Abby hated going to the oracle. It's not that she didn't like Rachel Elizabeth Dare but because it freaked her out a bit. After she had gotten permission to receive a quest, she immediately started out of the infirmary to find Rachel. Since it was autumn, there was a good chance that Rachel had gone to school and that worried Abby. She needed that quest soon, not to only prove herself to the Gods and Goddesses, but to avoid death; one of her greatest fears.
Abby took a sigh of relief when she found Rachel with a few campers in the Dinning Pavilion. She had her orange hair pinned back with a clip and a Camp Half-Blood t-shirt on. Her jeans had drawings on them with sharpie and splotches of paint. Abby ran up to her out of breath, and the campers looked at her laughing lightly, "I-I need a quest..." Abby heaved out.
Rachel looked at her weird and said, "Haven't I seen you here before?" She crossed her arms and scanned Abby up and down. Abby shook her head and looked at Rachel in her green eyes.
"No time to explain... QUEST NOW!" At that moment Abby's hands were trembling, but she slammed them down on the table. Rachel sighed and she started to zone out slightly. Her eyes started to go out of focus and green smoke billowed from her mouth. She the looked up at Abby and it started to freak her out. She moved back slightly and the campers with Rachel looked at Abby weird.
Rachel began to speak in a voice that wasn't her own:
"You have turned an age anew,
So a series of trials you must go through,
Only the bravest shall be at your side,
With their aid you shall be glorified,
Be prepared for what's to come,
Only you can see it done."
After Rachel said the prophecy the smoke disappeared and her eyes focused back to life and she looked at Abby, everything and everyone was quiet.
For hours Abby recited the quest over her and over in her head. For one, she didn't know who to take, but she decided against having two others. She lay down on Long Island Sound's beach and her hands sifted through the sand. She looked up at the fading stars in the sky. Abby was alone, she wanted to be alone.
Her right hand jerked to Maelstrom in her pocket instinctively when she sensed movement. With out looking or getting up she asked, "Who's there?" No response, just more movement, "I said, 'Who's there?'". Still no answer, but her senses where sharp today. She could sense that the person was at least five feet away, if not a little more. She knew what to do.
She quickly got up to kneel and spun around so she was facing the person. While she spun she uncapped Maelstrom and held the cap in her left hand tightly. She was now standing with Maelstrom's blade to the neck of the person. She glared, but it faded when she realized who it was, "Hank?"
"Thought I'd find you here. Hurry up, those new kids. Yeah they just got claimed." He said lowering the blade's tip away from his neck.
"But, but... Russell was already claimed by Hermes!" Abby protested. She just wanted to lay here on the sand and think about her quest and who to take with her. Hank shook his head, grabbed Abby's sword arm and started to drag her to the Amphitheater.
Hank sat Abby down on one of the Amphitheater's benches and pointed more down toward the stage, "Look." Abby looked and saw her new friends. Nathan was trying to see what everyone was pointing at on top of his head, but he couldn't; it was a Maddie was looking down in shock. Her clothes had changed as well to a dress, her hair was perfect, her make up was perfect.
Abby immediately stood up and ran down the stairs of the Amphitheater. Many of the campers moved because she still had a sword in her hand. When she got onto the stage, the two new campers stepped back, but Abby sighed and capped Maelstrom and shoved it in her jean's pocket. She looked at either of them and stepped closer. A top of Nathan's head was a fiery hammer that was already fading. Maddie looked like she was about to go to the Grammy's or something. "Vulcan and Venus..." Chiron started to make his way toward them and looked at Abby before bowing down. He was in his centaur form.
"Hail Nathan and Maddie. Son of Hephaestus and daughter of Aphrodite." Everyone else started to bow, and Abby eventually bowed as well. Nathan looked confused and so did Maddie, Abby decided to explain to them after she asked them to go on her quest with her.