So everybody, welcome back, and that's all I've got really I only put these intros because it bugs me if you've noticed that when there isn't anything up here, the Chapter 10 part will be like up in the corner all the way to the side and it just kills my OCD.

Chapter 10: The library of the Fates

Eli:

As libraries go, this one was impressive to say the least. The place was massive, rows and rows of shelves, full of everything you could imagine, from ancient scrolls to actual hardback books. The Fates themselves were nowhere to be found, which I was grateful for, I'd heard they were just a trio of creepy old ladies who played with yarn all day.

Mom and Hestia led us through the library, searching for something. Although I didn't know what they were looking for, I did have a sneaking suspicion, and I couldn't wait to read it for myself. Mom hadn't said much, and none of us pried. Despite the issues I had with my mother and her means, I did take pity on her, believe it or not. She had done her best to stay strong, to protect us, she had done what a mother was supposed to do, but we didn't want to be babied or protected, we wanted to be prepared.

Finally, they stopped in a small section in what I assumed was the center of the library. Like I said, the place was massive, I couldn't even see the wall from one end of the room, or maybe it wasn't a room, maybe it was a physical realm, I didn't know. The place was dusty too, like people very rarely visited it, I guess the center of knowledge for the gods didn't have anything to offer to them, they certainly acted like it.

I looked around at the shelves around us, the label above read: Great Prophecies. My mother ran her finger along the shelves, picking up a scroll occasionally and opening it before putting it back and continuing on. Finally, she stopped on a scroll at the end of the row, one that looked as old as time. The paper it was written on was yellow and cracking, and dust was piled onto it so thickly that, when Hestia picked it up, it put enough up into the air to make all of us start coughing.

"Here," She said, offering it to me "Read it."

I opened it carefully, afraid I might accidentally rip it, it certainly looked brittle enough. The words were scribbled in an ancient language, one that I couldn't recognize to save my life, it wasn't Greek, and it definitely wasn't Latin.

"How the hell am I supposed to read this?" I asked, confused

"Oh, silly me," Hestia said, her chipper mood still in full swing "I forgot, the primordial language is lost these days, you ought to tell Chiron to get a lesson together at Camp Half-Blood, it's quite extraordinary really."

She took the scroll from me and cleared her throat before she began reading aloud.

In a time of great turmoil, the fallen king shall rise

Sacred vows broken, too many will die

In the turn of the millennium, three will be bore

Children of moon and home, from the virgins they're born

One by one, they'll come into play

And if they are turned, see Olympus razed

The Blood of two empires will run through their veins

And by their raw power, even gods can be slain

One shall be turned, through deception of the Prince

For the final betrayal, to keep his throne from the Sky's grip

Through desire for revenge, another will be turned

And see his only true home gutted and burned

The thrones will be toppled, in a final display of power

And the age of the gods will face it's darkest hour

The Sky will become the eye of the Snake

And the world consumed, by anger and hate

Sister blades will meet, in a final, bloody clash

And a new reign will come, rising from the ash

"You could've told us it was long as hell and you didn't feel like hearing it, so you didn't tell us the whole thing" I remarked when she had finished "And I would've believed it."

"Same here," Raven nodded "I didn't think prophecies got that long."

"This is one of the first prophecies ever recorded," My mother told us "I suppose they hadn't really gotten the hang of getting to the point."

"Okay," Raven sighed, running his hand through his hair "So...blood of two Empires, yeah we got that, what about the thing about deception of the prince."

"In as long as we've been around, we've been able to make sense of very little of it," Hestia told us "Most of it is vaguely self explanatory, as many prophecies are."

"So they were good at that from the get go." Antonio remarked

"What about all that stuff with sister blades?" I asked

At this, my mother looked to the floor again, taking a deep breath. I rolled my eyes, I was really getting tired of this whole thing, but I couldn't take it out on my mother. I understood, far more than most, that people, even gods, make mistakes, and my mother had done a much better job learning from and making up for those mistakes than the others had. Raven didn't hold a grudge against her, and neither did I, but it still irritated me when I had to wait excruciating seconds for an answer from her.

"Take your sword out." She finally said, turning to Raven

"Okay?" He said, confused

He pulled out his light and handed to Mom, who flicked it, letting it grow into a sword. She held it delicately, as though it might jump out and bite one of us. When she finally did speak, I didn't understand it, but Raven seemed to.

"Akatharsía" She said

"Impurity," He translated immediately "So it does have a name."

"This blade belonged to Ouranos," She explained "When he fell, it was lost for thousands of years. After the first war with the Giants, Poseidon found it and brought it before the council."

"And they didn't believe him?" I guessed

"No," She nodded "None of us were around to face him, but when Hades felt all of the souls trapped inside the blade, Ares himself tried to wield it, but even he couldn't touch it without hurting himself."

"So it was sealed away?" Antonio guseed

"Yes," Hestia cut in "As for this sister blade, we know nothing."

"How was it created?" Raven asked as Mom turned Impurity back to a lighter and handed it to him

"As you know, Ouranos was born from creation, or Chaos," Hestia explained "These three metals aren't meant to be fused together, and it takes a powerful dark magic to do so."

"How powerful?" I asked

"Powerful enough to silence thousands of lives with a single thought," Mom told us "Forged in Tartarus, cooled with the blood of the innocent, and fused with the power of Chaos himself."

"A truly evil blade," Hestia nodded "A strange choice, for it to bestow itself upon you."

"I was given it," Raven said, confused "By Chiron."

"I knew, that one of you two would be the one to wield it," Mom told us "However, I didn't know which one, it chose you because of the darkness you harbor in your heart, because it sensed evil within you, even though you didn't let it control you."

"So this is it?" I asked "This is all of it, everything you know?"

"Everything," My mother nodded "I'm sorry we kept this from you, you all had a right to know, from the very beginning."

"So what next?" Antonio asked "I mean, we destroyed Kronos right? This prophecy can't take place if he's gone."

"Percy also destroyed Kronos," Raven reminded him, putting air quotes around destroyed "There's ways to bring an immortal back, no matter how scattered their essence is."

"That potion being one," I nodded "So we have to find it, then the prophecy will be done, right?"

"Unless Kronos isn't the one we're after." Raven suggested

"He has to be," I argued "That shape shifter said he's the one who sent the army to Camp Half-Blood."

"For the final betrayal, to keep his throne from the Sky's grip," Raven quoted "Sounds to me like this prophecy is going three ways."

"Us, Saturn working against us and someone else, and someone else working against Saturn and us," I said, the realization smacking me in the face "Saturn is raising an army to stop somebody else, he wants his throne back."

"They kept saying the word Sky like they were calling attention to it," Antonio noted, looking to our mothers "Why?"

"Because the Sky is obviously a sentient being." Hestia said

"Uranus," I exclaimed "It makes sense, he was king of the sky before Jupiter, he's aiming to take it back."

"The Sky will become the eye of the Snake?" Antonio asked "So what's the Snake? And what does it mean to be it's eye?"

"The Snake is Apophis," Raven told him "As for being his eye, I don't know what it means. That's why we're going to see Carter and Sadie, all this Egyptian nonsense, this is more their area of expertise."

"So what are we waiting for?" I asked "Let's roll."

"Hold up," Raven said, waving me off "I've got one more question. Two of us are going to be turned, how is that possible?"

"We don't know," Hestia said "I couldn't imagine any of you turning, despite whatever...differences you have with Olympians."

"The way it sounds, two of us will turn," I sighed, finally understanding "That's why the gods wanted us all dead?"

"Yes," Mom nodded "It's terrible, I know, and Zeus regrets letting you live. But that's why, never before has a prophecy blatantly stated something like that."

"We won't," Raven said forcefully "We aren't turning, any of us. These things, they always have some kind of double meaning."

"What the hell else could that mean?" I asked him "It literally says that we're going to turn, at least two of us, and maybe they mean for all three of us to join them."

"We can't spend too much time thinking about it," Raven told me "For now, let's just move forward with this whole thing, you know I would never willingly turn my back on you, and I know you'd do the same for me."

"And him?" I asked, nodding to Antonio

"He just stormed the throne room on Olympus with us," He laughed "He ain't going nowhere either."

In the end, we elected to leave it be. Raven was right, these prophecies always had some sort of double meaning, but I still couldn't help but shake the feeling that something was wrong, very very wrong. One way or another, we'd find out what it all meant, I just hoped we'd all be on the same side when we did.

Raven:

"You're absolutely sure about this?" Sadie asked us "The Sky will become the eye of the Snake?"

I nodded, and Carter and Sadie exchanged looks. Even though I had no clue what it meant, I knew that, whatever it was, it wasn't good at all. We had sent them an Iris Message immediately after we'd left the library of the Fates, agreeing to meet in Central Park. In a strange way, I was glad we knew what we knew, and, finally, I understood why my mother did what she did, and I was almost grateful to her for letting us live a somewhat normal existence for as long as we did, however shitty that existence may have been.

"What does it mean?" I asked "We figured this stuff was more of your guys' area."

"When we first found out we were Magicians, our father had released five gods from imprisonment," Carter began with a sigh "Of these five gods, two of them chose Sadie and I as hosts. Horus for me, Isis for Sadie."

"Alright?" Eli said, still not understanding

"When you host a god, you, for lack of a better term, can become one with that god," Sadie explained "It helps if you share the same goal, as often times you may simply spend more time arguing with them. When you become one with that god, it's called being the eye of the god."

"So what?" Eli asked "Uranus intends to host Apophis?"

"It sounds like it," Carter said, a worried look on his face "But I don't see how that would be possible."

"Yeah," I shrugged shrugged "I also didn't see how it was possible for a Demigod to also have the blood of the Pharaohs, yet here we are having this conversation."

"By logic and reasoning," Carter told us "Your very existence should be ripping apart the Duat and shredding the fabric of reality."

"I'm finding logic and reasoning very unreliable," Antonio said calmly "Given our current set of circumstances."

"Me too," Sadie nodded before turning to her brother "Carter, we have to train them."

"I don't know," Carter sighed, shaking his head "We swore we'd keep Greek and Egyptian magic separate."

"That was before we knew about them," Sadie snapped, rolling her eyes "Carter, we don't have a choice. If this Uranus or Ouranos or whatever you call him actually hosts Apophis, we're all screwed."

I had to admit, Sadie had a way with words. I knew all about her adventures with her brother, Percy, and Annabeth, and I very seriously doubted that our two Demigod friends would object given the circumstance, after all, the entire world was at stake. Unfortunately for us, we were running very short on time.

"Listen," I told them "Take whatever time you guys need to argue and fight over this, figure it out. In the meantime, we need to find out where the potion is."

"If we can get to it first," Antonio told them "We can stop Ouranos from rising altogether."

"Seeing as we just took out the only other person who wanted to stop him," Eli shrugged "It kind of falls on us to be the ones to find it, maybe, if we can, we won't have to go into the Egyptian magic thing at all."

"These things never go the way you plan them," Carter sighed "If we were going to train you, which I'm not saying we will, we should probably do it anyways, just so we aren't scrambling to do it later."

"They need to be trained, Carter," Sadie said, exasperated "If you don't want any part of this, that's fine by me, but I'm going to train them, weather you like it or not."

Carter sat down and ran his hands through his hair, clearly struggling to think his way out of this one. I was grateful for Sadie. Sure, I liked Carter and all, but he was too hesitant, tried to think too long on everything before he acted, the complete opposite of his sister.

Sadie, on he other hand, was all about taking action, all about kicking ass and taking names, getting the job done and adapting the plan to the situation, whatever it may have been.

Sadie was definitely my favorite Magician.

"Alright, alright," He said, finally resigning to defeat "We'll train you guys, how do you want to do this?"

"What do you mean?" I asked, confused

"Well, most of our initiates live at Brooklyn house," Sadie explained "But, seeing as you guys have a lot on your plate at the moment, I'm doubting that you'll want to book a room with us and stay for a while."

"I have to get back to Camp Jupiter as soon as I can," Eli told them "It'll be a lot easier for these two, I'll be on the other side of the country."

"I may have a solution," Carter said "I can't believe I'm actually saying this. What if we sent a few Magicians with each of you, that way you can all be trained at the same time."

"That could work," He shrugged "I'll probably have to run it by Reyna and Frank first, but I doubt it'll be an issue."

"If anything, we could just hang around with the Hunters for a while," I suggested "But if that's the case, make sure those Magicians are girls, most Hunters aren't very fond of guys."

"What about you two?" Sadie asked, raising her eyebrows

"Especially not us," I nodded "Some don't mind, but the majority of them are not exactly all friendly with us."

"Get ahold of us and let us know what you decide," Carter told us "In the meantime, try not to get yourselves killed. I have a feeling this kind of knowledge is going to attract a lot of unwanted attention."

"I'm counting on it." Eli grinned, cold determination in his eyes