Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24952497-20140517140324

''Seven half-bloods shall answer the call To storm or fire, the world must fall An oath to keep with a final breath, And foes bear arms to the Doors of Death''

We know who the Seven are:

Jason Grace, son of Jupiter

Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon

Frank Zhang, son of Mars and legacy of Poseidon

Annabeth Chase, daughter of Athena

Leo Valdez, son of Hephaestus

Piper McLean, daughter of Aphrodite

Hazel Levesque, daughter of Pluto

To storm or fire, the world must fall

People are thinking storm can refer to Jason (having some power over the skies, being the son of Jupiter/Zeus) or Percy (he created a little hurricane while battling Hyperion in The Last Olympian) and fire referring to Leo (his rare gift of creating fire from nothing, being a son of the Fire God). The world meaning Gaia aka Mother Earth.

What if To storm means to go forth or march or continue on and fire meaning eliminate or throw out? I don't think the second half means to literally fall, maybe fall back asleep...

''An oath to keep with a final breath ''

I don't have any other ideas really, a lot of people thinking it has to do with Leo and Calypso (Leo swearing on the River Styx that he'll return to Ogygia and release Calypso) or Frank and Hazel (something there but I can't remember) or Jason promising things to Piper or Percy and Annabeth (also something there, maybe, but alas I can't remember anything right now). The first thing I thought of was Bob wanting Percy and Annabeth to tell the sun and stars hello. That was actually my second thought, my first was the Gods swearing on the River Styx to keep Percy's promise from the end of The Last Olympian but I don't see how that has anything to do with The Heroes of Olympus.

And foes bear arms to the Doors of Death

Titans and demigods are enemies but Bob and his brother Damasen (Titans) held off Tartarus, Bob holding the button while Percy and Annabeth escaped and at the other end, the rest of the Seven (mostly Hazel and Hecate) taking on Pasiphae.

It is surprising this part of the Prophecy has come to pass unless it hasn't really and might have to do with Hazel basically escaping Death/Thanatos (even though he let her go because of Pluto and the quest, maybe?) or something else that's related? Maybe two people fighting near the Doors of Death (even after it was no longer anchored between Tartarus and the House of Hades) or it means And foes fight to the death?

What do you think? We all know prophecies don't make much sense at first and words can have double meanings. Do you have any other ideas?  