Perseus Jackson: Titan of The Hunt

CH33: The Truth Revealed

(Diana)

I flashed us into the camp the moment the Nemean Lioness appeared from over the crest of the hill. She had wasted no time in charging towards the nearest marine monster. Her sharp claws quickly mauling the Telkhine perimeter guard into nothing but dust before she passed into the open and released a fearsome roar.

Suddenly, every monster in the camp focused their eyes on her direction, before a shower of arrows appeared from the trees a hundred yards away erasing another squad of the monsters in a matter of seconds. However, as a result of the massive lioness clearly taking up more of the enemy's attention, the hunter's actions remained undetected for now at least. Percy and I as she grabbed the next poor monster in her mouth and shook it viciously, until his truncated body flew to one side and crumbled into a golden stain.

Now that I knew they were distracted, their eyes were not on their prisoners giving the minor gods a chance to rescue them or at least take them to safety. For their part the campers seemed just as enraptured watching the lioness tear the other monsters to pieces as everyone else.

However, none of that was my immediate concern for now. As Percy and I faced down the pair of Titans who were regarding us coolly.

"Well, well, well. The legendary hero finally appears at last." Oceanus said mockingly regarding Percy, who was holding Riptide aimed at his fellow Titan Lord. The elder Titan Lord of the sea did not seem concerned about the blade, as he was instead focused on the face of the guardian.

Much to my chagrin, I saw that Tethys was also more focused on him as well despite my proximity to her. Now if I had been at full strength, I could have probably ended half this battle there and then. However, in my weakened state I knew I could not be hasty as I instead held my bow aimed low with an arrow already placed on the string.

"What do you mean, here at last?" Percy growled out, only for the Titans to laugh.

"I thought you were going to spend forever behind that hill cowering with your little bunch of girlfriends." He replied after calming down throwing the pair of us for a loop. Why would he know we were here and yet do nothing to stop us from our attempted rescue?

"How could you even know we was coming here?" Percy asked in complete confusion which made sense. After all I had only made the decision last night and had told the hunt about it this morning. How could he have first gained that information and second gone to such trouble at a moment's notice.

Let alone plan and mount an ambush requiring successfully attacking a camp full of powerful enemies and even incapacitating an Olympian god. No matter how pathetic said god actually was.

"You forget son of Poseidon; I am the father of all the spirits of rivers and lakes. My daughters dutifully keep me supplied with all the information I will ever need on what you and your usurper father do." He answered haughtily, although he spat out the name of his successor with barely concealed hatred.

His explanation made sense though, of course no one had been able to detect him or his consort. If all the nymphs had been working under him and hiding him from detection as well as providing misdirection to us and information to him.

"But why would you even go to all this trouble. Why the deceit of hiding all this time and attacking here of all places?" I asked and finally getting the pair to look at me. The pair arrogantly looked toward me as if I was not even fit to grace their presence.

"Because of him. How could we stand by while the murderer of our brothers and mother walks around unpunished. He defiles their memory and our home with every step he takes in Orthrys." Tethys spat out angrily, finally talking. Even as she did so she wasted no time in summoning a trident to hand. Only for her husband to place a hand in front of her and seemingly hold her back, for the time being at least.