A/N- Sorry about this, guys. I made a mistake in the last chapter. I got the timeline completely wrong. It's been some time since I last read The Titan's Curse. I thought the Hoover Dam scenes happened before Bianca's death. So I was wrong.
At the end of the last chapter, I said that Percy and the others are at Hoover Dam. Consider this chapter as something that happened before the last part.
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Silva looked at the night sky as he waded through the mountains of trash in his way.
He had reached the required location without any problems. Apollo seemed to have given him a little help since the plane had to coincidentally land near the location he needed to reach and not the location the plane was supposed to land in.
As he was moving as fast as possible, countless thoughts about what he was about to attempt entered into his mind.
Bianca Di Angelo is supposed to die today to fulfil the part of the prophecy of the Artemis rescue quest.
One shall be lost in the land without rain.
The third huntress chosen by Zoe to accompany them on this quest had met with an accident while at camp, making her unfit to continue the quest. But while she got wounded because of the prank of the Hermes cabin, she satisfied the condition, as the camp can be considered as a land without rain.
But she did not die.
So the line can be considered as the person being unable to accompany them further in the journey to complete the quest to save Artemis.
Now, if the prophecy had explicitly stated that a death was supposed to happen, Silva would be unable to change it. But right now, he only needs to make sure that Bianca could not continue along with the quest.
And that can be done with a plan.
Silva also had a bit of confidence in the plan's success because Apollo did not forbid him from going down this path. And he knew if this was not going to work, Apollo would not have let him go without warning him about it.
It did not take him long to find the group walking slowly through the junkyard in front of him. He then activated his scarf so as to hide himself. He did not want to get discovered by Grover's nose, as the plan required him to not be discovered by anyone.
He then moved to a distance and began clearing a space among the cluster of metal waste around him. As he removed the waste and reached the ground, he began digging until he made enough space to build a small altar.
Normally, he would have done it directly on top of the ground itself. But for the deity he was about to call, he needed to provide as much respect as he possibly could, so he was ensuring that he was covering all grounds in the ritual.
A few moments later. The battle against the giant robot.
The demigods, hunters, and the satyr were currently battling the large robot that was hell-bent on killing all five of them for stealing from the God's junkyard.
"I have to do it," Percy said as he pointed out the hatch he saw under one of the legs of the robot.
"No, it's my fault it came after us, so I am the one who is supposed to do it," Bianca said as she forcefully put the miniature figure in Percy's hand.
"Give this to Nico and tell him I'm sorry," Bianca said as she began running towards the robot.
Percy wanted to stop her, but he was unable to do so as Grover was almost impaled by a stray piece of iron that was thrown by the robot.
Percy watched as Bianca rushed towards the robot while Percy and the others created distractions for the robot to not notice her.
Then things went exactly like in canon as Silva carefully watched each moment with absolute focus. He had activated the focus ring that Athena had given him months ago, which accelerated his perception to its absolute maximum. If he missed even a single second, the chances of everything failing were very high.
He looked at the dark tattoo on his hand, which was charged with a magic he could only use once.
'Let's make it count,' he thought as he saw the robot stumble towards the power lines.
Just moments before it did, Silva vanished into the shadows. For a moment, he felt like he was wading through water that was lighter than air itself. But he focused on the location he needed to go to. The next moment, he appeared right behind Bianca as she stood in front of the controls that piloted the robot.
But Silva immediately noticed that the controls were completely smashed apart.
'So this is what led to her death in the original timeline,' he thought as he dragged her back into the shadows along with him before she could even react to his sudden existence behind her.
The moment he pulled her into the shadow realm, she turned around, and her eyes widened in recognition.
The hunters had already collected pictures from the campers and had shown her what Silva looked like before setting off on their quest.
"How?" she asked, and her voice was somehow heard through the shadow dimension where sound did not exist.
Silva just gave her a two-fingered salute and mouthed off a sorry, as he knew his voice would not travel through the shadow dimension like hers did.
Silva then let her go as she was suddenly yanked back by a reptilian tail. He watched her disappear in front of him as he returned to the place where he stood before he activated the blessing to move through the shadows.
He then stood up and looked at Percy and the group, who were running after the robot that had gotten hit by the power lines and was walking further away.
He watched as they sank into despair as they were unable to find her among the wreckage of the robot.
'Sorry about this, guys,' Silva apologised in his mind, 'but I have to do this if I want to save her life.'
"Well done, boy," a voice broke Silva from his thoughts as he turned around to find a spectre of the Lord of Death standing behind him.
"You saved my daughter successfully, so let's talk about what comes after."
A/N- Hope you like it.