Percy couldn’t believe he was talking about the end of the world with a loaf of Wonder bread in his hand.
Oh.” Annabeth felt her face flush. She didn’t want to get into the details of Athena’s children – how they were born straight from the mind of the goddess, just as Athena herself had sprung from the head of Zeus. Talking about that always made Annabeth feel self-conscious, like she was some sort of freak. People usually asked her whether or not she had a belly button, since she had been born magically. Of course she had a belly button. She couldn’t explain how. She didn’t really want to know.
That’s it?” Nico demanded. “Hecate sent us halfway across Italy so you could tell us to eat barley?
That’s the girl... that’s the girl – ” Annabeth punched him in the nose and knocked him flat. “And you,” she told him, “lay off my friend.
No, dear. As usual, modern folk have it backward. Black is the color of good soil, like the soil of the Nile. You can grow food in black soil. Food is good. Therefore black is good. Red is the color of desert sand. Nothing grows in the desert. Therefore red is evil.
I am the darkest!” hissed one of the demons. “No, I!” “No! Behold my darkness!
The others were fighting for their lives against nose hair.
Maybe I should have run, but I stood there frozen, watching my only two friends attack the dark lord of fire with cheap plastic toys. Finally.
Thalia grimaced. “Well, don’t just stand there! I’ll be fine. Go!” We didn’t want to leave her, but I could hear Kronos laughing as he approached the hall of the gods. More buildings exploded. “We’ll be back,” I promised. “I’m not going anywhere,” Thalia groaned. A fireball erupted on the side of the mountain, right near the gates of the palace. “We’ve got to run,” I said. “I don’t suppose you mean away,” Grover murmured hopefully.
Never underestimate the power of thousands of human minds all believing the same thing. They can remake reality. Sometimes for the better, sometimes not.” – Apollo.
It was an eight-hour drive from New York to Bar Harbor, Maine. Sleet and snow pounded the highway. Annabeth, Thalia, and I hadn’t seen each other in months, but between the blizzard and the thought of what we were about to do, we were too nervous to talk much. Except for my mom. She talks more when she’s nervous. By the time we finally got to Westover Hall, it was getting dark, and she’d told Annabeth and Thalia every embarrassing baby story there was to tell about me.
Those movies... ridiculously inaccurate. The real gods of Asgard – Thor, Loki, Odin, and the rest – are much more powerful, much more terrifying than anything Hollywood could concoct.
Kill the basilisks!’ he yelped. ‘Not me!
I’m not sure I can take out this many before they kill you guys. And I don’t want to look incompetent in front of that hot lady sword!
Oh, nobody much,” Grover said, obviously still miffed about the donkey comment. “Just the Lord of the Dead and a few of his blood-thirstiest minions.
I tried explaining to Blackjack that taking a flying horse through the drive-thru would give every cop in the doughnut shop a heart attack, but he didn’t seem to get it.
They crashed into Brooke’s stream at the bottom, helped each other up, and stumbled deeper into the woods. Behind them, Leo heard the Maenads laughing and shouting, urging Leo to come back so they could rip him to shreds. For some reason, Leo wasn’t tempted.
My sword almost gets sold on Ebay.
I told them all in brief what had happened, with Meg occasionally adding helpful comments like, “He was stupid,” and, “He was more stupid,” and “He did good; then he got stupid again.
He wondered how the little crud monkeys were doing in New York. He hoped they were still having fun harassing Romans, stealing lots of shiny zippers and causing legionnaires’ pants to fall down.