Sons of Apollo
A reading of the Percy Jackson books written by Rick Riordan with exhilarating debriefs after each chapter.
Read by Panther Prakash and Dante Musa, the Sons of Apollo
Sons of Apollo
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SPEAKER_00Yeah, it's almost like a mini taste of something new. I feel like this labyrinth is gonna be full of just little twists naturally but to see us like blipping out and then knowingly and with desire, full desperation, in fact, blipping right back into the labyrinth kind of a thing. Ugh. Camp A.
SPEAKER_01Campaign.
SPEAKER_00Campaign. Bubble waste, anyone? Bubble waste. She exists amongst the bubble wastes.
SPEAKER_01Amongst the bubble waste.
SPEAKER_00It was fun doing some of those voices that ancient the language before the courts.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00That was cool of you to remember that Delta symbol, too, that saved him at the very end.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Deltanian.
SPEAKER_00When I was looking at that in the book, I was like, ah, the Greek triangle thing. The Greek. It's Delta.
SPEAKER_01Deltanian.
SPEAKER_00Deltonian. The monk of Daedalus.
SPEAKER_01The monk of Daedalus.
SPEAKER_00Chapter seven.
SPEAKER_01So yeah, we started off in the Labyrinthian. Okay, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Tyson leads a jailbreak.
SPEAKER_01Because we're essentially trying to get out for sure.
SPEAKER_00Well, yeah, I mean.
SPEAKER_01Or we're just trying to go deeper still.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, we're trying I mean, the whole end goal is like Daedalus' workshop. So I guess we saw uh Janus last chapter and it was like discovering, like, oh, we're just trying to get to older parts of the Harrow is like, oh, you want to go see that one farmer or something like that. Mentioned like a person we're seeking out, but then it pretty much like opened us right, uh, we're running away from some snarling, garling, kadarling that's deep in the corridors.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00We don't even know what it is, but we're just on the run.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00And now we dive into chapter seven.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, they just go left. So it looks like the good news is we're going left.
SPEAKER_01Yes.
SPEAKER_00All's pretty straightforward, but the bad news is it's a dead end, and we got this monster snarling, farling, dragging footsteps behind us. Something definitely not human.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Definitely not happy is on our tail.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_00But it looks like Tyson can deal with the wall.
SPEAKER_01Slams right there.
SPEAKER_00Slam down, dude. It's good to have a cyclops on here. Yes. This is really a good little foursome. We've got toiling and groiling in the labyrinth. Good to have Tyson.
SPEAKER_01Tyson's our tank.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it's always good to have a tank.
SPEAKER_01Always good to have a tank.
SPEAKER_00Uh, nothing like Yeta. Yeah. The tank, the original tank. Uh so he just like shoulders this boulder, boulder, shoulder.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and then kind of like push the boulder into that where we where we just came through to like block off this monster from getting in. But unfortunately, that ends up.
SPEAKER_00Because yeah, they're able to like shut the boulder and then they discover because they turn around, it's just like, what the three walls and a iron bars? Iron bars. Nothing there's nothing cool about being put in a cage, let me tell you about it. But sure enough, they they trap themselves. They're in this bar to bar, something like cells in the ceilings.
SPEAKER_01And um that's when they hear this like oh yeah, crying. Oh yeah, that's what they see. It's like all the different cells.
SPEAKER_00You can just see it's kind of like an old courtyard, they're definitely in a prison of sorts right now.
SPEAKER_01And then yeah, there's that sound, pretty much like something sobbing, and then this other sound of like this raspy voice muttering about it.
SPEAKER_00Exactly. And then Tyson's the one that really picks up on it because Percy's like, what the hickle? And Tyson's eyes get all wide, like, it can't be. And then what? He just easily bends open the bars, and then they're kind of walking down.
SPEAKER_01Following him.
SPEAKER_00Uh-huh. Grover's terrified, apparently. He's like trying to call him back.
SPEAKER_01Abeth calls this place. She's like, Oh, this is Alcatraz.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, interesting. Have you been to Alki before?
SPEAKER_01I've never, I don't think I've been to Alcatraz though.
SPEAKER_00Have you? Yeah, I did go to Alki actually back in When you went for Vipas? Uh it wasn't for Vipas, it was when we went to what's that college um up in kind of near San Francisco areas.
SPEAKER_01Is that the Pacific?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, PUC? Yeah, PUC.
SPEAKER_01Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Pacific Union College, totally. We went for a band tour, and then we went and toured Alcatraz, got to see like Fisherman's Wharf and stuff, all the sea lions.
SPEAKER_01Sichless.
SPEAKER_00It was a scene, yeah. You gotta take a ferry boat out there to that like rock island. It's like definitely like a museum style kind of a thing. Very yeah, to think it's on the Percy walk now. It's cool. Little little crosses.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. So yeah, uh, it sounds like she did the same thing, went on a field trip to see it. Um but yeah, interesting. So now they're in San Francisco, but they had gone in where?
SPEAKER_00They had gone in like pretty much at Camp Half-blood.
SPEAKER_01Oh, so on the East Coast.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And now they're on the clear ocean.
SPEAKER_00They blipped all the way over.
SPEAKER_01Interesting.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. It did like mention Abeth had been living in San Francisco, kind of keeping an eye on Mount Tamao. So she knows what she's talking about.
SPEAKER_01This is Alcatraz. But Grover tells her to stop.
SPEAKER_00Uh-huh. Tyson is not hearing it.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Grover, you know, seeing it.
SPEAKER_00Oh, yeah, but he's like, Can't you see it? And then they look up on that second floor balcony, and we're seeing the most horrible monster we'd ever seen before. Yeah. This compe is a nasty.
SPEAKER_01It's pretty gnarly, yeah. So basically, like a centaur woman, but it instead it's like a dragon lower half.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it's like a snakey leg scenario.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and also snaky hair, right?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, snaky hair and like a morphing belt. Belt.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00So it's almost like her midsection with this uh bubbling conglomerate of wolves and lions and a bear, ever-changing creatures. It's like a half-form, it's almost like the monster of platypus of sorts.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Before shapes were even fully defined. This is an old, ancient, nasty mother French.
SPEAKER_01Oh no.
SPEAKER_00And it looks like Tyson knows her. It's her. So now we're kind of crouching in the shadows. Grover is like telling us to get down, and we can hear this snake dragon lady like saying something in this rumbling, archaic, nasty ass language. And it's like, what is this? Tyson knows that the tongue of the old times. Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_01Well, Mother Earth spoke to the Titans and her children before the gods. Before the gods. Whoa, okay.
SPEAKER_00Uh, and then what? Like, Percy gets Tyson to start translating it.
SPEAKER_01Which, of course, he goes into like this kind of like microphone version where he like basically just becomes a radio.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it's like he's mimicking, yeah, exactly. He's just transmitting it. So creepy. Annabeth hates that because I mean obviously Abeth's past with cyclopsies.
SPEAKER_01Um but yeah, and then it kind of breaks that down like that trance he goes into, and then what but yeah, it sounds like this uh this creature is torturing some other creature, kind of mocking it. I'll enjoy your pain. Yeah. Um, if you thought your prison was unbearable, you have yet to feel true torment, think of this till the return.
SPEAKER_00Ugh.
SPEAKER_01Interesting, and then she like blips out, walks away. Oh, and then straight up flies off.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, unfurls these bat wings too.
SPEAKER_01Gnarly.
SPEAKER_00Campe is nasty. And then what she just disappears around it.
SPEAKER_01Grover's like, I've never smelled a monster that strong.
SPEAKER_00And then yeah, Tyson calls out the name worst nightmare of a cyclops, Compe. Oh my gosh. Apparently, this is like a beast of old little baby cyclops' nursery rhymes. She she was the jailer in the bad years. So apparently, back when the Titans were still ruling and they had um some of Gaia and Oranus's earlier children, like the Cyclopes. What is that, that? Hecatonkirs? Hecatonkirs? Yeah, the Hec. The Hundred Handed Ones.
SPEAKER_01Yes. Hecatonkires.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it's like the older bros of Cyclopses that they kept all of them in prisons, but then Zeus came around, killed Campe, freed the Cyclopses and the Hundred Hands handed ones, and gets them to fight in the war.
SPEAKER_02Right.
SPEAKER_00But now Campe's back. Because these titans are getting faultful, you know.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Which is not a good sign.
SPEAKER_01So yeah, she's out here jailing handed ones.
SPEAKER_00But it does seem like Briare is perked up because that he did mention that name when he was in the trance a little bit.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00And it's like this is one of those hundred-handed ones, tall as a mountain, apparently.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Tall as the sky, and they could break mountains. Right. But this boy is in a cell, apparently. And he's crying in a cell. So he's obviously, you know, he's on rough times. Yeah. And that's what I wonder. That's hidden power of the hundred-handed one.
SPEAKER_01So we get to the cell. Um, and yeah, pretty much like purses like this kind of weird because he looks human-sized, he's pale skin. Um, he looks like you know, he's got this loincloth, skin the color of milk, uh, dirty toenails, eight toes on each foot. Um, and then that top half where it's literally just like rows, back of hands.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, or like arms almost even.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, is what it seems like. Yeah, straight up arms, just all like in rows across his entire torso.
SPEAKER_00And so wild.
SPEAKER_01They're all just like, yeah, it just looks like this tangle. Tangled the language.
SPEAKER_00The way it uh describes it as spaghetti all twirled up.
SPEAKER_01But yeah, he's crying, and purse is like, oh wow, he doesn't look like as tall as the sky, like you're talking about. Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_00But yeah, Tyson is still just like amazed by him, falls to his knees. Fangirling hard. Oh, so hard. And gets him to stop. Yeah. You know? And Tyson is actually asking Briaris for help. Yeah. Like, Hundred, help us. But it doesn't look like he can really help. I mean, he looks up with this just sad, horrible face. Yeah. Kind of effed up teeth, a crooked nose, and these like deep brown eyes.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that's kind of cool. Like they're made of straight clay, no pupils, no different coloring.
SPEAKER_00He's like the early formations of creatures, you know, he came right from the earth. And he's just saying, like, run while you can. He can't even help himself, apparently. It was fun doing Briar's. It was, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Tyson's like, yo, dude, you're a hundred handle, you can do anything. What are you talking about? And now it's like talking about almost like constantly like doing different things, like they got a mind of their own.
SPEAKER_00Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_01Some of them are like tinkering and building shit.
SPEAKER_00And then disassembling it just as fast. They're like playing rock, paper, scissors with each other or something, or like scratching at the cement floor, or making shadow puppets. It's cute. It's so wild. He is in a rough state though.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00You know, compo's back, the Titans will rise.
SPEAKER_01He's in a mental imprisonment.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, he's really he's put shackles on himself.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00And Tyson even says, like, try to put on a brave face. And it's wild how even his face morphs into something which looks a little more distinguished and brave and upturned nose kind of a thing, but then it morphs right back.
SPEAKER_01Right back to sad face. He's like, you know, scared face keeps coming back.
SPEAKER_00And that's like Percy's even like, what the rickle dick was that? Abeth explains the hundred-hand ones have 50 different faces.
SPEAKER_01Which makes sense. One face for two arms.
SPEAKER_00Uh-huh. Oh, yeah, yeah. No, that does make sense. Dang. And it's like, I wonder if each one of those faces is like a different personality.
SPEAKER_01And maybe they're connected to a pair of arms somewhere in the body.
SPEAKER_00That's crazy. Whip in my brave arms. Yeah, exactly. Somebody whip up your brave arms. But Tyson's insisting, like in the okay. Yeah. Can have your own groups. So cute. Oh my gosh. But the truth is, like Grover's bringing it up, like, yo, Compe is gonna come back. We need to get the ripple out of here. Tyson just should break the bars.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, come on, break it. It's stronger than Cyclopes.
SPEAKER_00But yeah, he is like Tyson's insisting that Briare is do it, but this mental imprisonment he is in, it just won't, it won't help him.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_01And so yeah, A Abeth was like, yo, it's because he's been imprisoned, you know, on Tartarus by Campe for thousands of years, you know, he's like, How did you feel?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, totally.
SPEAKER_01He's really just like mentally broken.
SPEAKER_00Totally. And so trying, yeah, like Tyson to break the bars.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, Abeth's just like, yeah, Tyson, just break the bars. And he's like, fine. I break the bars.
SPEAKER_00So he easily just no problem. Nothing.
SPEAKER_01So he's like, come on, Briar is and he's still like still in that imprisonment.
SPEAKER_00She will punish me. It's like, yo, it's alright. Don't you remember? You fought the Titans, you won. And then all he really remembers about the war is like the devastation of war.
SPEAKER_02Right.
SPEAKER_00And the fact that the Titans were away for a while, but now they're getting stronger. Right. And we're screwed. So we're just, you know, but it's like, don't listen. Let's get this show on the road. And then that's when kind of Percy comes in with his little zip to dip. He's a smart guy against these cats, dude. Like, okay, a game of rock, paper, scissors. Yeah. And if you lose, you stay. If I if or if I lose, you stay. If you lose, you come with a mum.
SPEAKER_01Right. And he's like, oh, I always win rock, paper, scissors. And so he's like, alright, let's do it. So then they do it, and of course, he's got a vast array of a hundred different rocks and papers and scissors. Of course, he always wins.
SPEAKER_00Which is like when you play rock paper, it's not like you use both hands. You throw up one dot. Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_01Interesting.
SPEAKER_00But still, Paris gets him with the nine to nine. The gunshot. The gunshot right to the dome.
SPEAKER_01No one told you about the gunshot Briares.
SPEAKER_00Gun beats anything, apparently.
SPEAKER_01And so he's like.
SPEAKER_00Oh, it's not fair, but we don't have time for fair. Dang it. Like.
SPEAKER_01If you stay here, she's gonna blame you for ripping off those bars anyways, so you better come with us.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, and he kind of acquiesces. Yeah. So they're getting him out of there, but then they look over and they can see on the ground.
SPEAKER_01Compe's already there.
SPEAKER_00Compe's back. She's in on the jig. She just went to grab a quick espresso. Now she's back.
SPEAKER_01So they're running.
SPEAKER_00I feel like that's something Demi Blood's got to do a lot of the time is just freaking run. You know? So we on the run. Um, the the winged one is behind us, growling and snarling in her ancient, despicable tongue, trying to scramble down the stairs. They make a left, they get outside, and now it's like, oh, they're in a courtyard.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Finally have some sun on their skin.
SPEAKER_01Tourist, wind, yeah, they can see some tourists.
SPEAKER_00Oh, and they see like in the distance, Mount Tomel Pies has this huge storm now brewing around us. Abeth is like, oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_01Isn't that good?
SPEAKER_00Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_01And so they gotta keep going.
SPEAKER_00It was totally totally.
SPEAKER_01Company's behind us, so they run to the end of the yard.
SPEAKER_00Uh hopefully Dragon Lady can't get through the doors. Dragon Lady don't give two ripples. Boom, blada buna.
SPEAKER_01First record. And then that's when she pulls out like these scimitars with the with the poison. They kind of got these wisps around us.
SPEAKER_00Oh, yeah. And Grover calls it right.
SPEAKER_01Like, that is po it. Don't let him touch you, and it's like, oh, or we'll die.
SPEAKER_00It's like, well, you'll shrivel the thing.
SPEAKER_01You gotta shrivel first.
SPEAKER_00A little bit of shriveling.
SPEAKER_01Other than that. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00It's like, yo, swords are swords. You always try to avoid swords.
SPEAKER_01So now they're trying to tell like Tyson's like, he's growing your full size because he's as tall as the sky.
SPEAKER_00Oh, yeah, exactly. Get powerful.
SPEAKER_01But it seems like he's just terrifying.
SPEAKER_00This mental imprisonment is really jiving us, dude.
SPEAKER_01It really is.
SPEAKER_00So what do we gotta run then?
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00So we're on the run. It's wild. All the mortals screaming, it's like, I wonder what it is they're seeing.
SPEAKER_01Exactly.
SPEAKER_00Because with the mist manipulating as it does, it's like, who knows?
SPEAKER_01Demi blood can't necessarily see what the mist is making the mortality. Totally.
SPEAKER_00So not until it comes out on uh 60 minutes. Yeah, 60 minutes, you know, dateline tonight. But it's like, okay, well, are we gonna run to the boat? No, that's not gonna work.
SPEAKER_01Back into the maze.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, but we need a diversion. That's where Tyson's like, got you. I was born for this. It's interesting how it's like, because cyclopes they can defeat heat, you know, like they can take a full blast of fire. I guess poison too. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01They're pretty robust creatures. They really are, yeah.
SPEAKER_00You know? Honey badger is totally. Nothing fucks with the honey badger.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, the poison's gonna hurt me, but not gonna kill me. So you guys go.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, and he's saying, I'll meet you inside. And Purse doesn't want to do this, but there's really not a better solution at this point.
SPEAKER_01You know, so they go, they pull BR Briaris into um into the concession stand. Uh Tyson charges Compe, like a jousting knife.
SPEAKER_00So powerful. It's cool to think like just the strength of the Cyclops, you know, with even just using a lamp like or a light pole.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00So strong and like how he's like throwing that uh whole ice cream stand, dipping dots stand. Because at first they're kind of like bah bah. He's he's parrying that like morphing body thing, is roaring to the lion thing, becomes a lion belt.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, she's got all kinds of things, but uh yeah, he throws that dipping dots, it explodes.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, that's kind of like the last thing we see. Right. And then we're getting in there, and of course, Briaris is just wailing, blah, blah, blah, can't make it.
SPEAKER_01Pars is like, brother, my brother is risking his life for you, so you gotta make it.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, you're gonna keep running, but the then.
SPEAKER_01So they get to the door of the cell block.
SPEAKER_00Um and luckily, Tyson, it looks like is coming right behind us.
SPEAKER_01But Cope's right behind him, covering ice cream.
SPEAKER_00So like that bear wall, but it's completely smooth.
SPEAKER_01Uh of course, Abet's like, look for the mark. We got that Delta mark, Grover finds it, soon soon, the door's opening, but it's going too slow, Tyson's running too slow. Um, and so that's when Purse pushes everyone in. Compe is raising her sword. Oh, and that's when he activates the Tyson shield and just husks it straight straight into Compe's face.
SPEAKER_00Because it's like Tyson was looking like he was not gonna be able to probably make it. Yes, but that's a good use of the shield. Exactly. That's what I was saying, you know.
SPEAKER_01Enough for you know her to falter, give Tyson enough to jump. And uh, yeah, just like that, it seals right before she can make it.
SPEAKER_00And Compe, you can just hear roaring and snarling. Suck it, Compe.
SPEAKER_01But yeah, we in racing into the labyrinth, and for the first and last time, Percy's happy to be back in the labyrinth.
SPEAKER_00It could be a safe haven for those.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_00He's become like a little ground squirrel of sorts, little mere cat Percy. Meercy. That's interesting. And it's uh how it's like, all right, well, whatever that snarling darling thing in the labyrinth that was chasing us.
SPEAKER_01It's still in there.
SPEAKER_00It's still in there somewhere, but um, I guess I'd rather go with the devil I don't know than the devil I know, because that one's gonna F me up. And you know, we're demiblozzed, we figure it out as we go along. And now we got a hundred-handed one on our side. This Briaris character. Interesting. I feel like he's got like a lot of uh well, obviously um Tyson be talking him up till nine to nine, like there's a lot of hidden potential within this crater. Yeah, so it'll be interesting, but for the time being, he's obviously just we'll work that out. Demi bloods have a natural ability of like uplifting each other and one another. So I'm excited about it. That was like an interesting, I think I don't know if that chapter was super long. It was like a little quick tape, but good. Mm-hmm. That's I feel like this the chapter or this whole book is gonna be full of those little like yeah. And then we're back in the lab. Yeah. And then we're back in the labyrinth. Maybe we're picking up characters where we're I mean hopefully everybody I like, let's keep Briaris around, you know?
SPEAKER_01Like Briaris. Yeah, he's coming-handed one day. Yeah, help him find his help Briaris get his groove back.
SPEAKER_00Uh yeah. Briares got his groove. And it's interesting to think like if all those hands work together, and if he really can become super large, like if he has the ability of like one large arm with a bunch of little arms on the colour, he's a morphe into creature. He is, yeah. He's the clear. He's clean.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, the mother of the son of Guy.
SPEAKER_00Mm-hmm. That's so cool. We're getting ancient lore here. Yeah, yeah. I'm here for it. Good, good. Well, we're all together. We picked up a new character, and all's well that ends well.
SPEAKER_01We didn't lose anyone.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, exactly. So we're good. Mm-hmm. The whispering a new monster.
SPEAKER_01Yes.
SPEAKER_02This is cool. Chapter seven, baby.
SPEAKER_00And they're really like throwing us right into it, you know? It's still relatively early, but we're running.
SPEAKER_02We're gonna see you in chapter eight.
SPEAKER_00Chapter eight.