maribelle park just wanted her string to lead to frank zhang, but his string only led him to hazel levesque. until, maribelle's mother sends her on a quest with frank, hazel, and a new boy by the name of percy jackson.
[ frank zhang ]
[ son of neptu...
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eleven. alaska does not look good on maribelle
FRANK WOULD NOT TELL THEM what his "family gift" was, but as they flew north, Frank did tell them about his conversation with Mars the night before. He explains the prophecy Juno had issued when he was a baby — about his life being tied to a piece of firewood.
Maribelle stares at the piece of wood, hard to imagine a life being tied to it.
"Frank," Percy says, "I'm proud to be related to you."
Frank's ears turn red, "Juno has some sort of plan for us, about the Prophecy of Eight."
"Yeah," Percy grumbles, "I didn't like her as Hera. I don't like her any better as Juno."
"You're a son of Poseidon, aren't you?" Hazel asks, "You are a Greek demigod."
Percy grips his leather necklace, "I started to remember in Portland, after the gorgon's blood. It's been coming back to me slowly since then. There's another camp— Camp Half-Blood."
Maribelle stares at him, "Another camp," She blinks, "A Greek camp? Gods, if Octavian found out—"
She freezes. The other boy who'd planted the idea into Gabe's head. Gabe had said he was weird, that he'd come from somewhere other than Camp Jupiter.
"He'd declare war," Frank finishes, "He's always been sure the Greeks were out there, plotting against us. He thought Percy was a spy."
"That's why Juno sent me," Percy says, "Uh, I mean, not to spy. I think it was some kind of exchange. Your friend Jason—I think he was sent to my camp. In my dreams, I saw a demigod that might have been him. He was working with some other demigods on this flying warship. I think they're coming to Camp Jupiter to help."
"Mars said Juno wants to unite the Greeks and Romans to fight Gaea. But, jeez—Greeks and Romans have a long history of bad blood."
"That's probably why the gods have kept us apart this long. If a Greek warship appeared in the sky above Camp Jupiter, and Reyna didn't know it was friendly—"
"Yeah," Percy agrees, "We've got to be careful how we explain this when we get back."
"If get back," Frank says.
Percy nods, "I mean, I trust you guys. I hope you trust me. I feel . . . well, I feel as close to you two as to any of my old friends at Camp Half-Blood. But with the other demigods, at both camps—there's going to be a lot of suspicion."
Hazel leans over and kisses Percy on the cheek.
"Of course we trust you," Hazel says, "We're a family now. Aren't we, Belle, Frank?"
