With old friends and new friends joining forces, a marvelous ship, fearsome foes, and an exotic setting, The Mark of Athena is another unforgettable adventure by master storyteller Rick Riordan. What exactly are the Doors of Death? Much of the prophecy remains a mystery. Then they will have to sail together to the ancient land to find the Doors of Death.
But they number only six–who will complete the Prophecy of Seven? The Greek and Roman demigods will have to cooperate in order to defeat the giants released by the Earth Mother, Gaea.
The third book in the Heroes of Olympus series will unite them with Jason, Piper, and Leo. In The Son of Neptune, Percy, Hazel, and Frank met in Camp Jupiter, the Roman equivalent of Camp Halfblood, and traveled to the land beyond the gods to complete a dangerous quest. “Everybody listen.The third book in the mega-bestselling Heroes of Olympus series by Rick Riordan, now with fresh and exciting new cover art by graphic novelist Nilah Magruder. “Just listen, okay?” Piper took a deep breath. “Possibly lurking inside some of us,” Piper said. “You think these things are lurking on the ship, or-” “So…” Frank rubbed his hand across his buzz-cut hair as if some ghosts might have invaded his scalp. In her own way, Hazel too was a ghost reborn. Piper had forgotten that Hazel was a second-timer. “In the Underworld, when I was…you know.” The third book in the mega-bestselling Heroes of Olympus series by Rick Riordan, now with fresh and exciting new cover art by graphic novelist Nilah. Up on deck, Hedge sang something that sounded like “In the Navy” while Blackjack stomped his hooves, whinnying in protest. When she was done explaining, the others looked at her uncomfortably. Piper had a gut sense they were still present, simply because no one had told them to go away. These eidolons acted a lot like the spirits in her dad’s stories. The more Piper learned about being a demigod, the more convinced she was that Cherokee legends and Greek myths weren’t so different. Sometimes they didn’t even realize they were dead. They often lost their way to the Land of the Dead, or stayed behind with the living out of sheer stubbornness. Her dad used to joke about Grandpa Tom’s Cherokee legends from back on the rez, but even at home in their big Malibu mansion, looking out over the Pacific, whenever her dad recounted the ghost stories for her, she could never get them out of her head.Ĭherokee spirits were always restless. Stories of phantoms and tortured souls had always freaked her out. She was rapidly losing her courage, wondering if her instincts were wrong, but she forced herself to speak. “Don’t even say that,” Annabeth muttered. Anyway, we should reach Atlanta by noon tomorrow, unless something else goes wrong.” “What’s a wine god doing in Kansas? Gods are weird. I still don’t understand what a sea god would be doing in Atlanta.” Never met him, but supposedly he’s a son of Gaea. Phorcys is an old sea god from before my dad’s time. Then Bacchus mentioned salt water, and it rang a bell. “Bacchus told us we should seek out…what was his name?”Īnnabeth looked surprised, like she wasn’t used to her boyfriend having the answers. “Piper, you told Leo to set our course for Atlanta.” “The Mark of Athena, the twins, Ella’s prophecy…how does it all fit together?”Īnnabeth pressed her hands against the edge of the table. “But how do we figure it out?” Hazel asked. “But until we figure it out, I suggest we all try to avoid getting captured.” “You think the giants would use our blood…the blood of two of us-” It was the same way she’d felt on the highway outside Topeka. Piper wondered if the room’s temperature controls were broken, because suddenly she couldn’t stop shaking. His blood shall water the stones of Mount Olympus and wake Earth Mother!’” He said: ‘I want that one chained at my feet, so I can kill him when the time is ripe. Polybotes was talking to the gorgons, and he said-he said he wanted me taken prisoner, not killed. “I had a dream,” Percy said, “when we were flying to Alaska. “The anti-Poseidon you whacked in the head with a Terminus statue. “The giant who invaded Camp Jupiter,” Hazel said. Bad.” He looked across the table at Frank and Hazel. He leaned back and stared at nothing, as if the horse kick to his head had just now registered. “Oh…” Percy set down his third pizza slice. Maybe demigod blood has some kind of power.” “Guys, remember at the Wolf House? Our favorite ice princess, Khione? She talked about spilling Jason’s blood, how it would taint the place for generations. She-she asked me to choose which boy would die.” “Today on the highway,” she said, “Gaea told me that she needed the blood of only two demigods-one female, one male. It’s okay.īut she had a strange feeling…as if more than six sets of eyes were watching her.