Who I Truly Am

Ch. 9 *Edited*

Percy POV:

Once everyone made it to the Big House rec room, Chiron starts the meeting. Rachel looks a little dazed, but okay.

"Annabeth, you wrote down the prophecy, correct?"

"Yes, I did. Percy here's Riptide. Percy did you catch the last two lines, they were quiet," I put my trusty pen in my pocket and shook my head.

"Let's go over the prophecy line by line. We're missing the last couplet, which doesn't help. What's the first line?"

"The preservers of Olympus shall lead," Annabeth says. "That must mean Jason and Percy. Jason defeated Krios, and Percy defeated Kronos."

"Luke was the savior, not me," I remember giving Luke Annabeth's dagger, watched him stab himself below his armpit. "Rachel did more than me."

"Percy, all I did was throw a hairbrush at him you did a lot more than you think you did."

"Let's not fight, children," Chiron says, I stick my tongue out at him, making the others laugh. "We need to focus on deciphering the prophecy. First-line Jason and Percy, Annabeth, next line."

"With one for an oath to fail," Annabeth recites. "It must be an oath on the Styx, how many oaths on the Styx have you made, Percy?"

"Why go directly at me and not Jason?" I ask, trying to think of oaths I've made on the Styx. Annabeth and I come to the same realization.

"No," we say in unison.

"I can't do that again," my breath becomes heavy. I can't lose control again. "It can't be that."

"Percy," Annabeth pauses, she doesn't know what to say, "it could always be something else, not that."

"But-" I can't breathe, the room feels like it's closing in on me. Every little noise I can hear, and it doesn't help.

"Percy, breath," Annabeth instructs. "In, and out."

It takes a few minutes for me to calm down, and when I do, Annabeth stops the repetition and Chiron nods at Annabeth to continue with the prophecy. A few people keep their eyes on me, clearly worried.

"Flame of Olympus' child to heed. I'm guessing it means Leo," Annabeth gets nods in agreement.

"Oh yeah!" Leo shouts. Calypso shakes her head, is she a counselor? I guess she'd be the counselor of the Atlas cabin, though she's the sole occupier, or maybe in Hestia's cabin because it's the unclaimed cabin and she doesn't have a cabin. Didn't Jordan say they were alone though? I'll have to ask Calypso about this later.

"The shifter will fall to one with scales," Annabeth pauses, and we all look at Frank.

"That doesn't sound good," Frank mutters.

"Frank? He'll fall to something with scales. That won't be too bad, right? He'll just fall over, maybe knocked out he won't..." Leo's words hung in the air. "Will he?"

"We have to hope for the best Leo," Chiron says. "Annabeth."

"The pit will come to power." Annabeth, Nico, and I lock eyes.

"He can't," I start.

"He won't," Nico's voice wavers. Will rubs his boyfriend's back.

"What other pits are there?" Annabeth asks. We don't answer, and she moves into the next line. "And darkness shall follow."

"Darkness will follow the pit. Who would Darkness be?" I ask.

"Could be Nyx or Erebus," Will says.

"What you need up in a tower."