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A thunderstorm starts, turning Leo, Piper, and everyone else Midas froze back into humans. Midas then goes after Jason, and Jason uses all the gold in the house as a good conductor of electricity and tears the ceiling off. Jason decides to fight Lit and eventually tricks Midas into touching him, turning him into gold. Midas talks about how Lityerses and him had fought off Artemis' Hunters when they arrived.
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He gives Jason a choice: be turned into a gold statue for his collection, or fight Lityerses and die. Midas then reveals he is working for Gaea and turns Leo and Piper into gold. He also adds that he had turned his daughter into gold, but she was so annoying he just kept her that way. Midas admits that he would sometimes pat his son Lit on the back accidentally, but he always has the river to rinse it off. Midas touches Piper's backpack, turning it into flexible gold, proving he still has the magic touch. Midas tells them that he never learned his lesson after he touched his daughter, turning her into solid gold, and laughs at the claim. When Piper McLean, Leo Valdez, and Jason Grace crash into his mansion, he is polite. Midas is one of the dead brought back to life by the opening of the Doors of Death, appearing in a river front mansion in Omaha, Nebraska. Percy Jackson mentions King Midas, saying Rachel Elizabeth Dare looked like he touched her while she was covered in gold paint when raising for charity. Percy Jackson and the Olympians The Battle of the Labyrinth Some sources say his cause of death was drinking the blood of an ox. A thick bed of reeds grew from the meadows, and told the story. One day the barber could not hold his promise, dug a hole, whispered the secret and covered the hole again. His barber was the only mortal who knew and he swore not to tell. He was the only one who voted Pan and Apollo cursed Midas with the ears of a donkey. Later he helped judge a music competition between Pan's pipes and Apollo's lyre. Midas had a son named Lityerses and a daughter named Zoe.
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The king went to the indicated waters then, the gold was washed at last from his body into the flood, coloring the waves with a faint yellow hue. Dionysus then restored the king, who was admitting his wrong, and released the gift he had given by promise. And so he raised his hands to the sky and, extending his glittering arms. No amount of riches could sate his hunger and dry thirst scorched his throat, and he was tormented by the detested gold. Surprised by the strangeness of the misfortune, he, wealthy and yet unhappy, wished to flee his wealth and hated what desired just before. However, when he touched the bread with his right hand, it hardened, and when he tried to drink his wine mixed with water, it seemed that liquid gold were pouring into his mouth. Later he attended a feast, where his servants placed the banquet-tables before him heaped with dishes. Even when he washed his hands with water, the water flowing from his palms became gold. He held an apple plucked from a tree, and it was as if the Hesperides had given it to him, and when he placed his fingers upon the tall pillars of his palace, they too gleamed goldenly. He tested the truth of the promise by touching things, and hardly believed his eyes when it was not a greening twig he plucked from a lofty oak, but one that had been made golden he lifted a stone from the earth, and the stone paled also with gold he touched the soil, and the soil became heavy at his potent touch. The king left happily and rejoiced in this evil. Dionysus agreed and granted him the gift, which would only harm him, and was pained that the king had not chosen better. The king, however, who would come to regret his decision. Dionysus, rejoicing to be again with Silenus, gave Midas the choice of a gift.
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When at last the lofty array of stars had been driven across the sky for the eleventh time, the happy king went to the Lydian fields and returned the him to the god. King Midas immediately recognized him to be a friend of Dionysus, and so, upon the arrival of the guest, he held a celebration for ten days and nights. Once, Silenus, Dionysus' drunken companion, stumbled upon his kingdom.