GRACE
Chiron had explained the quest to me right before we had left. Zeus had issued me a quest to go defeat a goddess, though we had no idea who it was. Apparently said goddess had infuriated Zeus, and so now he was making us go and find her and then destroy her. How were three demigods supposed to defeat a goddess. I was royally ticked with Zeus, but figured that if I said that out loud, there would be some Grace shaped grease stains on the asphalt.
We had been searching for a clue to which goddess Zeus had meant, and hadn't found anything yet.
"Grace! I just remembered, we should go to blind Phineas! He is evil, but he can see the future!" Damien seemed excited by the prospect, but I was so fed up with the world.
"Wow! Great idea Damien! I mean, you couldn't have told us about this earlier, right when we had gotten out of the van. And we can totally cross the country to Portland! Because there are no faults in that plan." I knew being sarcastic was mean, but honestly, the boy was such a nuisance sometimes. What I wouldn't have given for a girl at this moment.
"Wait, Gracie, Damien is on to something. We should go see Phineas."
"Really. How is the future going to help us find the goddess?"
"Well, Phineas can see the future, so we can ask him who he sees us defeating." Oh. Well that wasn't a half rotten plan.
"Fine, whatever. Good plan, boys. Well, let's go, we don't have much time."
After weeks of travel, we arrived in Portland, where we proceeded to wander around for days before we found Phineas, who was sitting at the corner of the street, begging for food, with… Pigeons? No, not pigeons. On second look, they turned into harpies flying around his head, stealing what food he had.
"Phineas." I walked up to him and glared.
"Little girl, what are you… Oh, dear! Get away from me you dirty little piece of demigod shit!"
"Nice to see you as well Phineas. We have a couple questions for you." I unsheathed my spear, and Damien and Nate took out their weapons. I grinned.
"What do you want to know?" Phineas said glumly.
"Look into the future and tell us, which goddess will we be destroying." He closed his eyes and scrunched up his face, and the smiled.
"The one you look for is of fertility and loyalty, of flight and flower." He grinned scarily. "Goodbye demigod scum."
We walked away and I thought through the words. "Fertility and loyalty, of feather and flower." The answer would be in the library, although I should probably understand the answer right away.
As soon as we walked into the library, we headed towards the Greek mythology section. I grabbed a book on the twelve main gods. I flipped to the part about Hera, just wanting to know more about her before we began to research. The entry on her page read:
"Hera, goddess of marriage and loyalty, was known to be a stunning, beautiful goddess, even more beautiful (said by some) than Aphrodite. She had an awful temper, but still was able to convince Zeus to marry her. Her powers centers, or symbols, are the lotus flower and the peacock." I stopped reading. Loyalty, flight- peacock, flower- lotus. I started to feel faint, and the world started to sway, as I collapsed on to the ground. One last thought flitted through my mind right before I fainted. I was going to have to kill my mother. I was going to have to kill Hera, queen of the gods.