Ch7 - Chiron Opens Up

Disclaimer:

Do I look like a old man who chuckles evilly and says "Who am I going to kill now?"

Do I look I a woman who drinks tea while people fight over Sophitz and Sokeefe? No? 

Well you get it.

General Pov:

The morning sun shone over the camp half blood, making the grass glisten with due and the Apollo cabin shine as if it is a literal sun. 

And the morning was faced with eight demigods with bewildered thoughts.

"Who were those people?"

"They didn't seem to have godly parents, then why did they have godly powers?"

"What the heck is Hepatetus cabin making so much ruckus about?"

Later, they got to know that the crack Leo had heard, was about a portal design that Leo had made. The Hepatetus cabin had finally decided to start working on it. It would link Camp Jupiter and Camp half blood in a direct transport if it worked.

After breakfast, the ten of the prophecy and Chiron, along with some of the cabin councilors, met for meeting in the big house.

"So, I am assuming you guys had prophecy related dreams tonight?" Chiron asked looking at the pensive face of the demigods. 

"Yeah! Annabeth has influenced me. Even in dreams I had to see tests." Percy grumbled.

Annabeth shut him up and asked everyone to share their dreams. They all told their dream. Apparently, Sophie had just as interesting life as demigods. Annabeth had been typing away on her laptop all the time everyone spoke. After everyone was done Chiron closed his eyes and kept them closed. Leo would have thought that he was asleep, except that he was standing. Could centaurs sleep while standing?

While Annabeth was sitting and frowning over her laptop, Leo began to take out tools from his belt and started fiddling.

After about half an hour, Annabeth said, "Okay, here's what I have collected. 

All the elves are like hunters of Artemis, they can go down in battle, but are otherwise immortal. 

Elves' ears turn pointy once they grow old.

Generally, all elves are good-looking. This girl, Sophie is common in all of our dreams, and the boys, Keefe and Fitz are in many of them. Dexter and Biana are also repeated.

I am assuming that the kids I saw in my dream are the ones the prophecy was talking about.

One girl is like a daughter of Poisdon, she can control water.

Two of them can read minds. 

Dexter is like a son of Hepatetus, he can make things.

Sophie seemed like a special case, she has four abilities. She can read minds, teleport, and some other things. This is because of some rebels- called the black swan.

Her dad, I am assuming, is Grady and he can control what people do.

And there are general things elves can do like float around the place.

Also, the elves have herds of animals that are supposed to be extinct, like T-rex, though, the gods never said anything about them having neon green feathers, and wooly mammoths. 

Also, Sophie had been made to wear a circlet that would block her abilities, which she doesn't wear in the dreams where she is older, so I am assuming her period of punishment got over or she removed it illegally. I am going for the latter, because she gets banished along with her friends at one point.

Then she was accepted in the 'lost cities' as they call it, maybe due to some act of valor, judging by the life she has. They went on a quest to rescue two people who looked like they had been tortured. 

Also, Sophie, Fitz and their two bodyguards had been tortured to know the place of a guy called Wylie Endal. He appeared with Dexter and hopefully saved them.

The torture method used is some sort of shadows that can hurt people. Nico? Hazel? Anything you have to say on that?"

Hazel shook her head and looked at Nico. Even though she was a daughter of Pluto, Nico was more along the darkness part. He frowned and said, "There some sort of darknesses that hurt people. But that is taken from the ground. The woman, Umber, was bringing darkness from the sky. I did hear dad talk about something called shadowflux... but it's supposed to be uncontrollable."

Annabeth nodded, but didn't press further seeing Nico's pained face. She figured he had tried to control it but it didn't go well. 

She continued, "The elves can appear and disappear from place to place.

What confuses me are the black cloaks with white eye symbol. The kids wore it in my dream and in Jason's dream, the enemy wore it."

Piper said, "Maybe in your dream, they wore it as disguise?" 

"That may be possible." Annabeth said, "And Chiron, do you know what species the bodyguards are?"

"They are goblins. They are an intelligent species and are in a treaty with elves to protect them." Chiron said. He looked forelone, almost guilty.

Percy asked incredulously, "So you knew about elves all along then?" 

"Well, yes. But I wasn't supposed to tell you all. But...," He sighed, "I suppose now that it involves you, I will have to tell you."

His voice was slow and faraway as if he was remembering fond memories. "In ancient times, the gods decided to make a species. Superior to humans, but lesser beings than gods. Like demigods. They wanted to make a race that is similar to demigods, but one that doesn't require *ahem* godly interference.

So they made elves. Elves are everything the gods wanted the heroes who did their quests to have. They were superior. The elves are always good looking, they speak a language, the enlightened language, and they begin speaking from the moment they were born. They had special powers that children of gods sometimes had, like controlling water, fire, light, darkness, minds, emotions and sometimes even what people do or think.

They lived immortal lives. They had unlimited wealth. They eventually introduced the elves to the humans. At first, there were rivalry, fights, squabbles, but slowly they united. The humans willingly let the elves rule the world. 

The elves, in turn, respected the human rights. They even educated and tames the species that used to be naturally monstrous, the Goblins, the Orges, the Dwarves - failed attempts of the gods trying to recreate superior humans. They gave protection to the gnomes.

But the elves weren't fighters. They were peaceful beings. Their fatal flaw, guilt, would break them for violence. They could not be used for quests as the gods wanted, so the gods decided to vaporize the entire community. 

But Hestia stopped them. She could see the goodness in elves, the fairness with which they drived the world. The gods obliged. They let the elves be without any interference. The elves eventually made treaties with all the six intelligent species, Goblins, Orges, Gnomes, Humans, Dwarves and Trolls. 

But then, the problems started. Humans in hundreds were being kidnapped. Evidence showed that it was the work of the elves. They kidnapped them and tortured them for their ruthlessness. The human leaders reported this to the elves, but elves didn't believe them. 

They couldn't believe any elf capable of doing it. So, the humans decided to take matters in their own hands. They started planning to take over governance. 

Were they at fault? No. 

But the elves didn't believe so. They didn't want bloodshed, however. They could have won the war, but the guilt of violence would have broken them. The other intelligent species would lose their unity in a human-elf war. 

The elves decided to retreat. They disappeared off the map, using clever illusions. Places like Atlantis and Lumanaria became myths. 

But the humans were not the only ones whose minds were wiped. The gods made the elves think that they, the gods, were myths. The elves began to believe that the gods were another clever myths made by humans after the elves disappeared."

"So, all the while, the elves lived, along with Goblins, Trolls, Orges, etc." Hazel asked.

"Yes." Chiron looked sad. 

A long silence followed, with the demigods processing the huge inflow of information and Chiron lost in old memories. 

At some point, Chiron went away, saying that he need to inform the Olympians of recent developments and the meeting dispersed. 







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