Kerplunk!

Disclaimer: Percy Jackson belongs to Rick Riordan

It's odd when someone you really cared about is in danger. You immediately want to go and help them, or in my case sent whatever had kidnapped them straight to Tartarus. Adrenaline went through my body, as my hand instinctively reached for Riptide. I wasn't aware of it, but the I was making the ground shake. In the myths you always hear about Poseidon's rage. The kind of power that made me defeat the Minotaur and beat the Cyclops. I would find who kidnapped Annabeth and make them pay. Back to my Life!

Chiron's words seemed to hang in the air. Alex was trying to maintain his balance. Chiron's eyes were full of sorrow. He looked up. "Percy, I do not wish you to do anything rash, I want you do continue your-"

"Rash?" I yelled. "My best friend has been kidnapped! I'm not going to just go sit around waiting for someone."

"Percy," Chiron cut in. "Even if I wanted to I couldn't let you go on this quest." Chiron was holding me by the shoulders. It was actually weird how strong he was. "Dionysos has reinforced the borders with a new power. Without his permission, there is now way you will be able to leave." Oh ,that pissed me off.

"Like Mr. D could stop me!" I yelled. "Riptide can harm gods, I will slash the Jerry Springer reject into swift oblivion if he tries! Come on, Alex, we have to go. Now." I took riptide and walked towards the borders. Only to be stopped by a large amount of monsters.

"Dibs on the liver!" yelled on Harpy. Of course when a son of Poseidon has tapped into his rage, you really shouldn't mess with him.

The harpy who wanted my liver flew straight towards me. In one swift movement I stuck Riptide through her chest.

"Stop, Percy, you are killing the kitchen staff!" yelled Chiron. Big deal. I needed to vent my anger. It took me one swift leap to get to the other harpies. I simply struck them down before they could react. However the others raised claws and Talons to try and defend themselves.

"Percy, you fool!" screamed Chiron. "They are probably going to form a union now!" Suddenly I started to choke. I fell to the ground and saw that Dionysus had called a strawberry vine to choke me. The harpies tried to come forward but Alex had raised Timmy to them.

"Stop the fighting!" yelled Chiron. The vine released me and returned to normal size. The harpies backed off and Alex lowered Timmy. Dionysus came and stood next to us.

"Peter, you must try to understand my overwhelming sympathy for you," said Dionysus. The harpies backed off. "As much as I care for your happiness, I care for your welfare more and I'm afraid I must confine you to Camp Half-Blood." Dionysus said this in his usual sarcastic voice.

"If you could die you would be so dead right now," I growled, raising Riptide and getting to my feet.

He smiled thinly. "Peter, you are moron so I will drawl this slowly. If you try to attack me I will rip your very mind apart. I did the same to George Bush and he became President. In retrospect that was a mistake. Anyway, you aren't thinking logically. If you try to get out you will be attacked by several of Heaptheus's nastiest metal monsters. And your little Ares buddy won't be so lucky with them." he said. Lucky? It must have been the mist that made it look like Alex was the human torch. Or Half Blood torch. Or whatever. "And even if you managed to get out, which you won't, how are you going to find them? You have no idea where to begin, or even any form of motive. And besides, ever single Olympian is searching for the daughter of Zeus. We will find her first." For a long time me and Alex just sat there. It was weird but Alex never got bored. He just looked around him and smiled.

The rest of the cabins showed up pretty soon. The news of the kidnapping spread quickly. Three days. Hades had sent me a message that he and Poseidon are tracking everywhere in the world to try and find Annabeth and Thalia. My dad had a loose theory and it would take him three days to confirm it. It was the beginning of the first banquet and time to see if Alex was a son of Ares.

"Why are so worried?" he asked. "Even when I am claimed we can still be friends. Poseidon and Ares are allies, aren't they?"

I shuddered slightly. "Uh, Alex...Ares and all his children and even his pet boar wants me dead." "And when a guy has a pet boar"

"Named Lemming," interjected Alex.

"Named Lemming," I sighed, "Trained to kill you on sight, you know he really doesn't like you."

Alex looked up. He was always uncomfortable during emotional moments. Or something. "I don't care if Ares hates you. I don't."

I went and sat at my usual place while Alex was being judged by Mr. D.

"So, Adrian-"

"Alex," Chiron out in.

"Whatever. Have you been claimed yet?" asked Dionysus. Alex didn't answer. He didn't need to. A boar's head impaled on a spear with gleaming red light appeared in the sky. "Welcome, Alex, son of the god of the Tornados and of the Uncontrollable urges and Hatred we all feel. Welcome son of the war god."

Alex numbly went to sit with the other Ares kids. He just didn't fit in. His hands were shaking in anger. This was getting stranger and stranger. After the meal, Mr. D. decided to give us his usual "Welcome back" speech.

"Welcome back" he cheered. "I see that, despite the best efforts of the monsters I sent, you are still all alive. Well, good on you! There will unfortunately be now chariot races in the first two weeks. On a lighter note, I am very pleased to announce that two campers, better known as Annabeth and Thalia, have been kidnapped and possibly murdered. I would like you all to follow their example. Thank you!"

A shocked silence followed. Sure we knew he wanted us dead, but he was never so damn direct about it. The meal was completed quickly and I entered a troubled sleep. I kept dreaming of Annabeth and Alex. Annabeth was screaming for me to save her and Alex was saying "What do you mean you forgot the chicken nuggets?" while repeatedly blasting fruit stalls. I ate way to many cheese sandwiches.

The next day I went to get breakfast. I noticed that Alex was sitting alone at the end of the Ares table. I mean with the smell, that was understandable but he also had a black eye. However several of the Ares kids had burn marks and bruises. Nice. Me and Alex trained sword fighting together and even scaled a rock wall. It was annoying with the other Ares's spawn there but I managed to almost enjoy myself. Clarrisse was much nicer to me and that helped. She was also prone to batting her eyebrows, which personally gave me dry heaves. Other that that it was an okay-day. Of course the next day, we had capture the flag.

Normally I team up with Athena and Hermes, but Alex got me into his team. On our side was everybody but Athena, Hermes and Apollo's children.

"Ready?" asked Alex, calmly wrapping his hand in thin bandages.

"Are you kidding? This is what I live for," I said. He took out his long sword and I drew Timmy and Riptide. "Any strategy?" I asked.

"Not much. See an enemy, bash his head in and steal his shoes. Also, you may want to try and get the flag."

Right. Not much. Everyone started running towards the border except for a few weird guards.

"Here we go!" yelled Alex and started sprinting. We ran for about ten minutes until we came towards four Apollo archers. All four of them had their arrows pointed at us.

"Take us to your flag you scuzbag!" said the cocky guy from the chariot races.

"Scuzbag? Is that even a word?" asked Alex. Unfortunately, the cocky guy lost his balance before he could answer. Those damn earthquakes were picking up again. Alex laughed and slashes their bows.

"Now you take us to you flag," he said with a smirk on his face and a sword on the other guy's chest. We probably would have captured the flag, but two of the three furies grabbed us and flew off.

We flew for about ten hours. I had now idea where we were. I guessed somewhere around Florida. I chocked somewhat as the shriveled face of Mrs. Dodds appeared before me.

"Hush, Perseus," she said.

Alex was desperately trying to kill the other Kindly one but he wasn't succeeding .

"Alex, calm down. They may be a pair of shriveled demon grannies, but that's okay. Sure it's a little 1983 but for monsters it works."

"We are not here to tell hear your opinion of us," said Mrs. Dodds. "We have taken you do the place your friends are being kept, and have brought supplies for your stay with us."

"Annabeth is here?" I breathed. I was ready. "But where is uh, here?" I asked.

"This was once a swamp in which great monsters lived. They are still here but now it has changed into the home of just about every monster in the world. The greatest monster home ever! My boy, You are at Disney Land!" said Mrs. Dodds.