Chapter 21: Preparing before the battle

Here comes the next chapter. Like the chapter suggests, they will prepare themselves before going to the garden.

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Bianca's POV

I did it. I actually slay a monster all by myself. I smiled proud of myself. Those enchanted knives do are powerful. I am pretty sure that if Percy hadn't given them those kinds of power, I couldn't have killed the manticore with one blow. If they were just celestial bronze it will just have pissed him off and then it would have crushed me with its tail. So, in a way, Percy saved my life again.

Gods, now I love him even more.

Then Percy turned around and I paid attention as he began to talk to the others.

"We don't have much time because we need to reach the Garden of the Hesperides by sunset," He said. "However, since we can't just leave the Ophiotaurus here, we need to send him back to Olympus."

"How?" Grover asked.

"Well first we need to contact Chiron and since I am well aware that he is not at camp right now I am going to send him an iris message to Olympus," I explained. "Oh and anyone has a golden drachma by any chance?" Percy asked us.

Thalia took one from her pocket and tosses it at him. I have no idea of what did he meant by iris message. I have never heard about it before but I was assuming that it was a way to contact people far away without using a phone. Then, I watched surprised as Percy used the rain that he was commanding to fall from the sky to keep me alive to make a rainbow. Finally, he threw the golden coin to and he said:

"Oh Iris goddess of rainbow accept my offering. Show me Chiron in Olympus."

Then I watched in amazement as the rainbow turned into the image of the centaur. He turned around to see us.

"Oh, Percy is something…" He stopped talking when he looked at Percy more carefully.

"Yes, I know I look different but I don't have time to explain just liste…" Percy said but he was interrupted.

"I assume that you are the Percy from the future, am I right?" Chiron said surprising us.

"You knew about that?" I heard Percy asked.

"Yes," Chiron confirmed. "A few years ago, the gods told me that in the future you will time travel to the Trojan War and that they will send you to the future." He made a paused before continuing. "If you are here I guess that you didn't time travel far enough."

Percy nodded.

"Well why did you contact me?" Chiron asked.

In about 5 minutes Percy explained him quickly about the Ophiotaurus, about Atlas and that we were going to go to that sunset garden.

"Hmm it was exactly what I feared," Chiron said. "The Ophiotaurus has indeed been reborn."

"Yes, and we are about to send it to you to Olympus," Percy said.

"All right and please take care," Chiron said.

Before the connection was broken though, I noticed that Chiron looked at Zoë with a sad expression. It was weird; like if he believed that it will be the last time he will ever lay his eyes on her.

"Well, how are we going to send him to Olympus?" Thalia asked Percy.

"Well, I was supposed to use the fur from the nemalion as a sacrifice to send it there but now that I think about it I must have left it in the place where I absorbed the Percy from this time," He told us.

"Hmm, then what are we going to do?" I asked him.

"Well for starters, I need your help," Percy claimed.

I blinked.

"What kind of help?"

"I am going to use a spell to transport the Ophiotaurus to Olympus but it is so very far away from here and magical transportation isn't my strong suit," Percy told me. "So, I need you to transfer you a portion of energy that allows you to shadow travel to my body so that I can get the job done," He explained.

I thought about it for a moment. If I do what Percy asks of me my ability to shadow travel could be gone for an hour or so. That could get me in trouble if I need to escape. Then again… Percy has saved my life twice already, and he has helped a lot. And I love him. I would be very ungrateful to deny his request after everything he has done for me.

"Fine," I said and move closer to Percy.

He gave me his hand and when I touched it, I started to breath faster than usual. Now that we had physical contact I could give him my energy. I closed my eyes and focused on my shadow traveling powers. Then, I slowly allowed it to leave my body and let it enter Percy's. My hand was covered in a black ball of energy that keeps flowing toward Percy. Eventually, he told me to stop and I did.

"Thanks Bianca," He said and let go of my hand.

Then he headed towards the serpent bull. He clapped his hands and unlike any other time I had seen it, his magic wasn't pale blue as always but dark blue. It must be because my energy mixed with his magic and that is the result. Eventually, his waves touched the greek monster and it disappear.

"Well now that that is done, keep you weapons ready because we are going to have a big fight when and after we reach the garden," Percy said. "Oh and Bianca, could you please morph your cloths into that Stygian iron armor I made you?" He asked me.

I nodded. Soon enough, my armor replaced my cloths. I also had one magical knife in each hand. Zoë had her bow in her hands. Thalia picks up her spear from the floor and after she touches her bracelet a shield sprang from it. Its name… Aegis was it?

Suddenly, Percy approached Grover.

"What is it?" He asked Percy.

"I am going to enchant your pipes to make your woodland magic more powerful," Percy claimed.

Grover gasped but gave Percy his pipes quickly. Then Percy put that expression of total focus he had in his face when he enchant my knives. Then, a blue bubble surrounded the pipes and a few moments later the spell was over.

Percy returned the pipes to Grover.

"What can they do now?" He asked Percy.

"Well they acvn still do the same things they did before but now you can summon sharp wooden stakes out of thin air and throw them to monsters.

Grover looked at his reed pipes in awe.

"Thanks Percy," He said.

"Well, now I am going to use another spell so that we can fly to the garden and get there in time," Percy told us.

I wasn't surprised. Maybe Zoë was right. After a while, you start to get used to Percy's magic.

Speaking of Zoë, she started talking for the first time since I killed the manticore.

"Percy, I want to ask you something," She said.

"What is it?" He asked her.

She took a deep breath before answering.

"Am I supposed to die by Atlas hand?" She asked while looking at Percy in the eyes.

That caught our attention and we looked at Percy. He sighed.

"Yes," He said sadly.

Zoë looked down. Grover looked horrified and even Thalia looked sad.

I felt very bad for her. Maybe I should be jealous at her because she loves Percy too but she had waited for millennia to be together with him and now she is supposed to die? That is not fair.

"Zoë don't worry, if I managed to save Bianca I will save you too," Percy said determined. "There is not a chance that I will let you die again. Not if I can help it."

I wanted to believe in him but then I remember the first part of the prophecy that Alice gave Zoë.

Your fate will come true you like it or not.

I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Unless I find another chance I won't be able to update until the next Friday or/and weekend. Nevertheless, I still hadn't decided if I will split the very important events of the next chapter in two chapters or take a little longer to write and publish a very large and massively important chapter.

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