Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Eagle's Path || a PJO/AC Crossover

Chapter 19: The Next Day

Piper POV:
I was exhausted, tired, and scared. Exhausted because I woke up early, tired because I woke up in the middle of the night, and scared because A: the dream of meeting an Assassin, Connor Kenway, and B: because of what I was going to reveal what I saw through the vision of Katoptris. I just wished the thing would not work anymore, ever since the Second Giant War ended a couple months ago, and it stopped working. It was unexpected of what I saw; I barely saw anything monster related, only people. White apparitions, shaped as people, but no facial features seen. More was unexpected to see, some of them involving places to see, all of them involving weaponry, war, and death. I just went back to sleep after waking up from the dream, luckily with no more dreams or seeing Connor again, unluckily without getting up too exhausted. I felt like wanting to sleep in, but we all spoke that we would continue the meeting about the quest. So I got out of bed, put on a pair of saggy blue bleached jeans, an orange Camp Half-Blood t-shirt and a denim button up shirt, along with my red converse. I went into my bathroom, went to the sink and let cold water run in through the faucet, and cupped a handful of icy cold water and threw it into my face, letting the coldness wake me up. While in the bathroom, I looked into the mirror, And for some reason without thought I was moving my hands around my choppy brown hair, before I stopped, and stuck my tongue out at the Aphrodite inside of me. "Why'd you stop sweetie"? I heard a voice in my head. Mom.
"Because it makes me look stupid".
"No it doesn't, it makes you look pretty".
"Get out of my head mom"!
"Awwww. Okay honey, bye", and with that, my mom finally got out of my head.
Walking out of my cabin room, I walked into the kitchen, where everybody was sitting, except for Percy and Annabeth. Everyone was wearing their pyjamas, and hoodies, and practically everybody had an sign of exhaustion on their face. Even Jason and Thalia. Jason's eyes were begin to shut but luckily he opened them up quick before falling asleep at the table, while Thalia put her head down, her forehead touching the edge of the table, and I swear she was probably sleeping by now. I sat down beside Jason and he stretched his arms up, yawning, and put an arm around me. "Good morning Pipes" he said to me, I looked up at the tired electric blue eyes he had, smiled, and replied "well good morning to you too".
"Did you sleep well"? He asked.
"A little". I rubbed my eyes, trying to keep myself awake at this time, but based on how everyone was, and I'm no child of Athena, but we'd ALL wish wend brought a comfortable throw pillow with us. "Oh, why"? I picked up my goblet, and suddenly tropical pineapple juice appeared in it (A/N: I'm guessing she'd drink pineapple juice since her dad's a movie star celebrity, lives someplace warm, and she'd want something good to drink after surfing). I took a sip, put the goblet down, and replied to say "because I had nightmares last night. Nothing out the ordinary really". He looked at me with a questionary face, like as though I put on makeup. "You too"? I gave him the same expression, but I wasn't the only one, as I spotted the corner of my eye, Thalia, Frank, and Hazel looking at us, all of us having the same face of confusion. "Uh..... Yeah? Why"?.
"Because... Apparently I had one too".
"Wait! What"?!
"You two aren't the only ones" Thalia spoke in. "I've been having them too".
"Don't forget me and Frank" Hazel came into the conversation.
"Don't forget about Captain Leo" Leo came in, "I had them too".
Okay, this. Is. Weird. Why did ALL of us have nightmares, on the SAME NIGHT? "Hold on... Raise your hand if you've all had dreams about the Assassins" Jason said, and unexpectedly, all of us, Jason, Thalia, Frank, Leo, and I raised our hands at once. "Wha... H-how"? Thalia confusingly asked. We lowered our hands, and looked around at each other. Just then, Percy and Annabeth came in, holding plates of stacked pancakes, sausages, bacon, and scrambled eggs. The stranger thing was, the pancakes and eggs, were tinted blue. Might as well want to make a sequel to Dr. Seuss' 'Green Eggs & Ham', to 'Blue Eggs & Pancakes'. "Breakfast is in the house" Percy said, as he set the breakfast down on the table, unaware of what we were just talking about, and Annabeth placed a plastic cup of knives, forks, and spoons. "Well, luckily for us, Seaweed Brain here didn't burn the pancakes or accidentally poison them" she said, "Percy's mom gave the recipe to make blue food, so dig in". Aside from the sudden conversation we had just a while ago, I felt like some good morning breakfast would help call our nerves. Poking at the plate of blue pancakes, I asked "you sure that Percy didn't accidentally poison them"? Annabeth sat down next to Percy and chuckled to my comment and replied "don't worry Pipes, I checked them, they're fine". She grabbed a goblet and it filled with water. "Why are you worried about poison in the food? What's gotten you down"?
Looking down at my food and back at Annabeth, trying to concentrate at either picking at the food or the topic, so I decided to focus on the topic about the dreams we had. "Well... It's about last night, something that happened to all of us. Some dreams about-". "Assassins"? Annabeth finished, I went wide eyed at the last part as I stared at her. "You too"?! Annabeth looked around at all of us. "So... ALL of us had dreams about Assassins", we all nodded in agreement, all except Percy. He just poked his fork at his blue pancakes, which was odd because Annabeth told me about how the guy likes, No, LOVES blue food, mostly pancakes... Strange. "But, why did we all experience them"? Hazel asked, and Annabeth replied "it is not clear, but maybe as a message to us. In my dream, an assassin, Altair, told me about what will happen along the way, that where we're going is dangerous. I fear it's like we'd have lots of forks in the path, one is good, the others are fatal to us, so we would have to choose wisely. Anyone else was told that"? Everybody nodded in agreement, Hazel, Frank, Jason, Leo, and even the hunter Thalia. "Alright, but what else did we see or was told"? Thalia asked, and Hazel raised her hand, "while I dreamt last night, I met an Assassin, named Arno Dorian, he told me of how I was descended by a Templar who my mom was named after, Marie Levesque. Annabeth, do you recall a name like that"? Annabeth raised a brow at the name, and replied saying "there were two Marie Levesques in history, one was your mom, the other, well this will sound weird but the first one was born in the eighteenth century in France during the French Revolution. She was a hoarder of wheat, grains, and food from the poor to allow to be served for the rich and powerful. There were conspiracy theories about how she was brought up by a secret organization, possibly Templars, but that all changed when she died in 1792 of October 31st and-". "So she died two-hundred-something years ago before Halloween"? Leo jokingly asked. Annabeth facepalmed herself and said "yes! ANYWAYS, she died of an unusual death, some say it was of natural causes, but most believe it was an assassination based on research by the authorities". "Since when did you learn about that"? Frank asked. "There are a whole bunch of conspiracy theorists out there, some are very smart, and others are no smarter than a Tyrannosaurus Rex (A/N: because surprisingly their brains are literally the size of a walnut if you didn't know). But my mother leaves books about many historical locations, newspapers, and even old police documents in the Athena cabin's archives. Once in a while we like to read them to learn something that not even mortals could know". "Cool" Frank could responded. "So my ancestor really could've been a Templar"? Hazel asked. Annabeth replied "maybe, but what else did Arno say"? Hazel reached into her jeans' pocket, and pulled out a circular metallic object. There were faint engravings on the front with a Victorian look. "In the dream, Arno gave me this; his pocket watch and told me to give this to a woman he loved, Elise De Laserre. And when I woke up, it was sitting there on my nightstand". Annabeth had sat and thought for a second, until she spoke and said "well if I'm correct, we should take our course towards Paris first, where Marie Levesque was killed, and was the beginning of the French Revolution. If I'm correct, that's where we'll find Elise, but let us prioritize the prophecy first; Half-Bloods and Mortals will unite and prevail".
"All to follow the Assassin's trail" I said.
"Hunters and Assassins will unite in peace" Leo said.
"The war and battle put aside to cease" Hazel said.
"All shall lead their travel past the land of gods" Frank said.
"And shall retrieve what was lost, at all odds" Percy said.
"One will be lost in the betrayal of family" Jason said.
"Mortals, Half-Bloods, and Hunters shall live in harmony" Thalia finally said last.
What did all of that mean? I knew some of it had to do with what I saw in Katoptris, but it really wasn't good. "Should all of us be scared of the part where it says 'one will be lost in the betrayal of family' part"? Leo asked. The room went silent.
"Well I do not think it has anything to do with gods this time, so it can't have anything to do with any of the Olympians. And the only other people who are related to each other are..." We all now looked between Jason and Thalia, for a few seconds until they realized what that meant. "I-impossible" Thalia exclaimed, "I would never betray my family, especially to Jason. Never"! "And Thalia's my big sister, I would never do anything to betray her"! Jason said.
"Don't worry guys" I said, "prophecies can sometimes have double meanings. So there's a good chance that Jason or Thalia aren't the ones mentioned in the prophecy right? RIGHT"?!?! Jason gave a friendly smile towards me, and said "thanks for helping us feel better Pipes", and he gave me a kiss on the cheek. "But we're just too afraid that we're the ones involved in that part". "Well don't believe in that part, like Piper said, they can have double meanings so don't worry. However, for the rest of the prophecy, I can't understand. Does anyone else might know what the rest of the prophecy might mean"? Nobody spoke or raised a hand. "Okay then" Annabeth continued, "Piper, what did Katoptris show you"?
I was afraid of this part, my heart was beating faster by the second, and I felt like my hands were beginning to sweat. What was I supposed to tell them, some things weren't meant to be revealed, not even by my knife. But I was supposed to reveal what was gonna happen, just like all the bad moments during the second Giant War. "What I saw in the knife doesn't make that much sense" I began. "a few things I saw were abortions of ghostly figures. I couldn't make out their faces, but they all looked different from one another, and they were standing with a shadow of someone else. I also saw an old temple, it was really deserted and ancient, but not by Olympian standards. I also saw some sort of room that looked like a prison cell, a few beds, a bathroom, and a mirror,
But what really scared me, is that we're ALL in that same room, with a few other people I don't recognize. The last part showed a figure in dark robes by some temple ruins, on his head is a ram's skull hiding his face, and the only thing I could make out is that he had two different eye colours, one is blue, the other is orange. And in his hands was a golden bow, Artemis' golden bow covered in blood". Now everybody was staring at me like I've actually put on makeup. "And that was it"? Annabeth asked, and I replied with a nod.
"So let me get this straight; we've got a few ghosts to kick butt, a temple to go to, we possibly get arrested, and we have to kick some goat-skull-headed, blue and orange eyed Guy's butt. Did I get all of that"? Leo asked. Annabeth nodded in agreement, "none of this makes sense" Frank exclaimed, "what does all of this have to do with Artemis, to the gods, or anything to do with a golden bow"?
"With the blood on the bow, I remember that there are a few ancient rituals where some powerful objects can be used as a sacrificial object, sometimes to be activated with a blood sacrifice. And maybe the temple has something to do with it, so it could be either used to raise something, but also as a key to something.
We can't tell what the other things mean, unless we find clues to the prophecy, and possibly Elise can tell us. Can we all agree to that"? We nodded and said 'yes' in agreement. All except Percy who kept staring at his blue pancakes in an expression of depression. Annabeth had caught my eye towards Percy. "Percy, are you okay"? No response. "Percy"! He got Annabeth's attention, looked at her, and asked "yeah"? "Percy, is there something wrong"? He shook his head and replied "no". "Percy, if there's something wrong, tell me". Percy just sat there, looked back down at his pancakes and sighed. "Guys... I-I have something to confess", he stood up in a commanding posture, and tilted his head up to speak. "Percy, what is it"? Annabeth asked, and he once again sighed. "Guys, I..." We were all at the edge of our seats. "I'm an A-". An alarm suddenly went off? Cutting Percy off from what he was about to say. A couple of us covered our ears to the loud alarm blaring in our ears. Leo was very worried, as he grabbed a miniature touch-screen tablet and looked on it. As far as I know, Leo said his dad hooked the ship's radar onto a tablet, and please don't let it be what I think it is. "Guys, we're under attack"! Leo yelled, and put the tablet back down. Yep, it's what I thought. We all got up from our seats and ran towards the emergency armoury. "EVERYONE GRAB YOUR ARMOUR"!!! Annabeth yelled like Coach Hedge getting ready to bust some heads. We all rushed and scrambled to grab our armour to put on, from head to toe, and got our preferred weapons. "WE'RE UNDER ATTACK BY MONSTERS"!!!
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A/N: sorry for the very late update. I am SO sorry, since I promised everybody I would update as soon as I can. But here you go! Sorry if it is too short or terrible, but this is the best I could do after a long time. I'd be too busy with getting school done or be lazy by playing Video Games. But here you go after a long time from the last update. Don't forget to check out my Conversation section to vote in two types of voting pages I'm doing based on the PJO and HOO fandom, one for Percy X Female, the other for Female X Female. Don't forget to vote if you didn't. And I'll seeya guys soon. BYE-BYE!!!