Chapter 38: Nyx is planning to kill batman

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So here's the next chapter, tomorrow there will be another chapter.

This chapter can be considered a filler but it is needed to make a satisfying ending of book 3, this is book 3 remember, 2 was the Kane crossover.

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The day back at camp was great, Chiron came back that afternoon, of course he gave me a talk about sneaking away from camp, but he also thanked me for doing that, apparently he already met Tyson and Nyx from when I was unconscious.

The campers were more than happy to see that Chiron was back, only a few knew what happened to Tantalus.

Most campers assumed Tantalus was send back to the underworld, back to his punishment but I knew that his fate was worse, Nyx hadn't showed up until dinner that day,

I was just beginning my cheeseburger when Nyx shadow traveled next to me and began eating fried chicken like nothing happened, a few campers who saw that Dionysus basically gave Nyx permission to do with Tantalus what she wanted were looking at her, all silently asking, What had she done with him.

When it was around dinnertime I noticed that Chiron and Dionysus where missing on the head table, weird.

I sat down at the Poseidon table and a wind nymph brought me dinner.

Tyson was with a few Hephaestus children working on the tree trap, apparently a nymph triggered it unintentionally and almost got burned alive.

Nyx and I had the entire Poseidon Table for ourselves.

"Where've you been? It's dinner time already." I said and Nyx shrugged.

"So is Tantalus still alive?" I asked and Nyx nodded, this didn't made it any better, not that I cared but I did not know how the campers would react if they find a tortured Tantalus or worse.

"So what did you do with him?' I asked for answers.

Nyx smiled, "Don't worry Percy, they will never find him."

"You threw him in Tartarus?" I asked and Nyx looked shock, "No, who knows what that creep will do there! Maybe he'll even visit my house and ruin it with his disgusting smell."

"I don't think Tantalus would survive that long in Tartarus, for as far as I know only Annabeth and I made it that far down into Tartarus." I said, a bit proud of course.

Nyx thought about it for a moment, "You can guess 3 times where he is."

"Are we going to play a game?" I asked.

"Yup, and that's one question already." She said smiling.

"That's unfair, you said I had 3 times to guess, not 3 questions." I complained.

"That's your second guess?"

"I don't think you understand how this game works." I said, not wanting to play this game.

'The horses.' Hemera hinted me and Nyx's glared at me, or her daughter, whose voice was inside my head. Yes, I receive all the nasty looks and glares meant for Hemera.

"Did you fed him to Shade and Shadow?" I asked with a small voice.

"Yes!" She called out, gaining some attention from the other campers.

"Why? And how is that still alive?" I asked.

"Well, I thought it would be funny since he can't eat or drink himself and he end up being eaten." Nyx said with snickering.

"That's sick," I said, "But I like it."

"So what happened to you, you smell differently, like cereal mixed with ocean and pepper."

I raised a brow, "What?", I didn't knew Nyx could smell that good, or that I had a scent at all, more then normal at last.

I quickly told her what happened, the conversation with Demeter and the conversation with Hermes.

"You got her blessing too? That's so unfair."

I shrugged, "It wasn't like I got a choice, besides that, it could be really useful you know?"

"Yeah, but why are you everyone's champion except mine? That's so unfair."

'Because your blessing would be way stronger than the one the Gods give.' Chaos explained with a bored tone like she had this conversation with Nyx a thousand times, which was most likely the case.

"Yeah, but it sounds cool, Percy Jackson, Champion of the NIght, bringer of doom!"

"Why bringer of doom?" I asked.

Nyx shrugged, "It sounds awesome."

"But doom isn't one of your domains." I argued.

Nyx's eyes lit up, (More than normal), "Oh, I know it, You can be my Dark knight!"

I blinked a few times, "You are serious?"

Nyx nodded, "It sounds cooler then Champion besides, it's also pun which is awesome."

'You said two times awesome within a minute, bravo.' Hemera said.

"You know that the name, The Dark Knight is already taken right?" I asked.

Nyx pouted, "Who?"

"It's the nickname of Batman." I explained.

"Then I kill him and I can use it." Nyx thought out loud.

"Good luck with that."

Nyx decided to drop the matter and looked at Katie and then at me."

"So how are you planning on training those powers?." Nyx asked.

"I think I'm going to ask Katie to train me a bit, I think it would be cool if I could blend in with the background like she could. Or maybe teleport u"She can teleport using plants?" Nyx asked.

sing plants."

"I am not entirely sure she can, but I know for sure it's a thing. Meg could do it, talking about Meg. I pointed at the Demeter table where Meg sat with a few other Demeter campers.

"Wow, what happened to her?" Nyx asked.

"Puberty." I joked.

"Really?" Nyx asked seriously.

"No," I laughed, "Apparently connecting her life force with Thalia's tree had affected her aging, I'm not sure how old she is right now, but if I had to take a guess, around ten year."

"That's so weird." Nyx admitted, "When is Thalia waking up?" she asked.

I tried to think back, "At the end of summer, if my memories are right."

Nyx pouted, "That's to bad, I always wanted to beat up a child of Zeus."

Poor Thalia.

"So what are you going to do once the vacation is over? Stay at camp? Go back to your house in Tartarus." I asked, I can't imagine Nyx going to school without burning it down. Compared to her I was a teacher's favourite.

"It's not a house, it's a palace."

I shrugged, "I never seen it remember."

"Well, I'm certainly not going to the Hellhole you mortals call school, I think I'm gonna check out on my kids."

"Well that will take a while." I said, thinking about all the horrible children she had.

"What do you mean with that?" She asked.

"Nothing."

"But don't worry, we'll be seeing each other soon." She said.

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"Around September I'll take you to the Kane kids." She said.

"Why? How do you even know them?" I asked,

Before she could answer Chiron came up to the table, interrupting our conversation.

"Nyx, Percy." Chiron said, gaining our attention.

"What's up?" Nyx asked.

Chiron frowned, I guess he wasn't used to Nyx's language yet.

"I need you two to come to the Big House and bring Katie too. Tyson's already there."

And with that he galloped away, not carrying to explain

'What's wrong?' I asked Chaos.

'I know it, but i'm not going to tell it you.' Chaos answered.

'Thanks a lot mom.' Nyx mumbled.

We got up and Nyx pulled Katie away from her own table without an explanation and headed towards the Big House.

"What's wrong?" Katie asked.

"We are needed at the Big House," I explained, "Tyson is coming too, we have no idea what it is about."

"Are we getting punished for leaving camp?" Katie wondered.

I shrugged.

We stopped in front of the Big house, where Tyson and Chiron waited for us.

"What's wrong?" I asked, was my mom dead? Was it about the wind spirits?

"Nothing is wrong Percy." Chiron said preventing me from firing question after question.

"Then why are we here?" Nyx asked, which as an excellent question.

"Follow me." Chiron said and he stepped onto the deck and he got inside.

Chiron led us to the Rec Room.

Inside it was Dionysus sitting in his chair, drinking cola and looking bored, in front of him sat a woman on the ping pong table with her back to us. She was tall, at least 6 feet but that wasn't the weird thing, I saw she had long hair, tied in a ponytail, that was actually on fire,

Sparks flew away from her hair and disappeared a second later but the woman didn't seem to notice. Or care.

She was happily talking to Dionysus, who looked not interested but faked it.

His eyes widened as he noticed us.

"Nyx!" he called out, "help me from this talking monster." he said, and then he flashed away.

The woman turned around and I felt suddenly really stupid.

The woman in front of us was Thera.

Of course I could explain my blindness to the fact she was at least 3 feet smaller. Then I realised Titan's could probably change their size like Gods do.

This time she wore a orange shirt, like the campers do, and jeans that had holes in around the knees but in the artistic way.

She was barefooted which probably had to do something with feeling the earth, or at least that's the most reasonable explanation I could come up with.

"Thera?" I asked and she grinned widely.

"Percy!" She called out and lunged forward embracing me in a warm hug.

She then called out Katie and Nyx.

Nyx tried to dodge her warm hug again but for some reason she was to slow, or Nyx secretly liked the hugs, who knows.

"Thera!" Tyson called out and gave her a fistbump against the shoulder which could send a mortal flying across the room, but not a Titaness.

"What are you doing here?" I asked.

Thera's grin grew even wider, "Guess who is assigned to become the new camp protector!"

"No fucking way!" Katie said.

'Did she curse?' Hemera asked.

'Yup.'

Thera nodded, "Zeus first thought about sending a dragon to protect the fleece but Poseidon reminded him that the dragon would not protect the camp, only the fleece and he suggested sending me!"

"That's great!" I called out, then looked at Chiron.

"I'll leave you all in privacy." he said and he left the room.

"Zeus hasn't killed you!" Nyx called out proud.

"Nope."

"But how?" Katie asked.

Thera grinned, "Zeus and I made a deal."

"A deal?" I asked interested, making deals with Zeus was hard.

"Yes, he wanted to keep it a secret that he erased me from history so he promised if I would not tell anyone I would be allowed to roam free." Thera said proud.

"But that's unfair." Katie pouted.

Thera shook her head, "I don't seek revenge, all I want is to live a peaceful life and the deal I made helps me with both, so we told the other Gods Gaia had erased me instead of Zeus."

"O." I said, Gaia wouldn't be too happy to hear about that.

"And how did they take it?" Katie asked curious.

"Well, a few were suspicious with me but a lot of them just accepted me, Hestia for example is really nice to me."

"Their memories did not come back?" Tyson asked and Thera smile faded for a second.

"No, I think the only reason Poseidon remembers me is the close friendship we had."

"Ugh, that sounds so cliché!" Nyx complained.

"So you are now…"

"Yes, I am the new guardian of the camp half blood!" Thera said smiling.

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