[When all of this is over, he'll explain to Adam why it's so important for him to remember. That this is the last time he will remember who he was and what he'd done. That he doesn't want other people to make his mistakes, but also he doesn't want the gods to get away with not changing. But for now, he has a long story to tell. At least he'll be open for questions at the end.]
All right then. [He laces his hands behind the back of his neck, rubbing it nervously even as he sorts through the last four years of his life.]
...so naturally everybody at Camp had freaked out by the kid's betrayal. He'd spent so long there and he was well liked among the campers and never seemed like he'd be the one to do something like this. And when he left Camp, he wound up on a cruise liner called the Princess Andromeda. Captained the boat and everything. Now the thing is even though this guy lied to everyone he knew, he still had people on his side. A spy in the Camp. People who were also against the gods. Followers, more or less. The whole thing was one giant circus and he was the ringleader. [He closes his eyes for a second.] You remember what I told you about the tree and the daughter of Zeus? Thalia. [Even saying her name causes him to pause.] Thalia's tree served as the boundary for Camp Half-Blood, and the spy inside camp was ordered to poison the tree with venom from a python. Because the tree was dying, the activities director, Chiron, ends up being framed and fired from Camp. Percy and Annabeth get sent on another quest away from Camp to track down this thing called the Golden Fleece. [Which isn't entirely true. But it's a shortcut.] Their quest ends up leading them right onto that boat and coming face to face with their old friend who wanted to recruit them to his side. The fleece, of course, was meant to help resurrect Kronos and after it was over, it was to go and heal Thalia's tree. ...naturally they refused because they're sane and the guy tried to feed them to a drakon. That didn't work, they got away, and they met up again only Percy...Percy's the son of Poseidon. Kid knows how to control water, and back home since we don't use tech we communicate via Iris Messages. You gotta create a rainbow from the mist of water, throw in a drachma and it'll connect you to whoever. Percy connected to Camp just in time for the guy to admit he'd framed Chiron for the poisoning and really show everybody what he was doing. In the end, Percy and Annabeth brought the Fleece back to Camp and used it to heal Thalia's tree...but I don't know if anybody thought it'd work well enough that it revived her completely. After being a tree for six years, she finally came back.
A lot of things happened after that during the course of the next two or three years. There’s a Prophecy that was predicted years and years and years ago. [A pause.] “A half-blood of the eldest gods shall reach sixteen against all odds. And see the world in endless sleep, the hero’s soul, cursed blade shall reap. A single choice shall end his days, Olympus to preserve or raze.” This is important because eventually the prophecy became pretty well known among all of us. Kronos knew. And it was basically accepted that the half-blood of the eldest gods was either a child of Zeus, a child of Poseidon, or a child of Hades. Reviving Thalia had been Kronos’s plan as the only daughter of Zeus. And Hades had two kids, but by the time the war happened he was down to one.
Kronos…is kind of an asshole too. You might not know this part of the story, but he has a right-hand man named Atlas. As in the guy who holds up the sky. So those two decide to come up with a plan to capture a monster called the Ophiotaurus which would basically grant power to destroy Olympus to anybody who killed it. So you know, taking the easy way out. Kronos wanted Thalia to kill it. Later, Kronos assigned the demigod he’s been using this whole time to help Atlas with the mission…and you’d think it’d be easy enough to say no, but Kronos is clever. There are some fates that are worse than death…like becoming a new host.
The story was told later but from what I remember the demigod takes Atlas’s place to carry the sky for a while in order to trick Annabeth into taking it while she’s captured. All of this is happening because the demigod knows Percy will come to rescue her, and Percy’s the one who keeps getting in the way. There’s also this group called the Hunters of Artemis. Artemis was tricked into holding the sky in Annabeth’s place and that brought the hunters to the other side of the country, too. While all of this is going on, the demigod’s doing his own work to hunt down Percy and lure him to Mount Othrys, the Titan’s operational base. Like Olympus, it moved, too. It was in San Francisco. Anyway, the demigod thought that maybe Thalia could be swayed to join the side of the titans. It’s not a secret what her father did to her…but Thalia’s strong. She refused to go down like that and the two of them fought until she won and sent him flying off a cliff. Sometime after that, Thalia pledges herself to become a Hunter which means she became immortal at the age of 15 and passing the prophecy onto somebody else. Smart girl.
Kronos…was pretty mad. Mad enough that he decided to make good on the promise to turn the demigod into his new vessel to prepare him for his second coming. With no friends left and stuck in a position he had no way of getting out of, the demigod went back to Kronos and prepared himself. Bathed in the River Styx and everything to make himself invulnerable save for the Achilles heel and also preparing himself to be able to take on the titan’s power and withstand future battles. They created a plan together to attack Camp Half-Blood. And in the end…well, nobody was surprised when the demigod was fully possessed by the titan and Kronos started a new clock. Once he achieved full power inside the demigod’s body, the vessel would be useless and burned up and Kronos would be in his true form. This was the start of the Battle of Manhattan. Titans versus demigods. It was kind of a mess. The entire city of mortals was put to sleep so that the battle would wage on. Percy and Annabeth and the others did all they could to fight back and even with Percy being stronger than ever since he followed and bathed in the Styx, too, to become invulnerable, it wasn’t enough. Kronos was too strong.
[He stops fully, biting his lip for a moment.] …it was Annabeth. Annabeth was the one who managed to break through and reach the vessel and bring him back in control of his body. Even after Kronos had tried to kill her, it was Annabeth who was able to help him fight back enough…and it was Annabeth’s knife that was given to the vessel in his last minutes of clarity to locate his Achilles heel and stab himself with the blade to end the titan for good.
That was how Annabeth helped save Olympus. That was why her knife was important. That was why…she needs that weapon. And I lost it. [There’s one more crucial part to the story. What happened to the vessel. But again…that was a lot. So he’s waiting to see what Adam has to say.]
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All right then. [He laces his hands behind the back of his neck, rubbing it nervously even as he sorts through the last four years of his life.]
...so naturally everybody at Camp had freaked out by the kid's betrayal. He'd spent so long there and he was well liked among the campers and never seemed like he'd be the one to do something like this. And when he left Camp, he wound up on a cruise liner called the Princess Andromeda. Captained the boat and everything. Now the thing is even though this guy lied to everyone he knew, he still had people on his side. A spy in the Camp. People who were also against the gods. Followers, more or less. The whole thing was one giant circus and he was the ringleader. [He closes his eyes for a second.] You remember what I told you about the tree and the daughter of Zeus? Thalia. [Even saying her name causes him to pause.] Thalia's tree served as the boundary for Camp Half-Blood, and the spy inside camp was ordered to poison the tree with venom from a python. Because the tree was dying, the activities director, Chiron, ends up being framed and fired from Camp. Percy and Annabeth get sent on another quest away from Camp to track down this thing called the Golden Fleece. [Which isn't entirely true. But it's a shortcut.] Their quest ends up leading them right onto that boat and coming face to face with their old friend who wanted to recruit them to his side. The fleece, of course, was meant to help resurrect Kronos and after it was over, it was to go and heal Thalia's tree. ...naturally they refused because they're sane and the guy tried to feed them to a drakon. That didn't work, they got away, and they met up again only Percy...Percy's the son of Poseidon. Kid knows how to control water, and back home since we don't use tech we communicate via Iris Messages. You gotta create a rainbow from the mist of water, throw in a drachma and it'll connect you to whoever. Percy connected to Camp just in time for the guy to admit he'd framed Chiron for the poisoning and really show everybody what he was doing. In the end, Percy and Annabeth brought the Fleece back to Camp and used it to heal Thalia's tree...but I don't know if anybody thought it'd work well enough that it revived her completely. After being a tree for six years, she finally came back.
A lot of things happened after that during the course of the next two or three years. There’s a Prophecy that was predicted years and years and years ago. [A pause.] “A half-blood of the eldest gods shall reach sixteen against all odds. And see the world in endless sleep, the hero’s soul, cursed blade shall reap. A single choice shall end his days, Olympus to preserve or raze.” This is important because eventually the prophecy became pretty well known among all of us. Kronos knew. And it was basically accepted that the half-blood of the eldest gods was either a child of Zeus, a child of Poseidon, or a child of Hades. Reviving Thalia had been Kronos’s plan as the only daughter of Zeus. And Hades had two kids, but by the time the war happened he was down to one.
Kronos…is kind of an asshole too. You might not know this part of the story, but he has a right-hand man named Atlas. As in the guy who holds up the sky. So those two decide to come up with a plan to capture a monster called the Ophiotaurus which would basically grant power to destroy Olympus to anybody who killed it. So you know, taking the easy way out. Kronos wanted Thalia to kill it. Later, Kronos assigned the demigod he’s been using this whole time to help Atlas with the mission…and you’d think it’d be easy enough to say no, but Kronos is clever. There are some fates that are worse than death…like becoming a new host.
The story was told later but from what I remember the demigod takes Atlas’s place to carry the sky for a while in order to trick Annabeth into taking it while she’s captured. All of this is happening because the demigod knows Percy will come to rescue her, and Percy’s the one who keeps getting in the way. There’s also this group called the Hunters of Artemis. Artemis was tricked into holding the sky in Annabeth’s place and that brought the hunters to the other side of the country, too. While all of this is going on, the demigod’s doing his own work to hunt down Percy and lure him to Mount Othrys, the Titan’s operational base. Like Olympus, it moved, too. It was in San Francisco. Anyway, the demigod thought that maybe Thalia could be swayed to join the side of the titans. It’s not a secret what her father did to her…but Thalia’s strong. She refused to go down like that and the two of them fought until she won and sent him flying off a cliff. Sometime after that, Thalia pledges herself to become a Hunter which means she became immortal at the age of 15 and passing the prophecy onto somebody else. Smart girl.
Kronos…was pretty mad. Mad enough that he decided to make good on the promise to turn the demigod into his new vessel to prepare him for his second coming. With no friends left and stuck in a position he had no way of getting out of, the demigod went back to Kronos and prepared himself. Bathed in the River Styx and everything to make himself invulnerable save for the Achilles heel and also preparing himself to be able to take on the titan’s power and withstand future battles. They created a plan together to attack Camp Half-Blood. And in the end…well, nobody was surprised when the demigod was fully possessed by the titan and Kronos started a new clock. Once he achieved full power inside the demigod’s body, the vessel would be useless and burned up and Kronos would be in his true form. This was the start of the Battle of Manhattan. Titans versus demigods. It was kind of a mess. The entire city of mortals was put to sleep so that the battle would wage on. Percy and Annabeth and the others did all they could to fight back and even with Percy being stronger than ever since he followed and bathed in the Styx, too, to become invulnerable, it wasn’t enough. Kronos was too strong.
[He stops fully, biting his lip for a moment.] …it was Annabeth. Annabeth was the one who managed to break through and reach the vessel and bring him back in control of his body. Even after Kronos had tried to kill her, it was Annabeth who was able to help him fight back enough…and it was Annabeth’s knife that was given to the vessel in his last minutes of clarity to locate his Achilles heel and stab himself with the blade to end the titan for good.
That was how Annabeth helped save Olympus. That was why her knife was important. That was why…she needs that weapon. And I lost it. [There’s one more crucial part to the story. What happened to the vessel. But again…that was a lot. So he’s waiting to see what Adam has to say.]