After Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase, and Grover Underwood retrieve Ares' shield, he fulfills his promise to arrange the three a free ride to LA. The ride eventually turns out to be a Kindness International truck. The three sneak in the back and notice that the vehicle is used for an animal smuggling business. The truck was carrying an albino lion, a zebra, and an antelope. It is implied that the animals were treated badly, as the food was not placed in the right cages, there was chewing gum in the zebra's mane, and there was a balloon string tied to the antelope's antlers. The zebra then asks for Percy's help (as zebras are close enough to horses, Percy is able to communicate with them) to escape, and Grover talks to the other two animals. This is the first time Percy communicates with a h