

She tells him that, as a treat, they would get to go on a vacation to Montauk for a couple of days, and that they are to leave immediately. Percy comes home to his mother, Sally Jackson. When they make it into Manhattan, Percy ditches Grover who has to go to the restroom. Percy is very frightened by this and assumes that the string of yarn that had just been cut off was his. The string in their hand is the lifeline of a person and when cut, it signifies the person's death. He explains to Percy that the Fates are the ones who decide the lifespan of a being.

On his way home for the summer, he sees three very old women knitting, who turn out to be the Fates, cut a line of string, and Grover tells him this is worse than it really seems. Percy is almost led to believe this, too, until he eavesdrops on Grover and Mr. Percy, however, suspects that something is going on since whenever he asks Grover, he hesitates. Kerr, a teacher he has never once seen before.

Dodds had never existed, and their pre-algebra teacher is Mrs. Percy kills the Fury in self-defense.įor the rest of the year, everyone in the campus thinks that Mrs. Brunner, charges in and throws Percy a pen that suddenly changes into a sword when he uncaps it.

However, she suddenly turns into a Fury, a mythical creature known from Greek mythology, and tries to kill him. Dodds, takes Percy for a private talk, presumably to scold him. Percy is outraged, and suddenly, water from a nearby fountain drenches Nancy in a very unnatural way but the Mist makes it look like Percy pushed her. While he is in sixth grade on a field trip, a classmate of his, Nancy Bobofit, bullies his best friend Grover Underwood. Percy Jackson is a twelve-year-old boy diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia, and he has been expelled from every school he has ever attended.
