Back again! So, when Percy receives the note in SOM from his dad that says 'Brace Yourself'...how do the gods know what happened? This is the missing scene.

Disclaimer: Nope. Don't own.

"I cannot believe this is going happen!" Zeus roared angrily, slamming his fist down on the armrest of his throne. "Why did we not take action and warn the demigods of what would happen?"

"It is against the Ancient Laws, father," Athena said sharply. (A/N: Wait...if Athena is Zeus' daughter...and Thalia is Zeus' daughters...that makes them half-sisters...which means that Thalia's basically like an aunt to Annabeth and Luke...*shudder* creepy.) "We are forbidden to tamper with our children's lives, no matter how much easier it would make things. Still...I find it troubling that they did not realized what would happen if they placed the fleece on the diseased tree."

"No one would've expected this," Apollo interjected. "Hades, even I didn't see this coming, and I'm the god of prophecies."

"Even when you try to be modest you end up inflating your ego," Artemis replied, rolling her silvery, yellow eyes.

"Chill out, Artemis,

It's not cool to insult me,

Since I'm your big bro," Apollo said with a mischievous twinkle in his bright azure eyes, ticking off the syllables on his fingers. Everyone groaned.

"Please, Apollo, not now, this is serious," Hermes retorted, his face grim set. "What will it mean when Thalia comes back?"

"She could just as easily be the child of the prophecy," Aphrodite brought up.

"But it could still be Percy," Demeter argued.

"Why don't we just kill them both?" Dionysus said idly.

"I shall not kill my son," Poseidon bellowed angrily.

"Nor I my daughter," Zeus agreed, his stormy eyes steely.

"Your...daughter...is not alive; she is trapped inside of a tree," Hera remarked coldly, not enjoying this discussion at all.

"Not alive...yet..." Apollo contradicted. "Even now I can feel a shift in the universe."

"I agree with Dionysus. We should just kill the punks now," Ares said, punching his fist into his palm, his eyes alight with a kind of insane red light. "We don't know how much trouble the brats could cause."

"I think we have already made it quite clear that we are not going to kill them," Poseidon said in a clipped tone.

"Well, then," Hephaestus rumbled. "What shall we do?" Everyone sat in silence.

"The only thing to do," Zeus answered. "Sit back and watch. But Poseidon, let your son know what is to happen. Not directly, of course. But warn him without him knowing what is to happen."

Poseidon nodded gravely. "I shall be right back."

~PJO~

Percy's dream shifted. He was following Tyson to the bottom of the sea, into the court of Poseidon. It was a radiant hall filled with blue light, the floor cobbled with pearls. And there, on a throne of coral, sat his father, Poseidon, dressed like a simple fisherman in khaki shorts and a sun-bleached T-shirt. I looked up into his tan weathered face, his deep green eyes, and he spoke two words: Brace yourself.

~PJO~

"I am Thalia. Daughter of Zeus."

"Yes, you wretched Olympians. Brace yourselves indeed," Kronos spoke.

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