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Percy Jackson & The Olympians is a series of adventure books written by Rick Riordan, based on Greek mythology.
The series begins with a young boy named Percy Jackson who is diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia discovering that he is the son of Poseidon, the god of the sea. In the process, he learns that the Olympians still exist, along with many other figures and monsters from Greek mythology like Titans, cyclopes, and other creatures. He later becomes the owner of the sword Anaklusmos (which means "Riptide"). This was a gift from his father.
Four books have been published thus far in the series, with one more still to come:
The Lightning Thief (2005)
The Sea of Monsters (April 1, 2006)
The Titan's Curse (May 1, 2007).
The Battle of the Labyrinth (May 6, 2008).
The Lost Charoit(May or Fall 2009).
The Lightning Thief is the first book in the series. Percy Jackson is a dyslexic 12-year old boy who suffers from ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). Unfortunately, this -- among other things -- has gotten him expelled from six different schools in the past six years. His most recent school was Yancy Academy in upstate New York where he began to realize he is different from the other kids. He accidentally slays his evil pre-algebra teacher, Mrs. Dodds (who stands for one of the three Furies, from the depths of the Underworld), whom others promptly forget ever existed. Meanwhile, his Latin teacher, Mr. Brunner, is clandestinely discussing his safety behind his back with Percy's best friend Grover. After returning from Yancy to his mother and horrible stepfather, Gabe Ugliano, Percy and his mother take an impromptu vacation to the beach. However, after a surprise visit from Grover who has been hiding the fact that he is a satyr, and a subsequent flight away from the beach house towards Camp Half-Blood in Gabe's beloved car, the three are attacked by the Minotaur. Percy watches in horror as his mother suddenly disappears after being grabbed by the minotaur. He kills the minotaur by breaking off the beast's horn and using it against him. He then drags Grover over the property line and into Camp Half-Blood.
At Camp Half-Blood, Percy begins to learn his true identity as a demigod. Here he meets Annabeth Chase, a daughter of Athena, and learns that Grover had actually been at Yancy in order to protect Percy. At the camp, Annabeth reveals to him that his dyslexia is caused by his mind being "hardwired for Ancient Greek" and his ADHD is his "battlefield reflexes" which could save him in such a situation. While initially unclaimed by any god, Percy is dumped in Cabin 11 where all newcomers are sent (See Section Camp Half Blood) where he meets Luke, a son of Hermes. While being shown around by Annabeth, he is cornered by four bullies from the Cabin of Ares, God of War, who drag him into a bathroom in an attempt to introduce his head to a toilet. The plumbing rebels, spraying the four bullies so hard they are unable to complete their hazing of Percy, while Percy himself is left completely dry in the soaked bathroom. The leader of the group is a particularly mean girl by the name of Clarisse who leads the attack on Percy during his first-ever game of Capture the Flag. Curiously, Percy beats the four and is subsequently claimed by Poseidon. This leads to Percy being sent on a quest by Chiron, an ancient centaur who posed as Mr. Brunner at Yancy and is the Camp Activities director. Percy's quest is to find Zeus' missing master bolt, for which all lightning is patterned, in order to prevent a war between Mt. Olympus' "Big Three" (Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades); Zeus believes that Poseidon may have used Percy to steal the master bolt, while Percy believes Hades is behind it. Percy is joined on his quest by Annabeth and Grover. All the while, Percy is having odd dreams about someone whom he believes to be Hades.
After tracing Zeus' missing master bolt to Hades, Percy, Grover and Annabeth make an epic trip to Los Angeles to visit Hades. Along the way, they are sidetracked by mythological monsters, including Medusa and the Chimera, and encountering Ares in Denver, who revealed that Percy's mother in in fact, not dead. After reaching the Underworld, they are nearly dragged into the pits of Tartarus by some unseen force. They finally reach Hades' palace only to discover that Hades had not stolen the master bolt, and that the bolt had somehow materialized in Percy's backpack given to him by Ares. Hades tells them that his helm of darkness, which makes the wearer invisible, is missing as well. Hades blames Poseidon and Zeus for its disappearance. He threatens to kill Percy and his friends with undead soldiers, but they manage to escape using pearls that had been given to Percy earlier by a nereid.
As it turns out, Ares was tricked by Kronos, and is actually a pawn in a strategy planned by the Titan Lord for eons. After a battle in which Percy wounds Ares and subsequently obtains from him the helm of darkness, Percy returns the master bolt to Olympus and the helm to Hades (via the Furies) and prevents a war among the gods. He tells Zeus and Poseidon that he believes Kronos may be rising to power again, but Zeus states that the matter is barred from discussion. Percy returns to his mother, who was returned to her apartment in New York City after Hades' helm of darkness was returned to him. Near the end of the novel, Percy is betrayed and almost killed by one of his friends from camp: Hermes' son, Luke, who was the real thief of Zeus's lightning bolt during the winter solstice, and was found to also be working for Kronos. Percy meets with his father, Poseidon and receives the Head of Medusa. The book ends with Percy deciding to spend the school year in New York with his mother (who has moved into a new apartment and gone to college after turning Percy's disgusting stepdad Gabe into stone, as she was only using him to protect Percy anyway) and spend his summers at camp.
The Sea of Monsters [2]- The Tree that serves as the magical border of Camp Half-Blood, formed to prevent a daughter of Zeus from dying, has been poisoned mysteriously by unknown forces. After Chiron is dismissed from camp, blamed for poisoning the tree, Tantalus, who came from the Fields of Punishment and can not have food or water, has taken the job. The only thing to get rid of the poison is to the Golden Fleece, which is located on Polyphemus's Island, in the Sea of Monsters (the Bermuda Triangle). Clarisse, the daughter of Ares and longtime enemy of Percy, is given the quest to go into the Sea of Monsters to find the Golden Fleece, which has healing powers for plants, animals, and humans. Percy and Annabeth decide to go also, not just for the Golden Fleece, but for their friend Grover who is trapped in Polyphemus the cyclops's cave somewhere in the Sea of Monsters. Percy and Annabeth go along with Tyson, a young Cyclops (Poseidon's son, thus Percy's half-brother) whom Percy befriended at school that year, joins them on their journey, after saving camp half blood from two fire-breathing bulls. Polyphemus believes that Grover is a female cyclops and not a satyr. As they enter the Sea of Monsters, they have to get past Scylla and Charybdis. Instead of at least trying to sail in between, Clarrise automatically goes for Charybidis and Tyson almost dies in Clarisse's ship. After that, Percy and Annabeth journey to many dangerous islands, and Annabeth tells Percy many things about how Thaila died and she also mentioned his prophecy. Fighting their way through many other obstacles, like the Sirens and Circe's island, they join up with Clarrise, Grover, and later Tyson, and leave with the Golden Fleece. When they get back to the mortal world, they send off Clarrise on an airplane to camp alone, and Percy, Annabeth and Tyson get kidnapped by Luke. He almost kills Percy in a duel, but Percy reveals Chiron was innocent, and Chiron comes to rescue them with his strangely dressed (think party hats and bows) relatives. When they get back to camp the Fleece is put on the tree. The Fleece not only revives Thalia's tree, but it makes Thalia come back to life too. It's Thalia who appears as she looked in Percy's dreams. He remembers the dream and realizes that it is her. It turns out that this was actually Kronos's plan, done so that he would have another chance to manipulate the prophecy which governs the future of Olympus and the Olympians. (the prophecy was that a child of the big three (must be a half-blood) will either save or destroy Olympus, depending on his decision. It also will happen on that child's 16th birthday.
The Titan's Curse [3]- The demigods, Annabeth, Percy, and Thalia rushed to the rescue to find that Grover has made an important discovery: he has found two powerful half-blood siblings whose parentage is unknown. The girl is called Bianca, and the boy is called Nico. Bianca is 12 and Nico is 10 years old. A fierce battle awaits... and a surprise from a group of Hunters with Artemis, the goddess of the moon and the hunt. But that's not all that awaits them. The Titan lord Kronos has devised his most treacherous plot yet, and the young heroes have just fallen prey.
They're not the only ones in danger. An ancient monster has arisen -- one rumored to be so powerful it could destroy Olympus, and Artemis, the only one who might know how to track it, is missing. Now Percy and his friends, along with the Hunters of Artemis, have only a week to find the kidnapped goddess, find Annabeth who supposedly got kidnapped by the evil Dr.Thorn, and solve the mystery of the monster Artemis was hunting. Along the way Grover makes a very important discovery about Pan ( the god of nature, and the only satyr god). Along the way, Percy meets a mortal girl named Rachel Elizabeth Dare, who can see straight though the Mist. She helps him escape from dead warriors. While warning them about the junk yard of the gods, Aphrodite tells Percy there is a romantic future waiting for him with Annabeth as hinted often during the series.
In the third book, satyrs were put on high alert to search for half bloods in school by Chiron. So, being a satyr, Grover went to a school and found two half bloods, which is very rare, even to find one. They were brother and sister and a monster named Dr. Thorn was after them. Percy tried to save them but he just got captured also. So, Percy stalled Thorn until Grover, Thalia and Annabeth came to the rescue. But, Annabeth jumped on Thorn’s back and Thorn jumped off the cliff, taking Annabeth with him. The Hunters of Artemis arrived just after that and set up camp. Bianca di Angelo, one of the two half bloods Grover found, decided to join the Artemis's Hunters and left her little brother, Nico, alone to go to Camp Half-blood. Apollo gave the Hunters, Percy, and his friends a ride to Camp Half-Blood while Artemis searches for the terrible monster Dr.Thorn spoke of. Once at camp, the hunters move in to the cabin of Artemis. The next day, while the hunters and the campers were playing capture the flag, the oracle, the shriveled up mummy who never moved, came to the forest in which the game was played in. It gave the lieutenant huntress, Zoë Nightshade, a prophecy to help Artemis who has been captured. Three hunters and two campers go on a quest to help Artemis, but Percy is not part of the group. But, one of the hunters that was invited to participate in the quest gets sick from a shirt sprayed with centaur blood. So, Percy rides on his favorite pegasus, Blackjack, and follows the van in which everyone on the quest are in. After about 500 miles of flying and driving, the van stops in Washington D.C., but Percy sees an unexpected foe, Dr. Thorn. So, Percy follows him and he meets the General, Atlas, holder of the sky. Atlas summons 12 zombies that only go after Percy. So, Percy goes to warn Thalia and runs right into her. Then, out of the blue a huge lion comes and tries to kill them all. But, once it was killed and Percy got its fur, they headed back to their quest. Once at the other side of the country, they go to the Mountain of Despair to fight Atlas and Luke. Thalia was fighting Luke, and everyone else was fighting Atlas. Artemis was struggling against her bond, the weight of the sky. Percy took the sky from her and held it while Artemis and Zoë lured him back to where the sky was being held. While this was happening, Thalia was fighting Luke, and Luke was winning. Finally,Artemis threw Atlas over to Percy. He knocked Percy from under the sky and Atlas had to hold his burden once more. Thalia and Luke were still fighting but finally Thalia shoved him off the edge with her shield, Aegis, but Zoë had gotten hurt badly. She got poisoned from her old friend, (a dragon) Ladon, and her father, Atlas, made the final strike that killed her. Artemis put her out of her pain and she turned into dust. The dust flew into the stars, creating a new shape in the sky in the shape of a hunter. On the way back to camp, Percy was trying to figure out how to tell Nico her sister died because of some crazed robot in the junkyard of the gods. Once at camp Percy told Nico the horrible truth and he went sprinting into the woods. Annabeth, Percy and Grover looked for Nico for over 2 hours, but no luck. Percy held the figurine of the god Bianca got for him at the junk yard. Suddenly, Percy realized who his dad was, Hades, Lord of the dead. Many weeks later, Grover was drinking a lot of coffee, trying to get a connection with Pan, like he did in New Mexico. He came running towards Percy to tell him Pan spoke in his mind. Pan only said three words, "I await you."
The Battle of the Labyrinth [4]- Percy Jackson thinks that freshmen orientation won't be fun, and that itself proves to be when he is accompanied by a mortal friend, Rachel Elizabeth Dare. Rachel tells Percy to get out of the room when she spots the demon cheerleaders that Percy had encountered when he went in through the side of the building to ignore Rachel. As Percy leaves, he ends up having to fight the demons and runs into Annabeth Chase, a friend from camp along the way. She takes him to Camp Half-Blood, a camp just for demigods like them. Percy finds his half-brother Cyclops Tyson waiting for him in his cabin. Quintus, the new swordsmen teacher, is accompanied by Mrs. O'Leary, a hell hound that develops a soft spot for Percy. But during a game that Quintus made up, Annabeth and Percy go through the rocks of Zeus's Fists and are stuck in a dark room. Though it was only a few minutes, when they came back up it was almost an hour since they went in. Annabeth is offered the quest she has been waiting for since age 7. She must enter the Labyrinth, find Daedalus and get Ariadne's String before their arch enemy Luke Castellan, son of Hermes, does. Luke has been planning on burning down Camp Half-Blood, and using the Labyrinth to get there guided by Ariadne's String. Annabeth gets her prophecy from the Oracle: You shall delve in the darkness of the endless maze, the dead, the traitor, and the lost one raise, you shall rise or fall by the ghost king's hand, the child of Athena's final stand, destroyed with a hero's final breath, and lose a love to worse than death. Annabeth takes Percy, Grover, and Tyson along with her. Together, they enter the maze. They are accompanied by Hera, who tells that Percy knows the way. When they take a wrong turn throughout the maze they run into Nico, son of Hades. Nico is accompanied by King Minos, who tries to convince Nico to try to kill them and that they are not his friends. Once they get out, Percy and the others run into a monster-run quiz show. Once they get out, Hephaestus has them go to one of his forges. Percy gets lost in the inner depths of Mt. St. Helens while battling fierce water demons. Before parting with Annabeth, they find themselves kissing for good luck. Percy blasts out of Mt. St. Helens while escaping and ends up falling into Ogygia, a tiny island mortals don't know about. There, he meets Calypso, a young girl whom Percy thinks is much more pretty than Aphrodite herself. Percy must leave the island and the love-blinded Calypso behind. When he finds Annabeth again, Percy realizes that he does know the way. Once they are accompanied by Rachel again, they run into a wide arena, where Percy must battle demigod Ethan Nakumura. Sparing Ethan, Percy challenges his giant half-brother that is accompanying Luke. Percy kills him by having him off of the ground, for the earth helps him heal. When he finds Annabeth and Rachel again, Rachel leads them straight to Daedalus whom tells them that Luke got there first. He also says that Rachel is better and more accurate than the string. Once they navigate through the maze, Percy hears the Titan Lord speak to him. Taking Annabeth's invisibility cap, he goes into the room and opens the coffin. There, not fully put together is Luke. As much as Percy hated him, Percy did not draw out Riptide. He finds the demigod whom he spared earlier in the maze, Ethan. Ethan joins the Titan's side and Luke/Kronos comes to life. Percy barely escapes thanks to Rachel. While they were going through the Labyrinth, they meet up with Tyson and Grover. Together, they all found the wild god Pan, who tells them he is fading. As his spirit fades, it goes into the mouths of each of them, and it seemed like Grover got a little bit more than the rest. They lead Rachel to New York, who gets a ride from a taxi driver, who leads them straight to camp. Once they get to camp, leaving Rachel behind because she is mortal, they get ready for the Titan army. Battling side by side are Annabeth and Percy. Percy, remembering what Annabeth had did earlier in the maze, gets to her side and they both fight a fierce monster of the Titan's army. Grover, in panic makes a scream so loud that it scares the Titan army back into the Labyrinth. Grover's Dryad girlfriend, Juniper, insists that it was Pan's wild scream that had scared the Titan army the first time. As Percy gets up, Quintus comes and tells them that he is Daedalus, and that the Labyrinth is tied to his life. The child of Athena (Deadalus/Quintus) dies, and so does the Labyrinth. Percy, Annabeth, and the other uninjured campers take the wounded to the Big House. Percy decides to leave camp and go celebrate his birthday with his mom. Two surprising visitors stop by while Percy, his mom, and Paul Blofis(Percy's mom's boyfriend) are celebrating. First, Percy's father Poseidon comes and tells him that he fears Luke/Kronos is only temporarily kept back. Finally departing with Poseidon, Percy decides to go to his room to plant the garden he had earlier promised Calypso. As he does, Nico di Angelo stops by and tells him that he needs to tell Percy things about how they might be able to stop the Titan army. Inviting Nico in for cake, Percy heads downstairs with Nico to talk about it.
The series begins with a young boy named Percy Jackson who is diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia discovering that he is the son of Poseidon, the god of the sea. In the process, he learns that the Olympians still exist, along with many other figures and monsters from Greek mythology like Titans, cyclopes, and other creatures. He later becomes the owner of the sword Anaklusmos (which means "Riptide"). This was a gift from his father.
Four books have been published thus far in the series, with one more still to come:
The Lightning Thief (2005)
The Sea of Monsters (April 1, 2006)
The Titan's Curse (May 1, 2007).
The Battle of the Labyrinth (May 6, 2008).
The Lost Charoit(May or Fall 2009).
The Lightning Thief is the first book in the series. Percy Jackson is a dyslexic 12-year old boy who suffers from ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). Unfortunately, this -- among other things -- has gotten him expelled from six different schools in the past six years. His most recent school was Yancy Academy in upstate New York where he began to realize he is different from the other kids. He accidentally slays his evil pre-algebra teacher, Mrs. Dodds (who stands for one of the three Furies, from the depths of the Underworld), whom others promptly forget ever existed. Meanwhile, his Latin teacher, Mr. Brunner, is clandestinely discussing his safety behind his back with Percy's best friend Grover. After returning from Yancy to his mother and horrible stepfather, Gabe Ugliano, Percy and his mother take an impromptu vacation to the beach. However, after a surprise visit from Grover who has been hiding the fact that he is a satyr, and a subsequent flight away from the beach house towards Camp Half-Blood in Gabe's beloved car, the three are attacked by the Minotaur. Percy watches in horror as his mother suddenly disappears after being grabbed by the minotaur. He kills the minotaur by breaking off the beast's horn and using it against him. He then drags Grover over the property line and into Camp Half-Blood.
At Camp Half-Blood, Percy begins to learn his true identity as a demigod. Here he meets Annabeth Chase, a daughter of Athena, and learns that Grover had actually been at Yancy in order to protect Percy. At the camp, Annabeth reveals to him that his dyslexia is caused by his mind being "hardwired for Ancient Greek" and his ADHD is his "battlefield reflexes" which could save him in such a situation. While initially unclaimed by any god, Percy is dumped in Cabin 11 where all newcomers are sent (See Section Camp Half Blood) where he meets Luke, a son of Hermes. While being shown around by Annabeth, he is cornered by four bullies from the Cabin of Ares, God of War, who drag him into a bathroom in an attempt to introduce his head to a toilet. The plumbing rebels, spraying the four bullies so hard they are unable to complete their hazing of Percy, while Percy himself is left completely dry in the soaked bathroom. The leader of the group is a particularly mean girl by the name of Clarisse who leads the attack on Percy during his first-ever game of Capture the Flag. Curiously, Percy beats the four and is subsequently claimed by Poseidon. This leads to Percy being sent on a quest by Chiron, an ancient centaur who posed as Mr. Brunner at Yancy and is the Camp Activities director. Percy's quest is to find Zeus' missing master bolt, for which all lightning is patterned, in order to prevent a war between Mt. Olympus' "Big Three" (Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades); Zeus believes that Poseidon may have used Percy to steal the master bolt, while Percy believes Hades is behind it. Percy is joined on his quest by Annabeth and Grover. All the while, Percy is having odd dreams about someone whom he believes to be Hades.
After tracing Zeus' missing master bolt to Hades, Percy, Grover and Annabeth make an epic trip to Los Angeles to visit Hades. Along the way, they are sidetracked by mythological monsters, including Medusa and the Chimera, and encountering Ares in Denver, who revealed that Percy's mother in in fact, not dead. After reaching the Underworld, they are nearly dragged into the pits of Tartarus by some unseen force. They finally reach Hades' palace only to discover that Hades had not stolen the master bolt, and that the bolt had somehow materialized in Percy's backpack given to him by Ares. Hades tells them that his helm of darkness, which makes the wearer invisible, is missing as well. Hades blames Poseidon and Zeus for its disappearance. He threatens to kill Percy and his friends with undead soldiers, but they manage to escape using pearls that had been given to Percy earlier by a nereid.
As it turns out, Ares was tricked by Kronos, and is actually a pawn in a strategy planned by the Titan Lord for eons. After a battle in which Percy wounds Ares and subsequently obtains from him the helm of darkness, Percy returns the master bolt to Olympus and the helm to Hades (via the Furies) and prevents a war among the gods. He tells Zeus and Poseidon that he believes Kronos may be rising to power again, but Zeus states that the matter is barred from discussion. Percy returns to his mother, who was returned to her apartment in New York City after Hades' helm of darkness was returned to him. Near the end of the novel, Percy is betrayed and almost killed by one of his friends from camp: Hermes' son, Luke, who was the real thief of Zeus's lightning bolt during the winter solstice, and was found to also be working for Kronos. Percy meets with his father, Poseidon and receives the Head of Medusa. The book ends with Percy deciding to spend the school year in New York with his mother (who has moved into a new apartment and gone to college after turning Percy's disgusting stepdad Gabe into stone, as she was only using him to protect Percy anyway) and spend his summers at camp.
The Sea of Monsters [2]- The Tree that serves as the magical border of Camp Half-Blood, formed to prevent a daughter of Zeus from dying, has been poisoned mysteriously by unknown forces. After Chiron is dismissed from camp, blamed for poisoning the tree, Tantalus, who came from the Fields of Punishment and can not have food or water, has taken the job. The only thing to get rid of the poison is to the Golden Fleece, which is located on Polyphemus's Island, in the Sea of Monsters (the Bermuda Triangle). Clarisse, the daughter of Ares and longtime enemy of Percy, is given the quest to go into the Sea of Monsters to find the Golden Fleece, which has healing powers for plants, animals, and humans. Percy and Annabeth decide to go also, not just for the Golden Fleece, but for their friend Grover who is trapped in Polyphemus the cyclops's cave somewhere in the Sea of Monsters. Percy and Annabeth go along with Tyson, a young Cyclops (Poseidon's son, thus Percy's half-brother) whom Percy befriended at school that year, joins them on their journey, after saving camp half blood from two fire-breathing bulls. Polyphemus believes that Grover is a female cyclops and not a satyr. As they enter the Sea of Monsters, they have to get past Scylla and Charybdis. Instead of at least trying to sail in between, Clarrise automatically goes for Charybidis and Tyson almost dies in Clarisse's ship. After that, Percy and Annabeth journey to many dangerous islands, and Annabeth tells Percy many things about how Thaila died and she also mentioned his prophecy. Fighting their way through many other obstacles, like the Sirens and Circe's island, they join up with Clarrise, Grover, and later Tyson, and leave with the Golden Fleece. When they get back to the mortal world, they send off Clarrise on an airplane to camp alone, and Percy, Annabeth and Tyson get kidnapped by Luke. He almost kills Percy in a duel, but Percy reveals Chiron was innocent, and Chiron comes to rescue them with his strangely dressed (think party hats and bows) relatives. When they get back to camp the Fleece is put on the tree. The Fleece not only revives Thalia's tree, but it makes Thalia come back to life too. It's Thalia who appears as she looked in Percy's dreams. He remembers the dream and realizes that it is her. It turns out that this was actually Kronos's plan, done so that he would have another chance to manipulate the prophecy which governs the future of Olympus and the Olympians. (the prophecy was that a child of the big three (must be a half-blood) will either save or destroy Olympus, depending on his decision. It also will happen on that child's 16th birthday.
The Titan's Curse [3]- The demigods, Annabeth, Percy, and Thalia rushed to the rescue to find that Grover has made an important discovery: he has found two powerful half-blood siblings whose parentage is unknown. The girl is called Bianca, and the boy is called Nico. Bianca is 12 and Nico is 10 years old. A fierce battle awaits... and a surprise from a group of Hunters with Artemis, the goddess of the moon and the hunt. But that's not all that awaits them. The Titan lord Kronos has devised his most treacherous plot yet, and the young heroes have just fallen prey.
They're not the only ones in danger. An ancient monster has arisen -- one rumored to be so powerful it could destroy Olympus, and Artemis, the only one who might know how to track it, is missing. Now Percy and his friends, along with the Hunters of Artemis, have only a week to find the kidnapped goddess, find Annabeth who supposedly got kidnapped by the evil Dr.Thorn, and solve the mystery of the monster Artemis was hunting. Along the way Grover makes a very important discovery about Pan ( the god of nature, and the only satyr god). Along the way, Percy meets a mortal girl named Rachel Elizabeth Dare, who can see straight though the Mist. She helps him escape from dead warriors. While warning them about the junk yard of the gods, Aphrodite tells Percy there is a romantic future waiting for him with Annabeth as hinted often during the series.
In the third book, satyrs were put on high alert to search for half bloods in school by Chiron. So, being a satyr, Grover went to a school and found two half bloods, which is very rare, even to find one. They were brother and sister and a monster named Dr. Thorn was after them. Percy tried to save them but he just got captured also. So, Percy stalled Thorn until Grover, Thalia and Annabeth came to the rescue. But, Annabeth jumped on Thorn’s back and Thorn jumped off the cliff, taking Annabeth with him. The Hunters of Artemis arrived just after that and set up camp. Bianca di Angelo, one of the two half bloods Grover found, decided to join the Artemis's Hunters and left her little brother, Nico, alone to go to Camp Half-blood. Apollo gave the Hunters, Percy, and his friends a ride to Camp Half-Blood while Artemis searches for the terrible monster Dr.Thorn spoke of. Once at camp, the hunters move in to the cabin of Artemis. The next day, while the hunters and the campers were playing capture the flag, the oracle, the shriveled up mummy who never moved, came to the forest in which the game was played in. It gave the lieutenant huntress, Zoë Nightshade, a prophecy to help Artemis who has been captured. Three hunters and two campers go on a quest to help Artemis, but Percy is not part of the group. But, one of the hunters that was invited to participate in the quest gets sick from a shirt sprayed with centaur blood. So, Percy rides on his favorite pegasus, Blackjack, and follows the van in which everyone on the quest are in. After about 500 miles of flying and driving, the van stops in Washington D.C., but Percy sees an unexpected foe, Dr. Thorn. So, Percy follows him and he meets the General, Atlas, holder of the sky. Atlas summons 12 zombies that only go after Percy. So, Percy goes to warn Thalia and runs right into her. Then, out of the blue a huge lion comes and tries to kill them all. But, once it was killed and Percy got its fur, they headed back to their quest. Once at the other side of the country, they go to the Mountain of Despair to fight Atlas and Luke. Thalia was fighting Luke, and everyone else was fighting Atlas. Artemis was struggling against her bond, the weight of the sky. Percy took the sky from her and held it while Artemis and Zoë lured him back to where the sky was being held. While this was happening, Thalia was fighting Luke, and Luke was winning. Finally,Artemis threw Atlas over to Percy. He knocked Percy from under the sky and Atlas had to hold his burden once more. Thalia and Luke were still fighting but finally Thalia shoved him off the edge with her shield, Aegis, but Zoë had gotten hurt badly. She got poisoned from her old friend, (a dragon) Ladon, and her father, Atlas, made the final strike that killed her. Artemis put her out of her pain and she turned into dust. The dust flew into the stars, creating a new shape in the sky in the shape of a hunter. On the way back to camp, Percy was trying to figure out how to tell Nico her sister died because of some crazed robot in the junkyard of the gods. Once at camp Percy told Nico the horrible truth and he went sprinting into the woods. Annabeth, Percy and Grover looked for Nico for over 2 hours, but no luck. Percy held the figurine of the god Bianca got for him at the junk yard. Suddenly, Percy realized who his dad was, Hades, Lord of the dead. Many weeks later, Grover was drinking a lot of coffee, trying to get a connection with Pan, like he did in New Mexico. He came running towards Percy to tell him Pan spoke in his mind. Pan only said three words, "I await you."
The Battle of the Labyrinth [4]- Percy Jackson thinks that freshmen orientation won't be fun, and that itself proves to be when he is accompanied by a mortal friend, Rachel Elizabeth Dare. Rachel tells Percy to get out of the room when she spots the demon cheerleaders that Percy had encountered when he went in through the side of the building to ignore Rachel. As Percy leaves, he ends up having to fight the demons and runs into Annabeth Chase, a friend from camp along the way. She takes him to Camp Half-Blood, a camp just for demigods like them. Percy finds his half-brother Cyclops Tyson waiting for him in his cabin. Quintus, the new swordsmen teacher, is accompanied by Mrs. O'Leary, a hell hound that develops a soft spot for Percy. But during a game that Quintus made up, Annabeth and Percy go through the rocks of Zeus's Fists and are stuck in a dark room. Though it was only a few minutes, when they came back up it was almost an hour since they went in. Annabeth is offered the quest she has been waiting for since age 7. She must enter the Labyrinth, find Daedalus and get Ariadne's String before their arch enemy Luke Castellan, son of Hermes, does. Luke has been planning on burning down Camp Half-Blood, and using the Labyrinth to get there guided by Ariadne's String. Annabeth gets her prophecy from the Oracle: You shall delve in the darkness of the endless maze, the dead, the traitor, and the lost one raise, you shall rise or fall by the ghost king's hand, the child of Athena's final stand, destroyed with a hero's final breath, and lose a love to worse than death. Annabeth takes Percy, Grover, and Tyson along with her. Together, they enter the maze. They are accompanied by Hera, who tells that Percy knows the way. When they take a wrong turn throughout the maze they run into Nico, son of Hades. Nico is accompanied by King Minos, who tries to convince Nico to try to kill them and that they are not his friends. Once they get out, Percy and the others run into a monster-run quiz show. Once they get out, Hephaestus has them go to one of his forges. Percy gets lost in the inner depths of Mt. St. Helens while battling fierce water demons. Before parting with Annabeth, they find themselves kissing for good luck. Percy blasts out of Mt. St. Helens while escaping and ends up falling into Ogygia, a tiny island mortals don't know about. There, he meets Calypso, a young girl whom Percy thinks is much more pretty than Aphrodite herself. Percy must leave the island and the love-blinded Calypso behind. When he finds Annabeth again, Percy realizes that he does know the way. Once they are accompanied by Rachel again, they run into a wide arena, where Percy must battle demigod Ethan Nakumura. Sparing Ethan, Percy challenges his giant half-brother that is accompanying Luke. Percy kills him by having him off of the ground, for the earth helps him heal. When he finds Annabeth and Rachel again, Rachel leads them straight to Daedalus whom tells them that Luke got there first. He also says that Rachel is better and more accurate than the string. Once they navigate through the maze, Percy hears the Titan Lord speak to him. Taking Annabeth's invisibility cap, he goes into the room and opens the coffin. There, not fully put together is Luke. As much as Percy hated him, Percy did not draw out Riptide. He finds the demigod whom he spared earlier in the maze, Ethan. Ethan joins the Titan's side and Luke/Kronos comes to life. Percy barely escapes thanks to Rachel. While they were going through the Labyrinth, they meet up with Tyson and Grover. Together, they all found the wild god Pan, who tells them he is fading. As his spirit fades, it goes into the mouths of each of them, and it seemed like Grover got a little bit more than the rest. They lead Rachel to New York, who gets a ride from a taxi driver, who leads them straight to camp. Once they get to camp, leaving Rachel behind because she is mortal, they get ready for the Titan army. Battling side by side are Annabeth and Percy. Percy, remembering what Annabeth had did earlier in the maze, gets to her side and they both fight a fierce monster of the Titan's army. Grover, in panic makes a scream so loud that it scares the Titan army back into the Labyrinth. Grover's Dryad girlfriend, Juniper, insists that it was Pan's wild scream that had scared the Titan army the first time. As Percy gets up, Quintus comes and tells them that he is Daedalus, and that the Labyrinth is tied to his life. The child of Athena (Deadalus/Quintus) dies, and so does the Labyrinth. Percy, Annabeth, and the other uninjured campers take the wounded to the Big House. Percy decides to leave camp and go celebrate his birthday with his mom. Two surprising visitors stop by while Percy, his mom, and Paul Blofis(Percy's mom's boyfriend) are celebrating. First, Percy's father Poseidon comes and tells him that he fears Luke/Kronos is only temporarily kept back. Finally departing with Poseidon, Percy decides to go to his room to plant the garden he had earlier promised Calypso. As he does, Nico di Angelo stops by and tells him that he needs to tell Percy things about how they might be able to stop the Titan army. Inviting Nico in for cake, Percy heads downstairs with Nico to talk about it.
