I went inside the museum and saw Zoe and Thalia arguing. What's up with them? I decided to just completely block out the noise, I don't want to hear them argue about their pasts.

It gets annoying, okay?

I was sitting on the ground and watching them argue, this was like watching one of those old T.V shows without any voice actors, but it's different because I can't hear a single thing. I smirked, Thalia is probably telling Zoe to stop being such a stuck up…Kid, although Zoe is older than Thalia. So I guess it should be the other way around, oh well, either one is fine. There are both being dumb.

This went on for another three minutes, Thalia stormed off somewhere. I released my barrier and then I heard the doors burst open. What the hell was that? I ran to the door and almost ran into Percy, "Percy?" I said quietly, I watched him keep running.

When he got to the balcony he slammed right into Thalia, knocking her into an Apollo space capsule. Grover yelped in surprise. I looked at Bianca and Zoe, they had arrows notched, aimed at Percy's chest. Their bows had just appeared out of nowhere. Hmm that's pretty cool.

Zoe didn't lower her bow when she noticed it was Percy, "You! How dare you show thy face here?"

"Percy!" Grover said. "Thank goodness."

Zoe glared at him, and he blushed. "I mean, um, gosh. You're not supposed to be here!"

"Luke," Percy said, trying to catch his breath. "He's here."

Luke…? I looked at the door expecting something to come through them.

"Where?" Thalia asked.

Percy told them all about his encounter with Dr. Thorn and the 'General' which I assume is Atlas. "The General is here?" Zoe looked stunned. "That is impossible! You lie."

"Why would I lie? Look, there's no time. Skeleton warriors—"

"What?" Thalia demanded. "How many?"

"Twelve," Percy said. "And that's not all. That guy, the General, he said he was sending something, a 'playmate,' to distract you over here. A monster."

Thalia and Grover exchanged looks.

"We were following Artemis's trail," Grover said. "I was pretty sure it led here. Some powerful monster scent… She must've stopped here looking for the mystery monster. But we haven't found anything yet."

I guess we should have looked around some more and then headed to the mountain of despair. I guess that's one thing I'm wrong about. "Zoe," Bianca said nervously, "if it is the General—"

"It cannot be!" Zoe snapped. "Percy must have seen an Iris-message or some other illusion."

"Illusions don't crack marble floors," Percy told her.

Yup, that has to be Atlas. I didn't realize until just now, but I was letting out steam, I looked like a teapot when it's boiling. Don't think about Atlas, don't think about them… "If Percy is telling the truth about the skeleton warriors," she said, "we have no time to argue. They are the worst, the most horrible… We must leave now."

"Good idea," Percy said.

"I was not including thee, boy," Zoe said. "You are not part of this quest."

"Hey, I'm trying to save your lives!"

"You shouldn't have come, Percy," Thalia said grimly. "But you're here now. Come on. Let's get back to the van."

"That is not thy decision!" Zoe snapped.

Thalia scowled at her. "You're not the boss here, Zoe. I don't care how old you are! You're still a conceited little brat!"

"You never had any wisdom when it came to boys," Zoe growled. "You never could leave them behind!"

Thalia looked like she was about to hit Zoe. Then everyone froze, I heard a growl so loud I thought one of the rocket engines was starting up.

Below us, a few adults screamed. A little kid's voice screeched with delight: "Kitty!"

Something enormous bounded up the ramp. It was the size of a pick-up truck, with silver claws and golden glittering fur. "The Nemean Lion," Thalia said. "Don't move."

The lion roared so loud it parted my hair. Its fangs gleamed like stainless steel.

"Separate on my mark," Zoe said. "Try to keep it distracted."

"Until when?" Grover asked.

"Until I think of a way to kill it. Go!"

The monster was right in front of me and it didn't even notice me, I examined it, its fur looked fluffy, but I know this furry beasts fur is as hard as iron.

Everyone went in different directions. Percy uncapped his pen and rolled to his left. Arrows whistled passed him when he rolled, and Grover played a sharp tweet-tweet cadence on his reed pipes. I turned and saw Zoe and Bianca climbing the Apollo capsule. They were firing arrows, one after another, all shattering harmlessly against the lions metallic fur.

The lion swiped the capsule and tipped it on its side, spilling the Hunters off the back. Grover played a frantic, horrible tune, and the lion turned toward him, but Thalia stepped into its path, holding up Aegis, and the lion recoiled. "ROOOAAAR!"

"Hi-yah!" Thalia said. "Back!"

The lion growled and clawed the air, but it retreated as if the shield were a blazing fire. Even something this big has something they're afraid of.

For a second, I thought Thalia had it under control. Then I saw the lion crouching, its leg muscles tensing. I've fought enough hellhounds to know what's going to happen next, she's going to get pounced on. I decided it was time to help. I summoned my sniper, it still had its silencer on it. I flew up and shot it from above, it looked back. It couldn't see me, I smiled, I should do this more often.

As I was thinking about that, I saw Percy sneak up on the huge cat. He slashed with his sword, a good strike to the flank that should've cut the monster into Meow Mix, but the blade just clanged against its fur in a burst of sparks. The lion raked at Percy with its claws, ripping off a chunk of his coat. He backed against the railing. It sprang at him, one thousand pounds of monster, and he had no choice but to turn and jump.

Smart thinking, kind of. I mean it was good because of how big the monster was, and it wasn't so good because if they fall, it's going to hurt, they were up on the third floor. The lion jumped onto the aircraft, with Percy and the cords holding the plane began to groan.

The lion swiped at him, and then Percy dropped onto the next exhibit, a weird-looking spacecraft with blades like a helicopter. He looked up and saw the lion roar. Percy saw something, his movements changed, I guess he has a plan.

"Zoe!" Percy shouted. "Target the mouth!"

The monster lunged. An arrow zipped past it, missing completely, and then Percy dropped from the spaceship onto the top of a floor exhibit, a huge model of the earth. Percy slid down Russia and dropped off the equator.

The Nemean Lion growled and steadied itself on the spacecraft, but its weight was too much. One of the cords snapped. As the display swung down like a pendulum, the lion leaped off onto the model earth's North Pole.

"Grover!" Percy yelled. "Clear the area!"

Groups of kids were running around screaming. Grover tried to corral them away from the monster just as the other cord on the spaceship snapped and the exhibit crashed to the floor. Thalia dropped off the second-floor railing and landed across from Percy, on the other side of the globe. The lion regarded them both, trying to decide which one to kill first.

Zoe and Bianca were below me, bows ready, but they kept having to move around to get a good angle. "No clear shot!" Zoe yelled. "Get it to open its mouth more!"

The lion snarled from the top of the globe.

"Thalia," Percy said, "keep it occupied."

She nodded grimly.

"Hi-yah!" She pointed her spear and a spidery arc of blue electricity shot out, zapping the lion in the tail.

"ROOOOOOOAR!" The lion turned and pounced. Thalia rolled out of its way, holding up Aegis to keep the monster at bay, and then Percy ran for the gift shop.

I flew upwards some more, I put my sniper away and summoned my sword. A four foot long black blade, the handle was a skull, I haven't noticed until now, but this sword was radiating power, darkness seemed to be surrounding it. I looked down and saw the monster trying to get a good hit on Thalia. Thalia looked like an ant a really fast ant.

I saw Percy come out of the gift shop, he was carrying something.

"Hey!" Percy yelled at the lion. He was too far away to strike, so he decided to take a risk: he hurled his sword like it was a throwing knife. It bounced off the lion's side, but that was enough to get the monster's attention. It turned toward him and snarled.

Percy charged, and as the lion leaped to intercept him, he threw something into the monster mouth. The monster started gagging like a cat with a hairball.

"Zoe, get ready!" Percy yelled.

Below me, I could hear people screaming. Grover was playing another horrible song on his pipes.

Percy scrambled away from the lion. It managed to choke down whatever Percy threw in his mouth and looked at him with pure hate.

"Snack time!" He yelled.

The monster roared at him, I let myself fall down towards the monster, I'm not sure if this is high enough, and I'm also not sure if my sword can pierce the lions metal fur.

I was falling faster and faster, I held my sword downward, like I was going stab the ground. I was a foot away from it, and with full force and a little more speed to make it a stronger attack, I hit the lion, it landed flat on its belly, it roared loudly, my sword started to crack. This looks bad. I pushed my hardest on the sword and the I looked at the tip of my sword, where the armour met with the sword, there was a crack growing wider and wider.

My sword went straight threw the beasts back and then it went 'poof' and all that was left was its fur.

I was still invisible, I looked at Percy and Zoe. They were confused and shocked, "What just happened?" Grover asked, puzzled. Thalia got up and noticed the beast was no longer with us. She smiled, I think she knows I'm here.

Zoe was beside Percy, "That was…An interesting strategy."

Percy was still too stunned to answer her. Grover was still trying to figure out what happened. Why can't he just see that it was me? I mean I'm the only one who can do these kinds of things.

Zoe picked up the lion's fur, "Here." She offered the lion's fur to Percy. He looked at it confusingly, "Isn't that, like, an animal rights violation or something?"

"It is a spoil of war," she told him. "It is rightly thine."

Zoe either doesn't care about what happened, or she knows it was me.

This is all for this week, maybe I'll have two chapters up next week, because I'm going to be focusing on my other stories.

Thanks for reading! I hope you all have a wonderful day!

Rilurz~