I turned and faced the Olympians.”We need a shroud,” I announced, my voice cracking. “A shroud for the son of Hermes.

I’m Crusty,” he said, with a tartar-yellow smile.I resisted the urge to say, Yes, you are.

As soon as the rocky coast line of the island came into view, I ordered one of the ropes to wrap around Annabeth’s waist, tying her to the foremast. “Don’t untie me,” she said, “no...

As Hazel marched down the hill, she cursed in Latin. Percy didn’t understand all of it, but he got son of a gorgon, power-hungry snake, and a few choice suggestions about where Octavian could stick...

Hazel squinted. “How far?””Just over the river and through the woods.”Percy raised an eyebrow. “Seriously? To Grandmother’s house we go?”Frank cleared his throat. “Yeah, anyway.

Then she did something so unexpected Nico would later think he dreamed it. She walked up to Nico, who was standing to one side in the shadows, as usual. She grabbed his hand and pulled...

Two hundred Romans, and no one’s got a pen? Never mind!” He slung his M16 onto his back and pulled out a hand grenade. There were many screaming Romans. Then the hand grenade morphed into...

Please, Percy…change your clothes. You smell like you’ve been run over by an electric horse.

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...

So,’ Nico said, ‘since we’re going to be spending at least a year seeing each other at camp, I think I should clear the air.’ Percy’s smile wavered. ‘What do you mean?

Wasn’t he like BFFs with Hitler?

I don’t feel that way anymore,” Nico muttered. “I mean… I gave up on Percy. I was young and impressionable, and I- I don’t…”His voice cracked, and Jason could tell the guy was about to...

The two of them looked so comfortable together it made Nico glad. But it also it caused an ache in his heart – a ghostly pain, like an old war wound throbbing in bad weather.

Así es. ,Sabes?, Bianca di Angelo no es la única que tiene un hermano irritante. Ya va siendo hora de que conozcas a mi muy irresponsable gemelo. Apolo. – Artemisa.

Save yourselves!” Percy warned. “It is too late for us!” Then he gasped and pointed to the spot where Frank was hiding. “oh no! Frank is turning into a crazy dolphin!” Nothing happened. “I said,”...

I wondered if Grover could still read my emotions, mixed up as they were.

I thought about being a teacher for three thousand years. It wouldn’t have made my Top Ten Things to Wish For list.

With great power… comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.

Do yourself a favor,’ I said. “Forget it. Forget you ever saw me.””Forget that you tried to kill me too?””Yeah. That, too.””But who are you?””Percy-” I started to say. Then the skeletons turned around. “Gotta...

Hades raised an eyebrow. When he sat forward in his throne, shadowy faces appeared in the folds of his black robes, faces of torment,as if the garment was stitched of trapped souls from the Fields...

Not knowing is half the fun,” Aphrodite said, “Exquisitely painful isn’t it? Not being sure who you love and who loves you? Oh, you kids! It’s so cute I’m going to cry!

Percy!” he bellowed. He dropped his broom and ran at me. If you’ve never been charged by an enthusiastic Cyclops wearing a flowered apron and rubber cleaning gloves, I’m telling you, it’ll wake you up...

Your uncle,” Poseidon sighed, “has always had a flair for dramatic exits. I think he would’ve done well as the god of theater.

Jason’s fingers itched to draw his sword. He’d met plenty of scary demigods, but he was starting to realize that Nico di Angelo–as pale and gaunt as he looked–might be more than he could handle.

Now, if you have never been hit by a flying burrito, count yourself lucky. In terms of deadly projectiles, it’s right up there with grenades and cannonballs.

Aphrodite: Pfft. That’s not the point. Follow your heart.Percy: But… I don’t know where it’s going. My heart, I mean.

That is correct,” Zeus said. “The blood of Olympus was spilled. She is fully conscious.””Oh, come on!” Percy complained. “I get a little nosebleed and I wake up the entire earth? That’s not fair!

Headache!” Zeus bellowed. “Bad. bad headache!”As if to prove his point, the lord of the universe slammed his face into his pancakes, which demolished the pancakes and the plate and put a crack in the...

Nico drew his sword. His smile was even more unsettling than his scowl.”Underground,” he said. “My favorite place.”Underground was not Jason’s favorite place.

I was wondering how you got all that out of a single moooooo

Ask me again, once we defeat Gaea.

There’s my baby!” I cried, quite carried away, “There’s my poochiekins!”…”Sadie,” My dad said firmly, “Please do not refer to the devourer of souls as ‘poochiekins’.

It’s hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.

Frank stared at him. “Unfair? You can breathe underwater and blow up glaciers and summon freaking hurricanes-and it’s unfair that I can be an elephant?”Percy considered. “Okay. I guess you got a point. But the...

Leo frowned at the giant’s spire. “Can’t we blow it up or something?””Without me, you do not have the power,” Hera said. “You might as well try to destroy a mountain.””Done that once today,” Jason...

I’m getting tired of this guy’s shirt.

Gods, Percy, that’s so sweet.

June cackled with delight, muttering, “Whoops!” as a car almost killed them.

Yeah, okay. But, Nico, you do choose how to live your life. You want to trust somebody? Maybe take a risk that I’m really your friend and I’ll accept you. It’s better than hiding.

But in his heart, he wanted to be at Camp Half-Blood. The months he’d spent there with Piper and Leo had felt more satisfying, more right than all his years at Camp Jupiter. Besides, at...

Commander Tool Belt” Jason said.”Bad Boy Supreme” Piper said.”Chef Leo the Tofu Taco Expert.”They laughed and told stories about Leo valdez, their best friend. They stayed on the roof until dawn rose, and Piper started...

Fear can’t be reasoned with. Neither can hate. They’re like love. They’re almost identical emotions.

Piper had a new entry in her top-ten list of Times Piper Felt Useless. Fighting Shrimpzilla with a dagger and a pretty voice? Not so effective.

The rivalry ends here,” [Percy] said. “I love you, Wise Girl.

Leo resisted the urge to throw a grenade in Frank’s face. “I suppose I should know who Pelops was?””He was a prince, won his wife in a chariot race. Supposedly he started the Olympic games...

Suspecting and knowing are not the same.

Argh!” Thalia pushed me, and a shock went through my body that blew me backward ten feet into the water. Some of the campers gasped. A couple of the Hunters stifled laughs.”Sorry!” Thalia said, turning...

Look,” Percy continued, “I know I’m new here. I know you guys don’t like to mention the massacre in the nineteen eighties-“”He mentioned it!” one of the ghosts whimpered.

I’m incognito. Call me Fred.”A god named Fred?

Percy,” Grover said, “the gods really don’t appreciate people sitting in their thrones. I mean like turn-you-into-a-pile-of-ashes don’t appreciate it.