Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.
Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.
Jumping out a window five hundred feet above ground is not usually my idea of fun. Especially when I'm wearing bronze wings and flapping my arms like a duck.
Daddy will explain. Come, he is blowing up monsters.
Son of Poseidon? East asked. I nodded. Took a dip in the Styx? Hudson asked. Yep. They made digusted sounds. Well that's perfect East said. Now how do we kille him?
Great, I thought. We just blowtorched a national monument.
It blew my mind that this stuff had survived for two thousand, three thousand years.
The entrance to the Underworld is in Los Angeles.
But yes. Come, faulty dragon people. Follow us.
Piper gave Lit a friendly sorry-about-that smile. Even with her hair messed up and wearing two-day-old clothes, she looked extremely cute, and Jason felt a little jealous she was giving Lit that smile.
Zeus looked like a really buff, really angry hippie.
I can't believe Sadie's going to let me have the last word. Our experience together must've really taught her something. Ow, she just hit me. Never mind.
Just my luck, on top of everything else I had to take baboon medicine.
You are one freaking awesome baboon.
Teach you to try marrying me, you idiot!
Life is only precious because it ends, kid. Take it from a god. You mortals don't know how lucky you are
Grover started to sniffle and I figured if I didn't cheer him up he'd either start bawling or chewing up my mattress. He tends to eat household objects whenever he gets upset.
Tyson thought Annabeth was just about the coolest thing since peanut butter, and he SERIOUSLY loved peanut butter.
But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword.
My mother says looking is the nature of wisdom.
Everybody was patting Nico on the back, complimenting him on his fighting. Even the Ares kids thought he was pretty cool. Hey, show up with an army of undead warriors to save the day, and suddenly you're everybody's best friend.
Staying silent, staying away from him... that was the hardest thing I've ever done.
He had a note excusing him from PE for the rest of his life because he had some kind of muscular disease in his legs. He walked funny, like every step hurt him, but don't let that fool you. You should've seen him run when it was enchilada day in the cafeteria.
It doesn't matter! From waist down, my best friend is a donkey.....
THE ONLY REASON FOR A MAN TO LIVE IS TO DIE
Either the kid was naturally hyper or he was hopped up on enough caffeine to give a heart attack to a water buffalo.
Please excuse Jason from eternal damnation. He has had amnesia.
A giant vulture with a girl hanging from its feet tends to attract attention.
I didn't know baboons could drive recreational vehicles, but Khufu did okay. When I woke up around dawn, he was navigating through the early morning rush hour in Houston, baring his fangs and barking a lot, and none of the other drivers seemed to notice anything out of the ordinary.
Keep a demon busy, I thought. Right. Maybe he fancies a game of Tiddlywinks.
You see gods have great power, but only humans have creativity, the power to change history rather than simply repeat it.
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 i were ever in the verge of death. Plankton, maybe. Or a floating patch of kelp.
Life is precious because it ends.
He could't have survied a hundred foot drop. I'm sorry Annabeth.
Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die.
OPEN WITH CARE. TRIPPLE G RANCH IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR PROPERTY DAMAGE, MAIMING, OR EXCRUCIATINGLY PAINFUL DEATHS.
I felt like one of Apollo's sacred cows- slow, dumb, and bright red.
The last time I'd seen the Minotaur, he'd been wearing nothing but his tighty whities. I don't know why. Maybe he'd been shaken out of bed to chase me.
He looked like those paintings of baby angels - what do you call them, hubbubs? No cherubs. That's it. He looked like a cherub who'd turned middle-aged in a trailer park.
It's like I was connected to the plumping system.
THE PEN IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD!!!!
Even little Herley, who couldn't have been more than eight, looked like he could go six rounds with Chuck Norris without breaking a sweat.
Plus, humor is a good way to hide the pain. - Leo
A long white ribbon shot out of the crack in the wall. The ribbon just kept coming, weaving itself into some kind of shape next to Anubis, and my first thought was, My god, he's got a magic roll of toilet paper.
I grabbed a pair of glowing red legs.
Khufu carefully picked out everything that ended with-o-Doritos, Oreos, and some chunks of meat. Buffalo? Armadillo? I was scared to even ask.
You want to know how Egyptians pulled the brains out of mummies. or built the pyramids, or cursed King Tut's tomb? My dad's your man.
THAT Perseus always won. That's why my momhad named me after him, even if he was son of Zeus ann I was son of Posidon. The original Perseus was one of the only heros in the greek myths who got a happy ending. The others died-betrayed, mauled, mutilated, poisoned, or cursed by the gods. My mom hoped i would inherit Perseus's luck. Judging by how my life was going so far, i wasn't too optimistic.
Maybe if he did really well they'd give him some mouldy apples.
I couldn't help thinking about my dream, with Annabeth crumpled and lifeless in Luke's arms. Here I was rescuing baby monsters, but I couldn't save my friend.
Don't judge someone until you've stood at his forge and worked with his hammer, eh?
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