I have had many people ask me about why it says that Cassie and the others would stop aging at a certain age in the beginning of the story so I will say right now what it really means. It wasn't meant to be an exact thing, that was only what the goblins guessed would happen. She and the others are still mortal even if it might not seem like it when certain things are explained. They will eventually grow old but it will take a really long time and they are still mortal and can die, especially if they were to get killed.

I wanted to clear that up. They aren't all knowing and so not everything they think might happen, will. Just like the Goblins don't know everything about godly blood even if they know more than the wizards and witches who don't even realize that the gods exist in the story. While at times they will seem to know more then others it is mostly due to research, getting multiple sides of the same story, or in Hogwarts case the sentient castle and wards telling them things that others don't know or are trying to hide.


Chapter 9

Just as the Ophiotaurus disappeared and landed in the pond in front of Senka, the Minotaur arrived. "Now why did you have to do that, he was needed for our plans." He then went on a spiel about how he was never appreciated and how with the Titans he would finally be recognized for his greatness, causing the demigods to roll their eyes.

Luna and Bianca fought the Skeleton warriors while Cassie and Zoe fought the Minotaur. Once all the Skeletons were gone Bianca and Luna went over to Cassie and Zoe and joined them in fighting. Bianca and Zoe were shooting arrows at his face and neck, while Cassie fought him with her swords which had been coated with Titanoboa venom. The swords like most made using even the smallest amount of goblin silver absorbed the venom and even if it were washed it would still be tainted with it. Finally when it reached up with one hand to block a fire coated arrow that Luna shot at it Cassie was able to cut it and the poison worked right away turning the Minotaur to dust.

What most people didn't know was that the reason people thought Titanoboa's were extinct was because the magical community's renamed them Basilisk's, and due to their resemblance to a Drakon when full grown people couldn't tell them apart. The only difference to a normal Drakon and a Titanoboa was that they couldn't paralyze with their eyes, though she still couldn't figure out why people thought a Titanoboa could kill with its eye's. Another thing about Titanoboa's that people didn't know was that they could shrink to any size they wanted, and they had more than one type of venom. The first venom would kill, one would paralyze the victim, one could make someone fall asleep, and the last would work the same way as phoenix tears would.

After killing the Minotaur Luna said, "We're going to the garden of the Hesperides," causing Zoe to pale a bit.

"We need a car," Bianca said looking pointedly at Cassie, who was trying to look innocent.

They soon got a cab to Mt. Tam where Zoe told us to go around Landon the drakon while she distracted him. After they got around Cassie and Luna looked back to see Landon bite Zoe, the two youngest members knew that the Hunter would not live to see the end of the quest and that Zoe herself knew that as well. Soon Zoe caught up with them and they made their way up the mountain to the Titan fortress, Zoe rushed forward to aid her even though Artemis tried to warn her to go back. A man stepped out of the shadows along with some monsters that referred to him as the general, that man was the titan Atlas, the general of Kronos' armies, and Zoe's father.

"Cassie!" Luna shouted over the noise. "We need to take Artemis' burden. She must fight!" Cassie nodded and they ran over to where the sky pushed to touch the earth.

"Are you sure?" Artemis asked. Cassie and Luna nodded their heads, determination in their eyes. Artemis slipped out from under the sky. It was the heaviest thing the two had ever lifted. They could feel their strength being sucked out of their bodies. It hurt so much; Luke then came out pulling an unconscious Annabeth behind him. Bianca engaged him in a fight. Artemis fell to the ground, Atlas then brought the javelin down towards Artemis, at the last second, and she grabbed the javelin and flipped it over her head. Atlas came hurtling toward Cassie and Luna. Just in time, they leapt out of the way. The sky crashed down on Atlas' back and he screamed with anger.

Soon they were all standing with the exception of Zoe and Artemis, Artemis who had a dying Zoe in her arms. In the end after Zoe died Artemis put a new constellation in the sky called The Huntress, Thalia became the new lieutenant of the Hunters, and the Winter Solstice went off without a hitch. After they got back to camp Cassie, Luna, Connor, and Neville mirror called Cedric and Travis. They spent a whole two hours telling the story of what happened on the quest to the boys and the kids at camp found out that Travis was sorted into Slytherin, and that he and Cedric decided to come up with the story about Travis and Connor being purebloods from America since it was not that much of a lie.

Another thing they learned was that apparently a few kids learned that Travis could speak to snakes when they overheard Travis talking to Keiran, and kids started calling him evil. Though Travis set them straight when he saved a classmates life when said classmate got to close to the forbidden forest and was almost attacked by a Runespore before Travis told it to leave her alone, now most kids didn't believe he was evil. Cedric also told them that Travis the Weasley twins and Lee Jordan were always playing pranks together.

In January it was found out that Nico had magic, so they eventually decided to have him join them in going to Hogwarts and since he was the same age as Luna he would also join the group in getting rid of the Drakon. The rest of their time before Cedric and Travis returned was spent getting Nico up to the second year of the Hogwarts curriculum like herself, Connor, and Luna were. They had gotten him a wand at the same place they got theirs; it had been elder wood with Thestral Tail Hair wrapped in Dementor's Cloak. When Cedric and Travis got back they both started on their homework right away, while Nico, Luna, and Cassie would sneak off into the woods so that Nico could summon Minos the former King of Ghosts to help him train in his powers that he had due to being a son of Hades.

It was after one of these sessions that they found the passage leading to the Labyrinth; they quickly made a self-updating map of the place and left to go make a map of Camp Half-Blood. The day after that Cassie used her invisibility cloak to sneak into the Ministry of Magic to make another map, and once she made that one she also made a copy for Mr. Weasley which she would give to him for Christmas. Kids had also started disappearing or leaving to join Kronos. It was a week after that when Mr. D left to go do something and Quintus arrived, and Nico immediately told the other six that Daedalus' soul possessed that body. During one of the games Quintus made them play Percy and a few others found the entrance to the Labyrinth, the Knowledge of the Labyrinth lead to a war council being called, and Annabeth going to see the Oracle.

"Annabeth, what did the Oracle say," Chiron asked as they all sat around the table designated for war councils.

It looked like Annabeth didn't want to speak, but did so anyway.

"You shall delve in the darkness of the endless maze

The dead, the traitor, and the lost one rise

You shall rise or fall by the ghost kings hand

The child of Athena's final stand"

Chiron frowned before saying, "That doesn't seem like it all." Making Annabeth sigh before telling what she left out.

"Destroy with a hero's final breath

And lose a love to worse than death"

Pausing she spoke again, "What I don't understand is who the Ghost King is."

"It's Nico di Angelo;" Cassie spoke softly but clearly, "Nico is the King of Ghosts"

After much talking they decided that Annabeth would take Percy, Grover, Tyson, and Nico with her into the Labyrinth. Cassie also made it known about her maps when she gave the one for the Labyrinth to Nico, and also gave the four demigods a Mirror Watch and told them how it worked. When Chiron found out about them he asked her if she could make a map of camp and make Mirror Watches for everyone as well since they don't attract monsters like phones do.

While the group of five were on their quest Cassie made five maps of camp, and then bought the supplies to mass produce the Mirror Watches. After being told how many kids were in camp and getting a promise that they would only be given out when kids left camp Cassie, Luna, Travis, and Connor started making the watches though due to how complicated they were they could only make eight of them per day. Once they had made eighty of them along with the five maps and ten of the larger mirrors the items were given to Chiron to keep until they were needed. They also made ten copies of instructions with each copy having the instructions for all three items.

After getting the items to Chiron they read the book from the Slytherin Library about the Cruciatus Cure and the use of Ambrosia and Nectar in healing magical non-demigod people. Apparently magical people could use Ambrosia and Nectar for healing though they couldn't use as much as a demigod could. In fact they worked as well as Phoenix Tears did when it came to healing a magical person. After getting permission from Chiron the six went to Slytherin's Keep to practice brewing the cure, they ended up getting it exactly like the book described by the end of the week before they moved on to the cure for Lycanthropy which was also in the book. The cure for Lycanthropy took them even longer to perfect but they still managed to do it, after doing that Cassie took Travis to Gringotts and made him the heir of Slytherin since she was already rich enough as it was.

The Cruciatus Cure would work no matter how much or how little the curse affected a person. The Lycanthropy Cure could be taken at any time and would prevent them from changing during a full moon, get rid of the bad before and after effects for the full moon, and it would also let a person keep the enhanced hearing and smell that they had. Unfortunately since they were not potions masters, since they hadn't even taken their O.W.L.S. or N.E.W.T.S. yet, they needed to keep the knowledge of the potions a secret. The potions were also something that they would eventually sell at the Shop they were creating with the Weasley twins. It was made into a decision that after Cassie took her O.W.L.S. she would go to the Ministry and take her N.E.W.T.S. and get her Mastery for potions so that she could then publish the info about the cure's to the Potions Guild and start selling them.

After Nico came back they went to camp and he told them all about what happened and that Pan the Lord of the Wild had died, and that he had killed Daedalus. Oddly enough the Labyrinth wasn't destroyed when Daedalus died, and they finally found out why when it tied itself to Cassie the second she and the five others stepped back into the country. Due to having the Labyrinth tied to her Cassie was able to command the Labyrinth to refuse entrance for anyone who was willing to help Kronos, and this unknowingly ended up killing Geryon who owned the farm in the Labyrinth. Though Geryon would still return after a while but he would no longer be able to access the Labyrinth or the farm.