Hello, and my thanks for bothering to read the second chapter of my thing-a-ma-gigger. If I had gotten any reviews I would thank the reviewers, but since I haven't, I'll have to just hope that I'll get some after posting this. I think I'll just put one Order of Thought in this chapter, and see what happens. I may put another in later, like I did with the first chapter(I noticed that a lot of authors called their chapters "chappies". What's with that?). So, enjoy, and review, and think about how the reunion of Percy and Annabeth will go 3! must. Get. Virtual. Popcorn. And cookies. Preferably some with chocolate. Ta-da!
Third order of though: Six are known, who is the seventh?
Most people seem to assume that the seventh demigod is Annabeth. But nothing at all in the books has ever actually hinted that. In fact, it seems to me that Mr. Riordan purposefully and painstakingly avoids directly saying that Annabeth is part of the Great Prophecy. Suspicious? I think so. Now that I have ranted for a bit about people's stupid assumptions, let me tell you my theory. It is my belief that Nico is the seventh demigod of the prophecy. My reasons: Nico is the person who has already done the most for the quest and the battle against Gaea. He brought Hazel to life, by Hanalea's bones!(sorry, random reference to the amazing Seven Realms series) He was the first Greek to associate with the Romans since the Civil War. He went looking for the Doors of Death as soon as he had any information. What I think will happen(or at least some variation) is that, well, Annabeth is supposed to cause trouble right? She can't accept the fact that she isn't part of the quest. She insists on coming with, but only partly because of Percy, the other part is *ahem obviously* her fatal flaw: hubris. She just has to be the seventh. And, Percy is on her side because he loves her, so Annabeth tags along. But she keeps trying to, like, prove herself part of the quest, kind of reminds me of Luke when they were getting close to Camp Half-Blood with Thalia, hm? Nico is the real seventh, I mean he has already "answered the call" as the prophecy puts it. Truly, he did that part of the prophecy, it seems obvious to me that it is him. You do not have to share my opinion. But, yeah, I have no idea what the Mark of Athena is, all I can think of when I think "Mark" and "Athena" is Daedalus' murderer's brand. But I don't think that could fit this context. Ah, well, fall is coming!
Fourth order of thought: Why these six?
Okay, this was brought up in a review(yes! I got a review on each of the two first chapters! I know, this is one of those chapters, but I am putting this section in which wasn't in it the first time I posted it) : Why are each of these demigods chosen to be one of the Seven? Is it because of individual powers, the characteristics of their parents? Is it their overall power? Their personalities? Fatal flaws? Lineage? What? I don't honestly know. Let us go through each one in turn:
Percy Jackson: Son of Poseidon and a true-seeing mortal, fatal flaw: loyalty to friends and family, personality: not extraordinarily smart but very good to friends once made, great sword fighter, child of Big Three power, power over water, also has invigorating effect on him and can heal cuts(not major stuff like bones, but will get rid of poison, close cuts, return lost blood etc.)
Jason Grace: Son of Jupiter and alcoholic movie actress, fatal flaw: not sure does anyone have guesses?, power over air, so he can fly some with one other person only, can use lightning usually with a prayer to his father, child of Big Three power-wise, personality: confident
Piper McLean: Daughter of Aphrodite and movie star, fatal flaw: unknown, personality: modest, charmspeaker very strong one
Leo Valdez: Son of Hephaestus and inventor, fatal flaw: unknown, can withstand heat and flame, as well as create it, personality: cocky, sarcastic, been through many foster homes due to incident that we all know about, most powerful son of Hephaestus in a hundred years
Hazel Levesque: Daughter of Pluto and hedge-witch of New Orleans, 1940's, died in stopping a giant from rising then at 13 years, power over metal under the earth especially, can call up old riches, collapse tunnels, etc., fatal flaw: unknown, personality: sweet, smart, youngest of the seven, child of Big Three
Frank Zhang: Son of Mars and a legacy of Neptune, can shapeshift into animals, good with bow and specialty arrows, has babyish face and is extremely muscular and large, overly powerful and so has short life expectancy, fatal flaw: unknown, but he's going to die anyway so doesn't really mater does it?, Personality: mirrors his body, very sweet and very powerful
So, I don't really know most of their fatal flaws, but if you have any ideas about what they are, please tell me.
Updates on earlier subjects
One reviewer thought that maybe Thalia is the seventh. I guess it could work, she would like, represent the maidenness thing and Artemis. What do you all think? I want to know! (*v*) owl want to know!
Well, what did you think? Please tell me, and also if you have any other thoughts or plot twists you would like to see addressed and discussed here. There is a pretty little button right there at the bottom of the page. Press it if you dare!(to be nice, anyway) So, yeah, and I wish to include a list of books that I eagerly await! So, here are the coolnesses. Note: not in order of awesomeness:
Mark of Athena
Serpent's Shadow
Out of Sight, Out of Time
City of Lost Souls
Seven Realms book four(don't know what it's called)
So, I cannot wait to read all of these! I am sooo much like Ella the harpy! Hence the name, EllaIncarnate. OOOh, that's something I have to talk about soon! I also need to think up something to tell you all... but anyway, please, if you have something to say, click on that lovely little link right there:
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