"There's no way, punk. You couldn't have stumbled upon another war with Luke." Clarisse muttered as Percy stepped in.
"Now now." Percy waved her off. Clarisse opened her mouth as if to protest, but then snapped it shut at a glance from Chiron.
"Let the boy speak." The centaur murmured.
"HEY!" Percy complained. "Thanks. I have called you here-"
"CALLED us here?" Clarisse spluttered. "You know you didn't 'call' us here! Chiron did, because he thought this meeting was 'so special'-"
"What god or goddess do we know who has a grudge against the earth?" Percy asked as if Clarisse hadn't interrupted.
"Um, big E or little?" Grover asked nervously.
"There is a legend..." Clarisse said, wiggling her fingers like snakes, as Connor and Travis fought to restrain her.
Percy rolled his eyes, and Grover stifled a giggle that turned into a cough as Clarisse turned to glare at him.
"Well, Ouranos has a grudge against Gaea. I mean, she plotted to murder him and she stuck him as only the sky, never again to transform into a human version of the sky." Katie Bell from Demeter's cabin spoke up dramatically.
"But he can't come back and whip out butts in sky form, right?" Travis glanced at Katie quickly, smiling a little.
"Annabeth said, 'You shouldn't-' and then she was cut off. Let's open up some new possibilities."
"Fat load of help that does us." Clarisse muttered.
"No... Percy's on to something." Grover said.
"Think about it. Who wants revenge on the Earth? That would leave the gods' stranded and no mortals to worship them, so they would eventually fade. That's Luke's part of the deal. If it's Ouranos... let's hope we don't awaken Gaea..." Chiron murmured.
"But she'd help us, right?" Percy piped up. All heads turned to him. He half expected to hear Annabeth shouting Seaweed Brain in his ear, but it was just the dumbfounded looks he got from the other camp counselors.
"Are you INSANE?" Clarisse screamed.
"Oh, right. She hates humans?" Percy groaned.
"Dude, she hates you. Remember, you killed her favorite kids, the Titans, starting with Kronos. She wants you destroyed." Tavis and Connor spoke in unison, which was never a good sign.
"Dude, if she comes back, we can kick you out of the camp and she might leave us alone." Will Solace, from Cabin 7, piped up.
"Finally, you a;; are on the same page as me." Clarisse growled, fingering the knife on her belt gently.
"We will not do this to a child of the Big 3." Chiron murmured, placing a hand on Clarisse's shoulder.
"And because you all like me, right?" Percy asked. He glanced around, looking at everyone's solemn gazes.
"Nope." Dionysus murmured, then looked innocently up from his magazine as everyone turned to look at him."What? Languedoc-Roussillon is making a comeback. It's horrible!" He snorted. Everyone sighed, and then Grover picked up his tin can.
"Well... have we decided on Ouranos?" He bleated meekly.
"We'll see. Chiron?" Percy mused.
"You know where it is." Chiron said, waving his arm towards the attic. Percy walked past Clarisse who ripped her knife out of her sheath.
"I'm going to destroy you in Capture the Flag tonight." She growled, running a hand over the knife. She then stormed out of the Big House, glaring at everyone as she went to her cabin.
"Good luck." Grover murmured to Percy, gnawing his tin can as if it was styrofoam.
Percy looked backwards once, and climbed the stairs- where the Oracle lay waiting for him.
