Aunty Em's Garden Gnome Emporium, is a garden center in Leeds Point, New Jersey, off the main highway. It is the lair of the infamous gorgon, Medusa.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians[]
The Lightning Thief[]
Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase, and Grover Underwood stumble upon Aunty Em's Garden Gnome Emporium in search of food after all of their supplies exploded on a bus after an encounter with the Furies. As the trio walks in, they are greeted by many statues of animals, children, and people. Grover is suspicious about the place and discovers a statue that is of a satyr that looks like his Uncle Ferdinand. Grover begs Percy and Annabeth to turn back due to the smell of monsters. At first, the emporium appears to be run by a kindly middle eastern woman who offers to feed Percy, Annabeth and Grover for free. However, it soon becomes clear (at least to Annabeth and Grover) that something is amiss and Aunty Em turns out to be none other than Medusa.
The Last Olympian[]
The emporium is where Medusa stores her victims and also the hideout for Kronos and his Titan Army while they are fighting Percy, Annabeth, Thalia, Grover, Chiron, and the other demigods from Camp Half-Blood who are defending the Empire State Building entrance to Mount Olympus in the Battle of Manhattan.
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The Lightning Thief[]
While searching for Persephone's pearls at Aunty Em's Gnome Emporium, Annabeth is found by a woman, who tells her in hysterics that she and her husband stopped for directions, and implies that a terrible fate befell the latter. Annabeth starts frantically trying to help her escape.
Meanwhile, Grover, while alone and looking at a concrete statue which he finds looks identical to his Uncle Ferdinand, dismisses the thought, remembering that his uncle was killed by Medusa. As a result, he realizes that it really is his Uncle Ferdinand, runs to get Percy to tell him that they are in Medusa's lair. From afar, Percy hears Grover calling his name. Fearing that Grover was facing some kind of danger, Percy pulls out Riptide, his celestial bronze sword disguised as a pen, and runs to find his friend. They abruptly run into each other by mistake, and Percy asks him what the matter is. Grover hurriedly explains his findings, and that the place they had set forth in is really Medusa's hideaway. Percy then realizes that they are in deep trouble and they go searching for Annabeth.
Annabeth and the woman find an overgrown garden, but are cornered in a dead end by Medusa, who quickly succeeds in petrifying the hysterical woman. As a side effect, Annabeth's hand winds up trapped, as the woman was holding onto it at the time.
Witnessing this, Grover hands Percy an Apple iPod Touch and tells him that he has to use the iPod to look at Medusa's reflection, not the monster's real face or he could be turned to stone and Percy acknowledges that he should. Quickly, Percy distracts Medusa while Grover then goes and rescues Annabeth. However, Percy got close to being turned to stone by Medusa until Annabeth and Grover saved him by ramming Medusa with a pickup truck while their eyes were shut making some stone statues fall to the ground hitting Medusa and setting Percy free away from her. After the initial collapsing of the statues upon Medusa, the Gorgon picks up the iPod and gazes at it, distracted by its technology which gives Percy an advantage as he picks up Riptide and cuts her snake-filled head.
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