The Roman Avenger (Percy Jackson)

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter 16

8 months later

The Titans have been silent. Hell even the monsters have been quiet. In fact other than my father Olympus has been deathly silent. It was a little discomforting not to know whats happening. I have been in frequent contact with my sister Hazel and she says that the monster numbers are at a all time low at Camp Half Blood. Annabeth, Hazel, Luke, and Thalia have gone down into the labyrinth to look for passage to our camp and possibly to find out where the monster army has been. Nico and I have been searching day and night for the passage, but we have had no luck at all. We've considered the possibility that it may actually not be underground, but that just seems so unlikely.

Residence in Camp Jupiter wasn't bad. Gwen had made a full recovery from her kidnapping and there is much tighter security around the place. A son of Hyperion had captured Gwen, she said he was the most skilled swords man she may had ever seen. That he may have even been able to give me a run for my money. That frightened me a bit, that the Titan's children were getting that powerful. But I had bigger things to worry about. A patrol that my sister was on, Bianca, she reported to me that her whole force was wiped out by a single person. She told me he spared her to deliver the message to me, that he could crush me at any point. She said it wasn't Link, which just brought greater fear to my heart. I talked Gwen and Jason into allowing spirits to run the borders now. I summon new ones every night to patrol the camp. No one else would die on border patrol.

We haven't revealed to camp the new threat, the son of Darunia, but they all expect we know something. Jason and Piper had been fighting through the hard times strong, almost as strong as Reyna and I. Reyna and I have shared a new type of bond as a couple. We walked around holding hands, never wanting to be apart. It was mostly always that way, but there is just something different about it now, something special. Piper and her siblings coo about how its love, and I am pretty sure they are right. I couldn't even imagine being with someone else other than Reyna. Nor do I want to. In my eyes she is as good as they come, not perfect, but close enough. As I joked with her a true beauty and the beast story. I guess I owe Venus on this one!

I had come up with a plan. It was kind of a bad plan, but if it worked, then it would be genius. I had a plan to set up a massive assault against the black fortress. No more five or ten demigods crap. I am talking about the entire active legion blitzing the fortress. The five cohorts, launch a assault on the black throne. We take down a few Titans, wipe out their base. They are set back for months, and then we may find out what the hell they are planning.

Of course that would mean I would have to explain everything to the senate. Jason and them knew, because they were there when I told Jupiter. I wasn't quite sure how to explain it to everyone else without the gods.

I was on patrol a late evening talking with some of my teachers. I had summoned them for the night for I wanted to discuss my ideas with them. As I talked with my dead friends though something really sudden happened. An explosion rocked the camp, and it came right from the middle. I watched the explosion and I knew it was coming from New Rome. I summoned skeleton warriors to hold tight to the borders and I sprinted in that direction.

The greatest thing about the legion is they are always ready to go. It could not have been more than five minutes before the whole legion had mobilized. Terminus was gone when I got there, monsters had breached the city. I inwardly face palmed, in all the time Nico and I were searching we never thoughts to look inside the borders of New Rome. We figured Terminus or someone would've stumbled across it by now. I sprinted through the borders and came across a small legion of hell hounds. I made quick work of them with the help of some members of the legion. I barked orders across the field trying to set up a perimeter. Nico was by my side after a moment and he yelled over the noise of the battle, "What is happening?"