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

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

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I'm calm," Rachel insisted. "Every time I'm around you, some monsters attack us. What's to be nervous about?" "Look," I said. "I'm sorry about the band room. I hope they didn't kick you our or anything." "Nah. They asked me a lot of questions about you. I played dumb." "Was it hard?" Annabeth asked.

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Bloated!" he cried. The corresponding hieroglyph flew through the air, bursting against a demon's chest in a spray of light. Instantly, the demon swelled like a water balloon and rolled screaming down the pyramid. "Flat!" Thoth blasted another demon, who collapsed and shriveled into a monster-shaped doormat. "Intestinal problems!" Thoth yelled. The poor demon who got zapped with that one turned green and doubled over.

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After our mom died, her parents (our grandparents) had this big court battle with dad. After six lawyers, two fistfights, and a near fatal attack with a spatula (don't ask), they won the right to keep Sadie with them in England.

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You set us up! No! I swear— Her face fell. Mel. Mel must've told him. Right, I grumbled. Blame Mel.

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The Friday before winter break, my mom packed me an overnight bag and a few deadly weapons and took me to a new boarding school.

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Okay," Annabeth said. "What exactly do you smell?" "Something bad," Tyson answered. "Great," Annabeth grumbled. "That clears it up.

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Amy, Dan, and Nellie were sitting at a table in a conference room, examining reproductions of Franklin documents-some so rare, the librarians told her, the only copies existed in Paris. "Yeah, here's a rare grocery list," Dan muttered. "Wow.

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After my bad experience as a kite, I simply refused to go about as a glowing Sadie-headed chicken. That's fine for Carter, but I have standards.

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I thought she'd make some comment about the bloodthirsty gods chasing us, but when she finally found her voice, she said, "That boy kissed you!" Leave it to Liz to have her priorities straight.

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

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

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

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

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