The train pulled away from the platform and plunged into darkness. Then she ran up the stairs after the monster.Īnnabeth jumped on board just as the doors were closing. She glanced wistfully at the F train that would’ve taken her uptown to Percy’s place. She couldn’t just let the monster go, pursuing its nefarious plans and riding public transportation for free. If this two-headed hermit crab had something more important to do than kill her, Annabeth wanted to know what it was. Given the chance, monsters almost always attacked. She’d rarely seen a monster leave a demigod alone like that. It disappeared up the stairs, heading for the A train.įor a moment, Annabeth was too stunned to move.
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Then Crabby turned and bounded off, dragging its huge shell behind. She could’ve sworn it had a look of regret in its eyes, as if thinking, I would love to rip you to tiny pieces, but I have business elsewhere. Air rushed through the tunnel as a train arrived. The lion and wolf heads bared their fangs. ‘I hope you’ve got a high tolerance for pain.’ She stared down the beast, letting it know she meant business. Taking on a lion-wolf-crab in the middle of a crowded subway station wasn’t her first choice, but, if she had to, she would. The monster stood about thirty feet away. At the moment, her most deadly weapon was her backpack, which was loaded with heavy architecture books from the public library. Before Annabeth could decide what to do, both heads turned and glared directly at her.Īnnabeth’s hand went for her knife. Others just frowned or looked annoyed.Īnnabeth had seen the Mist in action many times before, but she was always amazed by how the magical veil could distort mortal vision, making even the fiercest monster look like something explainable – a stray dog, or maybe a homeless person wrapped in a sleeping bag. Most manoeuvred round the monster and ignored it. Then both of them froze and sniffed the air.Ĭommuters streamed past. They snarled at one another in irritation. They dragged it behind them down the platform, weaving left and right as they tried to pull in different directions. The two animals didn’t look happy about sharing a shell. Sprouting from the top were the forelegs and head of a grey wolf on the left, a golden-maned lion on the right.
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The shell itself was a rough brown spiral, like a waffle cone – about six feet long with a jagged seam down the middle, as if it had been cracked in half, then glued back together. It looked like a lion and a wolf lashed together, wedged butt-first into a hermit-crab shell. It was too late for the movie, but maybe they could get dinner or something.Īnnabeth had seen some crazy stuff before, but this beastie definitely made her ‘What Were the Gods Thinking?’ list. The goddess must have had a herd of stealth cows patrolling Manhattan.īy the time Annabeth made it to the West Fourth Street station, she was cranky and exhausted and just wanted to catch the F train uptown to Percy’s place. Annabeth had done so many quests for Hera, but still the Queen of Heaven left presents from her sacred animal right where Annabeth could step in them.
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She was tired of the goddess’s practical jokes. The other pedestrians gave her funny looks, but Annabeth didn’t care. She was pretty sure she’d flubbed the interview.įinally, around four in the afternoon, she’d trudged through Washington Square Park on her way to the subway station and stepped in a fresh pile of cow manure.
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(Skipping classes on a regular basis to save the world from monsters and rogue Greek gods was seriously messing up her GPA.) Then she’d turned down a movie with her boyfriend, Percy, and some of their friends so she could try out for a summer internship at a local architecture firm. She’d spent all morning doing catch-up work for school. UNTIL SHE SPOTTED the two-headed monster, Annabeth didn’t think her day could get any worse.