02 The Sea of Monsters by Riordan Rick

Author:Riordan, Rick [Rick, Riordan,]
Format: epub
Published: 2010-04-10T22:20:52.871000+00:00

Tyson was trembling. He stepped back and accidentally snapped a twig. Immediately, all seven heads turned toward us and hissed.

"Scatter!" Annabeth yelled. She dove to the right. I rolled to the left. One of the Hydra heads spat an arc of green liquid that shot past my shoulder and splashed against an elm. The trunk smoked and began to disintegrate. The whole tree toppled straight toward Tyson, who still hadn't moved, petrified by the monster that was now right in front of him.

"Tyson!" I tackled him with all my might, knocking him aside just as the Hydra lunged and the tree

crashed on top of two of its heads. The Hydra stumbled backward, yanking its heads free then wailing in outrage at the fallen tree. All seven heads shot acid, and the elm melted into a steaming pool of muck.

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Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html . It worked. The sight of celestial bronze is hateful to most monsters. As soon as my glowing blade appeared, the

Hydra whipped toward it with all its heads, hissing and baring its teeth.

The good news: Tyson was momentarily out of danger. The bad news: I was about to be melted into a puddle of goo. One of the heads snapped at me experimentally. Without thinking, I swung my sword. "No!" Annabeth yelled. Too late. I sliced the Hydra's head clean off. It rolled away into the grass, leaving a flailing stump, which

immediately stopped bleeding and began to swell like a balloon. In a matter of seconds the wounded neck split into two necks, each of which grew a full-size head. Now

I was looking at an eight-headed Hydra. "Percy!" Annabeth scolded. "You just opened another Monster Donut shop somewhere!" I dodged a spray of acid. "I'm about to die and you're worried aboutthat ?How do we kill it?" "Fire!" Annabeth said. "We have to have fire!" As soon as she said that, I remembered the story. The Hydra's heads would only stop multiplying if we

burned the stumps before they regrew. That's what Heracles had done, anyway. But we had no fire. I backed up toward river. The Hydra followed. Annabeth moved in on my left and tried to distract one of the heads, parrying its teeth with her knife, but

another head swung sideways like a club and knocked her into the muck. "No hitting my friends!" Tyson charged in, putting himself between the Hydra and Annabeth. As

Annabeth got to her feet, Tyson started smashing at the monster heads with his fists so fast it reminded me of the whack-a-mole game at the arcade. But even Tyson couldn't fend off the Hydra forever. We kept inching backward, dodging acid splashes and deflecting snapping heads without cutting them

off, but I knew we were only postponing our deaths. Eventually, we would make a mistake and the thing

would kill us. Then I heard a strange sounda chug-chug-chug that at first I thought was my heartbeat. It was so powerful it made the riverbank shake.

"What's that noise?" Annabeth shouted, keeping her eyes on the Hydra.

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