User:Liloly/The Cronus Chronicles

Main Summary:
This is a series written by Anne Ursu. It talks about the lives of two normal children who are cousins, but realize that Greek Myths are real. There are three books in the series: The Shadow Theives, The Siren Song, and finally the Promethean Flame. The last book of the series will be coming out at the summer of 2009.

Main Characters:
Charlotte Mielswetzski: A redhead girl with freckles who has sensitive parents, and is the main herorine of the series. She stops Philocreon from taking Zee under his power.

Zacahry Miller: Charlotte's cousin, who prefers to be called "Zee". He comes to London, to escape the plague. Philocreon is most interested in him, because of his blood. He likes soccer a lot, and his grandmother Dalisto Winter.

Dalisto Winter: Grandmother of Zee, who dies at the beginning of the first book. She promises Zee to watch over him, and keeps her promise in an unusual way.

Mr. Metos: Charlotte and Zee's English teacher who looks like a vampire, but is in fact one of the descendants of Prometheus. He and his fellow descendants have made a promise to watch over his humans, as his ancestor did. He saves Charlotte and Zee during the first book, but at the ending needed a rescue mission for himself.

Mew: Charlotte's pet cat, and is unsually intelligent for a cat. She has blue eyes, and almost creamy, but dark fur.

Philocreon: Grandson of Poseidon, half demon, half god, and a denizen. He lives in the Underworld at first, but later moves to Poseidon's yacht during the next book. He experiments a lot with Zee's blood, and learns to control Zee. He likes really fancy music (he plays the violin), wearing tuxedos, and he has red flashing eyes. His legs get hacked off during the ending of the first book.

The Shadow Theives:
The first book in the series; set in America, nowadays. Charlotte Mielswetzski is walking home, until she meets a stray cat. SHe takes it home, and her parents reluctantly let her keep it. Zee arrives from England, and Charlotte learns that Zee's parents want her parents to watch over him. Charlotte takes Zee to school, where he is the center of attention immediately. At that time too, a new teacher has arrived (Mr. Metos) who teaches English. They are studying Greek Myths, and Charlotte has a strange dream that night that a man wearing a tuxedo keeps coming from cracks of the earth to try and grab her.

Zee gets a concussion when playing soccer, and is kept at home. Meanwhile, a plague starts to come to all the students, starting with Charlotte's best friend Maddy Ruby. All the schools are shut down later on, and Zee starts to reveal to Charlotte some of his experiences. Charlotte is forced to accept that it is the truth, and they both later on go and try to deliver some homework to Maddy. When they are coming back from her house, some weird looking people (Philocreon's footmen) come out of nowhere and try to grab them. Mr. Metos arrives in his car, and drives them to his apartment.

Mr. Metos explains who he is, and what was happening. He tells Charlotte and Zee to stay in their house, and he will meanwhile go to the underworld to try and stop Philocreon. Zee then goes on a sleepwalking adventure, and would've been taken by the footmen if Mew didn't wake up Charlotte. Charlotte and Zee receive a note from Mr. Metos saying that he was captured, and it was up to them. The note also said to follow the raven that had delivered it. Charlotte leaves a note from her parents saying that they were gone to "save the world". She and Zee then pack quickly, and follow the raven.

The raven takes them to the mall, and to a door that says "No Entrance". Charlotte and Zee enter through there, and find themselves in the Greek Underworld. Charlotte and Zee bribe Charon to take them across by giving him a whole box of a snack. When they cross the River Styx, they notice that a bunch of harpies are circling a tall cliff, and singing. When Charlotte realizes that it was Mr. Metos chained to the cliff, she and Zee shout for him. Mr. Metos looks down, and instead of feeling relieved, he gets mad. Charlotte and Zee are confused, and mention about the note, but Mr. Metos claimed that he had sent no note.

Suddenly a voice behind them stated that he did, and the cousins turn around. They see Philocreon staring at them. Philocreon starts to control Zee, and makes him punch his cousin. Philocreon then orders a footmen to dispose Charlotte in the River Styx. While a footman carries her off, Zee is still under a trance, and Philocreon takes him away.

Charlotte then escapes the footman and throws him into the river. She then goes back to the Underwolrd, and this time goes to Hades's palace. While she travels there, Zee is taken to a cave, and is kept there. Philocreon then summons him, and Zee is forced to chant some words. Zee doesn't realize that he is awakening a throng of shadows, which is why all the students around the world have gotten ill.

Charlotte arrives at the palace, and tries to tell Hades. Charlotte realizes that Hades is extremely lazy, and cares about his wife who was nowhere around. There is some noise, and Charlotte realizes that part of Philocreon's plan had worked. Philocreon then controls part of the shadows, while Zee is back at the cave. With some attempts, he remembers the chant, and controls some of the shadows. He meets up with Charlotte, and together they stop Philocreon. Hades then orders that Philocreon is exiled, where he is lead away.

Mr. Metos is rescued, and the three go back to the upperworld. Nobody notices them, and they all go back to their own homes, ready to sleep.

The Siren Song:
This is the second book in the series. The book opens with Charlotte having to phone home everyday from school, or gymnastics. This was because her parents were very angry with the note she left, and had her "grounded". Charlotte is very unhappy about it, especially that Spring Break is coming up. Her cousin Zee is starting to hang out with Maddy. Charlotte gets a dream that night about a man wearing a blue, aqua, but old fashioned suit. She tries to tell it to Zee, but he is adamant on forgetting about what had happened, and Maddy keeps on showing up.

Maddy gets mad with Charlotte, because she feels that Charlotte is jealous about her going out with Zee (even though Zee is her cousin...), and starts to ignore her. A new boy has arrived named Jason Hart. He is very handsome, and his eyes lit up when he recognizes Charlotte. Charlotte is puzzled, and asks her dad. She learns that Jason is also part of the soccer team, and is best friends with Zee.

Charlotte goes for her weekly Teraphy, and decides to tell the doctor everything. As expected, the doctor believes nothing, and says that she should "mature". When returning home, she learns that her father won a prize (award, according to her mother) and the whole family gets to go on a cruise to see America's history. Instead of feeling elated, Charlotte feels depressed, and starts to pack.

Charlotte soon notices that Zee is acting really weird. He broke up with Maddy and left her in tears, started to hang out with Ashley, and keeps feeling happy. She tries to question him, but he keeps either ignoring her, or evading the quetsion. She also realizes that Jason Hart ran away from school and his "grandfather". Her family goes on the Isis Queen, their ship, and Charlotte is given some freedom.

Charlotte realizes that Jason Hart is on the ship, and does some snooping. She walks around and does see him, but a officer gets her, and calls her parents. Her mother and father take away her key card, and Charlotte is enraged. That night, her parents go and see a singer named "Thalia". When Charlotte falls asleep, she hears some singing, but doesn't wake up at all.

The next morning, when she wakes up, she finds the whole ship is quiet. There aren't any officers, or sailors walking around. There were no tourists, and her parents weren't in their rooms. She frantically runs to the cafe to find that nothing was done. She meets Jason, who has a Immortal father. Jason explains to her about Philocreon's heritage to Poseidon, and Poseidon deciding that she is to be stranded. Jason explains that she is actually in the Mediteranian. Charlotte decides to launch a boat to visit Poseidon's yacht to get his trident in order to break the spell Thalia (actually a siren) has placed on the whole ship.

She and Jason launch a boat, and arrive at his yacht. Jason goes off to report to his father, while Charlotte is given her own room. She gets a map, and explores the place. Meanwhile, Zee had been delivered to Philocreon. Philocreon injected a spell into Zee, and started to make him comfortable (which includes leaving him in a glass-like coffin). Charlotte tries to talk with Poseidon, but Poseidon loses his temper and throws her off board.

Charlotte ends up in a squid's stomach. She learns that the squid is actually a dignified English Gentleman