THE BATTLE OF THE LABYRINTH Percy Jackson ... - No one's invited.

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Annabeth shuddered. “I hate it when he does that.”
Like all Cyclopes, Tyson had superhuman hearing and an uncanny ability to mimic voices. It was almost
like he entered a trance when he spoke in other voices.
“I will not serve,” Tyson said in a deep, wounded voice.
He switched to the monster’s voice: “Then I shall enjoy your pain, Briares.” Tyson faltered when he said
that name. I’d never heard him break character when he was mimicking somebody, but he let out a
strangled gulp. Then he continued in the monster’s voice. “If you thought your first imprisonment was
unbearable, you have yet to feel true torment. Think on this until I return.”
The dragon lady tromped toward the stairwell, vipers hissing around her legs like grass skirts. She
spread wings that I hadn’t noticed before—huge bad wings she kept folded against her dragon back.
She leaped off the catwalk and soared across the courtyard. We crouched lower in the shadows. A hot
sulfurous wind blasted my face as the monster flew over. Then she disappeared around the corner.
“H-h-horrible,” Grover said. “I’ve never smelled any monster that strong.”
“Cyclopes’ worst nightmare,” Tyson murmured.“Kampê.”
“Who?”I asked.
Tyson swallowed. “Every Cyclops knows about her. Stories about her scare us when we’re babies. She
was our jailer in the bad years.”
Annabeth nodded. “I remember now. When the Titans ruled, they imprisoned Gaea andOuranos’s
earlier children—the Cyclopes and theHekatonkheires .”
“TheHeka -what?”I asked.
“The Hundred-Handed Ones,” she said. “They called them that because…well, they had a hundred
hands. They were elder brothers of the Cyclopes.”
“Very powerful,” Tyson said. “Wonderful!As tall as the sky. So strong they could break mountains!”
“Cool,” I said.“Unless you’re a mountain.”
“Kampêwas the jailer,” he said. “She worked for Kronos. She kept our brothers locked up inTartarus ,
tortured them always, until Zeus came. He killedKampê and freed Cyclopes and Hundred-Handed Ones
to help fight against the Titans in the big war.”
“And nowKampê is back,” I said.
“Bad,” Tyson summed up.
“So who’s in that cell?” I asked. “You said a name—”
“Briares!”Tyson perked up. “He is a Hundred-Handed One. They are as tall as the sky and—”
“Yeah,” I said. “They break mountains.”