy, behind you…" Nico stuttered.

I looked behind me. The Dracaena I was fighting leaped onto my body. At least, it didn't hurt. I realized that I had landed right smack on Nico.

I looked back and saw him wincing in pain. He looked fine, so I didn't know why he would be in pain. Wait…you're ribs aren't supposed to be sticking out like that…right? Uh oh…

"Nico! Stay with me!" I was becoming frantic. I could already tell he was slipping away into that deep void of death. "You can't go! Maybe your dad can keep you from dying! STAY ALIVE!"

"Percy…ribs…hurt…going…to die…" Nico moaned.

"Someone! Help!" I knew this plea was useless. My friends were all occupied with their own monsters. No one would be able to help me.

"So…sorry…my…time…to go…" Nico was taking really shallow breaths. I realized that one of his ribs…or what used to be his ribs…must have hit his ribs. Nico was dead serious…dead…haha…get it? Okay, wrong time for puns…

"No! Nico! You'd better not die. Or else…or else…I'll…um…" I couldn't find a good enough threat.

"You're greatest…weakness…is your best…defense…" He said so quietly I barely managed to catch it. Was he going crazy? That made no sense!

"What? NICO! Tell me what that means!"

"Pretty…ponies…" Okay. That was even weirder. He was going crazy, I guess. He heaved a big sigh and went limp.

"NOOOOO!"

Talking to him was my first mistake. I had let myself go undefended, and I could have slashed through the Dracaena during that time. But now, I couldn't. One of my friends had already died because of me. Rage flared through my body. I just killed one of my friends. Out of nowhere, a wave crashed down. It was like the ocean was being angry with me. However, that just brought a whole new wave of sea monsters. I pulled out Riptide and slashed through any monsters in sight. It was like my body was on steroids. BUT, this wasn't enough. Monsters kept coming.

How could I get help?

The empathy link. A small voice in my head told me.

How stupid could I get? Maybe Annabeth was right, my brain was probably made of seaweed. I then used the empathy link to tell Grover to send help ASAP.

All of a sudden, someone…no, something…no one could have scales. It was that stupid Dracaena. Now, I was stuck, the Dracaena on top of me. I was just lying there, helpless, watching my friends battle the monsters.

Suddenly, the Dracaena on top of me disintegrated. Standing over me was a triumphant Annabeth.

"Annabeth…" I just couldn't find the words to tell her that Nico was dead.

"Nico's dead? Well, watching you talk to him when you could've been slaying monsters sort of told me," Annabeth spoke quickly as she stabbed a monster that was behind me.

Then, out of the blue, fortunately, I heard a stampeding of hooves, and unfortunately, the combined roars of a couple hundred more monsters.

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-Athena'sOwlet