Thalia ran around the giant and poked its heel with her spear and then the giants leg stiffened. I decided to throw fireballs at giants face. It took two steps back, it almost fell over, but it regained its balance and brought its sword down, causing an avalanche of metal to bury me.

I shadow traveled out of all the metal and saw Thalia learned that the giant was big but slow. If you could stay close to it and not get smashed, you could run around it and stay alive. At least, it was working so far.

Zoe and Bianca were firing arrows to distract it, Percy tried his best to help out. I kept throwing fireballs when it tried to go after one of them.

Grover played his pipes frantically, and his music sent another power line pole whacking against Talos's thigh. The monster turned. Grover should've run, but he must've been too exhausted from the effort of so much magic. He took two steps, fell, and didn't get back up. Of all the attacks we used, it didn't bother Talos much, but when Grover brought out his pipes, the thing just went berserk.

"No!" I shouted and flew up to meet Talos in the face. It's foot was a little too close to Grover, once I was in front of Talos, I summoned two fireballs in my hands, I thought I would have to keep summoning them. But no. The fire was coming out of the palms of my hands, "Ahh!" I shouted as I kept shooting fire at Talos.

It lifted up its hands to block the fire, I made the fire more intense, my hands felt a little hot, soon it actually started to hurt. I kept firing, Talos hand was slowly melting. It took ten seconds for its hand to completely melt, and then soon its face started to melt. The fire kept increasing in firepower, my hands were burning, I could feel it, but there won't be any marks on my hands, since I have the curse of Achilles.

The entire head was now melted. It slowly fell backwards. When it hit the ground all you could hear was the sound of millions of metal crashing against each other. I lowered myself to the others. When I was with them, all they could do was tell me that was awesome.

"Thanks..." I told them, Zoe nodded, "I have to admit that was amazing."

"Thanks for coming, Wyatt." Thalia said sheepishly.

"We could have handled that ourselves though, but thanks!" Percy said with a huge grin. "That may be so...But this way no one has to die." I told him. His grin faded, "Yeah..."

I guess he realizes just how close one of his friends were to dying. "Listen Percy, I would never let anyone die, especially if i know they're going to die. Just be glad I'm here. Okay?" I said and started to walk back to the road we were on before.

At the edge of the dump, we found a tow truck so old it might've been thrown away itself. But the engine started, and it had a full tank of gas, so we decided to borrow it.

Thalia drove, "We should keep moving, the skeletons are still out there."

She navigated us through the desert, under clear blue skies, the sand so bright it hurt to look at. Zoe and Bianca sat up front with Thalia. Grover, Percy and I sat in the pickup bed, leaning against the tow wench.

Percy sighed, "I'm really glad you showed up...I mean, the idea I had was a one way trip and Bianca knew it, so...Thanks." Percy said. Grover smiled, "Yeah, and knowing you were there...I kind of took something as well. Metal that Delicious, cannot just be left there."

I raised an eyebrow, "So it was you who took something? Percy told everyone not to touch anything, yet you did it anyway and also woke Talos up...My god Grover." I smiled.

"Wh-What!? No...I picked...I picked it up after I saw you beat Talos! Honest!" Grover panicked. I laughed, "I know, I'm just messing with you."

The tow truck ran out of gas at the edge of a river canyon. That was just as well, because the road dead-ended. "Well I guess this is out stop, seeing as we can;t go any further because of this flat tire." I said and jumped out. Everyone else did the same.

I scanned the horizon. There wasn't much to see. Desert in all directions, occasional clumps of barren mountains plopped here and there. The canyon was the only thing interesting. The river itself wasn't very big, maybe fifty yards across, green water with a few rapids, but it carved a huge scar out of the desert. The rock cliffs dropped away below us.

"There's a path," Grover said. "We could get to the river."

I tried to see what he was talking about, and finally noticed a tiny ledge winding down the cliff face.

"That's a goat path," Percy said.

"So?" he asked.

"The rest of us aren't goats." Percy said.

"We can make it," Grover said. "I think."

"I think we can make it too." I agreed.

"No," Percy said. "I, uh, think we should go farther upstream."

Grover said, "But—"

"Come on," Percy said. "A walk won't hurt us."

Is he afraid of heights? That's the only reason I can think of when someones doesn't want to go near a high cliff.

We followed the river about half a mile before coming to an easier slope that led down to the water. On the shore was a canoe rental operation that was closed for the season, Percy put a stack of golden drachmas on the counter and a note.

Not sure why he wrote on the note, but I guess its for the mortals. Maybe.

"We need to go upstream," Zoe said. "The rapids are too swift."

"Leave that to me," Percy said. We put the canoes in the water. Thalia pulled Percy aside and said something to him. And then Thalia, Zoe and Bianca got into the canoe while Percy, Grover and I got into the other.

Percy looked into the river and was about to do his magic but he stopped, "Hey." He said. I tilted my head, "Who you talking to?" I asked.

I might not uploading anything on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. Remember i said, 'might' so meaning I'll at least get one up on one of those days.

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