Seven half-bloods shall answer the callTo storm or fire the world must fallAn oath to keep with a final breathand foes bear arms to the doors of death

Whoa ,zombie dude

The crew gathered for a hurried meeting on the foredeck – mostly because Percy was keeping an eye on a giant red sea serpent swimming off the port side. ‘That thing is really red,’ Percy...

Their dad was the god of thieves, but they were about a stealthy as water buffalos.

I’d missed Annabeth probably more than I wanted to admit.

Frank couldn’t breathe underwater.But where was he?Percy turned in a full circle. Nothing. Then he glanced up. Hovering above him was a giant goldfish. Frank had turned -clothes, backpack, and all- into a koi the...

The pinecone is a fearsome tool of destruction!-Bacchus

Afterward, I had the last laugh. I made an air bubble at the bottom of the lake. Our friends kept waiting for us to come up, but hey-when you are the son of Poseidon, you...

My mother made a squeaking sound that might of been either “yes” or “help”.Poseidon took it as a yes and came in.Paul was looking back and forth between us, trying to read our expressions.Finally he...

Wow. When he started looking back on the war with Kronos as the good old days–that was sad.

I stared at him (Dionysus). “You’re…you’re married? But I thought you got in trouble for chasing a wood nymph-

Don’t dwell on things. Don’t stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of sadness.

Nico found a sort of freedom in knowing that eventually, no matter what happened, he would end up at the foot of his father’s throne.

Silena appeared out of the woods, her sword drawn. Her Aphrodite armour was pink and red, colour coordinated to match her clothes and makeup. She looked like Guerilla Warfare Barbie.

Intelligence won wars, not brute force.

I will see you again,’ Hades promised. ‘I will prepare a room for you at the palace in case you do not survive. Perhaps your chambers would look good decorated with the skulls of monks.’...

A steely look of anger flared in my mother’s eyes, and I thought, just maybe, I was leaving her in good hands after all. Her own.

Water liked to be free. Given time, water could overcome any barrier, and it hated to be trapped, just like Percy.

Her secret fear? Maybe she didn’t tried hard enough.

Percy: Put your cap back on… get out! Annabeth: What? No! I’m not leaving you. Percy: I’ve got a plan. I’ll distract them. You can use the metal spider… maybe it’ll lead you back to...

Keep climbing,’ he told himself.’Cheeseburgers,’ his stomach replied.’Shut up,’ he thought.’With fries,’ his stomach complained.

Narcissus is a loser! He’s so weak, he can’t bench-press a Kleenex. He’s so lame, when you look up lame on Wikipedia, it’s got a picture of Narcissus—only the picture’s so ugly, no one ever...

Which reminded me…I still owed the gods a debt.”You’re a genius,” I (Percy) told Annabeth.

I had a crush on Percy,” Nico spat. “That’s the truth. That’s the big secret.

Thalia had been turned into a pine tree when she was 12. Me… well, i was doing my best not to follow her example. I had nightmares about what Poseidon might turn me into if...

Not all powers are spectacular.” Hestia looked at me. “Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding.

You assume that it has to be a male god who finds a human female attractive? How sexist is that?

You must forgive my Hunters if they do not welcome you,” Artemis said. “It is very rare that we would have boys in this camp. Boys are usually forbidden to have any contact with the...

then things got even stranger.Mr. Brunner, who’d been out in front of the museum a minute before, wheeled his chair into the doorway of the gallery, holding a pen in his hand. “What ho, Percy!”...

He scowled at Jason. “And please, I don’t like being touched. Don’t ever grab me again.

Annabeth wanted to sob. She wanted someone, anyone to be here for her. She wanted Leo with his fire skills, or Jason with his lightning, or Hazel to collapse the tunnel. Most of all she...

[Percy] kept hoping things would get better for Annabeth and him, but their lives just got more dangerous, as if the Three Fates were up there spinning their futures with barbed wire instead of thread...

You’d think getting chopped into a million pieces and cast into the darkest part of the Underworld would give him a subtle clue that nobody wanted him around.

Then Leo realized something was blocking the middle of his view. Something large and fuzzy, and so close, Leo had to cross his eyes to see it properly. It was a large, ugly face. “Holy...

Looking is the nature of wisdom.

She had to go on this quest. The fate of the world might depend on it. But part of him wanted to say: Forget the world. He didn’t want to be without her.

Poison!” Grover yelped. “Don’t let those things touch you or…””Or we’ll die?” I guessed.”Well…after you shrivel slowly to dust, yes.””Let’s avoid the swords,” I decided.

And, whoa!” He turned to Mr.D. “Your the wine dude? No way!”Mr.D turned hi eyes away from me and gave Nico a look of loathing. “The wine dude?””Dionysus, right? Oh, wow! I’ve got your figurine!””My...

The sign was spray-painted in Arabic and English, probably from some attempt by the farmer to sell his wares in the market. The English read: Dates-best price. Cold Bebsi. “Bebsi?” I asked.”Pepsi,” Walt said. “I...

You have to rise above the squabbling and chaos, and keep believing. You have to always keep your goals in mind.” -Hera, goddess of marriage

Yours in demigodishness, and all that. Peace out!

I pulled out Riptide.

Nico’s anger turned as cold and dark as his blade. He’d been morphed into a few plants himself, and he didn’t appreciate it. He hated people like Bryce Lawrence, who inflicted pain just for fun.

Humans see what they want to see.

Oh you two look delicious,” Bast said, licking her lips. “No, no-er, I mean wonderful. Now, off you go!

Remarkable, really, the lengths to which humans will go to fit things into their version of reality.

What-what do you want?” Annabeth asked, trying to maintain a tone of confidence.The voice cackled maliciously.’To curse you, of course! To destroy you thousand times in the name of Mother Night!'”Only a thousand times?” Percy...

Nico wasn’t sure whether to kick himself or Will Solace. If he hadn’t been so distracted bickering with the son of Apollo, he would never have allowed the enemy to get so close.

No, no, I never mess around.

It’s him,” I said. “Typhon.”I was seriously hoping Chiron would say something good, like ‘No, that’s our huge friend Leroy! He’s going to help us!