Frank's POV
Frank was briefly blinded by a yellowish light, that filled his vision and seemed to push the shoreline back a few inches. He blinked, trying clear his sight as two forms stood behind the group.
Frank's vision cleared, and he gaped slightly at the new people.
"Mum." said Annabeth to his right, her new voice still foreign to his ears. What? He thought. The lady addressed seemed to ignore her and narrowed her eyes at Percy.
"Sea-spawn." She said, the distain dripping from her voice.
"Athena." He responded, his rich voice filling the space, void of emotion.
"I see you and my daughter have undertaken the curse of Achilles."
They both nodded. Her face became pinched.
"Anyway!" said Leo, interrupting the staring match. "I believe m'ladies have something for our quest?"
Athena tore her disapproving look from the two, to Leo, who kept his face blissfully ignorant as her lip curled in distain.
"Yes, young demigod." said Hecate, taking over, noticing her fellow goddess' distraction. "While it is all good that you are helping my realm, you need to be able to channel your magic into a wand. All of you posses the ability to conduct magic, but it is too raw to be put into such a fragile thing."
Athena recovered, and began to address us, "As well as that, none of you have the knowledge required to be witches and wizards, so I will gift you all with the necessary information, while Hecate will expand your magical ability."
So much power. Frank was sure that they would all combust.
"I shall go first." said Hecate.
She took a step forward and motioned for Jason to get up. He scrambled to his feet, before she gestured for him to kneel. He obediently lowered himself to the ground, and kept his head low as Hecate placed a hand on his head. Her hand began to glow, and then diminish as Jason began glow, as if something was being transferred.
She finished, and removed her hand form his head. Jason looked up and stared wide eyed at the rest of us.
"Jace? Bro, you okay?" said Percy, concern clear in his voice.
"Yeah, I just feel really hyper. Hopefully it'll go soon." replied Jason, who retreated back to his place beside Piper. She rested a hand on his thigh, calming the twitching.
"Piper."
And so they went on, till everyone had been blessed. Leo had been the hardest as he had literally shaken after his turn, and his eye had twitched for a solid ten minutes after he sat back down.
Then it was Athena's turn to infuse us with knowledge. "I will be giving you more information than the usual as this prophecy fore-warns a battle, and you will need all the help you can get. Please don't flaunt this, as it will raise suspicion."
Frank nodded along with everyone else.
Athena intoned for him to come forward. Frank's eyes widened and he hurried forward quickly. He knelt again and bowed his head as Athena lowered her hand. He felt her hand slowly heat up and then a flurry of images and information flew into his head. He saw bright green light, and white animals surge past his eyes, spiders scuttling in huge masses and what looked like grim reapers soar through the sky. And then it all settled, and the images vanished, leaving Frank to sag against his heels.
"That was... a lot." panted Frank, his back clearly heaving as he drew in big gulps of air.
He practically crawled back to his space, and Athena was about to move on before Frank asked,
"Lady Min-Athena?"
She turned to him, her face void of opinion which Frank took delightedly, before he continued.
"Who was the tall pale man? With the dark robes and a snake nose? I didn't quite catch his name..."
"That would be your foe, Frank Zhang. Voldemort."
Frank didn't know what to make of that, but he felt sincerely sorry for any mortal who were blessed with looks like that.
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Percy POV
The afternoon was then filled with camp half blood activities, and since I didn't have any siblings to boss around and lead in death defying exercises, I tagged along with Annabeth.
We stood in the central cabin area, where the arena extended into the grass, and Leo had designed an area of unlimited dummies enchanted to walk. And practically never die.
The cabin as a whole and I were practically now friends, I thought while fighting alongside them and choosing to dismiss an arrow flying past my face. Not because I was their counsellors boyfriend, but mainly because I killed the spiders.
I had been procured a knife, with which I had reluctantly agreed to fight with, and I now used to cut through the remaining five stitches attaching a mummified head to its body. I then frowned when it continued to waddle in my direction.
I swiped with my legs, toppling the tougher-than-rocks dummy, and slashed straight through where a knee would be, and grimaced satisfactorily at the now immobile and scrambling dummy.
I caught sight of Annabeth, a few feet to my left at eleven o'clock, just to witness her drop her knife in favour of judo flipping a sibling onto a dummy, which neatly severed in half at the sudden weight of the bony child. Athena children were anything if not witty, strategic and sacrificing, as the child-hammer by the name of Maxwell was now tenderly rubbing the behind that had broken a back.
She turned towards me, a huge grin on her face and completely ignoring her injured charge, before lines painted her forehead and her beautifully silver, swirling eyes widened. I looked down, thinking that I had torn my t-shirt again, when I looked up in time to see her fling her arm out at me.
I was under the impression that I had to grab it, and mentally cursed at my slow reaction, before quickly revoking it when a celestial-bronze knife materialised where her knife-sheath should be strapped to her arm, and flew towards my eye.
I blinked.
And ducked.
And heard a satisfying thunk as a knife hit its mark. I quickly twisted around and observed the dead center puncture in the dummy head, before turning with wide eyes back to Annabeth. She looked just as shocked as I did.
The rest of the cabin stilled, and I vaguely noticed the dummies drop to the ground, as I said, "D-did-did you just-"
"Yeah." came her breathless response. She stared at her hands in wonder, slowly twisting them over and back before Malcolm spoke up.
"Test it again! You need to know if you can do it again, and if it's the same." he said enthusiastically, ever the child of Athena, practically making it sound like a science experiment. Maxwell nodded vigorously from the ground.
She nodded and we all trekked over to the Archery range where the Aphrodite kids were practicing. I tried to congratulate Annabeth on her new 'power', but she simply blanked me, and I accepted that I would have to wait until she was sure that it wasn't a fluke. I had no-doubt that she could do it again, but whatever to please the lady.
"Hey! What're you doing? This is ours for the day! I don't care if you're smarter than us! It's your turn on the range tomorrow!" came an indignant yell from Drew.
"Oh, pack it in would you, Drew? No one cares."
You would have thought I used charmspeak with the way she abruptly stopped. I could see the majority of the Athena cabin narrow their eyes at Drew's obedience, just as Piper walked up from the farthest target.
I switched my gaze from Drew to Piper questioningly.
"Oh, don't mind Drew. She cursed Lacy's makeup, and as penance I allowed Lacy to practice her charmspeak on her.
"She has to adhere to whatever she is told or asked for the rest of the day." said Piper affectionately, pulling a proud looking Lacy into her side as the small girl beamed at us.
"You, my dear child of Aphrodite, are my new best friend" said Maxwell. She smiled shyly at him as he grinned. The charmer, apparently.
"Anyway!" I said, changing the topic. "We were wondering if we could borrow one of your targets? We won't be long, Annabeth has to try something."
She nodded, but a face of confusion painted her face. Drew harrumphed silently but remained quiet. We all walked to Pipers now vacant target, and Annabeth stood in position, ten meters from the board.
"She knows that she needs a bow and arrows to hit the target, right?" Piper murmured in my ear, though everyone heard. Annabeth didn't show it if she heard however, and simply stood there and blankly stared at the bullseye.
"Just watch." I replied. Despite the reassurance I layered in my still foreign voice, I began to doubt Annabeth's mental ability to throw her arm out, till she did just that.
She twisted slightly first, before spinning and throwing her fingertips in the direction of the board, and sure enough, a knife flew into the board, albeit a few inches from the bullseye.
Silence.
And then a grin broke out on her face. I rushed forward and scooped her up into my arms, spinning wildly round as she smiled.
"Oh my gods, this is amazing Annabeth! You have a power! A physical one!" She remained temporarily speechless as I continued to freak out on her behalf. I knew how much she had disliked the fact that she had no distinguishable talent other than an IQ to put Einstein to shame.
A laugh bubbled out of her as I placed her on the ground, and she launched her arms round my shoulders.
"I did it! Oh my gods, I actually did it"
"You did, Annie, you sure did." I said, a grin spread across my face.
We separated and everyone ceased their celebration, before Piper said, "Well, if you can conjure knives, what about Bows?"
She seemed to contemplate his for a second, before standing in-front if the target once again. She fumbled slightly on how to go about it, before deciding to take up a shooting stance. She slowly drew back her hand before a whispery, smile like form took place in her outstretched arms. As she continued to draw her hand back, the smoke seemed to clear itself, and become a Bow, complete with wispy arrow.
Annabeth aimed and released, the arrow becoming solid silver as it flew, shooting right into the ring above the bullseye. She lowered her arms, and winced.
"Not quite bullseye."
I rolled my eyes.
And that's when we heard the screaming.
People began to look around widely, but me and Annabeth looked firmly up. Just as we suspected, people were falling from the sky.
"You've got to be kidding me."
"Apparently not." said Annabeth, wryly. "You close enough to reach the sea?"
Her demeanour was much calmer than the last time it rained people, but I could tell that Jason was probably gonna die this time.
I nodded, and raised my arms, willing the sea in my direction. I looked up and say there were about four of them. Jason must be getting stronger.
I felt a strong tug in my gut, and I actually noticed the amount of the western seaboard I had lifted, and my own eyes widened. The water twirled over to the center of the cabins and I winced at all the sea life yelling in my head. Annabeth hissed next to me.
"What?"
"I can hear the fish. Not very clearly, but it's a lot."
"Welcome to my world." I muttered, and braced myself to catch the people without letting them flatten like a pancake. I heard them shout some words, but they were lost in the fall, as they all fell promptly into the water.
I lowered them to the ground and directed the water back into the sea, as Annabeth marched up to the coughing and spluttering group.
"JASON FREAKING GRACE, WHAT THE ACTUAL HADES ARE YOU DOING?! THIS IS GETTING RIDICULOUS; JUST BECAUSE YOU CAN FLY PEOPLE UP THERE, DOES NOT MEAN YOU SHOULD..."
She trailed off and we all saw why as we hurried after her. The people on the floor were dressed in very dark, conservative clothing for Long Island in September, and looked mysteriously out of date. I wondered if they were stragglers of escaping the Underworld, like Hazel, but then Jason was nowhere to be seen, so how did they fall from the sky?
"That wa- was unexpec- ted." gasped a sopping wet, middle aged man, with ginger hair, much like the younger man next to him. A thick English accent came from his mouth.
"So I, uh, take it that falling five hundred feet from the sky was not on your itinerary?"
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-Theres the next chapter! I'm so sorry for the long wait, I had a lot of writers block. I hope you all enjoyed it and thank you for adding it to your reading lists! Keep commenting, you have no idea how much it means.
Please comment who you think just fell out of the sky?
-AoifeDarkllove
