Still don't own. I give any reviewers what I have promised them. Gold Drachmas, I think.
"Percy, Nico, Sarah, what do you know?" Chiron asked the trio, and the tiny Apollo girl spilled her guts, and told him everything that she knew. His tail swished angrily as he listened, and Nico and Percy could have sworn he had begun muttering swear words in ancient Greek.
Nico and Percy then went on with what they saw, did, and encountered in their different locations, and the two were shocked at what they heard. The three demigods were silent, before Chiron finally broke the icy-cold air.
"I will need to call a cabin leader meeting," he said darkly, "And implement a new rule, as well as a new punishment. Dessert and privilege removal are not strict enough punishments for this. I wonder if the gods will allow corporal punishment for this."
"What about Public humiliation?" Nico asked slyly, and Chiron blinked at him. "come on! if one person tries to kill a cabin member, the person in question will have to fight the cabin mates of the person they tried to kill!"
"That sounds fair," Percy reasoned. "But so long as the person in question doesn't get killed. But what if it's more than one person who created the problem?"
"Come," Chiron said darkly, and the two gathered alongside the rest of the terrified camp at the Ampitheater.
"QUIET!" Dionysus roared angrily, and there was only a cough after his word.
"Thank you, Mr. D," Chiron said calmly. "Now, as you all know, a fellow Demigod has gone missing. I can now report that he has been found, albeit in critical and life-threatening conditions, as well as the place of his detainment for the past two days. There were two witnesses of the location. Nico, son of Hades, and Sarah, daughter of Apollo, step forward and tell the camp what you saw. When they're done, Percy, son of Poseidon, tell the camp what you saw when you rescued Daemon."
The two launched into their tale, Sarah even including the threats (although she didn't dare mention which cabin it was), and Nico went into every little gruesome detail of the cave, and even pointing out that he'd seen equal conditions only in Tartarus before. Some of the campers gasped in horror, while others gaped in shock, and the cabin that had done the threatening simply glared at him with a dark glee. When Nico couldn't say any more, he turned to Percy and nodded, who recounted his tale of the rescue, in very explicit detail, even telling how the river was dyed pink with the blood, and that Daemon was still on death's doorstep even though Percy had been using water to heal Daemon as best he could.
Once the tales were finished, Chiron dismissed the trio and began to implement the new rule – that any cabin or persons intentionally threatening the life of another camper with violence with little or no provocation at all, and not on the battlefield or during training, would be punished severely. Also, they'd lose all dessert for a month, lose all contact with those of the other cabins, and be publicly fighting all of the cabin-mates of the demigod whose life had been threatened. As a rule of thumb, if the Demigod was alone in the cabin, then they'd be fighting their assailant once they were healed, only the demigod who had done the threatening would be without a weapon or a shield. The other demigods shuddered, with the natural exception of the Ares cabin, and immediately began to murmur fearfully. Never before had the life of a fellow demigod been placed in such blatant danger, and never before had the cabins intentionally try to kill another camper, not even the Ares cabin. Granted, the Ares cabin loved to make life a living Hades for the others, but never had they tried to kill anyone. At least not until now.
"Also," Chiron continued, "If the guilty party does not step forward and claim responsibility for what they've done to the leader of the Hades cabin, as well as the threats against the Apollo cabin, said party will be punished so severely that even Lord Hades will be able to feel the aftershocks."
The campers cowered in fear. Never before had Chiron been heard to be so angry at something, but then again, never before had something like this occurred.
"You have until I count to three," Chiron growled, and one of the Aphrodite girls stood up.
"I think I speak for everyone in the band when I say that children of Hades aren't welcome here," she said proudly, and Clarisse stood up calmly and crossed her arms over her chest.
"I second that notion," she called out.
"We shall see who the attackers are when Daemon wakes up," Dionysus said with a dismissal wave of his hand.
"But, Mr. D," Chiron protested, "There is the possibility that that may never happen!"
"So? Let Apollo and old Corpse-breath deal with him when that time comes," he snapped before dismissing everybody.
Nico remained in the Hades cabin, keeping a vigilant watch over his only younger brother, and left his side only when Percy came to his side to relieve him. This continued for days, with the duo easing pain-relieving potions down Daemon's throat whenever they would wear off. Every so often, nectar would be given, but only in small sips so that Daemon wouldn't burst into flames.
"It's been two weeks," Percy sighed, "How much longer?"
"I don't know," Nico said, "He's still got an aura of near-death about him. It hasn't changed at all."
"I wonder when he'll wake up. we can't exactly identify his attackers without him being awake," Percy scowled, "And Chiron's getting edgy. To be honest I'm surprised nobody else in the camp is worried aside from us and the Athena cabin."
"everybody hates Hades," Nico shrugged, "It's been that way since I started camp, and you know it. But I will tell you this much – my dad is not happy. He plans on sending the Kindly ones or a hellhound or two out after the ones who did it just to show them how it feels. Oh, he was so mad, he's still mad. I think it's obvious to see that Daemon's mom was the first one he'd let bear his kids in a long time. she must have really been talented and smart and beautiful for him to break the alliance."
"He said he was born in Paris," Percy said, "it wasn't in the states, so it kept him somewhat safer from Zeus and Poseidon's watchful eyes."
"They broke it too," Nico reminded him, "Look at you and Thalia!"
"That's true," Percy conceded. "But Hades hid Daemon, even though he may very well have been the one of my prophecy."
"No," Nico said countering it, "He already had a prophecy – two, actually – to fulfill. One prophecy was given in our world and one prophecy in his mom's world. Although both won't happen until it's at the same time, which will be at the end of the war that his mom's world is in right now. Something to do with a Lord Voldemort."
An immediate effect was found upon the barriers around Camp Half-Blood, and the half-bloods raced out to find a mob of Death Eaters at their doorstep. They smiled and began shooting arrows at them, the satyrs using their reeds to play reeds, and even Chiron went to see what was going on.
"You dare say his name! Send out the coward who dares to say his name!" one screamed, and Daemon was immediately awake, his eyes flying open.
"Her," he gasped, "It's her!"
He scrambled up, his anger fueling his energy and motions, and he raced towards the insane black-haired woman with his wand in hand.
"I'll make you pay for what you did to my mother," he growled as the demigods made way for him.
"Aw, look at this! A wee little brat thinks he can take us all on!" she squealed, "Cruccio!"
Daemon tapped the ground with his wand, and a corpse appeared out of the ground.
"Ooh! Another Necromancer!" another one jeered, "What's the matter, little guy? Too scared to summon more?"
"Cruccio!" Daemon yelled angrily, willing the curly-haired woman to writhe in so much pain that she would be joining Hades. She screamed, and fell to the ground in a writhing heap. "Cruccio!"
"Impossible!" another yelled, "Avada Kedavra!"
"Not my brother you don't!" Nico yelled and summoned an army of corpses. "As a son of Hades, I command you to protect my fellow son of Hades, but not to get in his way of casting spells!"
"Cruccio!" Daemon yelled, and the curly-haired woman writhed in an immense pain.
After a few more minutes of this, she screamed, and her choke was cut off by a strange choking. Daemon let his wand fall, and felt his body grow weak as he finally got his revenge for what this woman had done to his mother that fateful night when he'd been in diapers.
"Cruccio!" she yelled, and Daemon dropped to the ground unconscious and in white-hot pain.
So, yes, Death Eaters show up and get their butts handed to them by demigods.
Review, please! Reviewers get to see inside Daemon's mind!