Literature, Percy Jackson Chapter 11-20
Percy, Anabeth, and Tyson were saved by Clarisse from the hydra attack, and after that they joined with Clarisse in her ship, CSS Birmingham. However, Clarisse always denied Annabeth proposal to join forces, she claimed that she could do everything in her own. That Percy, Annabeth, and Tyson were only on her way. While on the ship, Percy had a kind of weird dream again about Grover. In his dream, he was shown the location of the Golden Fleece. On their journey to the sea of monster, they had to face Charybdis and Scylla first. Percy told Clarisse to sail around them, but Clarisse’s head just as hard as rock. She wouldn’t listen to what Percy said. Because of that, they were sucked in a whirlpool which was made by Charybdis. Not only they took the wrong path, but also there was a mechanical problem on the ship. Tyson offered to repair the mechanical problem. While Tyson repairing the engine problem, the situation on the ship got worse. Percy, Annabeth, and Clarisse were told to go out from the ship because it was going to blow up. When the ship was blown, they managed to survive. However, they didn’t certain whether Tyson was dead or not.
After Percy and Annabeth woke up in the rowboat, they feel regret and uneasy about Tyson. They had made a wrong perception about Tyson up until now. Percy Asked Annabeth about the prophecy. Percy heard from Annabeth that the child of the three main Gods (Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades) who will reach 16 could be a good or a bad thing for Olympus. They would be blessed by a great power on that time. They managed to get survive into an island. Not long before they landed, they found a weird place, it’s a spa. Without thinking further, they came to the spa. They learned that the owner of that spa was C.C, a beautiful woman who has a strange charisma. They got deceived by C.C appearance. C.C asked Percy to drink a kind of strawberry milkshake drink to change his appearance. But after drinking that thing, Percy was changed into a guinea pig. When Annabeth found out the truth, she tried to save Percy. Annabeth give the multivitamin to Percy, and he turned to normal again. They managed to escape using the Queen Anne’s Revenge.
On their journey, Annabeth told Percy everything about Cyclops. She hated Cyclops because it was related with Thalia’s death. At night, Percy had a weird dream again. But this time it’s not about Grover. He dreamt about Kronos who gave him some kind of warnings. After that Annabeth woke Percy up. Annabeth asked Percy that she wanted to hear the sirens. Percy put a candle wax to cover his ears. He tied Annabeth to a pole. When Annabeth had already gone, Percy pulled Annabeth back to the ship. Later, he found what is Annabeth desired. Annabeth feel shy when Percy knew that she always think that she’s better than anyone. Finally, they reached the Cyclops Island.
When they’re already landed, they saw a golden fleece. It was hanging on the tree in the middle of the island. They thought that there was nothing dangerous around it. There were only sheeps around it, but later on they realized that the sheeps were actually a kind of piranhas. They surely would eat up everything except Cyclops. When they look back, they saw another lifeboat which was Clarisse’s. They decided to reach it. And then, they found Grover with Clarisse. Percy and Annabeth made a plan to get the Golden Fleece, but Clarisse against it. Because of her, Polyphemus found out that Grover was not a female Cyclops, but he was a satyr. After that, He got really angry and wanted to cook Grover. He decided to marry Clarisse instead. Polyphemus took Grover and Clarisse to his hideout, and Percy and Annabeth sneaked from behind. They had a fight with the Polyphemus in the cave. Annabeth got seriously injured.
They all ran from the cave, trying to escape as Polyphemus chased them behind. In the middle of their fight, Percy took his sword and he was about to stab polyphemus eyes. But suddenly a shadow of Tyson made him feel hard to stab that Cyclops. Polyphemus began to trick Percy by begging him mercy. When Percy fell on his trap, he began to attack Percy. But suddenly Tyson came. He threw a big rock to Polyphemus as he wanted to eat Percy. Percy got really surprised that his younger brother still alive. While Polyphemus still unconscious, Percy asked Tyson to get the fleece. Since Tyson was a Cyclops, he can easily face the sheeps. When Tyson managed to get the fleece, and then annabeth was cured, they went back to the ship. They thought that they already free, that Polyphemus wouldn’t chase them. But they’re wrong.
Polyphemus said that Tyson was a traitor, and he threw many boulders to us and one of the boulders hit us and make our ship drown to the water. When Polyphemus thought that he had already won, Tyson called Rainbow, hippocampus that had saved him before. With the help of hippocampuses, they managed to survive from the island. They rode the hippocampuses and escaped from the island with fleece on their hand.
The hippocampuses brought them to Miami and it was all the hippocampus could do for them. After several small talks and discussions they realized that there was only one day left to save Thalia’s tree. After several fights between Annabeth and Clarisse, finally Clarisse told them about the prophecy. When Percy known about it, he let Clarisse to take the fleece back to the camp so that she could finish her quest. After Clarisse gone, Luke came and asked them about where the Golden Fleece is. When they were in Princess Andromeda discussing about the Golden Fleece, Percy got an idea. He throws a gold drachma to the pool so that he can make a contact with the people in the half blood camp. And somehow he could trick Luke to reveal his own motives. He revealed himself that he’s the one who poisoned thalia’s tree.
When Luke tried to chase Clarisse, Percy tried to stop him by fighting him one on one. It turned out that Percy totally lost. Luke is very tough to be beaten up. After some small talks, Percy found out that Luke was chasing the Golden Fleece to make Kronos recovery faster and the reason why he poisoned the thalia’s three. It was to take the other demigods on his side. Suddenly Chiron was coming with other centaurs to save Percy and the others. The centaurs fought Luke and the sailors and they managed to take control of the ship. And then the ship reached the downtown street of Miami. After that Chiron planned to take Percy and his friends back to the camp. Along the way to the camp, Percy asked Chiron about the prophecy. During the conversation, Percy found out the reason why Chiron was not fully trusted by others and why he’s accused as the one who poisoned Thalia’s tree, it was because he’s the son of Kronos.
Finally they are on the half blood camp. Everything just went back to normal like there was nothing happened before. The Thalia’s tree had already recovered because of the Golden Fleece. Chiron held another chariot race again. Percy, Annabeth and Tyson were in the same team. When night came, Hermes came again. He gave something to Percy. It was a mail for Percy from Poseidon, his legitimate father. Percy opened it, and the content was just two words, “Brace Yourself”. Percy didn’t really get what it means. The next morning, Percy, Annabeth and Tyson had the chariot race. Because of teamwork they managed to win the race. In the end, Percy really proud of his brother, Tyson.
After all of the hardships, everything had back to normal. Percy’s mom told him that he could stay at the camp until next year. On the other hand, Tyson was invited into Poseidon Palace for an internship. Percy dreamt about Kronos again and it’s something really disturbing. In the following day, Grover woke him up and told him that something serious had happened. It was about the Golden Fleece. The Golden Fleece had done something greater than just healing. It’s Talia, alive in human body not in tree form again.
