She was about to die.Īrachne had the body of a giant black widow, with a hairy red hourglass mark on the underside of her abdomen and a pair of oozing spinnerets. The creature appeared from the curtains of webbing, and Annabeth realized that her quest was hopeless.

“I’m afraid you would have to defeat me first, my sweet,” Arachne said. How could one girl in a Bubble Wrap ankle cast remove this huge statue from its underground chamber? I’m taking it back.”Įven Annabeth had to admit her threat sounded ridiculous. “You’ve been guarding this statue since the ancient times,” Annabeth guessed. She wondered if her mother truly had lost-if she’d hidden Arachne away and rewritten the truth. The tapestries were the best she’d ever seen-better than the witch Circe’s work, and, yes, even better than some weavings she’d seen on Mount Olympus. “Look on my work! See for yourself!”Īnnabeth didn’t have to. “That’s the story written by the winner!” cried Arachne. “But you lost the contest,” Annabeth said. “Scorned by all and made into a hideous thing…because I was the better weaver.” The figure descended, becoming clearer and more horrible. “The weaver who was turned into a spider.”

The pain in Annabeth’s ankle was nothing compared to the icy acid now filling her veins. This will make your death so much more painful to my old enemy when you fail utterly.” “I had to make sure you were worthy, the only child of Athena clever enough to pass my tests and reach this place alive. “I have seen you in my dreams,” the voice said, sickly sweet and evil, like the smell in the corridors. In the webs above the statue, something moved-something dark and large. The voice sounded just as Percy had described: an angry buzz in multiple tones, female but not human. Suddenly she was seven years old again, hiding under her covers, waiting for the spiders to attack her in the night. “For ages I have known that you would come, my sweet.”Īnnabeth shuddered. She is a very realistic teenager in America.Above her in the gloom, a voice spoke. My favorite character in this book is Amenable because she goes through denial with her mother and gets the Job to follow the Mark of Athena. Will the seven demigods make it in time to save Nice did Angelo? Will Amenable complete the mission that her mother sent her on, which nobody has ever came back successfully or have even survived? Will they stop the giants who imprisoned Nice? Read 'The Mark of Athena' to find out because, I'm not telling you. Go with her as she unravels why so many children of Athena have never come back from trying to mind that holy figure that was taken by the Romans. She has to follow the Mark of Athena to find and bring back something that the Romans stole from the Greeks that was dedicated to Athena. Speeding away from the Romans as fast as they could they head out to save Nice did Angelo and stop the giants from destroying the gods. The seven demigods barely made it out alive. After landing in peace, one of the seven demigods started firing the ballista at the Romans and had no control over his body! They ride on the Argon 2nd, a ship that one of the demigods made which can travel in the air and water. They go there to find Percy, Frank, and Hazel the 3 other demigods for the prophecy. The crew of the 4 demigods in the Prophecy Seven venture out to Camp Jupiter, a Roman camp. Rick Ordain Intro: When you find yourself on a flying ship waiting to land and then suddenly meet an exploding statue you're in Amenable Chases life.

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