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Fine Percy gritted his teeth Let’s figure out how to escape

Frank swam around the tank and reported no exits The top was covered with Celestial bronze mesh, like the curtains that roll down over closed storefronts at the h with Riptide, but he couldn’t lass ith his sword hilt--again, no luck Then he repeated his efforts with several of the weapons lying around the bottoed to break three tridents, a sword, and a speargun

Finally he tried to control the water He wanted it to expand and break the tank, or explode out the top The water didn’t obey Maybe it was enchanted, or under the power of Phorcys Percy concentrated until his ears popped, but the best he could do was blow the lid off the plastic treasure chest

Well, that’s it, he thought dejectedly I’ll have to live in a plastic gingerbread house the rest offor feeding time

Phorcys had proht about the dazed telkhines, the Nereids and hippocaht of ending up like that didn’t help to lower his anxiety level

He wondered if Phorcys was right Even if they ods were all incapacitated? Bacchus iants once before, but he would only join the fight if he got an i Bacchus any kind of tributehimself with a Monster Donut

Look! Frank said

Outside the glass, Keto was leading Coach Hedge through the a while the coach nodded and ad

Coach! Percy yelled Then he realized it was hopeless The coach couldn’t hear telepathic yelling

Frank bue didn’t seem to notice Keto walked hih the glass, probably because she assumed the tank was still e, Coruesome sea monsters this way

Percy realized he had only a few seconds before the coach would be gone He swam after them, but the water didn’t help hi him back He dropped Riptide and used both are and Keto were five feet froiantball

It hit the glass with a thunk--not nearly loud enough to attract attention

Percy’s heart sank

But Coach Hedge had the ears of a satyr He glanced over his shoulder When he saw Percy, his expression went through several changes in a e, then a e pointed toward the top of the a, Gods of Olye promptly took off his fake foot and ninja-kicked her in the back of the head with his goat hoof Keto crumpled to the floor

Percy winced His own recently whopped head throbbed in sympathy, but he had never been happier to have a chaperone who liked e ran to the glass He held up his pal in there, Jackson?

Percy pounded his fist on the glass and e yelled a question that ht have been: Where’s Frank?

Percy pointed at the giant koi

Frank waved his left dorsal fin ’Sup?

Behind Hedge, the sea goddess began to e shook his leg like he ar hoof, but Percy waved his ar Keto on the head forever Since she was iet them out of this tank It was only a matter of time before Phorcys came back to check on theers and then gesturing at the glass All of us hit it at the saood at charades, but Hedge nodded like he understood Hitting things was a language the satyr kneell

Percy hefted another giant e form yet?

Maybe back to human

Human is fine! Just hold your breath If this works…

Keto rose to her knees No tiers One, two, three!

Frank turned to hulass The coach did a Chuck Norris roundhouse kick with his hoof Percy used all his strength to slam the marble into the wall, but he did more than that He called on the water to obey him, and this time he refused to take no for an answer He felt all the pent-up pressure inside the tank, and he put it to use Water liked to be free Given time, water could overcome any barrier, and it hated to be trapped, just like Percy He thought about getting back to Annabeth He thought about destroying this horrible prison for sea creatures He thought about shoving Phorcys’s allons of water responded to his anger

The glass wall cracked Fracture lines zigzagged from the point of impact, and suddenly the tank burst Percy was sucked out in a torrent of water He tueto her feet when the diver statue slae spit salt water "Pan’s pipes, Jackson! What were you doing in there?"

"Phorcys!" Percy spluttered "Trap! Run!"

Alarms blared as they fled the exhibits They ran past the Nereids’ tank, then the telkhines Percy wanted to free theish, and they were sea creatures They wouldn’t survive unless he found a way to transport theht theod’s poould overcome his And Keto would be after them too, ready to feed them to her sea monsters

I’ll be back, Percy promised, but if the creatures in the exhibits could hear hin

Over the sound system, Phorcys’s voice boomed: "Percy Jackson!"