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- Go below,” Annabeth told me at last. “You need some rest.”
- I nodded. My eyes were heavy. But when I got below and found a hammock, it took me a long time to fall asleep. I kept thinking about Annabeth ’s story. I wondered, if I were her, would I have had enough courage to go on this quest, to sail straight toward the lair of another Cyclops?
- I didn’t dream about Grover.
- Instead I found myself back in Luke’s stateroom aboard the Princess Andromeda. The curtains were open. It was nighttime outside. The air swirled with shadows. Voices whispered all around me — spirits of the dead.
- Beware, they whispered. Traps. Trickery.
- Kronos’s golden sarcophagus glowed faintly — the only source of light in the
- room.
- A cold laugh startled me. It seemed to come from miles below the ship. You don’t have the courage, young one. You can’t stop me.
- I knew what I had to do. I had to open that coffin.
- I uncapped Riptide. Ghosts whirled around me like a tornado. Beware!
- My heart pounded. I couldn’t make my feet move, but I had to stop Kronos. I had to destroy whatever was in that box.
- Then a girl spoke right next to me: “Well, Seaweed Brain?”
- I looked over, expecting to see Annabeth, but the girl wasn’t Annabeth. She wore punk-style clothes with silver chains on her wrists. She had spiky black hair, dark eye-liner around her stormy blue eyes, and a spray of freckles across her nose. She looked familiar, but I wasn’t sure why.
- “Well?” she asked. “Are we going to stop him or not?”
- I couldn’t answer. I couldn’t move.
- The girl rolled her eyes. “Fine. Leave it to me and Aegis.”
- She tapped her wrist and her silver chains transformed — flattening and expanding into a huge shield. It was silver and bronze, with the monstrous face of Medusa protruding from the center. It looked like a death mask, as if the gorgon’s real head had been pressed into the metal. I didn’t know if that was true, or if the shield could really petrify me, but I looked away. Just being near it made me cold with fear. I got a feeling that in a real fight, the bearer of that shield would be almost impossible to beat. Any sane enemy would turn and run.
- The girl drew her sword and advanced on the sarcoph-agus. The shadowy ghosts parted for her, scattering before the terrible aura of her shield.
- “No,” I tried to warn her.
- But she didn’t listen. She marched straight up to the sarcophagus and pushed aside the golden lid.
- For a moment she stood there, gazing down at what-ever was in the box.
- The coffin began to glow.
- “No.” The girl’s voice trembled. “It can’t be.”
- From the depths of the ocean, Kronos laughed so loudly the whole ship trembled.
- “No!” The girl screamed as the sarcophagus engulfed her in a blast of a golden
- light.
- “Ah!” I sat bolt upright in my hammock.
- SoM ch.13
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