Chapter 11: Least Wisdom and War Together Shall Die

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Despite wanting to celebrate our success in saving Hades from fading, we arrived at the mountains by Orthrys by midday a day later. We didn't have time to celebrate. We had two more gods to save. And two Titans to defeat.

Briefly I wondered if the Anomaly even counted as a Titan considering his father was a god, but I didn't let myself get distracted.

I had to focus. I had to defeat Anomaly.

Once we reached the mountain, we ran into a minor (major) problem. There was no real way to get up to the cave that I knew was the entrance.

"How do we get up there?" Peter asked.

Grover frowned looking up. "I don't know. There's no way up from here."

Peter sighed dejectedly, but I wasn't willing to give up. Not after all we had accomplished. Not after our success two days earlier. Not now.

"There's gotta be a way." I said. "The Titaness had been severely weakened when she first came here. There would have been no way for her to have used divine power to get up there. So there has to be some sort of hidden entrance or pathway that she found. And if she found it, we can find it." I was determined to get to Ares and Athena.

Grover smiled. "You're the boss. Where should we look?"

Peter nodded vigorously. "Tell us what to do."

I cringed internally at being the boss, but I did my job. "Grover, look by the base of the mountain. Peter, come with me and we'll search by the base of Mt. Tam. Maybe she fled to Orthrys and found a path near there when she realized she couldn't stay there."

We spent a half hour poking around the mountains before we gave up.

"There has to be something." I cried in frustration. "There needs to be an entrance."

"I know. But where?" Grover muttered.

"And how will we find it?" Peter groaned.

We all fell silent, eyes darting around trying to figure out where Metis had placed her entrance to the cave.

We weren't really supposed to stay in one spot for so long. If we did, monsters would catch our scents and come find us. But we'd been tired and felt defeated and we'd forgotten. And that was in fact one of the best things we'd done.

A monster emerged from inside the mountain base of Metis' lair. Peter and Grover had jumped to their feet to kill it. But I remained on the floor where I'd taken a seat. I looked at the mountain base. The Mist shimmered around it as I studied it carefully.

An entrance was carved into the base, leading to a large flight of stairs. Metis and the Anomaly had hidden it by setting the Mist around the doorway. But I had seen through it.

I turned to Grover and Peter eagerly, stepping over the golden monster dust that they reduced the hellhound that had attacked us to.

"I found it!"

I didn't wait for them to ask any questions. I bolted to the entrance and ran to the stairs, hearing their surprised calls of my name and their footsteps coming after me.

They gasped in surprise when I walked through the mountain base, before following me. They didn't ask how I'd found it. They were too busy deciding to remain quiet so Metis didn't hear us.

I led the way through the castle, knowing somehow where to go, probably due to my dream from earlier in the quest.

"Do you know where they are?" Peter whispers.

"No." I reply, equally quiet. "But I think I know how to find them."

Peter glanced at me in confusion. "How?"

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