At the rear of the bus, the driver wrenched a big chunk of smoking metal out of the engine compartment. The bus shuddered, and the engine roared back to life. The passengers cheered. Darn right!" yelled the driver. He slapped the bus with his hat. "Everybody get back on board!

Spontaneous combustion IS a form of harm, Mr. D," Chiron put in.

On the bright side," Percy said, "both Jason and I outrank you, Octavian. So we can both tell you to shut up.

Right," Sadie said. "And Set will just stand there calmly while I read him to death.

P.S. You'll have to meet with Dan's principal when you get back. He got in trouble for doing ninja moves in class. Don't worry. This happens all the time.

Kronos would be 10 times more powerful. His very presence would incinerate you. And once he achieves this he will empower the other Titans. They are weak, compared to what they soon will become, unless you can stop them, the world will fall, the gods will die, and I will never achieve a perfect score on this stupid machine.

What I did next was so impulsive and dangerous I should've been named ADHD poster child of the year.