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- Annabeth drew her sword.
- There on the rocks just above us was a black hound the size of a rhino, with lava-red eyes and fangs like daggers.
- It was looking straight at me.
- Nobody moved except Annabeth, who yelled, "Percy, run!"
- She tried to step in front of me, but the hound was too fast. It leaped over her — an enormous shadow with teeth — and just as it hit me, as I stumbled backward and felt its razor-sharp claws ripping through my armor, there was a cascade of thwacking sounds, like forty pieces of paper being ripped one after the other. From the hounds neck sprouted a cluster of arrows. The monster fell dead at my feet.
- By some miracle, I was still alive. I didn't want to look underneath the ruins of my shredded armor. My chest felt warm and wet, and I knew I was badly cut. Another second, and the monster would've turned me into a hundred pounds of delicatessen meat.
- You're wounded," Annabeth told me. "Quick, Percy, get in the water."
- "I'm okay."
- "No, you're not," she said. "Chiron, watch this."
- I was too tired to argue. I stepped back into the creek, the whole camp gathering around me.
- Instantly, I felt better. I could feel the cuts on my chest closing up. Some of the campers gasped.
- TLT pg.130
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