Chapter 4: My Mother Teaches My Bullfighting

We tore through the night along dark country roads. There were hard wind blowing against the Camaro. My mom kept her foot on the gas and we were going really fast. Every time there was a huge lightning bolt, I looked at Grover next to me in the backseat and I wondered if I have gone insane, or he was wearing some kind of shag-carpet pants. All I could think to say was, "So, you and my mom know each other?", he said, Not exactly,I mean we have never met in person. But she only knew that I was watching you.", "Watching me?" I said. "Making sure you were okay." Grover said. Then Grover let out a sharp goat sound. Then he said that he was a goat waist down. So he was actually a satyr, like in Mr.Brunner's myths. Then he asked me if Mrs. Dodds was a myth or the three old ladies who were knitting. There actually was a Mrs.Dodds! Then he told me that the less I knew, the less monsters I attract. Then we heard something that was almost following us. Grover said to my mom to go faster because the monster will catch up to us. I asked where we are going and my mom said that " We are going to the summer camp your father told me to bring you in."

After another mile, there was a surprising boom! And our car exploded! "Percy!" my mom shouted. I tried to shake off the daze. The car didn't really explode. We actually swerved into a ditch. Grover was lying down on the mud with blood dripping from his mouth. Then he groaned, "Food," My mom said to leave him alone. When I looked back, I saw a figure lumbering toward us on the shoulder of the road. It was a silhouette of a huge guy, like a huge football player. I said "Who is that?" Then my mother said to get out of the car and run to a tree. She told me to run and yell for help. I said to my mom "You are coming with me! And help me carry Grover!" As the monster got closer. I could see the monster clearer, it was a minotaur. It was Pasiphae's son. They wanted to kill me! The minotaur went to the car and I think he was looking for us. My mom told me that the minotaur has horrible sight and hearing, and he can only smell us. If the minotaur comes charging at us change direction, and the minotaur will keep going straight because it cannot turn very well. So I took off my rain jacket and used it to attract the minotaur. When it charged, I jumped up and hit the Minotaur's head, I went straight up into the air and landed on the neck of the minotaur. It was moaning in agony, then I drove the broken horn into its side and it disintegrated, just like Mrs.Dodds.

When the monster had disappeared, My head felt like it was splitting open. I was weak and scared and trembling with fear. I wanted to lie down and cry, but someone neede help, so I pulled him up, pulling him down the valley, toward the lights of the farmhouse, looking for my mother. The last thing I remembered is collapsing on a wooden bench, looking up, I saw a bearded man and a pretty girl. The girl said, He's the one. He must be."