Annabeth frowned. Percy's sword is a she?Jack laughed. Well, .Percy studied Riptide, though I could've told him from experience it was almost impossible to tell a sword's gender by looking at it.I don...
Annabeth finished her note and folded the napkin. On the outside, she wrote: Connor, Give this to Rachel. Not a prank. Don’t be a moron. Love, Annabeth
And now, Anubis, I find you in this den of iniquity, this morass of questionable behavior, this...this--''School?
Akhlys lunged at Percy, and for a split second he thought: Well, hey, I’m just smoke. She can’t touch me, right?He imagined the Fates up in Olympus, laughing at his wishful thinking: LOL, NOOB!
Ah, but I’m wise , Athena said. Wise enough to make you do it instead.
Ah, Mastery of the Five Elements!Is that the one we want? I asked.No, but a good one. How to tame the five essential elements of the universe - earth, air, water, fire, and cheese!Cheese?
Yes, Horus said. I remember this place.It’s El Paso, I told him. Unless you went out for Mexican Food, you’ve never been here.
Yeah. He took one last look at the cityscape of Rome, turning bloodred in the sunset. Festus, raise the sails. We've got some friends to save.
Whathat! Tyson gasped.Those are the stables for the pegasi, I replied, You know, winged horses?Whasthat!Um... those are the toilets.
They know they’ve won, Carter guessed. They’re making a show of it.Yes, Amos said.Well, let’s blow up the boats or something! I said.Amos looked at me. Is that your strategy, honestly?
The Minotaur unstrapped his axe and swung it around. It was beautiful in a harsh I’m~going~togut~you~like~a~fish kind of way. Each of its twin blades was shaped like an omega: Ω—the last letter of the...
Stars, she whispered. I can see the stars again, my lady.A tear trickled down Artemis's cheek. Yes, my brave one. They are beautiful tonight.Stars, Zoe repeated. Her eyes fixed on the night sky. And s...
Son of Poseidon? East asked. I nodded. Took a dip in the Styx? Hudson asked. Yep. They made digusted sounds. Well that's perfect East said. Now how do we kille him?
Sometimes you have to lose a piece to win a game.
Somebody once told me that a hero's bravery has to be unplanned - a genuine response to a crisis. It has to come from the heart, without any thought of reward.
So, yeah. Our cat was a goddess.What else is new?
So . . . what is this fire river called?The Phlegethon, [Annabeth] said. You should concentrate on going down.The ? [Percy] shinnied along the ledge. They’d made it roughly a third of the way down the...
Should I get you a shovel, so you can dig that hole deeper?
She wondered if it was her stupid mother, the goddess of love, messing with her thoughts. If Piper started getting urges to read fashion magazines, she was going to have to find Aphrodite and smack he...
She was probably my age, maybe a couple of inches taller, and a whole lot more athletic looking. With her deep tan and her curly blond hair, she was almost exactly what I thought a stereotypical Calif...