The Demigod Files

The Demigod Files was released on February 10, 2009. It is a companion book to the main series. It contains three short stories, which are Percy Jackson and the Stolen Chariot, Percy Jackson and the Bronze Dragon , and Percy Jackson and the Sword of Hades. It also contains a preview of The Last Olympian hinting at the fact that these stories took place before the events of The Last Olympian but after the events of The Battle of the Labyrinth. Additional contents include interviews with some of the campers, a picture of Annabeth's trunk, a map of Camp Half-Blood, and various crossword puzzles and other activities. On the cover is Riptide and behind Riptide is Poseidon's trident. Another version of the book was released on January 7, 2010 to coincide with the movie, this version had a different cover (one of Logan Lerman, who plays Percy in the film, holding the master bolt sitting on a ledge) and eight pages of screen caps from the movie.

Contents of Book
These are all the pages included in the book.

Letter from Camp Half-Blood /1

Percy Jackson and the Stolen Chariot /3

Percy Jackson and the Bronze Dragon /31

Interview with Connor and Travis Stoll, sons of Hermes /64

Interview with Clarisse La Rue, daughter of Ares /67

Interview with Annabeth Chase, daughter of Athena / 69

Interview with Grover Underwood, satyr /72

Interview with Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon /74

Map of Camp Half-Blood /77

Annabeth Chase's Camp Trunk /80

Percy Jackson and the Sword of Hades /83

Olympian Crossword /134

Olympian Word Jumble /136

Twelve Olympian Gods +2 /138

Answers to Puzzles /142

Preview of The Last Olympian /144

Percy Jackson and the Stolen Chariot
Percy Jackson and the Stolen Chariot is a short story where Clarisse is supposed to take care of Ares' War Chariot, when it is stolen by her immortal brothers, Deimos and Phobos (gods of terror and fear respectively). She is spotted by Percy, and together, they find the chariot at the Staten Island Zoo. They face the two gods, who without their powers of fear and terror are extremely weak in battle (unlike their father) and are easily defeated. During the skimirishes with Percy and Clarisse, Deimos and Phobos show Percy their inner most fears. Finally, they bring the chariot to Ares' Temple on the Intrepid, a battle cruiser.

Percy Jackson and the Bronze Dragon
Percy Jackson and the Bronze Dragon is a story where Percy Jackson and Charles Beckendorf are on the same team for capture the flag, and the two war god cabins and the Aphrodite Cabin are on the other. Beckendorf, a son of Hephaestus, has a somewhat awkward conversation about girls (he has had a not-so-secret crush on Silena Beauregard for three years), and thinks Percy should ask Annabeth to the fireworks. They set off into the woods and stumble on a huge anthill. Silena and Annabeth capture Percy. Beckendorf meanwhile charges straight ahead into the ant swarm as he tries to take back a huge bronze dragon's head, but immediately is pinched in the leg and has acid spit in his face. Percy, Annabeth and Silena along to try to find the rest of the body of the bronze dragon which was once one of the camp's defenses against monsters before Thalia's pine tree. They finally get the monster started (a bronze dragon with no wings) and get it to help Beckendorf. It blasts open the ants' nest and the ants all attack the dragon. Meanwhile, Percy, Annabeth, and Silena dart in the ant hill and get Beckendorf back out. When they come out and start fleeing, the dragon spots them and turns berserk on them. Percy distracts the dragon until Beckendorf could jump on the dragon's back and unplug him. Silena is so relieved that Beckendorf is alive, and when he asks her to the fireworks, she gladly accepts the invitation. Once they get back to camp, it turns out the Capture the Flag Game has not ended yet, and Annabeth puts them in Capture the Flag Jail. Percy and Beckendorf protest, but they wouldn't listen. Before she leaves to go back to the front line to fight for her team, she asks Percy out to the Fourth of July Fireworks, the biggest dating event of the summer at Camp Half-Blood ,but she quickly left before Percy could answer. Percy and Beckendorf share a few lines about girls and then the story ends.

Percy Jackson and the Sword of Hades
For World Book Day 2009, Rick Riordan wrote a short story called Percy Jackson and the Sword of Hades, a short book taking place between The Battle of the Labyrinth and The Last Olympian. Persephone has called by tricking all three children of The Big Three (Percy, Thalia and Nico) into coming into the Underworld to retrieve Hades' new Sword from a demigod spy who stole it. The problem is that Hades' Keys are in it, which let anyone out or into the Underworld. Persephone gives them a magical carnation to track the half-blood, and when all the petals fall off it, the sword has made it out of the Underworld. Percy, Nico and Thalia must retrieve the sword before time runs out. At first, Thalia refuses to help because the forging of the weapon is illegal. All the other Gods (specially Zeus) must know it first and agree in its creation. Creation of a new weapon (and symbol) destroys the balance between the Gods' powers. But the danger that the weapon implies can free the souls from the Underworld so she figured she must help catch the thief. They catch the thief, Ethan Nakamura, but all the petals fall off because Ethan has raised the Titan, Iapetus. When Percy fights against Iapetus he flings him into the river Lethe, the river of forgetfulness. Although Percy also falls in, he stays dry because of his powers, being the son of Poseidon. Percy tells Iapetus that he is his friend Bob and Iapetus, a Titan, believes him and is now harmless. When they return to Hades and Persephone with the sword, something goes wrong. Hades is very unhappy about the sword's creation and leaves in anger, threatening Persephone never to disobey him again. They later find out that Persephone requested the sword against Hades' orders to equalize the power of the Big Three and that she'd tricked them.