User blog comment:SayuriDarling/The Mark of Athena Official Discussion/@comment-5774152-20121214044606

I have an idea on why Gaea wants Percy captured and killed out of all of them because it wasn't all that clear in the book. If you think about it, Percy controls the one thing that Gaea doesn't control which is the sea. I know that Jason controls the sky and the wind and blah blah blah dont care, but it would proabably be easier if Gaea got the most powerful most destructive demigod under her control. And since hes the only one with Poseidon as his godly parent if she destroyed him somehow then Heras plan would fail. Something to think about also is back in The Last Olympian, Kronos distracted Poseidon with an evil sea god while Typhoon made his way towards New York. He said Posedon would tip the scales. Poseidon shows up and takes Typhoon down in like two minutes.