Apollo's POV
I was in a dark room with no light. I heard no voices, no footsteps. Nothing.
The floor under me broke, and the dream shifted. I floated above the dazzling skyline of Manhattan. The city was alive with the lights from hotels, clubs, and apartments. Cab drivers were honking at everyone, the sidewalks were full of people going in and out of restaurants. In short, it was amazing.
"Beautiful, is it not?" a voice out of nowhere asked.
I turned to my right to see a man wearing a tuxedo, his blonde hair in a military buzz cut. His eyes were changing colors as if it couldn't decide on whether it should be blue, green, gray, or any other colors you could think of.
Besides that, something in the back of my mind told me that this person was to be respected.
"Who are you?" I asked.
"You are the god of prophecies, are you not?" the man asked.
"I am, but that doesn't answer the question," I replied.
The man chuckled lightly and sighed afterwards. "You of all the gods must know who I am. After all...you would have never have any visions or prophecies without me."
"Ch-Chaos," I stuttered as I quickly bowed.
The man nodded as he looked down at the city beneath him."It is a shame a beautiful place like this could be destroyed in a matter of years."
"What do you mean?" I asked warily.
"I'm sorry, child. But—"
"I'm not a child," I interjected. He shot me an irritated look for cutting him off.
"You sure act like one..." he mumbled.
"Hey!"
He smiled, but his frown returned once he looked down. "I'm sorry for putting you Olympians in such a hard task. However, it is a problem that all of you must work together in order to fix it."
"What's wrong?" I asked.
"I can not tell you."
He stayed quiet as I watched him. He seemed to be having a debate with himself as if it pained him to do something he wanted to do. I turned my attention back to the city lights that blinked like stars.
After a few minutes, I heard Chaos sighed and said, "I... I will send you my daughter."
"What? You have a daughter?" I asked shocked.
"Yes. I will send her to you...in a few days time." He looked at me with sad eyes, pleading me to take good care of his daughter.
"You don't have, too. We can handle this on our own," I told him.
"You can't. You need my daugher in order to win," he said. "I shall leave now."
Just like that, he disappeared as I shot up from my bed drenched in cold sweat.
I needed to tell the others.
"What do you mean?" Athena asked.
"I mean...Chaos, the Chaos visited me," I said.
I heard Artemis snorted at that and mumbled, "Yeah right..."
"It's true!" I defended.
"What happened?" Athena asked.
"Well...at first I was in this really dark room with no lights—"
"That is why you call it dark," Artemis rolled her eyes.
"Anyways, so I was in the dark room, and I fell into the ground. The next thing I knew I was floating above Manhattan's skyline. Chaos appeared and told me that it was a shame that the city would be in ruins in a matter of years."
"What?!" my father yelled in disbelief.
"He said that Manhattan would be in ruins in a matter of few years," I repeated.
"What does that mean? Are the titans coming back? The giants?" Father questioned.
"I'm not sure...but he did say another—"
"What is it?" Father asked impatiently.
"What if we stop interrupting him so that he could tell us his vision," Hera suggested.
I gave her a curt nod and continued, "He said he'd be sending us his daughter...and that we should take care of her like she's one of our own." The throne room became eerily quiet as everyone took that in.
"When?" Athena asked.
"In a few days," I answered.
"I said when. As in what date, what time," she clarified.
"I dunno," I told her as I shrugged my shoulders.
"My dear brother," my sister said. "Would you kindly please talk like a matured man like you should be?"
"Nope," I grinned as she shot me daggers. Literally.
As I dodged the knives my little sister was throwing at me, Athena stood up and addressed the council.
"I think we should raise the child here. Considering the fact that she is a demigod—Apollo, is she a demigod?" I nodded in answer to her question. "Considering that she is a demigod, a powerful one that is."
"Why? Can't we just leave her into a foster home?" Dionysus asked.
"Because, Dionysus, this child is a child of Chaos. She could be more powerful than any of us. If she gets into the wrong hands, we would be doomed. Plus, as I have said, she's Chaos' child. If we don't take care of her, we might as well wish for our death penalty."
"I second this idea," Poseidon said.
"Me, too," Aphrodite said as she beamed at Hades who had been quiet since the start of the meeting.
"Me, too," Artemis said.
Soon the throne room was filled with a chorus of 'me too's' until Dionysus was the only one left.
"I still don't think that this would be a good idea," Dionysus announced stubbornly.
"No one asked for your opinion," Aphrodite said. "We are raising this child here on Olympus and that is final."
Everyone was pretty shocked at that, but the thing was...I really, really didn't care.
"The meeting is dismissed," Father proclaimed.
*Camp Half-Blood*
It was a typical day at Camp Half-Blood until the mummified Oracle of Delphi came down from the attic and walked out of the Big House.
She walked across the lake like it was made of land and stood there until all the campers had gathered around to see what was happening.
Green fog started to pour out of her mouth, and the sunny weather awhile ago turned into a cold and dark one.
She opened her mouth and recited:
The purple eyed demigod will reach this camp against all odds.
Earthen threads will come to fraud.
Death will come to mislead.
One choice to agree or plead.
Destroy with one last breath.
Dark clouds that rain death.
To defend or rebel; one must decide.
Her demise would be justified.
Love and Death will combine,
To revive the one who was lost.
And from then on, the campers called it:
THE PROPHECY OF THE PURPLE EYED CHILD.
A/N: Hey guys! This is GOO! So most of you might know the story Gem of Olympus and that we took it down. And now I present to you APOCALYPTICAL GIFT!
Anyways, so AG is kinda like a redo of GoO. But I did change things.
I hope you liked it. (: