Silenced (Demigod Story)

Instructions

“How much are you willing to lose?” Annabeth asked, concerning me of what she had in mind.

“My reputation, my life, my powers-“

“You have powers?” Annabeth interrupted.  “What are they?” she eagerly asked, clearly interested in what I had to say.

“I can grow just about anything, dirt travel, immune to curses and poison from plants, and I might have some other powers,” I shrugged.

“How are you at fighting?” Annabeth quickly asked.

“Could we go back to my powers?” I asked, basically saying that I was awful at fighting.  What do you expect?  Just because I’m the daughter of the most powerful being on/in earth doesn’t mean that I am a great fighter.

“Okay, well, I know a place that you can go to too help us win,” Annabeth promised.  “According to an ancient Greek myth, there is a tree that supplies Gaea with power.  At least, a small fraction of her power depends on that tree.”

“So why is it important if it only has a little bit of her power?” I asked.

“She is just a fraction more powerful than all of the gods combined.  If the tree is weakened, the power would go to the gods,” she explained.

“I’m confused.  You are telling me about this tree that contains her power, but how on Earth could I take the power out?” I wondered.

Annabeth looked around the room, scanning everything with her eyes as if she suspected there to be a hidden camera.  She finally looked back to me.  “There is supposed to be a poem, a spell, that drains energy, but I’m not sure if it would drain power.”

“Annie?  What’s going on up there?!” someone yelled from down stairs.

“Don’t tell them,” I pleaded.

She sighed and yelled back, “I’m examining something, give me a few more minutes!”  Annabeth turned back to me, but then processed what they said and turned back to the stair case.  “And don’t call me Annie!”

Annabeth finally turned back to me and whispered.  “I’ll need to go soon so I don’t raise suspicion.  Don’t tell anybody about the quest, you are the only one that is allowed to know because some demigods go on quests that they weren’t assigned to.”

“Why me?  Like, that seems like a quest that you should have a trained demigod attempt.”

“You are immune to poisonous plants, am I correct?  Well, the legendary tree is surrounded by them.  Not to mention all of the monsters that must guard it.  Those monsters are probably children of Gaea so if they spit out poison or something, it wouldn’t affect you because you are immune,” Annabeth rambled on quickly.  I could barely catch a word that she said but it was spoken with such passion that it wasn’t too hard to understand.

She took a deep breath as she thought of something else that she should tell me.  “You are the only one that can go on the quest because you are the only one that can do it,” Annabeth paused and looked at me suspiciously.  “That is, unless you have a sibling.”

“I don’t have a sister,” I honestly stated.

Annabeth nodded and thought for a moment.  “The camp is surrounded by Romans, but I’m sure that you could figure something out.  Have you ever tricked someone?”

“Yeah,” I answered.  “Many times.”

“Romans are more fierce but full of wisdom.  I’m sure that they would know how to take the power out of the tree,” she informed me.