Bloodthirsty Titans were one thing, but what about bloodthirsty giants?
Thea had gotten away with her life the first time, but with the giants? She wasn't quite sure if she'd make it out alive this time.
Piper McLean x female OC)
Rated mature becau...
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(Thea, the name, means Goddess/god's gift)
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Piper had a new entry in her top-ten list of Times Piper Felt Useless.
Fighting Shrimpzilla with a dagger and a pretty voice? Not so effective. Then the monster had sunk into the deep and disappeared along with three of her friends, and she'd been powerless to help them.
Thank the gods Percy found Thea before so, but even the thought of her safe girlfriend wasn't enough to quell the anxiety.
Everyone rushed around repairing things so that the ship wouldn't sink. Percy, despite being exhausted, searched the ocean for their missing friends. Jason, also exhausted, flew around the rigging like a blond Peter Pan, putting out fires from the second green explosion that had lit up the sky just above the mainmast.
Then, Thea tried to help, but was put on rest duty after nearly setting herself on fire when trying to help, but at least she had tried.
With her girlfriend curled up like a cat in her lap, all Piper could do was stare at her knife Katoptris, trying to locate Leo, Hazel, and Frank.
The only images that came to her were ones she didn't want to see: three black SUVs driving north from Charleston, packed with Roman demigods, Reyna sitting at the wheel of the lead car. Giant eagles escorted them from above. Every so often, glowing purple spirits in ghostly chariots appeared out of the countryside and fell in behind them, thundering up I-95 toward New York and Camp Half-Blood.
Piper concentrated harder. She saw the nightmarish images she had seen before: the human-headed bull rising from the water, then the dark well-shaped room filling with black water as Thea, Jason, Percy, and she struggled to stay afloat - followed by a dark cave, a redhead she couldn't recognize and Thea wandering around a dark cavern. All alone.
Piper sheathed Katoptris, wondering how Helen of Troy had stayed sane during the Trojan War, if this blade had been her only source of news. Then she remembered that everyone around Helen had been slaughtered by the invading Greek army. Maybe she hadn't stayed sane.
By the time the sun rose, only Thea had slept (for everyone's safety, she had to get some shut-eye). Percy had scoured the seafloor and found nothing. The Argo II was no longer in danger of sinking, though without Leo, they couldn't do full repairs. The ship was capable of sailing, but no one suggested leaving the area—not without their missing friends.
Piper and Annabeth sent a dream vision to Camp Half-Blood, warning Chiron of what had happened with the Romans at Fort Sumter. Annabeth explained her exchange of words with Reyna. Piper relayed the vision from her knife about the SUVs racing north.
The kindly centaur's face seemed to age thirty years during the course of their conversation, but he assured them he would see to the defenses of the camp.
