The Lost Hero blog post #7

    Jason, Piper and Leo  have met the daughter of the goddess of wisdom, Annabeth, and have been taken to the camp for kids like them, and thanks to another attack from the wind spirits, it turned out to have to be crash landing into their new home. After they crashed into the camp's river, Leo discovered a floating, fiery hammer floating above his head. He soon discovered that it was the sign of his father, the Greek god of machines and fire, Hephaestus.

    Each of the three protagonists were taken on a tour of the camp, each from a different person; Leo by his Hephaestus cabin mates, Piper by Annabeth and Jason by many other people. Each one of them begin to understand the situation that they were in, especially Leo. He learns that his cabin, and his half brothers, have been plagued by a supposed "curse" which begins to worry him. Not only that, but his cabin mates have also informed him that there is a metal dragon loose in the woods, now that caught Leo's attention. A couple days later, while at dinner, Jason accidentally summoned a lightning bolt, solving the mystery of who his godly parent was. Obviously it had to be Zeus, god of lighting and leader of the rest. Later that night, Piper was also claimed,  as a daughter of the goddess of love, Aphrodite. Meanwhile, Leo is feeling left out, and he begins to feel like hi secret is proving too hard to keep.

       Leo goes out to explore the woods one night and he discovers bunker nine, a secret bunker made by his semi-siblings, long ago. Also, Leo manages to catch the metal dragon, he tames it and then he named it Festus, Greek word for happy The rest of the people from the camp are very surprised at Leo's accomplishment. The three demigods are given their first quest, to save queen Hera from the evil earth goddess Gaea. They must travel to the Wolf House and save the Queen of the gods, before it's too late.

The Lost Hero blog post #6

        I decided to revisit an old favorite of mine, Rick Riordan's The Lost Hero. At this point in the book, I have met four main characters; Coach Hedge Jason Grace, Leo Valdez and Piper McLean. The first chapter starts off with it saying how Jason wakes up on a bus and that he couldn't remember anything in his life, his name, his age or even where he comes from. Piper and Leo explain to him how Piper is his girlfriend and that Leo was his best friend. Of course Jason denies remembering any of this. The reason that they were on a bus is because they were on a field trip to the Grand Canyon.

        When they get to the Grand Canyon, they discover the true identity of the local bully, Drew. They discover that Drew is a rogue and evil wind spirit that is out to destroy Jason, Piper and Leo, who turn out to be Half-Bloods(half human and half god). Oh, and remember Coach Hedge? Well guess what? He isn't human at all, it turns out that he is a satyr(half man, half goat) that was assigned to the three demigods long ago, to protect them. Jason and the wind spirit have an epic fight where Jason discovers, in his pocket, a magical golden coin, that when flipped, transforms into either a lance or a sword, depending on the side that the coin lands on. After the wind spirit was defeated, the demigods discover that their coach/protector was captured during the battle.

         While they are recovering from their shock, a flying chariot comes out of no where and lands right in front of them(not helping their recovery) and a young woman named Annabeth steps out and claims that she is searching for her missing boyfriend. She also explains how the oracle of her home had told her to go there and look for the person with a shoe missing, and low and behold, when Jason looks down, he realizes that on of his shoes has been blasted off.

Mysterious Benedict Society blog post # 5 (final)

           I have finished the book, after the boys endure the Whisperer, they discover that it was nothing like the other henchmen had described, it was wave after wave of pleasure, and it wasn't long until they boys were hooked onto the sensation. They began to crave their evening session with Mr. Curtain and the Whisperer. It wasn't long until the girls, Kate and Constance, noticed that the boys were acting strange. They didn't know what to do since the boys were the smart ones that always knew what to do, but eventually they came up with a plan.

           The girls decided to talk with the boys that night, they set up a meeting in the boys room, but when the girls got there, they discovered an empty room, the boys had decided to go to their evening session instead of meeting with them. The girls contacted Mr. Benedict, The Pencil Woman and Rhonda. Mr. Benedict explained to them how the addiction was going to wear off in a couple of days and it was going to become the horrors of their lives instead of the pleasures. As Mr. Benedict had predicted, the pleasures turned into horrors and the boys, soon after, snapped out of their addiction.
          Thanks to their daily trips, the boys now knew how to destroy the Whisperer. They were going to use an electromagnetic pulse to short out the Whisperer and to make sure that Mr. Curtain could never use it again. When the day of the plan came, they children went to set up the EMP, and as they turned the corner, they saw Mr. Curtain, with a dozen henchmen, waiting for them...

Mysterious Benedict Society blog post #4

              I am now nearing the end of the book on my last blog post I had left off with the fact that Sticky had just been sent off to the waiting room, and as I had guessed, he did not come back out the same way, he became suspicious of Reynie and very secretive. He stopped helping out Constance and Kate during the tests and quizzes, which began to hurt the girls' grades, since they knew absolutely nothing about any of the questions on any of the tests or quizzes. Usually, at the end of the day when the guards yell lights out, Reynie and Sticky have a secret meeting and talk about what they were going to do about the whole Mr. Curtain problem, but after the waiting room, Sticky went straight to bed without saying a word to Reynie, which started to do more harm to Reynie than to Sticky.
         
      During this part of the book, I was also introduced, along with the rest of the children, to the whisperer, a fiendish machine that uses your uttermost desires against you, and with Reynie and Sticky doing so well in the classes, Mr. Curtain finally made them part of his little squad of henchmen. One of the things that the henchmen must do, is to go through the process of the whisperer. Reynie and Sticky were terrified of the machine because of all of the talk that goes around about the Whisperer. They heard that it strips you of all emotion and leaves you with nothing but pure fear, and if they were trying to scare Reynie and Sticky, it sure worked!
             
            Yet even after the warnings from all of the other henchmen about the horrors of the whisperer, the boys steel their nerves and get ready to enter the Whisperer. When they get to Mr. Curtain, he greets them with open arms and tells them that this will be the experience of a life time, of course the boys know that some of what he just said probably is not all that true.