I had to make some kind distration or else Luke's men will kill us.

"One on one," I said, challenging Luke. "You're not afraid of me, are you?"

Luke kept his glare at me. His soldiers were waiting for his orders to kill us.

Suddenly Agrius burst onto the deck, having a pure-black pegasus with wings like a giant raven. The male pegasus put up one hell of a fight. I understood his thoughts. He was cussing Agrius and Luke so bad Chiron would've washed his muzzle out with saddle soap.

"Boss! Your steed is ready!" Agrius called while barely dodging a pegasus hoof.

"I told you last summer, Percy." He said, referring to the fight last summer in New York. "You can't bait me into a fight."

"And you're the one who keeps avoiding one. What? Too scared to lose in front of everyone." I taunted him.

Luke glanced at his men. He was trapped and he knew it. If he back down now, he would look weak. If he fought me, he would lose valuable time chasing after Clarisse.

I glanced at (Y/N) who was still held back by the monster, Oreius.

"I'll kill you quickly." Luke said as he raised Backbiter.

He whistled to one of his men. They threw him a shield.

"Luke, at least give him a shield." Annabeth said.

"Sorry, Annabeth, you bring your own equipment to this party." Luke said.

Then he lunged at me, almost killing me on the first try. His sword went under my arm, slashing my shirt and my ribs.

In the corner of my eye, I saw (Y/N), trying to help me but she was still held back by Oreius. I turned my attention back to Luke.

Luke slashed his sword at me again. I jumped back and counterattacked with Riptide but Luke slammed it away with his shield.

"You're out of practice, Percy." Luke said as he came at me again.

I parried and swung Riptide at him. He easily avoided it.

Luke lunged again, I jumped backward into the swimming pool, giving me strength. I jumped out the pool and used my powers to create a funnel cloud and made it go to Luke's face, knocking him down. He spluttered and wiped the water from his face. He quickly got up and attacked. I tried to attack but was blocked by Luke's shield. He crouched down and jabbed his sword at my legs.

I collapsed. My thigh felt like it was on fire. The pain was so intense. I tried to stand but my leg wouldn't take the weight.

(Y/N) yelled.

Luke slowly walked up to me. The tip of his sword had my blood on it.

"One more thing." Luke said.

He motioned his men to get (Y/N). Two monsters roughly grabbed her. She struggled against their grip but they were too strong. Luke dropped his shield and grabbed (Y/N). She was about to struggle again but stopped when Luke pressed Backbiter on her neck.

"Say goodbye to your boyfriend, (Y/N)." He looked at Oreius, the monster who still holding Annabeth and Grover by their necks. "You can eat your dinner now, Oreius. Bon appetit."

"Yay! Dinner time." Oreius said as he lifted my friends and bared his teeth.

And that's when it happened.

WHISH!

A red-feathered arrow sprouted from Oreius's mouth. The monster crumpled to the floor.

"Brother!" Agrius wailed as he let go of the pegasus's reins.

The black pegasus kicked him the monster hard in the head and then flew away free over Miami Bay.

Luke's guards were too stunned to do anything as they watched Oreius and Agrius dissolve into smoke. Then we heard a bunch of wild war cries and hooves thundering.

A dozen centaurs charged onto the deck. Some wore a neon colored T-shirts that said: PARTY PONIES: SOUTH FLORIDA. Chiron was among the crowd. They were armed with bows and arrows, baseball bats, and even paintball guns.

"Ponies!" Tyson said as he clapped his hands with delight.

Luke regained his focus and was about to do something when a centaur shot a pink paintball right in his eyes.

"Bull's eye! That's 50 points!" The centaur cheered.

Luke dropped his sword and tried to get the paint off. (Y/N) took this opportunity to escape but not before she kicked him into the pool.

Luke's warriors scattered as the party ponies let loose with their paintball guns. In seconds, Luke's lackeys were covered from head to toe with different neon colors. They tried to run but they kept falling over.

I went over to Percy with concern in my eyes. I had a little bit of paint in my hair but I didn't care. I looked at Percy's cut before I took of my denim jacket. I ripped the sleeve off and tied it around Percy's injury so it could stop the bleeding. He hissed in pain.

I said as I helped him get up.

Chiron galloped toward Annabeth and Grover and placed them on his back. Luke crawled out of the pool.

"Attack, you fools." He ordered his troops but then got smaked in the face by a boxing glove making him sat down hard in a deck chair.

A centaur came up to us and helped hoisting us up.

"Dudes, get your big friend!" He said.

"Tyson!" Percy yelled. "Come on!"

Tyson innocently looked up and dropped two demigods to the ground. He jogged after us and jumped on another centaur's back.

"Bro!" The centaur groaned under Tyson's weight. "Do the words 'low-carb diet' mean anything to you?"

"Giddy up!" Tyson said, ignoring the centaur's complaining.

"Withdraw, brethren!" Chiron said as he galloped out of the Princess Andromeda.

The other centaurs followed him, whooping and yelling taunts at the Princess Andromeda as we raced into the streets of downtown Miami.

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We finally stopped at a trailer park at the edge of a lake. This was probably a centaur camp. I helped Percy get off the centaur.

We watched as other centaurs head slam each other. Chiron, Annabeth, and Grover came up to us while Tyson was with the other centaurs. I carefully placed Percy down on a picnic blanket so I could examine Percy's injury.

"Chiron," Percy said, "You saved us."

Chiron smiled

"Well, I couldn't let you die, especially since you've cleared my name."

I questioned as I unwrapped the ripped cloth that was covered with Percy's blood.

"It was thanks to Annabeth, my dear. She Iris messaged me earlier and told me what was happening and from there I figured you would wash up in Miami if you made it out of the Sea of Monsters alive. Then I saw Luke and his monsters took you in the Princess Andromeda."

I glanced at Annabeth.

I said.

Annabeth nodded. I looked back at Percy and used my powers to heal his cut. My hands glowed golden.

I mentally thanked my father for giving me this kind of power.

Percy's cut soon disappeared leaving a small scar. Percy sat up, thanking me in the process.

"So what now?" He asked Chiron. "We just let Luke sail away? He has Kronos aboard that ship. Parts of him, anyway."

Chiron sighed.

"I'm afraid we can't do anything for now, Percy. We didn't have the strength of numbers to take down that ship. Luke was not organized enough to pursue us. Nobody won."

"But we got the Fleece!" Grover said. "Clarisse is on her way back to camp with it right now."

Chiron nodded but he still looked uneasy. He looked at each one of us and glanced up at Tyson who was trying to shoot a paintball gun.

"You are all heroes. True heroes. And now you must return back to Camp. The centaurs shall carry you."

"You're coming, too, right?" Percy asked as he got up.

"Oh yes, Percy. I am very much relieved to get back home. Besides, I must have some words with Mr.D. There's the rest of the summer to plan. So much training to do. And I'm curious about the Fleece."

With that, we were ready to go back home to Camp Half-Blood.

I looked at Percy and I knew something was bothering him. I'll ask him later, what's wrong.

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