Camp Trinity 5, The Golden Dynasty

The 5th and final book of the Camp Trinity series leads the gang straight to the most important fight yet. Tartarus himself has arrived and is raging war on the camp, and with the armies of Camp Trinity unable to work together, it seems there will be no end to the fighting. When someone starts the war, someone has to finish it. If the camp doesn't win, it'll be the end of Olympus.

Estimated age range: 12+ should be okay. The language is considerably worse, but only "hell" appears frequently. The violence is also considerably worse, so if you're not into blood and gore, perhaps 12 isn't the best age. It is insinuated that a couple of teenagers have had sex, though this is not outright stated.

**Summary**

Heather and Autumn are still fighting a month later when Diamond and Midnight's foal, Blossom, is born. Heather decides that Blossom will go to Meeka, and she, Libby and Autumn are able to hang out civilly. Later, Heather talks to Tom and tells him about his sister, Dainë, and about demigods and the war. After this, Heather and her mortal family go to England for Christmas break and Autumn and Libby show up to get her so they can go to camp for the war. Because the three of them are leading the war, Mr. Crowe has them talk to the campers. Heather tells them that they can either be chickens and stay home where they're safe, or they can fight to stop Tartarus from destroying the gods and the demigods. Nicki Bradley, Hal's ex-girlfriend, rudely asks how Heather can give them this advice when she can't tolerate her co-leaders, but Heather tells her to mind her business because she has a plan and Nicki isn't part of it. That night, Heather dreams of Tartarus saying he should join her. The next morning, they go to Greece with their new weapons, including knives that can kill gods. Heather has a motorcycle, which she is impressed with. Mr. Crowe says that they thought they would have more time, but the war has come. They head to a castle that the camp built as a fortress.

We switch to Autumn's perspective and she remembers spending time with Heather and misses her. She apologized to Heather that morning when they were packing and tells her that she loves her, but Heather ignores her and Autumn goes down to the beach to spend some time with Buttercup and distract herself. They were called to the office and Mr. Crowe told her to help pack food and to be in charge of food. Heather is in charge of weapons and Libby is in charge of armor. Heather gets annoyed about Libby being in charge of armor, since Libby doesn't know anything about armor, but Libby tries to do her job. Autumn goes to the Duat and picks up some food. Libby designed incredible armor that helps protect the demigods and amplifies their powers at the same time. Autumn helps her make the designs and then they leave to go to the castle. At the castle, Autumn makes pasta for dinner and Ray asks her if she wants to go hang out with him, like as a date, and Autumn tells him to go away because they have more important things to worry about. The next morning, they get ready for the battle and head outside of the castle when they hear a gunshot. Libby rushes to Troy, who was shot by the heart, and she freezes time. She had been taking healing courses and has healing powers, so she works to save him. She has to replace his heart with enchanted titanium, something that can be used as a replacement heart by demigods and gods. When time is brought back to normal, he feels sick but is mostly okay. Libby then goes out to the fight and watches Julia Caesar fighting Spes, the goddess of hope. This makes Libby wonder if they stand a chance at winning the war if they are fighting against the goddess of hope. When Julia stabs Spes, she seems to change sides and tells the demigods to keep fighting. As the war rages on, Autumn gives Ray a kiss on the cheek. Hal kisses Heather. Then they go back into the fight.

Emily Stone fights Pakhet. Jackson finds Libby and asks her if she remembers the Cave of Fears and she asks if his parents are there. She tries to comfort him and make him feel better about it, but he doesn't think he can kill his parents like he is supposed to, even though he never knew them. Libby explains to him that everybody thought she couldn't do it either, be a leader or a hero, and here she is. She's doing it. Libby mentions that Mrs. Chi and Mr. Wilfred are their enemies and are fighting for Tartarus in the war. Jackson tells Libby she is a good friend and then he leaves. Libby goes over to the medical tent where Brandon Louis is in a coma caused by a cloud demon invented by Tartarus. Kathlyn Roper, the daughter of Asclepius who is taking care of the wounded, explains the situation to Libby. Libby then goes to use her healing powers on Brandon, but accidentally discovers a hidden power. She can go into dreams. She sees a vision of the founders of Camp Trinity banishing Tartarus with the Staff of Souls. Lucas Foyer and Mari Zampa decide to create Camp Trinity and Libby tells Brandon that they don't need the staff, but she has a better plan. Presently, Heather is with Jackson on top of the wall where Jordan Wesley and a few other demigods are attacking enemies from above. Anna Lucas and Hailey and Eugene Cassidy come to get Heather and Jackson, telling them that they can't hold the castle for long. They mention that Libby is missing. Heather, Jackson, Hailey, Eugene, Jordan and Anna go down into the secret passages and they find Jackson's parents, Robert and Marietta Stevens. They reveal that Marietta's mother is the daughter of Deimos, the god of fear, which means Jackson can manipulate fear as a descendant of Deimos. Marietta attempts to kill Jackson, who shoots and kills her. Robert attempts to kill Jackson as well, but Jackson cuts him with a poisoned dagger. Robert says he wishes Jackson had never been born, then dies. Jackson is upset about it and Heather tries to make him feel a bit better but Jackson is still depressed. They keep going through the tunnels, and then find Mr. Wilfred wandering about. He begins lying to them, saying he was taking a nap to get his energy back, since his power comes from sleep and dreams, but he attempts to lead them into a trap. Heather tells him that she knew he and Mrs. Chi were evil but didn't want to believe it. Anna blasts Mr. Wilfred out of the way and Hailey blinds him with sunlight. He summons a weapon to attempt to kill Heather, but Eugene shoots Wilfred with his bow and arrow and kills him. Hailey says that the enemy outnumbers them, and Eugene agrees that they've surely lost. Heather says that the war isn't over until she says that it is over.

Heather goes back up to the battlefield and sees Jackson fight Providentia. Brandon is back in the fight, meaning Libby was able to wake him up. The Voice of Prometheus warns Heather she is almost out of time. Heather runs into Tom Brewer, who has a gun and is killing monsters and he explains that he stole a plane to get to Greece just so he could find her and help her. They kill some karpoi and Heather has to head off without him. She passes by Libby, who is heading in the opposite direction of the fight, but she keeps going until she finds Hal. It doesn't happen like in her dream. Hal pushes Heather out of the way and when she gets up, she sees that her knife has been taken from her and is in Hal's chest. Autumn is trying to get Heather to stop trying to wake Hal up, but she won't. She remembers going on dates and dancing and loving him. Autumn tries to tell her that the reason the dream was different is because Heather killed every demon already. That doesn't change that he is dead. She keeps trying to pull Heather away and tells her that she knew it would come and she needs to try to keep going until the war is over, but Heather doesn't accept that. She asks Autumn how she would feel if she lost Ray, and says that whatever Autumn feels for Ray is nothing compared to what she feels for Hal. Then Hades arrives to bring Hal's soul to the Underworld, and Heather gets angry with him for letting his kid die. Her anger disappears and she begs him not to take Hal away. Hades isn't there for Hal's soul. He brings Hal back and then leaves, and Heather hugs him and then they make out. This makes Autumn think about how Heather would never care that much if she died. She protects Heather from monsters while she is taking care of Hal, turning into a massive cat to fight, but it takes up a lot of her strength and she passes out after. When she wakes up, she is at the ruins of her home and sees her father telling her that the war went badly and the house was destroyed because Tartarus killed them all. She imagines her father telling her he shouldn't have let her go and Autumn says she should have gone without telling him. Her parents are fighting in Greece alongside her sister.

Autumn has a vision of her own dying body with Heather trying to protect her, then Tartarus appears and almost stabs Heather in the back. Heather twists her shield and hits Tartarus in the side of the head, stopping him. Tartarus vanishes and Autumn remembers she has a healing potion from Zeldor that the queen gave her. She forces herself back into her body and reaches for the pouch where the potion is. Heather realizes what she is trying to tell her and she gives Autumn the potion, saving her from a deep cut in her stomach. Autumn then finds herself in a throne room in the Duat where Bast is waiting for her. Bast tells Autumn that she was summoned there by Autumn, which Autumn didn't mean to do. Autumn says that she needs Bast's help even though she wasn't raised to believe in Egyptian gods. She believed in one God. She believes in God over any of this. But she needs the Egyptian gods too. Bast wakes her up and Autumn gets up, Heather telling her that Eugene had told her that Mr. Crowe was back at the castle and Tartarus was on his way there. They head over and Tartarus is waiting for them. We switch to Libby's perspective and Libby remembers Heather teaching her to climb a tree and discussing how they need to face their fears. Another time, Heather told Libby about how during the nine months where they didn't see much of each other, before Meeka was born, she met a demigod daughter of Psyche who had refused to kill even if it cost her her life, which it did. Another time, Libby asked Heather how she could risk her life for Hal without a second thought, and she doesn't know how it feels to love someone. Heather explains to her that when you love someone, really love them, it doesn't matter if you look nice or what you act like, they love you for who you are. Present day, Libby rushes through the battlefield. Brandon is fighting Enyo and Troy is fighting Iaso. Sally is fighting Hathor and Hal is fighting Akhlys. Brandon and Troy get Opal for Libby and she is confused, but Brandon explains that the magic goggles Andy got from Zeldor that can create things was used to make a teleporter that got the boys to the stables in an instant, which was how they were able to get from the fight in seconds so they could get Opal ready. Brandon and Troy follow Libby to a temple, the ruins of a temple to Minerva. She goes in alone and talks to the gods, praying for their help, and then uses the horn from the queen of Zeldor to summon the gods.

Autumn goes to help Ray fight Seshat and Heather tries to find Hal, but instead she sees Artemis and her hunters and Joshua Rice. Mr. Rice is stabbed and killed, taking a god-killing knife wound for Artemis so she wouldn't die. As he dies, Sally unleashes the Love Force, a power she didn't know she had, and Heather feels excruciating pain like an amplified version of all her heartbreaks. Jackson tries to help her, as she is almost collapsing from the force of Sally's power, and Mr. Rice tries to tell Artemis that he loves her and that he knows she'll be a good mother to Meeka. He apologies to Sally for leaving her and he says he will go to Asphodel and won't see them again, and he says Meeka will be a great hero. He tries to tell his wife and daughter he loves them, but dies before he can finish. Heather tells Jackson to take care of Artemis and Sally, which he does, as she heads back to the castle. It is a disaster there and the castle has been taken by the enemy. The demigods are off to the side of the castle, saying that they lost the castle and they're going to lose the war. Heather says that they can't just sit there and let the castle be taken because there are weapons, food, captured enemies and the passages that lead all over the battlefield there, and cannons. Hailey, Anna, Eugene and Jordan go into the castle with Heather to try and take it back. Tartarus appears to fight them and Anna summons a hippopotamus, but Tartarus vaporizes it. Heather goes to fight Tartarus off, keep him from killing her friends as he knocks Anna against the wall, but she knows that unless Autumn and Libby show up, she can't kill him because all three of them have to be there, working together. Tartarus mentions that Heather has powers over the air and he thinks that would be a fun way to kill her, and then suddenly they are out on the battlefield by the gallows, and she notices her charm bracelet is gone. Tartarus tells the demigods who are in the crowd beyond the monsters that if they don't join him, they will die like Heather, and then Heather begins untying the knots. As she is being hung, her powers are gone, but she is able to untie her hands and free herself. Hal stabs Tartarus with his sword, making him disappear long enough to give Heather time to recover. Heather realizes that it is December 17th, the day that the war is going to end, one way or the other.

They get back to the castle. They see enemies taking furniture and weapons, and eating their food. Heather kills an enemy demigod who is eating a cupcake of hers. Heather heads into the hedge maze outside, meeting a strange otter-like creature, and then going to a water fountain. She sees her bloody and broken reflection, then the reflection of Iris. She talks to Iris, who says that she has been watching Heather since the beginning and that Heather has changed. She is no longer as aggressive and determined to fight. Iris thought that Heather would be on Tartarus's side. Iris is angry when Heather says Zeus isn't much of a father to her, and Iris says that Zeus is proud of her and Heather says that she doesn't need Zeus because he wasn't there, and Iris says that Heather does need her. She reminds Heather that she froze a chunk of fire when she was showing her mortal friends that she is the daughter of Zeus, and tells her to unleash it with Greek fire to take back the castle. Heather reluctantly agrees as Iris says who she is for the first time, and then she gets out of the maze, mentioning it is about dinner time and that it has been a long time since she ate--since breakfast, presumably. Heather uses her telekinesis to send the flame into the enemy's crowd. She melts the ice and the monsters are blown apart. She throws a vial of Greek fire and it is suddenly everywhere. Iris has returned her charm bracelet to her and Heather puts it back on, taking her sword out. She uses her telekinesis to free her captive friends from their bonds and they grab any weapons that they can--kitchen utensils and pieces of furniture. The demigods fight with the wooden spoons and sporks and the fruit bowls, Heather has her sword. A mortal boy, Lielyl, attacks her and nearly breaks her arm that is barely healed from Dainë in Zeldor. Heather says she isn't the leader of Camp Trinity, but will be the one to kill Tartarus. She fights Lielyl, who is actually a decent fighter, and three of his teammates come after Heather. Autumn joins in the fight and the two work together, passing Heather's shield to each other to best fight Lielyl as well as using their swords and knives. Autumn slits his throat and Heather says that mortals should stay out of demigod business. Autumn mentions having met him once, and that she dreamed about him being evil. Autumn asks if they are going to fight Tartarus now, but Heather says it is almost time. She says they're going to do it together, just like they always have. Autumn agrees, but they have to find Libby first. They go to take back the castle and Autumn and Heather lead the forces.

They go in and the armies of Zeldor join them, King Jacob and Queen Eliza and their scribe, Lucinda, fighting. Tom also fights alongside them, but Heather tells him to go home, and he says no. Harvey shows up and is wearing boxer shorts, insisting that most satyrs walk around naked so he is being decent. Harvey kills King Jacob with his spear and then goes after Jordan, but Tom shoots and kills him. After they got the castle back, the campers take turns having breaks to get a few hours of sleep. Heather dreams of Dainë, who seems happy, and they are in New York in Heather's bedroom. Dainë says he went into Libby's dreams, since Libby can manipulate dreams, and convinced her to connect her to Heather so she could talk to her. Dainë tells Heather that she and Harvey had a baby together, a little boy who is likely still with her father, Thanatos. She asks Heather to find their baby and protect him, bring him to camp, and Heather says she doesn't know how to find him, and Dainë tells her she doesn't know where her son is, but if Heather can't find him, just please don't be the one to kill him. Heather agrees to try and apologizes for getting her killed, but Dainë isn't angry with her. She tells ehr the baby's name is Napoleon Brooks, and that he has some of the powers of Thanatos. Dainë tells Heather that the gods are on their way, then Heather wakes up. The Greek, Roman and Egyptian gods arrive to help fight and Autumn notices Zeus, Bast, Horus, Osiris, Isis and Set are all there. Autumn tells the demigod armies and the god armies to fight together, not just with the Egyptians following her, the Romans following Libby and the Greeks following Heather. She tells them that Heather is the leader, not just of the Greeks, but of everyone, and Heather is surprised by this. Ray asks Autumn to forgive him and then Libby starts screaming as she is blasted by Tartarus's energy. It should have killed her, but didn't because of her healing power. She is healing herself, and Autumn tells Heather that she has a plan that might work, but might not. Heather says that they have no time and will have to just try. Autumn takes out a container of cream and says that it might kill Tartarus if he absorbs it, and Heather says it might be their only chance. Libby suggests they leave, but Heather says they can't walk away. They have to finish now.

Hal, Heather, Jackson, Libby, Autumn, and Andy hold hands so Hal can teleport all of them into Tartarus's palace and then they appear in the dark castle. Tartarus is there, knocking Andy, Jackson and Hal aside when they attempt to fight. Hal is able to get a stab in, but it does nothing against the god of the pit. Autumn uses the poisoned cream, but Tartarus survives it. He drops the girls through the floor into complete darkness and Autumn tries to find Heather and Libby, but can't. When she finds Heather, Heather tells her that she hates her and Ray doesn't like her and that Ray and Heather have been a couple this whole time. Autumn cuts through the hallucination and then finds the real Heather and Libby, who appear to have gone through something similar, but Autumn gets an idea. She gives Heather her paw print necklace and Libby her orange Camp Trinity jacket. Tartarus laughs it off, but Autumn says she is leaving and to attack Tartarus near his stomach. She says she knows how they can defeat him and Heather argues that they can't defeat Tartarus without her, but Autumn climbs into a catapult and uses magic to launch herself towards Tartarus. His mouth grows massively, consuming her, and she glows golden, then turns to shadows. She appears in his stomach, surrounded by strangers. Eugene Cassidy is there, having been consumed by Tartarus. They are in his pit, though not actually in Tartarus. Autumn uses her magic to protect the campers who are mostly in shock from what happened. Autumn finds a sword, strapping a little bomb from her pocket to it, and she explodes the bomb, shattering the blade. We switch to Libby's perspective and she remembers Johan, the centaur who had brought her to camp, being at the fight. She sent him to protect Hailey Cassidy after Khione killed Eugene, but Hailey killed Khione. She remembers seeing Heather tell her that she wasn't a hero, that she is nothing and should go home to her daddy. Autumn told her that nobody needed her. Libby destroyed the fake Autumn and Heather by summoning all of the pottery and clay shards from the earth fly through them.

Now in Heather's perspective, she remembers that while Libby was healing herself, she had gone off to fight Mrs. Chi. She had nearly been killed by the lady with the ninja skills and chopstick blades, but then Zeus electrocuted Mrs. Chi and Heather was able to release toxic gas and kill her. She and Jackson put a magic border around the castle to prevent mortals--other than the ones on their side--from finding the fight. She notices all of their friends, still fighting, including Mr. Crowe, who has been absent the rest of the fight. Heather hears Autumn saying that she is a terrible person and that she is worthless, but Heather lights her on fire. There is a break in the chapter where it shifts to show the boys upstairs, Hal waking up. He checks on Jackson, who, like Andy, is almost unconscious, but Tartarus's voice speaks to them even though he isn't there. He tells them that he is not going to kill the three of them and says he has to deal with the girls, but they aren't his problem because they will play a role in the destruction of the earth and the Duat. He calls them Guardians, a term not explained in the series at this point. Hal accuses him of planning to destroy Egypt as well as Greece, but Tartarus denies this and says that someone else cares about Egypt and he does not, but he says that if the boys live long enough to meet "him" then they will regret it. He then disappears, and the break ends and we go back to Heather's perspective, directly following Tartarus absorbing her. Tartarus blinds Heather because he thinks that it is an exciting fight that way, and Libby poisons Tartarus with the last of the poisoned cream, but Tartarus is still too strong. He teleports them to Camp Trinity, the temple to the Greek gods, and Heather can see again. Tartarus says here, he can absorb the power of every Greek god ever to exist, even those who died already. The altar begins to slowly turn black and he says once it has, he will be unstoppable and have every god's power, including Zeus's.

Heather summons a storm, bigger than any storm she has ever created, fueled by her rage and pain. She shoots lightning through the roof of the temple and electrocutes Tartarus as it pours rain and thunder roars. Tartarus doesn't have his immortal powers of healing because the poison is still in his system, so when she cuts off his arm, it stays gone. Tartarus has a sword too and almost decapitates her. Heather uses her powers mixed with her karate training. Libby stabs Tartarus with a god killing knife, but he does not die. Heather wields a lightning bolt like a sword and fights Tartarus, and he fights back, cutting the bolt in half with his sword, though weakens himself by electrocution. Tartarus nearly kills Heather with his sword, but she is able to keep going and uses plasma grenades to break his ribs and knock him backwards. She pulls the knife from his back with her telekinesis and jabs it back in. He shoots a shadow gun that he created with his mind, but she uses a force-field to keep from being hit. Tartarus uses his dark energy to push Heather back and says that he has waited centuries to kill her, since Vanessa Carson, the daughter of Hypnos from The First Generation gave the prophecy that the three girls would kill him. The storm starts fading and Tartarus mocks Heather losing her powers, and he is able to take her down, breaking her knee. Then Libby freezes time long enough for Heather to knock him backwards with a sheet of ice and then punch him in the face. She had been faking weakness so he would get cocky. She attacks again, using everything she has, then creates a sonic boom that shakes the earth. Lightning repeatedly strikes and then Autumn's bomb goes off and Heather stabs him in the heart. He collapses into ash and dies, and Libby tries to take care of Heather, who is hearing all of the voices of the people Tartarus consumed, including Autumn. Then suddenly Autumn is there, and everybody else Tartarus consumed. Autumn goes to Heather and Libby. Libby heals Heather's broken knee and wrist. Heather notices that the altar is not black, but back to normal, as Tartarus is dead.

The girls go back to the castle and find that their friends made it out alive. Eugene was brought back from Tartarus when Autumn blew him up from inside. Heather thinks Ray was going to kiss Autumn, but her parents are there, so he doesn't. Heather's parents show up at the camp borders to make sure she's okay when she doesn't come home, and she realizes that they do love her even if she does have a bizarre life. Later, they go to the camp's graveyard where they buried all the dead, including those who are considered their enemies such as Harvey, Lielyl, Wilfred and Chi. Mr. Rice was buried at the camp and had left Mr. Crowe his will, making sure that Sally would get his home and that she, Artemis and Meeka would be taken care of. Heather lets Tom into the camp, the only time he can ever enter the premises, so he can see Dainë's grave. She tells him about her son and says she wants to find him, but doesn't even know if he's alive. A few days after the war, the camp throws a massive party to celebrate the victory. Heather and Autumn make cupcakes and Hal and Jackson's secret band plays music, and Heather sings a song with them. Afterwards, Heather talks to Artemis, who tells her that she isn't angry that Heather was one of the ones who was responsible for the creation of the knives that killed Mr. Rice. Heather tries to make her feel better, be doesn't know how to. There is a switch to Autumn's perspective, though within Heather's chapter, and Autumn and Libby are talking about Andy not coming to the party. Autumn goes to where Brandon and Ray are arguing about the difference between soccer and football and football and rugby. Autumn interrupts them and Ray goes and dance with her. Autumn asks Ray not to get into fights with Brandon, to be the bigger person, because Brandon is dating her sister. Ray starts talking about how a lot of their friends are in relationships but don't kiss, including him and Autumn never having kissed, but Autumn tells him they should just have fun, and so they go dance.

The perspective switches back to Heather, who is talking to Libby, who is still moping. Then, Shattered by Trading Yesterday begins playing, thanks to Hal, and the two of them dance together like they did two years before when they met. Then there is a switch to Libby's perspective when Andy finally shows up and says he didn't mean to stand her up for their date but was trying to find a necklace he got for her that has her name on it. Andy and Libby then kiss and she forgives him. The perspective is switched back to Heather as she and Hal go for a walk on the beach. They talk about Hal dying and how they love each other. Then they go up to a cliff to watch the fireworks together. Autumn and Ray, Libby and Andy, Julia and Jackson, Sally and Troy, and Emily and Brandon are there as well. In the epilogue, narrated by Autumn, she explains how when she came back from Tartarus, Heather had to give her the last of her healing potion to keep her from dying. After the war, Ray gave her roses and a cookbook, but stomped on the flowers and told him to leave her alone because he is always flirting with other girls. Heather tells Autumn that Ray means well, and Autumn gets annoyed because she almost died and Ray wasn't there. Later, at the dance, Ray brings her a rose and she is willing to try, so they go for a walk afterwards with Heather, Hal, Libby and Andy. Andy gives Libby a necklace. Heather and Hal share chocolates in the shape of hearts. Ray brings Autumn to the river and they stand on the bridge and they finally share their first kiss.

**Narrated by**

Heather Green (Jo Grayson)

Autumn Stone (Eryn Kosinski)

Libby Rogers (Jo Grayson and Eryn Kosinski)

**Trivia**

* There are 45,431 words in this book.
* This book concludes the first series.
* This book took the most time to write out of any of the five books in the series.