Monday, April 14, 2014

The Mark of Athena - LII Leo

Posted on 1:41 AM by Unknown
LEO WAS STILL IN SHOCK. Everything had happened so quickly. They had secured grappling lines to the Athena Parthenos just as the floor gave way, and the final columns of webbing snapped. Jason and Frank dove down to save the others, but they’d only found Nico and Hazel hanging from the rope ladder. Percy and Annabeth were gone. The pit to Tartarus...
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The Mark of Athena - LI Annabeth

Posted on 1:39 AM by Unknown
ANNABETH HAD SEEN SOME STRANGE THINGS BEFORE, but she’d never seen it rain cars. As the roof of the cavern collapsed, sunlight blinded her. She got the briefest glimpse of the Argo II hovering above. It must have used its ballistae to blast a hole straight through the ground. Chunks of asphalt as big as garage doors tumbled down, along with six...
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The Mark of Athena - L Annabeth

Posted on 1:37 AM by Unknown
ANNABETH LOST TRACK OF TIME. She could feel the ambrosia she’d eaten earlier starting to repair her leg, but it still hurt so badly that the pain throbbed right up to her neck. All along the walls, small spiders scuttled in the darkness, as if awaiting their mistress’s orders. Thousands of them rustled behind the tapestries, making the woven scenes...
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The Mark of Athena - XLIX Annabeth

Posted on 1:36 AM by Unknown
ANNABETH HAD REACHED HER TERROR LIMIT. She’d been assaulted by chauvinist ghosts. She’d broken her ankle. She’d been chased across a chasm by an army of spiders. Now, in severe pain, with her ankle wrapped in boards and Bubble Wrap, and carrying no weapon except her dagger, she faced Arachne—a monstrous half-spider who wanted to kill her and make...
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The Mark of Athena - XLVIII Percy

Posted on 1:35 AM by Unknown
PERCY HAD FOUGHT MANY BATTLES. He’d even fought in a couple of arenas, but nothing like this. In the huge Colosseum, with thousands of cheering ghosts, the god Bacchus staring down at him, and the two twelve-foot giants looming over him, Percy felt as small and insignificant as a bug. He also felt very angry. Fighting giants was one thing. Bacchus...
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The Mark of Athena - XLVII Percy

Posted on 1:33 AM by Unknown
PERCY HAD NEVER THOUGHT OF MR. D as a calming influence, but suddenly everything got quiet. The machines ground to a halt. The wild animals stopped growling. The two leopards paced over—still licking their lips from Piper’s pot roast—and butted their heads affectionately against the god’s legs. Mr. D scratched their ears. “Really, Ephialtes,” he...
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The Mark of Athena - XLVI Percy

Posted on 1:31 AM by Unknown
THINGS WENT WRONG IMMEDIATELY.The giants vanished in twin puffs of smoke. They reappeared halfway across the room, each in a different spot. Percy sprinted toward Ephialtes, but slots in the floor opened under his feet, and metal walls shot up on either side, separating him from his friends. The walls started closing in on him like the sides of...
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