He enters the throne room with thrones for each of the twelve Olympians. A city of dazzling white classical buildings winds up the mountaintop, and Percy makes his way to the palace at the peak. He goes up to the 600th floor of the Empire State Building in the elevator, and comes out far above Manhattan at the base of a floating mountain peak in the clouds. When the trio gets to New York, Annabeth and Grover head straight back to Half-Blood Hill to tell Chiron what happened, and Percy heads into Manhattan.
The only way they will make it to New York before the summer solstice deadline is by flying, after the news media clears Percy's name and says that all his efforts had been meant to get away from the large man on a motorcycle who had kidnapped him. She concedes that Percy was not the thief, and Percy gives her the Helm of Darkness to return to Hades so that he will call off the war. Dodds Fury appears, having watched the entire altercation. Percy and the others turn away from his blinding brightness as he disappears. This stops Ares, and he warns Percy that he has made an enemy of him, and then assumes his true immortal form. He limps toward Percy to attack him, but a strange force stops him, and a cold, heavy presence passes over the beach for a moment before lifting. Percy takes that moment to stab Ares in the heel, and Ares, bleeding ichor (the golden blood of the gods), is stunned that Percy managed to injure him. In one last effort, Percy drops his blade and feigns exhaustion, then calls up a wall of water to smash Ares in the face. The cops tell them to drop the guns, which is how they are seeing the weapons, but Ares sends a wall of fire at them and explodes their cars. Suddenly cops show up, but Percy's ADHD battle senses keep him focused and noticing every detail. Ares tries to keep Percy out of the water, and Percy struggles against him. Grover gives him a flattened tin can as a token of the satyrs' support.Įach armed with a sword, they fight back and forth for a while, and Percy uses the water to his advantage. Annabeth gives Percy her necklace of camp beads for good luck, calling it a reconciliation of Athena and Poseidon together. Percy calls up a wave to swallow up the boar, and then challenges Ares to a duel. He says he has to kill Percy to prevent him from bringing the bolt to Olympus, and summons a wild boar monster. Ares denies it, but is clearly uncomfortable. He pulls Hades's helm from his pocket and shows it off.Īres will not explain why he sent the master bolt to Hades in the Underworld with Percy in the first place Percy guesses that it was actually the being in the pit that ordered the theft, and Ares is answering to that creature.
Percy accuses him, and he says he did not steal the bolt personally, but does not reveal whom he used. Sure enough, Ares is there waiting for them at the shore on his motorcycle. Ares wanted war so badly that he stole the master bolt and Hades's helm and framed Percy. "The god who has turned" from the prophecy was not Hades, but Ares. Percy and Annabeth both have put two and two together and realized the trick, but Grover still cannot figure it out, so Percy explains. A coast guard boat picks Percy, Annabeth, and Grover up in the middle of the bay, where the bubbles had carried them up from the Underworld.
0 kommentar(er)
