Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25044056-20150424034356/@comment-5471249-20150428005518

Lover of the Muse wrote:

Percy Jackson? He's too loyal to his friends. He can't give them up not for anything. He was told that years ago. And someday soon, he's going to face a sacrifice he can't make. Without you, Frank---Without your sense of duty---he's going to fail. The whole war will go sideways, and Gaea will destroy our world."

To my knowledge that never happened. I thought the paragraph above was clever foreshadowing but it turned out to be stupid and pointless because the author forgot about about it. On the contrary, that did indeed occur in "The Blood of Olympus"... Kym, Percy's half-sister ever warns him about this when they meet, telling him that he will "face his fatal flaw soon."

This important episode finally happens when they all return to Camp Half-Blood, just in time to see Gaea awaken... Jason, Piper, and Leo know that it's their role to put her back to sleep, but just as they are about to leave (to fight the Earth Mother) Percy intervenes... Then, at this particular moment, Frank tells Percy that he must step down and allow Jason, Piper, and Leo to do this, since this is their role and destiny (as "storm" and "fire" from the Prophecy of Seven)... Had Frank not intervened then and there, Gaea would not have been defeated by either "storm" (Jason) or "fire" (Leo)! As a result, Percy, is spite of his great loyalty, is able to let the trio do this... The sacrifice Mars spoke about was most likely Leo, since by stepping down letting the trio fight Gaea, Percy knew that potentially, some of them could get killed, and it ends up being Leo...