Battle of Manhattan

The Battle of Manhattan was the major battle that occurred in The Last Olympian and was final and most decisive battle of the Second Olympian War. It began with Morpheus putting the entire island of Manhattan to sleep. They covered Manhattan in layers of magic. The cars on the New Jersey highway seemed to be moving at one mile per hour due to Kronos slowing time. Also, Hecate may have been helping by using magic, because it seemed like all the drivers were getting a subconscious message to turn away from any Manhattan exits. Since the gods of the wind would keep Kronos's forces away from Olympus by the air, Kronos had to try a ground assault and eventually turns into a all-out siege.

Titans
Kronos sends a fleet of a dozen speedboats which races by the Long Island Sound. Each speedboat was packed with demigods in full Greek armor. At the back of the lead boat was the battle flag of Kronos.

Also, a Staten Island Ferry was plowing through the waves near Ellis Island, which carried Scythian dracanae and a whole pack of hellhounds. Swimming in front of was a pack of telekhines.

In the Lincoln Tunnel, there were a hundred assorted monsters marching past the lanes of stopped traffic. Giants with clubs, rogue Cyclopes, fire-spitting dragons and a World War II-era Sherman tank.

Demigods
Percy divides the campers to defend different sections.
 * Michael takes the Apollo cabin to the Williamsburg Bridge.
 * Katie takes the Demeter cabin to the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel.
 * Connor takes half of the Hermes cabin to the Manhattan Bridge.
 * Travis takes the other half of the Hermes cabin to cover the Brooklyn Bridge.
 * Silena takes the Aphrodite cabin to the Queens-Midtown Tunnel.
 * Fifth Avenue is on the way and one of Silena's sister suggests using Givenchy perfume and accessories against the monsters. It is unknown whether it was effective.


 * Malcolm takes the Athena cabin to the 59th Street Bridge. (Originally Percy had called Clarisse's name, but the Ares cabin was at camp.)
 * Jake takes the Hephaestus and Dionysus Cabins to the Holland Tunnel.
 * Thalia takes the Hunters to the Lincoln Tunnel. (Percy forgets about the Lincoln Tunnel, but the Hunters show up).
 * Percy and Annabeth take care of the boats.
 * On the second day of the battle Silena disguised as Clarisse takes the Ares cabin and Chris to the battle. After her death, Clarisse takes back control over her Cabin.

Beginning
Percy sends troops out to all entrances,while Annabeth executes Daedalus's twenty-third plan (by a suggestion from Athena) to wake up the automatons in the disguise of statues outside the city to protect Olympus.Then Percy goes to meet the Hudson and East river gods. The gods ignore him at first, but Percy decides to spend his sand dollar, which is the money from ancient times. After half is given to each, the two gods make sure nothing enters the rivers. Percy and Annabeth then leave, heading toward a group of campers fending off some of the enemy army led by the Minotaur.

The Minotaur, angered by seeing Percy once more (he was beaten by a twelve year old Percy), charges him. A battle between the two unfolds, leaving Percy the winner. Percy then kills off most of the monsters because he is nearly indestructible. More enemies show up, along with Ethan Nakamura, the son of Nemesis, who stabs Annabeth in the shoulder while aiming for Percy. Blackjack takes Annabeth away, and Kronos shows up and begins to cross the bridge, but is stopped when Percy floods and destroys it which accidentaly kills Micheal Yew. Percy gets a phone call and is told that Annabeth is severely hurt.

When he arrives, Will Solace,one of Apollo's sons, tries to heal her. Silena Beauregard decides that since she is no good at fighting, she should go and try to convince Clarisse to bring the Ares cabin and fight, who chose not to fight because the Apollo Cabin received a chariot they thought they should have, similar to Achilles not fighting in the Trojan War because Briseis was taken from him. Grover shows up, telling Percy that he's convinced some nature spirits to fight, and Thalia, who has brought the Hunters of Artemis to fight. Afterwards, Percy sleeps and dreams of Nico di Angelo. Nico tries to talk to his mother, Maria, but Bianca comes and tries to convince him not to. Nico ignores her and continues to try and reach his mother. Instead, he finds a horrible memory of his early childhood in which his mother is killed by Zeus, and because of his grudge against the Great Prophecy, Hades puts a curse on a young girl, who is known as the mummy in the attic of the Big House at camp, that the Oracle, as long as Hades's children remain outcasts, she will never be able to take another mortal form and will instead rot away. Then, he dreams of Rachel at a beach. She writes his name in the sand, then convinces her dad to take her home because she believes Percy is in danger, promising to go to finishing school as a trade-off. Percy is then woken by Thalia, who says a Titan wants to speak with him. It turns out to be Prometheus. He tries to get Percy to believe there is no hope of Percy beating Kronos but does not succeed. He then gives him Pandora's Box (Except it is actually a pithos, or a greek storage jar), which conceals Hope, and instructs him to use it as a signal of surrender if need be. Percy then has a vision of Luke talking with Hermes when he was on the run with Thalia and Annabeth.

Attack of the Drakon
Percy soon sleeps again, and dreams of Poseidon's palace, with Tyson fighting, and the monsters staying at Aunty Em's Gnome Emporium; Medusa's old place. Kronos is suspicious of Percy's Achilles spot and tells Ethan Nakamura to remember what spot Annabeth protected from him, though Ethan does not seem to remember, as he wasn't aiming at any particular spot. Following this is another vision of how May Castellan came to be delirious, by trying to take the old Oracle's power. The Oracle had been cursed, cursing Ms. Castellan as well. When Percy wakes, a full-scale battle is going on. Percy rushes outside and takes on Hyperion, one of the Titans. Eventually he wins, with the satyrs turning the Titan into a tree. Just as Percy finishes, a winged pig soars through New York. Percy wakes up some automatons, telling them to attack it.

Percy's automatons destroy the pig and he heads back, only to find the Party Ponies had come to fight. After the invading army retreats, Percy learns that the gods are losing, and that Hephaestus and Dionysus are missing. A helicopter appears with Rachel in it, but because the pilot has fallen asleep, putting her in danger, Annabeth, Percy, and Guido (a pegasi) go to save her.

Rachel tells Percy she had a vision, and that Percy is not the hero mentioned in the Great Prophecy. Percy later dreams of the Underworld, where Nico tries to persuade Hades to help with the war. Hades refuses, and Percy starts to dream about the United Nations complex. Kronos and his army are occupying it, and Kronos reveals that he will not hold Luke's form forever. Kronos interrogates Ethan about Percy's weak spot, but Ethan denies his knowledge. Percy wakes up and finds that a drakon is attacking them, and Rachel tells them that a child of Ares will kill it. Suddenly, a girl in Clarisse's armor appears, leading the Ares kids into battle. It is quickly revealed that this girl is not actually Clarisse but is Silena Beauregard, who was disguised as Clarisse to inspire the Ares children to fight. When Silena is mortally wounded during the fight with the drakon, the real Clarisse arrives in time to slay the drakon

Silena, who is dying from her attack on the drakon, reveals that she was the spy by showing them her scythe charm. Because Luke had been kind to her years before, he set her up as the spy, offering not to harm Beckendorf. Because he had broken this promise, however, Silena had lost faith in him and felt guilt for betraying the camp, thus explaining her reasons for helping Clarisse slay the drakon. Silena soon dies, thinking of Beckendorf. Clarisse in bitterness becomes agitated to kill Kronos and goes on a killing spree against Kronos's army. Percy arrives at Olympus and runs into Hestia. Rachel speaks with Hestia about her fate, and tells Percy that his and her destinies are not entwined, cryptically mentioning her "calling". When Hestia asks about Pandora's jar, Percy considers surrender. He then decides to leave the jar with Hestia, proclaiming that Hope survives best at the hearth. Hestia supports this decision. Percy then goes to the throne room and sits on Poseidon's throne to attract his attention, eventually convincing him to leave his underwater palace and help Olympus. Suddenly, Thalia bursts in, and tells Percy to come back down. At the base of the building, they find the campers, Hunters, and Party Ponies all being slaughtered in a surpise attack by Kronos.

Final Confrontation
Nico and Mrs. O'Leary appear to assist in the battle against Kronos. As they fight, it becomes more and more clear that Kronos is struggling for control over Luke. Even Hades, Demeter, and Persophene appear, but Kronos tries to cut off Olympus from America, which would isolate it from the rest of the world.

As Percy runs to the palace, Thalia is pinned down by a statue and is unable to continue moving. Percy confronts Kronos there and convinces Ethan that siding with Kronos is not good for him. Ethan thus attacks Kronos and dies in the process. Percy continually attacks Kronos as meanwhile Typhon rampages, being held back by the gods. Poseidon arrives at the site and together the gods defeat Typhon, an omen that the gods are on their way. Annabeth reminds Luke that he promised not to let her get hurt years ago. Slowly, Luke overpowers Kronos, but Kronos starts to change into his former body. Percy, whom had previously retrieved Annabeth's knife, surrenders the knife to Luke, who kills himself in order to destroy Kronos (that is how Percy played into the prophecy, his important descision was whether or not to give Luke Annabeth's knife). As Luke lies dying, he asks Annabeth if she loved him, and she replies that she only loved him like a brother. He breathes his last wish that there will be no more unclaimed demigods, and Percy promises to make sure it won't happen again.

Aftermath
The Fates come to retrieve Luke's body. The gods personally to honor each hero, making the deceased Hunters and demigods achieve Elysium, promoting Tyson to a general of the Cyclopes, making Grover a member of the Council of Cloven Elders and a lord of the Wild, having Annabeth become the official architect for Olympus, and eventually offering Percy the chance to become a god and achieve immortality. However, he declines so he can have a "normal" life with Annabeth and his friends as a regular mortal - on the stipulation that the gods recognize every child they have, that all minor gods' children and Hades's children have a place at Camp Half-Blood, and that no child is abandoned or made to feel abandoned. The gods (somewhat reluctantly) agree. Grover becomes a leader of the protection of the Wild, campers begin to be claimed, Hades and other gods receive their own cabins, and the number of campers increases exponentially.