![]() ![]() ![]() He refers to Georgina as a sister, leading everyone to believe she is Apollo's daughter. They take everyone back to the Waystation, where Georgina relays a recorded message instead of a prophecy by Trophonius, who is revealed to be Apollo's son. They manage to escape with the help of Festus and the Huntresses of Artemis and rescue Lit, who was to be executed. They search for the Throne of Memory and find it, but they are discovered by Commodus. Apollo then picks up Meg on his griffin while Lityerses is trampled, and the three go to the Waystation.Īpollo, Leo, and Meg head to Commodus's lair and free all the captured animals and prisoners, including Georgina. Meg McCaffrey arrives just in time and duels with Lityerses until Apollo releases the rest of the caged animals. The duo manages to rescue the griffins but is cornered by Lityerses, Commodus' man and the son of King Midas who holds a grudge against Leo for his role in Midas' second death and Lityerses getting turned into a golden statue. Britomartis, the goddess of nets and owner of the Waystation, issues Apollo and Calypso a quest to rescue the griffins stolen by Commodus. Instead, she receives a message that damages her mind and causes her to wander away. Their adopted daughter Georgina went missing after searching for the Oracle of Trophonius to receive a prophecy to prevent the Emperor Commodus from taking their griffins. He learns that she is in a relationship with Josephine and the two of them have sacrificed their immortality as Hunters for love and are living as mortals. His gift rejected when she joined the Hunters of Artemis. They are rescued from a group of attacking blemmyae by Hemithea and invited into the Waystation, in the Indianapolis Union Station, where Apollo recalls answering to Hemithea’s prayer back when she was a Greek princess and turning Hemithea into a goddess, only to have Stopping Commodus, finding Meg, figuring out why the former Hunters dislike him, and locating the long-lost oracle in a blue and hollow cave… Apollo’s to-do list is getting longer by the moment.Six weeks after losing Meg McCaffrey to Nero and receiving the first prophecy, Apollo, Leo, Festus and Calypso are headed on a journey to stop Nero, the Beast, from controlling all of the oracles. He did drown the emperor back in the day, after all.) The emperor has big plans for Indianapolis that involve reviving games of bloodshed and death. Now he learns the identity of another member of the Triumvirate-Commodus, a bloodthirsty narcissist with a serious grudge against Apollo. ![]() Knowing she was under the control of a monster like Nero was hard to bear. As much as Meg annoyed him, he had grown to feel affection for her. She’s terrified of him-or rather, his alter superego, the Beast-and yet he coerced her back to his side in the grove. Nero, he learned to his horror, raised Meg. Apollo met one of the so-called Triumvirate, the malicious, power-hungry Nero, in the Grove of Dodona. Three Roman emperors who by all calculations should have died centuries ago are, in fact, very much alive. Why they dislike him is beyond him.Īnd then things start to get really weird… They’re met by two former Hunters of Artemis who greet Apollo with distinct chilliness. They make their escape and follow a headless orange ghost to an underground hideout called the Waystation. They’ve just collapsed Festus into suitcase form when they’re attacked by a horde of ruthlessly polite monsters called blemmyae. Leo and his new girlfriend Calypso, former immortal, are with him. Those words send him flying on Festus, Leo’s bronze dragon, to Indianapolis. The prophecy instructs him to locate a second long-forgotten oracle in “a cave blue and hollow.” ![]() He has received a prophecy-in limerick form, the worst kind-from ancient Grove of Dodona. Punch the long-lost, recently returned demigod Leo Valdez in the stomach? Check and double check.īut Apollo’s trials aren’t over. Fire a Shakespeare-spouting, plague-ridden arrow into the ear of a bronze colossus so it will sneeze its head off and die instead of attacking the camp? Check. Protect the gates of an ancient oracle? Check. Sung his way out of the den of the Myrmekes, giant killer ants? Check. Since becoming mortal as punishment for a near-world ending mistake and reaching Camp Half-Blood alive, Apollo-aka Lester Papadopoulos-has been busy. ![]()
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