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⋆ 𝐝𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐲 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐞𝐧 ⋆

"Yeah," Percy said bitterly. "You can never trust a Cyclops."

Annabeth stared across the water. "I'm sorry, Percy. I was wrong about Tyson, okay? I wish I could tell him that."

"Oh, so now you are sorry," Y/N murmured. Like most of the time, Y/N said that expecting no one to hear her, but unfortunately they did. She ignored them though and they changed their conversation.

"Annabeth, what's Chiron's prophecy?" Percy asked.

She pursed her lips. "Percy, I shouldn't..."

"I know Chiron promised the gods he wouldn't tell me. But you didn't promise, did you?"

"Knowledge isn't always good for you."

"Your mom is the wisdom goddess!"

"She means another kind of knowledge, Kelp Head," Y/N snapped.

Annabeth then said, "Every time heroes learn the future, they try to change it, and it never works."

"The gods are worried about something I'll do when I get older... Something when I turn sixteen."

Daniel closed his eyes and faked pity, "Why is it always at sixteen?" He breathed.

Annabeth nudged Daniel and then twisted her Yankees cap in her hands. "Percy, I don't know the full prophecy, but it warns about a half-blood child of the Big Three: the next one who lives to the age of sixteen. That's the real reason Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades swore a pact after World War II not to have any more kids. The next child of the Big Three who reaches sixteen will be a dangerous weapon."

"Why?"

"Because that hero will decide the fate of Olympus. He or she will make a decision that either saves the Age of the Gods... Or destroys it."

"So... That's why Kronos didn't kill him last summer." Y/N guessed.

Annabeth nodded. "Percy could be very useful to him. If he can get him on his side, the gods will be in serious trouble."

"But if it's me in the prophecy..."

"We'll only know that if you survive three more years. That can be a long time for a half-blood. When Chiron first learned about Thalia, he assumed she was the one in the prophecy. That's why he was so desperate to get her safely to camp. Then she went down fighting and got turned into a pine tree and none of us knew what to think. Until you came along."

"This kid in the prophecy... He or she couldn't be like a Cyclops?" Percy asked.

"Why?" Y/N inquired. "You want to sacrifice another sibling of yours?" She rudely asked.

"The Big Three have lots of monster children," Annabeth interrupted, "The Oracle said "half-blood". That always means half human, half god. There's really no one alive who it could be, except you."

"Then why do the gods even let me live? It would be safer to kill me."

"And they better do it quickly," Y/N suggested.

"I thought you said you didn't hate me," Percy said.

"Well, I'm starting to do it now," the girl said.

"Thanks a lot."

"Percy," Annabeth interfered again, "I don't know. I guess some of the gods would like to kill you, but they're probably afraid of offending Poseidon. Other gods... Maybe they're still watching you, trying to decide what kind of hero you're going to be. You could be a weapon for their survival, after all. The real question is... What will you do in three years? What decision will you make?"