After speaking with Nathan in his cell Tyler knew it was time to share his story. If you fail to learn from your history you are doomed to repeat it. Heading to the Praetor’s offices he asked them to announce a camp wide meeting to be held in the amphitheater within the hour.

Soon he was standing in the stage looking down at everyone in the camp. The praetors and centurions were sitting in the front row. Take a deep breath he walked over to a projector and placed a photo on the screen for everyone to see. The photo was of Nathan, much younger at the time and another woman, his mother. She was a beautiful woman, and Nathan looked really happy. He had a twinkle in his eye that had long since been extinguished. In the background of the picture were a couple of kids. One of them had a knife in his hand, barely noticeable unless you looked hard enough, and was staring at Nathan and his mom, a vicious look in his eye.

“This photo is the beginning of a path that would bring Nathan here to our camp. But to understand why you must all know a story from our camp’s history. One that is rarely talked about due to it being a dark spot on all who were here.”

Tyler walked away from the projector and closer to the edge of the stage.

“Twelve years ago when I first arrived at camp there were three other campers who had very extreme views of what it meant to be like us. Brandon Flowers, Jonny Helm and Lucas Graves.”

He pointed to each of the boys in the background of the photo as he spoke and when he got to Lucas, the boy holding the knife, he passed longer than the rest.

“You see unlike a lot of us here Lucas was a legacy. A child of two Demigods, a father of Mars and daughter of Bellona. He claimed that he was above all at the camp as he Had “pure blood”. The three of them started a group inside of camp that would become known as “The Children of New Rome” and would find other campers who could be brought to their side. They even tried to recruit me and had it not been for my Centurion who knows if I would have joined them or not. Brandon Flowers was the strongest child of Venus I had ever met at this camp and his ability to sway people’s emotions to align with his own was never before seen. At first they were nothing more than a gang of bullies. Also serving probations or getting landed with chore duty. But right around my second year in camp things changed. Lucas’s ideas became more extreme and soon his idea of pure blood became his prominent mission. For those of the Children of New Rome who were half mortal and half god in order to become a full member you had to cut ties with the mortal world. Soon the mortal parents of the higher members of the Children were being found dead. The praetors at the decided to finally do something about the growing cult. Either disavow their ranks and face the consequences of your actions or face exile from the Camp. Most of the other campers came back to the loyalist as they had nowhere else to go. Lucas would not go as easily. He gathered his forced and set up shop in New Rome. The legion was sent in to force them out, myself included. The fighting was hard and bloody. Many good campers died that day.”

Tyler paused remembering back. He had lost the closest thing to a brother that day.

“In the end we drove them out. But those three...”

He pointed back to the photo.

“They made it out of the city and although we sent many quests after them we could never track them down. We always feared that they were continuing their recruitments but we also hoped that the monsters dealt with them. Which brings us to this picture. Five years ago Lucas and his generals murdered Nathan’s mother and sent him on a path of anger and vengeance that lead him here.”

He looked to the praetors.

“I have spoken to Nathan. He has confessed to everything. He is the one that is causing the nightmares. But he is not acting alone and to be honest I think he is more of a pawn in this. He told me that Kenzie’s dream about the underworld and Pluto is real. That someone has taken it from Pluto. An attack on the camp is coming. Three monster it will be. What I don’t know if Lucas is in charge of all this or he too is a pawn. What I do know is he is very dangerous and we must prepare for the attack.”

With that Tyler walked back and took the photo and returned it to his pocket.

“If you have any questions please ask. I will share everything I know.”