Hour and a half until Frank dies. I led Bianca out of the underworld and got to Cerberus who was still wrestling with Dog. Bianca looked at my undead saber cat in shock. "What is that?"

"Dog!" I yelled at my pet, "Go back home." He turned too looked at me from where he was playing and whimpered but still sunk into the ground. "He is my zombie saber cat. Don't tell anyone, it's a secret." She nodded with a raised eyebrow but carried on her way out of the underworld. We walked along the side of the river until there was only water so I stuck to fingers in my mouth and let out a sharp taxi-cab whistle. We waited for a while and still no one showed up so I tossed a drachma high in the air and when it fell back down, Charon was under it, in his boat, there to catch it. "Take us to the DAO office building."

"Excuse me, I didn't hear any please in that sentence. You know what, it's cool. I'll just charge you extra when you get off." He smiled voraciously and Bianca rolled her eyes.

"Just take us to the ground old man."

He looked offended and turned to face her. "Young lady do you… Oh, I'm sorry my lady. I didn't realize it was you. Hop on." He pointed at the boat and muttered, "I don't get paid enough for this."

We rode to the shore and said goodbye to Charon as he took another group of dead people to where they belong. "Well I guess now that that's over we return…" I was cut off as someone appeared in front of me. "I see you have taken my daughter from her resting place, where she was living in peace." The man had a frown on his face and grabbed Bianca's arm. It was Hades.

"Oh yeah, about that," I rubbed my neck nervously," You see sir I had this experiment- Screw it, I took your daughter. Whatever man." I shrugged my shoulders lazily.

His eyebrows furrowed and he looked like he was about to blast me with his awesome darkness powers when he started laughing. "You remind me of someone very close to me. How old are you?"

"Um, sixteen. Why? I promise I won't harm your daughter, bro." He narrowed his eyes.

"Sixteen," he said under his breath, "Well, I'll be watching you." He said louder with a nasty grin on his pale face. Then he disappeared.

"That was weird. Wonder why he let us go?"

"Probably wanted you out of the hellhole." I told Bianca and she crossed her arms.

"Let's keep moving, it's freezing."

"Are you kidding me? We're in California."

She raised the only finger that madders at me and we crushed the jewels in our hand. We arrived near the camp site with about twenty minutes left and about five or six miles to go.

"What time is it?" I asked Bianca and she looked at me like I was stupid. "How should I now. I don't even know what year it is."

I bit my lip, filled with worry. "We only have a few minutes until my friend Frank dies."

She looked at me scared and started running in the direction I pointed at and I quickly followed after.

~line break one mile left~

I couldn't run any longer and neither could Bianca. We collapsed on the ground and I tried sprouting my wings again. No dice. For some reason, at this horrible timing my wings wouldn't work (A/N: don't really feel like explaining so I guess he fell or something and they broke), and I couldn't call Dog. We jogged, ran, or sprinted the rest of the way there and by the time we got to the place I was drenched in sweat and I could see them in the back arena. Then I saw something that made me sick. There was a gagged Frank and a guillotine about to chop off his head.

I took a large step. Then another and pretty soon I was sprinting the faster than I have ever ran in my entire life, trying to get to Frank before he could be executed. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Hazel, getting held back by two guards. Keeping my focus on Frank, I sprinted forward, jumped and after that everything seemed to happen in slow motion. I dove towards Frank right as the blade came crashing down on Franks head. I grabbed Frank's trapezius muscle and tried pulling him back, but he leaned forward and the guillotine smashed down on my index finger, middle finger, and Frank's neck. His head rolled of his neck and into a basket that was waiting there for him. Blood squirted out of both my fingers and his neck but I was too far into shock to register the pain. I gulped and felt my eyes start to get wet I turned and saw Hazel on her knees with her mouth open and tears streaming down her face. "Why?" I whispered in a terrifyingly quit tone to no one in particular.

"Hey!" one of the amazons looked kind of angry for me asking, like the question was too stupid for her. While I was still on my knees, the amazon walked over to me and spat in my face. "Next time get here on time, stupid kid." She tried to kick me in the side but I grabbed her foot with my screwed up hand, and twisted it to the side quickly and broke her leg. She screamed and fell to the floor while the other amazon raised their weapons and started to advance before I put a knife to their comrade's throat.

"I- said- why!" With every word I stabbed one of the warrior's limbs. She cried out and Hazel stood back with Bianca helping her stand straight. "I was here. You saw me coming from the forest but you still killed one of my best friends. So why?" I put the knife to the girl's throat and the amazons tensed up. "Never mind, you all don't want to answer me." I pressed the knife to her throat and let some blood trickle down the silver blade.

"Wait!" Hylla looked panicky, like she had no good ideas about how to save her sister in arms. "Please let her go. We'll give you anything you want."

Kill the pathetic girl. I will protect you while you escape. Prove to us that you are willing to do what is needed. Don't worry. Your friend is Elysium. My eyes widened at the possibility. No, Perseus. You can't get him back. Hades only let you go because Bianca is his daughter. He almost didn't let you bring her back. I could feel my teeth clench in anger.

"Can you bring back the dead?" I asked Hylla and she stared at me in confusion. She shook her head. "Then I'm afraid that you and your people are no use to me." As I slid the knife across the girl's throat all hell broke loose. The ground erupted as the amazon's tried to kill me and monsters started pouring into the arena, murdering everyone that got in their way. The girl fell to the floor in and a heap of dead creatures or people fell on top of her or next to her. I grabbed Bianca's hand and pulled her out of the battlefield with hazel right on our tail.

"What the hell was that?!" Bianca screamed and once we were a safe distance away, Hazel stopped.

"Frank…he's gone, for good." She squeezed her eyes shut. "Dammit!"

"Hey, Hazel," I looked at her with anger blaring in my eyes, but I still smiled at her. "Don't worry, we will get our revenge. Not now though. For now we just continue on our mission. Bianca, you can either stay with us and we can go to camp together when we finish our quest, or you can leave us at the next town and go back on your own."

She looked at me with confidence in her eyes. "I'm with you all the way."

~line break edge of Alaska and Alcyoneus' base camp~

I got my fingers checked out in the last town we went to. The people at the hospital really wanted to know how I got my fingers chopped off so we told them there was a cooking accident. This lady nurse was really pissing me off, asking for insurance. I mean who has that. Anyways I told her I would pay her back by cooking a meal for her. She got really scared and ran off to get the doctor so I snuck out.

Here we are now. On top of a glacier, a giant standing in front of us and my dad chained behind the hideous monster. There were a couple Laistrygonian Giants and a whole bunch of storm spirits surrounding the god, just waiting for one of us to go over there so they could rip us to shreds. "Well guys, I'm pretty sure that they can see us so Hazel, try and hold off the giant. I'll fight the storm spirits. Bianca, get my dad. See you on the other side." She nodded and I rushed over to the army of monsters. I took out Devastator and pulled back the string. A pitch black arrow appeared on my fingers so I let go and the arrow impaled itself into a spirit. The rest of them got an angry look in their eyes and turned to me. They charged me and I fired three more times before dropping the bow and pulling out my two swords. I stabbed a Laistrygonian with Bloodbath and its soul disappeared into the handle. I quickly unleashed it back onto the battleground and ordered it to destroy its former allies. Taking my vision away from my new companion, I turned and jumped into the fighting.

I stabbed one of the monsters in the eye and he instantly froze. I drop-kicked the statue and it shattered to pieces. Rolling backwards I let my swords go and grabbed two throwing knives from the shadows. I threw one at the monsters and it passed clean through them. They weren't storm spirits. They were ghosts. I could only kill these kind when touching something that connected to their bodies. Snarling, I lunged at the dead soldiers and punched one in the face and grabbed another's head and putting him in a backwards head lock (his back and my face facing the same way.) and fell backwards. In doing so I slammed his head into the ground and it instantly exploded into dust. I grabbed my swords from the sheath and flipped one around. I spun around splitting a few spirit's stomachs open in the process. A few monsters jumped on me so. I rolled away and backed up towards Thanatos. Hazel was knocked into the sky and almost flew off the edge of the glacier, but managed to grab onto the edge at the last second. Hanging there by a finger Hazel tried to get a grip on the slippery ice as Bianca took over my spot fighting the monsters so. I could help Hazel. I sprinted over there as the giant prepared to stomp on the piece of ice she was hanging off of. Just as he put his foot down, I launched an arrow at his head. It stuck in the back of his ear and in surprise he tumbled off of the glacier. So did Hazel.

"No! I'm not losing another one of you guys." Then I tore off my shirt and jumped off the glacier. Putting my as to my side, I dove towards her. I got closer and closer and could see her flailing arms and legs as she screamed her head off. Reaching my arms out towards her, I grabbed her waist and pulled her close to me. She opened her eyes in surprise, but didn't say anything. With her head buried in my shoulder and her arms wrapped tightly around me I felt a sharp pain in my back as pure black wings extended from my back. I heard thundering in the distance and knew Zeus was going to be pissed at me. I shot up right before we hit the ground I flew up to the top of the building and saw that Bianca was getting overwhelmed by the monsters. Out of the corner of my eye I saw a very angry giant climbing the glacier.

'No point in hiding anymore' I heard the voice in my head say. 'Zeus will already want to kill you, so here.' I felt searing pain come over my whole body. 'My gift to you, champion of the pit.

I grabbed Hazels shoulder for balance. "Come on Percy. We need to help Bianca." I went down on my knees and screamed. Black smoke exited my mouth and enveloped the monsters. "You cannot escape me now, weak beings." I said, but when I heard myself talk I could tell it wasn't my voice. It was much deeper, and darker. "Leave my sight." I swiped my hand and every monster there evaporated into golden dust. I turned to the giant. "Now, to deal with you." Whoever was controlling me summoned my swords and I grew to the giant's height along with my weapons. Snarling at Alcyoneus, I lunged at him and tried to stab him with Frostbite. He held up his spear at the last second and deflected the blow. He shook off the shocking fact that I just grew to a giant's size and jabbed at my middle section. I ripped the spear out of his hands and threw it off the glacier at the same time as Alcyoneus grabbed my two blades and threw them off too. He launched his body at me so I sidestepped and the glacier started cracking. He got up warily and in his moment of hesitation I punched him in the face and he dropped to the floor. He slowly tried to get back up to his feet but I stomped on his face. I summoned my swords again and pinned his shoulders down with them. Then I grabbed his head and pulled as hard as could until I ripped it clean off. Then I passed out.