Children of The Big Three, Book 3: Titans Curse

Chapter Fifteen: A Battle of Blood and Love

It was dusk, the trio had scouted on ahead, and were now sat in a tree, overlooking the sky, and Artemis, who was stuck holding it. The entire demeanor of both Thalia and Zoë had changed. They were silent, cautious, and methodical, almost callous. Silena could only assume that this was their own version of 'Serious Nico.' "So," Zoë began in a small whisper, only loud enough for the two next to her to hear. "We need to decide now." She continued, "What is our top priority: Retrieving Perseus and My Lady, or putting The Titan back under the sky?"

"Well, if we put A-"

"Do not speak his name. It invokes him."

"Oh, right. Well, if we put you know who back under the you know what, wouldn't the rest fall into place? We'd have a Goddess to fight at our side to fight off Castellan and Chase."

"You're making a big assumption there, Si."

"What's that?"

"That we can even defeat The Titan of the World."

"You don't think we can?"

"Doth Thou want an honest or optimistic answer?"

"Uh.. Optimistic."

"No."

"Oh. What's the honest-"

"Fuck no."

"Correct."

"I see." Silena muttered. It wasn't a good thing when Thalia and Zoë were agreeing on anything, much less so when the matter was of importance. "Well, what can we do?" Silena asked, but then Zoë held up her fist in the 'quiet' gesture, for a moment, the Daughter of Aphrodite was confused, but out of the corner of her eye; she saw him. The Titan was huge, built, and rather.. Standoffish. Next to him, were the traitors, Luke Castellan and Annabeth Chase. However, from the gestures the two Demi-Gods were making, they were having an argument; and a rather intense one at that. They were close enough to hear the yelling, but not close enough to make out the words that they were saying. Thalia growled under her breath,

"Can't hear a Gods damn thing. Could be important, too." Thalia quietly punched her knee in frustration. Zoë nodded in agreement. Of course, the trio could just jump in there blind, but if there was something that was causing division in the traitors trust; it might just be an edge they could use in battle. That, and they only had visual on two of their three objectives. The Goddess of the Hunt and the Titan Atlas were both in their sights, but the Demi-God Percy Jackson still remained hidden. Normally, Zoë would attack anyway, and accept the male as an acceptable casualty; but both Thalia Grace and Silena Beauregard were particularly fond of this one. If this was going to work, they'd need one hundred percent team unity; and she figured that killing off the boy wouldn't do positive work in that department. Nevertheless, the Hunter of Artemis knocked an arrow on her bow, and focused it onto Luke Castellan. In case they were spotted, she'd launch the arrow and strike down the traitor that had started it all. The male was in armor, which Zoë hadn't been expecting. He was at home base, with no signs of threats anywhere. Why would he be in armor?

" 'I did what I had to, Annabeth.' " Silena muttered under her breath, as she looked at the two argue.

"What?" Thalia asked, in a sort of whispery yell, so that silena could hear her.