After sitting in the taxi for who knows how long, I learned a couple of things. Annabeth had ADHD like Nico and I, and sitting three ADHD kids in a car for a long time may be the stupidest thing that anybody could ever do. When the guy finally stopped Nico and I practically jumped out of the car eager to get some fresh air. The driver looked at us weirdly, but Grover gave him the money and he drove away.
"Now where do we go?" I asked and we all turned towards Annabeth expectantly.
"No idea." She answered. Grover had forgotten the address, long ago, like an idiot. We all stood there looking pretty stupid for a while before Grover decided what to do.
"I'll be back." He said then walked over to the grass, sitting cross legged before dissolving into the ground. I will probably never get used to that.
Grover was gone for a total of two seconds before a monster showed up. It was like it was waiting for us to be alone.
Were any of these monsters normal sized? The thing was huge. It looked like it belonged in one of those Strongest Man In the World episodes. The thing had muscles all over with hair that covered it all. His legs were covered with a regular pair of blue jeans, which I was fine with. His top half was scary enough. He had long horns on top of his head. Oddly, it reminded me of something I just didn't know why. He leaned down as if he was getting ready for a quarterback to yell "Hike." Before I could register what he was about to do, he charged. He was heading right towards us, and all I could do was stand there frozen in fear.
"Run!" Annabeth shouted as she turned around and sprinted down the street. That shook me out of my shock because I turned around and followed behind her, Nico following my example. Even though, the monster was far away at first, he was gaining on us. Then it all clicked, why the thing, or should I say Minotaur, looked so familiar. I remember in greek where we learned about the minotaur. Wasn't this thing killed like 3000 years ago? I took a liking to the minotaur, so I did extra research on it, of course now that it was trying to kill me, I doubt I will be doing another report on him, let alone any report.
"When he gets close jump to the side!" I shouted. From what I remembered the minotaur could only go in one direction, and that was forward.
When the minotaur was close I dove to the side and he flew right past me. Luckily, Annabeth and Nico did the same. It continued to race on and eventually came to a stop. I leaned on a tree to catch my breath for a few seconds, running from a minotaur was hard work.
"Percy!" Nico shouted, which caused me to look up only to see the minotaur charging towards me arms spread out wide ready to catch me if I tried to dive to the left or right. Not knowing what to do, I stood there, they definitely didn't tell you the minotaur learned from his mistakes on wikipedia. I looked behind me at the tree I'd been leaning on, the branches were low enough to grab onto. So, while thinking I'm going to die I grabbed two big branches, ran up the tree, and did a backflip off of it as the minotaur slammed horn first into the tree.
As it tried to pull its horn out of the tree I stood there in shock. Now if I was watching this on Youtube, I'd probably be thinking that was awesome, but the only thing running through my mind was I survived.
A loud snap broke me out of my thoughts and as the minotaur bellowed in pain at the snap of one of his horns, he swung his arm back, hitting me square in the chest. I flew a few feet and hit my head on a rock. My vision blurred and everything began spinning. I could see the Minotaur heading towards me, but I was way too dizzy to try and move.
"Hey, ugly!" I heard Annabeth shout. The Minotaur turned to her and let out his hot breath. He walked in their direction. I stood up and stumbled slightly as my eyes finally started to cooperate. I ran to the tree and pulled the horn with all my strength until it came free.
"Hey! What are you worried about her for? Your fight's right here!" I shouted. The Minotaur looked annoyed. He looked at me, then Annabeth, then turned back to me. He looked ready to snap me like a twig. He breathed heavily through his nose and bent down again.
With the horn in my hand, I awkwardly got in a battle stance. He charged, even though he was already close, and I did the first thing that came to mind. I rolled, came up on my knee, and drove the horn into his side. I was ready to run incase the minotaur tried to grab me, but instead he clawed at the horn until he turned into gold dust and blew away with the wind. The horn dropped into the grass and I picked it up. I stood and walked towards Nico and Annabeth, completely drained.
"Well, Nico you were right about one thing." I said.
"W-what's that, Percy?" He stuttered still looking in the direction where the minotaur had been.
"With great power...comes great need to take a nap." And I blacked out.
A/N: I decided to make how Percy got the Minotaur horn similar to how he got it in the book. Keep the tradition up!
