Percy Jackson: The Sea of Monsters (Uziel Beltrán)

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By this time, Percy’s dreams are getting more real and significant because, in one of them, he establishes communication with his friend. Grover tells him he has been captured by a cyclops who wants to marry him because he thinks he is a female of his kind. After telling Annabeth about his dream, they see something they can take advantage of, being this that the creature has something called the Golden Fleece which can save the camp. 
A problem Percy deals with is that he cannot conceive the idea of having Tyson as his half-brother. Nonetheless, Jackson eventually realizes there is nothing wrong with that. In the meantime, Percy and Annabeth ask Tantalus to find someone who will find the Golden Fleece. Even though both are willing to go, Tantalus does not let them and sends Clarisse, the daughter of Ares, to find the object instead. In that evening, Percy, feeling frustrated and powerless, decides to look at the stars, but someone dressed as a jogger suddenly appears. By some strange reason, this person looks quite familiar, however, Percy does not figure out who he is; it was Hermes, Luke’s father! In this conversation, Hermes asks Percy to make his son Luke think about his actions and realize he has done wrong.

In addition, Poseidon decides to help the guys sending three magical hippocampi, that is to say, one per each: one for Percy, another one for Annabeth, and the biggest one for Tyson. The trio decides to enter into the cruise ship and realize it is full of monsters and half-bloods; it turns out to be Luke’s ship. Hermes’ son is building an army for Kronos. Unfortunately, Percy, Annabeth and Tyson are captured by Luke. The trio sees that Luke is trying to reshape Kronos; the guys are shocked. Afterwards, the three of them manage to escape from Luke and the creatures. They decide to go to a safe place located in an island. It is a kind of shelter built long ago by Annabeth, Thalia and Luke. Percy does not think he should worry about that because he has always known Annabeth was raised by them. Without delay, the trio tries to hide in the island, however, they have to fight a hydra monster. Fortunately, Clarisse, with the help of her camaraderie, rescues them. They decide to go to the Sea of Monsters, but when they are about to arrive, they are attacked again by some creatures. As the ship in which they were travelling is destroyed, Tyson disappears in the sea so everybody thinks he has died.

Furthermore, Percy, Annabeth and Clarisse have to fight against more creatures. Anyways, they finally reach Grover, who is captured by Polyphemus (the Cyclops). Clarisse, in order to distract the monster, tells him Grover is not a cyclops but a satyr. Now, the giant wants to marry Clarisse. Surprisingly, Percy’s brother appears; he is alive! After several failed attempts, the team manages to take the Golden Fleece, rescue Grover, and escape from the Cyclops. As the ship has been destroyed by the monster, Tyson called some hippocampi in so they can run away from the dangerous island. They wake up in Miami Beach, Florida. After some arguments between the guys, they decide the best thing to do is to give the magic fleece to Clarisse since she is supposed to carry out the quest Tantalus entrusted. Therefore, she goes by plane to the Half-Blood Camp in order to save the tree.

Right after the plane takes off, Luke appears pointing at Percy’s throat with a sword. As it might be expected, the guys are kidnapped by Hermes’ son and they are taken to the Princess Andromeda. Nevertheless, this turns out to be a good thing because Luke confesses he has poisoned Thalia’s tree, and while he is doing so, Percy is recording him. The video is sent to the Blood-Camp so Chiron is set free. Percy and Luke start fighting to the death, but fortunately, before Percy gets killed, Chiron appears with an army of centaurs and saves them. Finally, the guys arrive swiftly at the camp. Without further ado, the team decides to use the Golden Fleece in Thalia's tree. Slowly but surely, the pine tree starts turning from brown to green again. The magic object has worked! Now that the Half-Blood Camp is safe, Annabeth sees Percy with new eyes; he has earned her respect now. Everyone is having good news, for instance, Poseidon invites Tyson to spend the rest of the summer with him underwater.

Few days later, Grover, Annabeth, and Percy see something unbelievable; a woman is coming out of the pine tree. It is Thalia, the daughter of Zeus!


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