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The Tyrant's Tomb

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A Guide to the Trials of Apollo series by Rick Riordan

The story starts off with Apollo and Meg taking Jason's body to Camp Jupiter. On their way to Camp Jupiter, they are attacked by eurynomos, but a girl with pink hair arrives with dryads and a faun and kills the Eurynomous. She then introduces herself as Lavinia and says she will take them to Camp Jupiter. After that, all the dryads and fauns start to leave. But as the last faun, Don, tries to leave, Lavinia spots him and says that he will not leave because he owes her. They carry Jason's tomb to the tunnel where Lavinia knows a shortcut to Camp Jupiter.
Suddenly, Hazel as well as two more euronymous come. They enter the tunnel, while Hazel tries to kill the euronymous. Apollo tries to sing a song to help Hazel, but is scratched in the belly by a Eurynomous, before Hazel kills it. Due to him being scratched, Apollo starts to turn into a Corpse. Hazel sees Jason's coffin and is terrified because she had a dream about Jason being killed by Emperor Caligula.
After that, the five carry Jason's tomb and arrive in Camp Jupiter where they are greeted by Frank Zhang and Reyna Ramirez-Arellano while everyone watches Jason's coffin being carried. Apollo sings a song about his quest and everyone is touched. They all decide that they will carry on with Jason's plan to build temples to honor the gods.
Apollo then faints and has a dream about Caligula and Commodus discussing their plan about either taking Camp Jupiter without conflict, or destroying it using Greek fire explosions by mortars on Caligula's yachts. Apollo finds himself in a bed where Meg explains that he had been asleep for about a day and a half.
There is a funeral for Jason, where Lupa comes and tells Apollo to get divine help to defeat their enemies. Apollo and Frank go to Ella and Tyson, who were busy recreating the Sibylline Books. They get a prophecy regarding Tarquin's tomb, as they found out about it in the previous prophecy.They later go to the senator where they select him, Meg, Lavinia and Hazel to go to for a mission to find more about the final king of Rome, Tarquin, who has returned.
After they find out about the old ghost King and his plans, they become worried for the camp. They also find that Tarquin has kept the soundless god at Sutro Tower. After they return, they realize that to solve communication issues and get divine help, they need to destroy the soundless god. So a quest is issued for Apollo, Meg and Reyna to go to Sutro Tower. At the tower, they realize that the silent god is Harpocrates, who had troubles with Apollo. Harpocrates also has a jar containing the voice of the Sibyl of Cumae. With some difficulty, they manage to get the last breath of Harpocrates, along with Sibyl's Jar, which they need to obtain to be able to get divine help.
As they return, they are ambushed by an euronymous again where they are helped by Lavinia and her friends, who had escaped from the Camp earlier. Reyna and Lavinia issue "Plan L" to defeat the yachts that Apollo saw in his dream. After Apollo and Meg return, they see the camp in the midst of a war. Apollo calls Diana for divine help on Temple Hill. Frank sacrifices himself killing Caligula along the way to save the other legionnaires. Apollo later kills Commodus in the grief of losing Frank. The yachts are destroyed.
Meanwhile, Tarquin had reached the bookshop where the books were being re-written. Meg and Hazel fight Tarquin. Diana finally arrives, she kills Tarquin, and heals Apollo just in time. Reyna and Lavinia, along with Peaches, return. Arion rescues Frank who mysteriously survives death and Reyna Ramirez-Arellano pledges herself to the goddess Diana and joins the Hunters of Artemis. Dakota, son of Bacchus, passes away overnight due to wounds that he got in battle. He was the longtime Centurion of the Fifth Cohort. Don the faun also dies. He gets reincarnated into a laurel tree, Apollo's tree of victory. Hazel is voted as the new Praetor of Camp Jupiter and Lavinia is voted as Centurion of the Fifth Cohort.
Apollo receives his old Godly Bow as a gift from Camp Jupiter, Meg receives seeds and they set off to New York after receiving the last and final prophecy from Ella and Tyson, which they realize is a terza rima, and discover that they have to find more stanzas in the East. They go in hopes to once again be reunited with their old friends from Camp Half-Blood.