Hunters of Artemis Daily

Pt. 4

~HUNTERS OF ARTEMIS DAILY~ Man, can the godly offspring ever get some peace? The answer is no, apparently. Ouranos is waking, and this time it's more than demigods can handle. This will take the gods work...and the Hunters of Artemis. Their partial immortality, extreme fighting experience and tracking skills may be just what the world needs to defeat the sky.

"Okay, Stephanie, what have you got?" I kneeled down beside my best friend. The tent we were inside in was huge, and it was also the Library Tent. Thousands of scrolls sat neatly inside several bookshelves below a ceiling of waterproof fabric.

Me and Stephanie were trying to find out what was causing Ouranos to stir, and how to prevent getting squashed into a pancake by his ancient primordial spirit. Stephanie unrolled a scroll with a cloud and star design on the outside. "Well, so far I've gotten the info that Ouranos is only a spirit, since Kronos cut up his human form all those millennia ago. The scrolls said that the only way Ouranos can be defeated is put to sleep. Like Gaea slept. Deeply, almost unwakable."

"Okay, then let's get the children of Hypnos to do it. Camp Half-Blood did say we shouldn't hesitate to ask for help." I scanned the text on the scroll quickly. Stephanie shook her head. "First of all, Artemis gave us this job. Second, I learned that it would take a lot more than demigods to defeat Sky. It would take their father, Morpheus, and every other god of sleep. Times, like, 25."

"Why?" I gestured to the shelves around us almost helplessly. "He's just a spirit." I raised my eyebrows at the look Stephanie was giving me. "Rita," Stephanie sighed softly, "Hypnos and Morpheus aren't that ancient, if you think about it. The Titans are older than that, and Ouranos is older than that. What I'm saying is the older the being is—"

"The more powerful they are." I mimicked Stephanie's tone.

The more ancient, the more powerful.

The idea hit me like Zeus's Master Bolt.

"Stephanie, you know who's older than the sky?" My eyes got wider and wider as the plan formed in my head. Stephanie looked confused. "Gaea? But she's asleep."

"No! After Gaea but older than Ouranos. Pontus who was the sea and Tartarus, who was, well, Tartarus."

"You're saying we get those guys to come with us to destroy Ouranos? Why would they do that? And where would we find Pontus?"

I got so excited I made Stephanie's water bottle literally explode. "I don't know, but if we can get them to our side...

"We can save the world."

- Date: 7/25/2024