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Lauryn started to inspect their work so far after finishing up the markings she started to take out some more tools, and then started to drill holes length wise into the neck of the guitar. Turning her attention towards Demi asking if there was a test of some kind to find out if theres some legacy blood in him. "You'd have to have some access to your parents records I think, but like I said Camp Half-Blood doesn't really monitor that stuff as much, so maybe one of the Roman's can help you in the right direction. Other way is to see if you have any kind of ability that isn't under your godly parents." Lauryn said as she finished what she was doing right now and turned to look at Demetri. "I can take it from here, the technical parts will take the rest of the day. Metal work projects tend to take a day or two or more to finish." Lauryn told him.

Dining Pavilion:

Chiron looked at Cassian for a moment and smiled slightly at the offer. "I'll let you know then." Chiron said as he looked towards Rosie when Janelle and Cassian asked about the three prophecies that she had seen. The prophecies were always never really clear on what they mean most of the time before Rosie started to recite the three prophecies.

"To find the sword, the cursed, the storm, the garden, enter the maze one shall fall to the pit, and defeat the bane of fates."

"To find the trident, the child of the sea, rainbow, and the dead must enter the depths to find the lord of the sea and with the camp of the sea."

"To find the bolt, the child of the flower, war and oaths, one must save the God of Boundaries, carrying the weight of the sky in the seat of power of the titans."

Chiron then spoke again looking at the two of them for a moment after Rosie recited the prophecies. "It'll be brought up later tonight after the nightly assembly and music playing, you two are free to go about your day if you'd like." Chiron told them both as Rosie grabbed herself a plate of food and started to eat.

Hephaestus Cabin:

One of them thought for a moment on how to explain the card game and what not. "It's kind of hard to explain, but it's kind of like Magic the Gathering card game that normal kids usually like to play mixed with Dungeons & Dragons." One of them said as the girl took a drink from her can of soda. "Theres a lot of games but mostly the small group of us tend to just play shooters, or games like GTA or something like that. Also if you'd like we could help out with the knife or try and fix it to if want." The girl said.

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Joanie made a cooing like sound after the little scritches clearly enjoying the praise and attention, the little dragon tilted its head to the side at Leandra's unconscious body, as some members of the Legion quickly got up and made their way over towards the scene seeing Leandra on the ground and looked at their Praetor. "What happened, and what are your orders?" One of them asked, he was wearing a Probatio tablet around his neck clearly wanting to prove himself. One of the Legionaires picked up Leandra's body waiting for orders from either Niah or Nancy to put her at for now.

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Bryan was a bit distracted seeing the goddess Persephone there and wondered why she was here in the first place, they did just get a visit from Apollo just minutes prior. "Wonder why we have two gods visiting in one day just moments after each other is a little bit weird don't you think?" Bryan asked his half-brother, he wasnt really jealous that Apollo had come to visit Roman Praetor and only her. Bryan was letting his guard down looking at the group.

Kristin gave Jason a slight nudge when he asked who the goddess was, having really only seen her once during one of the holiday visits to Olympus though she was with Hades a lot of the time. Luckily Mary was able to actually answer that question she didnt want Jason to have the same fate like Mona had when Hecate came and visited them on the Argo III. "It's nice to see you ma'am." Kristin said bowing her head slightly towards Persephone. She looked at the two in the arena for a moment she wasn't really interested in seeing two boys fighting but waved at the two of them when she was addressed she got up and turned to face the group.

"It's so nice to see you all." Persephone said smiling at them all as she approached Stella and knelt down gently ruffling her hair a little bit seeing how adorable she was. "I was wondering if you could show me around a little bit as well to? I haven't been here in a long time, also need to tell Chiron something to at some point." Kristin nodded slightly and smiled towards the goddess. "Of course we can." She said wanting to make sure that she was happy.

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Kiera smiled slightly and nodded the armor didnt really protect her limbs that well really as she watched her girlfriend searching the armor racks for anything useful. When her girlfriend managed to pick one for herself and looked at it, it did give some pretty good protection. "Though i'd love to see you in lingerie sometime love. I'd go with the armor though way better at protection anyway" Kiera said teasingly as she liked the fur bits on the one shoulder. "You should try it on and gold looks great on you I think." Kiera said to Leda as she went to get changed back into her normal clothes setting the armor to the side.

Kiera looked around a little bit before finding a better looking set of armor. "What about this one? Looks better for protection." Kiera said though she wasn't a fan of the blood red color of Ares on it, but it was a lot better than what she had just put away as well to. Kiera thought for a moment as she looked at her girlfriend thinking about the quest together that they would be going on. "So, ever thought about going to college or anything after camp?" Kiera asked her.

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Madalyne gave Arthur a slight nod she would be able to reform within the Pit if she were to die whether that spear was made of silver or imperial gold or celestial bronze she'd end up falling into the Pit no matter what happens. "It could take days maybe years for a monster to reform, let alone somehow escape the Pit and the place is massive and full of other monsters so they could end up killing me again while in there to and reform again, it's not a place for demigods a all" Madalyne said sighing a little bit, she didnt want any of them to go into the pit and try to find her for their protection looking at her niece and friend as Andy asked her.

"I'm sure what the spear is made of that hits me in Nancy's vision I don't know what the material of the spear is, all I know is that i'll fall into the Pit. But whenever I do get back i'll find the Doors of Death on my end and meet you guys on the other end if I can." Madalyne told Andy gently holding her niece' hand she hoped that whatever would happen everyone else will be okay though if she was gone.

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Bryan didn’t seem to be in the fighting mood currently. Instead, he was rather interested in Persephone and what she was doing here. Sure, two gods visiting in one day probably wasn’t a good thing but Persephone didn’t seem interested in him or his half-brother and she just ruffled the new girl’s hair. Zeke was pretty sure she wasn’t here to tear the place a new one.
”I dunno. If she has something to say it’ll go to Chiron or Mr. D and then if they are feeling generous, they’ll tell us at the bonfire. Come on Bry, focus up. If there is a battle on the horizon we should be ready.” Ezekiel shifted back into a fighting stance, ready to go once Bryan was done daydreaming about the Queen of the Underworld.

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Arthur nodded, years would be a lot of time to have to wait for her to come back, assuming she didn't end up dying multiple times in the pit. It wasn't a viable strategy, even it it did remove some of the gravity of her potential death, the best option still would be to live in a world where she got to live. As such, they needed to be open to doors of death, wherever they were. That meant it would be best to actually know where they are, and he knew exactly where he could go to find that information. He'd have to have his first real face to face with his... sire.

Arthur piped up and said, "I'll try to make a sacrifice to Hades and get a conversation with him. I might be able to get him to point me in the direction of where the doors will be." Anything he could do to help, he would. He had enough of his friends dying, and if it meant he had to interact with a god to keep them safe, so be it. Besides, he figured that his own parent would be the safest of gods to talk to, hoping that filicide would be something that the deities shied away from. "Let's hope he answers and gives us something useful to work with, yeah?"

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He scoffed. " D&D? Really? Ain't that for nerds to agonise about? I got a couple of furries back at school who won't shut up about how much they want to date their own character." He sneered. "Just like furries to be weird like that, eh? Anyway, what's GTA? Isn't that a game about going around some city and being a piece of sh*t to everyone around you?"

He was still thinking, though. What would he need to make a demigod-proof gaming laptop? Well, first off, he'd definitely need a normal mortal laptop to reverse engineer. Then, maybe, cover it in Celestial Bronze plating? "Ay, what you all think of a Demigod-Proof Gaming Laptop, or PC or whatever? How d'you think it'd work? Would Celestial Bronze work as a shield against our auras?"

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Leda laughed. "Nah, I meant - do you think this is more like lingerie or armor, not which one you'd rather I wear," she explained. She then changed into the armor as Kiera had requested, feeling a little bit silly - but armor always made her feel silly. It really hadn't been appropriately updated with the times, meaning she felt like she was about to perform Shakespeare in the Park or something like that. And she was really picky when it came to armor - that didn't help either. "You are right though, babe - I look smashing in gold," she agreed. She always adored gold over silver - it seemed to have more vibrance to it, more light, more color.

"Hmm, kinda reminds me of the Romans, but I think it'll keep your bits safe," Leda appraised. She then shrugged slightly at Kiera's question about college. "I dunno. Greek demigods don't usually survive that long. And us kids of Iris aren't really planners, we just kinda... go where the vibe takes us. So I guess if I'm alive, maybe. But I might not be. Or maybe I will be but I'll buy a van and travel the country giving out rainbow swag to my fellow queers. What about you?"

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Nancy huffed, not angry at Niah, more angry at how her power was limited. This was the only time she would want to act without senatorial oversight, the one situation where she believed she could just make the decision and the universe would be better for it. Leandra wasn't just a megabitch - she was a traitor, someone who was actively trying to sabotage everything they worked for - to cause Mads to die... to cause countless hundreds if not thousands of demigods to perish. Nancy wasn't even certain sentencing Leandra to exile was good enough. It'd be all the safer to kill her. "I'm going to kill her," Nancy muttered to Niah. She didn't know if she wanted Niah to advise her not to do that or to start thinking about where they could hide the body.

They had a small audience now. "Leandra stole the gem from the Legion, an action that would endanger us all," Nancy explained sharply - her anger not directed at those asking, but instead at the child of Cupid. She knew Leandra hated her, but she had always (falsely apparently) assumed that Leandra wouldn't endanger Rome with anything beyond inaction. "Restrain her. We'll need to create a cell for now. And convene the Senate - this needs to go to trial. She committed treason against the Legion, against New Rome, against the gods."

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Janelle more or less just listened to what was being said about the prophecies, and how everything was probably going to happen. Telling everyone about it all at once later made more sense, a big conversation about with everyone made the most sense in her mind. The whole prophecy and quest thing was never fun to deal with, the quest she had gone on with Zeke and Kristin had been an adventure to say the least, but it could have easily turned out horribly if they hadn't been really careful at times.

"Well, if you are goin to bring it up later to everyahne, we can figure it out den," she commented with a bit of a shrug, before glancing over at Cassian for a moment. "Guess we'll see you den. Unless Cassian wants to steck around, I dink i'll get goin, you can join me if you want to," she added, saying the last part directly towards Cassian, before waving slightly towards Chiron and Rosie, before she started walking out of the Dining Pavilion, waiting a moment to see if Cassian was going to follow her.

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Jason gave Kristin a bit of a look when she nudged him, all because he had asked who she was. Not his fault there wasn't exactly a yearbook or photo guide for every single God or Goddess. He didn't exactly know what every deity looked like, he hadn't even known what Apollo looked like until he had shown up at the Dining Pavilion and others there had more or less pointed out the god to him. Why did everyone seem surprised if someone just didn't know who one of the gods were just by sight? It was really weird.

Mary was silent as Persephone more or less spoke, as she chose to sort of ignore the two who were seemingly just sparring in the arena aside from giving them a slight wave, though in her mind that wasn't all too surprising. Plus one of the fighters was Zeke, so ignoring him and everything was probably the best idea one could possibly have. Also especially since he tended to make a fool of himself all the time aside from actually doing anything useful, probably anyway. That's how she saw everything anyway.

She was a bit curious as to why Persephone was here, when earlier there had been Apollo, but she figured that she'd have some sort of reasoning for showing up. Otherwise she wouldn't have come to the camp at all right? Since usually the gods didn't just show up for a friendly chat for whatever reason, that would have just been plain weird. Though her comment about maybe getting a little bit of a tour was a bit strange, "That would be great, we were giving Stella a bit of a tour anyway, so why not?" she said, giving the goddess a smile, and now she was wondering what was probably going through Stella's head now.

"Ahh, sahrry, dedn't realize who you were... It's nice to meet you dough," he said to Persephone a bit apologetically. Figured best way to handle that situation was to just apologize for it and move on a bit, plus apologizing to a goddess sounded like the best thing he could do, since he could get killed or something like that really quickly if he wasn't careful. Just like what happened to the one girl who had been somewhat rude to a goddess (it was Hecate if he remembered correctly), but he did not want to end up dead like that or whatever really quickly.

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Demi wasn't expecting Lauryn to suggest he had the rest of the day for himself. Sure he didn't understand the mechanics of it all, and yeah it may slow it down a bit...OK the more he thought about it the more he realized why she wished to go at this part alone. All he'd do is hinder the process and make what could take all afternoon into a 3 day process. "That's fine. Thanks again for the help Lauryn, maybe I'll go poke at the Roman section after I go speak to someone at the Hecate cabin. See if they can't enchant it like you suggested."

Demetri grabbed his jacket and gave her a friendly wave before heading off to his cabin. First thing was first, a change of clothing was in order. The weather had definitely been acting weird today and so he opted for a white tank top with a skeleton print doing a peace sign and a black denim jacket. Something simple and versatile. While rummaging through his chest he pulled out an old wooden box he had stashed away. Opening it and pulling out The Iliad copy he had. Leather-bound, and positively ancient looking, something his parents had gifted him years ago from their travels. Demi grabbed the case he kept his first trophy in, a simple box, and placed the book inside of it, storing it for later.

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Cassian smiled at Chirons mention to request his aid in entertainment had he ever needed it. He was clearly softening up and relaxing more around Janelle and Chiron. He hadn't expected today to go as it had been, but so far it appeared to be shaping up to be a good day if you ignored the beginning and now looming prophecy (which you practically always had to do or you'd never get some peace.) From the sounds of it the children of the big three were going to have to step up and handle their parents squabbling. Serves them right anyways.

"Like Janelle said, if it's going to be brought up again at the campfire, then there's no use fretting over it now. Just hope all involved take the news ok." He said with a bit of a shrug. He turned to see Janelle was already making her way out, following shortly after saying his goodbyes to Chiron and Rosie. "I'm always up for a bit of a walk. Nature is such a wonderful place to be, just being surrounded by its scents and sounds is enough to help relax me."

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They couldn't guarantee they'd be at the doors at the same time. She nodded though. They'd figure it out. They'd have to worry about that later. She would get there as fast as she could and hopefully Aunt Mads could keep safe somewhere near the doors so when they got there they could get her easily. Andy doubted that though. The whole thing sounded like a mess.

"I'll help you." She told Arthur. She knew he wasn't excited about that sort of thing. Then she looked back at Aunt Mads. "We'll find a way. Okay." Aunt Mads was her only human blood relation. She pulled free from Arthur and then hugged her Aunt.



"I'll make for the motion for that." Her voice was icy. Niah was pissed. She sort of wished that Leandra had an Oath with her mother that she could use to curse her. She was shaking a little with anger at the implications. "However, I want to find out why Leandra took it. I need to understand what her motivation was." She didn't care what the motivation was, but if she was doing it because someone had put her up to she'd bring them down too. It might give them some clues as to what was going on.

"Don't let her die. We need to find out why she did that." She added as an order to the probatio. It wasn't for Leandra's sake, it was for the sake of knowing what was going on. No one had been executed in a while, but this seemed like a good reason for it. One thing crossed her mind. "She was in the vision of us with Apollo's shrine." She said quietly to Nancy.

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Stella couldn't help but blush brighter at the goddess bent over to ruffle her hair a bit like they really were siblings, like they had grown up together. It seemed that the little redhead was too stunned to really say anything at the moment, which was rather unusual for her. Her mind was racing with a ton of questions, but she still couldn't find the words to speak. She could only really squeak and nod and affirmation when the goddess asked if she could tag along on their tour. She did hear the part about the goddess wanting to talk to Chiron, and that made some sense to Stella. From what she had gathered, gods and goddesses didn't really visit the camp without a good reason.

She was thankful that Kristin, Marygold and Jason had all assured the goddess that she could tag along, as the little redhead was still finding her words. "It would be an honor to go on a tour of the camp with you!" She was still blushing deeply as she spoke, and then looked to the others. "So, where are we going to next on our tour? I've seen the cabins and the arena... so what's next?" She wasn't sure why she was getting repetitive with her words, but she chalked it up to being around her really beautiful older sisters.

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Hecate Cabin:

"Yep, i'll come get you once it's finished." Lauryn said as she went to fiddle with somethings and quickly went to work on it, once Demi made his way towards the Hecate Cabin, the door slowly creaked open Annabelle the head counselor for the cabin was sitting at a nearby table reading over some spell books by the looks of it. "Come in." Annabelle said as she started to close the book, there were a few other sons and daughters of Hecate in there practicing their magic and whatnot as well.

A creepy hooded ghost suddenly appeared right in front of Demi, the face couldn't be seen as it inched closer to Demi's face and studied him for a long while before Annabelle waved her hand and the ghost suddenly disappeared again. "What can I do for you?" Annabelle asked as she approached Demi.

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"See you two around." Rosie said waving goodbye to Cassian and Janelle as the two of them left the Dining Pavilion, there were a few Romans talking amongst themselves heading over towards their portion of the camp. One of them mentioning some kind of drama and one of the Praetor's was really pissed off, and wanting to see what was going on. A few of the younger demigods were standing around playing a game of hackie sack whatnot, the snow completely melted away now at this point some of the ground was pretty muddy as well to.

Hephaestus Cabin:

"Really? Thinking that DnD is for furries? Thats a really stupid thought you never even tried DnD so you shouldn't make fun of it or furries either. Some of my friends in my school are and they are normal people to and are pretty chill actually." One of them said, clearly holding back wanting to throw something at Michel right now while glaring at the clearly clueless kid before going back to the game clearly annoyed with Michel right now it seems.

"Uh, I don't think thats how Celestial Bronze even works, it's good with protection if it's in an armor or shield but deadly if used as a weapon it's deadly probably do some witchy woo stuff on it or something might." The girl said giving a slight shrug, as she watched her half brothers going back to their game, one of them nodding about the game GTA but didn't say anything else.

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The air around Niah and Nancy seemed to be pretty cold as a cold pressence surrounded Leandra, as she started to come to her eyes had a slight golden hue to them her voice sounded pretty hollow as well to as she laughed a bit. "You'll never be able to save your friend, she is going to die, over and over in the Pit she cannot be saved. The Pit will swallow you all whole, and he will rise again." Leandra said she was completely possessed by something.

"Yes ma'am." The Probatio said as he and the legionnaires were very clearly creeped out by what Leandra had just said and quickly did what they were ordered to, quickly dragging Leandra off towards the Praetor tent, the only place that they could really hold her there for now.

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"Alright then." Bryan said turning his attention towards Zeke and then quickly swung his sword at Zeke, narrowly hitting him, before giving Zeke a swift kick to the stomach, causing Zeke to stumble backwards. Bryan pointing the tip of his sword directly at Zeke and gave him a slight smirk. "Give you fifty drachma to ask the Queen of the Underworld out." Bryan said teasingly hoping that he'd try it or something like that which would be really entertaining to see.

"Oh it's no problem at all." Persephone said towards Jason and giving him a smile as she stood up and smiled towards Stella and Mary she was glad that they didn't have much of an issue with going on a tour. "I'm totally fine with that." Kristin said to Persephone as she turned to look at the arena and waved goodbye to Zeke and Bryan as she left the arena and thought for a moment before snapping her fingers. "Lets check out the climbing wall next." Kristin said as she headed towards where the climbing wall was, which wasn't to far, as she looked over at Stella.

"If you like rock climbing or a challenge then you can try out the climbing wall here, it's pretty fun you just have to be careful and quick to." Kristin said to Stella and their new guest as well to. "Sounds pretty dangerous though." Persephone said to Kristin as she looked at the goddess and nodded. "Usually theres an Apollo kid around to help heal anyone who gets injured." Kristin told her.

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Kiera laughed a little bit. "Oh it's totally lingerie." Kiera said to her girlfriend watching her putting on the armor seeing her wearing it and thought a little bit. "We could paint it or something and put some rainbows on some parts of it, make it look cooler." Kiera suggested, whether Leda wanted to do that or not however was totally up to her though really but the armor did look good on her girlfriend anyway.

Kiera then thought for a moment, she did hear a lot of demigods didn't survive past high school a lot of the time from other campers and those who never really return from quests either. "I've always kind of liked the water, so if I lived that long probably go to college or university for marine biology." Kiera said with a slight shrug as she gently wrapped an arm around Leda. "But traveling around you in a van could be a lot of fun to." Kiera said seeing that they had picked some stuff out she looked at Leda. "So what now?" She asked her.

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Madalyne smiled towards both Arthur and Andy as she hugged her niece back, she was happy to know that she had friends that she could actually count on as well to. "Thank you, both of you." Madalyne said as she thought for a moment she could make something to let them know that she was alright. "I can try and make a magic item that could indicate if i'm okay or not if you want." Madalyne suggested to the two of them while looking over at Arthur saying he could try and contact his father. Sadly she had a feeling that it probably wouldn't help much really especially with whats going on with the gods right now.

"I should probably get back see how the Legion is." Madalyne said as she stood up looking at the two of them for a moment. "Thank you both, and i'm always going to be there for you, and you as well." Madalyne said looking at Arthur and smiled giving her niece another hug. "You guys should head back to camp to." She suggested.

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Arthur nodded at Mads, he didn't know if he could get an audience with his dad, but hell if he wasn't going to try. The man had been absent his entire life, if he denied Arthur one conversation that was could help save his friend from suffering in his own domain, he wasn't worthy of being called a dad. Arthur would call on his dad, and he if was ignored, he'd keep calling over and over again until he got some attention. Failing that, he would personally find a way to the afterlife and sit down in front of the god himself. He would not be ignored in this matter.

As Andy let go of Arthur, he blushed a little at the way that threw him off. He liked being in her embrace, it made him feel as safe as he hoped it made her feel. But he understood why he couldn't monopolize it, especially now with how little time they might have with Mads. At Mads' suggestion, he nodded, but then bit his lip and asked, "Could you um... Make two of those for Andy and me too?" He looked over at Andy, hoping it was okay he just asked for that.

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It didn’t take Bryan long to get his game face back on. He focused on Ezekiel and Zeke knew instantly that it was go time. He avoided Bryan’s first strike but got rewarded with a kick to the stomach. Zeke let out an airy chuckle and stood straight after caving in over Bryan’s foot. Zeke made a mental note to grab Bryan’s foot next time. Ezekiel smirked as Bryan pointed the sword at Bryan and challenged him.
Ezekiel looked over to the retreating figure of Persephone and the others. It seemed they were on some sort of tour and what better way to have a tour than to personally invite the goddess of agriculture and Queen of the Underworld to the bonfire.
”Shake on it?” Zeke held his hand out to Bryan who shook it and Zeke grinned. Bryan never said he had to successfully ask her out so really, Zeke had nothing to lose. The boy didn’t care about his image and everyone thought he was an asshole anyways.
”Hey, Persephone! Wait up,” he called, putting his practice sword away before dashing off to the others. Once he caught up, Zeke smiled politely to the group, running a practiced hand through his hair before turning his attention to Persephone.
”There’s a bonfire tonight. They can be pretty fun and are a good way to meet everyone at camp. Did you want to go together?”

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She waved slightly once again at Chiron and Rosie, and headed off once it was evident that Cassian was indeed going to follow after her. Janelle's mind wandered a bit to the prophecies that were mentioned, and she wondered who exactly would likely be going on the quests. The quest she had gone on before had certainly been a bit of an experience, and she had only been at the camp a few days when she had ended up going on it, so she wondered who would be going, and what all they might encounter on their own quests.

"It's always fun to just enjahy nature 'ahnestly... I may naht be able to see, but I can "see" de wahrld in me own way... De sounds dat surround me are mahre dan enough to be calmin to me, and bein able to allow me to see nature in me own way," Janelle commented to Cassian as she wandered along the path. She could hear the sounds of other campers nearby playing games. Not to mention the ground was feeling a bit muddy now since all of the snow and everything was all gone and made the ground soggy and wet.

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Mary fell silent with what was being said at this point, all things considering the fact that they were interacting with Persephone and going on more of a tour of the camp with her. That was beyond strange to her still, not to mention she was pretty sure Stella was rambling a bit, more than usual anyway. That probably had something to do with meeting a goddess on her first day at the camp, along with the fact that she had gotten chased earlier by a monster. Things definitely were shaping up to be an interesting first day for Stella if she had to guess.

Jason was kind of glad that Persephone wasn't angered by him not really knowing who the hell she was. That was nice, since he didn't want to end up the way that someone else had when they had ended up angering a goddess. Now though, apparently they were going to go on a tour with the Queen of the Underworld, somehow, and everyone was kind of acting like it was kind of normal. Well, everyone except for Stella, and she seemed like she was fangirling a bit over everything that was happening in front of her. She had learned that she also was a daughter of Demeter that day, so guess it might have to do with the fact that Persephone technically could be considered her half-sister.

She walked with the small group over to the climbing wall, as Kristin more or less explained what it was all about to Stella, and Persephone she supposed to. "Yeah, it can be pretty tricky at times to make it to the top. But usually things don't end too badly. When there are healers around, any sort of bumps and bruises that we get from it go away fairly quickly," Mary added with a bit of a shrug. Of course, she wasn't entirely sure how Persephone would react to that. Or how she'd react to the idiotic words that just came out of Zeke's mouth when he caught up to them.

Hearing Zeke's words as he caught up to the group, Jason turned to look at him, and was wondering what the hell was going through his mind. As far as he could tell, Zeke had a bit of a crush on his sister, not to mention asking a goddess out on a date or whatever would likely end poorly. Especially considering the fact that her husband was what, Hades or something like that? What lunatic did that? "Am I messin sahmethin 'ere? Ahr is Zeke just bein an idiot as usual?" he muttered under his breath, still wondering what the hell the guy was doing.

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Leda perked up slightly at the idea of painting rainbows onto her armor. Maybe it was a bit derivative of her mother, since her mom was the rainbow goddess, but Leda did adore rainbows. They were little symbols of happiness in her mind. Even in the darkest of times, the most terrible of storms, rainbows could be found as a shining light, a beacon of hope. And all of their colors, they just represented to her a spectrum of possibility, a wide field of answers and joy. She grinned slightly as Kiera wrapped an arm around her. Leda loved having affection like that.

"Hmm, I dunno what comes next, luv. We already got our armor picked out. I guess we could go ahead and pack our bags," Leda said with a shrug. Quests generally needed tons of supplies - even the right amount of supplies was never actually enough. There was always something else that would require more - more weapons, more food, more bandages. It didn't really matter. Nothing was enough. Demigods were always under equipped, no matter how much they packed away beforehand.

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Nancy frowned. She didn't want to admit that Niah was correct - that Leandra was part of the prophecy. She wanted to complain that prophecies were fluid, always in motion - that Leandra could simply be deleted from one, that she didn't have to be part of their destiny. But in her experience, prophecies were set in stone - one way or another, they always came true. Leandra would be at the shrine with them. That was fate. That couldn't be avoided, no matter how much Nancy hated her. Even if she tried to kill Leandra, the Fates had already decreed Leandra would be at the shrine. She couldn't change that.

A chill ran down her spine as something overtook Leandra. She would have preferred that Leandra be solely responsible for her actions - that it wouldn't have been a form of possession. It would have been easier to hate her that way - to blame her for her actions, hold her accountable, and then exact some sort of punishment, some form of revenge. Nancy frowned, unnerved as her Legionnaires dragged Leandra away. The golden eyes were particularly alarming. "We're properly fucked," Nancy muttered bitterly to Leandra.

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Demi felt a bit awful intruding, having seen that some had closed their books as he was welcomed in. He wasn't one to want to take up space, let alone have someone stop what they're doing just to have his attention. But before anything else was said, a ghostly figure appeared before him and if it had eyes, he could swear they were staring right at him. Or rather through him. Demi involuntarily gripped the front of his denim jacket and slowly began to pull it closed, as if to cover up. He looked at the figure, trying to figure out what it was it wanted before it vanished and he was left standing there.

"Right, yeah, mind if I ask what that was?" Demetri said as he slowly circled the spot where it once stood before finally making his way over towards Anabelle and meeting her halfway. "As for what you can do for me...well I was wondering if you could enchant a couple of items for me...if that's ok?" Demetri pulled the bronze eye out of its container, showing it to her in one hand before summoning his dagger into the other. "Was told you guys could help make this eye look real, and hopefully capable of shifting its appearance with me, and I was hoping to add a bit more heat to my dagger, maybe some blue hellfire?"

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Cassian walked in silence next to Janelle as they made their way from the Dining Pavilion. He noticed the Roman campers heading towards their own private section, talks of drama stirring about as one of the girls looked rather upset at the entire situation. His interest peaked for a short moment, before the sounds of campers playing cut his mind short of the potential gossip and helped him steer back to his walk and who he was with.

Janelle's sudden insight caught Cassian's attention and seemed to mirror his own feelings, the only exception being that he could see the world around him. He thought about describing the scenery, what it all looked like and the colors, but he realized the words would mean nothing given that she'd never had the chance to experience colors before anyways. As they continued walking, he could feel the ground becoming muddier thanks to the melting snow. "I'm not a huge fan of the snow, but it is a shame to see it all melted. It holds a certain...elegance in its beauty. Like the feeling of a cold smooth glass on a hot summer's day."

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Stella was still beaming happily as she followed Kristin and the rest of the group to the climbing wall. She had seen a few like them before, but nothing like this. For one, all the climbing walls she had seen in California did not move like that, or have lava at all. Stella was not a huge fan of lava, which did make sense now that she thought about it. Lava lead to burning and fires, and those burnt down forests on their path to finding their way down whatever mountain they were erupting from. "I might wait until I'm a bit more recovered before I try out the climbing wall, but it does look like it could be fun, with first aid around."

Stella paused a bit as one of the boys from the arena caught up with them. Zeke was it? She wasn't sure if that was his name, as she had only heard it briefly at the arena. She did have to blink at his actions and she just stared a bit at that point, as if waiting for Hades himself to appear in the camp and smite the young boy for his actions. "Uh... did you really just do that?" She couldn't believe that this guy was doing this.

She looked up at Kristin as she waited for her older goddess half-sister to reply. "So, where are we going next?"

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Andy nodded at Mads. She wanted that item. She wanted to make sure she knew where her aunt was. And that she was safe when they were trying to open the doors for her. When Arthur asked for one too she nodded in agreement, it would be good if they both had one. A part of her wanted to make sure he was okay too. "Is it possible for all three of us to be linked with it? Like we know each other is okay?"

She didn't know magic well enough, yeah she had been training with her aunt but she didn't really know it as well as she did. Andy vowed to herself that she'd work on it more. If Rebecca were around she'd train with her too. "Yeah, we'll go back to camp." She stepped away from the hug and held out her hand for Arthur to take again. It felt too right to hold him in some way, and knowing they would be splitting up, even if was only for a little bit, she wanted as much time with him as she could.



"Maghindot." Niah cursed in Tagalog. Her heart dropping to her stomach. Okay, so Leandra wasn't completely betraying them so much as she was possessed, which was really bad. The Greek Camp should have prevented that sort of thing. She sighed and pressed her fingers against her eyes.

"Once the senate is gathered," She took a deep breath. Her fingers still pressed against her eyes like she was trying to wipe out the sight of Leandra's glowing eyes. "Right, once it is gathered. We need to figure out how to deal with her. And approve the quest." Her hands dropped and she opened her eyes and looked at Nancy. Approving the quest felt like sending Mads to her death.

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Hecate Cabin:

"It was a ghost, or spirit whatever you'd like to call them, some of us have the ability to control or summon, or communicate with them." Annabelle said giving Demi a slight shrug as she looked at the little container containing the celestial bronze eye, and picked it up and inspected it. "I can make it more normal, but having it shapeshift with you would be really hard since it'll have to change sizes and appearances since every eye is different." Annabelle told him as he looked at the dagger he handed it to her and grabbed it as well while handing the eye back to Demi as she looked it over some more.

"Do you want the enchantment to be just for show and impress someone or did you want it to be deadly as well?" Annabelle asked Demi and suddenly leaned forward to get a better look at Demi's eye color. "Did you want it to be the same eyecolor to or different?" She asked as Annabelle leaned back again.

Camp Grounds:

As the two of them walked around the camp grounds there were a few satyrs running around going to and from the strawberry fields as well as they went about their duties as well. They'd be able to hear one of the campers mentioning Persephone was now also in the camp as well, the second god of the day to come into the camp. One of the kids was playing with a soccer ball and accidentally kicked it to hard, as it flew it hit Cassian in the back of the head, and then it rolled to a stop at Janelle's feet. The kid quickly ran forward and picked up the ball looking at Cassian with a scared look. "I'm really sorry didn't mean to do that, please don't turn me into a dolphin or anything!" The kid was probably around ten at best, knowing that he was also a child of Dionysus.

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Kristin turned her attention towards Zeke seeing him catching up to them again, she crossed her arms over her chest as she stared at Zeke a bit dumbfounded that he was actually flirting with Persephone. Which was a really dumb idea, and she was pretty sure that Hades was pretty vengeful as well to. But then again almost all of the gods did have a mean vengeful streak in them. "I have no idea what he is actually doing, lets just see what happens first." Kristin said to both Jason and Stella as she looked towards Persephone seeing Bryan in the background quietly snickering to himself.

Persephone turned around to face Zeke raising an eyebrow towards him and looking a tad bit annoyed with him actually asking her out, she was married after all to the God of the Underworld himself as well. "I'm sorry but you are a little bit to young for me, also my husband would probably send you straight to Tartarus right away himself, he tends to be very angry a lot of the time." Persephone said towards him.

Kristin was actually surprised to see that the goddess didnt decide to smite Zeke right then and there she looked at Zeke for a moment wondering what was up with all of that as well.

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Kiera looked her girlfriend and nodded towards her and smiled. "Lets go to the camp store then, see what supplies they actually have there for the quest then." Kiera said, she always did hear that quests were very dangerous and that they needed to be prepared as much as possible as well to. "Then we can head to my cabin and pack up there?" Kiera suggested, since she had the whole entire place to herself and a spare bed it was more than enough room to prepare and pack up for the quest as well.

Kiera headed out of the armory and made her way towards the camp store, seeing Tammy was at the register she perked up slightly as she got up and waved towards her half sister there. "Whats up sis?" Tammy asked putting her book away and slipping it under the desk so that she could tend to her two customers she did give Kiera a wink, causing Kiera to shake her head slightly, she wasn't interested in Tammy really she was faithful to her girlfriend after all.

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Madalyne looked at both Arthur and Andy and nodded towards the two of them, it wouldn't be to hard to make something like that. "I can make one for the three of us." Madalyne said, she'd also make one for her, Nancy and Niah as well her friends would need that as well to know that she was okay. "I'll probably ask for a blood or hair sample from you two though once I have the items i'll get you two." Madalyne said as she gave Andy a hug as well as Arthur. "I'll come get you guys before the end of the day whenever it's ready for the samples. I have to check in on the Legion." Madalyne told them before making her way towards the Roman section of Camp Half-Blood.

A few seconds later a small flash of light appeared on the ground, if Andy opened it up, it was a spell book of sorts, as well as a small bag of marbles. When she opened that as well it was a mix of both celestial bronze and imperial gold balls, as well as a letter simply saying to Go to the Climbing Tower.

It took awhile for Madalyne to make her way back towards camp, seeing Leandra being escorted into the Praetor tent, she saw Niah and Nancy not to far away from them. "Whats with Leandra being escorted into the Praetor tent for?" She couldn't help but ask, it looked like something really bad happened. Joanie started to nibble and tug at Nancy's hair making a sound wanting some food clearly as well, looking at the three of them expetantly.

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The comments and confusion from the others witnessing Ezekiel’s bravery or stupidity made the moment all the more worth it. Zeke did glance at Jason though while he waited for Persephone to respond. He didn’t exactly care what Jason’s opinion was of him but he was sure there was some sway when it came to his sister. As long as Jason didn’t bury him with hurtful words, Zeke may still stand a chance with her.
Persephone finally turned, looking less than impressed before turning Zeke down with a lot more kindness than Zeke thought he would get from her. Zeke smiled and shrugged it off.
”Makes sense, well maybe we’ll still see you there. If you have any song requests, let me know,” he said to her and the others before turning to go back.
When he turned he saw Bryan near and grinned. He jogged over to meet him and nudged him. ”Enjoy the show?”

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Arthur held Andy's hand tight, and gave Mads a side hug, not letting Andy go even for a moment. He nodded at her, and said, "Thank you so much, I'll check in with any info I can get on where The Doors might be, hopefully I'll have something before we have to leave, but if not, I'll keep trying and send an Iris message when I have something." That was the play, the best he could tell. He couldn't think of any other way to try to go about it, at least. A part of him wondered if Apollo might be able to lend information, the location of a legendary object would seem to him to fall into the domain of the god of prophecy, but that would be a fall back.

As Mads walked away and the bag and book materialized on the ground, and looked down at it, picking it up to inspect it. Reading the note within, he turned to Andy and said, "Change of plans, Climbing tower, somebody wants one of us, and I'm not a fan of ignoring magical books that pop up out of nowhere. But also! Marbles." He said, reaching into the bag and pulling out a fistful, before handing them to Andy to show what had materialized in front of them, briefly letting her go, before gesturing off in the direction of the tower, ready to go towards it when she was.