Once she was gone, I knelt next to Annabeth and felt her forehead. She was still burning up.”You’re cute when you’re worried,” she muttered. “Your eyebrows get all scrunched together.””You are not going to die...

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...

Behold!” Percy shouted. “The god’s chosen beverage. Tremble before the horror of Diet Coke!

Naturally, Coach Hedge went ballistic; but Percy found it hard to take the satyr seriously since he was barely five feet tall.”Never in my life!” Coach bellowed, waving his bat and knocking over a plate...

Elections only happen in two ways,” Reyna said. “Either the legion raises someone on a shield after a major success on the battlefield-and we haven’t had any major battles-or we hold a ballot on the...

They sped by a pack of sea lions lounging on the docks, and she swore she saw an old homeless guy sitting among them. From across the water the old man pointed a bony finger...

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

You do have a plan?”Percy wanted to step forward bravely and say, No, I don’t!

Stop!” he yelled at the others. “Multigrain fighting is not allowed!

Annabeth Thalia and I hadn’t seen each other in months but between the blizzard and the thought of what we were about to do we were too nervous to talk much. Except for my mom....

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...

New lesson class… most monsters will vaporize when sliced with a celestial bronze sword.this change is perfectly normal, and will happen to you RIGHT NOW if you don’t BACK OFF!…. CLASS DISMISSED!

As I got closer to the fence, I held my shirt over my nose to block the smell. One stallion waded through the muck and whinnied angrily at me. He bared his teeth, which were...

He’d learned years ago it was better not to dwell too much on who was related to whom on the godly side of things. After Tyson the Cyclops adopted him as a brother, Percy decided...

Grover was sniffing the wind, looking nervous. He fished out his acorns and threw them into the sand, then played his pipes. They rearranged themselves in a pattern that made no sense to me, but...

And it was pretty much the best underwater kiss of all time.

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 attack power,”...

You’re pretty smug, Lord Ares, for a guy who runs from Cupid statues.

If there were ever any half-bloods who needed to worry about that, itwas Thalia and me. I wondered if maybe I should’ve sent Poseidon that seashell pattern tiefor Father’s Day after all.–Percy Jackson

Laistry….I can’t even say that. What would you call them in English?””Canadians.

So,” Annabeth said, “are you going to argue about me coming along?””Nah. You’d just beat me up.” Percy said.She managed a laugh, which was good to hear

So I took her hand, and I don’t know what everybody else heard, but to me it sounded like a slow dance: a little sad, but maybe a little hopeful, too.

Dessa vez, não olhei para trás.

Percy: You just hit the lord of the titans with a blue plastic hairbrush.

Sleep.

If we can’t repair things with the Romans—well, the two sets of demigods have never gotten along. That’s why the gods kept us separate. I don’t know if we could ever belong there.”Percy didn’t want...

Percy pulled Annabeth close and kissed her…long enough for it to get really awkward for Piper, though she said nothing. She thought about the old rule of Aphrodite’s cabin: that to be recognized as a...

Frank stared at her. “But you throw Ding Dongs at monsters.”Iris looked horrified. “Oh, they’re not Ding Dongs.”She rummaged under the counter and brought out a package of chocolate covered cakes that looked exactly like...

Frank heard a laugh behind him. He glanced back and couldn’t believe what he saw. Nico di Angelo was actually smiling.”That’s more like it,” Nico said. “Let’s turn this tide!

[Piper] rushed to get dressed. By the time she got up on deck, the others had already gathered—all hastily dressed except for Coach Hedge, who had pulled the night watch. Frank’s Vancouver Winter Olympics shirt...

I am turning into a crazy dolphin.”He began to change, his nose elongating into a snout, his skin becoming sleek and gray. He fell to the deck as a dolphin, his tail thumping against the...

Do you have a pen?” she asked him.

It was like Percy had faced death before, like he knew about grief. What mattered was listening. You didn’t need to say you were sorry. The only thing that helped was moving on—moving forward.

Fish gathered to look at us – a school of baracudas, some curious marines. SCRAM! I told them. They swam off, but I could tell they went reluctantly. I swear I understood their intencions. They...

This belonged to my sister-in-law,” Prometheus explained. “Pandora.”A lump formed in my throat. “As in Pandora’s box?”Prometheus shook his head. “I don’t know how this box business got started. It was never a box. It...

That’s us,” he said. “Those five nuts right there.””Which one is me?” I asked.”The little deformed one,” Zoe suggested.”Oh, shut up.

Getting eaten by a giant crocodile was bad enough.The kid with the glowing sword only made my day worse.

Okay, do not call me Aquaman. That’s even worse than waterboy.

Doubtful, but it did work…”Annabeth?” Percy said again. “You’re planning something. You’ve got that I’m-planning-something look.””I don’t have an I’m-planning-something look.””Yeah, you totally do. Your eyebrows knit and your lips press together and —“”Do you...

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!

The Romans always wanted bread and circuses-food and entertainement! As we destroy their city, I will offer them both. Behold, a sample!”Someething dropped from the ceiling and landed at Percy’s feet: a loaf of sandwich...

I turned to Dionysus. “You cured him?””Madness is my specialty. It was quite simple.””But…you did something nice. Why?”He raised and eyebrow. “I am nice! I simple ooze niceness, Perry Johansson. Haven’t you noticed?

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...

Annabeth glared at me like she was going to punch me. And then she did something that surprised me even more. Shd kissed me. “Br careful Seaweed Brain.” she put her cap back on and...

The throne rumbled. A wave of gale-force anger slammed into me. WHO DARES-The voice stopped abruptly, The anger retreated, which was a good thing, because just those two words had almost blasted my mind to...

There is always a way out for those clever enough to find it.

Christmas in the Underworld was NOT my idea. If I’d known what was coming, I would’ve called in sick. I could’ve avoided an army of demons, a fight with a Titan, and a trick that...

I’ve been waiting a long time for a quest, seaweed brain,” she said. “Athena is no fan of Poseidon, but if you’re going to save the world, I’m the best person to keep you from...

If the statue engulfs people in fire, we should send Leo.’ ‘I love you too, man.’ ‘You know what I mean. You’re immune. Or, heck, give me some of those nice water grenades and I’ll...

I tried to imagine how things could get much worse. The gods were in the Midwest fighting a huge monster that had almost defeated them once before. Poseidon was under siege and losing a war...