𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗜𝗟𝗜𝗔𝗗 ⋆━━⋆ percy jackson

𝐱𝐢. peppa pig on steroids attacks

BIANCA WAS faster than Cassie had realized. She rolled out of the way of its hooves and came up behind the beast.

It lashed out with its tusks and pulverized the WELCOME TO CLOUDCROFT sign.

Cassie racked her brain, trying to remember the myth of the boar.

She was pretty sure Hercules had fought it once, but she couldn't remember how he'd beaten it. She had a vague memory of the boar plowing down several Greek cities before Hercules managed to subdue it.

Cassie hoped Clouderoft was insured against giant wild boar attacks.

"Keep moving!" Zoë yelled. She and Bianca ran in opposite directions.

Grover danced around the boar, playing his pipes while the boar snorted and tried to gouge him.

But Cassie,Thalia and Percy won the prize for bad luck. When the boar turned on them, Thalia made the mistake of raising Aegis in defense.

The sight of the Medusa head made the boar squeal in outrage. Maybe it looked too much like his mother or something, because the monster charged at them.

They only managed to keep ahead of it because they ran uphill, and they could dodge in and out of trees while the boar had to plow through them.

On the other side of the hill, Cassie found an old stretch of train tracks, half buried in the snow.

"This way!" Cassie grabbed Thalia's arm, Percy following behind.

They ran along the rails while the boar roared behind them, slipping and sliding as it tried to navigate the steep hill-side. Its hooves just were not made for this, thank the gods.

Ahead of them, Cassie saw a covered tunnel. Past that, an old trestle bridge spanning a gorge.

She had a crazy idea. "Follow me!"

Thalia almost fell. "That's what we're doing!"

Behind them, a ten-ton pig tank was knocking down pine trees and crushing boulders under its hooves as it chased the three.

Thalia, Percy and her ran into the tunnel and came out on the other side.

"No!" Thalia screamed.

She'd turned as white as ice. They were at the edge of the bridge.

Below, the mountain dropped away into a snow-filled gorge about seventy feet below.

The boar was right behind them.

"Come on!" Cassie looked behind. "It'll probably hold our weight."

"Probably?!" Percy didn't sound very convinced.

"I can't!" Thalia yelled. Her eyes were wild with fear.
The boar smashed into the covered tunnel, tearing through at full speed.

Thalia, a daughter of Zeus, was scared of heights. That's why she had freaked out at Apollo's bus.

Thalia looked at her, Cassie took both her hands. "We have to go. Now."

She looked down and swallowed. Cassie sweared she was turning green.

The boar was charging through the tunnel, straight toward them.

Plan B. Percy tackled Thalia and sent them both sideways off the edge of the bridge, into the side of the mountain, Cassie was just behind them.

They slid on Aegis like a snowboard, over rocks and mud and snow, racing downhill.

The boar was less fortunate; it couldn't turn that fast, so all ten tons of the monster charged out onto the tiny trestle, which buckled under its weight.