The Irregular of Olympus (Annabeth Chase x Male Reader)

Chapter Ten: Finally, A Quest

Y/N POV

"Well?" Chiron asked Percy.

Percy slumped into a chair at the pinochle table. "She said I would retrieve what was stolen."

Grover sat forward, chewing excitedly on the remains of a Diet Coke can. "That's great!"

"Hopefully its as good as it sounds." Iz said. "But did she say anything about returning it back?"

"What did the Oracle say exactly?" Chiron pressed. "This is important."

Percy's ears were still tingling from the reptilian voice. "She... she said I would go west and face a god who had turned. I would retrieve what was stolen and see it safely returned."

"Holy Hera..." I thought to myself tiredly, "He must meet him? Of all the gods him? I don't think this will end well. Considering the circumstances we are in right now."

"I knew it," Grover said.

"Don't get too excited Grover." I warned, "You know how dangerous a quest is, especially now."

Uncle Chiron didn't look satisfied. "Anything else?"

I noticed Jackson's expression, clearly, he didn't want to tell us.

"What friend would betray me? I didn't have that many." He thought to himself. "And the last line – I would fail to save what mattered most. What kind of Oracle would send me on a quest and tell me, Oh, by the way, you'll fail. How could I confess that?"

"No," Percy said. "That's about it."

Iz and I shared a glance, knowing full well that he was not sharing the full thing.

Uncle Chiron could tell too as he studied his face. "Very well, Percy. But know this: the Oracle's words often have double meanings. Don't dwell on them too much. The truth is not always clear until events come to pass." He said was trying to make Percy feel better.

"Okay," Percy said, anxious to change topics. "So where do I go? Who's this god in the west?"

"Ah, think, Percy" Chiron said. "If Zeus and Poseidon weaken each other in a war, who stands to gain?"

"Somebody else who wants to take over?" I guessed.

"Yes, quite. Someone who harbors a grudge, who has been unhappy with his lot since the world was divided eons ago, whose kingdom would grow powerful with the deaths of millions."

"Someone who hates his brothers for forcing him into an oath to have no more children, an oath that both of them have now broken." I finished with a slight grumble at the difficult situation we will be in.

We could see Percy's was thinking real hard from the past lessons we gave him and said, "Hades."