Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief (Book 1): Rick Riordan (Percy Jackson and The Olympians, 1)

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Scylla lives on a cliff, while Charybdis lives in the middle of the entrance to the Sea of Monsters. Percy begins wrestling with the automaton but notices that the heat resonating from the song has melted his earwax and signed his shirt. Riordan created the fictional character Percy Jackson and his travels across the United States to recover Zeus' lightning bolt. The titan lord Kronos has devised his most treacherous plot yet, and the young heroes have just fallen prey. It doesn’t take long before Percy is trying to unravel a mystery, with the help of two new friends, and sets out on a quest across the United States to prevent an all-out war between the gods.

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They were supposed to see a movie together, but Annabeth is upset when she sees Rachel with him because she is jealous to see Percy hanging out with her when they were clearly supposed to be at the theaters. Kirkus Reviews magazine said, "the narrator's voice lends a refreshing air of realism to this riotously paced quest tale of heroism that questions the realities of our world, family, friendship and loyalty". To do so, Percy Jackson must first discover how Luke could do it and they go visit his mother, May Castellan in Connecticut, where they find her insane and unstable. As he does, Nico stops by and tells him that he needs to tell Percy things about how they might be able to stop the Titan army. With the help of a satyr and a daughter of Athena, Percy must journey across the United States to catch a thief who has stolen the original weapon of mass destruction — Zeus’ master bolt.Nevertheless, his mother took them both in Gabe's prized possession, a 1978 Camaro and began driving at daring speeds through a blinding hurricane, and it was blasted off the road by a bolt of lightning. While on their way to Hades’ house, Grover’s flying shoes, on loan from Luke, pull him toward a pit Percy has dreamed uneasily about. Later that night, Percy has a dream where, unbeknownst to him, he is Hercules, and is being handed Anaklusmos by a girl who he later realizes is Zoë. In the Underworld, Percy barters with Charon, a security officer, to let them in and tries to distract Cerberus, a three-headed security Rottweiler, but Annabeth is able to successfully command him. Nico leads Percy to the Underworld, where Hades reveals that it was all a trick to make Nico the child of the prophecy.

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Meanwhile, the Olympians are struggling to contain the monster Typhon and Kronos has begun to advance on New York City.

While there, he learns his mother used Medusa to turn Smelly Gabe into a statue as she no longer needs to put up with him to keep Percy safe. Thalia takes a truck and drives them to a river, where they rent a few canoes and Percy convinces a few Naiads to steer them to the Hoover Dam. Thalia and Percy agreed to be co-captains of the demigod team while Zoë Nightshade leads the Hunters. He even went to see the Oracle of Delphi, however, she didn't answer his questions and he left the attic in anger. There, Zoë Nightshade, who knows a lot about Nereus, tells Percy to look for him by smell as it is different.

The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1)

They camp there for the night, but a limo appears and Percy's blood began to boil, which meant Ares was nearby. Percy then goes to see Annabeth's father, Frederick Chase, as he may have a car they could use to save his daughter. He summons his personal lyre and tells Grover that his immunity to magical music and the ability to play the lyre's magic will aid in the capture the celedon. Then, they faced Procrustes and tricked him into getting stretched in his old bed before finding their way to the Underworld.

At some point while still a baby, Percy was attacked by a snake but managed to strangle it to death, just like the famous Roman demigod Hercules. However, Nico blames Percy for not protecting her and throws the figurine away, telling him he hates Percy. Then, at boarding school, he swears his pre-algebra teacher turned into a monster and tried to kill him. When Percy apologizes, Annabeth says he wants her on her team in Capture the Flag (it is revealed that she wanted Percy to distract Clarisse, knowing she would want revenge). Percy must confront powerful enemies, find out the truth about the lost god Pan, and face Kronos’s terrible secret.