(A/N: Yo, most reviews, though few, are pointing toward going M rated, hehehe, good, cause all the thoughts put into this will be breaking Zoe after the third book and before the fourth book, sort of like a summer project for Percy. Oh and Yin_Gurl is back, we couldn't do the last few chapters due to school and such. And her comments will be in bold.

Percy POV:

As I walk out I know that this would be starting now so I put Annabeth's cap back on and look back at the door to see twelve skeleton wars running out to come after me. I turn back around and start running towards the Museum of Air and Space where Thalia, Zoe, Bianca, and Grover were to 'warn' them of what was coming but I kept a semi- slow pace so that that wouldn't have time to run when the warriors got there after I half ass explain what is going on with Luke and the General being here. Of course I'm not exactly sure where Thalia and they are but I should be able to run into them quickly enough.

After I get past the admissions area I take Annabeth's cap off and stop for a moment to do a quick survey of the museum before taking off again at my fastest to make is more believable that I was running scared rather than like I was up to something. Stupidly I wasn't watching where I was going and literally ran into Thalia knocking her into the Apollo Space capsule. By the time I am up and almost have my balance again I see that Zoe and Bianca are aiming their arrows at me. This I could deal with. I look over at Thalia and see she is mad and ready to hurt me so I say the first thing to distract her.

"Luke is here" I say still trying to catch my breath and inwardly smile when Thalia's anger melts with her attention shifting to Luke. When Grover has finally recovered from my crashing entrance he smiles ready to say something before he gets a murderous glare from Zoe.

"Where?" Thalia finally asks me after a moment's hesitation. I go into a quick explanation of Thorn and Luke and the General. I watch Zoe's facial expression change when I mention her father.

"The General is here?" Zoe asks looking ready to kill me thinking I am lying.

"Why would I lie?" I ask before deciding to bring up the skeleton warriors. "Look we don't have time to stand here arguing about me lying or not there are Skeleton warriors and who know what else coming here" I say pushing some urgency into the tone of my voice.

"What!?" Thalia says causing me to jump slightly because I was expecting Zoe to ask. "How many?" She continues looking ready to kill me again if I don't answer with the right answer.

"Twelve Skeleton warriors. I don't know what else is coming though, but that General guy mentioned sending something to distract us while the warriors get here." I say quickly trying to give them the feeling that they should just run. Though it would be too late by the time they do get around to running. When I look over at Bianca she looks nervous but before she could say anything, Grover spook up.

"I thought we were just following Artemis's trail here but I guess she had just passed through looking for her mystery monster." Grover says softly already beating himself up for failing on his simple task.

As I look back at Bianca I see she is looking at Zoe, "Zoe," She starts sounding worried "If it is the General-" She tries to continue.

"It cannot be!" Zoe snaps cutting Bianca off, "Percy has to be lying or maybe he saw an illusion." She continues glaring at me like she was contemplating trying to kill me here and now to just save herself the problem of traveling with me.

Thalia sighs, "You shouldn't have come Percy… But you're here now so let's go before we find out if he is really lying now or not." She says turning to start walking out, as she turned I saw her lips curl up.

"It is not thy decision to make and him being here isn't right. Thee should send this boy back to thy camp." Zoe snaps at Thalia just managing to piss Thalia off, but before she could retort to Zoe the little pet Atlas had mentioned found its way to us.

"It's-" I start trying to sound like I wasn't all too sure about what it was.

"It's a Nemean Lion" Thalia says in a tone saying I should have already known that.

~Cue fight scene, then time-skip to Apollo's train~

"Nice coat," Thalia told me

I shrugged the jacket off, and moved it onto her, "Thanks, but I think it suits you better."

"Oh really?" Thalia asks as she puts on the coat, "How so?"

"Oh you know," I motioned my hands to start our imagination, "Picture this, a punk rocker girl with a lion coat, shooting lightning out her hands as she does a guitar solo."

Thalia stifles a giggle, but I continue, "In front of thousands of fans cheering, 'Pinecone, Pinecone!', and her dashing, very dashing, boyfriend does a water show right behind her."

Thalia laughs at that, "Aw, Percy Jackson thinks he's so great doesn't he?"

"Yes, yes, I was able to tame the wild rocker, I deserve an award for that."

"Oh, and if I mention to the paparazzi that you were the cause of this whole mess? How great do you think you'll be?"

"I'm still humble, I own my mistakes."

"Hmm, alright, I'll give you that, seaweed brain."

We laugh a little about the whole conversation, and then remain silent for a bit. To let Thalia thoughts settle and have her comfortable. I break the silence.

"Thalia, did Hunters try to recruit you?"

"...What makes you say that?"

"You have some history with them that is obvious, but a better way to notice is that she didn't try to recruit you."

"And I said no, anything else you want to discover about me?"

"Yea, just one," I paused for a bit to let the next few words have more impact, "Why'd you say no?"

Thalia opened her mouth then closed it and looked away, hesitant to answer me. I put my hand on her shoulder and try to coax her.

"Look, if you don't want to answer just say so. I'm in this war to be with you. If you don't want to share, then it's fine. I understand that there's a lot of pressure on us, you especially. So how about we keep at that no secrets between us when this war is over."

Thalia sighs, "No...I should just tell you this now and not regret it later on. The reason why I didn't join the Hunters was the one thing keeping me in this war,"

I nod, slowly opening a mental connection to Luke, who connected through his dreams.

'What is it, Jackson?"

I let my vision show in his dreams, allowing him a view of Thalia, and then he soon heard words as she opened her mouth.

"I did it for Luke."

'...'

"Oh," I said in mock surprise

"Zoe and I got into a fight. She told me I was being stupid. She said I'd regret my choice. She said Luke would let me down someday."

'No, Thals, y-you got it wrong."

"That's harsh," I said, "Hard to admit Zoe was right."

'Jackson, stop this, STOP THIS!'

"She wasn't right! Luke never let me down. Never."

'T-that's right! Come on, Thals.'

"We'll have to fight him," I said. "There's no way around it."

'Shut it Jackson, Thals knows what I'm doing is right! Right Thals?'

Thalia didn't answer.

'Right? Thals...you believe in me, right?'

"You haven't seen him lately," I warned. "I know it's hard to believe, but—"

'Thals don't believe him, he's a spy, a dirty double-crossing spy.'

"I'll do what I have to."

'...'

"Even if that means killing him?"

'Jackson, turn off the link, now!'

"Do me a favor," she said. "Shut up and hug me."

'W-what?'

I suppressed my grin and just snuggled with Thalia, then pulling her chin up.

'Damn you, Damn you to Tartarus!'

"Don't worry, I'll make you forget about Luke."

'Damit that should be me! That should be me!'

Thalia grins a little, "Try your best, seaweed brain."

I kiss her and cut the mental connection, only to start it up again to show flashes of Thalia, her neck, on top of me, her bra, and the occasional auditory waves of moans and name-calling.

As we finish, I open the mental connection one last time to hear Luke crying and I smile ear to ear with the devil's eyes.

(A/N: Oh God, I just felt like bashing on Luke for some reason, blonde, tall, blue eyes, just makes me want to roast him up, how about you Yin? I can agree there and breaking Luke is fun. And to all you readers stay on the edge of your seats this is going to get a whole lot crazier hope ya'll enjoy it and please leave a comment on how we're doing and what you think so far.)