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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