The Son of Neptune

Frank lights his firewood and begins melting the chains holding Thanatos. As Frank waits for all the chains to break, he thinks of everything he’s been through these last few days and everything his grandmother told him. He thinks he has a good idea now what his family gift is. When Thanatos is free, there is only a small nub of the firewood left. Frank carefully puts it away and turns to help Percy who is growing tired from fighting the legion, but Percy directs him to help Hazel who is becoming overwhelmed in her fight against Alcyoneus. Frank becomes an eagle and uses his claws to scratch Alcyoneus’s eyes. Alcyoneus quickly heals, laughing because he cannot be injured or killed in his homeland of Alaska. Frank becomes a bear and charges Alcyoneus, battering his face. Frank ties a rope around Alcyoneus’s ankle and hooks it to Arion. Just then, the glacier breaks under Percy as he slams a staff into the ice, and he disappears off the edge with the ghost legion.

Frank hits Alcyoneus until he falls unconscious. Hazel and Frank ask Thanatos if he’s going to take them now, and he assures them that neither of their names is on his list. Hazel asks about her brother and the Doors of Death. Thanatos tells her the answer to both is in Rome. Thanatos then leaves for Camp Jupiter. As the glacier continues to break up, Frank and Hazel mount Arion and drag Alcyoneus off the glacier and out of Alaska. Frank turns into an elephant and rams Alcyoneus, wounding him. Hazel dismounts Arion and tells Alcyoneus he is no longer in Alaska and uses her sword to deliver a killing blow to Alcyoneus’s neck. Despite her son’s death, Gaea tells them they will never arrive at Camp Jupiter in time to save their legion from Polybotes.

Hazel and Frank return to Hubbard Glacier and find most of the glacier gone, but Percy waiting for them. They collect as many of the Imperial gold weapons as they can along with the Twelfth Legion’s eagle and load them on a chariot they hook up to Arion. Once again, the horse speeds them away, taking them back to Camp Jupiter.