Yay! I'm back! Okay, so this story is winding down, but you may or may not (only if you like my writings) be happy to know that I have a new idea for a story! It's going to be a crossover between Percy Jackson and the Olympians and the Harry Potter series. So subscribe to me and you will be able to read it. It's not like all of the others, where Percy and co. go to Hogwarts to help with Voldemort, I promise! It's DIFFERENT! All I can give you is the title: Brothers. Pretty self-explanatory huh? Okay, chapter time...

ZAK POV:

Crack!

I awoke with a start, sitting straight up and wide awake. A stick had snapped outside my tent, the tell-tale sign of an attack. I grabbed my sword and used it to push open the flap. In the cold night air I saw Ice, well, now Percy, standing outside with a broken stick in hand, he was smirking.

I glared at my friend and rubbed the sleep out of my eyes.

"Time?" I said sleepily. I didn't have a clock in my tent.

"11:01." He replied quietly. Oh, so he had gotten me up to prepare.

"Help me wake the camp up. Tell them to be quiet." He said. I nodded and started going around to other tents, quickly shaking people out of their slumber. One kid said, "Five more minutes Mom..." I slapped him and he screamed.

"Shhhh! Ice said to be quiet!" That shut him up. He flushed and got up immediately. I rolled my eyes and went to the next tent, Keera's.

I walked in and saw her lying peacefully on the ground, tightly wrapped in about a million blankets. She hated the cold. She said it made her feel like she was dead.

I bent down and touched her cheek. She smiled in her sleep. I pushed her hair behind her ear and she woke up, almost instantly finding my eyes. We laid there for minutes just staring into each other's eyes.

"You gotta get up baby. We have to go win a war." I said softly. She nodded, her eyelids drooping. I smiled and shook my head, but silently picked her up and carried her out.

"I'm scared." She mumbled, her face hidden in my shirt. I paused. It was unlike Keera to shrink away from a challenge, but I understood.

"We all are. But it'll be okay." I felt something wet hit my head. I looked up and it started raining. The dirt around me turned to mud, and Keera wriggled out of my grasp. She landed on the ground, her feet making a squelch sound. Her hair was plastered to her head, and her clothes were sopping, but she didn't care. She started stomping around in the mud like a five year old. I laughed.

"You're gonna get worms you know." I said smiling. She stuck her tongue out at me and continued to play in the mud. I couldn't help it, I did it too. Now, being a Warrior of Chaos I thought I had seen it all. But I was nowhere NEAR prepared for what I saw next.

Percy came sliding by in the mud on his butt, laughing like a madman. Right now, he looked like a typical teenage guy. I realized how hard it had been for him as a kid. While he still may look like one, he is probably wiser than Athena herself.

I stared wide eyed at him, but soon after Thalia came sliding close behind him. Keera chuckled as she watched them sit in the mud and rain and just hug. The whole camp was awake by now, and all milling about outside trying to prepare. I saw Annabeth walk by and, in the rain; I couldn't be sure whether or not she was crying. But she definitely looked upset as she watched the two. Then Dillon came up behind her, grasping her hand. Her face considerably brightened and they continued walking.

Then we heard it.

Well, I guess heard wouldn't be the right word, as there was no noise whatsoever. Everyone seemed to realize that at the same time, all immediately going silent. We listed, brandishing our sword and preparing for attack. We looked at the woods all around us, and saw nothing but darkness. I checked the time from someone close by me, they said it was 11: 59. I gasped, just then Percy yelled.

"They're here!"

Monsters came pouring out of the woods around us, so many I figured they would cover us in moments. There were twelve flashes of light and the gods were here, waiting for the giants to come. We started fighting the monsters.

PERCY POV:

We had been fighting for a good hour when a looked around me and realized none of the Warriors or campers had been hurt yet, and the army of monsters was only a few hundred strong now.

It is my blessing, but only for the time being. I cannot help you with the giants. Chaos's voice rang in my head. I sent a silent thank-you prayer to him and continued hacking and slicing, tearing through any and all monsters in my path of destruction. I looked to Thalia and saw she was dancing around, zapping monsters with lightning and doing the dance to 'Thriller'. I shook my head. I honestly don't know why I worry about that girl.

I finished off the last bit of monsters and checked my watch. Three hours. And the giants still haven't shown. Right about then the ground started rumbling and a massive chasm opened up, threatening to engulf a few campers. Out came the giants. I grabbed my trusty bullhorn and yelled out into the silent stare-off.

"Let's kick some arse!" they all screamed that saying and ran into battle, furiously hacking away at the giants ankles. The gods rose to their full height, and were almost as tall as the giants themselves.

I ran up to the biggest one. He was icy blue and just as cold, Alcyoneus. Good thing I can't get cold, I guess. I went behind him and raised myself up on a bed of water. As I floated right above him I let the water drop. It hit him on the head and he looked up just as I dropped onto his face, my sword Riptide digging into his eye. Just then Zeus was right next to me. He made a lightning bolt hit my sword, still lodged in the giant's head. Alcyoneus screamed and fell to the ground. Zeus zapped off, but I was not so lucky. I plummeted to the ground, and I knew that the battle was over for me. I may have the curse of Achilles, but I could still faint. As I hit the ground the world went black.

...

I opened my eyes and surveyed my surroundings. I was lying in soft bed and there were six people around me. Thalia, Annabeth, Grover, Dillon, Zak, and Keera. The smiled in relief when they saw my eyes open.

"Kelp Head!" Thalia squealed. She bent down and kissed me. I looked at all of them and sat up.

"The war?" I said meekly. I felt stupid for fainting in the middle of it.

"Over. We won!" Annabeth said. I noticed she was holding hands with Dillon and smiled.

"Good. Sorry for passing out on you guys." They rolled her eyes and I swore I saw Thalia's hand twitch like she wanted to slap me.

"Are you kidding me? Man, you basically tore through all the monsters, AND you defeated the biggest threat out of the giants for us. I think your good dude." Grover said.

I thought about that.

"Well, get some rest. You look like you could use it." Keera said. I nodded and they left.

...

I walked outside of the infirmary tent, the wind blowing in my hair. I looked around me. Everywhere there was dust, at least an inch of it. And there was a big chasm in the ground, but other than that, there was no sign there had been a war. It was a beautiful spring day.

I didn't know what I was going to do after this. Maybe I would just go back to my duties as an assassin. Maybe I would go back to camp to be with Thalia. I don't know, maybe both. I don't have to think about it now.

And I didn't think about it the rest of that cheery morning. All I thought about was the wind in my hair, the salt spray on my face, and the radiant raven haired girl at my side as we sailed back home on the Argo II.

Fin.

Sooo? Are you mad this is the last chapter?