A Tainted Half-Blood

Prologue

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*Thirteen years ago*

After the meeting of the Olympians, Athena was fuming over another argument with Poseidon. That god drove her to the Underworld and back.

But she couldn't be angry as this was the last day with her daughter.

She gracefully walked back to her chambers to hear nothing. No cries, whimpers, or even the heart beat of her newborn child.

Panic swelled into her. She ran into her child's room to see a baby missing from her cot. She quickly gazed around the room, the window was wide open. The wind bellowed as though it was raged about the young half-blood's kidnapping.

Athena eyes were glazed in tears, almost in a trance-like state.

The coon of an owl drew her attention away from herself mourning.

The owl's eyes where alert, without even communicating with the nocturnal animal, she knew it knew were her baby was.

They trekked through the marshes of forest, the grained sand and the darkness of the Underworld itself.

She knew they were close as she heard the echo of an enchantment.

"This child, know as the barer will be Master Kronos's tool. The key of his resurrection, this blood injected into this child will be blessed by his power," a rusted voice enchanted.

She was confused, but being the goddess of wisdom herself, the information gathered was all she needed.

Before she could stop the act, the shrill cry of the child was enough to know the damage was already done.

She swept in behind the man and slit his throat, brutal but necessary of such an offence and crime.

Athena looked down on her little Annabeth with guilt. She did this to her child.

A pang, pierced through her already breaking heart of the needle injection mark that had a thin stream of blood smeared down her fine arm.

She cooed her child until she fell into a deep slumber.

She paced back and forth in the cave. The drip of water was tapping away, her loyal owl's bugled eyes surveyed the cave which consisted of a dead, betraying half-blood, a child, a goddess and table with tools.

Athena's mind worked in overdrive as what kind of person could save her child. She couldn't go to the Olympians as her daughter would be as good as gone.

Magic. Hecate, she can help me.

She gathered her sleeping baby and beckoned the owl onto her shoulder as they set off.

Nightfall swelled upon the darken sky. Rain began to drop, thunder began to roar and lightning began to strike.

Once arriving at the home of the goddess, she hastily knocked on the door impatiently.

"Coming," a voice called.

Her weight shifted with her changing the balance of her feet.

The door chimed a number of clicking locks and the youthful face of Hecate pops out.

"Oh, Athena. What a surprise to see you here, please come in," she welcomed the old friend with open arms.

Before Hecate could even ask for the purpose of the goddess of wisdom arrival with child she already got straight to the point.

"Please save my child," she begged.

Hecate was honestly shocked as the powerful goddess wasn't the one to plead for help. Her stubbornness was a reassurance of her judgement.

"What?" she asked confused.

Her eyebrows furrowed together in confusion. Athena was with a child or had in this case.

"Yes, she has been poisoned with Kronos blood," she rushed out and was now panting from her lack of breath.

She handed over her baby with careful hands.

Hecate placed her on a bed. She glided her hands above the little body bellow. Wincing and pulling away slightly.

Athena's lip was nearly shredded as her nervous teeth tore away at the flesh.

"I can't extract it, as it is already intwined with her blood, but I can seal it away," Hecate sighed.

Obviously not happy with this predicament.

Athena's thoughts were mixed as the result was good, but but not as good as she wanted. Hecate's next words drew her from her drifting thoughts.

"But I can only seal it for fourteen years, as the blood is very strong," Hecate concluded.

Athena felt deflated from her day, lost with forever ending thoughts swimming through her clouded mind.

She could only nod as she was lost for words.

Hecate felt sympathetic towards her friend as she couldn't bare to think this decision of her children. She could only shudder at the thought.

She turned back to the child wrapped in a bundle of blanket.

She began her enchantment, inaudible, as it was mumbled and in a different language.

In the final stages of the sealing spell, a cry came from the child. Not the one of a baby, one from the Titan lord himself.

In think second it began, in a blink it stopped. Silent as the night.

"It is finished," Hecate panted as she handed over Annabeth.

Athena could only smile at the opportunities that her child could have, hopefully even a chance of friends and happiness.

"Thank you, I am forever in your debt," Athena thanked with all her heart.

Hecate smiled and shook her fine head.

"Your welcome, please spend the rest of the time you have with your child," she instructed.

Athena took that her moment to leave, she must of been exhausted of the amount of energy she had to use on that spell.

The final hours of her time with her precious child, Athena would remember forever.

A single tear slipped from Athena's glowing eyes, of the adventure of the first day of her child's life, could only make her love Annabeth even more.

For now this was a goodbye to her little Annabeth.

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