Brunner reveals himself to be the centaur Chiron. Brunner and is told that everything he had learned in Greek mythology is true. When he comes to for good, Grover gives him back the Minotaur horn and takes him to the man he had seen earlier. Percy weaves in and out of consciousness, and when he is conscious, he sees the girl he had seen tending to him. He walks to the camp's borders with Grover before he collapses on the porch in front of a man and a girl.

He is able to grab its horn and stabs it, causing the monster to crumble into dust. Seeing this, Percy grows angry and charges towards the Minotaur. However, Percy's mom could no longer go further and continues to distract the Minotaur, but it immediately grabs her and she dissolves into a golden shower of light. Leaving her no choice, Sally helps Percy with Grover as they run for the pine tree marking the borders of camp. While trapped inside the car, Sally then tells Percy to escape and run for the tree, but Percy disagrees and tells her that he is not leaving her behind. As they travel closer to the camp, they are attacked by a Minotaur. Inside the car, Percy discovers that his mother and Grover are familiar with one another he also notices that Grover is a goat from the waist down. Sally drives the two kids to camp using Gabe's car. Grover urgently comes to Montauk and tells Percy's mother that Percy must flee to a specific camp, Camp Half-Blood. Though they run into some complications, namely Percy's stepfather, Gabe Ugliano, they are able to leave for their destination. She tells him that, as a treat, they would get to go on a vacation to Montauk for a couple of days, and that they are to leave immediately.

Percy comes home to his mother, Sally Jackson. When they make it into Manhattan, Percy ditches Grover who has to go to the restroom. Percy is very frightened by this and assumes that the string of yarn that had just been cut off was his. The string in their hand is the lifeline of a person and when cut, it signifies the person's death. He explains to Percy that the Fates are the ones who decide the lifespan of a being.

On his way home for the summer, he sees three very old women knitting, who turn out to be the Fates, cut a line of string, and Grover tells him this is worse than it really seems. Percy is almost led to believe this, too, until he eavesdrops on Grover and Mr. Percy, however, suspects that something is going on since whenever he asks Grover, he hesitates. Kerr, a teacher he has never once seen before. Dodds had never existed, and their pre-algebra teacher is Mrs.

Percy kills the Fury in self-defense.įor the rest of the year, everyone in the campus thinks that Mrs. Brunner, charges in and throws Percy a pen that suddenly changes into a sword when he uncaps it. However, she suddenly turns into a Fury, a mythical creature known from Greek mythology, and tries to kill him. Dodds, takes Percy for a private talk, presumably to scold him. Percy is outraged, and suddenly, water from a nearby fountain drenches Nancy in a very unnatural way but the Mist makes it look like Percy pushed her. While he is in sixth grade on a field trip, a classmate of his, Nancy Bobofit, bullies his best friend Grover Underwood. Percy Jackson is a twelve-year-old boy diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia, and he has been expelled from every school he has ever attended.

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