Week Twenty Five: The Descendant: Remembering Prometheus

  This content has been taken from the camphalfblood wikia page directly to keep the story true to Rick Riordan’s version of Prometheus.

  Annabeth rolled her eyes. “Seaweed brain. Now you remember him?”

  Percy gave a nervous laugh. “Sort of. I remember Hermes mentioning him at one point, I think he had a phone call.” He shrugged. “But in the Second Olympian War I remember that Prometheus was on Kronos side, he told me that he saw our defeat and asked me to give up. He claimed that the gods were as petty if not worse than the Titans and humanity would benefit only from the victory of Kronos. He told me that under Zeus mankind would never be allowed to advance far. I told him that we wouldn’t give up but he still left Pandora’s Jar saying that I could release Elpis, the spirit of hope that resided within the jar to show our surrender. But after we won Prometheus claimed that he was pretending to be on Kronos’ side to minimize bloodshed. Hermes said that Prometheus shouldn’t be showing his face any time soon. What makes the Goddess of Truth want him back in action?”

  “To truth will lies fall and bow, through blood will two take a vow, one shall rise and one shall bind, deception, trickery, and overall, despair will rule and by a betrayal will one comprehend the enemies hand, with similar weapons but opposite strengths will one save or one will state, the true hero of the battle will find themselves not under Olympus but under the Universe itself.” Rachel repeated.

  “What if the quest isn’t about saving Prometheus but something about Elli finding someone who’s related to her, maybe not Prometheus specifically but Aletheia might have had another kid with someone else. That’s always a possibility.” Annabeth suggested.

  “She said to lift the family curse but this whole time we’ve been thinking Prometheus…” Percy commented. “Why can’t we get Elli to find Prometheus anyways? As Titan grandpappy doesn’t he have a right to help, Elli?”

  Annabeth looked at Percy in amusement. “You want him to help Elli after what he did?”

  “Yes, he sided with the wrong person, but he is still the Titan of crafty counsel and forethought. The prophecy says deception and trickery and betrayal. It’s based around finding a universal truth or the universal truth instead of fighting to say Olympus and such…” Percy shrugged. “It sounds right up Prometheus’s ally if you ask me.”

  Jason gave a small laugh. “But if ‘grandpappy’ Prometheus gets involved what do you think will happen? You heard Zeus, once a prophecy is written it can’t be written any other way.”

  “It’s a very loose prophecy though.” Percy pointed out. “It doesn’t even direct who’s supposed to go with her. It doesn’t say that she goes alone either. It only talks of the result. Of what’s going to happen in general. It doesn’t say how she’s going to get there, how long it will take for the quest, the whole having to split up the team to make sure the world ends.” Percy sighed. “This is an important quest but we have no idea of how we’re supposed to go about doing anything. And the one person who the quest is about can’t handle being around all of us at once.” Percy smirked.

  “I don’t think the prophecy has to do with Prometheus, the Goddess only said that it was a family curse but what type of family curse? Elli needs to be here to give her opinion.” Percy sighed.

  Nico shook his head. “She can’t. It’s too much for her. And honestly her enemy could use it to their advantage, whoever her enemy is, I’m guessing Prometheus is going to need to get involved since she’s family but then again, Percy, you sealed away Kronos.”

  Percy shrugged. ”So?”

  “So maybe someone’s trying to seal away Prometheus?” Nico suggested.

  “The dream Elli had, a woman that she…”

  “Apates.” Annabeth and Nico said in unison.

  “Apates?” Rachel asked in confusion. “Who?”

  “Goddess of Deception.” Chiron replied. “She’s the one who has Elli’s adopted father.”

  “Alright so we solved one part of the mystery, deception is literally the Goddess of Deception but what does she want with Elli and what family curse?”! Rachel rolled her eyes in aggravation. Sitting here without the subject was starting to aggravate her. Elli needed to be here, not sulking in truths and lies that she kept hearing.”

  “Imagine hearing a voice in your head that used to be a whisper but now it’s loud and clear.” Nico said looking at Rachel, everyone turned in curiosity.

  “Now imagine that voice appearing every time you make eye contact with someone, when you shake hands with someone, when someone brushes up against you as their walking by, a simple arm to arm contact.” Nico added. “Now think of hearing that voice tell one story but as one story is uncovered now there are two and those two bring other stories and it constantly starts to branch. Now imagine being a crowd of that and not only are these people these are demigods all who have fought for their lives to get here, people who were in the Second Olympian War, these people who were in the War with Gaea. Every single moment of truth is unraveled before you, if someone says a partial truth the whole truth reveals itself unwinding and unwinding.” Nico shook his head at Rachel.

  “You have to understand, Rachel. Elli isn’t antisocial for the same reasons as me. The world doesn’t confuse her the same ways it does others. She knows what the truth and what’s not. In fact, she honed in on those skills by play Law&Order all her life or Criminal Minds if that’s what you rather think but that’s all she’s done and what she’s been taught. She has been fighting since the beginning, Rachel. The same goes for all of us.”  Nico said with aggravation. How could Rachel even think that Elli wasn’t trustworthy? If anyone was trustworthy at a glimpsed it’d be her. Elli couldn’t function in a battle and as a spy? Right, as if a spy needed an Ara to track her down.