User blog comment:Hyperborean/"The House of Hades" – official expectations blog/@comment-10901795-20130815072908

People, I've been thinking

You know that Percy wants to go into retirement with Annabeth after he's finished with all this heroes of Olympus buisness. So I was wanderinging, what's going to happen to riptide? And I think it would be a godd ending to the book if he threw it into the sea, I mean, I know Riptide always reappears in his pocket, but think about it, I only have the lightning thief on audio so I cant refer to it as I could a book but I think Chiron said something along the lines of "it is celestial bronze, mined from the heart of Mt. Olympus, forged in the forges of the cyclopse and tampered in the river Lethe." If the  sword was really forged in the forges of the cyclopse, than it belongs to the sea. And as that neried said, "what belongs to the sea will always return to the sea. And if you thinkabout it, when riptide fell into the mississipi, it didn't eturn his pocket, as if it had "returned to the sea" and Percy had to manualy take it out. The sword has returned to the sea once before as well. It can be asumed that from the forge it went straight to Pleiny (or whatever Zoe's mother is called) who was a water nymph. It then went to Zoe and then Herakles and somehow back to Poseidon (returns to the sea). So after Poseidon got it to chiron who gave it to Percy, I wouldn't be surprised if he returned it to the sea itself.

Sorry about how long that was