of Chiron. He teaches fighting. Kampê – A snake-haired winged centauroid creature who is half-woman, half-dragon with the heads of various animals growing from her torso. She who imprisoned the Hundred-Handed Ones and Cyclopes during the First Great War. She is feared by all, and is defeated by Briares in The Battle of the Labyrinth by being crushed by boulders. Her scimitars are taken by Camp Half-Blood and stored in the attic as spoils of war as seen in The Last Olympian. Kerkopes – Two brothers who are the children of Oceanus and Theia. They worked as thieves until they were caught by Hercules and turned into monkeys by Zeus. In The House of Hades, the Kerkopes have set up shop in Balogna, Italy. When the Argo II docks there, the Kerkopes attacked the ship and robbed it, taking things like an Archimedes Sphere and Piper McLean's dagger Katoptris. Leo Valdez and Jason chase them and at the Fountain of Neptune, they incapacitated Jason by trapping him in a net. Leo chases them to their hideout and defeats them with a home-made flash-bang grenade. He then got their possessions back and agreed not to kill Passalos and Akmon on the condition that they go to America and disrupt the Romans to slow down their attack on Camp Half-Blood. Later, in a dream, it is shown that they are being very successful in this goal. As part of the deal, Leo retrieves an almanac belonging to Triptolemus from their treasure, and takes a bronze astrolabe that the Kerkopes had stolen from Odysseus when he was an old man which proves to be vital in Leo's quest to return to Ogygia and rescue Calypso. Khromandae - Large, grey-eyed humanoids covered in blonde hair. Khromandae were discovered during Dionysus's invasion of India and communicate via ear-splitting shrieks. They were part of Tarquin's, Caligula's, and Commodus's army that attacked Camp Jupiter in The Tyrant's Tomb. Lamia – The daughter of Hecate who was one of the former love interests of Zeus until Hera turned her into a monster after the death of her children. In The Demigod Diaries story entitled "Son of Magic", Lamia is revived by Gaia to kill Hecate's son Alabaster Torrington. Alabaster manages to defeat Lamia until Hecate arrives to save both her children. According to Hecate, Lamia won't try attacking Alabaster again, knowing he could use that spell against her.