Hey people I'm back for another chapter real soon after the last one, but I actually have a question for all of you. This story wasn't actually written to be romance however, it seems I can't write a story without knowing there is at least a sprinkle of romance in the future, besides percabeth which is a given. So please tell me who you would pair Izzy off with. Also on a completely separate note there are a lot of references to the triple moon goddess, the maiden, the mother, and the crone even though it is not mentioned in the actual series. Anyway I don't own Percy Jackson and here is chapter four.
I had always had strange dreams, though I suppose that comes with the territory of being a demigod. But this dream, my first dream at Camp Half-Blood took the cake, at least at this point. I stood in the center of a giant circle; the floor beneath my sneaker clad feet was made out of what appeared to be sapphire. The walls of this open space were fiery red while the ceiling was black, as if I'd been thrown into a deep pit where the walls were painted with blood. I could see small pinpricks of light, like stars off in the far distance. In front of me were three spotlights, which seemed to get closer to me, each of them shone on a female. In the first was a young girl, maybe nine or ten, no older than twelve at the most with long black hair and a sparkly silver dress, her eyes were closed as if she was sleeping. In the next spotlight was an older woman of probably twenty two if my age guessing skills were accurate. She had shoulder length blonde hair and under her silver dress you could see a baby bump her eyes too were closed. In the finale spotlight was an old woman. Her white hair tumbled over her shoulders and down her back like the other two her eyes were closed. The maiden, the mother, and the crone. My hand flew to the necklace Percy had given me.
"Magnificent aren't they?" A voice said as I was joined in my little circle by another woman. Unlike the three goddesses before me, because surely these women could only be Artimis, Selene, and Hecate, this woman wore a red and black dress that made her horribly pale skin almost translucent.
"They are the moon and the very embodiment of growing up female. How could they be anything other than magnificent?" I countered. The woman before me laughed.
"You are more your mother's child than you realize." The woman in the red and black dress told me. I frowned. I should know this woman. She was up to something. My brain started to feel fuzzy the more I thought about it. "Now now, don't do that. You'll spoil our nice conversation." The woman chided me.
"Who are you?" I slurred my tongue feeling heavy.
"There there child. Don't try and speak, just listen and watch. Right now you are just an observer, not causing the chaos I wish you would, however for now it will do." I was informed. Chaos that brought a name, a familiar name to the tip of my tongue, but I could not say it. It was like a powerful taboo tightening around my chest painfully every time I came close to calling out the name. "You will be claimed before you leave camp so do not worry about that. What you must worry about is the curse. It may seem cruel to you now, but it's my insurance policy to make sure you stay with Percy you see?" The woman said her voice light.
"What curse?" I demanded glad to have feeling back in my tongue. The woman reached forward and ripped my shirt. On my shoulder, where I could just barely see it if I craned my neck, was a mark. It was a red and black with green splashed here and there. I couldn't make out its shape, but I had a feeling that its shape would be revealed in time.
"That mark marks you with the curse I have ignited into every cell of your body, but it also marks the prophecy about you. When your prophecy starts the mark will slowly become clearer." Eris told me as she walked around me. It was beginning to make me dizzy trying to keep her in my sights.
"Oh great, a two for one." I growled. Eris glared at me her eyes a black fire, guess she was just like her big brother.
"Be grateful my dear. You have no idea what would have happened if I hadn't pulled you to your rightful spot in the universe." Eris snapped. I resisted the urge to roll my eyes.
"Oh yes. I'm very grateful Mistress Eris." I replied trying hard to keep any negativity out of my voice. The only reason: I didn't feel like getting vaporized today. Eris grinned at me. A horrible grin that I tried not to shudder because of.
"Good you recognize me as your patron. Hecate may be your mother, but I am the one who shall help you one your journeys." Eris told me.
"As long as I provide you with drama right?" I questioned crossing my arms.
"Good you learn fast." Eris told me brightly, this time I really did roll my eyes.
"Why are the moon goddesses here?" I grumbled changing the subject.
"I don't really know, this is your dream after all my dear, but that does remind me. I probably should show you how to use your weapon." Eris said. She reached forward and ripped my necklace from neck, geez I guess she really didn't like my fashion since she just loved destroying it. She then tossed it at me. I caught it with it lying horizontally across my palm. I closed my fingers around it. I could feel it start to change, but something happed and my dream shifted. It was a normal dream not, one I wouldn't remember when I woke up.
I woke up what seemed like hours later. Annabeth and Grover were at my bedside. I didn't open my eyes, no I could hear them talking, about me. Never a good conversation to wake up on. "Grover what are you going on about?" Annabeth asked.
"Izzy! She knows something!" Grover shouted. Annabeth was quick to shush him.
"You said that before, but what do you mean?" Annabeth asked.
"She mentioned Thalia Annabeth. She knows things she shouldn't." Grover said poor boy he sounded scared pants-less, ok bad joke. Point was that boy was going to blow my cover.
"Thalia? When did she mention Thalia?" Annabeth shouted her voice now being the loud one. If I hadn't already been awake these two would have most definitely woke me up.
"When she woke up from the Minotaur attack, she said she was thrown into Thalia." Grover said in a whispery tone as if he was scared someone was going to attack him.
"Are you sure?" Annabeth asked. I could feel those grey eyes that Percy loved so much boring into me like sharp tiny drills, or Fetus's teeth depending on what reference you wanted to go with.
"Yeah, she tried to tell me she said tree, but I swear to you Annabeth she said Thalia." Grover informed her.
"Maybe we should ask her when she wakes." Chrion suggested as I heard the clip clop of hooves on the floor.
"Chrion." Annabeth and Grover cried in unison. Well I definitely wasn't in the Hermes Cabin. So where was I and why? I mentally sighed. I might as well reveal that I was up.
"Morning Chrion. How long was I out?" I asked sitting up and drawing one knee to my chest. Yes I was ignoring Grover and Annabeth, but they deserved it. They shouldn't have been talking about a sleeping person in the same room of said sleeping person.
"You slept thought the night. You had Percy worried about you." Chrion informed me.
"I'll have to apologize for that thought technically it's Eris's fault not mine." I sad swinging my legs off the bed. "so where am I?" I asked still ignoring Grover and Annabeth.
"The infirmary. We brought you here when you first passed out." Annabeth answered. I thought about continuing to try and ignore her, but I decided it was a waste of my time and nodded.
"Guess that makes since." I muttered kicking my feet back and forth.
"Isabelle how do you know Thalia?" Chrion asked me. I sighed as I rested my elbows on my knees and rested my chin against my folded together hands.
"Chrion I can't give you the answer you seek. Not unless I tell you and you alone." I answered earning several shouts of protest from both Grover and Annabeth. Chrion must have realized how serious I was because he sent Grover and Annabeth out. They exited the room, but I wouldn't doubt it fi they had their ears pressed against the door. I closed my eyes tightly and focused on putting up a silence barrier. I didn't know if it worked or not, but I would have to risk it. "I was told not to tell you this but you already know just about everything so you might as well know this to." I said as I stood and began to pace. "I was born in a parallel world to this one. In it Camp Half-Blood and the story of Percy's journey is all documented in a book series, well two of them. According to my mother I was born a demigod just somehow born in the other world. Eris however decided that she wanted to know what is to happen. She found out and claimed there wasn't enough drama. So she tore me from the other world and dumped me on your field trip. I already told you about Eris placing me with Percy. However I didn't tell you I read the book series about Percy. I know just about everything to come. And it's also how I know about Thalia. Eventually he'll know about her." I said. I realized my answer was a confusing ramble, but it was the only way I knew how to convey my message.
"Just about everything?" Chrion prodded after he processed what I said.
"The Great Prophecy and the Prophecy of Seven, basically everything in the next five years give or take a few things. Trust me Chrion, things with the lightening their will even out, but that's the least of your problems." I informed him thinking back to the mark on my shoulder. I now had my own problems to worry about not just Percy's.