4.

"Why? Why does it have to be me? Why?" I muttered to myself over and over, in total shock and denial.

"It's fate. There's nothing that can change that." Athena said to me, trying to comfort me.

"But… But I'm thirteen! Thirteen! Not like three thousand!" I cried and she laughed lightly.

"It doesn't matter, does it?" I asked without seeing anything as I looked up where I hoped where she would be.

"Do you think we know? No one can defy their fate forever."

"But what if you could…" I muttered to myself.

"Then we would be in the time of the Titans, you wouldn't be alive, neither would I or anyone here today."

"True." I smiled a little.

"No one can change what the Fates have planned for them." She sighed hopelessly.

"Something is going to happen to you because of the Fates?" I blurted.

"Yes and no." She sighed now, looking at me with disparity.

"What do you mean?"

"Yes, because it's already written into my fate and no because it hasn't happened yet."

"What is it? What's going to happen?"

"Enough about me, dear, are you okay?"

"Um, I guess." I mumbled, now worrying about my… Strange predicament.

It's going to be fine, sweetheart.

Shut up, I thought.

"And your thoughts…?" She asked awkwardly.

"Fine." I muttered in disgust.

Athena was only with me now, because Hermes had 4,985 calls waiting, 74,003 emails, 411 voicemails, and 3,629 voicemails being sent. Wow, right?

"What am I even suppose to do? Why-Why is this like depending on the world?" I asked, with confusion.

"We- I mean I don't know, yet." She stuttered, and looked at the sky, desperately.

"None of the gods know, do they?" I asked, a sly smile on my face. Her eyes widened, looking franticly around. Thunder cracked in the sky, and Athena sighed with relief.

"I've got to go. For now. It was lovely seeing you again." She said, hugging me, then turning into a shimmer of light and disappearing.

"Whoa." I whispered in pure joy, excitement, and fear.