The Attic
Piper ran her fingers through the decades of memorabilia on the wooden table. Up in the attic of the big house almost everything told a story, and Piper had little doubt the table had, at some point, probably belonged to someone like Pandora or Adonis. She moved on past a splintered sword ('This broke and Leroy was killed.') and found herself fingering a pale pink scarf, a faint trace of perfume lingered in the air and Piper turned over the label, expecting the name to be that of Drew or some other sibling of hers, instead she found the following inscription:
'Scarf of the goddess Aphrodite. Recovered from Waterland, Denver by Annabeth Chase and Percy Jackson.'
Piper reread the label several times and wondered which quest it had been on, from what she'd worked out the guy had been on one every year. The first being a trek across the country to find Zeus' master bolt, the second; a voyage to find and retrieve the Golden Fleece and so on.
Piper picked the scarf out of the various other trinkets and it snagged on something.
After sifting up several jars of eyes, a pair of fuzzy dice she came across the snag, some shards of broken spear, Piper flipped over the label and read;
'Electric Spear. Broken by Clarisse La Rue, daughter of Ares, to slay a drakon during the battle of Manhattan,
Used by Silena Bauregard, daughter of Aphrodite, to lead the Ares Cabin in to battle.'
Piper ran her fingers over the bronze cylinders, the last remnants of the last weapon Silena had used.
Piper shook herself slightly and moved on, coming to a small pouch woven from many strings of coloured yarn, it looked like a tribal medicine pouch, it had no label, fumbling slightly Piper undid the drawstring and tipped it's contents into her palm. It was a roll of paper. Carefully Piper unrolled it and read it's text;
'A half-blood child of the elder three gods,
Shall reach sixteen against all odds,
To see the world in endless sleep,
The hero's soul cursed blade shall reap,
A single choice shall end his days,
Olympus to preserve or raise.'
Piper immediately knew this was a prophesy, she turned the slip of paper over and found two names and a year inked on to the back;
'Percy Jackson, Luke Castellan, 2010,'
Piper furled the paper and attempted to slip it back into it's pouch, before finding the string caught on something, she pulled the pouch free and picked out the object it had caught on: it was a dragons' claw, Piper read the label:
'Claw of the dragon Landon. Taken from the Garden of the Hesperides by Luke, son of Hermes'
Piper wondered dimly if this was the Luke from the prophesy and made a mental note to ask Annabeth or Rachel the next time one of them showed up, before returning the prophesy and the claw to the table a continuing to sift through camp's history.
