- Written By: ThomasPOV: JerryDeaths: Artemis (1), Venus (1)
Another author's note begins the chapter, with the author insisting that he's a real Christian that his fellow Christians cannot recognize as such, since they don't read the Bible or follow commandments.
Jerry declares that he is at an advantage over the enemy now, since they don't yet know that Camp Half-Blood has changed sides. He decides to destroy the temples of the most dangerous gods, with himself dealing with Artemis and Venus, Percy dealing with Zeus and Neptune, and Luke dealing with Mars and Ares. Oddly enough, some of them are referred to by their Roman names, when it was previously indicated that the Roman gods would come later, and the latter pair is essentially the same. Jerry declares that they are all beyond redemption and deserve to die.
Jerry goes to Artemis' temple first, and sees some women doing "wrong things" to a group of married men. He never specifies what they're doing, but it's apparently bad enough that he feels the need to kill all the men, force the women to dig their graves, then kill them too, leaving the graves open so that wild animals will eat their corpses. Of course, given the Prayer Warriors' track record, many things could qualify.
In the inner chamber, Jerry finds Artemis counting the money she made off her whores, and stabs her in the eyes. She doesn't go down entirely without a fight, though, as she feebly threatens to kill Jerry, before he kills her and puts her severed head on display as proof that she's in hell.
Jerry moves on to the temple of Venus and, seeing Venus kissing another woman, cuts off her head and puts it on a stake. Her followers convert without a fight, and Jerry burns down the temple, because it's too polluted with sinfulness.
With Jerry's tasks done, an author's note promotes his brother's story.
Next Installment: Percy kills the Greek god whom he thinks is his father, and the Greek god who is his father.
