Twin Daggers

**Dídyma Stiléta** (Greek for **Twin Daggers**) are the weapons of Alexis Jackson. These daggers were forged together, out of Celestial Bronze, and imbued with the power to permanently destroy fragments of a person's soul, when they are cut by the blade, similar to the demon-killing knife, which is how Alexis can take down demons. While Celestial Bronze is only able to harm gods, demigods, witches, and monsters, the daggers have a metal similar to the metal used in angel blades, forged into the middle of the blade, making them able to affect humans, and hunters.

## History

According to Chiron, the daggers were forged by a witch when magic had first been brought to Earth, and that witch tried to use them to defeat the gods, but Zeus struck her down, and the daggers were given to a weapons master, who trained heroes. They eventually found their way to the armory in Camp Half-Blood, where they were untouched by most demigods, who felt that they needed more impressive weapons than little gold daggers.

This all changed in early 2024, when a child of Aphrodite entered the camp, and after being claimed by the goddess, the daggers seemed to claim her for themselves, and would appear outside of Aphrodite's Cabin in the middle of the night. The counselors of the cabin took them back to the armory for two weeks, until Alexis, the demigod that the daggers chose, found them in the armory, after volunteering to play in a game of Capture the Flag, something she hadn't done since she was in elementary school.

### In Posession of Alexis:

When Alexis agrees to play a game of Capture the Flag with against the Hunters of Artemis, she is taken to the armory, where she is suited up in armor, and told to choose a weapon. She finds the gold daggers on a pile in the back of the building and grabs them without the sheath, and is reprimanded by an Ares girl, before going back and grabbing the two sheaths and taking them with her to the game.

Halfway through the game, Alexis finds the flag with scouts, and is ambushed by the Hunters, and fights with the daggers for the first time. Every time she cuts with the daggers, parts of the Hunters' souls are taken out of their bodies, so they avoid Alexis, and she uses this to her advantage, knowing that she can't charmspeak them, and instead decides to scare them out of their territory.

She does this, and her team is about to win the game, when the Hunters who had been hiding on their side run out with the flag, and while the rest of the camp gets all mad and salty, Alexis is overjoyed to have found a weapon that works for her. She takes them back to her cabin and her siblings applaud her as she was one of the only members of the cabin to get so far in Capture the Flag, and Alexis smiles, putting the daggers in her trunk.

Later, she is approached by Chiron and he tells her to use the weapon wisely, and that it is hers, but not to use the daggers in Capture the Flag, lest she ends up killing someone by accident. Because of this, Alexis trains herself with swords instead, while at camp, and doesn't use the daggers again, until she is attacked by demons, and kills them all, before she is almost killed by angels, and uses the daggers on the angels, doing less damage than to the demons until Danae and Conri come to her aid.

In 2026, the daggers are used in the battle against the Nogitsune, when Alexis incapacitates hunters and humans, and werewolves to protect herself and the Hales, until she kills Allison Argent, and throws one of the daggers into the druid, Deaton's leg, to stop him from either attacking or running, so that he could be burned to death by Conri, and slashed Scott McCall's arms, lowering his strength, to keep him on his knees until the fight was over. She also used the daggers on the Nogitsune, throwing them, and summoning them back to her hands.

## Appearance

The twin daggers are about 12 inches long, (including the hilt) and weigh about 2 pounds on each hand, when Alexis wields both at the same time, which she usually does. Each dagger has a silver/gold blade, and a leather wrapped hilt, with silver studs stamped all around the hilt, with runes engraved on the base of the blade, for the imbued soul destruction capability.

## Use

The twin daggers are used primarily in close quarters combat by Alexis, and are thrown at enemies so often that Alexis put an enchantment on them to make them always return to her hands, and jokes that they are like Thor's hammer, Mjölnir. She uses them against monsters, hunters, demons, humans, and angels, each with varying degrees of success. In the case of demons, with enough strikes to their bodies, usually vital organs, Alexis is able to permanently kill the demon, but is unable to do so against angels with just the daggers, needing to either charmspeak them, or use angel blades.

With humans, werewolves, and hunters, it depends on their body, if the human is healthy, it will just cause them discomfort, and usually the same thing with hunters, excluding Allison Argent, who had been resurrected, and was easily killed with a few cuts turning her to dirt. With werewolves, Alexis is able to slow them down with cuts, and incapacitate them with larger and deeper wounds, which heal, but have the power of the daggers inside them, making them weaker, so Alexis is able to kill werewolves with enough attacks, since their bodies heal, and keep the poisonous power inside their skin.

## Known Users

* Unnamed Witch: (Presumed Creator)
* Zeus: (Claimed after the witch's death)
* Unnamed Weapons Master: (Possessed)
* Unnamed Heroes: (Given by their Masters)
* Camp Half-Blood: (Held in Armory)
* Alexis Jackson: (Present Owner)