The 6 After The 7

Eighteen

Purify

"No! There has to be another way! There's no way that Void's bane is Gaea." Logan exclaimed.

"Kuuipo's right. Although there are no myths about Void and we don't know who his bane actually is, Mother is Gaea. That's our only lead, so we need to take it." Annabeth explained.

We all nodded. "But where do we go? What ritual do we have to do to bring her back to life?" Noah asked.

"We should go to the place Gaea was permanently put to sleep, which is right outside of camp." Percy suggested.

"That would make sense." Leo agreed. Hazel and Frank nodded their heads. Piper and Jason pondered on that for a bit before agreeing with what Leo said.

"Then it's settled. We have to bring Gaea back from her slumber." I said

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We went to the pavilion for lunch, starving, since we all skipped breakfast to go to the meeting. Not being able to tell anyone what we're going to do, I quietly sat down and ate my breakfast, which consisted of a bagel and a smoothie.

Quickly after eating, the four of us gathered near the forest and away from the training campers. We walked for a while until reaching a clearing.

"This is where Leo flew to kill Gaea. She fell here after blowing up. We have to combine powers to create an aura powerful enough to bring her soul back to life." Annabeth explained.

"How do you know all of this?" Percy asked.

"Heightened powers, Seaweed Brain." Annabeth giggled as Percy softly punched her in the arm. Aww, they're so cute together!

We stood in a circle, holding hands. Percy and Noah across each other, and Annabeth and I across of each other. I closed my eyes, feeling that the others were too. Channeling my energy into the middle of the circle, I opened my eyes slightly to see if we were all glowing. I was curious, okay?

Sure enough, we were all glowing white. I smiled and closed my eyes again. I concentrated on sending my energy to the middle again. I finally opened my eyes again and let go of everyone's hands after the surge of power left my body.

There was an blast and growls coming from behind us. The aura that we had created was still there, unmovable, but we had to stop because there was a disturbance coming from our surroundings.

We turned around to see Krios and Koios there, along with a couple hellhounds. "Well, what do you know! Void was right!" Koios chuckled and Krios grinned evilly.

How'd they know we were here?! Are one of the 6 spies? Or maybe the 7?

We charged, Annabeth and I taking Krios and the Poseidon brothers taking Koios. Using my wings, I flew up to Krios' height and slashed at his face with my stygian ice arm, which turned into a blade, while Annabeth tried to wound his sword arm with her drakon bone sword.

But the titans were faster, stronger, and smarter. Krios knew what we were planning and quickly stepped backwards. He reached out and grabbed Annabeth. She struggled in his grip but then quickly shadowtraveled out of his grasp, startling the titan.

"How?!" He asked, bewildered. "Chaos, that's how." I said as I shot a ball of pure light energy at him. He couldn't dodge it and ended up stumbling back. They were both facing us as we grouped up back together.

Then we felt a flash behind us. We turned to see Gaea.

But from the stories I was told about her, she didn't look the same. She looked more healthy. She had a beautiful green dress and a flower crown around her long wavy hair. She looked more like a lady in her twenties than a wrinkly grandma.