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

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Annabeth elbowed me. “Don’t be rude. The Hundred-Handed Ones all have fifty different faces.”
“Must make it hard to get a yearbook picture,” I said.
Tyson was still entranced. “It will be okay, Briares! We will help you! Can I have your autograph?”
Briares sniffled. “Do you have one hundred pens?”
“Guys,” Grover interrupted. “We have to get out of here.Kampê will be back. She’ll sense us sooner or
later.”
“Break the bars,” Annabeth said.
“Yes!” Tyson said, smiling proudly. “Briares can do it. He is very strong. Stronger than Cyclopes, even!
Watch!”
Briares whimpered. A dozen of his hands started playing patty-cake, but none of them made any
attempt to break the bars.
“If he’s so strong,” I said, “why is he stuck in jail?”
Annabeth ribbed me again. “He’s terrified,” she whispered. “Kampêhad imprisoned him inTartarus for
thousands of years. How would you feel?”
The Hundred-Handed One covered his face again.
“Briares?”Tyson asked. “What…what is wrong? Show us your great strength!”
“Tyson,” Annabeth said, “I think you’d better break the bars.”
Tyson’s smile melted slowly.
“I will break the bars,” he repeated. He grabbed the cell door and ripped it off its hinges like it was
made of wet clay.
“Come on, Briares,” Annabeth said. “Let’s get you out of here.”
She held out her hand. For a second,Briares’s face morphed to a hopeful expression. Several of his
arms reached out, but twice as many slapped them away.
“I cannot,” he said. “She will punish me.”
“It’s all right,” Annabeth promised. “You fought the Titans before, and you won, remember?”
“I remember the war.”Briares’s face morphed again—furrowed brow and a pouting mouth. His
brooding face, I guess. “Lightning shook the world. We threw many rocks. The Titans and the monsters
almost won. Now they are getting strong again.Kampê said so.”
“Don’t listen to her,” I said. “Come on!”
He didn’t move. I knew Grover was right. We didn’t have much time beforeKampê returned. But I