Nico studied his face – his sea-green eyes, his grin, his ruffled black hair. Somehow Percy Jackson seemed like a regular guy now, not a mythical figure. Not someone to idolize or crush on.
Nico strode forward. The enemy army fell back before him like he radiated death, which of course he did.Through the face guard of his skull-shaped helmet, he smiled. Got your message. Is it too late t...
It will make you powerful. But it will also make you weak. Your prowess in combat will be beyond any mortal's, but your weaknesses, your failings will increase as well.You mean I'll have a bad heel? I...
If you ever leave me again,’ she said, her eyes stinging, ‘I swear to all the gods-‘Percy had the nerve to laugh. Suddenly the lump of heated emotions melted inside Annabeth.‘Consider me warned,’ Perc...
I was wondering how you got all that out of a single moooooo
I uncapped the blade, flung open the door, and found myself face-to-face with a black pegasus. Its voice spoke in my mind as it clopped away from the sword blade.
I should throw you off this building minus the flying horse and see how heroic you sound on the way down.
Hey, why do pegasi gallop as they fly, anyway?Blackjack whinnied.
George unhinged his jaw and coughed up a little plastic bottle filled with chewable vitamins.You're kidding, I said. Are those Minotaur-shaped?Hermes picked up the bottle and rattled it. The lemon one...
I past another telkhine, who was so startled he dropped his Lil' Demons lunch box. I left him alive - partly because he had a cool lunch box...
Snake people do not drink milk, Kekrops said. We are lactose intolerant reptiles.Me too! Frank said. I mean . . . lactose intolerant. Not a reptile. Though I can be a reptile sometimes
She raised an eyebrow. You got something to say to me, Seaweed Brain?You'd probably kick my butt.You I'd kick your butt.I brushed the cake off my hands. When I was at the River Styx, turning invulner...
She looked at me, like she was drinking in the fact that I was still here. And I realized I was doing the same thing. The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that s...
Otrera stayed dead the second time, Kinzie said, batting her eyes. We have to thank you for that. If you ever need a new girlfriend...well, I think you'd look great in an iron collar and an orange jum...
Meat! he said scornfully. I'm a vegetarian.You eat cheese enchiladas and aluminum cans, I reminded him.Those are vegetables.
Images flashed through his mind. He saw Nico and his sister on a snowy mountain cliff in Maine, Percy Jackson protecting them from the manticore. Percy's sword gleamed in the dark. He'd been the first...
I turned and faced the Olympians.We need a shroud, I announced, my voice cracking. A shroud for the son of Hermes.
I love New York. You can pop out of the Underworld in Central Park, hail a taxi, head down Fifth Avenue with a giant hellhound loping along behind you, and nobody even looks at you funny.Of course, th...
I had a crush on Percy, Nico spat. That's the truth. That's the big secret.
I didn't understand how. But the toilets had responded to me. I had become one with the plumbing...