[HE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE HELPING ADAM, NOT HAVING AN EXISTENTIAL CRISIS ON THE FLOOR. But this is fine. This is totally fine because if there's one thing he's good at it's telling stories. That's how he used to help Annabeth sleep at night when they were on the run and afraid they wouldn't make it until the morning. That's how he charmed everyone at Camp. This is just another method.
There's a very slight bitter smirk.]
Welllll like I said, Kronos was waiting around for years to find somebody to help him. What was another couple of years to wait? [A pause.] The thing about being a demigod or having ties to the gods at all is that, like I said, everything relies on some kind of fate or destiny. We have prophecies...and sometimes those prophecies really don't make sense. You start to find that people know about your future more than you do but they refuse to tell you because it'd upset the balance, because they "can't." It's enough to drive anybody nuts. So anyway...this kid I guess has been hearing about his fate for his entire life. Never got to know what the full thing was because nobody would tell him. Spent his entire life haunted by it with a mother who kept screaming he was a monster and about his fate and a father who never bothered to show up except for once to tell him he couldn't explain it either.
Even a complete stranger once saw his fate and from what I heard he told him a little more about it. Saw a betrayal and some other things in his life, but he couldn't explain everything. Instead, those were just the seeds of doubt that the Olympians actually knew what they were talking about. It was just what Kronos needed to contact this kid when he was seventeen and start drawing up an alliance.
Things went on normally for a while. Couple of years, actually, because I guess unsettling the gods takes time. Kronos was feeding him instructions the entire time, gave him a weapon to assist and also helping plant seeds of doubt among the gods. Stealing Zeus's master lightning bolt and Hades' helm of darkness to pit the brothers against each other. But you know...there's always flaws in plans. But titans don't take well to flaws. Titans and gods have their own way of punishing people. Kronos is the lord of time...so nightmares were a favorite of his.
A couple of years pass and the kid learns about another boy who's supposed to come to the Camp who'll be just naive enough to help start the war. Name's Percy Jackson. He's pretty important to the whole story. [A wry grin.] So this jackass befriends Percy and takes him under his wing to make sure he'll follow orders. Keeps him safe, helps him get settled, stuff like that. Percy gets sent on a quest to find the missing lightning bolt and the helm. Plans come undone, kid beats Ares in a duel, blah blah blah. Hurray for Percy Jackson. Percy comes back to camp alive and...well. Not everybody's happy about that. Percy gets lured into the woods and a pit scorpion's summoned to poison him and try to kill him just as Percy learns that this guy he trusted all along has sworn an allegiance with the titans and plans on tearing Olympus down brick by brick.
[...gods. This isn't even the full version of events.] You want the entire story, or just jump straight to the end?
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There's a very slight bitter smirk.]
Welllll like I said, Kronos was waiting around for years to find somebody to help him. What was another couple of years to wait? [A pause.] The thing about being a demigod or having ties to the gods at all is that, like I said, everything relies on some kind of fate or destiny. We have prophecies...and sometimes those prophecies really don't make sense. You start to find that people know about your future more than you do but they refuse to tell you because it'd upset the balance, because they "can't." It's enough to drive anybody nuts. So anyway...this kid I guess has been hearing about his fate for his entire life. Never got to know what the full thing was because nobody would tell him. Spent his entire life haunted by it with a mother who kept screaming he was a monster and about his fate and a father who never bothered to show up except for once to tell him he couldn't explain it either.
Even a complete stranger once saw his fate and from what I heard he told him a little more about it. Saw a betrayal and some other things in his life, but he couldn't explain everything. Instead, those were just the seeds of doubt that the Olympians actually knew what they were talking about. It was just what Kronos needed to contact this kid when he was seventeen and start drawing up an alliance.
Things went on normally for a while. Couple of years, actually, because I guess unsettling the gods takes time. Kronos was feeding him instructions the entire time, gave him a weapon to assist and also helping plant seeds of doubt among the gods. Stealing Zeus's master lightning bolt and Hades' helm of darkness to pit the brothers against each other. But you know...there's always flaws in plans. But titans don't take well to flaws. Titans and gods have their own way of punishing people. Kronos is the lord of time...so nightmares were a favorite of his.
A couple of years pass and the kid learns about another boy who's supposed to come to the Camp who'll be just naive enough to help start the war. Name's Percy Jackson. He's pretty important to the whole story. [A wry grin.] So this jackass befriends Percy and takes him under his wing to make sure he'll follow orders. Keeps him safe, helps him get settled, stuff like that. Percy gets sent on a quest to find the missing lightning bolt and the helm. Plans come undone, kid beats Ares in a duel, blah blah blah. Hurray for Percy Jackson. Percy comes back to camp alive and...well. Not everybody's happy about that. Percy gets lured into the woods and a pit scorpion's summoned to poison him and try to kill him just as Percy learns that this guy he trusted all along has sworn an allegiance with the titans and plans on tearing Olympus down brick by brick.
[...gods. This isn't even the full version of events.] You want the entire story, or just jump straight to the end?