Jason

I have taken over Calypso's previous job of spying on the army. In total we have six Greek fire bombs, they have been altered to stick to anything. When the first bomb drops out of the sky, a cyclops picks it up before it can land.

"Drop it, you fool," Krios growls at the cyclops. "We have no time for distractions."

The cyclops grunts and tries to drop it but it stays stuck on his hand. The cyclops shakes his hand in the air. Suddenly, it explodes, spreading deadly fire over around fifty monsters. Four more bombs drop, killing a few hundred monsters.

I give a nod to Will Solace, head of Apollo cabin. The Apollo cabin open fire on the enemy and Phoebe and her group of Hunters join in.

Monsters are being picked off by the dozen now, while Krios tries to establish some kind of order among the panicked monsters.

Suddenly a figure drops from the sky, landing with bent knees in front of Krios. Calypso straightens up and looks at Krios. "Hello Krios," she says happily.

She throws the last Greek fire bomb at Krios' face with deadly accuracy.

"Bye Krios," Calypso says, grinning.

Calypso appears back next to me just as Krios goes up in flames. "What did I miss?"

I shake my head. "Leo's rubbing off on you."

We walk back to where the councillors are.

"Are you ready to go?" Calypso directs to Leo, Piper and I.

Leo grins. "Let's go kick some monster butt."

Calypso

The bomb didn't kill Krios.

I find that out the hard way when he tries to behead me.

I duck below his strike just to be kicked backwards. I scramble to my feet as soon as I hit the ground. Krios' face is now covered with ugly burns and scars.

"You will pay for that, girl," Krios growls.

I back up. "I simply made some improvements."

Krios growls and tries to cut me in half with a downward strike. I leap into action, spinning to the right and driving a knife into Krios' arm. I withdraw my knife and kick him back.

I drop my knives and summon my bow. I shoot arrow after arrow as he advances towards me. Krios lunges towards me and cleaves downwards. I summon my knives just in time to block his strike. However, I stumble under the force he puts behind the strike. Even as Krios pushes me back with strike after strike a plan formulates in my head.

"Lit!" I yell when he comes into view. "Shield!"

Thankfully he understands and tosses me his shield. I drop the knife from my left hand and snatch the shield out of the air. I bang the shield on Krios' head and he stumbles back, giving me some breathing room.

The next time Krios sends a downward strike, I deflect it with the shield and Krios stumbles forward from the power he used. I stick out my foot as he stumbles past and Krios falls like a ton of bricks. I quickly stab Krios in the back before he can jump back up.

I dust myself off and look around for Jason, Piper and Leo. So much for fighting units, right?

I notice a lightning strike in the distance and make my way over.

I draw my bow and run over to Leo just in time to shoot a cyclops he had been fighting.

"Hey," I say, dropping my bow and standing back to back with my knives in hand.

"Where'd you go before?" I ask, disposing of a hellhound.

"We saw a drakon, it's gone now," Leo grins, stabbing a cyclops in the chest.

"Thanks for the help with Krios afterwards."

"No problem."

I block Leo as he starts towards a lunging hellhound and pull him down, letting it sail over our heads and into an empousa. I stand up and continue fighting.

"The monsters have stopped reforming," Leo notes, blocking an arrow coming towards me.

I pull Leo out of the way of a dracaena's trident and he quickly beheads her.

"It must have something to do with what Percy, Annabeth, Frank and Hazel are doing in Rome," I reply.

"Yeah," Leo says. "When do you think- Hi Annabeth!"

I spin around to see an Iris Message from Annabeth and Percy in front of Leo.

I wave at her before throwing my knife at a charging cyclops. I stab a empousa that's in the way when I run to get my knife.

I brush my hair out of my face and turn to Annabeth and Percy, "What's wrong?"

"An army is about to attack Camp Jupiter. We finished our quest and I assume you finished-" Annabeth starts.

"Behind you," Percy cuts in.

I stab a dracaena in the throat quickly.

"Piper! Jason!" I yell to the duo fighting to my left. "Can you cover us?!"

They make their way over to us and say a quick hello to Annabeth and Percy.

"Why does Piper have two gold dragons?" Percy says in bewilderment.

"We finished our quest," I say, answering Annabeth's earlier question.

"Good," Annabeth nods. "The army is about f-"

"Why are there monsters inside camp?" Percy interrupts.

"Because we let them in," I answer quickly.

"The army is five minutes off," Annabeth continues. "Did another-"

"What do you mean you let them in?" Percy breaks in, once again.

"I mean, we let the army into the camp and we are watching them as they burn it to the ground," I say seriously.

"But don't worry," Leo pipes in. "We brought marshmallows!"

I roll my eyes and shove Leo towards a hellhound.

"Just shut up and don't doubt my methods," I say to Percy, annoyed.

"It's not your methods that I'm doubting. It's your sanity," Percy grumbles.

"Percy, either shut up, or go help the camp," Annabeth orders.

Percy grumbles but shuts his mouth and Annabeth sighs. "The army is five minutes off and from what we can see, they have at least two thousand monsters. They are lead by Perses and Lelantos, Titan of-"

"Titan of the air and the art of stalking prey, and Titan of destruction," I cut in, grinning at Annabeth.

"Titan of stalkers?" Percy buts in. "Why in Hades do we have a Titan of stalkers?"

Annabeth shoots Percy a glare and he shuts up.

"We've got our own army back here," I say. "They were lead by Krios. But he got annoying, so I put a knife through his back. There are only a couple hundred monsters left. Artemis promised she'd get us to Camp Jupiter, so expect reinforcements."

I swipe my hand through the Iris Message.

"Alright," I say to Leo, Piper and Jason. "There's an army marching on Camp Jupiter in five minutes, so we've got to kill the rest of the monsters quickly."

Percy

The battle isn't going well. I can tell you that much. Annabeth and I are fighting the Titan of stalkers together while Hazel and Frank take on Perses. While we're doing that, Reyna is doing what she can to rally the Romans and fight the tougher monsters all by herself. Octavian is nowhere to be found and we have an legion of a hundred Romans fighting an army of two thousand monsters. I'm not even going to try and work out how many monsters that is each.

Annabeth is invisible and sneaking up on Lelantos while I distract him. I swing my blade towards his head and Lelantos ducks, backhanding me and sending me flying into a wall. I groan, cursing the gods for taking away my invulnerability.

Suddenly Lelantos spins, sweeping out his leg. I hear Annabeth cry out as she crumples to the ground, her Yankees cap falling off.

Stupid! I think to myself. Stupid! Lelantos is the Titan of the 'art of stalking prey,' according to Annabeth, (to me it just sounds like another way to say that Lelantos is a stalker), of course he'd feel someone sneaking up on him!

Lelantos raises his sword in the air to finish Annabeth off and I yell out, bolting to my feet and running towards her. I know I won't make it in time though.

To my left, I glance over to see a dazed Hazel off her horse and Arion pacing in front of her, protecting her. Frank flies around the head of Perses in the form of a gryphon, trying desperately to distract him. That's ruined when Perses knocks Frank out of the air and advances towards Hazel.

In that second, just before everything goes wrong, something amazing happens. In my direct line of vision, a giant portal appears, and an army comes charging out of it. Not just any army. Camp Half-Blood.

A red arrow comes flying towards Lelantos and hits him in the shoulder, sending him flying back with a small explosion, and straight past me. I look at the figure emerging from the portal in shock.

Calypso grins at me and teleports to my side without stumbling. "The Hephaestus and Hecate campers helped me change my bow so I have more variety with arrows."

Behind us Lelantos groans and we turn to face him. Calypso notches a green arrow without a tip and shoots it at Lelantos, hitting him in the middle of his chest.

For a second, the arrow does nothing and Lelantos looks down and laughs. Then suddenly it expands, enveloping the Titan in bronze netting.

Calypso advances towards Lelantos, twirling her knife.

"It matters not," Lelantos growls. "Gaia will merely bring me back. The Doors of Death are open and-"

The poor Titan of stalkers doesn't get to finish his sentence. Calypso drives her knife into Lelantos' head and he dissolves into gold dust. The net disappears.

I grin at Calypso. "Nice of you to show up."

"I had to save you from being killed, didn't I?"

"Nah, I was just saving him for you."

"Interesting method. Do you normally let Annabeth die?"

"Shoot," I mutter. I'd completely forgotten about Annabeth.

"I'm fine, Percy. Thanks for checking," Annabeth appears at my side.

"I'll help Hazel and Frank," Calypso offers. "Go kill some monsters."

I glance over to Perses to see Piper and Jason defending Hazel while she gets back on Arion.

"Have fun," I say doubtfully.

I grab Annabeth's arm and drag her towards a drakon.

"Help me," I say.

Annabeth suppresses a smile. "You take point and I'll flank him?"

"You read my mind," I say.

Then I charge the drakon.

Calypso

I don't know why I didn't anticipate Perses being tougher than Koios.

Perses is the Titan of destruction. Lelantos is the Titan of the air and stalking prey. Lelantos' strong point is in running away, that's why I tied him up with a Hydra arrow. But Perses' strong point is destruction. That means straight up fighting.

I've already tried my previous strategy of shooting a Hydra arrow at Perses but he just snatched the arrow out of the air.

I should explain the arrows. Apollo cabin gave me a Hydra arrow as a thank you gift and Hephaestus and Hecate cabins helped with the altering of the bow so I could use Hydra arrows with my normal bow, because appears normally just appear when I pull back the string. The Hydra arrows can either be used to create a net to climb up or to entangle an enemy. If the net doesn't go around something, the net just continues outwards to a certain extent. But Hydra arrows are rare, so I can only use five before they stop reappearing. I've now used two. Same thing with explosive arrows. On impact they create an explosion, how big decides on how big I will the explosion to be. But I only get five shots and I've already used one.

By now the monsters are all nearly gone and a lot of people are being lead off the battlefield to be healed. Frank bounds towards Perses in the form of a cheetah. Very good for a distraction.

Perses slashes at Frank but Frank is no longer there. Frank rushes towards Perses' legs and attempts to knock Perses off his feet. Perses stands strong, only slightly stumbling and Frank reappears in front of Perses, hissing angrily.

I watch, waiting for an opening.

Hazel and Arion come up behind Perses quickly and Perses only just has time to register the hoofbeats and duck below Hazel's spear.

Perses turns to Hazel just to be knocked over by Frank in the form of a bear. Perses in back on his feet in an instant and drives his sword through Frank's back. Frank roars and changes back to human, falling to the ground.

Perses raises his sword again just to be kicked by Arion. I take my chance and teleport over to Frank, dragging him away.

"Sorry, sorry," I mutter every time Frank cries out.

I kneel beside Frank and my hands hover over his back. I focus my healing energy into him and the bleeding quickens. The wound slowly starts to knit itself back together. When it just finishes closing up, I hear a shout.

"Calypso!" Percy yells in warning.

I spin around and move to the side to avoid a sword to the stomach. The sword misses my stomach but goes straight through my left side, piercing me through to the hilt of his sword. I let out a strangled scream.

Perses withdraws his sword and bandhands me, sending me flying back.

I gasp when I hit the ground and my vision goes fuzzy. A few seconds later Percy appears at my side, crouching over me, his brow furrowed in worry.

"No, no, no," Percy mutters desperately. "Not again. This can't happen again."

Again? I manage to think through the haze of pain. What does he mean by again?

Percy disappears from my side and I gasp in pain again. Where did he go?

Somewhere I can hear the clashing of metal and Leo's voice. He is yelling...on my behalf?

Percy reappears above me and I squint at him.

Percy pours something on my wound and I scream through gritted teeth as the pain intensifies before settling down.

Nectar.

Percy presses some ambrosia against my lips and I quickly swallow it down.

You'd want to know, the ambrosia tastes like the tacos Leo made for us on the quest. It's kind of embarrassing but my meals on Ogygia were kind of limited. They were normally made up of rabbit or deer.

I sit up slowly to see Leo stab Perses viciously in the throat. Perses dissolves in gold dust and Leo runs over to me, quickly kneeling by my side.

"I'm fine Leo," I say, weakly smiling.

"Thank the gods," Leo mutters, giving me a careful hug.

I glance around to see Annabeth finishing of the last monster. The rest of the Eight run over to me.

"Are you okay?" Frank asks.

I nod and examine my open wound.

"Someone go get some bandages," I order shakily.

Hazel runs to the infirmary and comes back a few minutes later. She and Annabeth wrap up my side carefully, and against many protests I stand weakly, heavily leaning on Leo.

A girl comes up and pulls Percy aside. Percy nods and comes back to us.

"They want us all for a meeting. The Senate want to discus our quest," Percy says.

-SAW