PROLOGUE
ANNABETH POV
As the war continued, Annabeth began to lose hope; the demigods were losing numbers fast. She saw too many friends collapse for her to count. She looked up in the sky out of sheer desperation, hoping to see a god landing. Instead she saw several large human bodies attached to what look like wings. Her brain struggled to comprehend what she was seeing. They looked like the bird kids that had helped her when she was on the run. Except it looked like they had one extra person with the same platinum blond hair Apollo has…
MAX POV
Max flew over the city, hoping to find the demigod camp before the war destroyed. She remembered the little blond girl she had helped when she was a toddler. She remembered a moment when the girl had mumbled about something about demigods. All these thoughts made her determination even stronger, to the point where she could feel the adrenaline pumping through her body. Finally she spotted a small, deserted rural place where loud noise was pumping through her eardrums. Max was no genius, but she had fought in enough battles to know that this was a serious one. She signaled her flock to find a safe place to land. This turned out to be a lot harder then she expected, since the whole place was in chaos. Suddenly she saw a flash of blond hair that triggered a memory along with the intelligent, stormy gray eyes…