Sarah

The rec room was thrown into anarchy.

"This is just beyond confusing!" Thalia ranted among the other shouts. "It's... It's befuddling!"

"It's so confusing you're making up words?" Sarah heard Leo yell from across the room.

"SILENCE!" Chiron bellowed at the top of his voice. It was the first time Sarah had heard him get that loud. Instantly everyone in the room quieted down. Chiron let out a sigh of exasperation. "I know that the appearance of a child of Artemis is a very big deal, but we must keep our wits about us. There is a quest to discuss after all."

Thalia was first to speak. "Well, the child of the hunt is clearly Logan, so he should be the one to lead the quest." Sarah detected a hint of disappointment in her voice.

"But the curse of winter," Leo from the Hephaestus Cabin mused, "I hope that doesn't mean what I think it does..." Sarah knew what he was thinking of: Khione, the goddess of snow and Sarah's half-sister. Two years ago Khione had aided Gaia, the Earth itself, and her sons the giants in trying to destroy the gods. Khione had been sentenced to a century in the Fields of Punishment in the underworld as, well, punishment, but there was a good chance that she could have escaped, or someone had let her out, but it was unlikely.

Sarah knew what the curse of winter meant, and it did have something to do with Khione. She didn't say anything about it though.

"What we should be worried about," Chiron said, "is Time's eternal reign."

Time.

Kronos.

The temperature in the room seemed to lower by 50 degrees, 'course Sarah didn't mind. "But the prophecy also says that siblings stop it," she tried to explain, "why should we have to worry?"

"Prophecies don't usually mean what we think," Annabeth explained, "yes, that part was quite clear, but it doesn't mean that Kronos will stay down forever. He might even still rise, but just not rule." It sounded like Annabeth was trying to convince everyone, including herself, that Kronos wasn't going to gain control.

She wasn't very persuading.

"Whatever it means," Chiron continued, "Logan will lead the quest." He turned to Logan who looked like he was still trying to process being born as a mistake. "Logan, you may choose two people to take with you on the quest. Who will you take?"

Logan snapped out of his shock. His forehead was beaded with sweat. "Wh- what?"

"I said you can choose two companions to take with you."

"R-right. The quest." Logan looked like he had just come out of a really freaky nightmare. He looked straight at Sarah. "I choose Sarah and Annabeth."

Sarah didn't know how he had known her name, but she did know she had to go on this quest. "I accept." She replied. She had always wanted to go on a quest.

Annabeth replied "I'm sorry Logan, but I can't." Sarah knew part of the reason why; About two years ago Annabeth had gone on a big quest to defeat the giants in Greece. Sarah didn't know what, but something had happened to her on that quest that had disturbed her so badly that she hadn't gone on a quest, or even a retrieval mission, since then. She only left camp anymore to go home for the school year or to go to Olympus.

Annabeth didn't say that to Logan though. "The prophecy says that hunters are needed on this quest. You'll have to take one of them instead of me."

Logan looked disappointed, but he nodded. He looked over to the red-headed hunter that had nailed Sarah with a tazer arrow in Capture the Flag. Sarah didn't like her. Logan said "What about you?"

The hunter looked surprised to say the least. She responded in a heavy southern accent "Um... Sure."

Sarah wasn't sure why Logan hadn't chosen Thalia. She was the leader after all. Chiron said "Excellent choices. You all have one day to prepare and say good bye to your friends. Tomorrow you shall depart for the city and begin your quest."

Sarah walked out of the rec room mulling over Chirons words. Say goodbye to your friends. The way he had said it, it sounded like she would be saying goodbye for the last time.

I just hope he's wrong.