Percy has to travel to the Underworld, located in Los Angeles, to confront Hades. Chiron believes that Hades is the one who stole it in order to pit Poseidon and Zeus against each other. He goes to Percy for help to find out where the bolt truly is and who took it. Poseidon doesn’t want to risk war with Zeus, and he knows that he can’t find the bolt on his own. He gives Poseidon ten days for the bolt to be returned. Zeus believes that Poseidon used Percy to steal the bolt. The master bolt is so important because it is the weapon that all other lightning bolts are modeled after. Zeus’s master bolt has been stolen, and Zeus believes that Poseidon is the one responsible. Shortly after this, Percy learns that there is trouble in Olympus. During one of the training games it is revealed that he’s in fact the descendent of Poseidon, the first in three generations. At first, Percy doesn’t know who his father is. Not all of his introductions go well though, and Percy ends up making enemies with Clarisse, the daughter of Ares. Percy meets Annabeth, who is a daughter of Athena. The other gods can still have children though, who make up the student body at the camp. He also learns that in the last sixty years the “big three” (Zeus, Hades, and Poseidon) have refused to have mortal children, believing that any of their offspring would be too powerful. He learns more about their present day mythology, such as the fact that Olympus hovers invisible over the Empire State Building. At the camp, Percy learns that the Greek gods are very much real and still present in our world today. At the camp Percy is introduced to his Latin teacher, who reveals himself to actually be Chiron, a centaur and the trainer of legendary heroes. He manages to save his best friend though, pulling him into the safety of Camp Half Blood. Percy is heartbroken, assuming that he’s just seen the death of his mother. The Minotaur knocks out Grover and squeezes Percy’s mother, causing her to disappear in a shower of golden sparks. On the way to the camp, they are attacked by another mystical creature, the Minotaur. Grover reiterates his earlier warnings about Percy being in danger, this time adding that monstrous forces are after his friend. He tells Percy that he’s been watching over him until Percy was old enough to attend Camp Half Blood, a mystical summer camp for training demigods. In the evening Grover appears and reveals himself to actually be a mystical creature, a Satyr. Percy and his mother attend a weekend retreat at the beach, where they are met with a horrible storm. Percy is not only frustrated with Gabe’s behavior, but also his mother for sending him away to boarding school every year. Gabe treats Percy like a resident at the house instead of a stepson, believing that Percy should provide him with money in exchange for room and board. She is married to Gabe Ugliano, Percy’s stepfather, who hates him. Sadly, she has never been able to achieve those dreams and works at a candy shop just to make ends meet. His mother, Sally, is a kind-hearted woman who longs to be a writer. Here, readers are introduced to Percy’s parents. He believes that Percy is in some kind of danger, but can’t say what. Not even his best friend, Grover, knows what he is talking about.Īs the end of the year draws near Grover insists on escorting Percy home from school. In the aftermath of the attack though Percy is surprised to find that nobody has ever heard of the math teacher before, making him wonder if it had been real or just a hallucination. Percy is able to defeat the monster through the use of a bronze sword. Not everything is what it seems, as Percy’s math teacher turns into a Fury and attacks him. The Lightning Thief, the first in the Percy Jackson series, by Rick Riordan, begins with Percy Jackson taking a school trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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