Journal Entry

Summer 2005

Dear Journal,

     I'm Percy Jackson, i'm in the sixth grade and I am dyslexic. I just had the craziest time of my life over the past two weeks. It all started off at Yancy when Mrs. Dodds attacked me after she transformed into a Fury. Mr. Brunner threw me a pen which transformed into a sword, with which I killed her. afterwards I asked Mr. Brunner and Grover where Mrs. Dodds was but they both said there was no Mrs. Dodds at school. Then I overheard them talking about how I was becoming suspicious and needed to go. After the school year was over, Grover offered to escort me home. He started to act really weird and looking really anxious and scared after we saw some three ladies on the side of the road cutting yarn. I ditched him right when I got to New York and me and my mom took a vacation to the beach. Late that night Grover knocked on our cabin door but when my mom opened it Grover had no legs, only hooves. He then said we had to leave now, so we got in our car and left for some special camp. On the way there lightning struck our car and a Minotaur attacked us. We ran as fast as we could to Camp Half-Blood but the Minotaur killed my mom then I broke off the Minotaurs horn and stabbed him with it, killing him. We then reached Camp Half-Blood where I was introduced to Annabeth and Luke and put into the Hermes cabin where all the kids that had unknown parents lived. I soon found out that my dad was Poseidon, god of the sea and horses. I am then sent on a quest with Grover and Annabeth to find Zeus' Master Bolt because Zeus thought I took it and is going to wage war with Poseidon causing world war three. Before we leave Luke gives me a pair of flying shoes who I give to Grover because Zeus will kill me if I enter the air. So we venture out and eventually encounter the Three Furies and they attack us and we blow up a bus and we escape. Then we find a shop called Aunty M's and we go inside. She's really nice to us but turns out to be Meduesa so we cut her head off and take her money. Then we send her head to the Gods at Mount Olympus. Then we take a train west and stop at the St. Louis arch where we encounter Echidna and her crazy psycho pet, Chimera. I start to lose so I dive out of the arch into the river. In the water Nereid a spirit of the sea gives me three pearls that will get me out of a bad situation. On our way to L.A. we stop at a diner and meet Ares, god of war who tells us to go retrieve his shield so he can help us. So we do and he gives us some information about my mom. So then we travel to L.A. where I cut off Procrustes the Stretcher's head. then we find the way to the underworld and go inside, we encounter Cerberus, guardian of the Underworld, a three-headed dog who Annabeth befriends and we go past. As were walking towards Hades' castle the shoes that Luke gave me almost drag Grover into the Pit of Tartarus where Kronos, Leader of the Titans, is captured but he slips the shoes off in time. then we enter Hades' castle and see my mother, encased in gold. We tell Hades to release my mom and give em the Master Bolt but he yells at me and thinks I took it along with his Helm of Darkness. He tells me to open my backpack so I do and there is the Master Bolt. He tells me to give it to him, but I don't and we use the pearls to escape, leaving my mom behind. We then appear at a beach in L.A. where Ares confronts us and tells us that he stole the Zeus' Master Bolt and Hades' Helm of Darkness, we then battle and I win by stabbing him in the heel, then he curses me and gives me back the Helm and Bolt and vanishes. We give the Furies who were watching us the whole time hte Helm back who give it to Hades. We then take a plane back to New York and go to the Empire State Building, to the 600th floor and give Zeus back his Master Bolt. I have a talk with my father and leave. I go home ot find my mom and there is a package with Meduesa's head, so I tell my mom to use it on Gabe, my step-dad who has been abusing her. She doesn't and I go back to camp. We're supposed to decide whether or not we'll stay at Camp Half-Blood full year or half year. As I'm thinking about it I go talk to Luke who summons a scorpion on my leg then he vanishes. The scorpion bites me and nymphs help me back to camp where I wake up with Chiron, a centaur and Annabeth taking care of me. I have a letter waiting for me and I open it, it's from my mom and she tells me she froze gabe into stone and sold the sculpture for money and thta she found a new school for me to stay at close by so I can be with her instead of at a boarding shool. I decide to go home for the school year and live with my mom. That's where I am now, writing down my adventures in this journal.