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Everybody’s headed back to camp after the events of the previous episode, but will they make it back in time? Or will Luke fulfill the orders he got from Kronos to kill Percy?

We get another flashback to the time Thalia faces off against the Furies — I said harpies in the previous post, sorry! — with more dialogue, but still no fight scene. Which I understand! This doesn’t have the budget that the movie had. We then go back to the present, where Percy is contemplating the Great Prophecy and whether it’s talking about him or Thalia, since both of them are children of one of the three main gods of the pantheon.

He’s taken out of his thoughts by his mom, and then by Blackjack, who is just standing in the middle of the road without Clarisse. Percy finds out that Clarisse never made it because of the monsters up ahead, and that she decided to go on foot instead to get the Golden Fleece to the camp. Of course, the guys decide to follow her, but not before Percy shares a tender moment with his mom.

Inside camp, Tantalus isn’t exactly endearing himself to the rest of the demigods as he asks them to repair the chariot course. He gets into an argument with Rodriguez, one of the demigods, and ends up getting fireballed as another giant breaks into the camp. Bye! Elsewhere in the camp, the campers are battling it out with Luke’s forces, which is crazy to me because these are 13-year-olds? At least from my understanding? And then Luke arrives with reinforcements, which is even crazier. And then we find out that Luke intends to free Thalia since she is a child of Zeus, making her a powerful demigod. Or, according to Luke, the most powerful demigod around. Crazy!!!

Did somebody say crazy?!?

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In yet another part of the camp, Clarisse finally makes an appearance, bringing the Golden Fleece with her. She’s met by Rodriguez and a bunch of other demigods, who she recruits to accompany her to the tree, unaware that she could possibly bring Thalia back by doing so.

Percy and Annabeth are aware of that, though, and Percy is wondering how Luke knows that as well. Annabeth finally comes clean and tells Percy that she’s the one who told Luke all about it. She naively thinks that Thalia is going to side with them, but Percy points out that Thalia wasn’t just Annabeth’s friend; she was also Luke’s friend. She could just as easily turn on them. Annabeth doesn’t have a response to that. And then, as if things can get even worse, Percy, Annabeth, Grover, and Tyson are accosted by a different group of demigods, who bring them to Dionysus.

Dionysus?!?!

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Dionysus, unfortunately, is no help, so Percy steps up and delivers a rousing speech to the rest of the campers. This is their moment! They should have it!

Also having a moment, albeit not a positive one, is Clarisse. The demigods whom she recruited to take her to the tree? They’re the traitors who have been letting the giants into the camp. Despite her best efforts, she’s surrounded by these demigods, and the Golden Fleece is taken from her. BUT! Annabeth and Grover swoop in to save the day! They retrieve the Golden Fleece and escape with Clarisse.

Meanwhile, Percy has rallied the other campers and taken them with him to face off with Luke’s forces. We get a battle scene! A good one, considering the budget constraints, but also a nerve-wracking one for me because I kept thinking these are children! Luke and Percy have their confrontation, and Luke trounces Percy. I didn’t expect that much blood! These are children! Just when Luke’s about to deliver the killing blow, Tyson steps in to save this brother, and the tide finally turns as Annabeth, Clarisse, and Grover arrive. Clarisse manages to bring the Golden Fleece to the tree, which frees Thalia and…electrocutes the demigods in her immediate vicinity?

We then find Percy in a dream, where his father tells him that he needs to take Tyson with him to help forge the weapons needed for the coming war with the Titans. Percy then brings up Thalia’s first words out of…uh…treedom being “Never”, and then Poseidon tells him to brace himself. What that means is probably clear to book readers, but not to me! What does it mean?

What it means, if I had just waited, is that what everyone thought happened to Thalia is a lie. We didn’t get to see the fight scene between her and the Furies because it never happened. The Furies told her about the Great Prophecy, which got them vaporized by Zeus. Zeus then turned Thalia into a tree because she refused to fight for him against Kronos, and Kronos wanted Thalia to be reawakened because Thalia is his greatest champion. And now Thalia’s awake inside Camp Half-Blood and looking for Luke.

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