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Andy looked at the empty cabin through tears. Demetri and her, mostly Demetri had changed the cabin around since her first night there. She had a bunk. She had a life here. A sob wracked through her and she heard Arthur's voice. Andy turned around and saw his own tears falling freely down his face. It wasn't like she had answers but she instead hugged him. Before coming here Andy hadn't really hugged people. That wasn't her style. That was too vulnerable. She stepped back from the hug.

"I'm sorry. I don't know why. I don't know what happened." Andy said as she tried to control her crying. Leda was at the door to her cabin. "He knows. I told him." She said wiping her face as dry as she could. "Do you know what happened though?" Leda was one of the few people Andy hadn't been afraid to ask questions at. She didn't judge her for not knowing, and now Andy didn't have her buffer. The one who was supposed to stand in front and keep the attention on her. How was Andy supposed to function without Ash?

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Mona was a bit taken aback at how easy that was. She expected some type of pushback. After all, most of her siblings seemed like the type to snitch to mommy about what the other siblings were doing. Theresa was not the type, it seemed, and that put her well above the others in Mona's book. "Cool, can't wait. I've never been to Manhattan, during the day or night. I'm looking forward to it." And she was, truth be told.

After Theresa suggested they go to the arena, Mona realized she had just won a battle with mythical creatures and lived to tell the tale. No more running from centaurs for her! "Yeah, let's go. Can always use more practice." She trusted her abilities more, having won the Capture the Flag game as well as taking out these beasts. Her mind was slowly moving from death to the possibilities before her. Was that how coping worked? She didn't know nor did she wish to find out, so long as it worked.

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Janelle nodded her head slightly, hearing Kristin's words. There wasn't much else that she could really do at the moment, figuring that it would be better for her to just get around without her brother constantly being there. Or more of half-brother really, it was a bit odd when she thought about it. Apparently neither one of them actually had the father that they had thought that they had, it was strange to think about, knowing that they weren't fully related.

"Alright, that sounds like a good idea to me... I don't want to have to rely on Jason constantly for help moving about places, or relying on anyone else for that matter... It is preferable for me to be able to move on my own, relying on people just is weird for me... It also makes me feel like I'll end up too dependent on the help of others..." she said softly, as they walked along by the other cabins, and she heard the conversation that took place with the head of the Hephaestus cabin.

"Oh, uh, nice to meet you Lauryn," Jason said with a slight wave at her, still holding on somewhat to his sister's arm to ensure that she didn't fall over. Hearing her words about why she really wanted the cane as soon as possible, he understood that. She had always been like that, wanting to be independent, and to prove that just because she had a disability didn't mean that she needed anyone's help. He didn't mind having to help her move about though.

When Kristin mentioned getting food, Jason realized that it had been a while since he had eaten anything, it had been a while since his sister had eaten too. They had been a bit more concerned with the whole, running away from the monsters that were trying to kill them. "...I don't know about my sister, but I'm hungry... It's kind of been a while since we've eaten anything considering what kind of happened earlier and the kind of insanity that happened..."

"...I'm hungry too..." Janelle muttered.

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"When she has a vision, we can always remain hopeful that it won't be world shattering or something that would result in the world being destroyed... But usually what she sees doesn't seem to be too good, despite a lot of people hoping otherwise... if this really is as bad of a vision as you seem to be hinting at, then I agree, Chiron and Mr. D need to know... This is too important to leave for later, they should know about it now..." Mary said, nodding her head, looking over at Kiera for a moment, before looking at Zeke and Rebecca.

"...So, you said that this vision involved a child of which gods again? Athena, Apollo and Hypnos right? It's a bit strange, don't you think, that she got this vision now, even though it clearly is something that for all we know could be happening soon... Wasn't one of the new kids claimed as a child of Hypnos? I mean, bit of a coincidence don't you think, her having this vision not too long after a new child of Hypnos was claimed? I don't know who the other two could be referring to, could be just about anyone..."

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Arthur gripped Andy tightly, before finding them apart much too quickly. Tears were steaming out his eyes with reckless abandon now, and he found himself at a loss for words. There was nothing he could say that would make this right, and any attempt to get words out would just lead to his voice breaking, or him choking on his own sobs. His sister was dead, and everything was worse now. A perverse thought crossed his mind, wondering if he could try to undo this with his powers. Playing so uncaringly with the forces of life and death seemed evil, but he didn't care right now. He lost somebody close to him, and he couldn't stand withstand that.

Arthur stepped outside, not breaking eye contact with Leda. "You're... You're gonna tell me my Sister is dead right?" He asked, his voice cracking. "But my dad, he's the king down there, right? So I'm..." He started to hold his hands out, ready to do what he'd done before, to save his sister, and make this terrible world right, "I'm able to actually do something about it." And with that, he clenched his fist, and to his shock and awe, he saw his sister's body actually raise out of the dirt. At first, he felt the most intense relief he'd ever known, followed by a slow realization of what was in front of him.

Ash, in the same dress that she was in before being unceremoniously ripped from this world, was standing in front of all of them, her head quite literally in her hands. Body caked in dirt, without thought or feeling behind her eyes. Arthur felt almost as if he was going to throw up, but held himself back. This was wrong, this was so, so wrong, Summoning whatever will he had left, he threw his hands to the ground, trying to make her go away, not being able to stand the sight of her like this. The body of Ash fell lifeless on the ground once more, sprawled prone for all to see. Arthur collapsed along with her, sobbing and pounding the ground, yelling, "Why? This isn't fair! This isn't fair!" Over and over again, unable to come out with anything but cries of anguish.

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Camp Half-Blood, Cabin One Zeus:

(Nothing else really interesting going on at the cabin for now, feel free to continue as you guys are right now aside from what Arthur had just did.)

Camp Half-Blood, The Arena

Thresa smiled towards Mona and nodded towards her as they walked down to the arena now, and then headed over towards the small rack of leather armor that was there. Tossing Mona a set figuring that the size would fit her well enough as well, as Thresa started to do the same thing as well. She adjusted the straps tightening the leather armor a bit, there were a few others in the arena as they started to get their training set up as well.

"The city is pretty cool at night way better than it is during the day honestly." She said, as she grabbed her sword along with a shield. Thresa twirled the sword around in her hand a little bit while she waited for Mona to get ready as well. "So, aside from what happened you alright being here?" She asked while still focused on her half sister standing before her, so that she could make the first move as well.

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Kristin smiled slightly towards Janelle and nodded towards her, she could understand it'd being annoying having to rely on others to watch over her with the lack of sight. "I totally get you, I would find it annoying as well having someone to watch over me, anyway follow me." Kristin said as she turned and started to make her way over towards the dining pavilion. The area was pretty much cleared now, there were still a few harpies flying around doing some last minute cleaning.

"So, this is where we usually have breakfast, lunch and dinner." Kristin said as she gestured towards the various tables. "The tables are sorted by godly parents. Though not really enforced so you can kinda sit wherever you'd like." She told them, and then went over to grab a plate and goblet. "This is pretty cool, so whatever you think of your favorite food it will appear, as well as whatever you'd like to drink as well." Kristin told them. "So where are you two from anyway?" Kristin decided to ask.

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Kiera looked towards Rebecca and smiled towards her and extended a hand over towards her. "Kiera, it's nice to meet you came here about a week ago." She said towards her, as she listened to Rebecca, Zeke and Marry bring up about the vision that Rosie had seen and the whole husband and wife of monsters thing was pretty scary as well. She really hated seeing those cyclopes again which made her cringe ever so slightly. "That does really sound pretty bad." Kiera said as she heard Zeke yelling out to get both Chiron and Mr. D down to the infirmary part of the Big House.

They both came in and spotted Rosie who laid unconscious on the bed right now still sleeping the whole vision off soundly by the looks of it as well. "What happened here?" Mr. D asked, he didn't hear the rest of the conversation that was going on earlier either. "Rosie had some kind of vision." Kiera said while she turned to look over at Mr. D and Chiron. "What did the prophecy say?" Chiron asked still shaken about what had happened to Ash not to long ago either.

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Leda was a bit relieved that Andy had already broken the news to Arthur - it meant that she wouldn't have to. As empathetic as she was, she also could be a bit selfish at times and she would much rather not have to figure out just how to tell this little kid that his kid sister had been brutally murdered by her enchanted gifts, while everyone looked on as if nothing was really happening. Andy's question though presented Leda with a question - did she tell them the truth? Or did she come up with a version of events that would be a little less painful for them? "Wait, Arthur, don't!" Leda pleaded, her eyes widening as she realized what Arthur was about to do. The resurrection of the dead was never an easy task and she was certain it would only do more harm than good. The monstrous visage of Ash, holding her own head in her hands, thankfully didn't last long before Arthur returned her to the grave - but her body was still there, caked in dirt.

Did she really care about this kid? Not more than she cared about any stranger, but Leda knelt down next to him and gently pulled Arthur away from Ash, wrapping him into a hug. "She's with your father now," she told him softly. She let go of Arthur with one arm and motioned for Andy to come join in on that hug as well. "Hades' Palace is beautiful - your father resides there, as does your step-mother, Persephone. Ash can run and play through those halls just like any little girl - she can dance and sing and feel her father's embrace and a mother's love... I know that it hurts that she isn't here with us anymore, and I know it won't help to say she's in a better place, but she's in a place where she is loved. And I promise you, each of you will see her again and you can laugh and play and tell stories until your eyes grow so heavy that you fall asleep, dreaming of fantastic adventures and triumphs... And then the next morning, you will rise and do so all again."

Her thoughts strayed towards Arthur's powers. Someone would need to teach him to control them, as well as the immense responsibility of raising the dead. There was one girl at Camp Half-blood who instantly came to mind, another person who could communicate with spirits and call them forth... but even if she might be able to help Arthur, Leda didn't want to have to interact with her ex-girlfriend.

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"The universe is rarely so lazy for things to just be coincidence," Rebecca murmured in agreement. She believed that Zeke was the child of Apollo in the prophecy as well, mostly due to Rosie's proximity to him as she had her vision. Of course, Rebecca could have easily been wrong - there were at least a dozen of Zeke's siblings here at Camp - but once again, she didn't believe in coincidence. There were so many forces at play in the universe that randomness and chaos were usually anything but that. She shook Kiera's hand and gave her a curt nod.

Her eyes darted over towards Zeke as Chiron and Mr. D arrived. "A Child of Sleep, A Child of Wisdom, A Child of Medicine, to stop an army, to seek the mother of monsters," Rebecca recited. "Zeke and I experienced Rosie's vision. A legion of monsters in the Pit, heading in a single direction as one..." she then added. Her voice was calm and steady as she spoke, as if she was just informing Mr. D and Chiron about the weather forecast for that evening and not the latest prophecy their Oracle had given them. "Olympus should know that Echidna and her children are stirring, amassing a force," she finished. The new child of Hypnos was likely meant for this quest and she imagined Zeke to be the child of Apollo, leaving just one unknown variable - which offspring of Athena would be the third member?

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It didn’t take long for the two teachers to show up and start asking questions. Ezekiel walked back over to Rosie, his patient for the time being and leaned against the end of her bed while Rebecca filled them in a little bit. Even though she spoke the words of the prophecy causally her voice was haunting and it made him shiver. He didn’t like the idea of going on another quest. It seemed he was doing a lot of those. ”The pit, it was Tartarus and all those monsters. It was definitely Echidna and Typhon so you know, that’s fun. Which now with those creatures having attacked the barrier like that. Sure they could have been after the new campers but, I don’t know.” Ezekiel shook his head and crossed his arms.
”So anyways, we were hoping you could inform Olympus for us and see what they can do.” Ezekiel didn’t have high hopes in the gods, their parents. After all, the prophecy said it had to be a child of those three gods and when did the gods ever really step in and fight their own battles anymore. They seemed more than content to let hormonal raging teenagers take on all the life threatening work. Ya, sure, shouldn’t be a problem at all.

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Demetri sat perched atop the marble area, looking down at the two demi-children until he felt a gust come from his side. He turned to face the strange wind and found that it was Leda, doing her families part in delivering bad news. He looked on with sorrow weighing deep in him as he saw Arty move away from Andy and towards Leda, explaining how they already knew why she was there. His heartache must of been too much too bare, he was a bright kid, well poised and yet here he was, ghibli tears streaming down his cheeks as his hand began to quiver and raise. Demetri watched as Ashs body was risen from the ground and his clawed feet scraped against the marbling as he cawed and slid off the top flying downwards in shock. The cawing continued as his small raven form moved away from the display, slowing losing control of his form and shifting back into himself, not bothering to hide his electric blue eyes. The cawing turned to gagging as he tried all he could not to spew up what little food he had eaten before the battle.

As he gathered himself, he thought about what had transpired and came up with a hail Mary. Making his way towards the forest, Demetri stepped through and began to search for any animals he could find, twelve at the least but he would use more if needed. All he found was a single mouse, sitting there cleaning its whiskers as it chattered and squeaked towards him in a mocking manner. Demetri punched a tree next to him as he let out a primordial scream in anguish. Yelling out in hopes that Hades was listening. "Was the empousas not enough?! Must I truly search for a dozen or more creatures to satiate your taste and bring an audience to me?! Here me Hades for I use those empousas as a Hecatomb and wish to speak to you! ...Please...bring back Ash or at least...at least tell me shes alright..."

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Mona took off her bracelet, transforming it into a sword and got into her ready position. "I'm definitely a night person. Not too many people around to bother me. Plus New York lights up at night. I always wanted to see Times Square and all those neon signs." She found herself almost smiling before she quickly maintained her stoic facade. Once she was confident Theresa was ready, Mona ran forward, swiping at her sister, hitting her across the arm.

However, Theresa countered back, but Mona was able to defend, though as she jumped backward she stumbled a bit. She needed to improve her footwork. "I mean, growing up I always felt like I didn't belong. My parents tried if I am being honest, but I never felt like their kid. If I'm being honest, I still don't know how I feel about being the daughter of Aphrodite. I mean, she's not the goddess I would have pictured for my mother. I don't really look like our other siblings. Or act like them, thank the gods."

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Andy was horrified. She normally was when the skeletons Ash raised were walking around. This was worse. A scream died in her throat and she stared at the literal walking corpse of her best friend. She had no idea what to do. Everything was wrong and askew. Leda waved for Andy to join the hug and she instinctively did. Leaning into the older camper she had been looking up to and learning from.

How odd that not even an hour ago Andy had been proud of her memory and wanted to tell Leda, and now that didn't matter. Not one bit. The headless corpse put things into perspective. Andy had considered running away from camp. Considered leaving and forgetting this place. But she knew how dangerous it was outside the barriers of the camp. Even if this happened within she was safer here. And she was determined, as she looked at Ash's still body, that she would never need help.

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"Well, I mean I'm used to it somewhat now, either that or people tend to avoid me for the most part. Though partially because if anyone gave me a weird look that I couldn't exactly see Jason here would threaten them, or glare at them, depending. Usually if he went quiet it was him just glaring, I could always hear his threats if he chose the former of those two options," Janelle said, giggling slightly at the thought, not really too sure what else to say.

"Hey that was a totally reasonable reaction and you know it!" Jason protested somewhat, rolling his eyes slightly at his sister, knowing perfectly well that she couldn't see him rolling his eyes at her. Sometimes she could be a bit ridiculous, and sure he admitted perfectly well that he could be considered more then a little bit over protective, but that didn't necessarily mean anything. It just meant that he cared if people were mean to his little sister.

"Not too much of a reasonable reaction if you ask me," she responded, still giggling as the pair continued to follow Kristen to the Dining Pavilion now. She heard what Kristen was saying about the way the plates and goblets worked, and nodded her head slightly. That was kind of a cool thing to her, and made the most sense when she thought about it, since magic was clearly a thing and made it so that they didn't have to specifically make the food for everyone.

When Jason heard the question about where they were from, and he hesitated for a moment, thinking about the best way to answer that question. They had a bit of an accent to their words, that much was obvious, so he figured it was obvious where they were from initially. "Well, for the most part, we grew up in Galway, Ireland. However about 2 years ago, we ended up moving to New York, which is definitely a bigger place then where we are from..."

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Mary more of just listened to Rebecca and Zeke as they explained more about the vision. She frowned slightly, not liking what exactly was being mentioned when they spoke more vividly of what the vision actually was. It definitely more then a little bit concerning, but it would need to be addressed rather quickly. They needed to figure out who exactly were the children of the gods that were mentioned, and it sounded like Rebecca potentially agreed that the child of Hypnos was the new girl.

Of course, that just left the mystery of the other two. There were a lot of different children of both Athena and Apollo, but maybe the child of Apollo was Zeke since he was nearby and saw the vision, and if that was the case, then may the gods help the world, as that would be a horrible thing to happen. The child of Athena was a bit of a crap shoot, since there wasn't anything that obviously linked one particular child of Athena that could possibly be the one mentioned. She was remaining fairly silent, just paying attention to everything that was more or less going on around her, hearing the others.

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Camp Half-Blood, Cabin One Zeus:

A few seconds there was a gust of wind that came into the room, it was Tammy as she looked down gasping slightly seeing the body of Ash was there. She looked a little bit pale as she looked over at the three of them, as she rubbed the back of her neck slightly and looked over at Arthur before speaking up. "Hey, uhm would you guys like to help with Ash's burial ceremony?" She asked them, since she had a feeling that they would be willing to help out with that. "I'll take the body back real quick.." Tammy said as she lifted up Ash's body and quickly left the room, and then came back a few seconds later.

Camp Half-Blood, The Arena

Theresa smiled a bit. "Trust me it is really beautiful at night, been there a few times and it's usually the first stop area for most people going on quests to take the trains or something like that." She started to walk around Mona in a circle again and twirled her sword around a bit, before charging forward, but missed her hit leaving Mona open to hit her back. "I honestly wouldn't have thought you'd be a daughter of Aphrodite either but I guess we cant really choose who our godly parents are." she said.

Just Outside of Camp Half-Blood:

The whole area was pretty quiet for Demetri as he was completely alone right now, then the area around him started to get rather cold as well to the point that Demetri would be able to see his breath. And then a bit of fog started to appear out of nowhere the whole area was eerily very quiet when an elderly man appeared inches behind him. "Empousas don't really count as cattle." He said, holding a stygian iron scythe and what looked to be a black tablet in the other hand looking down at the tablet. "Demetri Rowan Howell, Son of Zeus, you aren't on my list yet what is it that you want?"

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Kristin leaned back in the chair as she listened to Janelle and Jason as the two of them started to speak, and smiled slightly she would have loved to have an overly protective brother if she could. "I think I would have loved to have an older brother." She said, as she watched a few of the campers walking through now but they were just simply passing through. Ireland was a pretty long way away from Camp Half-Blood that is for sure.

"You two are a long way from home then I'm originally from Rapid City South Dakota." Kristin said, she did really miss her home quiet a bit though she knew that it wasn't safe for her if she did leave the camp. She did try that a few times but somehow monsters always did ended up finding her.

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Mr. D looked at Chiron when both Rebecca and Zeke mentioned Enchida letting out a slight sigh knowing that the mother of monsters was probably up to something big now. Though the gods themselves couldn't do to much about them, Mr. D then stretched out slightly while looking at the group of kids. "I'll go and set up a meeting then with them." With that Mr. D disappeared in a puff of purple smoke that smelled oddly like wine and grapes. "I'll start to gather everyone in the camp then, you all should head over to the arena soon." Chiron said.

Kiera gagged slightly at the smell of the smoke that Mr. D made when he disappeared looking at Mary and then the others, the quest seemed to be pretty dangerous. "I guess we should head out to the arena then or something." Kiera said, when she could hear a slight groan as Rosie started to come to now. Looking over at the others, Kiera walked over and gently helped her back to laying down, while looking over at Zeke and backed up slightly. "You should rest you almost hit your head." Kiera said, while Rosie looked at the others.

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Shaking after what had just happened, he immediately wanted to shove away from the hug, but kept himself from doing so. Instead, he leaned into it, tears streaking down his face. At any other point of his life, he would've thought Ledaa was providing a comforting lie, something to keep a child happy, but with what he knew of the world now, he believed her. She would be a princess of hell, something that, in all honesty, he thought was befitting of her. He opened his mouth, and closed it again, wanting to say something, but all that would come out if he tried to speak would be something unbecoming of him.

He nodded into Leda's shoulder, and pulled back for a moment. "Thank you Leda. I... I'm sorry, that was bold of me." He looked at Andy, before averting his eyes. He hated that he'd done that to Ash's body, but he hated even more that he subjected Andy to it. All they could do now, he thought, was as Leda said. They'd keep living, the only thing they could do to honor Ash's memory. He hoped that Andy would be okay, and wouldn't hold what just happened against him. He couldn't stand to be alone after what's happened, and the thought that he reaction would force one of his friends away from him scared him to death.

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Andy was quiet, though Leda supposed that was to be expected. She had just seen something incredibly traumatic and horrific - again. It was enough to drive any normal kid insane, but Andy and Arthur were hardly that. They were the children of the gods. They would see tragedy time and time again in their lives, and all Leda could hope was that they were never numb to it like some had been today. The gust of wind signaled the arrival of one of her siblings - Tammy - and Leda relaxed slightly. The body was out of there and she was providing as much comfort as she could to these two kids in the meantime. "We can come up with a way to honor her together," she gently nudged them, hoping they would agree to help out. It would help them heal.

Arthur apologized, something Leda took as promising. The horrifying site of Ash's animated corpse must have been all he needed in order to learn his lesson. "It's alright, you're young and your powers are new... If you'd like, I could see if someone from the Hecate Cabin would be willing to help tutor you. A few of them also have abilities over the dead and they might be able to help you control yours, as well as think about how you want to use them." It was the nicest way to phrase make you realize how fucked up raising your dead sister was that Leda could think of.

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Rebecca frowned slightly, hearing from Zeke that monsters had attacked the barrier. It wasn't completely unheard of, but she could hardly dismiss it as just being coincidence. The universe was not governed by games of chance in her experience - everything happened for a reason. She couldn't help but wonder if the barrier would be able to fail, if a large enough force of monsters amassed and targeted the demigods. Mr. D left quickly, the aroma of wine and grapes left behind where he had been. "We can head to the arena once we're certain Rosie is comfortable," Rebecca said.

She knew that Zeke ran the infirmary more or less at the moment, but she had to imagine he would agree with her. They hadn't had time to properly examine Rosie. Her fainting spell, even if it was connected to a vision, was something that needed to be attended do. Zeke had already informed her that they had herbs and such here that could be used for mortals, so Rebecca went to the supply and began to look through them for something that would help the Oracle. There were a few herbs that could be used to help Rosie regain consciousness and Rebecca fetched them, before going over to her. "Zeke, I'd like to give her these," she said calmly, asking him permission only since Rosie was technically his patient. "They'll help wake her."

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Ezekiel relaxed a little when Mr. D left in his typical cloud of purple and wine smell. The gods would handle this, wouldn’t they? They would find out soon enough, Ezekiel thought. He wasn’t looking forward to the process of telling everyone else in the camp what was going on, hopefully Chiron wouldn’t ask for them to present their testimonies. Ezekiel was tired of talking, oddly enough.
Ezekiel turned when he heard Rosie cough and start to stir. Kristen surprisingly went over and tried to relax Rosie and told her to not move quickly. He eyed her a moment before Rebecca spoke to him. ”I bloody well know what they do,” he snapped at her. Ezekiel shut his eyes a moment and sighed. ”I’m sorry, I just… Yes, yes you can give those to her.” Ezekiel shuffled off and found another herb that he could put into a tea to help keep Rosie calm and relaxed.
He hadn’t meant to snap at Rebecca like that. She was only trying to help and her knowledge in helping people could rival his own after all. While Ezekiel brooded, he went to go look for peppermint to add to a paste that he could rub into Rosie’s neck and temples to help with the impending headache she would get. Regardless of hitting her head or not, Ezekiel knew that after a vision came a nasty headache. Unfortunately, he was unable to find the herb in question. ”Rebecca, if you can find peppermint within your stash or while you are gathering ingredients for your potions, we need more, please.” Ezekiel switched on the kettle and added herbs to a cup and waited for the water to boil.

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As Demetri cried out into the forest demanding an audience, all he heard back was silence. Given the lack of creatures he had found he was certain that if any did remain they were now frightened off. This left him in an eerie silence, a void in which he only had himself and his thoughts to attack him. Before he noticed, his hands had made they're way up his black denim jacket and began to rub his forearms as cold began to settle into his bones. As he breathed he started to see tufts of white flowing out of his mouth, the cold air finally sinking in as his teeth chattered lightly. As Demetri looked around the woods he noticed a small rolling fog begin to coat the dirt floor, hiding his converse beneath when suddenly a dulcet voice spoke up from inches behind him. His shoulders jumped slightly as hairs stood on his neck and he feared to turn around. Sure he was calling forth for Hades, but did he really expect an answer?

Demetri turned around slowly, his black converse slowly shuffling in the dirt beneath him, hearing the slight snap of a damp twig as he finally faced the man behind him. He was surprised that he was answered, though it wasnt from Hades himself, it still was his Lieutenant and a figure of respect. Demetri bowed slightly, unable to fully hold it as he stood back up to help keep his body warmed. "My apologies for any interruption I may have incurred but...to be frank I didn't expect an answer to my call. As for what it is I want, I do not presume to demand anything of you nor the gods but I do wish that you may grant me some succor. Hades' daughter, Athanasia, has recently passed and I just wish to know if she is alright, o wish to know she is at peace and how she would prefer her rights be done. And if at all possible...if this act upon her life could be undone..."

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And nodded at Tammy. She wanted to do what was necessary to lay her friend to rest. Andy had been tossed into a new world with new rules and she had no idea how to navigate it. It was time to learn. No more taking it slow and settling into it all. Everyone had an advantage over her. She hadn't had a formal education in years and because of that was far behind in everything.

She stood up and dusted herself off. Determination was drawn deeply on her soft features. "What do we need to know?" She asked, both Leda and Tammy. She trusted Leda's knowledge. Later she wanted to talk to Arthur privately. She wanted to let him know her plan. That could wait though, until after they buried their friend. Still, no one had answered what had happened to her and Andy was determined to learn what it was and get revenge for Ash. Perhaps Arthur would help with that as well.

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The two of them circled, squaring off as they spoke. Soon, Theresa came at her, but missed, leaving her open to an attack, which Mona took advantage of, swiping her sword along Theresa's back, sending the girl flying forward to the ground. Mona walked up to her, offering her a hand up. After all, this was merely training.

"Yeah, well I never was one to meet expectations. I don't feel connected to her at all though. I don't know if that will be a problem going forward considering I see a lot of the other people here, but I feel connected with the powers, even though I feel they are kind of useless. Like love manipulation? Ick." Granted, she had used the power before, so she knew it's benefits. It just seemed useless compared to something like fire or water or lightning.

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Camp Half-Blood, Cabin One Zeus:

Tammy looked over towards Andy and Arthur for a moment and then over to her half sister. "We usually get a shroud with the symbol of their birth parent, so a shroud with the symbol of Hades on it, and wrap her body in it." She told then and then thought a little bit more she remembered what else that they would need.

"Lots of wood as well, and then set it on fire. Usually it's done by all of the people from their respective cabin, but we can all work on that together." Tammy said, remembering going on a quest where one of her quest mates had died. "I'll start getting all of the stuff for it." Tammy said, before she zipped off again, and started to gather the supplies that were needed before coming back with a large blanket and some sewing supplies as well.

Camp Half-Blood, The Arena

Theresa accepted Desdemona's hand and pulled herself up and started to dust herself off while looking over at her and smiled slightly towards her half sister. "Some of our powers may not be super flashy, like the children of Zeus or control water like the kids of Poseidon." Theresa said as she moved forward and used her shield and managed to disarm Mona's weapon with out to much of an issue either, sure a lot of their brothers and sisters were really the stereotypical preps from high school they were still good fighters.

"I mean some of them are a little bit dumb to use, but like charmspeak we can make people do whatever we want them to, or make our enemies turn on their allies things like that." She told her, when she stopped for a moment as she noticed Chiron coming down and some of the campers who were sparring stopped now. "We should finish for now, they should start getting ready for Ash' burial." Theresa said as she reached over and handed Mona back her weapon.

Just Outside of Camp Half-Blood:

Thanatos stood there as he looked at Demetri as he spoke, and shook his head slightly at his last request. "Sadly, death is inevitable thing and cannot be done." He told him, as he took a moment and then looked at the tablet in his hand and then showed Demetri that Ash was alright and in Hades' Palace currently. "She is being taken care of by her father now." He said before putting the tablet away as he looked around the area for a moment before speaking.

"There is a war coming, however and you would need to be prepared as well. Monsters within Tartarus are starting to amass as well, you will need the help of both camps soon." He told Demetri before backing away and then the god disappeared in the mist that was created, and then the air started to warm up again around Demetri.

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Kristin started to get a little bit hungry herself again and looked around for a moment before snagging herself a plate as well as a glass to which filled itself with some coke, and started to take a sip of it. And then three soft pretzels appeared on the plate as well with some dipping sauce filled with mustard appeared. She offered the other two both Janelle and Jason as she leaned back and started to take a bite out of the snack a little bit and started to enjoy the food.

"If you two need any kind of lessons I can help you if you'd like." Kristin offered knowing that if either of them were to go on any kind of quests then they would certainly need the training as soon as possible. "Oh we also have a climbing wall and arena to." She said, as she started to think some more on the camp. "Theres the beach and lake nearby as well if you two ever want to go swimming."

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Kiera looked at Zeke when he snapped at Rebecca and looked over at the girl for a moment, she wasn't expecting him to just snap at him either which was kind of weird. Rosie's eyes twitched slightly, like she was having some kind of dream still while looking over at Zeke. "So is the dreaming thing normal?" Kiera asked, she wasn't referring to the vision prophecy that Zeke and Rebecca had witnessed. Kiera took a step back to let the two of them do their thing. "Is there anything you need me to do?" Kiera then decided to offer.

"I'll start working on preparing for tonight I will be in the arena if you need me." Chiron said as he started to make his way out of the Big House and started to make his way towards the arena. Kiera nodded as she watched the centaur leaving the room just leaving the three of them to tend to Rosie now.