Percy Jackson & the Olympians - Minotaur Attacks MONSTERS Mrs Dodds
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Percy Jackson & the Olympians is a series of six fantasy novels written by American author Rick Riordan. The first book series in his Camp Half-Blood Chronicles, the novels are set in a world with the Greek gods in the 21st century.
Mrs Dodds
She is a Fury sent by Hades to find Percy Jackson, who is suspected to have stolen Zeus's master bolt and Hades' Helm of Darkness. She manages to infiltrate his school Yancy Academy by impersonating a math teacher named Mrs. Dodds.
The Lightning Thief
Some times later, Mrs. Dodds accompanies Percy's class during a school trip to a museum along with her colleague Mr. Brunner. During a lunch break, she witnesses Percy unintentionally make water from a nearby fountain grab the class bully Nancy Bobofit (who is Mrs. Dodds' favourite student), after she picked on his friend Grover Underwood. Mrs. Dodds then demands Percy to come with her into the museum. Percy follows her, but she turns back into her true appearance on the top of a scaffolding and attacks him. Luckily, Mr. Brunner, who is actually the centaur Chiron, enters the room and throws a pen to Percy, which turns into a sword. Percy uses the sword to stab Alecto, who vaporizes.
However due to being a monster, Alecto doesn't stay dead for long and returns to her form as Mrs. Dodds alongside her two fellow Furies to pursue Percy, Grover and Annabeth Chase during their quest to find Zeus' thunderbolt. Alecto attacked the trio on a bus, causing them to run away without supplies and having to go on the run. Towards the end of the novel, Alecto witnessed Ares' confession of stealing the helm and the thunderbolt, she greeted Percy and returned to Hades with the helm.
Minotaur
The Minotaur was born of a human, Pasiphaë, and a white bull. Poseidon sent the white bull to Pasiphaë's husband King Minos for him to sacrifice in his honor, but King Minos did not sacrifice the bull because he saw that the bull had the most beautiful fur that he has ever seen and let the bull live. However, Poseidon was spying nearby and saw that Minos had left his white bull alive. Thereafter, mad with rage and anger that Minos had not sacrificed the bull, he cursed Minos by having Aphrodite make Pasiphaë fall in love with the bull. Then, when Poseidon had left for Olympus, Pasiphaë ordered Daedalus to make a fake cow for her to hide inside and lure it. The result of their union was the Minotaur.
Pasiphaë nursed him in his infancy, but he grew rapidly and became incredibly ferocious. Minos, after getting advice from the Oracle at Delphi, had Daedalus and his son Icarus construct a gigantic maze, the Labyrinth, to hold the Minotaur. Its location was near Minos' palace in Knossos.
The Minotaur dwelt at the center of the Labyrinth and every seven years, seven youths and seven maidens in Athens were taken from their families as sacrifices to him. Theseus, the son of King Aegeas of Athens, volunteered to slay the Minotaur and was taken to the Labyrinth as a feast for the monster. Since he wasn't allowed any weapons, Theseus tore off one of the Minotaur's horns and used it to stab the monster to death. Ariadne helped Theseus out of the maze with the help of a thread that showed him his way in, and helped him on his way out.