XII Annabeth

Waited for her words to sink in.

Percy somewhat took it rather...well.

If you do count the look of complete confusion well.

At least the Seaweed Brain wasn't acting out of ordinary.

"What do you mean?" Percy asked with a sense of worry around him.

Annabeth couldn't help but think it was sweet. But she also couldn't help but think how much of a failure she was at her earlier plan.

She knew she never was able to think clearly since Juno/Hera whatever took the guy that was finally standing in front of her. If that was a good or bad thing at this situation Annabeth wasn't so sure.

"If Athena had claimed that her certain child was her Favorite immediately that said child would be involved with the Mark of Athena." Annabeth explained.

She allowed her voice to sound how she felt. Worried and maybe even a little scared.

Annabeth would never allow herself to show fear in front of just anyone. Anyone but Percy.

She knew her plan of going alone wouldn't work. As much as she wanted to protect them half her mind wasn't in on the plan which provoked her to come up with a better strategy of escape.

"I still don't get it, Annabeth. What exactly is that curse?"

"The curse ran down from the time of Theia. She's a titanide or Titaness who strongly despise my Mother."

"Isn't she a child of Gaea?"

Annabeth was relatively shocked he knew a bit about the wretched Titan.

Annabeth sat on her bed preparing for the long explanation. Percy took a seat beside her.

"Yeah, she is. Anyways, Gaea and Uranus had twelve kids and Theia was one of them. She was born as somewhat in the version of Athena." Annabeth said.

"She is the titan of sorcery. She's also the goddess of light. She was sometimes called, Euryphaëssa or Eurtphaessa. She married her brother Hyperoion, and was the mother of Eos meaning Dawn, Helius meaning Sun, and Selene meaning Moon. By her other brother Oceanus, she was mother of the Cercopes."

"Of coarse Incest would eventually enter the story." Percy interrupted with a very important comment.

Annabeth inwardly smirked. Percy would say the most stupid things to lighten the mood whether he meant to or not.

"You're the one to talk. You know that it's no different with the twelve Olympians."

Thunder rumbled outside. They were both used to that so Annabeth and Percy chose to ignore it.

"You could simply say the Titans are the Evil versions of each of the twelve Olympians we have." Annabeth continued.

"Theia is the Evil counter part of Athena. She was practically made to destroy my Mother and they Basically hate each other."

"Where does the Mark of Athena enter?" Percy asked.

Annabeth half-heartedly glared. She knew it wouldn't affect the Kelp head much because her eyes were red and puffy from her crying earlier.

"I was getting to that. So...The story is similar to what happened with Arachne. You know how her children go out of their way to terrorize children of Athena? It's the same with Theia, only it isn't her children that's coming to get you for revenge. It's her personally. And it doesn't affect all of Athena's kids. It would only affect Mother's Favorite Child." Annabeth started fidgeting.

"Theia wasn't strong enough to beat my Mother so in revenge she issued a curse. The bearer of the Mark of Athena is destined to be the host of Theia. The Titaness would eventually overcome the said child's will power and consume him or her. The child could fight back and at very most stall but it won't help much. It's destined to happen." Annabeth hated thinking about any of this.

"Theia assured that that child would be the downfall of Athena. She would make sure that the body of which is hosting her would be the one to ruin and eventually Destroy Athena. Without the wisdom goddess Zeus would eventually lose the war. Olympus would roll down and soon cease to exist. The Titans would hence forth a new Milena and Gaea would be awakened to rule the world."

Annabeth buried her face in her hands.

"Theia said so herself but Athena wasn't told. The other Olympians knew and your Father tried warning Mother but because of their Rivalry Athena refused to listen. That was a big mistake on mom's part."

"Poseidon tried to stop it?" Percy asked.

"From all the Olympians...yeah. He may not have favored Athena but he believed that her Children didn't need that fate. Of coarse that aroused more suspicion so Athena didn't give much thought to it."

"Thinking dad lied?" Percy asked.

Annabeth miserably nodded.

"But then how did you guys know?" Percy had his eyebrows crunched together.

"For the Olympians it's common for the head Councilor of their cabin to be their Favorite child. Poseidon knew that and well warned the Head councilor of the Athena cabin of that time. Somehow My older sibling took it better than mom did."

"They didn't fully trust Poseidon but they took his word for it. As a precaution they passed the warning from Head councilor to Head councilor. They didn't tell my other siblings to not arouse a panic so they kept it as secret as possible. Athena couldn't have stopped having a favorite. She has more than one but the curse applies to her most Favored child."

"No offense but how did you know it was you?"

"On a normal basis I would've told you to ask your Father but we don't have time for that and the Gods have gone on lockdown. Anyways Poseidon had promised to show some sign to the child. Something relevant to Theia. A dream of which everything is backwards. The day would start with the moon and end with the sun and dawn. Theia's Children."

"You had the dream?" Percy more or less squeaked.

He was going a little paler by the second.

"I did. At first I thought it was nothing. Many of my older sibling would've thought Poseidon would mess with us by sending us the dream. So far it never happened until four days ago. I ignored it at first but then at the meeting I heard about the Mark of Athena and it got me Panicking." Annabeth admitted.

"Wait, What if Athena had a favored Daughter or son too but from the roman side."

"Then that would be Minerva. The curse speaks of the Mark of Athena not Minerva it automatically means Athena's Greek kids." Percy nodded.

"I had to think of something. If I couldn't stop it I would at least find a way to get far as possible from this quest." Annabeth continued, she had a bit of determination in her voice.

She wanted to continue on, she wanted to think it was what she really had to do but-

"So you decided to leave. Go on your own?" It wasn't a question. It was more of a statement.

Annabeth gave a small nod.

"Theia would use me to sabotage the quest. I could fight back and I would but it won't do any good."

"Wise Girl, we'll think of something." Percy tried to reassure.

"Percy, I don't want to take risks. I don't want to endanger any of you. I don't want anyone hurt...especially you." the last part had turn into a whisper.

Percy took Annabeth into his arms. Sitting her gently on his lap in a big hug.

"Why didn't you tell me sooner? We could work on this together." Percy said in a gentle voice.

Annabeth tried to remind herself to breath. She pulled away from the hug and swung her leg on the other side changing her position on Percy's lap so they were face to face.

"I didn't want you to get involved." Annabeth confessed.

"I didn't want my departure to be harder...for both of us. I thought that if We both got used to not seeing each other, then this separation wouldn't be as hard as the first." Annabeth was close to a new set of tears but she wasn't gonna let them rain. She wouldn't meet Percy's eyes.

"That's why you were avoiding me." Percy confirmed.

Annabeth involuntary gulped, expecting the worst. Her plan wasn't very child of Athena like and it wasn't what Neither of them would have liked.

Percy grabbed hold of Annabeth's shoulders forcing her to look him straight in the eyes.

"Annabeth Chase didn't it ever occur to you that I could help you get through this? You know I wouldn't just let this happen. We'll find a way as long as you don't try to hide yourself."

Annabeth knew there was no hope in fighting back with the Seaweed Brain. He would never let her go on her own.

"What will we do?" Annabeth glared pointedly at her boyfriend in frustration.

"I don't know yet but whatever it is we'll get through it together." Percy said in his inspirational voice.

"Just like we always do." He added in a loving whisper.

"We'll make Theia wish she never even thought about messing with Athena's Favorite child."

"How could such an honor be such a curse?" Annabeth groaned.

Percy chuckled kissing her forehead before pulling away and heading towards Annabeth's duffel bag to unpack.

Annabeth scowled a bit as Percy took Item out of Item one at a time out of her bag which took her about eight breaks to complete packing.

"I knew I'd get nowhere. But it was worth to try." She muttered.

Percy in turn scowled. Probably at the thought of Annabeth leaving.

"You aren't planning of going away are you? Because just so you know I'm not gonna let you go." There was a hint of threat in there.

Annabeth sighed. "I guess I couldn't even try."

Author's note:

I hope this makes up for the long no update thing. Finding the right background for an evil titan bend on destroying a goddess takes a long while.

I wasn't comfortable with having small info. I wanted details and I didn't update until I had those details so yeah Annabeth will more or less be possessed a couple of times her but...ehem...REVIEW!

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