I woke up with a familiar face over me.
"Bianca?" A boy with black hair and an aviator's jacket on asked. "Can you hear me? It's Nico."
Nico. I remember him. He's my brother. Why was he here? I thought he was back at camp.
"Yeah, I can hear you. What happened? Where am I? Why am I here?" I started asking him.
"Woah, woah. One at a time. You're at the camp infirmary. Percy, Thalia, Grover, and Zoe..." he started, and once he said Zoe's name his expression darkened. "found you at the Junkyard of the Gods, collapsed under the monster, Talos, that you went into the maintenance hole in his left foot to destroy him, thus saving them. But, Talos crashed on electricity lines, and got electrocuted, but luckily, Zoe had a medicine pack which she used to help save you."
I started to think of what Nico told me. "Then why did I just wake up now? If she saved me, then I would've been with them for the rest of the journey!"
"Look, fortunately, Hephatheus arrived soon after Zoe saved you and delivered you here to the camp".
There was Thalia, Zeus' daughter, wearing skull earrings, a Death to Barbie shirt, and Zoe Nightshade's lieutenant silver circlet walking toward us.
"Why are you wearing that?" I asked "That's Zoe Nightshade's!"
Thalia looked at Nico. "Well? Answer me!"
"Bianca," Thalia started. "At the end of the quest...Zoe Nightshade died."
I didn't believe it. No. But, it was the answer why Nico had a dark expression when he said Zoe's name.
We all sat in silence. I thought about the quest we took and tried to remember. The skeleton warriors. The Smithsonian. The prophecy...the prophecy!
"Thalia, Nico, what was the prophecy of the quest?" I asked.
"Hm, I don't remember" Nico said, scratching the back of his neck.
"Me neither" Thalia told me. "Maybe Chiron would know."
We all went out of infirmary, and walked to the Big House, with Chiron on the porch talking to the camp director, Dionysus, God of wine.
"Ah! Look, little demigods approaching." Dionysus pointed out.
Chiron looked at me. "Bianca, how are you? Are you okay?"
"Yes, I'm fine. I wanted to ask, do you remember the prophecy of the quest I took with Thalia, Grover, Percy, and Zoe?"
Thalia made a circle with her foot around the dirt and Chiron looked at the sky, thinking. "Why yes. I do. What do you need with it?"
"Well, I...can you just please say it?" I replied.
He looked at me like it was important information why I needed it, and apparently told us after a few minutes.
"Okay then.
Five shall go west to the goddess in chains,
One shall be lost in the land without rain,
The bane of Olympus shows the trail,
Campers and Hunters combined prevail,
The Titan's curse must one withstand,
And one shall perish by a parent's hand".
