Percy's POV

I kept pinching myself, because I must be dreaming. Annabeth is alive? There is no way, all that blood on the road..I was pulled out of my thoughts and listened to her.

"-Oceanus has sent an army to attack your palace. You need to leave right now! I'll stall him," she said. It was him. When I was running towards Annabeth he tackled me, not a monster.

Anger boiled inside of me as I realized that he had Annabeth all this time. Wait, she said she would stall him...Oceanus is here?

"Grover," I said and waved a hand in front of his face to get his attention.

"Uh huh?" he asked. I couldn't let this titan fight Annabeth, she looked like she had just got out of a blender. If anyone was going to kill him it was going to be me.

"Remember when we defeated Hyperion? You made him into a tree?" I asked.

"Yeah b-" he started, but I cut him off.

"Go in the forest and gather up all the satyrs. I'll stall Oceanus, okay?"

"Okay," he replied, and then ran off into the woods.

The tux would get in my way during the fight so I took it off and was left in only a white undershirt and black dress pants.

I ran towards Annabeth knowing that's where Oceanus was headed. I blocked his sword from hitting her and we were both at a standstill.

"What did you do to her?" I spat. I moved my sword away from his, ducked, and jabbed at his side. Ichor ran down his side, and he yelped in pain.

"I took her to my kingdom. She was a good slave for a while but she got boring quickly. Her attitude was getting old so I hit her," he chuckled. As if reliving her pain pleased him.

I could hear faint music in the background, so I knew help was on the way. I swiped at his neck and his sword blocked mine once again.

"Why? Why did you steal her from me?" I questioned. I've been wondering that since Annabeth showed up.

"Killing you would be too easy. I figured I could use her as a pawn," he said with distaste. Probably disgusted with himself for being wrong. Anyways, I could see the ground start to weave around his feet.

I got tired of the standstill so I started swiping my sword at him, not caring if he blocked it or not.

Swiping one last time I glanced down at his feet, they were completely covered in bark so he wouldn't be able to come after me. So I stopped fighting and stepped back.

"What did you do to me?" he screamed. Bark was slowly snaking up his legs like someone sinking in quicksand.

"Revenge," is all I said. There was nothing else to say. He was soon one big maple tree, not as big as Hyperion, but was still pretty big. Grover and the other satyrs put their pipes down and were breathing heavily.

I put the cap back on riptide and slowly turned around to face Annabeth.