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War between the gods and the Titans is drawing near. To stop them, Percy and his friends must set out on a quest through the Labyrinth — a sprawling underground world with surprises and danger at every turn.

The final war begins… with the Battle of the Labyrinth. All year the half-bloods have been preparing for battle against the Titans, knowing the odds of victory are grim.

While the Olympians struggle to contain the rampaging monster Typhon, Kronos begins his advance on New York City, where Mount Olympus stands virtually unguarded. And as the battle for Western civilization rages on the streets of Manhattan, Percy faces a terrifying suspicion that he may be fighting against his own fate. A supplement to the Percy Jackson series, The Demigod Files include three original Percy Jackson short stories, interviews with the characters, and other fun extras!

A handbook no half-blood should be without: a fully illustrated, in-depth guide to gods, monsters, and all things Percy. This companion to the series comes complete with trading cards, full-color diagrams, and maps, all packaged in a handy manual with a crisp, magnetic flap enclosure.

Now submerge yourself in the thrilling, stunning, and action-packed graphic novel. Read Post. Seventh grade has been surprisingly quiet for Percy Jackson. Director Chris Columbus. Craig Titley screenplay Rick Riordan novel. Top credits Director Chris Columbus. See more at IMDbPro. Trailer Clip Interview Photos Top cast Edit. Kevin McKidd Poseidon as Poseidon. Steve Coogan Hades as Hades. Brandon T. Jackson Grover as Grover.

Alexandra Daddario Annabeth as Annabeth. Jake Abel Luke as Luke. Sean Bean Zeus as Zeus. Pierce Brosnan Mr. Brunner as Mr. Brunner …. Rosario Dawson Persephone as Persephone. Melina Kanakaredes Athena as Athena.

Uma Thurman Medusa as Medusa. Julian Richings Ferryman as Ferryman. When he was just a baby, Percy was attacked by a snake but managed to strangle it to death, just like the famous demigod Hercules. However, Poseidon occasionally visited Percy when he was in his cradle, which Percy described as a "golden glow", his father's warm smile and a hand on his head.

Percy was raised by his single mother. Percy despised Gabe, as Gabe would frequently bully Percy and abuse his mother. Gabe spent much of his time playing Poker with his friends. Strange things often happened around Percy, including a school bus exploding, and an aquarium being flooded, which often resulted in his getting into trouble: he was kicked out of more than six schools over the course of six years.

It is said in The Blood of Olympus that Percy has been kicked out of several military academies where they believed that paddling is good for the soul. When he was in third grade, a large man followed Percy around when he was at school, but by threatening to call the police, the teachers eventually got the man to leave. However, nobody believed Percy when he said that the man had just one big eye. They thought he was crazy and hallucinating. When he was in fourth grade on a trip to an aquarium, he accidentally hit the wrong lever on the catwalk when his school was visiting the Sea World Shark Pool and made his class take an "unplanned swim".

In the fifth grade, Percy accidentally fired a war cannon, which hit the school bus when he was on a field trip at the Saratoga Battlefield. Percy is a very troubled year-old boy who has been expelled from every school he has ever attended. Yancy Academy is where his troubles seem to be worse than usual. He only has one friend there, Grover Underwood , who is also Percy's best friend and whom Percy often protects from bullies little does he know that Grover is actually a satyr in disguise sent to get Percy to Camp Half-Blood quickly.

Percy has both ADHD and dyslexia. During a field trip to a museum, Percy is annoyed by the school bully, Nancy Bobofit , for bullying Grover, and in a fit of anger, accidentally summons water from a nearby fountain to pull her in, but he didn't know how he'd done it. Dodds , his Pre-Algebra teacher, witnesses the whole scene and tells him to follow her into the museum for a "talk. Brunner actually the centaur Chiron , another one of Percy's teachers comes in and throws Percy a pen actually Riptide.

While mid-air, the pen transformed into the sword Riptide and Percy used it to kill Mrs. However, when Percy returns to the bus and asks his classmates, nobody remembers Mrs. The only person that may have remembered her was Grover, who always hesitated before he answers no. Everybody else believed her name was Mrs. Kerr instead and that they had never met a Mrs.

Percy arrives back at the school and hears Grover and Mr. Brunner talking about his life being in danger and becomes very suspicious since extremely strange things have been happening recently. At the bus stop, Grover sees that the three Fates are looking at Percy while knitting giant socks.

Soon after, the Fates snip the string of life which makes both Grover very worried that Percy was going to die soon and Percy extremely suspicious.

Later, while Grover was in the bathroom, he ditched Grover and goes home on his own at the end of the school year, even though Grover asked him to wait for him at the bus stop. He arrives home to his horrible step-dad Gabe Ugliano and his friends playing poker. Gabe immediately demands money for his poker game and although Percy denies he has any, Gabe deduces that he has changed from the cab driver and forces it from him.

Percy's mother arrives soon afterward and tells him that they can go to his favorite beach in Montauk for the whole weekend. Percy, happy that finally something good has happened, packs his things and leaves, but not before seeing Gabe get hit in the butt by the door when he does a strange hand gesture he saw Grover use.

During their night in Montauk, Percy had a vivid dream. The dream features two animals, which is a horse and a bird attacking each other. At the same time, there is a voice that Percy describes as so deep and evil that it turned his blood to ice egging the two animals on. Percy was awoken by the pounding of the door.

He and his mother are shocked to see Grover outside their cabin, without pants which Percy recommends not to see that coming to him and his mom, telling them to leave. Percy was confused at his friend's appearance, as he was a goat from the waist down and revealed himself to be a satyr.

Nevertheless, his mother took them both in Gabe's prized possession, a Camaro and began driving at daring speeds through a blinding hurricane, and it was blasted off the road by a bolt of lightning. Grover is injured and starts asking for food. As Percy and his mom help Grover up and try to get out, they saw the Minotaur , a half-man, half-bull monster, who had been chasing them. The three of them managed to dodge it by following Ms. Jackson's advice to jump out of the way at the last second, but Grover was too slow and the Minotaur injured him but got distracted by Percy's mother.

The Minotaur forgot Grover, grabbed Percy's mom by her neck, and she disappeared in a golden flash of light it is later revealed that she was captured by Hades. Percy, in a surge of new power and anger, managed to defeat the Minotaur by jumping onto him, breaking off its horn , and stabbing the Minotaur in the chest in a fit of rage just like the hero Theseus had defeated the monster before him. Percy dragged the unconscious Grover past a hill, and then passed out himself when he reached the porch of a house.

He was cared for in the infirmary by Annabeth Chase , waking up three days later. He learned that he was at Camp Half-Blood , a place where demigods like him were trained to survive against monsters. Percy learned that the director of the camp was the Greek wine god, Dionysus , who was very unpleasant and moody, and Mr. Brunner, the former Latin teacher from Yancy Academy, was actually the hero-training centaur half-human, half stallion , Chiron.

Shown around camp by Annabeth, his new friend and head counselor of the Athena's Cabin , he found out that all the campers were demigods , also known as half-bloods. He himself was a demigod, but no one knew of his divine father yet.

After being shown around the camp, he temporarily resided in the Hermes' Cabin , where all unclaimed demigods went since "Hermes isn't picky about who he sponsors," according to Luke Castellan , the head counselor for this cabin. Luke befriended Percy and treated him with respect though they had a little bit of rivalry after Percy beat Luke in a sword fighting match. Afterward, Percy encountered Clarisse La Rue , counselor of the Ares' Cabin , who performed the "initiation ceremony," which was sticking Percy's head in the girl's bathroom toilet.

Her plan backfired when Percy shot water out of the toilet to blast back at Clarisse and her buddies. This officially began their rivalry. Unfortunately, Annabeth was not spared.

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. Throughout the course of this game, Percy defeated Clarisse and three others single-handedly when he touched the creek, which healed his wounds from the fight and gave him a sudden burst of adrenaline. After Capture the Flag, a hellhound summoned from the Fields of Punishment , came out of the forest and attacked him.

Percy was nearly killed but Chiron managed to shoot the hellhound, killing it. Clarisse tried to blame Percy for summoning the hellhound but Percy denied any knowledge of it. Percy's injury from the hellhound healed by touching the water; then suddenly, a holographic trident floated above Percy's head, which told everyone that he was the son of Poseidon , the god of the sea, therefore explaining his powers over water.

As the monster was not from the forest, it meant that someone within the camp had summoned it, because nothing, including weather, could enter the camp's magic boundaries without permission. Clarisse said that it was Percy who summoned it but Chiron didn't agree as Percy himself was attacked by the monster it is later revealed Luke summoned this monster from Tartarus to kill Percy. Percy goes back to Camp Half-Blood, where everyone at the camp congratulates him, Annabeth, and Grover since they were the first people to return from a quest since Luke.

At the end of the summer, Percy can't decide whether to stay at camp or enroll in seventh grade and live with his mom. He finally decides to go train to clear his mind, where he sees Luke training at swordplay. As they drink Coke together in the forest, Luke reveals he was behind the theft of the bolt and the Helm of Darkness, and vanishes. However, before he left, he summons a pit scorpion to kill Percy. Percy manages to kill it, but it stabs its stinger into Percy's palm.

He tried to reach the camp but collapses. However, several forest nymphs carry him and after being fed ambrosia and nectar, Percy heals and decides to enroll in the seventh grade and come back to camp next summer. When Percy is attacked by Laistrygonian Giants disguised as students at school in a game of dodgeball when the giants start throwing cannon balls at him, Annabeth rescues him along with Tyson one of Percy's friends at his new school who was at the school for a project.

He was actually a Cyclopes which explained why he was extremely big. On the way to camp, in the Gray Sisters' Taxi , which is a taxi business run by the Fates, Percy learns some coordinates the coordinates on where to find the Golden Fleece that lead to something he needs. Percy arrives at camp to find the camp under attack by Colchis Bulls and drives them back with help from Tyson who is fireproof.

He later learns Thalia's Pine Tree is poisoned, meaning the borders are weakened and the activities director Chiron has been blamed since he is Kronos' son. Clarisse , the daughter of Ares and Percy's enemy, is assigned a quest to go to the Sea of Monsters using the coordinates Percy received to find and retrieve the Golden Fleece, which has healing powers for plants, animals, and humans which they need to heal Thalia's tree.

Percy and Annabeth decide to go also, but Dionysus and Tantalus , the new camp director replacing Chiron, refused. Percy and Annabeth then journeyed to many dangerous islands including Circe's Island and the Sirens' Island , and Annabeth tells Percy several stories about Thalia 's death, which she also mentions her prophecy. When they reach Polyphemus 's island they join up with Clarisse who managed to survive the explosion , Grover who had been captured by Polyphemus , and later Tyson , who miraculously survived thanks to Rainbow , a friendly hippocampus who dragged him out of the water.

They leave with the Golden Fleece after fighting Polyphemus and defeating and blinding him, which Polyphemus stole many years ago. When they return to the mortal world, they send off Clarisse on an airplane to the camp alone to drape the Fleece on the tree, and Luke kidnaps Percy, Annabeth, and Tyson, but Percy reveals Chiron's innocence in a secret Iris Message sent to camp which Dionysus responds to by sending Tantalus to the underworld once more and restoring Chiron's job.

Percy challenges Luke to a duel, but unfortunately, due to Percy being out of practice and Luke being fully trained and experienced, he soon finds himself to be no match for Luke's polished swordsmanship and is swiftly defeated and very nearly killed by Luke.

However, Chiron comes to rescue them with his strangely dressed relatives and they manage to chase off Luke and his allies. When they return to camp, the fleece is placed on the tree, which not only revives it but also brings Thalia back to her full life form. This revival was actually Kronos' plan, done so that he would have another chance to manipulate the prophecy that governs the future of Olympus and the Olympians.

Thalia Grace , Percy, and Annabeth heard from Grover that two half-blood siblings, Bianca and Nico di Angelo , had been found in a middle school. The three immediately set out to find him.

Grover had been waiting for their appearance. He explained that he found the two half-bloods and that they were enjoying a function in the gym. He was very nervous and embarrassed as the only person he could dance with was Annabeth, who had recently grown taller than him so he looked quite stupid "dancing" with her. Percy, having been forced to dance to blend in with the crowd sees the two half-bloods following Dr.

Thorn, a manticore which was not a very good sign. Percy felt disgusted by the fact that Thalia was always powerful and a hero at everything she'd done and so thought it was now his time to shine and ran to save the di Angelos from danger alone, though his plan did not work out as planned and he, Grover and Annabeth were nearly killed by Dr.

Then, Artemis and her Hunters appear and Annabeth falls from a cliff as she had climbed on Dr. Thorn with her knife before the Hunters shot him down with their arrows.

Being a son of Poseidon , Percy did not feel Annabeth dropping into the water, which confirms the fact that she had been captured. The Hunters saved Percy and his friends from the manticore. After a while, Percy clearly understood that he and Thalia were not under speaking terms due to the fact that Annabeth had fallen down the cliff. Nico had taken a great interest in the fact that he was a demigod and exchanged many thoughts on the Greek gods, while Bianca had been dumbfounded and was summoned by Artemis with Percy, where Bianca pledged her life to Artemis much to Percy's protests to become a Hunter unaware at the time that she was a daughter of Hades and by joining the Hunters, she removed herself as a possible subject of the Great Prophecy.

When he got to camp, Percy had frequent dreams about Annabeth and that she was in distress. He even went to see the Oracle of Delphi , however, she didn't answer his questions and he left the attic in anger. After a few days, the camp had a Capture the Flag game, where the Hunters were up against the campers. Thalia told Percy to stay on defense to guard the flag, but when he saw that her team was about to be attacked, he ran up the middle and took the flag.

Thalia then runs up to Percy, asking him what he was thinking as when she got to the flag's spot, it was gone. She then shocks him with Electrokinesis but claims it was an accident and apologizes. Percy, angry uses the creek water to splash her and claims that it was also an accident. Thalia and Percy begin to fight, each one summoning stronger attacks until Percy stopped, seeing the Oracle walking towards them.

The Oracle replied with a prophecy, saying:. Five shall go west to the goddess in chains, One shall be lost in the land without rain, The bane of Olympus shows the trail, Campers and Hunters combined prevail, The Titan's curse must one withstand, And one shall perish by a parent's hand.

Chiron then holds a meeting to decide who will go on the quest. Percy was mad that he was not allowed to take part in the quest since it was his chance to save Annabeth. That night, he is awoken by Blackjack , a pegasus who tells him a sea creature is in trouble. He swims out and finds the sea cow trapped in a net and frees it slowly because it was scared of his sword , forcing him to free it by hand. On his way back to camp, he sees Nico spying on the Artemis' Cabin and uses Annabeth's cap to follow him.

Percy overheard Zoe telling Bianca that Phoebe had been poisoned by Centaur Blood on a shirt that Connor and Travis Stoll had given her earlier as revenge for her defeating them during Capture The Flag so she couldn't go. Revealing himself to Nico, he is forced to promise Nico that he will watch out for his sister after Nico correctly guesses that Percy will follow the group on their quest. As they leave, Percy followed them from above on his pegasi , Blackjack.

They followed the car that the four traveled in and stops hours later when the group arrives at the Air and Space Museum in Washington, D. Percy then spots Dr. Thorn, the manticore, and overhears him saying that Annabeth is alive and that his dreams were true.

He follows the manticore when it doesn't follow the group into the museum. He soon finds the General and Luke and sees the General creating several Spartoi that he was going to use to kill him and Bianca. However, the Spartoi got hold of parts of Percy's sleeve instead of the General's piece of cloth with the Hunters' scent on it, resulting in them hunting him instead. Percy quickly escapes using Annabeth's Yankee cap to find the others.

After finding the lion's weakness, Percy helps defeat it by filling the monster's mouth with astronaut food he found in the gift shop. She also allowed him to join the quest after realizing that he is the fifth quest member, despite the fact that the Spartoi, now disguised as grey security men thanks to the Mist , are tracking him. They fled Washington and made it to a train line , where they jumped into a rail car with a homeless man who offered them his fire.

Though at first oblivious to the identity of the homeless land, a very bad haiku reveals him to be Apollo. He asked Percy to save his sister by looking for Nereus , the Old Man of the Sea, as he could tell them where to find Artemis. Apollo takes them as far west as far as he could, to the last stop in a small town in New Mexico. Despite there being no real way out of the town, they tried to think of ways to leave including renting a cab.

However, the Skeleton Warriors managed to find them again and attacked with handguns while Grover passes out as Pan 's presence overcomes him. As they tried to defend themselves against the undead soldiers, who would reform when killed, Grover senses Pan's presence again, along with a gift from the wild - the Erymanthian Boar.

However, because it is wild it attacks everyone, not only defeating the skeleton warriors and Thalia and Percy lead it into the woods. They are cornered at a cliff and he tells Thalia to jump at the last second. Thalia, however, is scared of heights, which Percy quickly figured out and pushed her out of the way causing the boar to crash into the snow.

Grover managed to use his nature magic to make an apple appear in front of the monster's face and the group rides it to a junkyard in Gila Claw, Arizona , owned by Hephaestus. They camp there for the night, but a limo appears and Percy's blood began to boil, which meant Ares was nearby.

The god of war came out of the car and told Percy to get inside, as someone wanted to talk to him. Percy reluctantly does so and finds Aphrodite inside. She asks him to hold a mirror as she fixes some microscopic flaws on her face. As Percy watches her, she seemed to change into all the girls he had ever had a crush on. Aphrodite begins to talk about tragic love stories and eventually asked Percy why he was on the quest. He originally told her it was to save Artemis, but with some pushing by the love goddess, he admits that he is really there to save Annabeth.

Aphrodite thrills at his response and tells him that she will make his love life very interesting, hinting that Annabeth and Percy will most likely have a romantic future together. While passing through, Bianca took a Mythomagic game piece of Hades for her brother, Nico because it was the only one that Nico didn't have.

Because of this slight mistake, a defective automaton came to life and started attacking the group. Percy notices a manhole cover at the bottom of the machine's foot and was planning to enter it, however, Bianca went in instead, sacrificing herself to kill the monster and save her friends.

Percy and everyone else tried saving her, but they knew that it was completely useless as Grover announces tearfully that the next line of the prophecy has been fulfilled. 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. When they near the dam, Percy, along with Thalia and Grover, begin sprouting facts about the Dam, indicating the depth of their relationship with Annabeth is as the Hoover Dam was one of her personal favorites.

As they go to get food, Percy hears the sound of a sea creature he had befriended earlier. He tells it to go away and wonders how it followed him, but is distracted by the sight of remaining Skeleton Warriors - Bianca had managed to kill one in New Mexico.

He runs into an elevator to escape them but then becomes trapped deep inside the dam. A tour guide, who turns out to be Athena Percy later realizes it was her since she had Annabeth's eyes and that she was trying to help him save her daughter , tells him that there is always a way out for those that are smart enough to find them, before ascending in the elevator.

He is spooked when a girl appears behind him and he swings at her with Riptide , but the sword simply passes through her as she is a regular mortal. She then reveals she isn't so regular, as she sees the Skeleton Warriors for what they truly are and directs them away from Percy, who hid in a bathroom.

As he thanks her, he introduces himself as Percy and that he has to go which Rachel thinks means his name is Percy Gotta-go. Up top, he warns the others of the danger and they are cornered at the top of the dam.

He tells Thalia to pray to her father , but she doesn't think he will answer. He says that Athena thinks he will and Thalia asked her father for help. Two statues come to life and swat the undead skeletons away before flying the group to California.

Percy finds him and hangs on for dear life as the old man tried to shake him off. Percy tricks him into going into the sea, which makes Percy stronger. Nereus changes into many animals to shake Percy off, but his attempts fail and he eventually agreed to answer their question. Percy asked what the terrible monster that Artemis was hunting was, which Nereus says is easy and points to the water before escaping. Percy feels tricked until Bessie, the sea creature that had been following him, appears in the water.

Grover understands it and they quickly learn it is the Ophiotaurus , the monster Artemis had been seeking as burning its entrails will give the person who does the power to destroy Olympus. Just then, Dr. Thorn appears with a small force of mortals and attacked the group, wanting to make his own place in the Titan Army. He tried to convince Thalia to slay and burn the Ophiotaurus so that she could destroy Olympus but Percy manages to shake her out of her stupor. D makes Percy ask him politely for help, which Percy does between clenched teeth, and the god saves them by wrapping the Manticore and his men in grapevines, saving their lives.

Percy then reluctantly thanks, Dionysus. Percy then goes to see Annabeth's father, Frederick Chase , as he may have a car they could use to save his daughter. After meeting Annabeth's family, he is shocked that they are so much different from the way Annabeth had described them, as to him they only seem caring and loving.

Chase wants to save his daughter personally but is told it is too dangerous for him, being just a regular mortal. He reluctantly agrees and gives them his car. Before they leave, Percy makes a promise to Mrs. Chase to tell Annabeth that she still has a home there with them. As they drive up the mountain towards the Garden of the Hesperides , the car explodes due to a lightning bolt that struck it forcing them to complete the rest of the climb on foot.

Then they continue on to the place where Atlas held up the sky, though they find Artemis holding that burden instead. Percy finds Annabeth bound and gagged by Luke and the General, who is actually Atlas. Percy challenged Atlas, but his sword becomes too heavy, as Ares curse had finally taken hold Ares promised that his sword would fail him when he needed it most when Percy won against him before. They were thrown into battle where Luke and Thalia fight each other, while Percy tries his best to hold off Atlas.

In the ensuing fight, Percy saw the ruins of Mount Othrys , rival capital of Mount Olympus and home of the Titans , rebuilding itself. He realizes that this meant that the Titans' chances of victory are increasing. Percy used that moment to ask Artemis to give him the sky as he realized that the prophecy had involved him and that only Artemis could have a chance against Atlas.

Artemis managed to push him back under the sky while Percy rolled out of the way. She tells him that he is nothing like Hercules who had betrayed her before and she is proud he carries the weapon she made before dying.

Percy rescued Annabeth and they manage to escape the mountain, thanks in part to Frederick Chase shooting the monsters with his plane using Celestial Bronze bullets. While flying, Percy and Thalia believe that Luke is dead as Thalia had thrown him down a deep chasm, but Annabeth believes otherwise. Percy becomes slightly jealous of the affection Annabeth was showing for Luke, which surprises him because it has never really bothered him before now.

When they arrive in Mount Olympus, the winter solstice meeting had already begun, and they begged Zeus to believe that Kronos was indeed rising. When he said she wasn't allowed to do that anymore as Hunters can't become attached to males , she says she was merely honoring a friend. The gods then voted if they should kill Percy as he is the only known child of the Big Three to reach sixteen for the Great Prophecy in two years.

Fortunately, many of the gods vote to let him live after Artemis declares that if he is killed, then the gods are then no better than the Titans. Poseidon also vouches to let the Ophiotaurus live, although kept in Mount Olympus so it wouldn't be a "bargaining chip" against the other gods. Before Percy leaves Olympus, Poseidon tells Percy in private that he has done well and he is proud of him. Percy and Annabeth go off to resume their unfinished dance from Westover Hall.

Back at camp, Percy tells Nico that his sister had died and gives him the Mythomagic figurine of Hades that Bianca meant to give to Nico. However, Nico blames Percy for not protecting her and throws the figurine away, telling him he hates Percy. At that moment, four of the Spartoi appear, somehow managing to get past the Camp Borders. Nico thinks that they are for him and unintentionally splits the earth to swallow them and send them to the Underworld before fleeing into the forest.

Percy, realizing that Nico is a child of Hades after the incident, tries finding him, but to no avail. While discussing Nico's abilities with Annabeth, Grover appears, claiming that he'd heard Pan's voice in his head. The three then promise to keep it a secret as Percy knows that Nico could also be a child of the Great Prophecy , but instead says that he himself will take the responsibility of the prophecy instead.

Percy Jackson thinks that freshmen orientation won't be fun, so his mother shows him the bright sides "Tomorrow, you're off to camp! After orientation, you've got your date". Orientation turns out to be hosted by empousai. When he is accompanied by a mortal acquaintance, Rachel Elizabeth Dare which Percy thought she lived at Hoover Dam , who he met at Hoover Dam in The Titan's Curse , she tells Percy to leave the room when she spots the demon cheerleaders that Percy had encountered when he went in through the side of the building to ignore Rachel.

As Percy leaves, he ends up having to fight the empousai and runs into Annabeth along the way. Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes. Often tragic, often bloody stories with a fun Percy twist.

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