The glowing gold aura around the goddess disappeared and her stormy grey eyes locked on Phoebe. I couldn't help but saw that Phoebe sort of looked like Athena, but that was impossible. Phoebe as the daughter of Athena? She just told me five seconds ago that I was the daughter of the sea god. I chuckled and closed my eyes. I murmured, "This is just a freaking crazy dream. This is just a dream. Wake up, Lucy." When I opened my eyes, Athena was still there. "Oh, I'm not a lunatic." I laughed nervously.

"Phoebe Chase, I claim you as my daughter." Athena said to Phoebe. I raised an eyebrow. "Hold on, wait a minute! Does that mean all that psycho Greek stuff is real and we're really demigods?" Phoebe asked. The goddess of war nodded. "Oh." Phoebe muttered in a small voice.

"But my parents died in a car crash!" I protested. "I have no father or a mother." Tears formed in my eyes, but I fought them back. I was feeling miserable, overwhelmed, and angry at the same time. Athena looked at me and said in a soft and kind voice, "Lucy, that was a lie to protect you. To protect your identity and your brother. The more you know about yourself, what you are really, the chance likely you will become a monster's lunch." Athena frowned and looked out the window. The sky was black and it was pouring hard outside. "You both are very young demigods. Young ladies. It's a remarkable thing that a daughter of my own and a daughter of Poseidon are very close friends, unlike me and Poseidon, but it is improving in our relationship. For twelve years, you both have thought you were normal mortals, but you are not. You both will grow up to be beautiful and strong warriors." Athena explained. "So you are really a goddess, an Olympian?" Phoebe asked, seemingly interested and unsure.

Athena nodded. "I am Athena, the goddess of wisdom and war in the flesh.

Phoebe and I nodded at the same time. "You're immortal?" I said. Athena continued her explaining, "Yes I am and so are the other Olympians atop Mount Olympus above the Empire State Building. Remember, you are not immortal, you are half god and half mortal."

I started to say something, but Athena said, "I must go. Zeus is waiting. Good bye, young warriors." She glowed bright gold and when the light died, she was gone. I turned to Phoebe and hissed, "That was really a goddess!"

"I know." She replied excitably. I widened my eyes and took a deep breath. Then I saw a blue note on my desk. "Hey, what's that?" Phoebe asked. I shrugged my shoulders and sat down into my chair. I ripped open the note. It smelt of the sea and flowers and strangely, chocolate. Yummy.

I knew it was from my father. My stomach turned upside down and my ADHD was acting up, but I tried to calm myself down. The note said in elegant handwriting,

Seven half-bloods shall answer the call. To storm or fire the world must

fall. An oath to keep with a final breath, and foes bear arms to the Doors

of Death.

Now that is what you must do now, young demigoddesses. Lucile Jackson

and Phoebe Chase, the daughter of the sea and the daughter of wisdom,

hurry and go get your younger brothers. You are in extreme danger. After

you have done what you've been told to, go outside and get to safety at

Camp Half-Blood. There, you will prepare for your quest to defeat the

daughter of time.

"What the heck does that mean?" I said under my breath, looking at Phoebe hoping for an answer. She said, "Wait, the first paragraph sounds like a prophecy or a curse, something like that, and I know what the daughter of time means! Kronos was the king of the Titans, and he was also the Lord of Time. So that means we have to defeat Kronos' daughter." She smiled when she was finished. "Phoebe, you are so smart!" I exclaimed. "Now, let's go and get to that place, wherever it is!" Phoebe yelled and ran and jumped over the unconscious students. I followed her into the hallway and I almost bumped into her because she had stopped so suddenly. We hid behind a locker by the door and our brothers were talking to some guy. H had a helmet with wings sprouting out from it and sandals with wings too. Then I whispered to Phoebe, "Hermes." She nodded and mouthed, I know.

Hermes had curly black hair and warm brown eyes. He was wearing a silver toga and was handsome. I smirked and Hermes gave them a green note. Sammy said something, but I couldn't hear him. We were too far away. Hermes smiled and glowed orange. He was gone a moment later. We came out of hiding and ran to them. "Lucy, guess what happened? Did you see that guy? He was so cool and he was-" Sammy was interrupted by Phoebe. "Hermes, we know that, and we had a little chat with Athena. She was our teacher the whole time."

"No way! But Hermes said that Sammy was the son of Poseidon and I was the son of Athena. What does that mean?" Danny asked. Poor baby brothers, they never know what's going on.

"We'll try to explain later because we gotta go!" I said and we grabbed our brother's jacket sleeves and ran out into the rain with deafening thunder ringing in my ears. There was someone waiting for us.