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The next few days were torture, just like Tantalus wanted.
But Damian didn't let it get to him as he began Annabeth's training, the same training he gave Silena. Like the daughter of Aphrodite, Annabeth was exceeding expectations, but Damian was confident and had faith Annabeth will be just as skilled as him and Silena in a few more days time as she shows great progress thus far, probably due to her heritage as Athena is a Goddess of War.
Damian also met up with his godmother, Hestia, who told them that not many of the Olympians were happy with Tantalus being the activities director, which includes Apollo, Hermes, Hephaestus, Demeter, Athena, Aphrodite and Artemis. The Gods have gone to Zeus about it but he made it clear that Dionysus chose a replacement and Tantalus will stay until further notice.
When asking about his mother, Hestia sadly told him that due to the masses of monsters appearing, Artemis and her Hunters have been working to the bone to deal with them. Artemis even had to recruit a few new Hunters to battle the monsters. it was clear that Damian won't be meeting his mother anytime soon.
Anyway, Silena also joined in on Annabeth's training and trained alongside her. Though the reason Annabeth was with Silena may have also been because of some kind of argument she ended up having with Percy. Damian did not know what they had argued over but knowing those two it was probably over something very minuscule. They were going to do the chariot race together but now Annabeth would be paired with her brother, Malcolm, while Percy was teaming with Tyson.
That was another thing that worried him a little. Percy had become very distant towards Tyson since he discovered he had a Cyclops for a half brother. Damian knew Percy was taking it a little hard since no doubt it was a huge shock for him.
A lot of people in camp had been making very rude and harsh comments towards the two and on more than one occasion Percy had to be stopped from pounding members of the Apollo cabin that had begun to take the teasing a little too far.
Though they would stand up to Percy, they did not want to stand up to their cousin since they knew if Artemis could beat the hell out of their dad then no doubt their cousin could do the same to them.
Meanwhile, for the chariot racing, since it was only Damian in the Artemis Cabin and the Aphrodite Cabin did not want to get all dirty from the racing, it was agreed that he would race for both cabins with Silena agreeing to help him and be his partner.
Together, the two would make one great team since Silena could steer the chariots with the pegasi they were planning on using while Damian would take out the other teams.
They were definitely one of the stronger teams and everyone else knew it since they decided to add extra time to building their chariots and practicing.
And finally there was Tantalus. He was so oblivious to the fact that the camp was dying and in danger that he stopped the demigods from patrolling the boundaries to make sure monsters don't come in.
He warned anyone caught doing so would receive harsh punishment and everyone did not want to imagine what the sicko had planned for a punishment.
Today was the big chariot race. Damian clicked his neck and joints as he did a few stretches and mentally and physically prepared for the day ahead of him. He could see that the others were excited for this. It had been more than three decades since they last had chariot racing at the camp.
Though many were excited, there were also many that were feeling a tad nervous. After all they all knew that people had died in the previous chariots races the camp had and a lot more casualties. By the look on Tantalus's face that day. they all had a feeling that was what he wanted.
Damian was walking alongside Silena as the two entered the makeshift racetrack with two pegasi pulling their chariot.
Though the majority of the Aphrodite cabin did not help in making it, due to not wanting to chip a nail and get all filthy, there were some that were willing to help. They worked mainly during the evening and nights on it, skipping the camp fires and many were noting the missing kids of cabin eight and ten.
Once they were done, It was able to hold two people and it's primary colours were silver, grey and purple with the symbols of both their mothers and Damian's godmother on it.
Most of the Aphrodite girls had begged to have some pink in it but Damian immediately said no. He had no problem with the colour but the chariot was to manly for pink. So they settled with purple.
As they entered the racetrack, they already saw the others all lined up on the starting line and many of the campers had already taken their seats in the stands. Mr. D and Tantalus were sat next to each in some private looking box and even had a few satyrs fanning them.
The Hephaestus cabin was led by Beckendorf. Their chariot was made of bronze iron and were being towed by two automaton horses.
The Ares chariot was blood red and was pulled by two grisly horse skeletons. Clarisse climbed aboard with a batch of javelins, spiked balls, caltrops, and a bunch of other nasty toys with one of her brothers.
Apollo's chariot was trim and graceful and completely gold, pulled by two beautiful palominos. Lee Fletcher and Michael Yew were the designated drivers.
Hermes's chariot was green and kind of old-looking, as if it hadn't been out of the garage in years. Though it did have the symbols of both Hermes and Demeter so Damian guessed that the two cabins had struck some kind of deal. Though it was surprising since usually they were both rather antagonistic towards each other. Driving it was the Stolls.
The Athena chariot was very elegant looking with owl patterns covering it and was grey and gold in colour with their mothers symbol on the front. Driving it was of course Annabeth, and her younger brother Malcolm.
Then finally there was the Poseidon chariot, which was navy blue with patterns of sea creatures and the trident covering it. Unlike the others, the wheels were made to resemble ship helms. And of course driving it was Percy and Tyson.
As they lined up beside the other chariots, Silena began to check on the pegasi and make sure they were to pull the chariot and gave them a few sugar cubes.
As Damian began to check over their equipment, he found Percy walking beside him with a scowl on his face.
Damian sighed. "What did you and Annabeth argue over this time?" he asked.
"It was more like what she did not do. I had another dream and Grover was in it again." Percy said.
Now that had Damian's attention. He thought maybe Percy was trying to distract him before the race but he knew he would never use Grover's disappearance as something to joke about. He had the Devil Hunter's attention and Damian motioned for him to go on.
"We spoke to each other. It was almost as if I was there. Grover said we had some kind of connection that allowed us to talk to each other in times of need. He called it an empathy link." Percy said. "He said he was somewhere in Florida and turned left which does not exactly help. He said he fell into a trap and that some kind of shepherd had caught him. He said it was big Cyclops that got him. I think he called him... Polyphemus."
'Polyphemus.' Damian thought to himself. He knew the old tales of the great and most famous of all the Cyclops and how he managed to capture Odysseus and his ship as they were heading home after the Trojan War.
"Anyway, he got caught in St. Augustine, which is where I saw him in the bridal shop. He said that right now the only thing keeping him alive is the wedding dress. Apparently Polyphemus thinks he's a female Cyclops."
'Don't laugh, don't laugh,' Damian thought to himself, though his lip did tremble a little.
"Did he say where he was? Where we can find him and save him?" Damian asked with Percy nodding his head.
"He said he was currently in...the Sea of Monsters."
Damian frowned at that. He had read about the Sea of Monsters, a place where the foulest and most powerful of the sea monsters dwelled. Before Damian could ask more on this, he noticed the Stoll brothers sneaking up to his chariot and rolled his eyes.
"Stolls, you so much as touch my chariot and I'll be shoving one's head up the other's ass. So I'd think wisely about your next move." Damian said with a narrowed-eyed glare at the sons of Hermes.
Paling completely and not liking the concept Damian had pictured for them, the two sons of Hermes quickly ran back to their chariot, shaking in fear since they knew Damian would keep his word. The son of Artemis turned back to Percy.
"Did he say anything else? Any hint to how we could get there?" Damian asked but Percy shook his head.
Damian sighed, running his hand through his hair which Silena noticed and only now began to notice the looks of worry on their faces. She knew she would have to speak to Damian afterwards.
"We...we will speak more it after the chariot racing. Did you tell Annabeth? She will want to know since this concerns Grover." Damian said.
"That's what I was trying to tell her. But she thinks I was just trying to distract her." Percy said with a scowl.
"Tell her afterwards. Once the race is over, we will hold some kind of meeting and discuss it. Grover is our friend and we will save him." Damian said firmly.
Percy nodded and biting his lip made his way back to his chariot where they saw Tyson struggling to keep their horse under control since the animals had better sense that of a person.
Hearing a loud horn signalling that the race was about to start, Damian got up on his chariot where Silena was waiting as all the other teams began to do the same thing and entered their chariots.
"Charioteers!" Tantalus called. "To your mark!"
"Ready for this?" Silena asked Damian.
He shot her a smirk. "Are you?"
She smirked back and gave him a wink. "You know it."
As the chariots lined up, more shiny-eyed pigeons gathered in the woods. They were screeching so loudly the campers in the stands were starting to take notice, glancing nervously at the trees, which shivered under the weight of the birds. Tantalus didn't look concerned, but he did have to speak up to be heard over the noise.
"Charioteers!" Tantalus shouted. "Attend your mark!"
He waved his hand and the starting signal dropped. The chariots roared to life. Hooves thundered against the dirt. The crowd cheered.
Almost immediately there was a loud nasty crack! Damian looked back to see the Apollo chariot flip over.
The Hermes chariot had rammed into it—maybe by mistake, maybe not. The riders were thrown free, but their panicked horses dragged the golden chariot diagonally across the track.
Damian shook his head, lips quirking in amusement at the tantrum his cousins were throwing. If the gods were watching this, he had a feeling his uncle was throwing a fit about this.
He was right, as on Olympus Apollo was indeed throwing a fit while Ares, Hephaestus and Hermes laughed at him.
Thinking it was only right to avenge his cousins, Damian propped an arrow into his bow and fired towards the reins of the Hermes chariot. The reins were cut completely, causing the laughing Stolls to suddenly panic before their horses galloped into the opposite direction and the chariot wheeled straight into a ditch and chucking the two boys out.
The entire camp, aside from the Hermes cabin and the Demeter cabin who wondering why they put their trust in those two, laughed at the two sons of Hermes who were not stuck underneath the broken wood of the chariot.
On Olympus, Hermes' eyes widened and his jaw dropped while his brothers laughed and Demeter facepalmed, wondering why her children decided to trust Hermes' children. Hera and Hestia laughed at their sister's reaction.
"Only fifteen seconds in and two are already out." Damian called to Silena, who nodded back as she tried to keep her concentration on the track in front of her.
So far the Athena chariot was in front with the Artemis/Aphrodite chariot behind and were neck and neck with the Ares chariot and the Poseidon chariot. Behind them was the Hephaestus cabin who was quickly gaining speed.
Annabeth's brother, Malcolm, grinned at them as they went round a bend and threw three spears towards them. Damian and Silena easily ducked one spear while the other two hit the Poseidon and Ares chariots right on the front.
The Hephaestus cabin pulled up alongside Percy and Tyson as Beckendorf smiled apologetically at them before three sets of balls and chains shot straight toward them. Damian watched and grinned when he saw Tyson wave his arms and knock them all away.
Meanwhile, the Ares chariot had pulled up alongside the Artemis/Aphrodite chariot with Clarisse's brother taking the reins as Clarisse arms herself with a sword as they got in close.
"Alright, let's do this Pirates of the Caribbean style!" Damian said as he summoned Judgement while Silena laughed as Damian met Clarisse in a swordfight, the two keeping themselves balanced.
Damian parried Clarisse' sword and lunged with his sword only for the daughter of Ares to move out the way and throw a net towards them only for Damian to slice through it before resuming his fight with Clarisse. Suddenly they heard a loud crash.
Everyone in the chariots turned around and saw the large mass of birds that had been perched on the trees had now taken to the sky and had bombarded and mobbed Beckendorf and his chariot. They didn't stand a chance and ended up crashing into a tree.
Everyone looked a little worried but sighed in relief when Beckendorf and his sibling got out though they did look a little scratched up.
On Olympus, Hephaestus threw his popcorn on the floor and began raging about stupid pigeons. Meanwhile, all the goddesses were curious to why the birds had attacked in the first place.
All the birds then swarmed all over the track and into the stands, causing a mass panic to begin.
The birds began slashing at any bit of exposed flesh, casing everyone to try and find the nearest shelter while others tried their best to fight them off. When the birds got closer everyone began to notice that they were not any ordinary birds. They noticed that the eyes were beady and evil-looking. Their beaks were made of bronze.
"Stymphalian birds!" Annabeth yelled as she and Malcolm began to slow down their chariot and appeared next to Percy and Tyson. Damian and Silena slowed down too, though Clarisse kept going, though she never took her eyes of the horrid looking bids.
"How do you get rid of them?" Percy called out as he swung riptide round him trying to keep the bird of him. Damian whipped out Dawn and Dusk and began firing at the birds.
"Hercules used noise! Brass bells!" Annabeth said. "He scared them away with the most horrible sound he could—" she stopped as realization hit her. "Chiron's collection!"
She then jumped onto Percy's chariot and directed them towards the big house.
Some of the bird went after them while others began mad bombing towards Damian and Silena. Damian tossed Dusk to Silena who caught it and the two stood back to back as they fired at the birds.
They kept firing at the birds until suddenly the loud speakers around camp began to play. When the music began the birds went completely nuts. They started flying in circles, running into each other like they wanted to bash their own brains out. Then they abandoned the track altogether and flew skyward in a huge dark wave.
"Now!" shouted Annabeth. "Archers!"
With clear targets, Apollo's archers had flawless aim. Most of them could nock five or six arrows at once. Within minutes, the ground was littered with dead bronze-beaked pigeons, and the survivors were a distant trail of smoke on the horizon.
The camp was saved, but the wreckage wasn't pretty. Most of the chariots had been completely destroyed. Almost everyone was wounded, bleeding from multiple bird pecks. The kids from Aphrodite's cabin were screaming because their hairdos had been ruined and their clothes pooped on. Silena shook her head at her siblings.
Damian had a few scratches on him but they healed due to his healing factor.
"Bravo!" Tantalus said. "We have our first winner!" He walked to the finish line and awarded the golden laurels for the race to a stunned-looking Clarisse.
Then he turned and smiled at Percy and Damian. "And now to punish the troublemakers who disrupted this race."
That does it.
Damian walked straight up to Tantalus with a blank look on his face. As soon as he was close, he grabbed Tantalus and gave him a hard headbutt with full force, and considering Damian was part demon and part god, yeah... that's gonna hurt.
Tantalus dropped to the ground immediate and was knocked out clean out.
"What a fucking asshole." Damian scoffed before walking away. "Been wanting to do that since I saw the guy!"
Everyone began cheering, clapping and laughing. The Stolls were on the ground laughing as was Lee Jordan, Tyson and Percy. Annabeth was laughing away into her hands while Silena did the same. Clarisse though was just looking down at Tantalus and was cracking up at his dazed and out cold face.
Even Mr. D looked amused and laughed a little.
Meanwhile, on Olympus, the gods looked a little gobsmacked at the sight of Artemis's son knocking Tantalus out with a head butt before they all broke down laughing.
Athena had dropped the book she was reading and had a tear of laughter making it's way down her face. Aphrodite was the same except she had fallen to the ground in laughter. Even Zeus chuckled at what his grandson did and Poseidon's deep laugh was echoing all over Atlantis, making everyone wonder what their lord was so happy about.
Apollo commended his nephew's hard head while Damian's godmother found herself struggling to breathe at how funny it was. Her sisters were facing similar problems and Hephaestus was already making copies of the video so that he could put it on Hephaestus TV for later and give to the other gods and goddesses.
Though from the hunters camp, gut wrenching girly laughter could be heard as many of the hunters were in tears at what just happened and many had dropped their food or fallen of the logs they were sitting on. Even Zoe was laughing to the point her ribs hurt.
Artemis, though, was laughing and looking at her son with pride since he had done something so many had wanted, which was shutting Tantalus up. She had to remember to give him the biggest hug she could muster since everyone in the camp and on Olympus hated Tantalus with a passion.
Everyone at camp had one similar thought. 'Leave it to Damian to turn a horrid day in to a great day.'
I despise Tantalus. hated him in the book, glad he wasn't in that shitty movie adaptation.