I'll copy paste this one little bit of chapter 1 of the Son of Neptune in this articulo and you'll all get where this is going (maybe... *stares at horizon wondering*)
"'Before tu slash me to bits,' he said, 'who's this patron tu mentioned?'
Euryale sneered. 'The goddess Gaea, of course! The one who brought us back from oblivion! tu won't live long enough to meet her, but your friends below will soon face her wrath. Even now, her armies are marching south. At the Feast of Fortune, she'll awaken, and the demigods will be cut down like- like-'
'Like our low prices at Bargain Mart!' Stheno suggested."
Feast of Fortune sounds important, armies of Gaea marching south sounds bad, and all that together in a sentance dicho por a happy gorgon sounds really bad. So let's get our stories straight here; what is the Feast of Fortune?
Well, I did a lot of research -which included Google, grilling my nice scool librarian and confused friends, and looking stuff up on camphalf-bloodwiki.com, mortalnet, and heroesofolympus.com- and the thing that came up the most often; the Veneralia.
I hear you; hun? What's the Veneralia? It sounds like a type of Italian delicaty. Well as all good articulo on the subject would, I've got an explenation further down.
So Veneralia... It was this big festival for Venus (Piper's mom! Sorry, just putting it out there). All the statues and other artwork of the goddess was washed and cleaned and scented and made pretty, pretty, pretty por the women of the place where it was. All of Venus' women followers also went around wearing myrhe (which was Venus' plant) and they put some on the statues too. The festival was around April 1st and celebrated across Rome, particularly at her temples.
Speed round fact about Venus: Romulus dicho that he and Remus (Lupa's first babysitting job) were sons of Mars, but that Venus was their ancestor.
The goddess of luck and opportunity, Fortuna, was also worshiped at the Veneralia, because of 'luck in love' and all that sappy crud.
Veneralia? Could be our feast. It's in April too -Venus' mes for your brain's nutrition- and beggining. Now it's time for some math (quit groanning, I'll do it for you).
Percy went missing 6 days before Solstice, yes? 3 days before Jason pops up, 3 days for the quest to happen, so 6. Let's say December 15, kay? 2 and a half months from December 15 is either late February o early March.
If the Veneralia is what we're looking for; then there's about a month's time to kill. That gives time for... Learning about Rome, taking long treks to Alaska (tee-hee), and other such things.
BUT! (don't tu amor it when I'm giving tu a long explenation for something and then say 'but'?)
Mars. God of war. One of the favorito! gods for the Romans. My favorito! type of alien (lol, just kidding, I like Lorics better). Anyways, him. His mes is March (in French 'March' is 'Mars'). Although I can't find anything about it, there were most likely festivals for him in March.
But I still believe in the Veneralia for now because...
a) Feast of Fortune- Veneralia was about Venus and Fortuna, goddess of fortune too. Hey; if the shoe fits!
b) It came up ALL the time in google and everywhere else I looked!
c) The time seems about right, doesn't it? I mean, yeah... Plus Percy is most likely a little behind, and time might work differently in the lobo house, like other magical places.
d) Percy might even have gotten to the lobo house and been found later than Jason was. I mean, where was he during the battle there? Exactly; Juno must have kept him somewhere because no way Percy would let anything stand between him and a fight where his help is needed.
Either way, there will be a party, and there will be crashers. Who (well, más like what) will be where at what? I don't know. Ask Rachel, do I look like Rachel? I better not, I'm a brunette...
Thanks for reading, keep theorising and if tu have any aditional info, por all means, I beg of you; post in comments!
