Maybe that's why he had started to fear suffocation. It wasn't so much drowning in the earth or sea but the feeling that he was sinking into too many expectations, literally getting in over his head.W...
Jason always tried to build a good relationship with his team. He'd learned the hard way that if somebody was going to have your back in a fight, it was better if you found some common ground and trus...
I'd love to tell you I had some deep revelation on my way down, that I came to terms with my own mortality, laughed in the face of death, et cetera.The truth? My only thought was: Aaaaggghhhhh!
I know you'll do what's best for Annabeth.How can you be sure?Because she'd do the same for you.
You’re gonna be like Aquaman? she asked. Get the fish to fight for you?Thanks, Percy said. I haven’t heard enough Aquaman jokes for one lifetime.
Why won't you drown? he wailed, pummeling me with his fists.I'm Poseidon's son, I said.Curse that upstart! I was here first!
There's no point in defending camp if you guys die. All our friends are here.
The real story of the Fleece: there were these two children of Zeus, Cadmus and Europa, okay? They were about to get offered up as human sacrifices, when they prayed to Zeus to save them. So Zeus sent...
Percy looked at Coach Hedge and Frank. A trap?Probably, Frank said. She’s not mortal, Hedge said, sniffing the air. Probably some kind of goat-eating, demigod-destroying fiend from Tartarus.No doubt,...
Oh, come on!’ Percy complained. ‘I get a little nosebleed and I wake up the entire earth? That’s not fair!
Nico di Angelo ran up to me with a big grin on his face.Percy, this is awesome! His blue-feathered bronze helmet was falling in his eyes, and his breastplate was about six sizes too big. I wondered if...
I see you like to study, I said. Well done.Percy snorted. I hate to study. I’ve been guaranteed admission with a full scholarship to New Rome University, but they’re still requiring me to pass all my...
I held out a lead figurine of Hades—the little Mythomagic statue Nico had abandoned when he fled camp last winter.Nico hesitated. I don’t play that game anymore. It’s for kids.It’s got four thousand a...
He slung off his backpack. He'd managed to grab a lot of supplies at the Napa Bargain Mart: a portable GPS, duct tape, lighter, superglue, water bottle, camping roll, a Comfy Panda Pillow Pet (as seen...
Anybody have any money?Frank checked his pockets. Three denarii from Camp Jupiter. Five dollars Canadian.Hedge patted his gym shorts and pulled out what he found. Three quarters, two dimes, a rubber b...
You're cute when you're worried, she muttered. Your eyebrows get all scrunched together.You are going to die while I owe you a favor, I said. Why did you take that knife?You would've done the same fo...
You saved the world, annabeth said.We saved the world.And Rachel is the new Oracle, which means she won't be dating anybody.You don't sound disappointed, I noticed.Annabeth shrugged. Oh, I don't care....
You assume that it has to be a male god who finds a human female attractive? How sexist is that?
What if we promoted, like, Adidas shoes?’ Percy wondered. ‘Would that make Nike mad enough to show up? Leo smiled nervously. Maybe he and Percy did share something else – a stupid sense of humour. Yea...
Piper bit her lip. The last thing she wanted to do was check Katopris for more terrifying images.'I've tried,'she said.'The dagger doesn't always show what I want to see. In fact,it hardly ever does''...