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After that things were pretty normal again. Paul was starting to think he had imagined the whole Percy-is-a-demigod-thing. Then his prius came back with hoofmarks on the hood and he was reminded that he thought all this craziness was real. Rachel was explaining to Sally that Percy had to "go off and save the world again." and Paul was only half listening. He was still staring at the marks on his hood. Later they had to leave Montauk and head back to their apartment. Percy didn't return that night or the next. The only thing really interesting that happened for a while had nothing to do with Percy or so he thought. The interesting things were the bizarre weather and the news reported the mysterious explosion of an unidentified cruise ship not far from New York. Paul was kind of confused on how a ship that big could explode on accident, surely there were safety measures?
All in all things had been kind of slow until a wall of fur prevented him from going into the living room. Percy explained that it was his pet hellhound Mrs. O'Leary. Paul was relieved that he was not a demigod, if you had to face monsters like that on a daily basis let alone were able to call one your pet. This was the first solid proof he had that this was really real. Sure he had been told and threatened by a daughter of Zeus, as well as the hoofprints, but this was the first time he had seen undeniable proof that everything was true. It scared him and delighted him at the same time. Percy was asking Sally's permission for something. It wasn't until Sally explained later that Paul understood Percy was going to attempt to survive the river Styx.
Things calmed down again until one evening as Paul was walking Sally back from a date everyone else seemed to fall asleep. Paul did not know why neither he or Sally had, but he was thankful that he got to see what came next. Paul knew he must not be seeing things correctly through the mist because the things he saw were pretty weird, but not monster weird. There were a lot of giant black poodles,a bull standing on its hind legs with a helmet, a bunch of pretty cheerleaders with fangs, and other strange things besides. Then there was something he thought he could see teenagers with armour carrying old weapons charging from the other direction even though they seemed outnumbered.
Then there was Percy and he was in the middle of it all with a sword occasionally in a small hurricane going after the toughest opponents. He was cutting down enemy after enemy in his path of destruction. Paul was actually kind of scared of Percy though he knew Percy liked him and loved his mother. It was difficult to believe that this terrifying Percy and the one who begged to bake cookies with his mother were the same person. Percy also seemed to be some kind of leader and often yelled words of encouragement to the other demigods as they fought against the enemy.
Sally and Paul joined in the fight to save the world to. Paul found a sword and used it to kill what he hoped was a monster. Sally even shot a shotgun something Paul was not aware she knew how to do. He was also curious as to where she had found it there was not after all normally a shotgun in the backseat of a New York taxi. Soon the fighting seemed to concentrate on the empire state building and he and Sally fell back into one of the stores along the street. After a while the fighting seemed to have ended so they made their way back to Sally's apartment.