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Greek mythology: a creature that was part man and part bull
- "The Minotaur," I said.Chapter 5 (11% in)
- The Minotaur.Chapter 5 (11% in)
- Grover offered to carry the Minotaur horn, but I held on to it.Chapter 5 (25% in)
- She glanced at the minotaur horn in my hands, then back at me.Chapter 5 (40% in)
- I imagined she was going to say, You killed a minotaur! or Wow, you're so awesome! or something like that.Chapter 5 (40% in)
- You know"-he pointed to the horn in the shoe box-"that you have killed the Minotaur.Chapter 5 (55% in)
- One pointed to the minotaur horn I was carrying.Chapter 6 (2% in)
- Just the Minotaur's horn.Chapter 6 (60% in)
- To fight the Minotaur!Chapter 6 (64% in)
- Look, if the thing I fought really was the Minotaur, the same one in the stories ...Chapter 6 (65% in)
- If you weren't like us, you couldn't have survived the Minotaur, much less the ambrosia and nectar.Chapter 6 (78% in)
- I handed Annabeth my minotaur horn and got ready to fight, but before I knew it, Clarisse had me by the neck and was dragging me toward a cinder-block building that I knew immediately was the bathroom.Chapter 6 (85% in)
- Clarisse's friends were all laughing, and I was trying to find the strength I'd used to fight the Minotaur, but it just wasn't there.Chapter 6 (88% in)
- Minotaur probably fell over laughing, he was so stupid looking.Chapter 6 (89% in)
- Thankfully, nobody paid much attention to me as I walked over to my spot on the floor and plopped down with my minotaur horn.Chapter 7 (53% in)
- My fingers curled around the Minotaur's horn.Chapter 7 (98% in)
- The only thing I really excelled at was canoeing, and that wasn't the kind of heroic skill people expected to see from the kid who had beaten the Minotaur.Chapter 8 (5% in)
- He pointed across the valley, to the pine tree where I'd fought the minotaur.Chapter 8 (41% in)
- Next to that, my victory over the Minotaur didn't seem like much.Chapter 8 (45% in)
- I managed to sidestep the first kid's swing, but these guys were not as stupid the Minotaur.Chapter 8 (71% in)
- I had plenty of room for all my stuff: the Minotaur's horn, one set of spare clothes, and a toiletry bag.Chapter 9 (1% in)
- But its presence didn't feel evil, like my demonic math teacher Mrs. Dodds or the Minotaur.Chapter 9 (64% in)
- Hades had tried to kill me three times so far, with the Fury, the Minotaur, and the hellhound.Chapter 9 (82% in)
- I decided to leave the Minotaur horn in my cabin, which left me only an extra change of clothes and a toothbrush to stuff in a backpack Grover had found for me.Chapter 10 (0% in)
- Same as your minotaur horn.Chapter 11 (85% in)
- Her face was distorted with pain, as if the Minotaur were still squeezing her neck.Chapter 12 (73% in)
- I mean she was taken away from the Minotaur before she could die.Chapter 16 (9% in)
- It exploded on the steps in front of me, and there was my mother, frozen in a shower of gold, just as she was at the moment when the Minotaur began to squeeze her to death.Chapter 19 (79% in)
- She didn't remember anything since the Minotaur, and couldn't believe it when Gabe told her I was a wanted criminal, traveling across the country, blowing up national monuments.Chapter 21 (71% in)
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