Percy Jackson is a 14 year old who lives with his mom in New York. On the day of his Freshman Orientation class, he was not super excited to go since he was kicked out of pretty much every school he went to; but as he walked in he found Rachael Dare, a mortal girl who could see through the mist, whom he had met the summer before when she saved his life from a bunch of evil skeleton guys. For clarification, mist is a substance that prevents humans from seeing the monsters. Anyway Rachael and Percy walked into the gym and were listening pretty carefully until Rachael gave Percy the urgent “Come with me” look. So he reluctantly got up and followed her.
Next thing he knew they were hiding behind a GIANT drum set in the music room whispering to each other. Rachael said she saw two cheerleaders turn into Empousae! Percy was suddenly really anxious. Right then the doors burst open. In came the two cheerleaders, Kelli and Tammi. Just as Rachael had predicted, they turned into Empousae. Percy got out his sword, Riptide, which was disguised as a pen; when uncapped, it turned into a sword, and sliced into Tammi, and of course she evaporated. But, sadly, Kelli, just as Percy was about to lunge toward her, used her fire powers and made the school catch on fire. Right away Rachael and Percy escaped from a window, found Annabeth on the street waiting for him, said their goodbyes to Rachael, and went directly to Camp Half Blood. There he met a hellhound named, Mrs. O’Leary. Not knowing of its kindness Percy almost cut it in half, but was stopped by a man named Quintus. He said Mrs. O’Leary was his pet and he also gave Percy a whistle saying if he was ever in trouble to blow it and Mrs. O’ Leary would come to the rescue but to blow it only in an emergency because it would not make a sound a second time.
Later that night as they were doing an exercise during Quintus’s sword fighting class, Annabeth and Percy fell into a GIANT hole. When everybody found them they all said they had been gone for an hour but they had only been down there for two minutes.
That night as Percy was sleeping, he had a dream that Luke, an enemy, was planning to use that hole, which he later discovered was the maze of the Labyrinth, as an entrance to Camp Half Blood to destroy it.
The next morning Percy told Chiron his dream and pretty soon Annabeth, Percy, Grover, and Tyson were on a quest to find the creator of the maze, and also to stop Luke and his soldiers from getting into camp. On the way, Grover, (who had dedicated his life to find the god, Pan, god of the forest) thought he heard Pan calling for him. So they split up and kept on going. When Percy and Annabeth were halfway through the maze they thought to themselves that since Rachael Dare could see through the mist she might be able to help them avoid traps and just lead the way. So they went to get her and brought Rachael into the maze. Finally they found Daedalus, creator of the maze. But, just as they walked in, another door opened, and all sorts of evil creatures started attacking. Thankfully Annabeth found three golden wings that Daedalus had invented and flew off with Percy and Rachael. They landed and then walked back into the maze. Percy suddenly felt a strange feeling just down the hall. So he borrowed Annabeth’s invisibility hat and crept toward the feeling. As he walked in he knew why. All sorts of monsters were gathered around a sarcophagus. When the monsters all left to go do something, Percy flung off the cover and found Luke’s body. He had given up his body to re-create a horribly bad guy named, Kronos. The gods had once caught him, chopped him to pieces, and threw him into a pit. The monsters rushed in because they heard the noise and found it opened. All of a sudden Kronos came to life and started fighting Percy. But before Kronos could get to him, Rachael threw a plastic hairbrush from her purse into Kronos’ eye. That gave Percy enough time to catch up with his friends and RUN!! After a long run, they found Grover and Tyson. Then a few minutes after that Grover actually found Pan. But a very sad thing was Pan was about two thousand years old so as they were talking to him he died (very sad).
Later all five of them left Rachael in the city and traveled back to Camp Half Blood to fight a war between the campers and the monsters. During the war, Grover let out a GIANT war cry which scared all the monsters, so they ran back into the Labyrinth.
A couple days later Percy went home to his mom and her new boyfriend, Paul Blofis. As all four of them (including Tyson) were eating cake they heard a knock on the door. Percy got up to answer it. As he opened the door Percy saw Poseidon, god of the water, (otherwise known as Percy’s dad) standing there. Percy was sooooo happy and told him everything he did during the quest.
As Percy was planting some seeds that night on the fire escape, his friend, Nico, came up the stairs and told Percy he had a plan on how to defeat Kronos.
That is how it ended! I am so mad because it was a HUGE cliffhanger!
P. Elliott Ball
