The Minotaur

  As a demigod, you expect to meet and consequently deal with monsters, whether you run into them or they are set upon you by some a god. Well, it sure is fun when you have your father to thank for a monster that you have to face without being properly trained. The second monster Percy ever had to face was the Minotaur, a monster whom Poseidon led to the creation of.

  We know that when King Minos failed to sacrifice a snow white bull to Poseidon--the very reason for Poseidon to have sent him the bull--Poseidon made Minos' wife, Queen Pasiphaë, fall in love with the bull. As a result, she ended up sleeping with the bull and conceiving the monster known as the Minotaur. When Minos found out, he forced Daedalus to build the Labyrinth, a monstrous maze to imprison the beast.

  However, thanks to being killed and respawning over the years, the Minotaur no longer resides in the Labyrinth. No, now he roams the world and hunts Adown half-bloods. This is how Hades was easily able to send the beast after Percy, Sally, and Grover in The Lightning Thief, and use it to take Sally captive.

  Now, even though Percy had killed the fury Alecto, or for wiser half-bloods, a Kindly One, he had no clue what he was doing. Even though his mother had given him a quick lesson in bullfighting, he was in no position to fight the monster. However, the rain around him enabled Percy to jump over the Minotaur (roughly seven feet) and defeat it. The only reason he could achieve this because the rain filled him with Poseidon's godly powers. The Minotaur left behind one of its horns as a spoil of war, making it the first monster that Percy had evidence of its defeat by his own hands.

By Fangirl33107