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Demetri could hear the strumming of Waverlys guitar as she sang a sobering tune. He could relate to how she felt, wanting to get away from it all at times. After all he was only fifteen and he'd never asked to be the child of a god. But there were people out there who needed him. People who hadn't known of the dangers of the world and the monsters that lurked about threatening to end the reign of gods and bring about an age of Titans. There was also someone in here that needed him, needed his powers to help win a fight so that rescue may come. Her words and chords struck close to his heart, feeling the raw emotion behind them and reminding him of the bands he'd listen to back at home. All this thought and distraction stopped him from realizing he was growing too large, hitting the sewer ceiling and then causing someone to fall into the Labrynth. Demi immediately shrunk down in size back towards his usual form as his hands covered his mouth and he looked on in horror.

"I'm so sorry I'm so sorry I'm so sorry. I wasn't paying attention, that played out way better in my head." Demi looked to Marco and Emily and sheepishly backed up against the ladder to get out. "I'll just be waiting outside um..." He clambered up the ladder, exiting the sewers and taking in the scenery and the sounds of sirens. Attempting to steel his nerves as he took in a deep breath and exhaled slolwy. You got this he told himself as he transformed back into his draconic shape and took to the skies looking ahead to sight the battles. The fighting appeared to be out the city walls, so Marco would need a lift there. Landing back down at the exit of the sewers. He craned his neck down and sent his booming voice down towards Marco "I'll be here if you want to ride a dragon into battle Marco."

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Marco leaned in to Em's kiss, savoring it before they broke it. He gently traced her cheek and then nodded. "Be safe, my love. And here, if you need me or anyone else... just call." Marco gently pressed the compact into Em's hands and kissed her forehead again. He did grimace when he saw that another legionnaire had gotten accidentally shoved into the labyrinth. However, they didn't really have time at the moment, so he turned to exit the sewer with Demi.

Marco's mind was racing with a thousand thoughts at the moment. He had never really asked for this demi-god stuff. Now his cohort was looking to him, since for reason his leader had run off somewhere else. He wasn't the inspiring kind... or was he. A memory tickled at the back of his mind. He had at one time had wanted to go into choir, but his father had told him no. When he had asked why, his father said something odd at the time. "My son, believe me when I say no good will come of you or I singing. We're cursed at it." His choice of words had always been odd until...

He had seen what Nancy could do with her singing and magic. He had seen what Waverly could do with it too. But he was a son of Venus so his thoughts didn't make sense.

When Demi offered him a ride, he nodded. "Yes, thank you. Fifth Cohort, with me!" He then mounted Demi, gently settling in, and grasping his horns for support. As Demi took off... he closed his eyes and focused. He needed to inspire his Cohort, after what the sewers and labyrinth had done. He needed to be inspiring for all the others...



The words to an old pop song spilled from his lips, but they were more than just words. Demi could feel magic in them, as could the rest of the Fifth Cohort, as inspiration took them over. A skill Marco had never known he had before had been unlocked or unmasked... and he would use it.

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The Cyclops came after him again after Janelle successfully slayed her own beast. Kristin seemed to get her second wind though and got the last beast down after they both dodged a shot from him. Ezekiel breathed out a sigh of relief and then quickly sucked in a breath as his broken ribs made their presence known again. He set his pack down, pushing the hilt of his sword so it retracted back to the sun key chain. He slipped that into his pocket and pulled out a spare shirt that he tore and then began the painful process of bandaging himself up to hold his ribs as together as he could. After that was accomplished, he turned to Kristin who looked like she was about to pass out.
”Just keep breathing as evenly as you can,” Ezekiel encouraged her. This wasn’t the first time Ezekiel had healed Kristin and it likely wouldn't be the last. He placed hands over where she was bleeding and stopped that completely before he healed up the broken bones. Now if only Ezekiel could heal himself. ”Drink some water if you have it,” he told Kristin.
Ezekiel dug around in his pack again until he found ambrosia and took a couple bites.
”Janelle, do you want some ambrosia? It will help with the pain if you have anything,” he told her. Ezekiel had gotten preoccupied with his own fighting so he wasn’t sure if Janelle had sustained any serious injuries other than scraps and bruises.

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Almost as soon as the guitar strings stopped vibrating under her short, chewed up fingernails, her body, recently relaxed from her music, went tense upon hearing Emily's voice ring out behind her. She'd thought she was alone, or at least no longer in the company of people who really knew her.

"Oh, uh, like I said, that was all just...off the top of my head, so it's not gonna win any Grammy's," she said with an awkward chuckle, scratching the back of her head. For a moment, more than the madness or the monster-filled maze, Waverley was scared that her music had reached Emily's ears before it was ready. But it didn't take long for her to realize how ridiculous that was, at which point a small smirk spread across her lips, and a huff of amusement exited her nose. She reached down and laid her hand upon Emily's vine, finding comfort at its touch. "Thanks for staying, Em...and, uh, sorry for holding you back from the...war," she said. The voices were gone, a fact she attributed more to Emily than herself. And for a moment, she was relaxed. That is until she felt a body bump against her back as another legionnaire was shoved into the labyrinth.

"Hey, hey, you oka-" Waverley began to ask, before she was interrupted by a smooth, elegant voice cutting through the silence. Waverley's eyes shot wide open as she spun around to look at the source. It was...a woman? A beautiful woman with deep black hair and none of the beastly feature Waverley was expecting to find on something that lived in the labyrinth. She stepped out in front of her fellow legionnaire, putting herself between them and the stranger stepping out of darkness. Waverley's brow was furrowed, and her lips were curved down in uncertainty. "You're...you're awfully pretty for a monster. Is this, like, a siren situation? Where you lure us in with a false sense of security and then eat our skin?" she asked, her voice trembling. She didn't know the history of most of the gods, let alone what they looked like, so she didn't let her guard down.

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Nancy huffed slightly, hating the rules about needing a god to help with killing something, but there was no point in arguing with the laws of the universe. Luring Neptune's evil twin to New Rome went against every instinct she had as a praetor. There was no other way though. If they didn't have Terminus' help to kill this giant, then everyone there would die. And she didn't exactly see any Olympians lining up to help the cause. They were on their own. "You heard your praetor, we need to lure him to New Rome!" Nancy repeated, pausing for a moment as a small purple dragon landed on her shoulder, like a parrot.

She raised an eyebrow. "You can stay there as long as you don't shit," she told the dragon. Joanie, as she affectionately dubbed the dragon after Joan Jett, wasn't the only dragon on the field though. A dragon came from behind their lines and Nancy heard Marco before she spotted him - he was singing a song, one that she dimly remembered hearing in the Lotus Hotel and Casino. She wasn't really sure what time period it was from, but it wasn't from the 80's. Still, it had been the elevator music for... she really didn't know how long. She couldn't help but know all the words. Music was her thing after all.


She wasn't a huge fan of that third lyric and it showed on her face, even as she hit her lines. The sound waves billowed out but they didn't do anything about the cyclopses, just brushing by them harmlessly. Nancy took another breath. She could sing more than just hits from the 80s. She was Nancy fucking Parker, the most bitchin' praetor Camp Jupiter had ever seen. The show was going to go on.


One of the cyclops' heads burst, as her song resonated with the cells that made up his body. Nancy couldn't help but grin, feeling herself falling into a rhythm, getting her groove on. Each song was different and she hadn't really sung this one much before, but now she was starting to understand it. It wasn't about sex - at least, not to her. It was a promise, a dare, a challenge. A show of strength and confidence. Nancy understood that.


This time, six cyclopses exploded like pimples that had been squeezed until they burst. Nancy let out a slight little laugh, tapping her foot now in time to the music. She was getting into the song now, feeling the way that the words vibrated in her throat. It was pure energy and power that she was pushing out of her lungs, weaponizing her voice and using it to protect everyone who stood by her side.


No cyclopses exploded this time, but one of them started to bleed from its eyes and ears as Nancy's music pushed and pushes, testing the limits of its constitution.

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Leda was a little bit amused. She had New Rome pegged all wrong. She thought this place was going to be a reality TV show with drama and infighting, but instead it was something way better - "Oi, I didn't know this was the inspiration for High School Musical!" she teased. The Apollo girl was scary with her voice, exploding monsters. And then another person was currently singing from on top of a dragon. She wondered if they split their time equally between learning how to march and fight as an army, and rehearsing for the latest musical number. Unfortunately with a giant trying to kill her girlfriend, now wasn't really the time to find out.

"'Course, guess I'm your Uber, huh? Better rate me five stars or I'm throwing you at a cyclops," Leda teased, before scooping Kiera up and taking off at a run. She was a blur of rainbow light as she sped from the Fields of Mars to New Rome proper. There was some sort of living statue person standing near the boundary, but Leda was more interested in the giant that was definitely chasing them and coming nearer. "Alright, what's the next part of the plan, luv?" Leda asked, setting Kiera down.

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Chaos was just erupting everywhere, and Mary at the moment didn't really have much of an idea of what she could really do. Though apparently there was a music concert going on or something, since two people started singing to the freaking Backstreet Boys. How old were they to decide to sing that? It didn't matter though, not at the moment, she'd ask about their music choices later as she instantly started to cause vines to sprout up and begin wrapping around the four remaining cyclops. She immediately tied up two right off the bat, but it took a few minutes for her to get the other two wrapped up.

Jason was a bit unused to this sort of fighting or chaos, since the sword fighting he typically did was with one other person and was more or less for sport then an actual life and death situation. However he was getting used to thinking on the fly, as he pulled out his dagger, which shifted into a full length sword and he instantly went straight up to one of the now tied up Cyclops and he slashed at it, instantly killing it with his sword, and he swung it at another one, killing that one too. This fight seemed like it wasn't going to end well if he had to guess.

Her attention was drawn now to the words that had been said with regards to the giant and what the plan was. At least New Rome had a resident god nearby that they could potentially team up with. Problem was that likely wasn't going to be easy, since what were the odds an actual god or whatever would actually want to step in? Most of the time they didn't really do anything like that at all. Right now though, she was really hoping that he would help them with this one. "Alright, this is going to be fun..." she muttered to herself, before she took off towards New Rome, since unlike her best friend she didn't have super speed.

He had no idea how things really worked with the world that involved gods and monsters. That was the problem, he was still learning a lot about everything, and so if someone who seemed to know more accurately what was going on told him that they needed to get the guy to go into the city, then he was likely to believe them. So this Polybotes or whatever his name was, he only was half paying attention to the words people were saying around him, had to be defeated by a demigod and an actual god, did they have a god to help them? Who knew really, he was just sort of confused as he followed after a few others towards the city.

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She only could tell based on the sounds around her when the fighting was over. There wasn't much she had to go off of, so she turned towards the sounds of the fighting, more then ready to fight back and hit something with her staff. The sounds suddenly stopped, and she waited another moment to ensure that there wasn't any more monsters before she relaxed. At least now they didn't have to deal with the monsters, for another little while anyway. After all, more could just pop up again at a moments notice, so she kept her ears open to see about checking for anymore.

Kristin sounded horrible or something, and her attention turned towards Zeke when he asked if she needed ambrosia to help with the pain. Personally, she was fine. She definitely had had worse from accidentally bumping into something she had felt with her cane and had caused her to fall over. Scrapes and bruises were nothing new to her. "I am fine, dese few bruises and scrapes are nahthin new to me, runnin into sahmethin I dedn't nahtice was dere 'urts almahst as bad, sahmetimes wahrse dependin," Janelle said to him, joking a little bit with regards to running into objects.

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He had caught what she had almost said. She felt bad. But it was more that she thought he wanted to be in a safe place rather than any doubt of his fighting skill. It was clear he didn't enjoy fighting so why would he want to join it if it could be avoided?

Andy took the book. "Thank you." She didn't have a backpack or anywhere to stash the book. It was a good thing most of her fighting was summoning lighting and hitting enemies with it. She wanted to get into battle though and didn't want to have to put the book away. She'd just have to be super careful with it.

She and Arthur started to walk outside toward the ship, but there was no need. Gryf had come to her. She grinned. Excellent. "Hey Gryf, you ready to ride into battle with me? We've got people to protect." She climbed onto the Gryphon's back. "Come on Arthur. Let's show these monsters they picked the wrong fight." Her grin was huge. Howerver, Gryf was not excited about Arthur joining her. He started hissing at Arthur when he tried to get on his back.

"Gryf, he is my friend. Please be nice to him." She said gently. Not demanding. She didn't want to force the Gryphon to take Arthur on his back if he didn't want to, but she wished that both of them could ride him.



Shit. That was all Em could think as she was almost pushed into the Labyrinth. She was already regretting her decision to stay. That was quick. Instead of her one of the others of the Fifth was knocked in. She sighed frustrated. But hey Marco was super hot riding a dragon and singing...Backstreet Boys. She shook her head to focus and turned around seeing a beautiful woman who had definitely not been in the Labrinth a moment ago speaking with Waverly.

It didn't take much for Emily to realize who the woman was. She was a goddess. And one of her Father's (in his Greek form) ...consorts. She shifted. Hoping that Ariadne wouldn't take offense to what Waverly had just said. It was sort of reasonable since Waverly had so far met a Sphinx and had been warned multiple times to not wander off. "Ariadne." She started giving a head nod and what might be considered a curtsey. "We found this section of the Labrynth by accident while reinforcing the sewers here." She explained.



Niah nodded. At least that made sense. They were kids, they should have gotten a proper childhood. Not that any demi-god really got proper childhoods. She watched as an actual Gryffin flew over to them and the girl climbed onto its back without any issue. "Well skill aside she has a friend in that Gryffin." Saw something new every day she supposed. The other thing that Alannah said made sense. You could see it in the kid's eyes.

"Alright, show me the ropes." She said to Alannah. The battle had begun and she didn't like sitting on the sidelines during wartime. That wasn't her speed. She had literally flown into a dragon's lair before and here she was waiting. It was part of the reason she didn't consider herself a leader. The misconception that leaders told others what to do from the sidelines. To her Nancy and Mads were exceptions to what leaders were like. And she preferred their style. Getting involved and fighting. Proving they were just as willing to die for their people as the people they were asking to die.

She looked up as a dragon took to the skies. It was carrying Marco...who was singing. Niah could hear that Nancy's voice joined the song and heads started exploding. She smiled. Remembering the first time Nancy ever did that with the werewolves. But that caused her to frown again. Mads. Worry crossed her heart and mind. Something would have to be done before the next full moon. She didn't want to lose one of her best friends like that. Her fingers brushed her bracelet.

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Arthur was mostly quiet as they walked out, not out of fear or worry per say, but just contemplative. His desire to fight was not out of thrill seeking or fun, but because he felt that he had too, even if nobody was forcing him. It was a natural ultimatum, fight and risk death, or live and risk an unforgivable existence. Cie la vie, which he would be choosing was clear, and it at least meant he would get to fight alongside Andy. Even if they would both be in danger, being by her side, and having each others backs would make things feel a whole heck of a lot better.

As they left the senate building, he was a bit worried about Gryf, thinking that he would be the thing keeping him from joining the fight. If that happened, Arthur had an idea of what to do, but he was ultimately hoping it wouldn't have to come to that. As he was hissed at, Arthur put both of his hands up, trying to make it clear that he was not a threat to this creature, but he attempts at calming the creature down were ultimately lukewarm at best. When things started to even out, he slowly approached the monster, and climbed aboard him behind Andy. As Gryf seemed amenable to this, he exhaled, relieved. "Alright, let's do this thing. Together." he said quietly, getting comfortable on the beast.

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Polybotes didnt have superspeed like Leda had but he was still doing his best to catch up to the two of them, as Kiera looked around and noticed the aqueducts nearby and grinned a little bit as Terminus approached the two of them. She noticed Mary coming up as well as Kiera thought of a plan. "Don't worry i'll make it up to you once all of this is done." Kiera said to her girlfriend giving her a wink as she turned to look at Mary. "I could use the aqueducts to bring down all of the water and hit him as hard as I can. Leda and Mary if you guys can blind and distract him, or slow him down and then Terminus here can do his godly thing or whatever." Kiera suggested as Polybotes finally caught up to them and stared down at the redhead then at Terminus as the god started to get angry and nodded towards Kiera.

Polybotes started to shake some of his hair as ten more Basiliks came out, and started spitting acid hitting the three of them in the legs causing some sever burns on them. Kiera winced in pain as she started to run over towards the aqueducts and spotted some fire hydrants as well, and caused them to burst. She managed to take out three of them hitting them with a heavy blast of water, as they immediately burst into dust. She managed to get under the aqueducts and started to concentrate on the flowing water to come out, but couldnt really as she tried again. Terminus immedately jumped in using his stone head and knocked Polybotes forward slightly causing the giant to stumble backwards and causing the giant to become angry.

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Madalyne watched as a dragon flew in the air and seeing Marco singing on it's back she wasnt even sure how he even found a dragon in the first place. But right now she didnt really care they needed to focus on the battle at hand, there were two cyclops that remained as Madalyne focused on her magic. She sent a blast at one of the cyclops with a fire ball, as the cyclops started to howl in pain she ran forward and jumped forward thrusting her sword forward into the cyclops' eye.

It immediately burst into dust as well, turning to look at Nancy and smiled towards her, when she paused hearing a loud roar coming from the skies and noticed five dragons now coming in. They swooped in and breathed fire on several of their siege weapon emplacements, killing several legionaries who were operating them, or who were to close. Seven Telekhines came out three of them jumped forward and suddenly tackled Jason to the ground and started to beat him up rather badly causing a lot of bruises, two of them threw tools at Nancy, hitting her in the head.

Alannah nodded slightly as she quickly motioned for Niah to enter the wheelhouse and started to get the ship into the air and then gestured to the controls. "So, the display shows just about anything you can see, as well as a radar." Alannah said as she noticed the five large blips on it flying by and pressed a nearby button as a panel opened revealing a controller that looked like an xbox's. "The ballistae can be remotely controlled, or manned, or can auto target and fire as well to and you can use the cameras to aim as well." Alannah told Niah as she moved the Argo III, and used the controller and camera using them both and fired off a ballistae at one of the dragons but missed.

Two dragons suddenly turned their attention to both Andy and Arthur, as it swooped in and tried to grab the three of them, but missed as it started to turn around again for another attack breathing fire nearly hitting them as well. The other dragon had turned it's attention to Demi and Marco breathed fire hitting Marco and Demetri on their backs causing some major burns as well.

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Ariadne and everyone else could hear the fighting going on above ground now as well, she turned to look at Waverly for a moment and tilted her head to the side slightly. "If I wanted to kill you, you would be dead by now, I am Ariadne Greek goddess of Labyrinths and Paths." She told Waverly feeling a bit insulted, before turning to look at Em and gave her a friendly smile but nodded slightly. "I am aware, The Giant and Titan army have been moving troops through the Labryinth recently, I would appreciate some help actually in exchange I keep the madness at bay and i'll lead you out of here." The Goddess offered.

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Kristin closed her eyes and let out a slight sigh as Zeke managed to heal her wounds, feeling a bit better now as she stood straight again, her spear turned back into a bracelet again. "Thank you." She said as she cracked her neck slightly, they needed to get moving again as much as she wanted to sit down and relax some they couldnt. They were really close to where they needed to be and kill Echidna, she looked at the two of them. "Lets keep going." Kristin said she had a feeling that they werent to far now and she didnt want to get onto another bus and potentially run into some more monsters in a confined space like a bus.

She started to walk it took a few minutes until they were right in front of the Houston Space Center, Kristin paused and noticed that there werent any people at all which was really off to her. It was a tourist spot as well which didnt sit well as she looked at Zeke and Janelle, letting out a slight sigh. "Alright stay alert and stay close." Kristin said as she started to make her way into the building itself which was empty as well other then displays of various aeronautics.

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Demetri took to the skies as soon as he felt Marco settle himself on him. His massive wings unfurling as they battered the dirt that was beneath him, making tiny whirlwinds beneath each wing that danced with every flap until he finally pushed off and began his flight. His pupils became small slits that focused on the battle ahead, watching as the Cyclops's fought those they had come to seek aid from. The small diamond shaped pupils became enlarged and black spheres as suddenly Marco began to sing. It was hard to hear at first, the wind bursting through his ears and making it almost impossible until he went into a glide and focused on what it was Marco was saying. He felt his magic weaving into him, the words striking a cord, in a more mystical sense that what Waverly's had done. But one thing rattled on in his mind, Why the Backstreet Boys? Newfound energy and courage coursed through him as he lunged forward and made haste towards the battle. Demetri did all he could to speed himself up, ensuring a sleek body by tucking his arms and legs close to his body as his wings furled in partially and he began a quick descent down to swipe over the enemy. Taking in a good look before circling back and choosing the best course of action on how to attack.

He had wanted to breathe a line of fire at the creatures. Wanting to burn them all to a crisp. But there were too many soldiers near by, too many friends, too many casualties. He passed by one, two, three cyclops's as he debating knocking them over like domino's or grabbing one and dropping it down from an impossible height. Both could end with casualties, and one seemed highly inefficient even by his standards. Finally he saw an opening and decided it was now or never. His chest began to glow a brilliant blue as he breathed in through his nostrils and expanded his diaphragm. His allies seemed to handle to massive brutes without his aid, a swarm of dragons incoming and attack while another form of creatures pestered those bellow. The flames swelled up inside him until he let out a large burst of blue fire towards the first set of dragons, attempting to pull them away from his younger sister and cousin. The flames missed them all, doing nothing gain their ire nor hurt their scales. He huffed out screens of smoke and he concentrated once more and shot out a blast that managed to get one of their attentions. Good that was one less dragon to worry about on his sister. As he flapped his wings he felt the singe of the fire that hit his back, then quickly realizing that his sister wasnt all he had to worry about now. Marco was on his back and he was an easy target for these dragons. "Hey so I love what you're doing here but maybe a different song? Maybe something from the Hercules soundtrack like "Zero to Hero" or "Go the Distance" you know? Oh and let me know if you want down cuz that dragons fighting dirty. Anyways hold on tight!" Demi immediatly flapped his wings and bursted upwards getting above the dragon that blew fire on him.

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The Greeks had the giant taken care of, hopefully - Nancy noticed the big lumbering bane of Neptune head towards New Rome and she prayed to the gods that everything would go according to plan. The brief distraction though cost her, as she was hit in the head with some tools. Her head was throbbing and she glared at the monsters responsible for it. To make matters worse, legionnaires - soldiers following her orders - were burned alive by the dragons. She narrowed her eyes, before deciding that Backstreet Boys weren't going to cut it. No, she needed something similar to Joan Jett, but new. Something fresh.


As she sang, her voice pushed out dangerous, explosive sound waves that collided with one of the dragons. The sound ripped the dragon to pieces, killing the mighty creature as easily as someone would swat a fly. Nancy didn't admit it to herself, but her voice was beginning to feel the strain from overuse. She should have done some more vocal warmups before all of this. But instead she just kept on pushing herself, using her anger and rage as fuel for her destructive powers. For so long she had been expected to sing for other people's entertainment. Now, she sang as a weapon, as a sword, as a bomb.


Just as in the original performance, Nancy's melodious song turned into more of a scream at the close of the verse. The abrupt change in the quality and length of the sound waves she pushed out had an impact though - rather than killing the second dragon, the waves simply pushed into it and then faded away. In the second half of the verse, her voice had actually cracked when she went into the scream, causing the sound waves to harmlessly collide with the dragon again. Still, she wasn't going to stop. She wouldn't stop until all of these monsters were dead, until they paid in blood for each and every legionnaire that they had killed. And whenever they rose from the Pit and reformed, she'd burn them alive - slowly, listening to their screams...

She had her father's rage.

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"Arghhh!!!" The basilisk's acid had hit Leda in the legs and it burned, like someone had set her legs on fire while simultaneously chilling them to the bone with ice. "Fucking bloody cocksuckers!" she cursed, her sword Ultraviolet glowing red from anger as Leda moved so fast that her image blurred, looking like a rainbow streak. She weaved in and out of the basilisks, slicing them open with Ultraviolet with deadly accuracy and precision. She didn't kill as many as she would have liked, but these things were dangerous - they weren't as easy to hack away at as, say, cyclopses.

When she skidded to a halt, five of the original ten basilisks were gone. She then took a breath, before remembering that Kiera had asked her to do something important in order to help her and the rock god. She threw her hands out, like she was shoving the air, and bursts of rainbow beams shot out of them. The beams hit the giant in the eyes, blinding him with every dazzling color of the rainbow, like it was a commercial for Skittles. "There ya go, luv!"

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Marco was still not sure how he was even doing this at this point, how he was using his voice to inspire others, and why this urge was coiling through his blood. Maybe he was related to Nancy? Or Waves? Those questions and the answers would have to come later, as for the moment he was a bit too focused on finishing his song until Demi spoke to him.

"Hmm? Oh yeah, a different song might be a good idea here, but not so sure about using that movie..." Marco wasn't sure that Juno would like him singing about a movie that praised her step-son as hers. "If you can set me down I think that would be much appreciated, Demi. Thanks for the lift." He half smiled at that as Demi did swoop down so he could hop off the dragon before he watched Demi take off again.

He could feel a song burbling up again... and he knew that it might not fit with what was going on but it was a song with passion, with fire in it. He had seen the musical years ago, on stage and he had been so interested in what it was based on... especially since it was a depiction of the city he had grown up in. He turned his attention to enemies before him, the passion and rage pouring out into his voice, into his song.

How do you document real life
When real life's getting more like fiction each day?
Headlines, breadlines blow my mind
And now this deadline, eviction or pay
Rent!

How do you write a song when the chords sound wrong?
Though they weren't sounding right and rare
When the notes are sour
Where is the power you once had to ignite the air?

We're hungry and frozen

Some life that we've chosen

How we gonna pay
How we gonna pay
How we gonna pay last year's rent?

He could see the heads exploding as the waves of song hit the enemies, and his eyes went wide. This had been in him this whole time? It both frightened and aroused him. He was going to have to tell Em about this later... but for the moment he focused back on the enemies in front of him.

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"Oh, uh, nifty, that's convenient," Waverley mumbled with a gulp, relaxing a little at the fact that she wasn't about to be eaten by some sort of cave siren. She quickly tensed back up, however, when the woman's gaze pierced through her. Up to that moment, it'd seemed impossible to Waverley for a god to hold a physical form. And while the eyes of this being weren't enough to wipe away all beliefs of some force of greater good that prevailed in her vision of the universe, there was a palpable divinity in them that made Waverley, for the first time since coming to New Rome, believe that perhaps their gods were real, and were gods. At least this one was. It was normal for Waverley to feel things in the form of unwritten songs, and this goddess caused a chorus to ring out inside her. She gulped.

"Uh, nice to meet ya, Ariadne. Should I be more formal? Ms. Ariadne? That feels weird, 'cause that'd be like calling me Ms. Waver- Sorry, I'm rambling," Waverley went on for a couple seconds, before clearing her throat and doing an awkward little curtsy. She quickly straightened up, scratching the back of her head as she let out a nervous chuckle. "Uh, I can't speak for my friends here, but I'd be willing to try. I'm not much of a warrior, mind you, but I can do my best," she gestured towards Em and the other legionnaire who'd stumbled into the labyrinth.

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”No problem,” Ezekiel told Kristin after she thanked him. He appreciated the thanks but healing people was something he loved to do. It was the one thing he was eceptional at doing, even though he wished he were good at more than just that.
He looked at Janelle when she assured him she was fine and even made a joke about it. Ezekiel chuckled and nodded. He grabbed his pack and started following Kristin but he stayed near Janelle. ”Just reach out if you need an extra guide,” he told Janelle.
Soon, the three of them were standing outside the space center. A very empty, incredibly quiet space center. ”Well, I’m sure this is normal,” Ezekiel said sarcastically as he looked around the empty space center. He followed Kristin inside, holding the door for Janelle and looked around. It was empty inside as well and Ezekiel frowned. ”Echnida has absolutely no hostess skills,” he declared.

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There was just chaos everywhere, there was no question about that. With everything that was going on around her, she was surprised that everyone managed to keep their heads on straight and fight back. She was glad of course, but still how was no one going crazy? Not to mention the odd song choices that were going on back behind the direction she had come from (which she didn't know what that was about) so there was a lot going on. She caught up to Leda and Kiera some how, despite not having any super speed of her own which was a slight miracle, and she looked at the two of them as Kiera gave them a sort of plan for what to do about the giant who was kind of pissed off at them.

"You got it," she said, nodding her head as the basilisks popped up and attacked them, her teeth gritting through the pain from the acid. Mary really didn't like basilisks. However she first decided to deal with the giant, as she sent vines flying out, and they started wrapping around the giant, and since he was already partially disoriented, it made it easier for her to knock the giant over and trip him up. Then came the part with regards to the basilisks that had attacked them, and more vines sprung up and turned into sharp points as they charged right at them, and with her first attack at them she managed to run through 4 of the remaining 5, killing them instantly, but the last one had managed to side step her attack. "There always has to be one," she muttered, before one of the vines made a sharp turn and ran through the last one, killing it.

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Yeah, he was starting to wonder if this might be what actual hell was like or something at this point, just chaos and everything around him. He had no idea what to do or what group of monsters to attack in response, except that instantly was a decision that was made up for him, as a group of whatever the hell they were instantly attacked him and pinned him to the ground. Well that was definitely a pain for him to have to deal with. Why the hell did he have such horrible luck? Then again, he wasn't sure what all to do against these things, but one thing that he did know was that they were pounding on him like a punching bag and it was really starting to hurt.

"Get ahff o' me!" he said instantly, before he started using his strength to see about getting the things off of him. Jason found it relatively easy to get one of the monsters off, but he had a bit more trouble with the other two, but with another show of force he managed to get them off of him too. "Now dat's better," he added, before he grabbed his sword again and swung it rather hard, and with that he managed to deal with the three thorns in his side. Also known as the three monsters that had been pounding on him. Question was more or less a what should he attack now?

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"I dink I'll be fine, dank you fahr de offer. All I need is to 'ear you two to get an idea o' direction, boeht based ahn what I know about you bot, gettin you to be quiet is defficult so dat shouldn't be moehch o' a problem," she said in response to Zeke saying to reach out if she needed an extra guide. Though to be honest she was used to those sort of things, people offering to help her navigate, even though she was perfectly capable. Janelle was pretty sure though that Zeke likely didn't mean it in a bad way, he was just being nice and offering, though sometimes she found people offering to help a bit annoying, she was perfectly capable of moving around on her own.

She stuck with the other two, and eventually she heard the other two talking about the space center, which was oddly quiet. This was likely not a good thing, and from what she knew was rather odd. Tilting her head to the side after she walked into the building, she listened as she heard off in the distance a voice that likely belonged to their enemy. "Next room over, sooehnds like maybe Echedna talkin to sahmeone else abooeht sendin bahmbs to New Rome via de Labyrenth," she said rather softly, keeping her ears opened to try and listen to see if she heard anything, or anyone really, else aside from the ones nearby.

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Gryf thankfully let Arthur on his back too. She didn't really want to part ways with Arthur but knew that when Gryf decided something there was no fighting the creature. He could easily kill any of them if he decided to turn. The ride up into the air was exhilarating. She had been nervous because of the fall from the tree. But this was amazing. Her heart pounded and her stomach twisted, but it was like a roller-coaster type of reaction. This was fun.

A couple of dragons headed their direction, but another dragon with a man singing on his back drew one of them away. That was weird, and she didn't know what to think about it. She guessed it might be Demi as the dragon. She had seen him turn into a baby one before. She focused on the other dragon and shot lighting at it, missing.

"Darn," She said before trying again. This time it was a direct hit and the dragon died. For a moment Andy regretted it as the body started to fall to the earth. Would it hit someone on their side?



"What is it you need help with?" She asked. She didn't dare say she'd help until she knew what it was that was needed. Emily knew how much gods could twist things. Even the nicer gods. But it was good practice to never allow yourself to get into a deal you didn't know the parameters of. No matter who you were talking to.

Though, she planned to help Ariadne. Even if it might require going into the Labyrinth. With Ariadne's help, they couldn't get lost, not really. And there would be three of them on the 'quest'. Emily couldn't leave them to an unknown fate. She wasn't that type of person.



The Argo III was actually really neat, Niah decided. The interface wasn't quite what she expected from this sort of thing, but honestly, it made sense. You have a bunch of kids making flying ships why wouldn't they smash together their current technology with what comes from their heritage.

"That's really cool, Alannah. I'm impressed. Can I give it a go?" She asked, and when handed the controls started trying to shoot at the dragons. Well, the ones that hadn't been carrying Romans on their backs. She'd have to ask Marco later where his dragon came from.

She turned her focus to the siege weapon. Something she was good at. Even with the different interfaces. She fired a shot at a dragon hitting it, but it kept flying. She took another shot. This time the dragon died and turned to glittery dust. Niah smiled. "Let me reiterate, this is super cool."

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As they flew on Gryf's back, Arthur felt exhilarated. He didn't like combat, or being on constant fear of death, but flying over New Rome on the back of a Gryphon? That was something else, and it made him appreciate being a Demigod a little bit more. As Andy proceeded to deal with the dragon problem, Arthur wanted to feel useful too. He was better at dealing with smaller targets, and Dragon's didn't exactly match that description. However, there was one thing he could do, and though he felt sticky about it, doing what he could to save lives was the entire reason he was here.

Arthur closed his eyes and focused on the dead Dragon; he knew his father was the god of the Underworld, and he knew he could raise the dead. Arthur had done it before, though it pained him to remember it. The dragon, he figured was just like the fallen he'd returned to life before, only bigger, and much more of a threat. Feeling as if he was pulling on a sort of string, he forced life back into the Dragon, returning it to the mortal coil for now. His head felt dizzy, as if he had poured some of his own essence into this thing, but it was up, and under his control. He thought he would try to force it to go fight the Giant, but he was met with a kind of stubborness, and forced through that, only to feel something snap inside the dragon. The zombie turned its attention back to the Demigods, and Arthur cursed under his breath, "No no no..." A kind of dread filling him that he'd felt when he had tried to raise his sister, that this had gone totally, horribly wrong.

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As Polybotes laid on the ground groaning as he started to try and clear his vision while trying to move his legs, until he was finally able to break free from the vines that Mary had bound his legs with. "You will pay for that puny demigods." Polybotes said as he stood up his vision was really blurry and could barely see the blurry figures of Mary and Leda. He blindly swung his arm, missing Leda however he managed to hit Mary knocking her back and slamming her into a nearby lamp post dislocating her shoulder.

Kiera watched for a moment as she started to gain control of the water from the aqueducts and then sent a large torrent of water down onto Polybotes. Terminus took the time and slammed into Polybotes knocking the Giant into a nearby building, causing a lot of damage to it, Kiera stumbled slightly and shook her head slightly. She made her way over towards her girlfriend, and started to think for a moment and got a bit of an idea from Avatar the Last Airbender. She weaved the water around her hand and moved it over to the acid burns on Leda's legs and started to heal her. "Are you okay love?" Kiera asked, as she turned to Mary and ran over to her, and started to do the same thing, she was only able to alleviate the pain however.

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Madalyne smiled somewhat to Nancy as she continued to sing, managing to take down a dragon from her voice as she watched she saw a lot of Gryphons and Harpyies flying through the air. They picked up some Legionaires and lifted them high up into the air, and then dropping them to the ground. "They just keep coming." Madalyne said, just as she was about ready to try and attack a Harpy a Gryphon lifted her high up into the air. Madalyne started to panic as she took her sword and managed to swing as hard as she could, which cause it to let go of her, and she started to plummet to the ground.

She couldnt help but scream as she fell, but quickly thought of something and used her magic to try and slow down her fall somewhat. She hit the ground hard, breaking her legs on impact laying on the ground as Madalyne tried to get back to her feet again she felt a sharp pain as she laid back down.

A Harpy would swoop down and quickly snatched up Jason's sword, the bird like creature started to cackle as it kept it just out of reach from him a Gryphon landed right in front of Nancy taking a swipe at her with it's massive claws barely missing her. Two Harpies would swoop down and attacked Demetri, one of them missed but one was lucky enough and managed to claw out Demi's left eye blinding him in the eye.

The dragon that Arthur had tried to raise as his ally had quickly turned on it's master and started to charge forward using it's massive claws it slashed Gryph on the side, leaving a nasty gash in it's side causing the Gryphon to screech in pain and quickly started to evade the flying undead monster. Several Gryphons and Harpies started to fly and land onto the deck of the Argo III and started to damage it's weapons as well. "Glad you like it, it took several months to make it actually." Alannah said, as she quickly saw what was happening and ran out towards the monsters, seeing three Harpies and a Gryphon. She decided to focus on the bigger threat using her weapon she managed to hit the Gryphon as it broke off squawking at her rather loudly.

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Emily would start to hear the fighting coming into the sewers, as some Legionnaires went to go and fight the incoming threat, several cyclops started to break through the barriers that the 5th Cohort had made, and a few traps going off as well to. Ariadne stared at Waverly for a moment and smiled slightly towards her. "Ariadne will be just fine." She said as the goddess could hear the fighting going on in the sewers by Emily as she asked her question.

"They plan on bringing weapons what kind I do know know over here to try and destroy your home, and a giant is there which I cannot fight alone." Ariadne told her, there were rules for fighting giants unlike Titans you had to have a god and a demigod working together to take it down. "That is of course if you want to continue to fight there, you will not last long." She warned.

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Kristin looked at Janelle she was a bit surprised that she could hear that well, as she looked at Zeke for a moment they were really close to ending this now with their quest. "Alright then lets go and crash the party." Kristin said giving a bit of a smile the sooner they could finish the better. Kristin then kicked in the door drawing out her spear, she noticed several cyclops were busy loading up dozens of barrels with what looked to be Greek. Along with Telekhines working to what looked to be timers and wiring as well, the little sea demons barking at one another, when one of them noticed and started barking.

Echidna quickly turned to face the three Demigods before her, holding what looked like a Chihuahua sticking out of her purse. "You are to late." She said with a bit of an evil laugh, just as she waved her hands. The Cyclops and Telekhines quickly finished what they were doing and bringing some of the last remaining barrels through what looked to be stairs of some kind. Kristin knew that Greek Fire was really volatile she turned to look at Zeke and Janelle. "Do not attack the barrels it's really dangerous." Kristin warned as Echinda stared at the group once more. "Who wishes to be fed to my little pet first?" She asked just as the pup turned into something much larger.

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Nancy wasn't proud of it, but she couldn't help but feel irritated, seeing Marco using his voice to destroy. It had always been her thing - the one thing that set her apart from every other child of Apollo. She didn't know any of her siblings who could do that. It was what made her special. Seeing someone else able to do the same thing... It made her angry, but more importantly, it made her sad. And the more she tried not to think about it and to ignore the feeling, the more the anger threatened to boil over. Her head wasn't in the game as she started targeting the undead dragon. She didn't even want to know how it had gotten like that. Her legionnaires were dying all around her and every monster she killed was another life saved.


The dragon was unaffected by her song, and Nancy's left eye twitched. Not only was she no longer special, but now she couldn't even pull off her signature move? Was it possible for someone to steal her voice like in the Little Mermaid movie? She liked Marco, he made amazing coffees, but right now she wasn't thinking rationally. And the more frustrated she was, the harder it was to pull off her trick.


Her voice had cracked at the start of the lick. She was clutching her hands so tightly on the hilts of her imperial gold daggers that her knuckles had turned white. She was seeing red. She wanted to kill every single thing here, and then pile the remains so high that Olympus would be dwarfed in the mountain's shadow. Ironically, this time her anger was helping her. She was so focused on wanting to express that rage that she nailed the next verse, ripping the zombie!dragon apart with her words and sending it back to the Pit.

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"Ugh, yeah, I'm fine," Leda said, wincing at first when the water hit her legs before relaxing as the pain was alleviated. She tightened up again when Kiera stopped and went to tend to Mary, but now wasn't the time to complain about not receiving more medical care. There were harpies and gryphons flying around in the air above them, and they still hadn't dealt with Polybotes completely. They weren't not threatening, but next to the giant she wasn't going to be focusing on the winged menaces exclusively. In fact, they really needed a way to get that giant to be blinded for more than just a few minutes.

She sprinted off at Polybotes, intending on stabbing him repeatedly in the eyes, but the giant saw her coming. She was a little shocked if she was being honest - people usually couldn't see her when she moved. But then again, this was a giant - she should've known. She shouldn't have rushed off. Polybotes grabbed her by the neck and threw her backwards. She hit the ground hard, gaining a lovely collection of bruises. Leda spat at the ground, having learned her lesson - close quarters combat was out. Ranged combat was in.

Leda blasted beams of rainbow light at Polybotes' eyes, but the giant shielded himself. "Fucking cocksucker!" Leda cursed. She tried blasting him again, but her powers more or less fizzled.