Phoebe and Luke grew quite comfortable with Camp. They had made friends with their cousins, Beryl and Aeneas Grace along with their parents' friends the Valdez's children, Griffin and Esperanza. Luke and Veronica had become best friends and Phoebe and Seth often spent their free time together, though neither would admit they liked each other.
One night at the campfire however, changed everything.
Everyone was having a blast, singing along, eating s'mores, the usual. However, it all came to a halt when Chiron said, "Heroes, demigods, legacies, a prophecy from Camp Jupiter has arrived. According to their augur, it is for a quest to Delphi to defeat Python and free the power of the oracle."
At this, everyone gathered with interest as Chiron pulled out a scroll and read it aloud.
"One shall travel to city of the sun,
To free the power that is kept wrong,
Only a daughter can this be.
And child of wisdom and spawn of the sea,
Their child alone shall bring victory."
Percy cursed.
"This prophecy is clearly referring to Phoebe. Child of wisdom is Annabeth and Spawn of the sea is me. And Phoebe is our only daughter." Percy said
"That is correct. I am afraid that Phoebe Jackson is the one who must undertake this quest alone." Chiron said.
"No." Annabeth said, but her daughter rose and said "I Phoebe Jackson, legacy of Poseidon and Athena, accept this quest."
"Excellent. We shall send you off to Delphi tomorrow." Chiron said.
Phoebe nodded as she sat back down, wondering what she had just gotten herself into.
That night, Phoebe lay awake restless in her bunk, thinking about her quest.
"Hey, Phoebe, relax, you'll do fine." Her father said.
"Dad." Phoebe said.
Her dad just smiled at her and said "I was nervous to just before my first quest."
"What was it?" Phoebe asked, hoping her father could give her some tips.
"To recover Zeus's master bolt after it was stolen. Long story and you need to get some rest. All you need to know is that as long you're brave and have the courage to do something, you'll prevail." Her father said before he kissed her forehead goodnight.
That morning, Phoebe packed her backpack with a change of clothes, some ambrosia and nectar, her plane ticket, some water, about 200 dollars of mortal cash, 200 dollars of Modern Greek drachmas, and ancient Greek drachmas for Iris messaging. Her sword was in her pocket.
"You ready?" Annabeth asked her daughter.
"Nope." Phoebe said
Her dad laughed and said "I know the feeling."
Argus honked, letting her know it was time to go.
Phoebe sat on the plane nervously, for while she knew Zeus wouldn't strike his own great-granddaughter out of the sky, she had still inherited her father's fear of airplanes.
Eventually she fell asleep, which proved to be a big mistake.
Phoebe was standing in a large, dark cavern and hissing voice whispered to her:
Come to me little legacy, it has been too long since I have feasted on heroes. You shall never free the oracle.
Phoebe woke with a jerk just to see the plane was descending into Delphi.
She took a deep breath as the plane landed.
After she grabbed her bags, Phoebe hailed a taxi to the temple of Apollo in Delphi, since she had done some research on the plane ride and had learned that this was where the ancient Greeks had come to communicate with the ancient oracle's spirit, for the had been built right on top of the entrance to the top of the ancient caverns.
Now Phoebe would have to find the cavern entrance and get in there.
As it turned out, finding the cavern was easy. The trail of green smoke probably helped.
Phoebe wasn't sure if Python was baiting her or if the oracle was helping her.
Either way, she had a quest to complete.
Finally, she reached the bottom.
Well, the young fool has come to face me at last. Said the voice from her dream.
Phoebe looked up and almost screamed.
Python was at least the size of 10 houses with huge poisonous, venom filled fangs and his eyes were glowing green. His body was one large trunk of bright green scales.
"Rhea." Phoebe said, summoning her sword as the 2 began to battle.