Danny's PoV

"Okay so first he drags us out here in fear of cheerleaders, then his pen turns into a sword, the cheerleaders call him fish, and seemed to have some sort of mind control, also were going to devour Tucker," I recapped.

"Yep sounds about right," Tuck said.

"But he also wasn't really worried about dealing with them, he was more worried about us. Three people he barely knows," Sam pointed out.

"Okay. He says gods, and Styx. Also has a sword and has battled empousai before. Seemed more worried for us than for himself," Tucker said typing it into his PDA.

"We should probably find out what an empousa is. And see if it has any relation to Percy." Sam said. We headed to the library to find out.

When we got there Sam asked about any books on empousai, and the librarian pointed in a general area.

"The librarian said that it should be somewhere over here," Sam said walking past us.

We looked at books with titles like "Greek Mythology and it's Monsters", "Inside Greek Myth", and "Greek Monsters". Sam finally picked up one called "Everything You Need to Know about Greek Mythology" and checked it out.

We went over to Sam's house before looking at the book.

"Okay, here's what it says:
           "Empousai are created by mixing dark magic, animal, and bronze. They are the handmaidens of Hecate (see pg. 44) and the first empousai was released when Pandora (see pg. 17) opened her pithos (see pg. 18). Empousai are shown to be extremely beautiful and seductive women. However, an empouai's true form is a woman with flaming hair, white skin, red eyes, fangs, and one prosthetic bronze leg and one donkey leg. This form is used to drink the blood of the men they enchant.They feast on the blood of young men they seduce, but often prefer to go after the blood of heroes (see pg. 24) and demigods (see pg. 58)."

"Okay, so basically vampire ghost demon lady," Tucker said.

"Let's check out the other pages Sam," I said.

"Okay, here's Hecate:

           "Hecate is the goddess of the Mist (see pg. 23),magic, sorcery, witchcraft, crossroads, trivial knowledge, and necromancy.She also represents the dark side of the moon, or the Harvest Moon, and is associated with many things including childbirth, nurturing the young, gates, walls, doorways, and sometimes even change. Her roman form is Trivia. Hecate is usually dressed in dark robes, holding twin torches. She is accompanied by a she-dog and a polecat, which used to be her enemies before she morphed them into animals. In later times, Hecate was pictured as a woman with three heads, or three entirely different forms for morning, noon and night. She is also described as being dressed in white robes with ornate silver designs, like runes or alchemy symbols. Her dark hair barely came down to her shoulders. There is a green shimmer that surrounds her like an aura. Her face is like a Greek statue—pale, beautiful, and ageless. She uses the Mist to form three blurred, smoky images of the same woman moving in unison. Once in the center of the courtyard, her three forms merged and solidified into one young woman in a dark, sleeveless gown. Her gown seemed to ripple as if the cloth was ink spilling off, her golden hair is set in an Ancient Greek style high-set ponytail. Carrying two old-fashioned reed torches, she was accompanied by a and a . She was described as "beautiful, but deathly pale." Just her presence makes the area she is in engulfed by magic and strong condensation of the Mist. She is also known as the Queen of Ghosts."

"Here's Mist:

           "The Mist is a mysterious magic controlled by Hecate (see pg. 44). Not much is known except veils the mortal world from magic."

"Pandora:

          "Pandora was a woman of ideal near-perfection, possessing virtually all talents and gifts a woman ideally should have. She was formed out of clay by the , and was made, of course, in the image of the goddesses. She was the one who opened the jar (or pithos (see pg. 18)) with all the evils in humanity. The jar was later mistranslated as Pandora's Box."

"Pithos:

          "A pithos is an Ancient Greek storage jar which is commonly mistranslated as a box or jar into English."

"Heroes:

         "Heroes are typically demigods (see pg. 58). Heroes go on quests and battle monsters, and are considered to some as the gods' pawns."

"Demigods:

          "Demigods are children of a god or goddess and a mortal. The most powerful demigods are children of the Big Three (see pg. 104).  Demigods are typically heroes (see pg. 24) or refuse the bloodline and rebel against Olympus (see pg. 100). Demigods tend to fight with swords, daggers, spears, javelins, and bows and arrows made of a special metal Celestial Bronze (see pg. 88). Most demigods have powers related to their parents. Children of Hephestus (see pg. 12) are expert blacksmiths, while children of Poseidon (see pg. 108) can control and breath underwater. Demigods are effected by both regular metal weapons, and weapons of Celestial Bronze."

"The Big Three:

           " The Big Three consist of Zeus (see pg. 49), Hades (see pg. 123),  and Poseidon (see pg. 108). They are fathers of the most powerful demigods (see pg. 58). They took an oath never to have children after their children caused a great war."

"I don't think we need Zeus, Hades, Poseidon, or Olympus. So I'm going to head for Celestial Bronze," Sam said.

"Celestial Bronze:

             "Celestial Bronze is a powerful metal wielded by the gods and demigods (see pg. 58). The metal is dangerous to monsters and demigods, but harmless to mortals. Celestial Bronze will turn most smaller monsters into a golden dust when in contact, but bigger monsters will need to
be killed before returning to Tartarus (see pg. 111)."

"That's enough Sam!" Tuck exclaimed.

"So we know that Percy is an insane person with a magical sword that believe in this junk," I said.

"Okay so should we have an intervention or something?" Tucker asked.

"I guess, I'll drag him over tonight,"I said leaving.

"See you tonight!" they called after me.

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"Come. On. Percy!" I said through gritted teeth, trying to drag him out the door.

"But I want to stay here and call my girlfriend."

"You can do that after," I said.

"Fine. Is there going to be food?"

"Yep."

When we finally got there we went to Sam's basement. Percy gabbed a can of Coke, and started to drink it. After a sip he shuddered.

"What's wrong?"

"It doesn't taste the same," he said.

"What it's Coke," I was confused.

"It's not the same as at home," and that's all he would say. Just then Sam and Tuck came down holding the Greek mythology book. We all sat down. And then Percy saw the book.

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