mausoleum – a large burial chamber, usually above ground.pseudonym – a fictitious name used when the person performs a particular social role.toga – a one-piece cloak worn by men in ancient Rome.pummel – strike, usually with the fist.solstice – either of the two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.archetype – something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies.centaur – (classical mythology) a mythical being that is half man and half horse.cringe – draw back, as with fear or pain.amphitheater – an oval large stadium with tiers of seats an arena in which contests and spectacles are held.misnomer – an incorrect or unsuitable name.disgorge – eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth.ambrosia – (classical mythology) the food and drink of the gods mortals who ate it became immortal.gawk – look with amazement look stupidly.eon – the longest division of geological time.Percy decides to spend the school year with Sally instead of staying at camp. Luke tries to kill Percy by calling on a pit scorpion, but Percy manages to kill it. After the bolt is given back to Zeus, Luke is revealed to be the lightning thief and the number one servant of Kronos, the Lord of the Titans. When Percy presents the Helm to Hades, Hades realizes that Percy has not stolen it and returns Sally safely. After discovering that Ares has all the stolen items, Percy challenges him to a duel and wins, to his own surprise. Percy and his friends use magical pearls to transport themselves out of Hades’ kingdom. Hades also accuses Percy of stealing his helm and threatens to kill Percy and his mother and release all the dead back into the real world. After defeating several mythological monsters, including Medusa, Echidna, and the Chimera, Percy, Annabeth and Grover find Hades, who has taken Sally but had his Helm of Darkness (his symbol of power) stolen too. The Oracle at the Camp Half Blood tells Percy to find the stolen master lightning bolt of Zeus, since Zeus blames Poseidon for stealing it. After several water-related incidents, a trident mark appears above Percy’s head as his father, Poseidon, claims him. He meets Luke, a son of Hermes Annabeth Chase, a daughter of Athena and Clarisse La Rue, a daughter of Ares. As Percy’s divine parent is unknown, he is placed in the Hermes cabin, where all the unclaimed half-bloods stay. Grover reveals himself to be a satyr, and Mr. He wakes up three days later, healed by nectar and ambrosia, at Camp Half-Blood. Enraged, Percy takes one of its horns and kills the Minotaur, passing out from exhaustion shortly afterwards. In the ensuing fight, the Minotaur takes Sally in a blinding flash of gold light. A terrible storm rages as they drive to the New York countryside and they are attacked by a Minotaur. When Percy and his mother, Sally, go to Montauk Beach in New York, Grover comes to tell them to leave immediately. Dodds and his best friend Grover Underwood acts strangely. Brunner is gone and acts like he was never there, and nobody remembers Mrs. Brunner, throws to him a magic sword named Anaklusmos or Riptide, and sends Mrs. Dodds transforms into one of the three Furies of Greek myth and attacks him. When his class from Yancy Academy takes a field trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, his pre-algebra teacher Mrs. The book is told in the first person and begins with Percy Jackson, a 12 year old boy with dyslexia and ADHD living in New York City(lower Manhattan to be exact) explaining that he has been expelled from every school he has ever attended, all of them happening in very strange ways.