Chapter 7: Missing
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Percy's POV
I stared at the page for a minute after I read the prophecy. Hmm, Alice was right, I was getting out of this store with more questions.
There was something along the lines that caught my eye. The first line when it said that the power of seven will follow me.
"The power of seven…" I thought frowning. "That rings a bell in my mind."
"Well, it doesn't ring in mine," Rachel thought me.
"I think I have read something about that in my Grimoire but right now I can't remember what it was about," I told her.
"Well, you should check it out," Rachel said.
Then she frowned too.
"Where is that book anyway?" She asked. "You talk about it a lot but you have never showed it to me," She pointed out.
Before I could answer her Alice interrupted our trail of thought.
"I also had a vision about the training you will give to your cousins," She told me. "If you want, you could train in a wide room in the back of my store," She proposed.
I thought about it for a moment and then I nodded.
The other three children of the Big Three were staring at me in silence. It was the first time I will teach them magic and they were keen to know how I do everything I do with magic.
We were in the back room of Alice. It was a wide circular room, with three dummies in the middle of it and several bookshelves around it. Alice stated that the dummies where designed to take spells when she wanted to practice combat magic. She also told us that she isn't very good at it since her strong area is divination and that in the bookshelves there are many divination books and also of some other branches of magic.
"Well, if we are going to begin, I guess it is time I show you all the book of spells Hecate gave me," I said grinning.
Bianca in particular looked interested. After all, I made several spells for her. Then, I took a small feather from writing from one of my pockets. I muttered the words "reveal yourself" in the old tongue and the feather transformed into a very old leather book.
Everyone looked at it in awe. It was very thick, about 500 pages thick. Its cover was brown and it had a crown of jewels drawn in it. That didn't mean anything to them but I know its meaning. It means that Hecate values this book as the best branch of magic because it has her crown of ruler of magic in it.
Then I opened the page in chapter one and looked at the letters in the old tongue as well as some drawings.
"Well, to begin the process that will teach you this kind magic, I will have to do something that I didn't have to do with Rachel," I started. "Since she is bonded with my mind, she doesn't need it but I will need to use a spell to sear into your minds the old tongue," I stated.
Then, read the spell out loud. They didn't understand the meaning but I was trying to say:
"Hecate, ruler of magic, let me grant power to the off springs of the sacred three, which was bestowed to you by Gaia, the mother of the universe," I recited.
Three beams were shot from my palms and hit Nico, Bianca, and Thalia in the forehead. They flinched when it touched their skin it was over in a few seconds.
"Well, let's begin," I said grinning.
After a few hours of training, it was clear what they were better at in my kind of magic. Bianca was very good at summoning the powers of the elements. Thalia, on the other hand, was good at making defensive barriers and healing wounds. And Nico was pretty good at using magic to be stealthy.
I watched their progress and every time they looked at me for advice I told them what to do. Annabeth, Grover, Tyson and Max were watching mostly in silence but made a comment every now and then. Rachel decided to take that chance to practice magic as well. She had more experience than the others but Bianca wasn't that far behind.
When I told them to take a break, I started looking in my Grimoire to see if I could find anything about the power of 7. When I finally found it, I frowned again. So it was that.
"I don't get it," I said out loud. "I just don't get it."
The others looked at me weirdly.
"What is it?" Max asked.
"It's just that, I checked over the final chapter of the Grimoire again and something doesn't add up," I answered.
"How so?" Annabeth asked.
"In the last page it starts talking about something called "The Seven Souls of Magic"," I started. "According to the book, they are the seven most powerful magical weapons ever created. However, the book ends there," I pointed out. "It's almost as if a page is missing."
Everyone looked puzzled except for Alice who looked shocked.
"Let me take a look at that," She urged.
"Uh, okay," I said and hand it over.
She examined the page and her eyes widen.
"I thought those things were a myth," She breathed.
"What are you talking about?" Rachel asked.
"It's a very popular story among magicians," Alice started. "It says that the first 7 apprentices of Hecate, one for every branch of magic, made 7 weapons under the orders of her and Gaia. It seems that if you have one of those weapons you can control the very fabric of its branch of magic and magnify your strength with it a thousand folds," She told us.
"Why did they make those weapons?" Tyson asked.
"No one knows for sure, but it was rumored that whoever has all the souls of magic will be more powerful than any god," Alice claimed.
We gasped.
"Are you serious?" Thalia asked wide eyed.
Alice nodded.
"That is why during the first titan war, the gods and the titans spread them across the world to hide them since they can't destroy indestructible weapons,"
I gave this deep thought.
"The power of 7," I repeated in my head. "That must have been what the prophecy meant," I thought.
Then I thought of something else.
"Of all the children of the Big Three, Hecate came to me," I realized. "She said last year that I am the horse she is betting on and I am the only she taught magic. She also said she had a plan to help me defeat Kronos. Could that be what she has in mind? I asked myself. "Turn me into someone stronger than Kronos?"
"Okay, I made up my mind," I said out loud.
"About what?" Bianca asked.
"The break is over," I stated. "Hecate and I are going to have a talk."
There you have it. What do you think about the souls of magic? Please comment about it.
