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arena

Shoot, was the first thought Percy had when he came to.

The last thing he remembered was going to sleep in an alleyway with Jason on guard duty. Leo had cracked a few jokes about "being used to it," Annabeth had laughed and said "same," and they had all conked out for the night. Wait, had Jason gone to bed too? Had they forgotten to set up a guard?

Evidently so, seeing as he was now in a mysterious arena and chained to the wall by his ankles. A quick glance showed that Mr. Guard Duty was in a similar situation, but Annabeth and Leo were nowhere to be found.

Leaning all the way over to his right, Percy shook Jason awake. "Bro. Bro. Bro. Wake up," he said.

Jason grumbled and wiped at his eyes. "What, dude?"

Percy gestured wildly at the room around them. Jason seemed to understand.

"Oh," he drawled. "Sorry."

"It's alright, man," Percy sighed, "we just have to find Annabeth and Leo and get out of here." He stood up, using the concrete wall to support himself. He started to call out for the two missing members of their group, but Jason slapped a hand over his mouth before he could finish the first syllable.

"Percy, don't scream like that! Do you want monsters to kill us?"

It was too late. Entering the arena from behind some boxes were a few cyclopes, two laestrygonian giants, and a hoard of earthborn behind them. The giants had stupid, taunting grins on their faces. The earthborn just looked happy to be there.

-

Even before he got captured by monsters, Jason was having bad week.

First, he got assigned to a stupid quest when he just wanted to spend his summer chilling with his boyfriend, Leo. Luckily, he got to bring said boyfriend on said stupid quest, but they could hardly spend quality time together while fighting for their lives.

Then, he got another concussion. Commonplace at this point, but he was getting tired of waking up to Leo laughing at him for being a brick magnet.

And because of this, he was feeling a little sleepy that night when he got assigned to guard duty. He told everyone the ambrosia had healed him, and it had, but Hypnos had other ideas. So he fell asleep and got everybody captured by monsters. Wonderful!

"Hello, demigods," the lead laestrygonian greeted. "You're probably wondering what you're doing here."

Percy and Jason exchanged a look, as if to say 'Can you believe this guy? So dramatic.'

Getting nothing but silence in response, the giant continued. "Me and my brother have had a disturbing lack of entertainment lately, so when you and your friends came along, we figured you were the best we could get."

"What are we, a game show? As demigods, we're always in Jeopardy." Percy winked to the other boy. "This is a regular Tuesday for us."

Jason had no idea what Percy meant, but he decided to go with it. "Yeah, man. Bring it on."

The laestrygonians laughed. The cyclopes followed suit and the earthborn just kind of stood there. "If you aim to impress us, demigods, save it for later. You're going to need the energy... if you aim to win a fight to the death!" The leader said the last part as if it was some huge deal, like it was a WWE wrestling match. Or the Super Bowl.

"Okay. Let's do this, who're we fighting?" Percy challenged, acting like he was in a fighting game's idle animation.

"You're fighting each other, demigods," the giant snorted.