Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief Chapter 4

    Sally drives extremely fast down the country roads, as the hurricane blows. Percy asked Grover how he knew his mom, and Grover replied saying he has never met his mom. Percy also asked Grover if he is a donkey, but Grover declines and tells him he is a satyr to be more precise. Percy is completely confused wondering if satyrs are just myths. Grover tells Percy that Mrs. Dodd's was not just a myth and the three old ladies at the fruit stand were not a myth either. Percy is wondering why nobody told him this. Percy has the urge to discover and find out what's going on and wants to know who he really is. Sally begins to tell Percy that there is no time for explaining, and that they have to get him to safety. Suddenly, Gabe's Camaro happens to explode and Percy is thrown into the back of the driver's seat as Grover also gets knocked unconscious. The car had been struck by lightning and the roof of the car has been destroyed. Sally tells Percy to run away and to get out of the car as fast as he can onto the hill near them, but Percy refuses to leave his mother behind alone. Sally helps him pick up Grover and carries him up to the hill near the tree. The monster has destroyed Gabe's car, causing it to explode. Sally explains to Percy, if the monster charges at him, he should leap out of the way at the last moment. The monster gets closer and Sally tells Percy to leave without them and to run. Percy decides to listen and so he runs, but when he realizes that the monster is already charging at him, he quickly uses his mom's advice and jumps towards the side right before the monster hurts him using his horns. The monster begins to focus on Percy's mother, who had just laid Grover onto the ground by the tree.With Sally slightly downhill, the monster grabs her, and then suddenly Sally turns into a blast of light and disappears. Captured by anger and despair at watching his mother vanish, Percy tries to get the monsters attention. The monster begins to rush at Percy, but Percy jumps up onto the monster's head, holding onto him. After struggling, Percy breaks one of the horns on the monster's head and falls back off of the monster. His head has hit a rock. The monster is really angry and charges at Percy, but Percy slams the broken horn into the monsters chest, and the monster dissolves into a sandy substance, just as Mrs. Dodd's did. He begins to carry Grover upon the hill and to the valley, and he walks to the farm house that his mother had told him to go to. He stumbles barely conscious on the steps of the house and vaguely seeing the faces and hearing the voice of Mr. Brunner and a girl. The girl says, he is the one, he must be.