User blog comment:BeholdtheVision/OC's Together/@comment-1886094-20100424204834

How come Clarisse doesn't teach the lessons? And I think it is unfair to say that Zack can easily beat Percy or Annabeth in a swordfight because Annabeth has trained the longest and Percy is the second-best fighter at Camp in a century, (book quote) plus, it just makes sense that he would be better because he is a child of the Big three