Welcome to the Sea of Monsters

Chapter 18

Here it is, the last chapter of Part 2. Enjoy.

Things were back to normal for them at camp. With four cabins not doing chores, others had to pick up the slack, but they still had to help guard the tree. Naruto and Clarisse spent a lot of their time making out, but of course when Silena walked in on them, she gave a half smile before leaving the room.

Clarisse, being the girl's friend, figured that she must be a little jealous and that got her thinking, but she would have to Naruto and Thalia about later. Still, if she was going to share with tree girl, why not with her best friend. Of course, Naruto was oblivious to all of this.

Then Grover announced that he'd be able to spend the rest of the summer with us before resuming his quest for Pan. His bosses at the Council of Cloven Elders were so impressed that he hadn't gotten himself killed and had cleared the way for future searchers, that they granted him a two-month fur-lough and a new set of reed pipes. The only bad news: Grover insisted on playing those pipes all afternoon long, and his musical skills hadn't improved much. He played "YMCA," and the strawberry plants started going crazy, wrapping around his friends' feet like they were trying to strangle them. Naruto chuckled while hanging upside down thinking that he couldn't blame them.

However, Clarisse didn't like being hung upside down…so she threatened to kill Grover when it was over. Yeah…that would make anyone do it longer to prolong death. So, the blood rushed to her head and she didn't feel like pounding him.

Later, he told his friends more about the Empathy link. "Hey, I can dissolve the link now that we are face to face."

"Nah, I am good." Naruto replied.

"Same here, I think I'll keep it." Percy said with a smile.

"But, if I get in trouble again, you'll be in danger, you two! You could die!" Grover freaked.

"If you get in trouble again, we want to know about it. And I'll come help you again, G-man. I wouldn't have it any other way."

"Yeah, just because you're not here, doesn't mean we don't care. Keep the link up." Naruto said with a smirk.

In the end he agreed not to break the link. He went back to playing "YMCA" for the strawberry plants. They didn't need an empathy link with the plants to know how they felt about it.

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"Hey Percy, can I use your fountain? I think it is time I IMed my family down in the underworld." Naruto asked.

Percy shrugged and his friend into the cabin and to the fountain that sprayed out water. "I am sure you know what to do. I have to get to Archery Class."

Naruto nodded and flipped the coin into the mist just as Percy left. "Hades, Underworld." The Mist went dark before it showed a snoozing Hades/Minato on his throne. Naruto smirked darkly at that, his prankster side coming out. He took out a blow horn and pressed the button, creating a loud noise that woke the King of the Dead with a start.

"I AM NOT ASLEEP KUSHINA!" Hades cried out.

"No dad that was me. Apparently mom has already done that to you." Naruto deadpanned, a little annoyed that his mom had already done that to him.

"Yes…and my ears are still ringing!" Hades cried anime tears.

Naruto sweat dropped at that before he said, "Hey, I'd thought I would say hi. I mean, I have not talked to you in a while."

Hades straightened up at and put on a serious look. Sometimes, Naruto wondered if his father was bi-polar or something. "Yes it is good to hear from you and I have a few things I would like to ask you. I think it would be good for you to come down here for the summer to train. Your Mothers wish to see you."

"Mothers?" Naruto asked, a little confused.

Hades smiled. "Kushina and Persephone. Ugh, those two get along too well, but it makes them happy, so I am not complaining…heh. They wish to see you."

Naruto smiled, "I think'll like that. Seems I got four moms, Kushina, Persephone, Aphrodite, and Nyx."

Hades just smiled. "Just means you have a big family. Now, when you are done with that motorcycle, come down here and we will begin your training, I have a feeling that things will be changing soon."

"About that, you and Uncle Poseidon sent letters to me and Percy, what is up?"

Hades had on another serious look. "You will know when it appears shortly. Although, your search will be over by then." That just confused the blond even more, but he shrugged it off. Suddently there was a scream on Hades's end and the mist panned ove rot a scared out of his mind Tantalus running to Hades. "HELP ME! SHE IS FUCKING NUTS!"

Hades put on an annoyed look. Tantalus then saw Naruto and cried out. "YOU! PLEASE HELP ME! I'll take you pranks on me any day then take that crazy red's toture!"

Naruto's eye twitched. "That red is my mother." At that Tantalus paled considerably.

"Fuck…" He whined.

"THERE YOU ARE CHILD EATER!" An angry yet female voice raged and then stomped on the man's face. She then looked towards the mist and her eyes softened with tears. "My baby."

"Hey mom, I see you are putting him in his place." Naruto said with a smile with tears in his eyes.

"Did he ask you to come home for a while?" Kushina asked softly.

"Yeah, I am going to get my bike built and get down there this summer."

"Oh good! Persephone will be happy that will be another down here to keep her company. I will await your arrivel my son, now I have to talk to the Furies about Mr. Child Eater's new punishments. I think Being overweight and rock filled pies are not enough." She turned an evil smirk to Tantalus who looked scared out of his mind. "Now let me remind you of the pecking order you shit. It you, the dirt, the worms inside the dirt, my stool, Hades, and then ME!" She dragged a crying and screaming Tanalus by a leg and laughing like a madwoman.

There was nothing but silence for a little while before Hades spoke. "She scares me sometimes."

"Well…she seems to like your job." Naruto said with a giant sweat drop.

"I suppose someone has to." Hades sighed before he smiled at Naruto. "I eagerly await your return."

"Thanks dad." Naruto said before he cut off the message.

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Naruto sighed as he, Annabeth, and Grover were taken aside by Tyson. "Whatcha need big guy?"

"Don't tell this to Percy, I will myself." Tyson started. "Father offered me an internship to work down in the Cyclops Forges under the sea."

"I take it that you accepted." Naruto replied.

"Yes."

Naruto rubbed the back of his head and said, "Well, if this is what you want, then do it. Kind of sad that a member of our group is leaving, but I'll be gone this summer as well."

"What?" Annabeth asked a bit, shocked. "Where are you going?"

"Back to the Underworld. Dad invited me for some training." Naruto replied.

"Well, good luck with that." Grover said with a freaked out expression. He and Annabeth didn't like that place one bit.

"I am guessing that Tyson already told you." Chiron said as he walked up to them. "Though I have to say that I am a bit surprised that you Naruto are going to be training in the Underworld."

"Yeah, I thought it would be good bonding time. And this why I can help mom torture Tantalus." Naruto said a little too happily, making the other edge away from him a bit.

"Eh…come on, we got to get sea weed braing for dinner." Annabeth decided to say as they walked off.

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A storm raged that night, but it parted around Camp Half-Blood as storms usually did. Lightning flashed against the horizon, waves pounded the shore, but not a drop fell in our valley. They were protected again, thanks to the Fleece, sealed inside their magical borders.

Still, Percy's dreams were restless. he heard Kronos taunting him and Naruto from the depths of Tartarus: Polyphemus sits blindly in his cave, young heroes, believing he has won a great victory. Are you any less deluded? The titan's cold laughter filled the darkness. Percy knew Naruto had these dreams as well, but he was better and hiding them as they didn't affect him that much.

Then his dream changed. Percy was following Tyson to the bottom of the sea, into the court of Poseidon. It was a radiant hall filled with blue light, the floor cobbled with pearls. And there, on a throne of coral, sat his father, dressed like a simple fisherman in khaki shorts and a sunbleached T-shirt. He looked up into the man's tan weathered face, his deep green eyes, and he spoke two words: Brace yourself.

Percy woke with a start.

There was a banging on the door. Grover flew inside without waiting for permission. "Percy!" he stammered. "Annabeth ... on the hill ... she ..."

The look in his eyes told me something was terribly wrong. Annabeth had been on guard duty that night, protecting the Fleece. If something had happened—

Percy ripped off the covers, his blood like ice water in his veins. He threw on some clothes while

Grover tried to make a complete sentence, but he was too stunned, too out of breath. "She'slying there ... just lying there ...Naruto won't believe it."

Percy ran outside and raced across the central yard, Grover right behind him and then Naruto jumped down next to them, falling in step. He had an odd look on his face as the blond observed Grover's frantic face. Something was up. Dawn was just breaking, but the whole camp seemed to be stirring. Word was spreading. Something huge had happened. A few campers were already making their way toward the hill, satyrs and nymphs and heroes in a weird mix of armor and pajamas.

Percy heard the clop of horse hooves, and Chiron galloped up behind them, looking grim.

"Is it true?" he asked Grover.

Grover could only nod, his expression dazed.

Naruto looked to Percy and they both shrugged. They weren't told much, so they didn't have a lot to go on. Percy tried to ask what was going on, but Chiron grabbed the two boys by the arms and effortlessly lifted them onto his back. Together they thundered up Half-Blood Hill, where a small crowd had started to gather.

Percy expected to see the Fleece missing from the pine tree, but it was still there, glittering in the first light of dawn. The storm had broken and the sky was bloodred. Naruto just quirked an eyebrow. Nothing was making sense.

"Curse the titan lord," Chiron said. "He's tricked us again, given himself another chance to control the prophecy." That got the blond's attention. Were his siblings here? No, there would be more of a commotion and Grover won't be this shook up.

"What do you mean?" Percy asked.

"The Fleece," Chiron said. "The Fleece did its work too well."

Naruto narrowed his eyes at that as he remember what his father had told him before his eyes widen. "No freaking way." He said as he got off of Chiron and sprinted ahead of them, much to Percy's confusion.

They speed to the tree, everyone moving out of the way. There at the base of the tree, a girl was lying unconscious. Another girl in Greek armor was kneeling next to her.

"It healed the tree," Chiron said, his voice ragged. "And poison was not the only thing it purged."

Percy looked on, thinking that it was Annabeth that had been hurt, but Naruto put a hand on the boy's shoulder. Percy looked at him to see the blond's eyes were soft with caring and disbelief. That confused the water boy more, so he looked back to the girl sand say that she was not Annabeth, the girl in greek armor was Annabeth, so who was the girl and why was Naruto acting like this?

When Annabeth saw them, she ran to Chiron. "It... she ... just suddenly there ..."

Her eyes were streaming with tears, but Percy still didn't understand. He was too freaked out to make sense of it all. Everyone was acting so emotional! Percy leaped off Chiron's back and ran toward the unconscious girl. Chiron said: "Boys, wait!" But Naruto ran alongside the water boy, not heading Chiron's warning.

They looked at the girl to see she had short black hair and freckles across her nose. She was built like a long-distance runner, lithe and strong, and she wore clothes that were somewhere between punk and Goth—a black T-shirt, black tattered jeans, and a leather jacket with buttons from a bunch of bands they had never heard of.

Naruto just smiled gently when Clarisse came to see what was up and she gasped and Naruto nodded.

"It's true," Grover said, panting from his run up the hill. "I can't believe ..."

While Percy was yelling at the other campers to get so Half-blood medicine, Naruto watched as the girl's eye opened. Her irises were startlingly blue—electric blue.

"Hi, I am Percy." Percy said, noticing that she was awake as well. "Who are you?"

"I am Thalia, Daughter of Zeus." She said, making the poor boy widen his eyes in shock as he fell on his ass.

Naruto smiled brightly and head out a hand for her to grab so she could get up. "Welcome back to the land of the living…Thalia."

"It is good to be back…Naruto." The girl blushed a bit at the real skin contact before she flung herself at the blond in a hug before she planted a kiss on his lips. Most campers that knew of Naruto and Clarisse's relationship, eyed the girl nervously, but to their shock, they saw that she was smirking! The war girl walked up to them and helped the girl to the infirmary, while everyone starting complete shock. Today had be the most surprising yet for them.

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A few days later, Thalia was standing by her old tree. It was odd for her to actually see her old prison. Chiron, Grover, and Annabeth had all been overjoyed to see her again and stuck with her when she was not with Naruto. Also, there was Percy. He was just like Naruto had described, still she thought he was a good guy. Still the reality of Luke going evil had been hard for her, but again, Naruto helped her through that.

Speaking of the blond, she smirked at the thought of him. She was one of his girlfriends and to be honest, she didn't mind. It was basically her idea for a little harem, no matter what Clarisse said. So it was her, Clarisse, and thanks to her, Silena. Hell, Naruto had been oblivious her feelings as well! Still, it was weird to be in a harem, but she would get used to it.

Currently, she was waiting for whatever Naruto wanted. He had told her to meet her at this spot. Suddenly, there a shadow above her, so she looked up and saw that Naruto was there on what looked to be on a flying carpet made of darkness. "Wow, that is a bit weird, but cool at the same time. So what is it that you wanted?"

Naruto smiled gently said, "I wanted to take you on a ride on my new jutsu."

Thalia looked a little nervous. "I am…afraid of heights."

"Come on, do you trust me?" He asked as he held out a hand.

"What?" Thalia asked, getting a feeling that this was familiar.

"Do you trust me?" Naruto repeated.

Thalia smiled. "Yes." She said as she took his hand and they took off with Thalia holding on to him tightly because of her fear, but soon she smiled and just held onto him and like she expected….mostly thanks to Grover telling her, he began to sing.

"I can show you the world, shinning, shimmering, splendid. Tell me princess, now when did you last let you heart decided." He sang as they flew across the farmlands and then into the nightlife of New York City. "I can open your eyes, take you wonder by wonder. Over, sideways and under, on a magic carpet ride."

They then flew up high into the sky, into the clouds, passing the moon. "A whole new world, a new fantastic point of view. No one to tell us no or where to go or say we're only dreaming."

Thalia got into it and started singing as well and Naruto smiled, thinking she had a wonderful voice. "A whole new world, a dazzling place I never knew. But when I'm way up here, it's crystal clear, that now I'm in a whole new world with you.

"Now I'm in a whole new world with you." Naruto sang along as he dissolved the carpet and threw her up in the air. The darkness reformed into his wings and he flew up just in time as a lightning bolt struck the spot he was in. He then caught her bridal style with ease before the darkness went back to the carpet. Thalia looked a little frizzled but she had a wild look in her eyes that said that she was enjoying this.

"Unbelievable sights, indescribable feeling." Thalia sang with a big smile. "Soaring, tumbling, freewheeling, through an endless diamond sky. A whole new world!" The carpet spun around them and caught them before diving back down to the city below.

"Don't you dare close your eyes." Naruto sang gently as Thalia got a little scared by that.

"A hundred thousand things to see!" she sang as they flew along a river that went through a park that was teeming with life.

"Hold your breath - it gets better." Naruto sang.

"I'm like a shooting star, I've come so far. I can't go back to where I used to be." Thalia sang in a care free manner as they waved at a fisherman in the nearby port. The man had a dropped his jaw at the scene as he was one of the few people that could see through the mist and he paid for his inattention because a big fish caught his line and he went in the water.

They then went back into the countryside as stallions ran in the countryside and they both started to sing. "A whole new world, every turn a surprise. With new horizons to pursue, every moment red-letter. I'll chase them anywhere, there's time to spare. Let me share this whole new world with you."

They made their way back into camp and floated above the lake. Thalia leaned against his shoulder and they both sang the last part. "A whole new world, that's where we'll be. A thrilling chase, a wondrous place. For you and me." They floated along the water in peace with a few water nymphs sighing at the touching scene.

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A few days later, a Grover was passing by Thalia's old tree, he saw a sight that was unique in its own right. Naruto was leaning against the tree with his back to it with Thalia in his lap. Clarisse and Silena were leaning on his sides. They were all asleep and had smiles on their faces.

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Alright, tell me what you all think of this last chapter for part 2. I have a song for Zoe, but I need one for Silena. I have a poll for my next story because like last time, I am taking a break on this series. It is on my profile.

Review please.