They put us in each cage, taking away our backpacks in the process. Annabeth was already in a cage. The boys were on one side while the girls were on the other.

"What happened?" Annabeth asked.

"We got caught." Percy said, stating the obvious.

"I can see that. I want to know how you got caught." Annabeth looked at Tyson, who was still playing with pieces of metal on the floor.

"Was it because of him?" Annabeth asked.

"No. What do you have against him anyway?" Percy asked.

While Annabeth and Percy were arguing, I layed my head against the bars of the cage.

'How could he?...But what if Luke's right? What if it is my dad's fault my mom died?'

"(Y/N)? (Y/N)!"

I snapped out of my thoughts and looked at Percy who was calling my name.

"Look (Y/N), I don't know what you've been through in your past or if what Luke said was true. But I do know that you'll get through this and I'll be with you every step of the way."

He smiled a little making me smile back.

"Wait, what are ya'll talking about? What did Luke say to you?" Annabeth asked.

Annabeth looked at our stuff that was hanging by the wall near me.

"I think I do."

She explained the plan to us. I got ready and so did Percy since the plan involved the two of us. Percy kneels with his eyes closed, concentrating on the water. The yacht starting move more roughly. My backpack started swinging with every movement. Tyson and Annabeth hanged on against the cage wall.

I said as I slid my hand in between the bars trying to grab my backpack.

I was just about to grab it when I was send back to the wall, probably because we went over a steep wave.

"(Y/N) are you ok?" Annabeth asked.

A small window banged open making sea water splash inside.

"I think it's working" Tyson said.

The yacht went over another huge wave, making my backpack fly off the hook and slides across the floor. I quickly caught it just as it was about to pass my cage.

"You got it?" Percy asked.

I opened my backpack and grabbed the tape gun that Hermes gave us.

"How do you use it?" Annabeth asked.

I reached up and started unfurling the tape along the cell door, then the sides, and then the bottom. I cut the the tape off and stepped back. Suddenly the door started dissolving from the center outward. I stepped out of the cage and used the tape gun on the others.

Once they were all out of the cages, they opened the door to find the Manticore sleeping in front of it. They quietly walked past the snoring monster, making sure they ducked from the poison scorpion-like tail. Percy opened another door that led outside. The teens hurry across the yacht's deck but Chris cuts them off.

"Go to the lifeboat." Percy said to the others.

As (Y/N), Annabeth, and Tyson run, Percy charges at Chris but was pushed against a window. Luke saw Percy against the window. Percy elbows Chris then hit his face and runs.

Luke turned to the person who was steering the yacht.

"Kill the engines." Luke ordered.

Chris catches Percy in a headlock. Percy slams Chris back against a wall and then throws Chris overboard.

"That was for Annabeth." Percy shouted.

On the lower deck, Luke's lackeys were attacking (Y/N), Annabeth, and Tyson. Tyson dodges four swings of a sword before he grabbed the guy's wrist. Annabeth knocked her opponent's sword from his hand and then flip him over. (Y/N) had no problem with her opponent. She used her dagger to block his attack and then kicked him from his feet, making him fall over.

Outside, Percy ran into more of Luke's lackeys. He expertly dodges their swords and then runs up the side of the yacht and then climbs on top of the roof. At the back of the yacht, Annabeth pressed a button making a door open. They quickly untied the lifeboat and placed it in the water. They hopped on and waited for Percy.

Meanwhile Percy was looking for a way out from on top of the roof since he was surrounded below. Luke steps out and looked at Percy.

"What are you doing?" Luke asked. Percy stopped walking. "Don't walk on my roof."

On the lifeboat, Tyson lifted up the motor and tried to attach it to the back of the lifeboat instead he dropped it in the water.

"That's genius. Really." A fustrated Annabeth said.

(Y/N) looked at the yacht, anxiously waiting for Percy.

"Join me Percy. It's what you were meant to do." Luke said to Percy.

"No thanks. Especially not after you hurt (Y/N) like that." Percy said as he holds his hands out towards the water.

Luke's lackeys aimed weapons at the lifeboat. (Y/N) touched her charm from her bracelet that instantly changed into her bow and arrow. She aimed it at Luke's lackeys and waited on which one will shoot first.

(Y/N) instructed.

Annabeth nodded and looked through (Y/N)'s bag. She grabbed the thermos. Annabeth already knew what the thermos could do.

Right when one of Luke's lackeys was about to shoot at the lifeboat, a giant wall of water shoots up, seperating them from the enemies.

"Not this again." Luke said.

Percy swings his arms, making the wave pummel at the armed lackeys.

"Go!" Percy yelled at his friends.

(Y/N) yelled back.

"I'll be right behind you!" Percy yelled.

Annabeth uncapped the thermos, releasing a spiral of wind into the sky making the boat go in circles. (Y/N) helped Annabeth with the thermos. They aimed the thermos towards the yacht. It propels the lifeboat into the ocean like a motor.

Percy runs off the roof and landed on a rising wave. He rides the tip of the wave like a surfboard. Luke quickly jumped on the wave before it left the yacht. Luke walks up behind Percy.

"Jackson, enough. You're on the losing side." Luke said.

Percy looked at Luke.

"Not from where I stand." Percy said as he swings his hand, making water splash at Luke.

Luke fell into the ocean. Percy rides the wave over to the lifeboat and jumps in. (Y/N) quickly hugged Percy, tightly. Percy smiled and hugged back just as tightly.

"Seaweed Brain? Is that my new nickname?" Percy asked.

(Y/N) said with a smirk.

Back on the yacht, Luke kneeled next to the golden sarcophagus. He placed his hand on it.

"We will resurrect you, Lord Kronos. You will know vengeance. And the Olympians who scorn us will know death."

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