PROLOGUE

Beware the Seven Keys of Earth
Leading to Omnipotent power at birth
Four Keys to the Kingdoms
Each held a piece that granted wisdom
Three Keys to the Continents
Each held a sin depicted through monuments

These were the words inscribed on a plaque with a lamdba λ symbol placed above the inscription. Piper then called Jason over.

"Is this it?" Jason asked.

"I think it is..."

Piper's hand hovered over the λ. The letter flared, illuminating the whole room. Annabeth and Percy came into the room.

"You found it?" Percy asked.

"Yeah!" Jason replied.

As Jason reach over to take the plaque, everything halted.

Piper tried to move, speak, or breath, but she couldn't. It's as if time itself has stopped. She tried to turn her head to look at Jason. She managed to do so but slowly. Jason was frozen. Like a picture in a frame. Then he heard a voice.

"Miss McLean..."

And everything faded to black. In front of her was that man. The enigmatic man dressed in an inexpensive blue suit and holding brief case in one hand.

"I realize this may not be the most convenient... time... to interrupt, but time... time is of the essence..." the man said in that same creepy monotone. In that same weird way of placing stresses in weird syllables of the words. "You are needed, Miss...McLean. In another place... in another... time..."

With that, they both vanished from the room.