Chapter 17: Change of Heart


Annabeth's POV

I walk towards the big house as I felt my knees shake. That vision I saw, it was all my greatest desires. Well I wouldn't know if it was my greatest desire because I didn't see the other one. I didn't want to see the other one. I knew who was in it. The person who brought me for first time at Camp Half-Blood I felt drawn to him. It was Luke. I knew it was him in that other vision. My head was spinning. The vision and Aphrodite. Everything was all so confusing! I felt my head about to explode. I sat down on the steps looked back on all that's happened. My new life with demigods and monsters felt like it some kind of MTV drama romance TV show. I didn't want that! I want my life to be a normal one. That wasn't possible though. I am a half-blood and I must accept that.
My mother is Athena the goddess of wisdom and that I hold to be true. I shook my head. I need to clear my head. Everything going on and I'm sitting here complaining! No more! I'm going to focus! No more relationships and feelings going to conflict with me anymore! I'm going to be a true daughter of Athena. I'm going to prove myself to my mother. I'm going to follow my mother.
I stared off onto the sky and I could hear my mother.
Good my child. Finally you realize the truth! I am the goddess of wisdom. You have been smart and wise to follow me now do your duty my child. Goodbye.
I stand up and turn around and face the big house and knock on the door. Then it opened to reveal Nico staring me in the face.
"Hey Annabeth what are you doing here? Weren't you with Piper and the goddess of love?"
I stared at him for a second as my head started to think of a response.
"Umm yes I was she just told me that I needed a makeover and how she loved my blonde hair."
For a second I thought Nico wasn't going to believe me by the look in his eyes but he just nodded.
"Really? Hmm you just look a little shocked that's all. Well the goddess of love did just tell you that your hair was nice. I guess for girls that's a big thing or something. Are you here to see the boy that you found?"
I nodded and he moved from the doorway inviting me into the Big House. I walked in and Nico walked out. He yawned and waved goodbye. He said he was going back to his cabin. I looked into the room and there was the blonde headed kid on the couch with Clarisse feeding him some fudge looking food. After the tour of Camp, Piper explained to me that it was Ambrosia. It can heal demigods greatly but you cannot take too much of it or else the consequences will come back to haunt you. By the way Clarisse looked she wasn't having fun and by the way she was feeding him it wasn't looking to pleasant either. She shoved it into his mouth and made him chew it by making his jaws go up and down. Then she gritted out the word swallow.
I sat at the corner waiting for the boy to awake but it wasn't going to be soon. Clarisse soon left back to her cabin as I waited. Chiron and Mr. D came to check up on the two of us. Chiron asked for any progress but I just told him that nothing has happened yet. He nodded and they went to the corner to play a game of cards.
My eyes started to get droopy as I slouched over. Then as I was about to pass out I felt something catch me. I realized that I was about to fall off my chair that I was sitting on. I look up and see Piper smiling down at me.
"Tired Annabeth?" she asked jokingly.
"No not at all." I said.
We sat in silence for a while. The minutes passed by. I remembered that she was in the vision with Aphrodite. I wish that she wasn't but it was unavoidable now.
Then after more minutes of awkward silence Piper finally broke the ice.
"Hey about my mother, Aphrodite. I'm so sorry for what happened back there. I didn't mean to see your vision. But if it makes you feel better it seemed really sweet and you looked really truly happy."
I looked at her in the eyes. They seemed so pretty. I mean they kept changing colors. I knew that she was a daughter of Aphrodite just by looking at her.
I responded to what she said soon after.
"I...It's okay. I know that you saw everything and I can accept that. Just please don't tell anyone what you saw okay? Please promise me that."
She looked in my eyes and then stuck her hand out with her pinky finger sticking out.
I smiled and raised my hand and crossed our pinky fingers.
Then she smiled and swore.
"I pinky promise to the gods that I won't tell."
I smiled and leaned against the walls.
Then a question arises in my head.
"Hey Piper, what did your mother have to talk to you about?"
Then her face seemed to age a few years. I saw the crease in her brow.
It even turned a little red.
"Umm she was just talking about how I have to live up to the name of a child of Aphrodite and such! You see...I hate drawing attention to myself. I try to dress as plain as possible. I mean have you seen the other Aphrodite girls? They dress like they are going to a fashion show all the time!"
We both shared a laugh. Behind the laughter I knew that she was lying. Then I closed my eyes and I felt Piper pull a blanket over me.
"Thanks. Beauty Queen."
Then I heard her say, "Do you want to keep that blanket? You're the daughter of Athena right?"
I nodded my head.
"Well start acting all wise! I can always take that blanket back!"
"Hey! I have my moments girl!"
Then I slowly drifted into a slumber.


Athena's POV

Finally my daughter has chosen to acknowledge her true calling. I'm so pleased to find out that she is finally taking my side for a change. I told her that her life would of been better off if she left that Percy. Now look she has a new life at Camp Half-Blood safe of monsters. She can live her life there. Then that Aphrodite has to show up! What did she show her? They stood still for a good while. I could tell right away that she was showing her daughter and my daughter some sort of vision. I must find out.
I snap my fingers and a veil appears in the air next to my throne.
There is Aphrodite now with a red silk dress showing off her bust. Then I noticed her hair. It was a long curly blonde hair with it transforming into brown from the tips. To a demigod or mortal she would of been stunning. Even to cause drooling in some men and women. It was disgusting to me. A virgin goddess with even the thought of a man sickened me. Is that why I had to get my daughter away from this Percy Jackson?
NO! I shook my head of these thoughts and returned my attention to Aphrodite.
She smiled and finally realized that I was on the other side.
"Oh Athena! How are you doing! Do you like my new dress? Oh and do you like my new hair style? I designed it from your daughters! I just made it about ten times better though!"
I rolled my eyes and proceeded on with the conversation.
"Aphrodite. I am going to get straight to the point. What did you show my daughter at Camp Half-Blood. Oh and where are you right now? I see a crowd of mortals and what are those? Centaurs?"
She nodded her head.
"You got it Athena. I am here with Ares. I am looking for two specific demigods at the moment. Oh I didn't show your daughter much! Now I must be on my leave! I am at the room of one of the two demigods."
She turned around and was about to disconnect us but I stopped her.
"Stop! Now."
She turned around and had a fierce fire in her eyes.
"Who are you commanding Athena?" she asked with a hint of anger.
"Oh don't get so angry Aphrodite! You'll get wrinkles. I would just like to thank you because of what you showed my daughter! She has changed her mind and will now follow me! She has given up on her old ways. She is now a true daughter of Athena! She is making the smartest and wisest choices she can make!"
Aphrodite stared at me with shock.
"What did you say? She has changed her mind? That means that her greatest ...It could be altered! Athena! Do you know what this means! Your pride! It is going to be the downfall of Olympus! Stop interfering with the demigods!"
I could not believe her! She was talking about not interfering with the demigods?! She was interfering with them way more than I ever have!
"You talk about interfering! That is all you have been doing!"
"I am not changing their choices like you are Athena! I am merely giving words of advice!"
Now my anger was rising.
"You foolish god! Would you like to start? I am the goddess of wisdom! I am making them chose the wise choices!"
Aphrodite appearance changed once again.
She head fiery red hair with a blood red lipstick. Her dress now underworld black with red outlines.
"Athena. Your pride is getting ahead of yourself. I will stop interfering with the demigods if you stop. You do not want to start with me goddess of wisdom."
I just laughed at the notion.
"Fine! I will stop and so will you! Now good day to you! I am through with all your trouble!"
She nodded her head and said one last thing.
"I will, however, speak to Reyna and Percy before the end of it!"
She wiped her hand across the veil and it was gone.
I stood up from my throne. Aphrodite angered me to the breaking point now. I felt my palace begin to crack.
I started to calm back down. I knew that it would be an ever greater loss if I went to war against Aphrodite. I knew that I shouldn't let my anger get ahead of me. Instead I walk towards the exit of my palace. I was going to visit a certain sea god in his home. The undersea palace. I will visit this Poseidon myself.


Piper's POV

I sat down next to Annabeth. She had just fallen asleep and was even snoring. I held in a laugh.
I then thought about what happened earlier. What my mother said.
What she had to talk to me about. I been having dreams well dreams and nightmares about a blonde headed boy. He had a tiny scar over his lips. The weird thing is. I never meet this boy but I had dreams where I am with him. It was like either a really freaky dream boy or something even more. I had a dream that we at the edge of a cliff. What was even worse was that Annabeth was there too. She was in my dreams even before I meet her. That really freaked me out! I was trying to cover up all my shock when I met her. She wasn't herself though. She wasn't that bright cheery girl that I meet. She was standing over a boy. He had dark black hair. He was kneeling with blood dripping from his forehead. He had a look of pure defeat on his face. She had a dagger in her hands. She was holding it over the boy. Then she was about to drive it through the boy but then I awoke. I was sweating all over. A fellow cabin member turned on the lights and the whole cabin was questioning me like I was in a crime scene or something. I eventually calmed them down but inside I still felt my heart racing.
Why was Annabeth about to kill that boy? Even the boy was totally shocked. He looked as if his world was ending right in front of his eyes. Then a few more days later I had another dream. We were at camp accept we were in the middle of the lake. Not in a canoe or boat but we were flying in the middle of the lake! It was amazing! I felt a mixture of joy and terror. I didn't even know how I got there but I felt happiness surge through me. I didn't want to have these dreams with a boy I didn't even know but then he shows up at Camp Half-Blood. Then my mother decides to stop by!? How could it turn out any worse.
My mother told me that that boy could be my greatest blessing or my greatest curse. What did he mean? I wanted to talk to my friend Leo about this but I knew that he would just make fun of me. You see Leo Valdez is one of my best friends. He is like a little brother to me. We always come to each other with advice. One time he even asked me advice about a girl. When we used to go to school together I even asked him to help me with things. Mainly fixing things for me and such. He managed to fix my busted skateboard and made it even way better! I was amazed he was like a born builder/fixer. It all made sense when he was claimed almost instantly when we arrived at Camp Half-Blood by Hephaestus. The god of the forge! After the time we spent at camp Leo even managed to rise above and become cabin instructor like me. He even found a hidden bunker where the Hephaestus greatest demigod used to work. He wasn't around anymore but he would of been proud of this little monster. A few weeks ago he started babbling about something that his dad told him to build. He said he sent him a message. But he was always with his cabin building so no one really believed him. Hephaestus tends to not talk to his children much. He is always busy with the forge. He left a note a few weeks ago saying that he was going to be at the secret bunker. We would of forced him out of there by now but there was one problem. He never EVER told anyone where it was.
He has been gone ever since. Now I didn't have anyone to turn to. My mother then left saying she had to go speak with her others. I had no idea what she was talking about but as she disappeared she changed into a beautiful silky red dress and even her hair changed. It turned in a magnificent blonde like Annabeth's.
I wanted to ask her so much questions but then I had to go help Annabeth at the Big House. She need help. Not to mention I wanted to learn more about that boy.
As I sat down rethinking everything that was going on I heard a moan and groan. I sat up and saw that the boy was waking up.
I stood above him waiting for him to fully awake. When he did it wasn't pretty. He flipped out. He literally jumped out of bed and flipped over the couch.
"Who are you people?! Where am I!?"
Chiron and Mr. D managed to tie him up. Mainly because Mr. D waved his hand through the air and vines started wrapping around him. I thought Chiron was going to sit on him or something in his centaur form but he wasn't sadly. He get out of his wheelchair and kneeled to the boy.
He had a fierce fire in his eyes.
Then he looked at me with his big blue electric eyes.
"It's you."


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