However, the celedon's song resonates through the earwax and causes mortals to weep in depression. He explains the difficulty in fighting automatons with mortals and manipulates the Mist to show a presidential motorcade to the cops in order to block off the area.Īs the police block off the exit, Percy uncaps Riptide and attacks. The satyr spots the celedon approaching a mic on an outdoor stage and it prepares to sing causing Percy to stuff wax in his ears. Percy expresses doubt as Grover's skills on the reed pipes wavers between days. Percy questions the use of the lyre, but Grover explains that if the right song was played, it could create anything. While searching, Grover bumps into a hot dog vendor cart and clutches the lyre protectively. Percy and Grover (who doesn't bother to disguise himself) take the subway to Times Square as it is located in the middle of the Theater District and filled with tourists and broadway performers. He sets the rendezvous at the Empire State Building by sunset before vanishing. He summons his personal lyre and tells Grover that his immunity to magical music and ability to play the lyre's magic will aid in the capture the celedon. Apollo reveals he likes Percy and that his experience with the Sirens during the Sea of Monsters is a similar challenge. Grover realizes that a celdeon singing in public could create mass panic causing Percy to agree to the quest, but asks why he picked the two to complete the quest. He suggests for the two to search at the Theater District of Manhattan as celedones are always looking to be 'discovered'. Percy complains that Apollo could retrieve the celedone himself, but he explains that he needs to perform a sound check for the concert and that heroes are supposed to run the gods' errands. Grover protests that they sound fine, but Apollo reveals that the celdeones are a quartet and one had gone rogue after Hephaestus' two-thousand year warranty expired. They attempt to tell him that they're taking a day off to celebrate Grover's birthday, but Apollo interprets this as a day off to help him.Īpollo takes Percy and Grover to the side in order to introduce them to the chryseae celedones, a trio of golden automatons who sing in beautiful harmony and will perform with the god in a concert at Mount Olympus. However, before the game could begin, Apollo arrives and greets Percy and Grover. After gifting Grover aluminum cans, the satyr suggests playing Pin the Tail on the Human, frightening the only human present - Percy. Percy Jackson celebrates Grover Underwood's birthday party alongside Juniper and other dryads at Prospect Park in Brooklyn. That little favor turned into a big problem when Apollo sent Percy out to fetch his fourth celedon, who went rogue and ran off to the big city to try her hand at fame, fortune, and a solo career. Using his tell-tale humor, Percy Jackson narrates the short story that tells us about the time when he was celebrating Grover’s birthday and Apollo turned up and asked him for a “little” favor.

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