The conflict in this chapter is an external one: Percy, Annabeth, and Grover are at an abandoned water park, trying to retrieve Ares's shield, as he's asked Percy to do. However, when Percy grabs it from a boat at the bottom of an empty pool, he sets off a trap that they believe Hephaestus, Aphrodite's husband, prepared to catch his wife and Ares, her lover, having an affair. The cupids stationed around the pool shoot arrows that pull threads that begin to attach together to make a net over the pool; this net traps them in. Then, while they are trapped, tiny, mechanical spiders come out of the pipes and threaten to bite them or worse. Percy commands the water to flow from the pipes, overwhelming the spiders with a deluge and pushing the little boat through the tunnel and out of the pool. He and Annabeth leap to safety (Grover wasn't in the pool with them). The conflict between the three young folks and Hephaestus's trap almost spelled disaster!
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