I Am Wind (Will Solace)

Betrayer

After dinner Chiron motioned for me, Will, and Connor to accompany him to the Big House. I grabbed the two and we made our way up the hill in silence, until Connor broke the silence. "What are you going to tell him?" He asked.

"What do you mean?" I asked back.

"I mean, are you going to tell him about the demigod?"

"We have too, and maybe Chiron might know who it is." I said.

"It's gonna cause a mass panic around camp." Will added.

"It's better to be aware than in the dark, trust me, I know." I mumbled.

We walked into the Big House and took a seat on the couch with me in middle, and Chiron was in his magic wheelchair. "Now start from the beginning." He said.

I spoke, and Will and Connor would pipe in whenever I forgot a detail, and then finally I reached the part where Connor got seperated from us.

"As soon as the maze closed up, it was dark." Connor said. "I had to use my sword as a light, as I walked through the maze I kept hearing noises of Aphaia laughing and something else chattering. If Stratus hadn't been by my side I would have died for sure. That nymph dog saved me from the first Karpoi attack."

"Karpoi?" I asked having not reach that lesson yet with Annie.

"They are wheat monsters that usually are controlled by Demeter," Chiron spoke.

"Anyway, these Karpoi attacked me in flows, and those damn things bite."

"How did you manage to find the exit?" I asked.

"At first I thought Aphaia was just toying with my mind and had created an endless maze, but my father must have been watching out for me because I intinctivly knew exactly which ways to turn. After gods knows how long, I found my way out. But that was until I had to battle Aphaia."

"What?" I asked totally bewildered.

"Yeah, after I made it out, she grew furious and she went to attack. Thanks to Startus I was able to get on his back and he flew me up so that I was battle her off the ground. And I have to say, she was an easy beat once she couldn't use her agriculture powers."

"Did you kill her?" I asked.

"You didn't kill Notus, so I just figured that I should probably spare her life too. I just made her swear upon the River of Styx to leave all demigods alone."

"I've heard campers talk about Swearing upong the River of Styx, what is that about?" I asked.

"I keep forgeting you're pretty knew to this." Connor said. "If a person swears upon the River of Styx they can't break the promise, because if they do they get a punishment worse than death."

"That sounds terrible." I shivered.

"Yeah, well once she promised, she disappeared, and I know you told us to go back to camp Jamie, but neither me or Stratus could leave you and Will, so we headed down to where you were."

Once he was done, Will picked up where he left off. Once he reached the part where Tiresias showed the memory he kinda trailed off, so I decided to save him. "He got into our heads. Will's first, but I was able to break us free from that one, and then he trapped me in my head. Will shot Tiresias through the neck while he had me trapped, and he disappeared. "

"What do you mean trapped in your head?" Connor asked.

"He showed us things that... were suppose to weaken us, memories, futures." I trailed off.

"What did you see?" Connor asked.

Will and I were silent, neither of us eager to tell about what we saw, and thanks the gods Chiron saw our discomfort. "What happened after that?"