A large BANG! echoed off the walls, and my eyes fluttered open. Eevee, with a bleeding leg, was banging angrily at an iron door. I lie on my side, and when I reached up to touch my head, I felt a large swollen bump. I must've looked pretty confused, because Eevee trotted over to my side. A single tear fell down her cheek, even though she was way stronger than me... and emotionally stable.

"I've been trying to get out," she explained as I stroked her dirty snout. Only then did I realize how dirty the floors were. I must've been a mess, "the bars are so strong... and they were about to put us in the bucket with that death kid, but..."

"Its alright, E," I said, hugging her, burying my face into her soft fur. I was positive now that my face was covered in dirt, "it's not your fault."

"Oh, it is. It's all my fault. I'm the one who promised them to bring you here," she sobbed, "they threatened to kill me, a-and..."

"Eevee, it's okay," I said, and for some reason it was. I didn't care, because stupid giants are sometimes... stupid. Just like Percys sword/pen, my sword/ring teleported back to me after thirty seconds.

I held up my index finger and, of coarse, my celestal bronze ring was there. Eevee grinned with tears still running down her cheeks.

"Girl, let's get out of here," Eevee chuckled.

I sliced the door open, and tip toed through the hall. I heard the bellowing of laughing giants and continued slowly walking through the halls. We were nearly to an opening when Ephialtes appeared right in front of me.

"Nice try, but Otis likes his dolly, and horsey."

I was dead. Eevee was trying desperately to get out of Otis' firm grip, but it was useless.

So I did what anyone was most likely to do. I pulled my sword, and stabbed Ephialtes in his eye.

"ARGH!" He screamed. I sprinted towards Otis, and kicked him in his soft spot. There was no mercy now.

"GO, EEVEE!" I shouted, parring a sword strike with Ephialtes, as Otis continued to get to his feet.

"But-"

"Tell Percy where to go.. C'MON EEVEE!" I pleaded.

She hesitated, then flew out the window.

I lasted two more minutes, which is very good, if I do say so myself. Then, they went to far, and hit my fatal flaw.

"One more move against us, and the boy dies," Ephialtes threatened, holding the jar Nico was in. He lay with no pomegranate seeds left, and I knew Percy was somewhere close... or would be, soon. I cried out, and dropped my sword. I realized painfully his skinny form and his bruised and swollen everything.

Otis took this chance to pick me up from behind, and Ephialtes smacked me like a fly. I soared through the air in what seemed like slow motion, the prayed to my father, tears in my eyes, help them. All of them.

Then I hit the wall again, and blacked out.

Again.

I woke up in the same room, but all alone with much more light and talking outside. I struggled to stand, then immediately fell to my knees.

"Ah, look, she woke up just in time for the show," said a familiar voice. I squinted out the door, and just like in my dream, Percy and Jason stood horrified in front of the giants. Piper lie with Nico, who looked even worse than I did, and when she looked up to greet my eyes, all the blood rushed from her face. Ephialtes grabbed me around the waist, and I couldn't find the strength to kick him, or scream, or even grab the sword from my finger.

"Emi!" Jason shouted.

"Use the water! It won't work for me, but your higher up!" Percy shouted. Somehow, I knew what he meant.

I felt like smacking myself. How had I not realized that the reason I was even living was because of the water above me, in the pipes. I lifted my hands, and with my last bit of strength, had the pipes explode in both faces of the giants. I rode the flood down to the ground, and collapsed in a heap on the floor. The water wasn't the greatest healer or energized, but I was able to breathe easier. I landed next to Nico, and Piper was able to calm me down.

The rest was a blur of fighting and death and some God I can't remember. Who knows, who cares. Before I knew it, we were going to get Annabeth, and I was already better. I climbed the stairs as a BOOM shook the ground below. What I saw made me begin to think that I was hallucinating from a traumatic brain injury, but it was, matter of fact, Annabeth standing over a giant Chinease finger trap with an even giant-er spider inside.

"SMARTY!" I shouted, grabbing her into a hug. The ground underneath the spider (which apparently is Tartarus) collapsed, and I was so released that she wasn't dead.

"Emi," she sobbed.

Everybody came around us in one big group hug, then we all sort of split up into our own things. I went around with Annabeth, because she's my best friend, but had to leave her alone with Percy. He's was lucky Leo needed help inside, or I would never have left her. I was unlucky enough to have listened to someone's instructions finally, because when I looked over the ship's rail, Percy and Annabeth were gone. A hand hung onto the cliff, and I realized to late that it was Percys.

The hand let go, and Percy was gone.