

He is replaced by Tantalus, a man who has been summoned from the Fields of Punishment. Chiron is fired because he is suspected of poisoning the tree since he is a son of Kronos. Tyson manages to subdue one bull and Clarisse takes care of the other one.

Thalia's tree, which protects the camp, had also been poisoned by an unknown intruder. Upon returning, they find the camp under attack by two bronze Colchis Bulls made by Hephaestus. Annabeth Chase saves Percy by killing the last Laistrygonian giant, Joe Bob, by stabbing it from behind and takes Percy and Tyson back to Camp Half-Blood by calling the Gray Sisters and their taxi. They summon explosive dodge-balls in an attempt to kill Percy, but he is protected by Tyson who is unaffected physically or mentally by the monsters' cannonballs. The same day at Meriwether College Prep, Percy is stuck playing dodgeball with Tyson, his friend who is bullied, against large seventh graders who turn out to be Laistrygonian Giants. When he wakes up, he sees a dark object in the window which he describes as a shadow belonging to nobody and nothing. The shop then blows up and Percy hears Polyphemus' voice.

In Percy Jackson's dream, Grover Underwood is running from the Cyclops, Polyphemus, and enters a wedding shop.
