If necessary, Tyson could summon an army of Cyclopes to the camp’s defense, and Ella and Rachel Dare were already comparing prophecies, trying to learn more about what the future held. The kindly centaur’s face seemed to age thirty years during the course of their conversation, but he assured them he would see to the defenses of the camp.
Piper relayed the vision from her knife about the SUVs racing north. Annabeth explained her exchange of words with Reyna.
Piper and Annabeth sent a dream vision to Camp Half-Blood, warning Chiron of what had happened with the Romans at Fort Sumter. The ship was capable of sailing, but no one suggested leaving the area-not without their missing friends.
#The second chapter of the mark of athena full
The Argo II was no longer in danger of sinking, though without Leo, they couldn’t do full repairs. Percy had scoured the seafloor and found nothing. Maybe she hadn’t stayed sane.īy the time the sun rose, none of them had slept. Then she remembered that everyone around Helen had been slaughtered by the invading Greek army. She sheathed Katoptris, wondering how Helen of Troy had stayed sane during the Trojan War, if this blade had been her only source of news. She saw the nightmarish images she had seen before: the human-headed bull rising from the water, then the dark well-shaped room filling with black water as Jason, Percy, and she struggled to stay afloat. Every so often, glowing purple spirits in ghostly chariots appeared out of the countryside and fell in behind them, thundering up I-95 toward New York and Camp Half-Blood. The only images that came to her were ones she didn’t want to see: three black SUVs driving north from Charleston, packed with Roman demigods, Reyna sitting at the wheel of the lead car. Jason, also exhausted, flew around the rigging like a blond Peter Pan, putting out fires from the second green explosion that had lit up the sky just above the mainmast.Īs for Piper, all she could do was stare at her knife Katoptris, trying to locate Leo, Hazel, and Frank. Percy, despite being exhausted, searched the ocean for their missing friends. Then the monster had sunk into the deep and disappeared along with three of her friends, and she’d been powerless to help them.Īfterward, Annabeth, Coach Hedge, and Buford the table rushed around repairing things so that the ship wouldn’t sink. Piper had a new entry in her top-ten list of Times Piper Felt Useless.įighting Shrimpzilla with a dagger and a pretty voice? Not so effective. Leo just had time to think: A hamster ball elevator? Then he gained speed and rocketed toward the distant glow of the sun above. He threw a pearl at each of them in turn, and three shimmering pink bubbles of energy formed around them. “And now, off with you, demigods! Good sailing!” Hopefully.”īythos produced three small pink pearls from his saddlebags. This will convince Tiberinus to help her. He’s an ancient, proud god who can be…difficult but letters of introduction are everything to Roman spirits. “She follows the Mark of Athena, doesn’t she? Tiberinus can guide her in this quest. Once you reach Rome, your friend the daughter of Athena will need this.”īythos laughed. And I’ve given you a letter of introduction to Tiberinus, the god of the Tiber River. “In this basket you will also find the recipe. It was surrounded by a bubble of air, which Leo hoped would keep the brownies from turning into saltwater fudge sludge. “Brownies!” Aphros said proudly, shoving an old-fashioned picnic basket into Leo’s arms. “I like to think of myself as captain,” Leo said.
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