HEYO! *SPOILER* I WILL EVENTUALLY KILL OCTAVIAN! HAPPY?! You'd think he tried to kill Percy the way you guys want to kill him, oh wait. He did.

~Leo POV~

I wake up to the sound of Coach yelling. I jump out of bed, and don't bother putting clothes on, I'm wearing what I wore yesterday. I sprint out the door, and up the stairs to the deck. I see Coach in bow of the Argo, near the ballista. "COACH!" I yell. "What's going on?!" I shout. He points over the side of the boat, and turns on the ballista, and shoots. I see a flock of birds, and they are devouring everything. Annabeth and Percy, come up the stairs still in their pajamas. Percy's pajamas look like the ocean, like actual water. Annabeth's are beige with owls all over them. Why Am I paying attention to their pajamas? Err... Focus. The birds. I point my finger at the birds. "The birds! I don't remember what they are called Sty- something. Hercules defeated them once with a giant gong I think. Too bad we don't have one of those." I say. Annabeth and Percy share a look. "They are called Stymphalian Birds. You're right about the hercules thing, but Percy and I defeated them three years ago, with Chiron's music. Leo? You still have the speakers hooked up?" She asks. "Duh. When do I not, I don't need music to work, but the rest of you people do. Except maybe you. But yes I do. Here's the remote." I say, while handing her the remote. "Thanks." She says and runs off. Percy follows her because, ever since they were in Tartarus, they are inseparable. Coach even lets them sleep together, they wait outside the bathroom for each other. I personally think that is a little weird, but whatever floats their boat. A group of birds decides to come and try to peck my eyeballs out, their mistake. I shoot them with some fireballs. They turn to monster dust. Music starts playing over the speakers, loudly. Coach fires the ballista again. Percy and Annabeth run over to me, with Frank and Hazel. "Leo, when I yell play,-" I interrupt her, "Let me guess, press the play button." I say with a smirk. She nods. She runs over to the volume piece of the stereo and turns it up all the way. She runs away and comes back with eight sets of earmuffs. And that makes sense, cranked up all the way you can hear the Argo 2 stereo from ten miles away, now think about how loud that would have to be. Now imagine standing right next to it. Yeah, you need the earmuffs. Jason and Piper finally arrive, and they grab three pairs of earmuffs. "We'll go give Coach a set." Jason says. Pipes and Jason run off, and Frank brings out his bow, and starts shooting the birds around us. Hazel stabs through the birds with her spatha. Percy has riptide out, and is slicing through the birds in giant arcs, so they don't touch Annabeth. Annabeth is messing with the controls of the stereo, and finally figures it out, so she stops messing with it. She puts her earmuffs on, and gives Percy his. "LEO! PLAY!" Annabeth shouts. I can't hear her because of my earmuffs, but that is definitely what she said. I press play, and all of the birds start to fly away. When all of them are out of sight, I press pause, and then turn the music back to normal level, just in case someone accidentally presses play.

We are all sitting around our table, exhausted for having to get up at like 5. Those birds definitely woke us up, at the time. Now we all need twenty gallons of caffeine. Is caffeine even a liquid? You know what, never mind, I don't care. We are all eating breakfast, all of us have coffee, drinking it by the gallon. Percy's coffee is blue, which I will never understand. Maybe it has something to do with water. Hmm. I try to let it go, but my ADHD self, won't let me. "So Percy, why do you always drink blue drinks?" I ask him. He looks up at me. "Oh. Um, one day my ex-step father said that there were no blue foods. My mom and I, would always go out of our way to find blue food. Then one day, it became our sign to each other that we were safe." He says, and then suddenly his eyes went wide. "Percy what's wrong?" Annabeth asks. "I forgot to Iris message my mom, and camp. Any body got a drachma?" He asks, while in the motion of standing up. I reach into my tool belt, and bring out a couple drachmas and hand them to Percy. He gets up, and leaves. Annabeth follows him.

~Percy POV~

I go back towards my room, and then turn around, and see Annabeth. I'm glad she followed me, I hate it when we are even ten feet apart now. Ever since we were separated in Tartarus, I won't let her out of my sight, except to go to the bathroom, and even then I wait outside the door. I think Annabeth feels the same way, considering she hasn't left my side, and I didn't even have to ask. I hug Annabeth, and I see some markings on the wall. It looks familiar, and I freeze. It's egyptian. That reminds me of the time I met Cary, no Carter. He wrote in hieroglyphs on my hand. Annabeth sees me stiffen, and looks over at the hieroglyphs. "Percy what are you looking at?" She asks. I stare at her, "You don't see that? Those hieroglyphs?" I ask her, and she shakes her head. "How do you know what a hieroglyph is?" she asks. I think back to the time I met Carter, how he wrote the hieroglyph on my hand, and how he thought I was a magician, and he talked about the house of life. I did some research and found out he was an egyptian magician for the House of Life. I also looked a little into hieroglyphs. And I think that's how he said that word, and a giant fist came about. And the giant avatar, and the turning into a falcon. I learned how that is the symbol for Horus, for combat. I know, this doesn't sound like me, at all, but I was interested, and that was quite the encounter. He's egyptian, I'm greek, I know some romans. Wow.

Out of the corner of my eye, I see Annabeth snapping in front of my face. "Percy? Percy. Percy!" She sounds like she's getting more worried each time she says my name. "Sorry, I spaced out, but I think I have an idea on a helpful source, that could help us defeat Gaea." I pause, "Now let's go find us some mist."

We go out, up to the deck, and go to the bow of the Argo 2. Since we are int eh water, mist is coming of the bow, because of the speed we are going through the water. I throw the coin in, "O Iris Goddess of the rainbow, please except this offering. Sally Jackson, Upper East Side New York, New York." I say. My mom shows up, and she almost passes out. "Ohmysweetgoodness! You guys are okay!" she practically screams. "Yes, we've actually been out of Tartarus for a few days, but we were overwhelmed and forgot to Iris Message you. I'm sorry." I say. "Percy, I don't care that you were late, you two are safe, that's all that matters." She says, "Now you guys go call Chiron, you have no clue how much he has been worrying about you two." She says pointing a finger at me. She says cutting our connection off. "O Iris Goddess of the rainbow, please except this offering, to Chiron, at Camp Half Blood, Long Island Sound." Annabeth says before I have the chance. Chiron shows up in the mist screen. "Annabeth, Percy. Thank the gods you're all right. How did you do it? Not one demigod that went through Tartarus survived before you guys, and Nico of course, but he was held captive. SO it doesn't count 100%, but if you tell him I said that, you are both dead. But anyways, you guys are safe! I'm going to tell the Camp after this!" He says happily. I don't think I've ever seen him this happy. Ever. And we'v done some things that are pretty awesome. "Chiron, we had help, from some extremely unlikely forces. A The titan Iapetus, sacrificed coming out from Tartarus, so we could, we also had help from Damasen, the giant, he broke his own curse to help us." Annabeth says. Chiron nods, "Well, we will burn shrines for them tonight. They are good people." We both nod, "Percy mentioned something about, may having something that could help us defeat Gaea, he also mentioned something about hieroglyphs." Annabeth says to him. Chiron's eyes go wide, and he turns to me. "Percy, doe your method have to do with hieroglyphs?" He asks. "Uh, something like that." I say to him, suddenly getting nervous. "That is a very dangerous path, but it may be the only way. DO you have anyway to contact them, at all?" I nod my head, and hold out my hand, "I met him once, he wrote a hieroglyph on my hand, he said that if I said his name, he would come, but I remember that he was egyptian, he had an eye of Horus amulet, and he could turn into a Falcon, Horus's sacred bird." I say, and Annabeth is looking at me funny, I can't tell if it's because I did my research, or the fact that I didn't tell her. "I'm sorry I didn't tell you but It was really weird, and I figured it would be best not to tell you, or anyone for that matter, it was that weird. I'm sorry." I say to her, feeling guilty. "No that's not what's weird, a) you did your own research b) you know what that hieroglyph in the hall meant, don't you?" She asks. I nod, I didn't at the time, but know I do, "It said 'It's time'" I say.