Quest for the Golden Fleece

The Quest for the Golden Fleece was a search for the fleece by Clarisse, daughter of Ares, who was handpicked by the camp's despicable substitute ativities director Tantalus (for Chiron in The Sea of Monsters), a ghostly inprisioner from Tartarus, and Percy's unfavorable person. Also, Percy, Annabeth, and Tyson go after Grover in a desperate rescue for the satyr and in Plan B, the Golden fleece.

In the Sea of Monsters, Clarisse was granted the quest to retrieve the Golden Fleece to cure Thalia's tree and save Camp Half-Blood. The location of the fleece was found to be in the Sea of Monsters which the mortals know as the Bermuda Triangle. The island that held it was owned by Polyphemus, a very ugly, beat up, and totally undisciplined Cyclops who refused to let go the fleece and also Grover. So Percy, Annabeth, Clarisse, and Tyson fought the Cyclops in a decided plan of attack to escape - Attack plan Macedonia. With a few injuries from Polyphemus, they made it safely out off the Sea of Monsters to Miami, Florida even with Annabeth's broken ribs (Polyphemus dropped her by Percy's demands onto the ground head first causing Annabeth's ribs to break a little).

Thereafter, in Miami, Annabeth discovers that the date is June eighteenth, three days after they've been in the Sea of Monsters and Grover whimpers that Thalia's tree would soon be dead. Clarisse, realizing that they've been in the Sea of Monsters for three days but on Percy's delays, turns on Percy and blames him for the three day delay that he caused on her quest. However, Annabeth rushes to Percy's rescue and shouts at Clarisse for not realizing the exact truth - a) she and Percy had to help her on the quest as friends because if they didn't b) Polyphemus would've kept the fleece longer and the fleece would've stayed hidden forever. Therefore, Clarisse relents her yelling on Percy and, in return, Percy gaves her the money to ride a plane as quick as possible from Miami to Manhattan before Thalia's tree dies any longer.

After Clarisse is gone, Percy tells Annabeth, Tyson, and Grover that they can find another way back to Camp Half-blood. However, before they leave Miami, they bump into Luke and his army of enemy demigods, snake-women, dracons, e.t.c. Luke becks them onto his "cruise" ship as an hostiblity. After they get on his "cruise" ship, Luke then turns to business and searches their pockets for the fleece asking where it is. Grinning and cheerful, Percy could not help but tell him without hesitation that they don't have it in their possesions anymore and they had sent it to camp earlier. Luke, realizing that Percy had given it to Clarisse so she could run to Camp Half-blood with it, calls out to one of his bear giants Agrius to get out his Pegasus so he could hurry to Miami Airport. Realizing that Luke was after the fleece and wanting to grab it to heal Kronos, Percy then tries his best by stalling Luke's chase after Clarisse hopeful that if he stalls Luke's time, Clarisse would eventually reach camp in time.

To provent Luke from chasing Clarisse, he asks Luke as to who the person was in the mysterious killing of Thalia's tree. Luke, not knowing that Percy was stalling him in a secret trap, answers the question honestly blurting out that he was the perpentrator that made Thalia's tree poisoned. Percy secretly then asked him the same question again and over more than once. Once Percy realizes that Luke was the one who fed Thalia's tree poison, he pulls out his last gold drachma and tossed it at Luke who ducked. The drachma flew threw the air past Luke and into the spray of water in Luke's "cruise" ship's swimming pool.

After it went into the spray, Percy prayed to the goddess Iris to allow the permission of the drachma and Iris complies, allowing Percy the advantage against Luke. Once he has the adventage over Luke, Percy keeps asking the same question several times which Luke gets upset that he keeps asking the question over and over again. Percy, however, doesn't care about Luke's yapping and shouts out that whatever Luke has done made everyone stupid. Then he shouts out that everyone else at camp including Mr. D has to hear Luke's confession which Iris allows the message to be heard. A window-message opens up and shows Dionysus and the whole camp eatiing. Percy tells Dionysus that "you heard the truth, Mr. D., Chiron wasn't the one who poisoned Thalia's tree." Dionysus relents and realizes that Percy was right so he banished Tantalus back to Tartarus.

Reference to Jason and the Argonauts
The quest for the Golden Fleece in the book The Sea of Monsters is a reference to the original Jason whom quested after the Golden Fleece with his team of heroes, The Argonauts, who were named after their ship (the Argo). The quest was started by the inclination of Pelias, king of Iolcus, after Pelias claiming the only way he'd give his throne to Jason, who was the rightful owner, if he could menage to find the fleece and bring it to him.