Again just as a reminder, as this story comes to an end, and the last final chapters are released, I truly hope that you all will enjoy my next PJO prject as much as this one. I really loved all of your amazing support though out all of this time. I have grown a lot, and I truly thank all of you for your honest support in my expedition into the worlds of PJO and TKC.
Chapter 26: Carter:
Well it's good to be able to tell our side of the story again.
I don't even know what was going on through most of the recent events. I believe that most of them were already covered by other narrators but I guess I get to describe the scene after the Gaea the earth mother (I never really did a lot of studying on Greek mythology, but when we went to war with the Greeks and romans, I made a special interest of mine boning up on some Greek myths, just in case) possessed Percy Jackson, she spoke through him in a most disturbing way. She warned the Greeks and the romans that there was a spy among them, which I am not sure is a good thing or not to be honest. On the one hand, the spy might be on our side (but I never received any information from an outside source so I am starting to think that this isn't to our advantage) but on the other, the earth goddess made it seem like the spy was actually working for her, which sounds completely impossible of course, but I know that gods can be extremely irritating when it comes to messing up mortal lives.
So she eventually let Percy go, and he fell from the sky.
By this point, the other magicians and me and Sadie and come in closer to the Greek and roman side, we had snuck up and we had herd the entire conversation.
"Catch him!" someone yelled as Percy hurdled to the ground, he was still unconscious but it looked like the goddess that let him go.
He landed abruptly, caught in Jason Grace's arms, who then collapsed from the weight onto the ground, with an unconscious Percy Jackson lying on top of him.
Thalia then proceeded into the front of the crowd, and fell onto her knees. She grabbed the metal water bottle from her bag, and unscrewed the cap. She pouted the water, a steady stream, dousing Percy's face. He coughed a bit and began to regain consciousness. But apparently Thalia thought he wasn't waking up fast enough and decided to give him a hard open handed slap a crossed his cheek.
He sprang forwards, sitting straight up in his place, "I'm awake! I'm awake,"
"'Bout time seaweed brain, now get your lazy butt up!"
He smiled and I guess that 'sea weed brain' was a reference to something—probably an inside joke they all shared, but being called it seemed to make Percy happy, but also a little sad.
He grabbed onto Thalia's forearm, and she helped to haul him up and onto his feet.
I turned to Sadie,
"What do we do?"
Her brow furrowed, she was starting to think—that's never a good sign.
She lifted up her wand, and blasted up a beam of light into the sky. It exploded, in a loud ear numbing crack. The following flash of light, utterly blinding. It actively drew all of the attention, from either side, to Sadie and me.
She walked, straight backed into the center of the street. With all eyes on her, she opened her mouth.
"Greeks, romans," she turned and gestured to our side of the battle field as well, "And my fellow Egyptians, it is not painfully clear that this war is not at all what it seems."
A girl from the Greek and roman side pushed her way to the front and stowed up to the center of the field, where Sadie was. She was dressed in all purple robes, and a golden breast plate, pined to her lapel were dozens of bronze medals. Dark hair was tumbled onto her shoulders; regally she stood and stared Sadie in the eyes.
"Explain yourself Egyptian," She ordered
Sadie rolled her eyes, "Well isn't it obvious?"
The girl scowled—apparently it wasn't obvious.
"The earth goddess lady possessed Percy and told us of spies; think about it why would she warn us?"
"Because she wants bloodshed and chaos," shouted a voice
Sadie smiled, "Exactly!"
"What did you mean by the war is not what it seems?"
"We thought that this war was about Egypt vs. Rome, and Egypt vs. Greece, but it's not! The goddess told us that herself, this war is an extension of the titan war that the Greeks and romans fought, and also the war against apophis that the Egyptians fought."
Then came a horrifying realization, Sadie was right. Who else would want the chaos that comes with war more than our old snake formed enemy?
"Apophis is trapped in the Du'at, and Gaea should have been obliterated into dust!" Percy yelled, we may or may not have explained something's about being Egyptian when he was mind washed, including some of our battles.
"Which is where the spies come into play," The voice was familiar, I knew that I knew it from somewhere, but I couldn't think of where. It began to elaborate: "The spies would have to be people that knew how things would turn out in the end, someone who could tell the end of times before they happened, someone who had a long time of knowing how things would end, so that they had time to prepare for when it did."
The crowed became hushed, I didn't have any idea who they might mean, but they sure did.
The crowed separated, and a skinny blonde boy in a loose fitting toga was shoved to the front.
"Is this true Octavian?" the girl asked
He was starting to turn purple, "Of course not! I seek only to help New Rome, and aid it in its times of need."
"Wrong!" the voice screamed, "You couldn't even go down in honesty, instead you will be remembered as a traitor and a liar, a true foe of new Rome."
Where was this voice projecting from?
Octavian began to quiver in anger, "Who dares to disgrace me in this way? Come now show yourself your heathen coward!"
Right on command, a ripping sound shuddered though all of our minds. Like the ripping of the fabric of space and time its self, the opening of dimensions. Combining the worlds of the dead and the alive, I soon knew that this is what it was.
I opened my eyes, and standing at the epicenter, of this blast, was the last person I accepted to see again. Blonde curls waving in the wind, furious and fiery grey eyes stared determinedly at the traitor Octavian. The voice from before and the girl before us now, was none other than Annabeth Chase.
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