Chapter 6: All the Right Accessories
I had never seen Olympus before besides in the Disney movie Hercules.
It was more beautiful than I ever imagined. Percy had told me earlier that Annabeth remodeled it.
It took us forever it seemed to get to the counsel room where Zeus normally was.
A large giant, who I assumed was Zeus, sat on a solid platinum throne surrounded by other thrones, each unique for each god.
I saw my mom's throne. It was a reddish color with heart shape on the back and it was draped in silk.
We walked up and bowed before Zeus. This time I made sure to bow to the god.
"Lord Zeus," Annabeth said. "We request your knowledge."
He stared down at us with his dark grey eyes.
"What is it that you wish to know, demigods?" he asked.
"We wish to know the location of Luke Castellan's sword Backbiter."
"The sword, after the battle was thrown into the Junkyard of the Gods along with other broken weapons and such. Someone a few weeks ago broke in and stole it. It is now in Atlanta, Georgia at The Pottery Temple."
"Looks like we'll be calling Argus for a lift then," I said.
We each thanked Zeus and left. On the way out, a small girl walked up to me. Her eyes glowed like fire.
"Be careful daughter of Aphrodite," she said. "You're flaw may be your down fall."
As soon as I went to rub my eyes to make sure I wasn't seeing things, she was gone.
We made a quick call to Argus to come pick us up and left Mount Olympus.
When we got in the camp van and I slept most of the way to Atlanta. Before Dad moved to New York, he had grown up in Atlanta.
Maybe I can see my grandparents I thought.
When we got to Atlanta, it was almost nightfall and we needed a place to stay so I called my grandparents and asked could we stay and of course they were more than happy to let us.
My grandparents owned a large plantation in Georgia and were always happy to have company.
When we got to the house Grams had fresh baked peanut butter cookies, my childhood favorite.
"My little Juliet," she said embracing me. Grandpa soon walked outside.
"Grams! Grandpa!" I said. "Thanks for letting us stay! This is Noel, Percy, Annabeth, and Nico."
"Nice to meet you all," Grandpa said. "Let's get you kids settled in."
After a good hot meal and a few cookies, Annabeth walked around the house with my grandfather talking about the history and the architecture. My grandmother said Nico was too pale and thin so he was still being fed, which he didn't seem to mine.
I directed Percy to the pond in the back yard and Noel and I sat in my childhood room.
"Why are you on this quest?" Noel asked. "I mean you don't even know the guy."
"True," I replied. "but he saved my life and he's really sweet."
"He was a traitor!" he said. "Because of him some of my siblings were killed! You're sister Silena was killed!"
"He made it right, he sacrificed himself and that is enough for me!" I snapped before I went downstairs and shoved cookies down my throat.
The next morning, we left my grandparents house and headed to The Pottery Temple.
It was a large store on the side of the road.
"Be careful," Annabeth said seeing all the statues. "The last time we saw these was with Medusa."
"She couldn't be back, could she?" asked Percy.
"Who knows," she replied.
We walked to the door which held a sign.
Free Pottery Show tonight at 7 PM. Dress is formal.
"Okay, so we'll come back at twelve," Nico said. "If it is Medusa or whoever, they aren't here."
"Nico has a point," Annabeth said. "Besides, I think there is an alarm, so I don't want us to get arrested."
"Why don't we attend the event and snoop around?" I asked. "I'm sure my grandparents have some nice clothes we can wear."
"Okay, but it has to be well planned out," Percy said. I could tell he was saying that to get on Annabeth's good side instead of having his "rush in and kill everything" attitude.
We got back to my grandparents and we upstairs, to find five garment bags with are names on them.
Never miss an appointment with style – Mom
"Thanks Mom," I said.
Mom had admired each of our personal styles, thank the gods.
My dress was a pink sequin cupcake dress that came above my knee. It had a high collar with silver chains draped off the shoulders.
"Oh my Zeus, mother," I muttered. "I don't like pink."
"A daughter of Aphrodite doesn't like pink?" Annabeth laughed. "Shocker! You know you can control outfits and makeup and such right?"
"I can?" I asked.
"Silena could and from what I hear Spencer can too."
"Okay, I'll try."
I focused on the dress and whispered to myself 'Any color, but pink,' several times.
I opened my eyes to find the dress had been turned black.
"Thank you mother," I replied.
I put on the dress with my lacy black glove on my left hand and a black purse which carried the "soul marbles" on my right.
Annabeth looked amazing in her teal dress.
We got to the gala and I walked around and examined the art. It was very pretty. It had a lot of different pottery and a lot of statues.
"Guys," Annabeth whispered looking at the statue of a woman with a gaping mouth. "It is Medusa. If you see anything fishy, close your eyes or put on your sunglasses."
I walked around and saw that we were the only one there.
"Welcome….half-bloods," a voice hissed.
A tall slender woman stood before us with a dark dress on and big designer sunglasses on. On top of her head was a turban.
"Put your glasses on," Annabeth said.
We did as we were told.
"That's no fun," the woman hissed. "We won't get to play."
"Medusa, we defeated you once, and we'll do it again!"
"Medusa?" the woman said. "You think I'm the immature selfish brat that I used to call my sister. I am Euryale."
"Wait, but I heard you faded out?" I said.
"That's what the little bitch said about the sisters who stuck with her through thick and thin," she said. Euryale walked towards me and removed her turban and glasses. I quickly closed my eyes.
"You are the daughter of Aphrodite, are you not?" she hissed. "You have such beautiful hair and beautiful eyes, probably a beautiful brown like thy mother."
"Why thank you," I replied as I cringed at the sound of the hissing snakes.
"It's alright," she said. "My babies just wanted to play."
I ran closer to Annabeth.
"Noel, Percy, Nico!" we yelled.
They had apparently had went to snoop around and left us with Euryale, not knowing.
"Typical men," Euryale said. "Leaving us girls all alone."
Annabeth leaped out and kicked Euryale. I still stood frozen because of the snakes. It had been my worst fear since I was little.
"Juliet!" Annabeth said. "You can overcome your fear."
Annabeth and Euryale punched and kicked each other until Euryale knocked Annabeth into a statue.
I turned around against the wall. I could feel her coming closer towards me.
"Daughter of Aphrodite," she hissed in my ear. "Thy hair is out of place & there is a mirror behind thee" She ran her hand through my hair messing it up.
I tried not to care, but a compulsion came over me.
I reached in my bag and pulled out a small mirror and held it up to fix my hair.
"Juliet keep your eyes shut!" a voice in my head yelled.
As I held the mirror up and heard a shriek of terror from behind me.
I held on to the mirror tightly and turned around to kick Euryale away, but I ended up hurting myself in the process. I opened my eyes and looked down at the floor and saw she was frozen in stone.
"When you went to fix your hair, she must not have realized you had a mirror," Annabeth said slowly sitting up.
"It's a must accessory for any daughter of the goddess of beauty," I laughed.
We went around the building and soon found Percy and Nico locked in Euryale's office/apartment.
"It's a gorgon, one of Medusa's sisters, she locked us in here!" Percy said.
"We know," Annabeth said.
"She saw us and got stunned by my beauty," I laughed. "Where's Noel?"
"We don't know," he said. "We split up and now he's gone."
We searched for another hour for Noel and found Luke's sword Backbiter in the place Percy and Nico had been locked up.
"Why did they lock you in here?" I asked. "You could have gotten out."
"We tried, but something strong was holding the door," Nico said. "I tried to summon skeletons, but I was already drained."
I found the same inscription on the sword and it produced another "soul marble."
"Nico, Noel isn't dead is he?" I asked.
"No," he replied.
"We should look for him," I said. "But where to start?"
"We'll someone doesn't want us to resurrect Luke," Annabeth said. "First there was the attack of the Empousa and Minotaur and now Euryale. Someone is behind this."
"But who could it be?" Percy asked.
"I don't want to jump to conclusions, but Annabeth has a point and its point to one person," I said. "Noel."
Author's Note:
I hope you guys like this chapter. I kind of made it like The Lightning Thief, but anyways, it turned out good.
Lucy Hale plays Juilet by the way.
Also Lucy's dress as Aria in Pretty Little Liars for the homecoming episode was the dress I used.