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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 demigod Nico had ever seen in action. Later at Camp Half-Blood, Percy took Nico by the arm, promising to keep his sister Bianca safe. Nico believed him. Nico looked into his sea-green eyes and though, How can he possibly fail? This is a real hero.

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Percy pushed on his side furiously and the crack closed. His eyes blazed with anger. She hoped he wasn't mad at her, but if he was she couldn't blame him. If it keeps him going, she thought, then let him be angry.

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Erre es korakas, Blinky!" Dionysus cursed. "I will have your soul!

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No matter how many times Percy killed them and watched them crumble to powder, they just kept re-forming like large evil dust bunnies.

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But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword.

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The cafe windows wrapped all the way around the observation floor, which gave us a beautiful panoramic view of the skeleton army that had come to kill us.

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Imagine jumping into a pit of boiling acid. Now multiply that pain times fifty." -Percy

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It's not important, Silena insisted. We have to find Charlie! Another first: a child of Aphrodite uninterested in jewellery.

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How do you have five children in a row, each on a different say? They're gods, Carter said. They can do stuff like that.

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How does it taste? Carter wondered. Zia smiled. Stick out your tongue. To answer Carter's question, the tattoo tasted like burning car tires. Ugh. I spit a blue gob of order and harmony into the fountain.

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

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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 while I owe you a favor," I said. "Why did you take that knife?" "You would've done the same for me." It was true. I guess we both knew it. Still, I felt like somebody was poking my heart with a cold metal rod.

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Percy, lesser beings do many horrible things in the name of the gods. That does not mean we gods approve. The way our sons and daughters act in our names... well, it usually says more about THEM than it does about us.

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As for me, I did the stupidest thing in my life, which is saying a lot. I attacked the Titan Lord Atlas.

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I want a room decorated with bones!" Dan said. "Where'd they come from?" "Cemeteries," Amy said. "Back in the 1700s, the cemeteries were getting overcrowded, so they decided to dig up tons of old bodies–all their bones–and move them into the Catacombs. The thing is...look at the dates. See when they started moving bones into the Catacombs?" Dan squinted at the screen. He didn't see what she was talking about. "Is it my birthday?

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A guy in Greek armor drew his sword and charged, but slipped in a puddle of pina colada.

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Why can't you place a blessing like that on us?" I asked. "It only works on wild animals." "So it would only affect Percy," Annabeth reasoned. "Hey!" I protested.

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Back in Khufu's day I knew a magician who parted the Nile just so he could climb to the bottom and retrieve a girl's necklace. Then there was that Israelite fellow, Mickey." "Moses?" "Yeah, him.

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Sometimes, it takes us a while to appreciate something new, something that might change us for the better.

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A Styrofoam egg carton caught his eye. He opened it and found a single silver orb with little blinking red lights. "This is cool, too!" He dropped it into his backpack. "Dan, no!" "What? They've got plenty of other stuff, and we need all the help we can get!" "It could be dangerous." "I hope so.

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I smiled at the giant. Actually, Cacus, I have another secret weapon. The giant's eyes lit up with greed. Another weapon? I will steal it! I will copy it and sell the knockoffs for a profit! What is this secret weapon? Her name is Annabeth, I said. And she's one of a kind.

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I woke to a bucket of ice water in my face. Sadie! Get up, Zia said. God! I yelled. Was that necessary? No, admitted Zia.

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Most of Set's forces were running towards our boat, screaming and throwing rocks (which tended to fall down and hit them, but no one says demons are bright).

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We can't make a portal— We've got a flying boat, Carter offered.

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Mr. D," Grover asked timidly, "if you're not going to eat it, could I have your Diet Coke can?

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Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds?

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After the satyrs filed in to dinner, the Hermes cabin brought up the rear. They were always the biggest cabin. Last summer it had been led by Luke, the guy who fought with Thalia and Annabeth on top of Half-Blood Hill. For a while, before Poseidon had claimed me, I'd lodged in the Hermes cabin. Luke had befriended me...and then he'd tried to kill me.

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Alabaster, you told me earlier that heroes don't die. You may be right, but I can tell you one thing." Claymore looked the boy in the eyes. "I'm not a hero.

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My name is Percy Jackson. I'm twelve years old. Until a few months ago, I was a boarding student at Yancy Academy, a private school for troubled kids in upstate New York. Am I a troubled kid? Yeah. You could say that.

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Don't untie me," she said, "no matter what happens or how much I plead. I'll want to go straight over the edge and drown myself." "Are you trying to tempt me?" "Ha-ha.

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