The meeting broke out into utter chaos. The prophecy seemed to have thrown everyone off and now people were a yelling crazy mob of total disorder. Nico's eyes flashed to Sasha but quickly averted their gaze when he caught her looking back, and no matter how much Sasha tried to get him to look back at her, he seemed to be doing his best to ignore
her, and Sasha suspected it had something to do with her blowing him off. She felt a horrible pang of guilt before realizing that offending the son of Hades was the least of her problems. Unless there was another 'princess of the Ocean' at hand, Sasha was apparently destined to die at the end of the prophecy. Even worse? Apparently she was supposed to bring the ruin of the world along with her. All around her was still buzzing with excitement and confusion and chaos, but Sasha felt sick. And no, she did not care that she could see Nico watching her out of the corner of her eye. Eventually Chiron's yells were able to quiet everyone down.
"True, this prophecy proclaims the inevitable end of the world and tells of major catastrophes, however..."
"There IS no however, Chiron. In order to avoid the prophecy, we need
to kill Sasha." One guy from the Ares cabin said.
"No, we aren't meaninglessly slaughtering my sister." Percy stated, and the boy rolled his eyes.
"She's going to die in the end anyways."
"Not necessarily," Percy argued, "prophecies usually have double meanings. Not that you'd know, though, seeing as you've never been on a quest."
The boy looked as if he wanted to rip Percy's head off.
"'And she in the end death shall possess'? Hm, what else could that mean demigods?
Oh, I know, it means that she's going to end up alive and living in a
small house in the suburbs with her two children and pet moose! thank
you oh-mystical-oracle-great-one!" the boy exclaimed sarcastically, and Percy began to turn red with rage.
"Look—"
"Boys, killing Sasha is not the solution. As Percy said, prophecies are usually cryptic and their meanings not entirely clear. More so, Sasha is not the only demigod of the prophecy. It seems Charbel has turned into a bigger problem than anticipated."
"Percy, no offence, but maybe...ending…your sister is the best option. The prophecy stated pretty clearly that she would inevitably bring the downfall of western civilization." Rachel said, avoiding Percy's piercing gaze.
"She's right here, Rachel. Why don't you tell her to her face you want to kill her?" Percy shot, and Rachel turned her wide green eyes to Sasha. The Oracle blushed furiously and looked down, embarrassed. Sasha, on the other hand, was beginning to feel sicker and sicker with each passing moment. She didn't really like where the conversation was headed.
"No, it's illogical to kill Sasha," Nico spoke up, "I'm the Son of Hades and I'm saying that it's a stupid idea. If we do that, then what? The prophecy won't disappear, it'll just wait around for the next daughter of Poseidon to accept it. You're all thinking illogically."
"But what are the odds of there being a son of Kronos alive at the same time as a daughter and son of Poseidon?" Drew asked, back straight and chin out.
Nico didn't even bother looking at her, just rolled his eyes and waved her off by saying "If you haven't noticed how often history repeats itself you must be a hell of a lot stupider than everyone gives you credit for."
Drew looked like she wanted to snap back, but her face simply turned as red as her lips and she remained quiet.
"Besides," Nico went on, "it's like Percy said, she probably won't destroy the world…" he let his sentence trail off, and Sasha wasn't sure if she was imagining it or not, but she thought he had something else he wanted to say but didn't.
"I agree with Nico and Percy. Killing Sasha isn't a solution, it'll simply delay the prophecy. And like the boys said, it's more likely that the prophecy has a double meaning than that it is certain Sasha will destroy the world then die herself. Further, demigods, the prophecy isn't only about Sasha. Now we have another issue to world about—Charbel. He's the son of Kronos and a half blood." Chiron said.
"So?" Connor Stoll asked, twirling a ping-pong ball between his fingers.
"So it is likely he inherited his mother's demigod abilities as well as his father's gifts."
The room seemed to drop about ten degrees, because Sasha suddenly felt shivers going down her spine and was strangely cold.
"Okay, so not only can he control time…..he also has some other un-known ability?" Travis asked, glaring at nothing in particular. "Who in the name of Hades would ever hook up with him?"
Katie Gardener, a daughter of Demeter, whom Sasha knew because Connor had told her Travis was crushing on her, spoke up. "He has a wife, idiot." Travis scowled at her but said nothing, and Connor caught Sasha's eye and snickered. Sasha, despite herself, smiled weakly.
"Yeah, but there's also this whole issue of 'And the son of the white horse; a battle for blood.' The white horse is obviously Poseidon, but that means Percy or Ryan will fight against Charbel. Percy, I'm not worried about, he's got that annoying Achilles' Heel, but we don't know what kind of training this Charbel has received. He's probably had a really screwed up life, I'm sure Kronos didn't make things easy for him, but on top of whatever training he's received, he has the ability to stop, slow down, and speed up time at his disposal. Ryan, on the other hand, hasn't been here for a month and is not prepared for that kind of battle." Annabeth said, staring at Ryan with something that oddly struck Sasha as what she'd call a 'protective mama bear' look. Not that Sasha had any idea why Annabeth would look at Ryan like that. Because he was Percy's little brother? Oh Gods, Sasha hoped that daughter of Athena didn't get all protective over her, too. She didn't think she'd be able to bear it.
"I think that the only upside in this is that a child of Apollo and a hunter of Artemis are actually going to work together for once and accomplish something instead of trying to rip each other's throats out." Garrett said, optimistically.
"That seems to be the only good point in the whole vision" Leo muttered, then added, "I'm not even in it!"
"Alright, is there anything else to be said about the prophecy?" Chiron asked, and when it was apparent everyone had said everything they needed, "okay, then, meeting adjourned."