El Fuego y La Flor - The Storm

The Ocean is always. It existed before anything, and it will exist after everything. You will face my mirror but not myself. You will lose everything and win half of it, wishing you would have won nothing at all. You will return to the sea. Everyone will.

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This story is not about Percy Jackson, or Annabeth Chase, or Piper McLean or Frank Zhang. It's about a demigod unknown to even the storytellers. It's about loss, tragedy, pain, but also relief, comfort and the power to feel all of that. It's the story of Cassia Flores, the daughter of Persephone.

But it's also the story of a Hero, known to all. A hero who sees himself as nothing more than a burden. A hero who, despite his efforts, cannot settle down. It's about grief, the belief to fit in, the pain of never doing and the affirmation of learning to live with your past and your present. It's the story of Leo Valdez, the son of Hephaestus.

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Two years after Apollo's return to Olymp, the Titans stir again. Having awakened from the Titan mother's, Gaea's death cries, they now yearn for power and vengeance themselves. Hidden in the depths of the world for centuries, but now, the seas rise and the rains fall more insistently, as if to drown the whole earth. And the destiny of the world falls into the hands of two demigods, who are about to write a story, as epic and tragic as those of the gods themselves.