Percy Jackson and the Olympians Facts: Blog 1 - Percy Jackson

Information From:
Percy Jackson and the Olympians - The Ultimate Guide
By, Rick Riordan

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(In the Percy Jackson Series, percy is the son of the greek god Poseidon and he meets other demigods 'hslf god, half mortal'. He has to defeat the titan Kronos in order to save Olympus, the series is based on greek mythology.)

Name: Percy Jackson

Birthday: August 18th

Place of Birth: New York

Mother: Sally Jackson

Father: Poseidon

Favorite Food: Anything blue and sweet

Favorite Drink: Coke and nectar (Nectar has the power to heal demigods and it tastes sweet. It is a drink of the Olympian gods, though, so if a demigod drinks to much they could explode.)

Favorite Place: Summer cabin at Montauk, Long Island (cabin 3 on half-blood hill)

Favorite Form of Transport: Pegasus (Blackjack, who insists on calling Percy, Boss)wh

Best at: Sword-fighting

Friends: Grover Underwood (A satyr), Annabeth Chase (Another demigod, In the end she is his girlfriend), Tyson (His half-brother, A cyclops), and Mrs. O'leary (His pet Hellhound)

Enemies: Kronos (A Titan) Gabe Ugliano (His 'used-to-be' step-dad, his mom used medusa's head to turn Gabe to stone), and Mrs. Dodds (A furry from the underworld that posed as Percy's math teacher for part of the year)

Bad Events In Percy's Early Life:

A very young Percy Jackson was having a nap at a nursery school when a snake slithered up to him. No one knew until his mom came to pick him up and found Percy playing with the dead snake which he had strangled.

In third grade a man in a black trenchcoat stalked him on the playground. When the teachers threatened to call the police he went away growling. No one believed Percy when he told them the man only had one eye in the middle of his forehead.

Expelled:

Percy has had trouble with school for as long as he can remember. By age twelve he'd been to six schools in as many years because he kept getting kicked out. He'd been diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD, but those weren't his only obstacles - inexplicable things had happened to him at school and on field trips.

Percy's Blunders:

In fourth grade his class went on the behind-the-scenes tour of the Marine World shark pool. Percy hit the wrong lever by the catwalk they were walking along, and the whole class took an unplanned swim with sharks.

In fifth grade he visited the Saratoga battlefield and had an accident involving a Revolutionary War cannon. He claimed he wasn't aiming for the school bus, bit it took direct hit anyway, and that meant yet another expulsion.

The Trip to End All Trips:

Percy's sixth grade feild trip was with his classmates at Yancy Academy. They visited the Metropolitan Museum. It was there that the extraordinary events began which eventually led Percy to Camp Half-blood (Half-blood means the same as Demigod)

What happened was that his math teacher, Mrs. Dodds, transformed into a shriveled hag with yellow fangs (a furry) and attacked Percy. Mr. Brunner, Percy's latin teacher, threw him a ball-point pen that turned into a bronze word in Percy's hand. One swing and the metal blade passes clean through his math teachers body.

Mrs. Dodds was a sand castle in a power fan. She exploded into yellow powder, vaporized on the spot, leaving nothing behind but the smell of sulphur and a dying screech and a chill of evil in the air, as if those two glowing red eyes were still watching me.

~Percy Jackson

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