The Lightning Chief Chapter 12 Summary

The Lightning Chief

Chapter 12 Summary

By: Yesenia, Garrett, & Neelam

Percy, Annabeth, and Grover camp out in the

middle of the woods, where it seems to be used for parties since there’s litter everywhere.

They decide to take turns keeping watch through the night. Percy takes the first watch.

But Grover can’t sleep. All the litter and the pollution makes his sad.

Grover tells Percy that it’s his life dream to find Pan. No satyr has ever found Pan or has come back alive from the search for Pan.

We Get Advice from a Poodle

Grover tells Percy that, back at Medusa’s house,

Annabeth had an interesting idea. Annabeth realized that there is something weird about this quest: all of the monsters seems to be holding back a bit.

Grover tells Percy that, when the Furies found them on the bus, they were asking, “where is it?” rather than “where is he?” It seems they are looking for an object, rather than a human.

Percy confesses to Grover that he’s only on this trip so that he can get his mom back from Hades, not because he cares about the master bolt or because he cares about helping his dad.

Grover already knows this about Percy, since

he can read emotions really well. But he also suspects that, deep inside, Percy wants to make his dad proud.

Percy protests. Then, Grover offers to take the first watch, and afterwards Percy falls asleep.

Percy has another vivid dream.

This is what happens:

Percy is standing on the edge of a big chasm cave. Dead spirits swirl around Percy grabbing at his clothes and pulling him away from the edge.

A voice rises from deep within the chasm. It says, “barter with me. I will give you what you want”

A glowing image of Percy’s mom appears over the chasm. Percy tries to scream, but he has no voice. The evil voice laughs and says, “help me ruse, boy. . .

Bring me the bolt. Strike a bow against the treacherous gods!”

The thing in the deep chasm uses Percy to pull itself out.

Annabeth shakes Percy awake, since it’s morning. Grover is cuddling with a pink poodle. Since Grover can talk to animals, the pink poodle told

him that he ran away from a rich family because he didn’t like living with them anymore. But the family has a reward out for him for $200. He would let Grover return to his owners and collect the reward. He wants to help them out, and they definitely need the money.

Gladiola tells them that there’s An Amtrak station half a mile away and that “the west-bound train leaves at noon.”

1. Is Grover disappointed of the Earth’s

conditions? 2. Is Ares the god of wild places? 3. Were the Kindly Ones going all out on Percy

and his friends? 4. Did Grover think Percy sent Medusa’s head

to Mt. Olympus? 5. Did Gladiola help Grover and his friends get

train tickets?

True or False Quiz