Percy rushed to the infirmary. Almost all of the Athena cabin was there. They had large, strange spots all over. He rushed over to Annabeth. "What happened?" He asked, worried. "We were looking at this strange new flower and we were about to show it to the Demeter kids, when we all started to feel sick and develop blue spots." Annabeth answered. Chiron was also in the infirmary. He wasn't sick, just visiting the patients. Percy went up to him. "Percy." Chiron said. "I'm glad you're here." "Do you know what this is?" He asked. "Yes I do." Chiron answered. "You'd better follow me to the big house."
In the big house, Chiron began to explain the illness to Percy. "I asked Annabeth if she could draw a picture of the strange flower, she's a very good artist, and I recognized it." He said. "It's called κατάρα του Απόλλωνα or Curse of Apollo in english." Percy was confused. "Apollo cursed us?" Chiron shook his head. "Many years ago, the city of Megara dishonored Apollo by forgetting to sacrifice to him." Chiron said. "So he cursed them. He made a poison and asked Demeter to put it in a flower." "The gods do not like it when you don't sacrifice to them." Percy pointed out. "Especially the archery twins."
Chiron tried to suppress a smile. "I don't think that they would enjoy being called the "Archery Twins." He said, trying to maintain his composure. "What happened next?" Percy asked. "The flower grew all over Megara." Chiron continued. "At first, the people were fascinated by the new flower. Then people started to get sick." "Gosh, humans are stupid." Percy observed. "A new flower magically appears and everybody's like, 'OOH PRETTY.'" Chiron had to hide a chuckle. "You do realize you're talking about your own species?" He asked. "I'm only half human." Percy said. "I'm only half stupid." "You realize Annabeth would have some words to say about that." Chiron said. "I know." He said.
"What happened next?" Percy asked. Chiron continued, "The first thing the people did was ask Apollo what to do. If they hadn't done that first, they might have all died. But Apollo felt sorry for them and made a cure. He asked again if Demeter could put it in a plant. This time it was a tree. The tree bore fruit that would cure whoever ate of it. He didn't make it easy to get to the fruit. They had insulted him after all. He placed a dragon to guard the tree. The dragon would ask the people who were trying to get to the tree three questions. If they answered all of them correctly, they would get to get the fruit. If not, it would eat them."
"Where is this tree?" Percy asked. "For that," Chiron said. "You will have to ask the Oracle." Percy went to Rachel and asked, "Where can I find Apollo's tree?" She fell over and began spouting green smoke from her mouth and began to speak.
For Apollo's Tree
You must send three
Two boys and a girl
To find the laurel
Bring honey from the bee
Percy thanked Rachel and went to tell Chiron what had happened.
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