![]() ![]() Returning to Camp Half-Blood, Bob declines an invitation to stay, instead deciding to head west to figure out his future, looking forward to finally having the freedom to do so. Hades, Maria and Bianca urges Nico to enjoy his future with Will and find happiness. Maria and Bianca express their love and pride in Nico, as does Hades who admits that Percy's actions have made him rethink his behavior towards his son, particularly when Hades realized that the quest had risked Nico losing someone else that he loves. ![]() Hades reveals that he had sent Nico the prophecy so that he would rescue Bob and arranged this dream. To Nico's surprise, the cacodemons, which he renames Cocoa Puffs, decide to join them of their own free will.Īs Bob sails the group back up the Acheron to the Underworld, Nico is visited in a dream by Hades and the spirits of his mother Maria and sister Bianca. Nemesis, Hypnos and Epiales turn on Nyx and restrain her long enough for the group to get on the Acheron which Nyx can't cross. Taking control over the cacodemons, Nico decides to release them, symbolically letting go of his demons and fulfilling the part of the prophecy that he would have to leave something of equal value behind. With the encouragement of Will and Bob, Nico fights back against Nyx's manipulations, embracing the fact that he is more than just his darkness while Will accepts his own darkness to tap into Apollo's plague powers to fight Nyx. Nyx reveals that she has created cacodemons out of manifestations of Nico's darkness and she urges him to accept his darkness and stay in Tartarus where the goddess believes that he belongs. By combining their powers, Nico and Will free Bob before Nyx arrives with Nemesis, Hypnos, a reformed Epiales, and an army of monsters to cut off their escape. Locating Bob's pet saber-toothed skeleton cat Small Bob, the demigods discover that Percy and Annabeth's giant friend Damasen is still reforming and can't help them before finally reaching Nyx's home, the Mansion of Night, where Bob is imprisoned in a continuous regeneration cycle. Using Gorgyra's canoe, Nico and Will descend into Tartarus where the power of the river forces them to confront their insecurities and differences of opinion, particularly on the nature of the Underworld. The trogs lead the demigods to the River Acheron where the nymph Gorgyra agrees to help them in exchange for Nico and Will sharing their story with her. Nico reveals that he had encountered Nyx while traveling through Tartarus before getting captured by the giants and she took an interest in him, realizing that Nyx is using Bob as bait to get at Nico. Pleased with their success, Menoetes reveals that Bob, while reforming from dying while helping Percy and Annabeth, was captured by the primordial goddess of night, Nyx, who seeks to force Bob to go back to being Iapetus despite Bob's continuous rejection of his past. ![]() Although the heist is successful, Will encounters Persephone herself, who offers him advice on his struggles to understand Nico, suggesting that Will embrace his own inner darkness rather than rejecting it. ![]() Nico and Will seek out the help of the troglodytes who agree to lead them to a shortcut to Tartarus, but they first pass the farm of Menoetes, who only agrees not to tell Hades in exchange for some stolen fruit from Persephone's garden. Making their way into the Underworld through the Door of Orpheus, which Nico and Percy had previously used, the two demigods are immediately set upon by the demon of nightmares, Epiales, who reveals that their mother is after Nico before Will manages to kill the demon using his newly-discovered power to emit light. Before departing, the two contact Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase for advice based upon their own experience in Tartarus. Concerned that Bob's situation must be getting more dire, Nico convinces a reluctant Chiron to issue them an official quest. Two months after the defeat of Nero and Python, Rachel Elizabeth Dare provides the prophecy for Nico di Angelo and his boyfriend Will Solace's quest into Tartarus to rescue the Titan Iapetus, better known as Bob, for the twelfth time. A standalone follow-up to the 2020 novel The Tower of Nero, it was released in North America and the United Kingdom on May 2, 2023, and was published by Hachette Books. The Sun and the Star is a fantasy novel co-written by authors Rick Riordan and Mark Oshiro. ![]()
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