Arthur Stanford

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Location:Argo III: Junkyard
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Arthur took a look at what Andy had produced, seeing it was something actually hand held instead of the massive thing he had found. Honestly, he felt a little worried for a moment; should they be rummaging through a gods belongings like this? It seemed like the sort of thing that could spark their wrath, and that really wasn't something he wanted to see. He was told the thing he found was an "Archimedes Screw", and that apparently it was some sort of farm/irrigation tool, which he supposed was neat. That being said, he had no idea what a gimbal was, and the description provided was lacking.

Following after Lauryn, he too was curious about the source of the crashing noise. He figured that, if this place wasn't safe, hiding from whatever monsters may reside here would just end poorly. Instead, he would face things head on, and make sure to be ready if he needed to fight. He felt better now, knowing that killing things meant they wouldn't be gone forever, but instead was, functionally, just a way to get thing things that want to eat him out of his immediate vicinity. Drawing his dagger, he kept it near his side, wanting to be armed if there was a beast waiting for them.

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Kiera slowly came to and groaned loudly in pain as she slowly sat up still really dazed with the sudden hit from the Colchis Bull, she looked down seeing a sharp piece of celestial bronze was embedded into her right shoulder. She winced as she started to try and tug at it, but it hurt way to much and her right arm was bent at an odd angle. "I'm okay love.." Kiera said as she stumbled slightly out of the pile she did look a bit pale as well from the injury.

Then there was what sounded like a lot of crashing or something coming out of the rubble were several automatons ten to be exact, they appeared to be malfunctioning as well much like the Colchis Bull that attacked was. Lauryn looked at the others as she took out her weapon which looked to be a Mossberg 500 celestial bronze shotgun her personal weapon. She turned to look at Demetri who was holding a bunch of scrap celestial bronze. "Just take that and whatever other scrap you can find and take it back to the ship, it should be fine enough to get to Camp Jupiter and make the fixes that we need." Lauryn told him, as she took a few steps closer and fired off, managing to take out one of them.

Kiera managed to roll out of the way as one of the automatons tried to attack her, and she swung back drawing out one of her swords using her good arm she managed to disarm it and stumbled backwards slightly. Alannah ran forward as well using her weapon as she tried to swing, but missed she turned to look at both Andy and Arthur hopefully they will be okay. One of the Automatons took a swing at Leda in the back with one of it's swords.

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Madalyne turned to look at Waverly for a moment and shook her head slightly. "Nope that would be a Basilisk, they dont turn anyone into stone thats kind of a Medusa thing, they are very poisonous though so dont let them bite you or touch them." Madalyne warned looking at the tree seeing the golden apples there. "The apples have magical properties and they supposedly could give whoever eats them immortality to." She said, as she got a little bit of an idea she was really good with using magic as she used the mist surrounding them and magic to hide everyone easily from Ladon.

Luckily for all of them they would easily be able to pass Ladon and into Mount Othrys, Madalyne looked up at the ruins of the massive castle seeing that the place had better days. "We shouldnt be to far now." Madalyne whispered to everyone as she lifted the magic off of them and they were visible again, she started to enter the ruins, and then eventually finding a massive room with a bald man kneeling on the ground carrying the weight of the sky looking like he was straining against the massive weight. "Why have the six of you puny demigods come here, have any of you come to take the burden?" Atlas asked.

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"Eww why the hell would I use my mouth in the first place?" Kristin said looking at Zeke jokingly as she swung her spear managing to take out another one of the Telekhines. They barked with each other, as two of them managed to sneak away from the chaos, as they then came back carrying what looked to be some kind of heavy potato gun of some kind. And fired off a celestial bronze net of sorts. Which ensared both Zeke and Janelle. Every time they struggled the net would tighten around them as well, Kristin seeing that took her spear and threw it managing to impale the two telekhines that had grabbed the gun of sorts and burst into dust.

Kristin then was knocked back by a wave of water as some of them used Hydrokinesis of sorts sending her into a nearby wall, the sea demons then attempted to try and drag the net holding Zeke and Janelle inside away from Kristin. She stumbled back up and picked up her spear, as she tried to cut the net only making a small hole in it.

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To say things started to happen a bit quickly was a bit of an understatement, since one minute everyone was looking through the pile of junk, and the next minute there was something attacking them. Then again, Mary wasn't at all too surprised by that given the fact that they were in essentially a god's personal dump. Meaning the fact that they hadn't run into anything yet was surprising. The other thing that wasn't all too surprising was her friend going with her super speed and dealing with the bull within seconds. "Nice one Leda," she said to her friend with a bit of a smile.

"Who knows? It all cooehld be usefoehl, we'll prahbably fend ooeht eventually anyway," he responded to Demetri with a slight grin of his own, this was kind of a fun thing, going through the junkyard and seeing everything that was there. Of course the bull attack was not something that he really expected. However given the fact that they were all demigods, he supposed he shouldn't have been all that surprised by it. They didn't have to deal with that for long, as something else instantly caught is eye as they were continually under attack. This time by some weird automatons or something like that, they were robots that needed to be knocked down and that was all that he knew.

"Well dis shooehld be foehn," he commented, before he pulled his sword out and twirled it around slightly, before heading straight for the strange robots. The first one he easily took by surprised, and in one quick swipe it's head was chopped off, and it's body was crumpling to the ground in a heap. "That's one down," he muttered, before he went to hit another one, only for this one who apparently had a shield, to block his attack. He swung his sword back and then ended up running the robot through with his sword, but it was still up and standing unfortunately.

Seeing the robots that sprung up, Mary wasted no time in using plant life to start trying to tie up as many robots as possible. Sadly, her first attempt only managed to entangle one of them. However her second attempt was a better one, and she managed to wrap up another two. "This is not going to be super easy or something, that's for sure, but maybe someone else could potentially deal with these three no?" she said towards the others, not too sure what to do. Wrapping things up with vines typically resulted in her not really being able to slice things up.

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"Cooehld you two pahtentially stahp jahkin arooehnd and leave dat fahr when dings aren't actively tryin to kell oehs?" Janelle couldn't help but comment upon hearing their conversation. There typically was a time and a place for teasing and joking around, however not this time that was for sure. The potential thing being death or something like that was not a comforting thing. She enjoyed their banter or whatever, but right now that was besides the point. There had to be better ways to do everything right?

She couldn't think much more of it, as the next thing she knew, she was getting caught in some weird thing, and it took a moment of her feeling it to figure out that it was a net. "Where ded de net comb frahm?" she asked a bit bluntly, before she tried to get out of it before she got dragged away while in it or whatever it was that was happening. She started to move around a bit, as she at first managed to make a small opening where she could get her head out, another moment later she managed to make it large enough for her to get out of the net. "Well dis is goin well isn't it?"

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Gimble sounded like a fake word to Andy, but who was she to talk she had ran away from school and a normal life at eight. She definitely couldn’t be one to win a spelling bee or whatever. ”Thank you.” She looked up from the strange device to smile at Lauryn. She followed Arthur and Lauryn to figure out what the noise was and she started to spark up, but Leda had the bull down quickly.

Andy was about to relax, but it was good thing she didn’t when three more robot like things started attacking the group. She started to pull her dagger off her braclet but a better idea came to her. ”Arthur, throw you dagger as dead center as you can. I'm going to try to hit it with lighting and have it bounce off the dagger and hit the robots." She told him, hoping he would try. It would be a cool combined attack if it worked out well.





”Better than nothing.” Emily said. ”Thank you. Didn’t particularly want to stab myself or anyone else on accident with a scorpion stinger.” The group then finished their hike up the Mountain and Emily for a moment fell in love with the garden. It was gorgeous. Her ability with plants was limited but she would love to have a giant garden.

”You warned home of an incoming invasion. That is a noble deed.” Niah explained to Marco. Niah was quiet as they made their way up the mountain. She was contemplating what Prometheus had told them, and what he hadn’t said. Lies were often best made as half-truths. And she couldn’t tell what he had been keeping from them. When they paused at the edge of the garden she took in the view. So many demi-gods had been here doomed to fail. How many tales were never told because they lost? Who would tell their tale?

Emily nodded at Nancy’s order, but smirked at Waverly’s joke about the dragon. Madalyne explained that that definitely wasn’t a basilisk, which Emily was thankful for anyway. That’d be two too many poisonous monsters in one day. Then Madalyne covered them in Mist so they could easily traverse the way past Landon without so much as a bleary eye glance. She let out a small sigh of relief, but now they were standing before Atlas himself. One of the Titans. Cursed to hold up the sky.

Niah didn’t get the reference Waverly was going for, but thankfully Mads did. Soon they had a great plan and were in front of Atlas. She reached out, her oath sense was fickle sometimes she could tell without even trying if someone was an oath breaker. It didn’t matter if they had sworn on the river or not. Other times she had to focus and sus it out.

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Marco blinked a bit at Niah and then smiled softly at that and sighed a bit at that. As they got up the Mountain, he could see Emily brighten up a bit. It was a beautiful garden, and he knew that was her dream, to have a large garden, so to these these tall beautiful trees, the lust grass, it had to appeal to her. However, the view was ruined by the large man that looked like he was carrying a huge burden. That had to be Atlas, and man... was he ugly.

Marco knew that he was there to play a part, but his voice caught in his throat. He would speak after Nancy and Madalyne spoke first, as he needed to make sure that his magic was going to work well. He focused on the words he would use, how he could make sure that they could trap Atlas, especially with Niah being there. It wouldn't be easy for him to beak an oath sworn on Niah's mother.

He gently held Emily close as they got closer to the Titan, as he was getting nervous again.

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Waverley slowly nodded as Madalyne explained that the scaly creature curled up around the golden apple tree was not, in fact, the basilisk from Harry Potter. She was a bit surprised that the girl had picked up on her reference, considering the fact that she was trapped in some spooky timetravelling ghost casino during a majority of the time that the book series was popular. Her tense form relaxed a little when Mads waved her arms, hiding them from the slumbering creature, but she kept her eyes on the beast as the crept out of its domain and up Mount Othrys. When it was eventually out of sight, she turned around to face forward.

When the ruins eventually came into view, a small smile arose on her face. She loved places like this, all decrepit and falling apart. Oddly enough, it was love for such places that led her to Jack London's cabin, or as she knew it now, the Wolf House. As the group marched inside, Waverley paused for a moment, squatting down to pick up the remains of a brick around the size of her palm. Souvenirs, she'd learned in her travels, were nice to have around. Mementos of past adventures she was able to keep in an easy-to-carry shoebox. She hurried then hurried in after the group, not wanting to be left behind. She slowed to a stop when she reached them, though her eyes were glued on the man being crushed before them rather than the group. Pity was rooted in her eyes as she looked on, though her face also took on a rather insulted frown when he spoke.

"Puny? C'mon dude. Don't you think that's kinda rude?" she chirped up from the back, the corners of her lips curled downwards. Though she did look offended by his words, sympathy was still present on her face.

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Leda twirled her sword with a bit of a smirk as Demetri praised her. "If you spent as much time practicing as ya do whining, you'd be able to pull something like that off - not nearly as brilliant of course, but still something," she told the son of Zeus. She was a year round camper and when she wasn't running or patching up the shrines, she was sword fighting. Unlike her godly parent, Leda wasn't a pacifist. She loved fighting and in her opinion, she was the best swordsman Camp Half-blood had at the moment. Her sword was glowing a cheerful sky blue. She winced a bit seeing the funny angle Kiera's arm was at. "Eat some ambrosia, luv, that'll fix that right up," she promised.

"Someone else wanna pick at Mare's leftovers?" Leda shouted out. She then charged forward, zipping in and out between the automatons. She sliced her sword time after time after time, until three of them were dead at her feet. She came to a halt, grinning wickedly as she started to get ready for her next burst of epic-ness. As fast as she was, she couldn't run too fast while cutting up these villains as it was harder to make tight turns the faster she was going, so her image while running was only a slight blur instead of a complete one.

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Ordinarily, Nancy would've been amused by comparisons of the monsters they fought to pop culture, but she was still holding a grudge against Waverley so she just rolled her eyes slightly. She had seen the Harry Potter movies, from what she remembered a basilisk was a giant overgrown lizard. Lagon was a dragon. And for the apples, she didn't think telling Waverley that they could give someone immortality was a great idea. She didn't want to see Waverley try and end up getting herself killed.

Mads was their ace in the hole as always, disguising them and making it easier than ever before to sneak past the dragon and walk up to the top of Mount Othrys, where the sky met the back of Atlas. They were in a bleak and dark ruins, perfect for the movie set for the lair of the main antagonist. The place sent a shiver down Nancy's spine, as much as she adored Halloween and all things spooky (it was her birthday, even). She could just feel the power and misery emanating from this place.

Nancy had a gift for psychoanalysis - it only took Atlas opening up his mouth for her to figure him out. He was arrogant, sadistic, psychopathic - and understandably wanted to see the downfall of Olympus. She figured that if the proper amount of pressure was applied, he'd be the type to scream out his evil plan. "Nah, we're here to see what a square loser looks like," Nancy taunted Atlas, crossing her arms a bit aggressively. "So At-lose, when you need to use the bathroom, do you just.... go? Is there poop smeared all over your asshole, since that would certainly explain the smell."

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Demetri gave Lauren a smile as she told him it should be enough to help. It slowly faded as the ground began to shake and almost a dozen celestial bronze bots emerged from the pile. He had his orders to get the junk to the ship and begin repairs while they handled what was happening here. Demetri ran ask fast as he could, putting his legs to use as he imagined himself back in his forest, running with the cold air against his face, jumping over the gnarled roots of trees, and speeding headlong into escapism. Before he knew it he was back at the ship and dropping off the supplies. From atop he could see Jason decapitating an automaton, and Mary wrangling three. He felt like he should help, or at least be near Andy and Arthur so nothing could happen to them.

As he sped back down, breathing rhythmically on his way towards the pair, he heard her plan for a piggy back system. Honestly it was brilliant if it worked, and he figured he could help extend the range more by adding another relay to the mix. "I gotcha sis. Another relay coming up" Demetri called upon his earing, having it shift into his dagger and then promptly fumbling it. Not the best start. He gripped it tighter this time, throwing the dagger and having it pitch to far over before calling it back to his hand. Demetri grit his teeth and his eyes shone blue as he finally flicked his wrist and the dagger landed squarely into the center cavty of the automaton. "You're up Arthur."

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Ezekiel didn’t get another chance to charge a Telekine or to have a comeback for Kristin as he and Janelle were trapped in a net. Ezekiel grunted as he moved to get the thing off but the net only tightened around them more as they moved. ”A couple Telekines found one and threw it at us,” Ezekiel told Janelle. Kristin tried to help them out by making a smaller hole but Ezekiel was busy trying to figure out how to stop being dragged away.
Janelle managed to escape and Ezekiel looked behind him when he had more space to see why. Ezekiel struggled to get himself out of the hole Janelle had gone through and was trying not to panic because he couldn’t get out like she had. Finally, he got himself out and quickly pushed himself to his feet. He didn’t like being pinned down like that but at least this wasn’t going on in pitch black darkness. Ezekiel strung an arrow and fired it at one of the Telekines that tried to drag them away. He managed to shoot it in the leg and strung another arrow to line up his next target.

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Kiera nodded slightly as she backed out of the way narrowly dodging a hit from an automaton, she fished into her pocket luckily she managed to find an ambrosia cube in her pocket. She looked down at her arm for a moment, it was really hurting a lot as she used her good arm and then managed to pull it back into place. Letting out a loud yelp in pain as the bone was reset and took the ambrosia cube into her mouth, it oddly tasted like popcorn shrimp which she always did love eating when growing up. Though the pain was still there, the arm felt stiff still and couldnt use her arm very well. Kiera also pulled the piece of celestial bronze out of her shoulder groaning slightly in pain but it started to fade away slightly.

"Thanks love." Kiera said looking over at Leda and smiled towards her girlfriend watching her taking out the three automatons with ease as well. Alannah was having some trouble as she was fighting off two of them at the same time, using her spear she was able to keep the two of them at a distance. Lauryn managed to use her shotgun taking out one of the automatons that Alannah was fighting, she looked at her friend and nodded as Lauryn went to reload.

The automaton that Jason was fighting managed to backhand Jason rather hard causing a massive bruise on the side of his face and knocking him back about three feet. Jason's weapon was still stabbed in the machine's side as it moved forward, and tried to swing its sword at Jason narrowly missing him though. Andy's plan was able to work as the knife embedded into the automaton's chest, and lightening went off when Andy fired, managing to short circuit three of them and severely damaging a fourth.

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Niah wouldnt be able to really pick up on any major oaths that Atlas had broken, though one thing would come to mind was that he had an affair with the Goddess Tethys who had given birth to Calypso as a result. Atlas turned his head to glare at Waverly seeing her taking a stone off of the ground, there was one by his foot and kicked it as hard as he could which nearly missed Waverly. There was a large hole in the wall now as a result of it. "And stealing something that isnt yours is just as rude to." Atlas said and glared at Nancy as he pushed his buttons as well to. "I use the remains of puny mortals like you who decide to come here as my personal toilets." He said with a laugh.

Madalyne wasnt sure if trying to piss off the Titan responsible for holding up the sky was a really smart idea really, as she decided to take a step forward. "We were hoping that you could tell us what your plans are, and who is coming to get you out." Madalyne said calmly hoping that they would get answers better that way. "You will know soon enough, your little camp will fall." He said, as Madalyne turned to look at Niah hoping that she would be able to get Atlas to talk at least.

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The remaining Telekines started to panic seeing that two of the demigods managed to break free from the netting that they had and quickly scattered and left, only leaving one of them behind which was the one with the arrow to the leg. Kristin watched as they started to flea, she closed her eyes for a moment and sighed as the one that remained was barking in pain as it's comrades had abandoned it. Kristin looked at both Janelle and Zeke for a moment, she gave a slight shrug towards Janelle's comment about them arguing during a fight. "Hey he's the one who starts it, I just try and finish it." Kristin said giving a slight shrug.

She walked over towards the little sea demon and took out her spear and thrusted it into it's gut before standing up and dusted herself off slightly looking over at the two of them. Sadly there wasnt much in the way of weapons that the Telekines had left behind when they attacked him aside from the net that both Zeke and Janelle broke free out of. "Lets just find a way to get a new ride then yeah?" Kristin asked looking at the two of them.

Arthur Stanford

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Location:Argo III: Junkyard
Skills: N/A

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Arthur's eyes grew wide as the automata rose up, surprised that these things were real. The good news though, is that these were certainly not alive, meaning he had nothing to feel back about for attacking them. They were just machines after all, right? Drawing his dagger, he nodded over at Andy, and threw is, the knife clattering to the ground in front of him. A look of disappointment crossed his face as he knelt down to pick it back up, only to fumble it. Exhaling, clearly annoyed he slowed down, picked up the knife, and threw it dead center at the automaton, setting things up for Andy.

Furthermore, Arthur had another idea. He knew he could control his knife using some of his demigod powers, so he didn't see why he couldn't scale that up a bit. Putting his hands out, he stretched, before holding his breath, and felt himself reach out and grab two of them with his mind, holding them firmly in place. It felt weir, to be doing it at a bigger scale than he'd ever done before, but it seemed to be working. This felt cool, and was actually fun in a lot of ways. He wanted to play with this more, and with all the robots around, he was confident he'd get a chance to. "Go for it Andy, shock 'em dead." He said, giving her a smile a she continued to concentrate on holding the robots down.

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Jason wasn't too thrilled when the robot he stabbed didn't die immediately, and instead managed to send him backwards. Especially when it became apparent that the sword didn't even seem to do much of anything to even slow the robot down. Of course, that wasn't all that surprising, given the fact that these were robots after all. However, he did manage to roll around the robot, yanking his sword out of its body and chopped off its head. To say that it might have been a nice bit of revenge for the robot not dying in the first place, so there was that.

Mary was holding the three robots back that were still caught up in her vines. She was getting a little bit bored do to what was going on or whatever. The fact that here she was, holding three of the robots off, and more or less waiting for someone to actually see about chopping their heads off, but noooooooo no one decided to take the easy shots or whatever. They all had to be thick headed about it. "Nope, don't worry about it, I can totally sit here holding these robots off like nobodies business," she said a bit sarcastically, rolling her eyes at the others.

"I've gaht you, dahn't wahrry. I can deal wit at least a few o' dem," Jason responded to her, twirling his sword around a bit in his hands before he went right at them, slicing the heads off of two of the remaining three robots. That was nice, taking out any sort of annoyance with the robots on the robots, yup, loads of fun. Of course there were worse things that they could be fighting. Monsters or something instead of these weird robots that were found here in a god's personal junkyard. This in the long run wasn't so bad.

"Thank you," she responded simply, before she looked at the other one that still was completely intact and not taken down. Of course there was always one that got away right? Instead, she decided to see about potentially just popping it's head off or something. That would be amusing to see, and so she attempted to do just that. It took her a few moments, but eventually she managed to tighten the vines around it enough to cause it's head to just pop off almost like what could happen if you squeezed a doll too tightly. "Well that was interesting to watch," she commented as she dropped the body to the ground.

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"It joehst doesn't seem like de right place ahr time to argue if you ask me. I mean really?" she said with a bit of an eye roll. These two could sometimes get a bit irritating, but that was just her thoughts on that subject. Typically arguing during a fight when in theory they should try and work together and maybe not argue. That was a thought after all. She wondered why was it that everything seemed to want to attack them, though she was glad that she had gotten out of that net, and she was glad when it sounded like Zeke had gotten free too.

She heard what sounded like the sounds of the creatures taking off and running away, with one being left behind and then proceeding to die as someone killed it. "Well, I'm naht sure what wooehld be good, and stell naht pahsitive where we are goin, wooehld a bus wahrk? she asked Kristin, not sure what else to really suggest for transportation. As she had mentioned to them before, she had never really even been out of her hometown aside from when they left for the US, meaning she had no idea really how people got to many places.

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Marco could tell this wasn't going to be easy, but he had been focusing his energy, and was formulating just what to say to the Titan before he opened his mouth and spoke. "Atlas, I need you to look at me and focus only on me. We just need some help in understanding what is going on, so if you could please tell us what your plans are and who is coming to get you out of your punishment, it would really make me happy~" Yes, it was pretty much what Madalyne had asked, but it was infused with his magic and his natural charm as he spoke. This was the reason he was here.

"Dear Atlas you have to know what is going on isn't right... your fellow Titans taking out innocent Demi-gods and a whole city just because of something that happened in the past... so if you could give us that information and then promise us that you'll never do it again... you could show us how serious you are by swearing on the River Styx." He made sure to speak clearly as his eyes met the Titan's. Oh yes, Marco was terrified but he wasn't going to let that show easily in front of the titan. He did reach over for Em's hand and held it as he spoke, to keep himself grounded.

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Andy was excited when their electrokinesis idea worked. With the daggers there as something to bounce off of she was able to knock out two of them and almost a third. She was excited about that and bounced pleased. Arthur held two in place but they were taken out before Andy could hit them with her electricity again.

"So more collecting or are we done here?" She asked. A part of her was nervous that Hephaestus would be pissed at them for killing some of his creations. She didn't know much about him, did he get along with her dad? Would he be mad that she had called lightning on his property?



Niah didn't pick up on anything that read as "mom would wanna drown this guy", which if she was honest with herself was surprising. He seemed like the type to have broken oaths. He was cursed to hold up the sky, which also seemed like a bad idea to be an ass to him. Even holding up the sky he was a little terrifying. She glanced at the hole in the wall he had made.

It was reassuring for Emily to have Marco there. She knew she was a reassurance for him, especially with how close he was to her. Emily certainly didn't mind though. Right now she didn't have much to contribute. And hadn't seen whatever it was that had pissed over Atlas so much to destroy a building with a rock. Or was that just because of Nancy teasing him?

Niah was going to start speaking but Marco had it well underhand. He was a powerful charmspeaker, she could tell. Niah turned back to face Atlas speaking her binding to him "The River Styx will recognize your oath." Her own voice was infused with power, the power of her mother running strong through her veins. The power had always been a double edge sword.

Em held Marco's hand. Her hand was warm from the excitement and exercise so far. She did look at Waverly and see the sympathy on her face. Em wanted to tell her that Atlas was a dick so there was no need for sympathy in his case. He deserved what he had gotten and worse in her opinion. But now, especially in front of Atlas, wasn't the time to explain stuff like that.

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Waverley twisted her head to look at Nancy, her eyebrows furrowing together in disgust at the girl's putrid bathroom-related taunts, before casting the same look at Atlas. She couldn't keep herself from gagging at the gross, childlike exchange between the Praetor and the Titan, her nose wrinkling up in distaste.

"Jesus, you guys are gonna make me puke up my breakfast...by which I mean my coffee. Are immortals always this disgus-" Waverley began to ask, before she was interrupted by the sight of a small rock speeding towards her. She stumbled to the side, just in time for it to speed by barely miss her head, instead putting a massive hole in the already crumbling structure. Her eyes went wide, looking at the damage as she gulped down her fear. She glanced back to Atlas, about to say something, before seeing that Marco was doing his thing. Her intimidated expression quickly faded when she came to a realization.

"Wait...that didn't rhyme. Huh, I guess it's over," she muttered, reaching up to her throat. She then turned to the others and pulled the piece of rubble out of her pocket, lowering her voice in hopes of not interrupting Marco's magical chatting. "Do you think this actually has sentimental value to him? If it does, I can leave it here. I was just thinking about taking it home as a souvenir," she whispered, pausing before adding, "That rhymed, didn't it? Guess I'm not quite home free. I've gotta get back into the groove of talking normally."

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Leda was slightly annoyed that the battle was over so quickly. She would have liked to fight a few more of the automatons. In that way, she was the polar opposite of her godly mother - Iris preached peace and nonviolence, while there wasn't much that Leda loved more than violence in the world. It was always so satisfying to see a monster crumble underneath her blade, sending their soul to the Pit. They were probably done scavenging too, which meant they were going to leave the interesting place and go back onto the boring ship - which was such a drag.

She walked on over to Kiera, glad to see that her arm looked mended. "Y'know, there's another ancient remedy we demigods use for injuries," she said playfully, before pressing a gentle kiss to Kiera's arm. "It's called chocolate," she added with a wink, abruptly changing course. The entire kiss it and make it better thing was American, Leda hadn't really grown up with that sort of thing, it always seemed silly to her.

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Nancy was incredibly pleased with Niah and Marco's work. Everything was more or less going according to plan. Marco had influenced Atlas and Niah was doing her job as Oath Binder with ease. She had managed to anger Atlas herself, which worked pretty much just as well as she had expected. Like most immortals, Atlas was a bit emotionally unhinged. It was almost too easy to pull all of this off - and the only downside was that he had kicked a rock and ended up making a hole in the wall. She bit down on the inside of her cheeks to resist smiling, remaining uncharacteristically silent as well. Per the River Styx, Atlas was going to have to tell them everything.

It then struck her as odd that there wasn't anyone around, if Atlas were really up to something. She took her eyes off of the titan and peered around the decrepit old palace, looking for anything that was amiss. She didn't see anything, but every fiber of her being told her that there was something hiding in the shadows. "Don't be alarmed, but there's someone else here," she said quietly to her companions. She imagined it was probably some minion of Atlas', so they needed to be on their toes. She could easily imagine a situation where the minion grabbed one of them and threatened to kill them, unless someone took up Atlas' burden.

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Demetri watched in awe as his little sis shot out bolts of lightning that danced from bot to bot. It was like a scene from Frankenstein except the outcome wasn't alive, but rather death that they wished to achieve. His attention swayed to Marygold as she complained about no one taking her free hits, something Demetri had assumed Jason or Leda would do. But nevertheless he wasnt upset by his choice to stay by the kids as he figured they "adults" had themselves handled. The crackling lightning subdued and Demetri ran towards Andy and Artie giving them dual nuggies as he smiled with glee. "You two were amazing out there. Great thinking both of you. But that doesn't mean I'll stop keeping an eye on you two." He stuck out his tongue and as he reached down to grab his dagger he saw his reflection in the celestial bronze.

The morning had been so hectic and his panic to wild he had almost not noticed his eyes were crackling blue. His smile faded for an instant, leaving a ghost behind as the color shimmered and faded to a dull brown before turning back to the rest. "Well that was exciting if not a bit short lived, but I suppose we got what we needed and we should set back on to see The Romans. Wonder if they have another me around." Demetris footsteps halted as he thought for a moment "Wait this isn't some weird uncanny valley shit where its all twins of us right? Cuz im not sure im ready for that."

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After Kristin killed the last one that Ezekiel had previously shot, he unstrung his bow and put the items away. He retrieved his sword and pushed the top of the hilt so that it shrunk back into the sun keychain. He looked at Janelle when she commented on the poor timing of their argument. He just shrugged, not really caring if she found it annoying. ”We’ve been doing it for years. It keeps us on our toes and we haven’t wavered in our fighting from it,” Ezekiel noted. If she found it annoying, Ezekiel would try to limit it but he wasn’t going to make any promises. It was easy to pick on Kristin.
At the mention of transport and how they were going to get the rest of the way there. ”Probably, since none of us can drive.” The last mission they had gone on, Leda was the one who could drive. Which was why they stole a car. Ezekiel supposed they could try that and between him and Kristin, one of them could get them there safely.

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Kiera gave Leda a loving smile as her girlfriend leaned in and kissed her arm and instantly perked up at the idea of having some chocolate was something she was really craving. "Some chocolate would really be nice right about now." Kiera said as she watched Lauryn walking over towards one of the fallen automatons and started to search around it's insides a bit pulling out some wires and whatnot. She wondered what she was actually going to do with it before picking the body up with some ease. "Lets get going I dont want to have anymore encounters with anymore robots." Alannah said looking at everyone for a moment and started to climb up the rope ladder.

Kiera's arm still felt a little bit numb and sore as she looked down and started to get some movement back, she was surprised that the ambrosia fixed her up rather quickly still. She gently held Leda's hand started to climb up the ladder and made her way back up onto the ship, she then stopped for a moment as she noticed something starting to move in the distance.

She saw a rather large automaton about the size of a three story building very slowly making its way towards their ship it looked like it had seen better days as well to seeing the large robot clearly sparking and having some large holes in certain places to. Lauryn set the pieces of armor down and noticed the large robot slowly approaching, she looked towards the others, before bolting for the wheelhouse and started the ship up, once everyone was actually onboard.

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Atlas glared a both Marco and Niah as they were successful in their little plan, as the Titan shifted slightly as he stood and stared the group of demigods down. "I swear on the River of Styx Echidna's forces are on their way to destroy your puny little camp and city, and they are going to take Terminus to replace me in my place." Atlas said, growling more at them he couldnt do anything against them though but his allies would. Madalyne looked at the others when Atlas revealed his plans, Terminus was the closest immortal being to this place so it was an understandable pick to.

"We need to-" Madalyne spoke before hearing what sounded like a series of loud howls coming from deeper into the building as Atlas started to laugh a little bit. "I might not be able to harm you, but they will certainly be able to." Atlas gestured towards a man and a group of werewolves as well to. Madalyne started to try and figure out who it actually was, before finally realizing that it was Lycaon. Her, Nancy and Niah encountered a group of werewolves before when they were going for the gem. "And the other part of the plan was to have some of you take up the burden while we burn down your camp or at least one of you anyway." Lycaon said as the werewolves shifted back to their human forms, Madalyne looked around and counted about twenty of them or so, including Atlas and only five of them. "Can you guys buy me a bit of time? I'll need your help Waverly to." Madalyne asked looking at them.

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Kristin's spear turned back into a bracelet she looked at Zeke and rolled her eyes slightly he was still a really annoying ass in her own opinion at the moment. "We could try stealing a car, i'd rather do that then get on a bus again and endanger anyone on the bus." Kristin said as she started to make her way over towards the street again and looked around for a car that they could use. Janelle couldnt drive since she couldnt see. Zeke and her didnt have a driver's license but as long as they drove carefully and didnt draw attention to themselves or the police they should be able to get to where they needed to go.

She saw a white car that was still on and leaned in and got a look to see that the keys were still inside, Kristin then tested the door seeing that it was easily unlocked. "C'mon lets go." Kristin said to both Zeke and Janelle as she got into the car, waiting for them to get into the car now.

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Of course it would have been just too easy for it to be a simple charm speaking mission. Marco turned towards the raspy voice and growled as he recognized the werewolves. These were nothing like Lupa's wolves, and Marco found himself checking his little papoose to make sure that Milo was asleep. Maybe he shouldn't have brought the little glider? Well, it was too late to worry about that, and he had to focus on the threat in front of them.

His fingers went to the knife at his side and he looked to Em and squeezed her hand. "Show them what you're made of sweetheart." He wasn't sure that charm speak would work so easily on a pack of werewolves and their master, but... He had to try.

"Hey there wolfies, are you sure you want to hurt some little old demi-gods, when your real enemy isn't here? You're wasting your time... you should just leave..." He wove his magic into the words, driving all his focus on the wolves with Lycaon. He doubted he could get their master, but if the other werewolves were willing to turn tail and run, that might buy them some time while Madalyne did what she needed to do.