

Leo Valdez, Frank Zhang and Jason Grace work to secure the statue with grappling lines, but Arachne manages to ensnare Annabeth and pull her to the edge of the chasm, dragging Percy Jackson along with her when he tries to save his girlfriend. Rendered even more unstable by the Argo II's arrival and the unveiling of the Athena Parthenos which unleashes the statue's power, the cavern begins to collapse, threatening to send the Athena Parthenos into Tartarus as well. A Fiat 500 hits the trap, breaking the floor and sending Arachne down the chasm into Tartarus. Having learned of Annabeth's location from Bacchus, the Argo II arrives and blasts the parking lot over the cavern with the ship's ballistae, sending several cars down into the cavern and collapsing part of the roof.
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Enraged, Arachne summons her children to attack Annabeth while her efforts to break free by shooting spider silk at the walls start to make the cavern unstable. Unable to defeat Arachne in combat, Annabeth tricks her into unraveling the Athena Parthenos and creating a trap for herself.

Having been given the Mark of Athena by Minerva, Annabeth Chase embarks upon a solo quest for the Athena Parthenos, eventually leading her to the shrine. In several of Percy Jackson's dreams, he witnesses Ephialtes and Otis meeting with Arachne in the cavern. In the modern era, the shrine is located beneath the rear parking lot of the Emmanuel Building. Over time, the hateful thoughts of countless monsters from Tartarus trying to reach the statue and destroy it eat away at the foundations of the cavern, leaving a chasm leading into Tartarus itself below the floor. Over the centuries that followed, it became the lair of the spider monster Arachne and the location at the end of the Mark of Athena that Athena's children would try and fail to find. Webs also surround the centerpiece of the shrine: the Athena Parthenos itself.ĭue to the hatred from the monsters of Tartarus trying to reach the statue and destroy it, the shrine's foundations have been eaten away over the centuries, leaving a crumbling floor over a chasm leading directly into Tartarus itself.Īfter stealing the Athena Parthenos, the Romans took the statue and hid it in this shrine underneath Rome. The shrine is covered in spiderwebs with some acting as supports for the walls, celling and floor. Under Arachne's control, the shrine's walls are covered in gorgeous tapestries of the spider's own making and the celling is so high that it is lost in the gloom. The shrine is a massive cathedral-like cavern lit by bronze braziers of magical light like the gods use on Mount Olympus.
