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The dining car was still very much in chaos right now as the Harpies continued to raid just about everything that wasnt tied down, opening and destroying cabinets that contained food and other condiments and random things they were squawking rather loud and annoyingly. "Take the food!" One of them yelled, three more Harpies came into the car, there were a lot of them they could continue to fight them all or leave the train car and lock it preventing them from following. The entire room was getting completely trashed now at this point, as the three hapries decided to attack the three demigods again hitting and clawing them all, leaving rather nasty looking claw marks over their arms

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'We are getting closer now.' The hippocampi said to Seraphina as the Sirens were left behind and their singing wasnt able to be heard which was probably a good thing now then. Kiera looked over her shoulder towards Leda and gently nudged her that she can take out the ear plugs now as Kiera started to do the same thing. "Well that was certainly interesting." Kiera said as she let the hippocampi lead them once more towards where they were needed to go now.

As they continued to move through the ocean the hippocampi moved quickly along the sea floor, until they went down a deep ravine and a few seconds later a few lights started to appear in the distance as rather massive looking underwater kingdom started to appear, as merpeople could be seen going on about their day, some of them were riding different sea creatures a few whales and dolphins could be seen as well as a number of sea nymphs as well to. Kiera looked in awe as she could see the underwater city was certainly a sight to behold as their horses moved towards a nearby stable. 'Head to the palace he'll be there.' The hippocampi told both Kiera and Seraphina as Kiera climbed off while still maintaining the bubble around the two of them. "I know where to go!" Hercules told them all as he started to get off of his hippocampi and headed for the palace.

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"Just go really slow i'd rather not fall down that, and go one at a time.." Madalyne said as she looked down, it looked like the pit was never ending, it most likely led straight down to Tartarus itself. She knew that she was bound to go there at some point as well whether it was during this quest or if she ended up dying. She shook her head trying not to think about it to much as Madalyne slowly started to make it across the bridge, which looked like it had seen better days.

The noises coming from the monsters werent that reassuring either as stumbled slightly as a floor board on the bridge broke and fell down into the endless abyss. She was about halfway across, Madalyne closed her eyes for a moment, she really hated heights now at this point, but a few seconds later Madalyne made it. She quickly turned her attention towards Andy and Mary. "Alright one of you guys come across next." Madalyne called out to both Mary and Andy then the sound from the monsters started to become much louder now as well to.

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Kristin turned her attention towards Janelle asking what it was that made the loud roaring sound. "That would be a minotaur, they are giant bull like people with a body of a man, basically really dangerous." Kristin said to Janelle, she really hated the fact that they were fighting one in such tight quarters, as the massive beast decided to suddenly charge forward directly at them, and the Minotaur suddenly grabbed a hold of Cassian. And like the scene from the first Avenger's movie where the Hulk swung Loki around a few times, the monster decided to swing Cassian like a ragdoll mashing Cassian against the ceiling and aisle of the train, leaving a few nasty bruises, as a snapping sound could be heard one of Cassian's arms was broken, as the Minotaur dropped Cassian onto the ground.

It then set it's sights on Janelle and Kristin, it was slightly tired now thanks to Janelle's attack as it swung it's massive axe at them slower than it should be Janelle, was lucky and missed, but Kristin was hit rather hard and sent flying back into the car where the others were. Kristin groaned slightly as she started to quickly get back up drawing out her spear managing to stab the beast in the side which only made it eve more mad.

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The dining car had become chaos in the blink of an eye, as the harpies seemed content to wreak havoc while the mortals fled in horror. Stella could care less what they were seeing, as she was more distracted by fighting with the harpies at the moment, as they seemed too happy to tear chunks out of the demi-gods and Stella's wolf. Stella hissed as the claws left some rather nasty looking marks over her arms, and she could feel the blood trickling down her arms. She frowned and took a swipe at the harpy that had attacked her, and managed to land a hit, but it didn't kill the monster.

Arbor let out a growl at another harpy and lept up and took a bite out of the harpy that had been bothering him, and Stella smiled softly at that, but once again, it didn't take out the monster. Stella backed up a bit before taking another swipe at the harpy that attacked her, and managed to land another good blow, and the monster dissolved into golden dust. Arbor also got another good attack, and the harpy he had been attacking also turned into dust. It seemed that two more were gone, but there were still plenty in the compartment.

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Ezekiel got out of his seat after Demi left and Nancy moved. Like Nancy, he chose to favour his swords this time. He pulled out the sun key chain, pressed the center, and it expanded into his murakumo sword. He quickly rotated the item around while waiting for Demetri’s return. However, Ezekiel was not expecting the female return of his boyfriend so soon.
FemiDemi stood in front of Ezekiel. He lowered his sword, paling at the sight before he blushed and turned his head away from them. Luckily, Nancy spoke of a plan forming in her head, which allowed Zeke to focus on that.
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In all the emotional commotion, Casian had seemingly forgotten about Janelles blindness. How could he be so careless? He was about to describe what he had seen to her, including what was now right before them when Kristin had decided to take the lead. He wanted to warn Janelle against the Minotaur's charge, when suddenly the massive bull of a man came barreling towards them. All he could manage to get out was "Dodge right!" before all the was knocked out of him. It happened so fast he'd hardly noticed anything at first, the large gasp of air exiting his lungs as his back collided with the car's ceiling. He'd hardly had the chance to get any air back in before he came crashing into the aisle floor then back up and down until a loud crack could be heard coming from him. Pain instantly shot down his arm as the bone snapped, no sound escaping his mouth as he silently screamed from the pain with no air in his lungs to match.

Demi nodded in agreement with Nancy. "Sounds to me like either way we need some bait. He needs a reason to go barreling off this train." He wasn't going to say it out loud or Zeke might stop him, but that was him. He stood the best chance of being bait, and if by chance the Minotaur took him out with him he'd have the best chance to catch up with the train again. "Option two it is then." He went charging towards where the two cars met, pulling out a red shirt as he ran. He stopped at the edge, away from the other group, seeing Cassian laying on the floor. "Hey! Look at this tasty bait! Andale or some shit dumbass!" He waved the red shirt, taunting the large beast.

Before Demetri knew it the monster was upon him. Damn he was fast. He hardly had any time to react as the Minotaur's meaty hands gripped his neck and lifted him up into the air. Ideas spedrun through his mind until he landed on the best one. He quickly shifted into a large Anaconda. Another creature of pure muscle to combat this monster's strength. He wrapped himself along the Minotaur's thick arms, constricting it to cut off blood flow and help to weaken its grip on him. It felt like instinct to him, as if he was simply gathering his prey for a snack. Once he'd felt safely entangled, Demi unhinged his jaw and sunk his fangs deep into the Minotaur's hand. That quickly got the bull to let go of him and Demi used it as the perfect time to drop down and slither away under a train car near the end by the car's exit door. Hissing at him angrily.

Tears streamed down Cassian's cheeks as he tried to move his arm. The first sound coming from him was a deep, sharp, inhale as his lungs expanded with the air it so desperately grasped for. His breathing became erratic as he tried to sit up, seeing what it was Demetri was trying to do. Close combat didn't seem like an option, but neither was ranged, not in such close quarters. The plan seemed to lure the bull by the door that Demetri coiled by, either that or he was an idiot that jumped in with no plan and quickly ran away when things got too real. There was a dim flicker of purple flames within Cassian's eyes as he began to use his power. He wanted the beast to hear Demetri outside the car, the only tells being small disgruntled snorts coming from him to show he heard the sounds.

There was no movement however, he tried once more, this time invoking the Marathonian bull, rushing alongside the train, making all sorts of sounds to lure the beast to the trap. Again, his ears twitched towards the sound, but still no reaction. Was the Minotaur's mind more sound than he'd originally thought? No. He couldn't be. The Minotaur was a monster, their minds should be easily molded like clay. He just needed to find the right technique. If luring him out wouldn't work, then he'd need to help the others as best he could. He conjured forth the voices of King Minos to insult and degrade the Minotaur. Hoping the voices would be enough of a hindrance, but the damn thing seemed unphased.

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Andy smiled. Happy she had been useful, even if she hadn't been able to use the spell herself. It would take some practice before she was good enough at that kind of thing. She wasn't surprised.

Following the others, they got to a rickety-looking bridge. She was not excited about crossing it. Not that she feared heights, but not being able to see the bottom was what got her. But she took a deep breath, held it, and crossed as quickly as she felt safe. When she made it across, her hands were shaking. She didn't even want to say something because she knew her voice would be just as shaky.




Niah was frustrated. Even in the small-ish space of the train, she couldn't get a good hit on the harpies. She swung her sword but missed. Her second swing hit. Her third and fourth missed. The harpy was still alive.

"We need to concentrate our attacks." Only two still alive were attacking them. The other harpies were going for the food. If they could take out these last two, they might be able to escape. Niah figured the humans would assume that some giant birds had gotten into the dining car. Without any bodies, there wouldn't be any evidence to say otherwise.

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Seraphina was in awe at the kingdom. It was even better than what cartoons and movies showed off as castles. "Wow..... Id love to live in a place like this." Of course that was just a fantasy thought. Any girl that enjoyed princesses and stuff like that would be head over heels if they ever got the chance to live in just a magnificent place. She watched the merpeople and sea creatures. It was perfect harmony down here.

The young demigod got off the hippocampi she was riding. "Thank you very much for taking us here." She smiled gently. It'd be unkind not to thank them for all they did! Sera waved as they all headed to the palace. She was still rather nervous but was just so shocked that she'd forgotten. Being underwater....riding a creature that she could understand....seeing a huge kingdom. It was just one crazy thing after another on this adventure and it had barely even started for her.

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Well this was an interesting predicament, considering it was finally mentioned what they were fighting against, that being the minotaur. That was going to make things end well clearly, since she was trying the best that she could to potentially pin point where the Minotaur was going to attack, but that wasn't exactly an easy thing, as she was having to listen very carefully to the sounds of the monster swinging it's weapon around. That wasn't simple with their being a group in the room now too.

Janelle felt a gust of wind swing by her, and she assumed it likely was the Minotaur trying to hit her with it's weapon, and during the commotion, she managed to use that and some other sounds to figure out where the monster was now. "Now go to sleep!" she said, before she used her powers in another attempt to get the monster to fall asleep. There was the sound of a loud thud as she figured based on the slight snoring that she had actually managed to get the minotaur to fall asleep. Well that was a bit of a lucky break now wasn't it? "Well dat was fun... can sahmeone kell de din cahmpletely now?"

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"I mean, fahcus our attacks wahrk, but we're kend o' chahppin through dese dings kend o' quickly if you ask me so naht sure 'ow much dat might matter," he said towards Niah, seeing the chaos that was still going on around them in general. The normal people had raced off out of the area for the most part save for from the looks of things just a few of them. This hopefully would make things go a bit quicker since they didn't have to worry too much about the mortals or whatever.

He instantly looked at the remaining harpies as Stella managed to kill one of the remaining harpies, and he turned his attention towards the other two. It took a few swings for him to actually aim properly, but eventually he managed to kill the first of the two harpies, and he turned his attention to the remaining one. With one more swing, he managed to injure the creature, not kill it, but it was something at the least overall right?

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She couldn't help but look down at the pit that they were about to cross, just to see if it was possible to see the bottom. A small part of her was tempted to pick up a rock and drop it down the chasm, just to see if they'd be able to hear it hit the bottom, but she thought against it. After all, they needed to get moving on a bit based on the sounds of the monsters behind them in general. Of course, she wanted to let Andy go ahead of her in case the monsters show up and attack them or something.

Mary just sort of watched as the other two walked across the chasm, before taking a deep breath herself, and slowly and carefully making their way across the bridge, hoping that the bridge would hold together at least until she made it across. Luckily, she was glad that the bridge held, and she soon was on the other side with the other two. "Well that could have ended poorly, at least the bridge held right? Let's keep going," she commented, before looking at the map and following the arrow again in general.

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Nancy nodded, agreeing with Zeke's assessment - the arrows would definitely give them an advantage. The plan then quickly went into motion as Demetri chimed in with agreement, as Demetri ran off, shouting to get the Minotaur's attention. Nancy couldn't help but chuckle slightly at his antics - he was funny at times. Demetri managed to escape from the Minotaur's deathly grip by changing his form, and Bacchus' son seemed to be attempting to do something. Nancy had pitied him when the Minotaur had flung him around like a rag doll just moments before - she wasn't sure even if the children of Bacchus deserved to be treated like that...

"He's not taking the bait," Nancy muttered. "Alright, I'm going to try something, let's see if this gets his attention," Nancy started, before being cut off by Janelle's cry. She had been planning to use her ability over sound to throw her voice to out beyond the train, insult the Minotaur, and get him to charge right off of it. Short of that, she might have instructed dear Joanie to try to get the Minotaur off the train - or Nancy herself might've leapt off, trusting that the quest would be safe in the hands of the others.

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At Kiera's nudging, Leda removed the fingers she had stuck in her ears - she hadn't actually ever grabbed the earplugs, just going for the quickest option, as she didn't know earplugs were even an option at first. With her fingers out of her ears, Leda snaked her arms back around Kiera's waist, holding on to her girlfriend. The ride was rather extraordinary, getting to see the ocean in a way that few other mortals ever could. It was incredible, Leda couldn't help but think, as she imagined her girlfriend as at home on the ocean floor as she would be in a mall up above the waves.

Eventually, the natural scenery gave way to a magnificent kingdom, one that took Leda's breath away. "Damn... Your dad's got nice digs," Leda murmured to the two sisters. As they approached the kingdom, the hippocampi came to a halt, and everyone was dismounting, so Leda assumed that was their cue to go. She hopped off of the hippocampus and then offered Kiera a hand to dismount. Once Kiera was safely down, Leda then stretched out her arms and legs. "Wonder how fast I could run down here, luv," she murmured. She knew that water would slow her down - but the real limiting factor probably would be if someone could maintain a protective bubble around her, to keep her from dying instantly. She glanced back at Sera, who had commented she'd love to live here. "From what I've heard, it's not entirely uncommon for kids of the Big Three to move in with their parents - at least Hades' kids have done so."

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The Harpies stopped for a moment seeing that they were being thinned out by the three demigods, when one of them suddenly yelled. "Flee we have what we need!" The one said as the harpies quickly agreed and started to fly through the windows that they had all broken through, leaving the three of them in a food car that looked like a tornado had rampaged through the entire room. Food was everywhere, torn seat cushions, and condiments were spilled everywhere, though there was one Harpy that was left, looking rather young around Stella's age, it had someone's half eaten hotdog in it's hands and quickly threw it at Niah's face, leaving a mess all over her face "MEANIE!" It yelled as it flew out the same window as it's sisters had flown through.

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"It really is beautiful down here." Kiera said as she took a moment to look around the area, as she accepted her girlfriend's hand and hopped off of her hippocampi. She looked at Leda and smiled slightly, wrapping an arm around her, she was curious how Leda could handle the ocean if she had her powers to survive under the water. "Well if you carried me around we could see how fast you go." Kiera said teasingly to Leda, 'I'll be around whenever you need me.' Said Sera's hippocampi as it gave her a slight little nudge with it's head like a cat would briefly before swimming off somewhere else in the underwater kingdom along with the other two.

Hercules started to head up the stairs looking over his shoulder at the three demigods. "C'mon lets get going!" Hercules said, as Kiera looked at the other two. "Lets get going then." Kiera said as she started to head up the stairs that would lead into the palace itself, which was rather beautiful on the inside as well to. There were a few merpeople on guard looking at the group as Kiera continued to follow Hercules until he reached a door and opened it. Poseidon could be seen standing over what looked to be a war table of some kind with various maps, as he continued to talk with some of his soldiers that were in the room going over some kind of plan but hadn't noticed them all just yet.

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"I defintely don't want to know where that actually leads to." Madalyne said mostly to herself she was glad that both Andy and Mary had made it across rather safely, as the arrow continued to lead forward towards what looked to be outside. They were on a large cliffside by the looks of it, and a massive forest was below it as well to. Madalyne took a moment to look around and spotted a large building in the distance the arrow was pointing directly towards it, and the walk looked to be rather long as well to. She wasn't really sure how they were outside again, but it still felt like they were inside the labyrinth still.

"Lets keep going." She said as she looked around seeing what looked to be man made stairs that were carved into the stone, and started to walk down past it. "At least we aren't in the dark anymore like that it would really suck having to travel around in the dark like that." Madalyne said to the two of them, luckily there wasn't any monsters in the area yet anyway. It took awhile until she was on the ground again letting out a slight sigh. "Do you guys want a break or continue forward?" She asked the both of them it looked like that it was going to be dark soon.

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The minotaur would let out what sounded like between a roar and a yawn before landing onto the ground with a rather heavy thud that shook the entire train car itself. Kristin got up slowly holding her side, seeing that the Minotaur was now asleep she looked over at Janelle and smiled towards her. "You did a great job there Janelle." Kristin said as she made her way towards it, lightly tapping it with her foot, seeing that it hadn't budged at all was a good thing then. Kristin then quickly made her way towards Cassian seeing that he was hurt, and turned her attention to Zeke.

"I got some nectar on me, but could you reset his broken arm?" Kristin asked Zeke as she turned her attention towards Cassian digging through her pack and handed him her flask of nectar. "Here Cassian drink this." Kristin told him. Nancy was able to kill the Minotaur while it was sleeping, it quickly bursted into monster dust on the ground, which left it's two horns left as trophies. Joanie came flying over and landed on one of the horns and started to sniff it, before she flew back landing gracefully back onto Nancy's shoulder.

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Seraphina looked around the palace as they wandered through. Her eyes went big as soon as they entered the room. There he was. Poseidon. Finally she was meeting her father, the man she never knew about because her mother always made up lies to keep her safe. Her heart was pounding. She wanted to run over, hug him till she was no longer able to. But she stood still. Scared. He wasnt a human father that she could just rush up to with no worries. Poseidon was a Greek god that could destroy anything in his path.

Words left her, she didnt know what to say. Hell she didnt even know what to do at this point besides wait till someone else said something. Did something. All she could do was stare at the god like a deer in headlights. Frightened for the most part but she was excited to finally meet him.

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Stella was honestly surprised that the fight was over and the rest of the harpies were fleeing at that point. She noticed the last of them throw the hot dog at Niah and winced a bit at that. What a waste of a perfectly good hot dog. Maybe Arbor would enjoy it off the floor once he was done licking his wounds. She put her knife away and started to look around the dining car. She hadn't missed the part where the harpies had mentioned that they had gotten what they had come for and that was why they were leaving. She did make sure to check her own supplies, and everything seemed alright there.

The only thing she noticed that was missing was food. That seemed weird to her. "...Did they just break onto the train to steal food?" She tilted her head curiously at that, and got a confused look on her face. Why would a bunch of monsters do that. It seemed rather risky unless there was something she was missing. There was the other problem though, all those mortals had seen the three of them fighting, right? Was it time to go hide in their compartment till the next station?

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Nancy made quick work of the Minotaur, stabbing it with her twin Celestial Bronze daggers. The Minotaur collapsed into a pile of dust, leaving its horns behind. Ordinarily, the trophy went to the person who had delivered the killing blow - but Nancy didn't feel right claiming them. Instead, she picked up the two horns. "Janelle, I'm giving you one of the trophies - one of the horns," she said, before placing a horn gently in Janelle's hand. "Try not to stab me with it." Janelle had been the one to really fell the Minotaur - but she couldn't have done it without Demetri's distraction. Nancy then held up the other horn to Demetri.

"Also going to ask that you don't stab me with this," she requested. She had more faith in Janelle when it came to not accidentally killing her anyways. If either of them didn't want it, Nancy figured she'd give it to Joanie - Joanie could use a good chew toy anyways. As much as Nancy found it cute when Joanie nibbled on her hair, it probably wasn't good for her hair in the long run. Nancy peered up and down the train corridor, and nothing seemed to be out of the ordinary anymore. It was all back to normal. Well, except for the panicking mortals.

Nancy pursed her lips. It would probably be in their best interest to get off of this train and out of sight. But they had already spent so much (of Janelle's) money to get these tickets. "Cacas," Nancy cursed. She had been hoping the Mist would encourage all of them to start vibing and just ignoring what had happened. "Unless you all are really into the idea of talking with the police, we're going to need to make ourselves scarce, pronto." She wished Mads had been there - she could've used the Mist to calm all the mortals down.

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Leda raised an eyebrow, at Kiera's proposal that she'd just have to carry her around in order to test her speed. "Believe it or not, but carrying you does slow me down - so we would just have a lower limit to my speed, not a max," Leda argued. She was happy though to have Kiera's arm around her. She liked the physical show of affection, even something as simple as this. Hercules then prompted them to go and Leda followed along with the rest, going up into the palace, past the merpeople acting as guards, and eventually into what must've been Poseidon's war room.

"Bloody hell... Your dad is fit," Leda couldn't help but blurt, slightly mesmerized by Poseidon's abs. She couldn't help herself, though. Gods and goddesses tended to make themselves incredibly hot - and Leda, being bisexual, couldn't help but appreciate all of them. Though, she did feel a little bad about blurting that out in front of Kiera. "Not as hot as you, 'course, babes," she added in a whisper. She would've said it louder, but she was mildly afraid Poseidon would turn her into a piece of coral or something.

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She wasn't entirely sure what was going on with everyone else, only really hearing Kristin say something to her, and then hearing Nancy say she was going to give her something that the Minotaur had dropped and placed something in her hand. Janelle ran her free hand along the horn, basically to ensure she could tell about how big it seemed to be, so that she didn't risk accidentally poking someone with it or something, though she wasn't entirely sure what she was supposed to do with it. Nancy had called it a trophy, so apparently she was supposed to keep it?

"Thank you," she eventually said towards Nancy, not really doing much of anything else at the moment. After all, she had left the previous train car with Cassian and Kristin to get away from just about everyone else, and now here was the crazy and all back in the one car. Nancy also mentioned that they should probably leave, and she personally couldn't help but agree with that statement, figuring it would be a good idea to leave the area quickly.

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Well that was a bit of an unexpected ending to the fight. The harpies had shown up, and then just decided to what? Leave? That did not make any sense to him. Their last words that were said though, that added to the uneasy feeling that was starting to creep up on him again. The fight was over for the moment, so they could take a bit of a deep breath over that moment, but there was no way they'd be able to relax now at this point. It was not a great situation to be in.

"What ded dey mean by we 'ave what we need..." he muttered under his breath, before turning to look at Stella as she asked if it was over food or something. "I dahn't dink so, dat wouldn't make sense to me... dey said dey 'ave what dey need. But dere are stell remains o' food and all, if dey were just scavengin fahr food, wouldn't dey 'ave taken all o' it? Dey 'ad to 'ave been after sahmethin else..."

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"The deep dark abyss, definitely a warm and welcoming sight clearly don't you think?" she ended up saying to Madalyne with a bit of a shrug. It seemed like a bad idea to go over there and look down or something, who knew what was at the bottom, and it likely would result in their deaths if they accidentally fell down the cliff. That was not a thing she wanted to worry about in general right now considering where they were currently, since yeah, falling off a cliff was not something she wanted to do.

Looking at the area in the brighter lighting they had ended up in, she had no idea how they had ended up where they were, but she wasn't really complaining. "Well this is definitely a fun area to be in isn't it? No idea how we got here, but it is the Labyrinth after all, so guess it shouldn't be that surprising should it? As for taking a break or continuing, but I'm fine with either option. Going onwards or resting for a few moments while we're here and all, doesn't matter to me."

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The plan fell quickly into motion as Demetri bounded ahead to be the bait. The problem was, old Miny wasn’t taking the bait. Things progressed quickly when Janelle stepped up to put the beast to sleep. Ezekiel relaxed his fighting stance and smiled at the sleeping bull and how harmless it looked. He then glanced at Janelle but quickly shook his head and turned. She didn’t need praise from him.
”Quickest take-down I’ve ever seen,” he decided to say. He pressed the button on the hilt of his sword, which allowed it to retract back into his key chain. Ezekiel slipped the keychain into his pocket when Kristin asked him to reset Cassian’s arm. Zeke pouted.
”Can’t we just leave it for a bit? Maybe he’ll pass out from the pain and be less annoying,” Zeke teased. He knelt beside Cassian all the same and examined where the break in his arm was. ”Hmm, here. Bite down on this, ya? As I shift the bone, you might feel some twisting. It would be better to bite on this rather than your tongue.” Zeke pulled out his notebook and set the book's spine into Cassian’s mouth to bite down on. ”Good, now just think about how amazing I am,” Zeke said with a charming grin as he shifted Cassian’s bone back into place. It only took a few seconds, but it could have felt like minutes to Cassian. Once the bone was set, Zeke shut his eyes and palpated as gently as possible to ensure the bone was in the right place.
”Perfect, it was a clean break Cas, so it’ll heal easily.” He shut his eyes as his hands started to glow. He watched behind his mind’s eyes as the bone began to knit itself back together. Once the bone healed, the glowing stopped, and Ezekiel stood. He offered Cassian a hand to help him stand.

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Demi stayed by the exit door, coiled up around his head with his fangs bared at the beast. He continued to hiss at it until it eventually fell down with a loud thud before falling asleep. If snakes could sigh, Demetri would have. The constrictor's muscles began to loosen as his tension released. The danger was over for now, with Nancy having dealt the final blow. What he hadn't expected was her practically offering an olive branch. Handing him one half of the spoils of war and taking none for herself.

Cassian sat on the floor, watching as the rest unfolded before him. Bitterness and disappointment kept him company as he realized just how useless he was. Dionysus was probably somewhere up on Olympus rethinking his choice in son for having gone to this quest. No. He pushed those thoughts aside almost immediately as he looked down at his broken arm. He wasn't useless, if anything he was the most valuable member amongst them, thats why the Minotaur targeted him first. That's why he was taken out of the battle, because he was too useful. Kristin had called for Zeke's aid, handing him a flask of nectar. Cassian placed it to his side for after the healing from the son of Apollo.

Demi moved from where he hid, slithering up slowly as he began to shift back. He figured his powers still weren't working, so he opted for any male figure he could manage but the Goddess of Love had other plans it would seem. As he changed back he took on another feminine form, thankfully it wasn't the one Zeke had met before. He took the horn from Nancy's hand, stunned as he looked at it and her. "Th-thanks. But, you deserve something too…" He had an idea of what to give her, but it was something that would take time while on the road or back at camp. "I'm not too badly hurt, I can try and give us all a lift if we need it. Figure a dragon can cover a large amount of ground…or air…"

Cass rolled his eyes at Zeke as he asked if they could leave him injured for a moment longer before asking him to bite down on his book. "I'd rather bite something else." he mumbled out before Zeke stuffed his mouth with the spine. He was about to mumble something about how the only amazing quality he had was pissing others off when suddenly he was hit with Zeke's talents. There was a sharp pain as his bone shifted and twisted within his arm. A large groan reverberating through the notebook as Cassian tried hard not to kick Zeke when his leg twitched from the pain.

He wanted nothing more than for Zeke to hurry up, the charming smile had now seemed a cruel joke as he knew what he was about to do. Before long his bone was set and Zeke began to heal him. The immediate rush of energy felt warm and inviting, allowing for Cassian to greatly relax. It felt like a warm summer's day sitting within a wheat field as the sun's rays gently caressed his face. For a moment he could tell why Demetri had fallen for him. Cassian took his hand, lifting himself up with Zeke's aid as he grabbed the flask of nectar on the way up. He handed Zeke back his notebook before taking a small sip of Nectar from the flask. Both to help with the process as well as to remove the taste of Zeke's well traveled book. The sweet taste of lavender, vanilla, and black tea washed through his mouth before vanishing. "Thanks. Though maybe we can invest in something a little less well-traveled for a mouth guard." He said chuckling.

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Andy didn't care for traveling on the cliffside. Getting down to the solid ground was a relief. Her sigh almost matched Mads. She looked around taking in the forest-like setting. She wondered where they were. According to the book they were still in the Labyrinth, but this didn't look like it.

"We should get somewhere safe before stopping." Though what did safe mean? She had done a lot of on-foot traveling before ending up at the camp. She wasn't afraid of being out in the open...normally. Somehow this place had a more sinister feeling. She didn't trust the appearance of safety here.




"Ugh!" Niah grabbed some napkins and wiped her face. She wiped her sword next and then returned it to its sheath.

"I'm not sure what they meant. I don't like it either. I don't know what a train would have for them, other than the food." She looked around trying to decide if they should try to clean up the mess or hide like everyone else had. Soon people would be coming back and they might be held responsible for the damage.

She reached for the Mist. People had already seen birds, now she just had to make it seem reasonable. She remembered how aggressive Seagulls could be for food. It would make sense. People wouldn't question it too much. Discarded feathers from seagulls joined the mess in the room. She hoped with that people would assume they had done their best to stop the aggressive birds.

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Things were pretty calm for the most part now aside from the chaotic mess that was left behind thanks to the harpies, maybe they were just really hungry and wanted some food, but who knows what they meant. The group had a few scratches from the harpies, and were bleeding still luckily for them there was a mortal first aid kit just behind the food counter that Niah could grab. They could also use their own medical supplies that they managed to get back while they were at camp to. Then there was a door that opened as one of the train's conductors came in and inspected the damage, taking the bait that the feathers that were strewn around the room were seagull feathers. Seeing the three kids that were still there he approached them. "Are the three of you okay?" He asked looking at them.

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Kiera looked over to her girlfriend and smiled slightly. "I guess I get my looks from him then if you think he's hot." Kiera said teasingly giving her a slight nudge, she didn't think it was a bad thing. She had met him once during the whole Winter Solstice meeting that all the kids at camp went to at Olympus. It was the only time really that the demi-gods actually got to meet and interact with their parents, she looked over at Seraphina gently patting her. "It's okay he's actually pretty cool." Kiera told Sera trying to reassure her, as the meeting seemed like it had finally concluded as the merpeople that were in the war room quickly swam off somewhere else.

Hercules then coughed slightly to get his attention, as the god turned to look at the four of them, he smiled as he instantly recognized Kiera and Seraphina. He then made his way over towards them he then started to shrink his size until he was average height for an adult looking at the four of them. "My daughters, how are you?" He asked them as Kiera smiled slightly towards her father. "I'm doing well, we are on a quest actually, and were wondering if you could point us in the right direction?" Kiera asked, as she looked towards Leda and Sera. "This is Leda my girlfriend, Hercules and Seraphina." She said introducing the three of them. "It's nice to meet you all." Poseidon said giving them a smile.

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"Lets keep moving forward until we find someplace to rest up at least then." Madalyne suggested, she didn't like the idea of being out in the open to much, but she wanted to make sure what her niece and Mary wanted to do as well to. She took out her sword just in case as she started to continue to move forward through the forest, she took a moment to look up seeing a few birds that were flying around. But she got the feeling that something was off about them. The birds were definitely giving her the creepy vibes as more continued to show up in the trees staring down at them.

"Be on alert." Madalyne suggested, as she paused for a moment as she could catch a glimpse of something in the distance and started to make her way towards it. It was what looked to be a cabin of some kind as she looked at Mary and Andy when she noticed that there were about a hundred more of those birds that were staring at them. When one of the birds suddenly let out a rather loud screech and swooped down with its claws managing to leave a rather nasty gash over her shoulder.

Then another two came down managing to do the same to Madalyne and Mary, which sent them all into a frenzy as the birds suddenly flew forward towards them. Madalyne wasted no time and made her way towards the cabin opening the door for them. "Get inside now!" Madalyne yelled at them.

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Kristin stood up slowly as she could see that the other passengers that were in the car that they were in were slightly panicked staring at the group of kids. Luckily Zeke managed to patch up Cassian as best as he could, she wasnt sure if there were any other monsters that were on the train, but they needed to at least get out of this train car. "Lets head on back." Kristin said as she moved back to the train car and held the door open for the group to get back through. She was surprised that Nancy didn't want the trophy at all and instead gave it to Janelle, and Demi of all people who was now another girl.

Once everyone was through the train car door closed and she made her way back towards her preivous seat, she was slightly bruised from the fight after getting smacked by the Minotaur but at least they had dealt with it which was good. She just hoped that they could get off at the next stop as she looked at Demi for a moment. "We can continue with the train ride over to where we need to go or continue on foot or whatever when we reach the next stop, it's up to you guys." Kristin said, she was fine with whatever the rest of the group decided to do.

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Skills: Hydrokinsis

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Seraphina was glad to be reassured. Her nerves calmed a bit, the pounding in her chest went away. "Well that's good to know." She sighed quietly. Now all she had were butterflies in her stomach. That feeling didn't want to go away. Gods she wished that it would. Sera always hated how nervous she got around people. She shouldn't have to be so scared to meet her father.

The young girl waved slightly as Poseidon came to the group. "He-hello." Her voice was soft, almost quiet like a mouse. "It's nice to meet you... father." She tried to speak up but she was still far to nervous. Hopefully the god didn't mind it. Hopefully he understood.

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"Well what else would they have taken from the train?" Stella was sure she didn't see anything else missing but food, even as Jason insisted they had to be after something else. Would there be something hidden in the food that they hadn't seen or the mortals didn't know about? What would the harpies be after? She was distracted by Arbor coming up and nuzzling her hand and whining a bit, as his meal had been interrupted, and they were still in the dining car. "I know boy, I'm sorry. We'll see about getting you some food." She pet his head softly and rubbed his ears a bit.

She looked up as the conductor came in and asked them if they were okay, and she decided to play it up a bit, as she was the youngest of the group. "Those mean birds ruined our meal, after we paid for it and everything and then scratched us up! And they hurt my poor service dog as well..." She sniffled a bit as she looked at the mortal, hoping that they could maybe get some free food or care out of their attack, or something. Thankfully the mortal seemed to believe that it was a random bird attack thanks to Niah's use of the Mist. Stella would make sure to thank her for that later.

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Nancy shrugged slightly at Janelle's thanks, not realizing in the moment that it was a response imperceptible to Janelle. Her mind was too focused on the impending danger of being dragged into a mortal prison, or at the very least being held for questioning. Who knew what the mortals had seen through the Mist, but Nancy could take a guess that it hadn't been legal. Zeke was naturally preoccupied with healing the Bacchus child - Nancy privately agreed with his sentiment that they ought to have let him just pass out. If he wasn't conscious, then he couldn't use his powers, and Nancy would be able to let her guard down ever so slightly...

She raised an eyebrow, as Demi insisted she deserved something as well. "No, I don't. Janelle and yourself beat the beast. I just slit his throat," she explained. It was why she had given both Janelle and Demetri the spoils - she hadn't earned them. They had. It wasn't an olive branch or a peace offering, it wasn't a vote of confidence in the Greeks, it was pure practicality. Had Nancy felt she had earned the Minotaur horns, she would've kept them both.

"And what is your track record again with successful and maintained transformations? Remind me?" Nancy said somewhat snippily. She could just see Demetri turning into a horse midway through flight, and all of them falling to their deaths. She moved back to the original car with the others, a bit annoyed as no one else seemed to grasp the situation. "Look, if we stay in this train car, the mortals clearly saw something. They'll phone the police. They'll be at the next station we pull into. And unless one of you can spontaneously manipulate the Mist to convince them to not do that, we'll be derailed - literally. Everyone on this car will be taken into custody and questioned."

Her gaze fell on Janelle though, as something occurred to her. "Janelle, have you ever been able to manipulate the Mist? You can do things with dreams, right? Maybe it'll translate. If you could convince everyone on the train that they just had a grody ass day terror and everything is fine... that might work."

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Leda had to resist the urge to point out that there were very few physical features demigods actually inherited from their parents. Kiera's hotness was all her own. Though, the storms in her eyes? Leda was positive those were from Poseidon. No mortal girl had eyes like those, eyes so deep and cataclysmic that Leda just got lost in them oh so easily... The god himself then seemed to notice them, thanks to Hercules' interjection, as he shrunk down to the size of an average mortal man and approached the group. For obvious reasons, his attention went right to his daughters.

When Kiera introduced her to Poseidon as her girlfriend, a sudden worry of being smited for dating Poseidon's daughter flashed through her. Luckily, he didn't seem to be in an overprotective dad sort of mood. "It's smashing to meet you. I'm a big fan of your work - the oceans are bloody brilliant, just gorgeous," Leda said earnestly, uncertain if she ought to do a curtsey or something else. She'd never met one of the Big Three before. The hair on the back of her neck was standing straight up. Sera seemed to be nervous as well, but she really didn't have a reason to be. Poseidon didn't have a rep for killing his kids - not like some other gods...