Chapter 32: I use my vacuum cleaner on this vulcano

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(Percy POV)

"What?" I asked flabbergasted, "You mean metaphorically?"

Thera shook her head which caused her hair o form a trail of sparkles.

"No literally." Thera said.

"Are you a peaceful Titan?" Katie wondered and Thera smiled, "I'm one of the few Titans who decided not to follow Kronos."

"There are more?"

"Yes," I answered, "Not all Titans are bad, nor were there children," I said thinking about Zoë and Calypso who were both children of Atlas.

"Wait how many peaceful titans are there?" Katie wondered.

"Most of the female Titans were peaceful right?" I said trying to remember all of them.

Thera snorted, "Yes, most of them."

Nyx eyes lit up, "Did Mnemosyne erase you?"

Thera eyes were filled with grief, "Yes."

"Who is Mnemosyne?" Katie wondered.

"Child of Gaia and Ouranos, the Titaness of memory." Nyx said quickly.

"Wait wasn't Mnemosyne on the good side? She created the Oracle of Trophonius right?" I asked trying to remember everything about the Titaness of memory, hey, that's funny.

Thera snorted, "Good side, she erased me from history."

"What did you do to be erased from history?" I asked curious.

"Do you have any idea where we are?" Thera asked, and she pointed at the magma around us.

"Inside a volcano?" Nyx guessed.

"Not just a volcano, this volcano is my prison."

As if the volcano agreed a bubble of magma popped next to us.

"Wait you can't escape? I mean we just entered, I could shadow travel you out of here."

Thera shook her head, "I can just walk out of here anytime I want but this volcano is not just a normal volcano."

I looked around, true I had not seen a lot of volcanoes to have a clear frame of reference but this seemed like a pretty normal volcano.

"What's wrong with this volcano?" I asked.

She looked serious at me, "This is the World volcano."

"World volcano?" I asked totally confused.

She nodded like her it was the biggest secret ever.

"Sorry but what is a world volcano?" Katie asked.

"This volcano is connected to every volcano in the world, if this one erupts all the volcanoes in the world will erupt."

"That's not how volcanoes work." Nyx commented dryly.

Thera shook her head, "it's not a normal volcano, it's designed to be my prison. The Earth mother herself created this volcano to trap me inside."

'Gaia.' Nyx told me mentally.

"I don't get it how this is a prison. If you are the Titaness of Volcanoes shouldn't you be immune to fire?"

Thera nodded, "Yes I have full control over this volcano that's the reason it hasn't erupted yet and created the next mass extinction."

I looked at the volcano with new eyes. I did not want to stay any longer than necessary.

Then the realisation dawned on me, "You can't escape because if you leave this volcano erupts and all the volcanoes in the world will do the same."

Thera nodded.

"But that's horrible, why would Gaia do such a thing?" Katie asked shocked.

"And why has no been rescuing you? I mean Athena would sure find a loophole right?" I asked trying to find a solution myself.

Thera sighted, "That's a long story."

"I'm not going anywhere." I stated and Katie nodded, even Nyx seemed to be interested.

Thera sat down and looked at us with sadness in her eye. We followed and I imagined it must look weird from a distance, three kids and a 10 feet tall woman sitting on the bottom of a volcano.

"I'm a child of Oceanus and Tethys, and I was born before the first Titan war, when the war broke out me and a lot of other Titanesses stayed neutral however I was a good friend of a the gods and actually hoped they would win even though I remained neutral."

'I bet you there comes a but, there's always a but.' Nyx said but I ignored her.

"But Zeus took interest in me and tried to seduce me." she said and she shivered and I completely understood it.

Getting approached by Zeus might sound great but it's not, a lot of his lovers die or get cursed *couch* Leto *cough* and refusing Zeus was even worse.

"However, I was not interested in him, so I refused."

Katie looked at Thera wide eyed, "And then?"

"Well Zeus was furious, so I went to Poseidon and asked him to hide me in Atlantis and protect me from Zeus's wrath."

"And what did my father do?" I asked.

"Well, he took me in and protected me against Zeus. He was very kind of me even though I was a daughter of Oceanus he always respected me."

"That's why you thought I was Poseidon?" I asked and she nodded.

"From all the Gods to help me I expected Poseidon the most, even though he would not remember me."

"Because Mnemosyne erased you from history right?" Katie asked and Thera nodded.

"After I went into hiding the war between Kronos and Zeus went worse and Othyrus was about to overthrow Olympus."

"Mmm...I can't remember anything about that." Nyx said thoughtfully.

'You're just 13 remembers?' I said not wanting her to blow her cover and admit she was alive back then.

"At the last battle the Titans went out for a full attack on Olympus and they we're winning, I couldn't stand the sight of the Gods who always respected me dying so I interfered."

"What did you do?" I asked curiously.

"I created an earthquake that made Magma shoot to the surface and cover the Throne room of the Titans with lava."

I whistled, I knew how important the Thrones were. They were a symbol of power that strengthened the owners, destroying one would weaken a Titan or God a lot.

"After that the tide of the battle changed, the now weakened Titans were finished of with ease now their source of power was cut off and the Gods won the war."

"But what happened to you?" Katie asked worried.

"Using my powers tired me, and I was forced go into a hundred year sleep. When I woke up I found out that Gaia was mad at me and wanted revenge so she placed this volcano over me so I would be trapped forever."

"That's so mean." Katie cried out but Thera shrugged.

"I hoped that the Gods would cook up a plan, but they never showed up to help me." she said saddened.

"Did Gaia erase you?" Nyx asked but she shook her head.

"No when Zeus found out I was trapped under a volcano, he did not only left me, he also forced Mnemosyne to erase me from history so I would remain inside forever."

"That bastard." Nyx mumbled, "Should've killed him when I had the chance."

'Chaos any chance we could free her?' I asked.

'Yes but you have to do it yourself.' Chaos said.

'Why?'

'Because I don't want to interfere with my daughter's punishment.' Chaos stated which reminded me Gaia was also the daughter of Chaos, that meant Nyx was Gaia's sister.

Huh, weird.

"Well, that was nice," Nyx said and she got up."We need to go."

"Wait we can't leave her!" Katie protested.

"She's right." I said as I got up and opened my backpack trying to look for something that could help Thera.

"I'm sorry but you three can't help me, this is my punishment."

"No, we can help, right Percy?" Katie asked and I nodded.

Chaos confirmed I could help Thera but not with her help so it had to do something with my own powers or something I had in my backpack. I quickly made a mental list of my powers. All of Hestia's were disabled except the fire resistance. I could maybe bend the fire but only with a lot of ambrosia and even then I would not be able to free Thera.

My water powers we're kinda useless since pouring water down at the bottom of a volcano would be to much for me, especially now.

Combat avatar looked cool but was useless against a volcano, I wished I picked up some knowledge from Carter, or maybe some useful hieroglyphs but sadly I was the worst with Egyptian magic.

I went through my backpack, Ambrosia, money, some clothes, food, two multivitamins and the Thermos of the winds Hermes gave.

The thermos…

I looked up and asked, "Thera, theoretically if we could quench this volcano would you be free to go?"

Thera was silent for a moment before saying, "Yes, but you can't quench this volcano, water evaporates immediately down here, and even if I would go Zeus would have my head."

"One problem at a time." I said as I took out the flask, Nyx saw it and her eyes widened.

"Percy, do you know how dangerous that could be?"

"What is that?" Thera asked curious.

"A gift we received from Hermes, it contains the winds of the four cardinal directions: North, South, East, and West."

"Isn't the earth round?" Thera wondered.

"However if I would release all the four winds would it quench the volcano?" I wondered and Thera gasped.

"It could work."

"Percy that' suicide. When odysseus released the four winds he was blown all across the mediterranean sea." Nyx protested.

"And Zeus would never let me roam free." Thera added.

"But Nyx, can't you wrap shadows around Percy? So he won't be blown away?" Katie said and Nyx's eyes lit up.

"Yes." she said. "Shadows are not affected by the wind so it would work but are you sure you want to waste a magic item?"

"Yes."

"But what about Zeus?" Thera asked but I shrugged, "One problem at a time, we can ask Poseidon for protection and to hide you if necessary."

Thera nodded.

"Okay Nyx, Shadows please." I said, and Nyx snapped her fingers, around all of us large shadows began to clump together and climbed up our bodies. It reached around my wait when they stopped and I tried to move. No longer we're the shadows something in the background, they were a solid black substance that prevented me from moving.

"Are you a demigod?" Thera wondered but Nyx ignored her.

Shadows wrapped around Katie and Nyx too, Thera said she could resist the winds since she was a Titaness.

"Ready?" I asked, and I slipped of the lid of the thermos.

With a loud snap the lid flew open and all the four winds were released. It felt like an air cannon was firing at my face for 10 seconds long. I had to close my eyes, or they would've dried out immediately and made me blind.I held on to the thermos with all my power not wanting to let it slip away as it tried to pull itself free. After four seconds the feeling of being blown to shreds faded away.

This is me trying to describe it afterwards, at the moment I only thought: IEKS!

I opened my eyes and looked around to find out. It was completely dark except for Thera because of her flaming hair and burning skin.

"Why is it so dark?" Katie wondered.

"I don't know but I like it." Nyx replied from the right of me.

Thera closed her eyes and the flames on her body shone brighter and we could see something.

All the magma was replaced by stone.

The volcano was quenched.

"It worked." Katie said with awe.

"Yes, this is totally awesome." Nyx commented.

'Told you, you could do it on your own.' Chaos spoke.

Thera looked at me with tearing eyes.

"You actually managed to quench this volcano." She stated with a shaking voice.

"Yup." Nyx answered.

Then I fainted from the effort.

Of course I had a demigod dream.

I could not see a thing, but I heard two voices talking, one I recognized as Luke the other however was unknown to me.

"I still think this is a bad idea." Luke said a bit angry.

"If you want a partnership with us, you have to let us do what we must." the other voice replied.

"Yes because that worked out great!" Luke shouted.

"Look son of Hermes, we gave you a cruise ship, we made the son of Poseidon powerless that's more than you did." the man replied calmly.

"Yes but for what price? Chaining a camper to a burning hearth? Even Kronos agreed it was unnecessary and that it seems more like a personal vendetta then actually helping us."

"We promised you the golden fleece and we do what we promise."

"No, you are after the dead of Percy because he knows about you but Kronos thinks he can still be useful."

A third voice suddenly joined the conversation, a low voice said, "We have bad news."

Luke and the man both said, "What?"

"Chrysaor ship has sunken." the new voice answered.

Luke laughed, "And this kind of people are your allies? A pirate who can't even sail?"

The man grunted, "It doesn't matter, we have enough Greek fire, there's no reason to worry."

"If this fails-" Luke began but the man chuckled.

"You and Kronos have no other choice then accept our help."

With that the conversation ended.

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