CHAPTER FIFTY-FOUR
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Fortunately, Blackjack was on duty.
Percy did his best taxicab whistle, and within a few minutes, three dark shapes circled out of the sky. They looked like hawks at first, but as they descended Sylvie could make out the long galloping legs of pegasi.
Blackjack landed at a trot, his two friends right behind him.
(Queue equine greeting.)
"Thanks for coming," Percy told him. "Hey, why do pegasi gallop as they fly, anyway?"
"Is that seriously what you're thinking about right now?" Sylvie hissed.
"It's a valid question!"
(Queue equine answer.)
"We need to get to the Williamsburg bridge," Percy answered whatever question Blackjack had asked.
On the way to the bridge, the knot grew in Sylvie's stomach. The Minotaur was a horrible monster with an even more horrible past, part of that including Percy killing him four years ago. Sylvie couldn't imagine he'd be very happy about that, or be very easy to defeat a second time. It didn't ease her anxiety that Percy seemed really confident now that he bore the curse of Achilles. Not that it was essentially a bad thing to be invincible, but it could certainly make him more reckless.
His normal state of recklessness already brought Sylvie to constant panic, so now she had to worry about him an extra amount.
They saw the battle before they were close enough to make out individual fighters. It was well after midnight now, but the bridge blazed with light. Cars were burning. Arcs of fire streamed in both directions as flaming arrows and spears sailed through the air.
They came in for a low pass, and Sylvie saw the Apollo campers retreating. They would hide behind cars and snipe at the approaching army, setting off explosive arrows and dropping caltrops in the road, building fiery barricades wherever they could, dragging sleeping drivers out of their cars to get them out of harm's way. But the enemy kept advancing. An entire phalanx of dracaenae marched in the lead, their shields locked together, spear tips bristling over the top. An occasional arrow would connect with their snaky trunks, or a neck, or a fissure in their armor, and the unlucky snake woman would disintegrate, but most of the Apollo arrows glanced harmlessly off their shield wall. About a hundred more monsters marched behind them.
Hellhounds leaped ahead of the line from time to time. Most were destroyed with arrows, but one got hold of an Apollo camper and dragged him away. Sylvie didn't see what happened to him next. She didn't want to know.
"There!" Annabeth called from the back of her pegasus.
Sure enough, in the middle of the invading legion was the Minotaur himself.
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