Seven half-bloods shall answer the call,

To storm or fire the world must fall.

An oath to keep with a final breath,

And foes bear arms to the Doors of Death.

Percy sat contemplating these lines.

What could they possibly mean? He thought to himself. I was in the last great prophecy, so will I be in this one? It might not even be fulfilled in my lifetime. It could take a hundred years, a thousand even! Maybe even more!

One line that really bothered him was the line "To storm or fire the world must fall." He knew that Zeus was all about storms and so the line could very likely be referring to him, but fire? Where could fire come in?"

Percy was really worried as well as annoyed at the Fates. This was prophesizing the end of the world, for goodness sake, and he still didn't have an idea of what it meant!

The more he tried to find answers, the more questions he got. He hated it when that happened, but it always seemed too. Maybe there was something else the words could be predicting besides the fall of the world. Maybe fall meant go down? But which direction was-

Percy shook his head. That both made no sense and was stupid. He did feel like fall could mean something else though. Fall could mean defeat so either Zeus was going to beat up the world (which Percy found unlikely even with his temper.) or some big fiery monster was. Either way, it was not a good thing.

Also, what was left for Zeus to defeat, he kind of already ruled literally everything. Percy decided to ask somebody whose council was wise and trustworthy. So, he went to Chiron.

"Hey Chiron," Percy called. "Could I have a minute? I need to talk to you in private."

"No problem, just let me finish up this game." Replied Chiron. "I win, Dionysus."

Somebody called something in the distance that Percy couldn't understand. Dionysus visibly perked up. "Got to go, one of you miserable brats got stabbed over by the lake."

Hearing this gave Percy some worry as he wondered who it was but he knew that he had to stay on task. Since the grape themed god was gone he could now ask Chiron his questions.

Percy proceeded to spill out his thoughts to him. Chiron looked thoughtful as he considered what Percy was telling him.

"A possibility is that the world is being destroyed by the fire that allowed mankind to progress. They now use the fire to burn oil and develop which is in a way destroying the world. However, we should not jump to conclusions. Prophecies are rarely as they seem."

Percy decided that he would ask somebody else. Chiron was very wise, but even he didn't seem certain of the meaning. He decided to ask Annabeth, as she was one of the smartest people he knew.

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"I'm just not sure, Percy." Annabeth told him. "For all we know this could be happening centuries for now. It could involve something that hasn't even been invented yet. Not even considered yet!"

Percy paused at this, then a thought occurred to him. "Could it be some sort of freak fire accident?"

Annabeth spoke again. "I guess if Hephaestus showed humans some new innovation, it could backfire and cause the world to fall. The word fire could be a reference to Hephaestus, as by giving humans the gift he could indirectly cause the fall."

"I bet Ares could be why it backfires, he would love to turn it into a weapon." Percy muttered under his breath.

"That's a possibility," She said. "But we don't even know this theory is correct. The more you try to figure out the prophecies, the more confusing they get. I haven't ever heard of somebody ever interpreting one correctly.

Percy went to check on what had happened by the lake. Some first year had gotten injured by a long-blade. It seemed to the councilors that somebody had intentionally caused him harm. Who had done so was undetermined and would probably remain so until the victim regained consciousness.

The camper had been staying with the Hermes cabin because he was undetermined. As the kid had done well in the capture the flag match against Ares recently, the whole cabin was sure that an Ares kid with a grudge had taken his revenge. Percy agreed that it defiantly was suspicious. Tensions were building between the two cabins. Percy lay awake that night, thinking about his day, and wondering what tomorrow would bring.

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This is my first fanfiction and it was really hard to get it to cut to the chase with the action so mainly it was an introduction going over possibilities about the prophecy, I am really worried and hope it is good, so if you read this and like/dislike it please leave a review telling me what you thought. Thanks so much!

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