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Harrisburg Amtrak Train Station:

It was about seven hours or so since the Harpy attack had happened, the train conductor eventually did come into their cabin and offered a first aid kit to treat their wounds. The train had made a few minor stops along the way but nothing really had happened and they were safe for the time being now. Their next major stop was Harrisburg Pennsylvania, and they'd have a small layover there in order to fix the dining car and restock it for the rest of the trip. But that would take several hours to fix up, the passengers were welcome to stay on the train or leave and enter the train station itself. The conductor made his way into the cabin once more looking at the group holding up some vouchers for the three of them. "Here's some vouchers for you all to use at the lounges if you choose to stay there." He offered the group. "Is there anything I can get you all?" He asked, if the group looked out the window it was well into the evening now at this point as well to.

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"Thank you lady knight." Kiera said with a slight giggle as she accepted her girlfriend's hand and pulled herself up onto the hippocampi, luckily some of Poseidon's men were leading the way, since she had no clue where this Camp Fish-Blood actually was. Kiera wrapped her hands around Leda's waist and smiled giving her a kiss on the cheek. "Just hold onto the reins, just like a regular horse use the reins to basically steer where you want to go. And if you want to go faster lightly tap your heels against it's sides, and if you want to slow down just pull the reins back to." Kiera explained to her girlfriend, she did spend a lot of time with the horses in the stables back at camp.

'Thank you I am quiet beautiful.' Sera's hippocampi said, as it quickly started to move forward following behind Poseidon's soldiers, they quickly started to leave the massive underwater kingdom behind. Hercules took up the rear with his own hippocampi, as they moved further into the sea. It took about an hour or so until they were finally at the camp. It looked like that it was being prepared for an attack, Camp Fish-Blood looked almost similar to Camp Half-Blood as well to as the group moved to the center of camp most of the Merpeople that were in the camp appeared to be around their age as well to.

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Madalyne looked at Andy and nodded slightly towards her niece and smiled towards her. "Yeah i'm fine, just a few small scratches." Madalyne said as she took a moment to look at her scratches, and winced slightly the birds did scratch her pretty good, as she sighed slightly and took a seat on a nearby box. She slowly pulled off her backpack and started to search around until she found some ambrosia cubes that she managed to get before leaving camp to her it tasted a lot like pizza. Madalyne sighed as she could feel the wounds starting to heal, she didn't want to leave the safety of the cellar to early either.

Her attention turned over towards Andy as she said she had found something and made her way over towards her to take a look at it and started to look through it. She didn't really know anyone at Camp Half-Blood that wasn't apart of Camp Jupiter other than Andy of course, she looked at the most recent entry that was dated a day ago. "Do you guys know anyone that had gone missing from Camp Half-Blood?" Madalyne asked the two of them, maybe it could be a potential ally in this nightmare of a maze and they could finish the quest and get out of here.

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It was about five hours or so as the train slowly started to make its next major stop for the day, it made a few minor stops along the way but it was the largest stop aside from Grand Central Station in New York. Kristin and Nancy were the last ones to take up watch, luckily nothing had happened along the way either. The sun had set as well it was around six in the evening as Kristin looked up at the others she stretched out slightly as she watched the passengers getting off of the train. Kristin assumed that the train stopped to refuel as well to, as she looked at the others.

"We should get off a bit and stretch our legs, there is a lounge here if I remember correctly and we can use that to figure out what we need to do next." Kristin suggested, she started to make her way towards the nearest exit as she watched the various passengers making their way towards the nearby train terminal and saw the stairs to the lounge, and waited by the platform for the others to get off next.

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She looked at the camp, seeing that the merpeople were prepping for an attack. “Woah…” Sera looked interested in the camp. It was huge. Reminded her of the summer camp she once went to for fun with her classmates. Just under the sea instead of in a forest. Is this what Camp Half-Blood looked like? If so, then that’d be really cool! Her eyes glanced at the weapons that they seemed to have. They looked like normal weapons of war. Like swords, staffs, and some other things as well. “I wonder if another battle will be coming soon.” She whispered. Hopefully Leda and Kiera where good fighters, the youngest girl would have to try to follow along.

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Demetri was glad to have the first watch over with. Sure he got to spend time with his boyfriend, but they still had to be somewhat responsible. When the time came for their portion to end, Demi had untangled himself from Zeke and gone over to Cassian to let him know his shift was up. Once that was settled he'd gone back towards the wonderful son of Apollo and tugged on his shirt collar to let him know they were moving into a hopefully more…private corner of the car. Away from everyone's immediate view. He'd tried to get some sleep, enjoying a bit of pillow talk with Zeke in between long yawns that kept threatening slumber but always just a bit away. A few times he was woken up by Zeke, he didn't know if all of Apollo's children did this, but there was a slight glow about him when he slept. Like a blanket of light. It'd be cute if it wasn't keeping him awake.

Demi did the only thing he knew to do, he quietly slipped off of Zeke from their little cuddle spot in the chairs, and took off his jacket, throwing it over his boyfriend before going back to cuddling him. The next few hours were quiet and pleasant. He'd hardly noticed all the stops they'd made until the major one in which Kristin got everyone up for. Demi stood up, leaving his jacket abandoned on Zeke as he mirrored Kristin's sentiment and stretched with a big yawn, shifting back towards his normal self as he did so. "A bit of walking around might do some good actually. If I stay in here I'm likely to sleep all the way down to Los Angeles." He gently nudged Zeke at his shoulder, lifting the jacket slightly before pressing a kiss to his lips and dropping it back down. "Z, rise and shine. Gonna go stretch our legs a bit."

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Once Demetri had woken him up, Cassian rubbed at his eyes wishing he had just an ounce more time to sleep. He got up from his seat, making his way towards Janelle and sitting by her letting her know it was their turn to watch. Part of him wished to speak to her, to talk throughout to the watch and see how it is that she's doing. It had to be difficult, being surrounded by the man she liked and the one he left her for, all while thrust into a quest that seemed almost hopeless. If the destination wasn't enough, nor the monsters littering the way, it was the meddling gods and titan that awaited them. Cassian hoped that whatever it was Aphrodite was putting Demetri through, that he could figure it out so they could gain favor with a god to defeat the titan.

Fortunately for them, the watch went uneventful. Cassian kept to himself, trying to minimize the amount of noise he made so that Janelle could focus on what she needed for their watch. He hadn't fully considered the notion of putting a blind person to do a watch, but he also didn't want to discredit her potential abilities simply because of how she was born. He looked out the window, watching as the final rays of light began to hit the ground and colored the sky red. They'd made their first major stop, and it felt as if almost no progress was made. "All this and we've made it only one state over…we've got so many more to go. There has to be a faster way. How else do our kind travel such long distances in such a short time?"

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Andy scrunched her nose thinking. There hadn't been anyone since she had joined that had gone missing. But then she remembered that a while back some kids went to map the Labyrinth. Her eyes opened wide and she gasped.

[color=b71d5d]"I think I know of them. I don't know them personally but there was mention of some kids a while back going into the Labyrinth to map it out. They never came back. Maybe it is them."[color] She hoped in a way that it would be. Maybe they could help each other.




Niah was also bored but she had had the book to keep her interest for the hours between New York and Harrisburg. She had read a good chunk of the book she had found. It had been interesting. Other than that she had periodically looked out the window or into the rest of the train. She had napped a little too. Knowing that sleep wouldn't always be so easy to get.

"Thank you. We appreciate it. The medical supplies helped too. We should be good otherwise." With the train delayed they had a lot of time to go eat now. Of course, Niah expected they'd get embroiled in some sort of trouble too. Quiet for a demi-god on a quest was a blessing.

She stood up and stretched. "Let's go get something to eat. I'm starved."

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Once their watch was over, Ezekiel felt himself relax a little bit more. He enjoyed the time he got to spend with Demi, knowing their moments were coming to an end once they reached Vegas. Zeke ended up falling asleep, head resting on top of Demetri’s as they dozed. He slept happily, feeling more connected with his boyfriend and their new relationship.
He never noticed the jacket being put on him or the train stopping until Demetri woke him with a kiss. Zeke yawned and stretched, pulling the jacket aside as he did so. He rubbed his eyes and blinked away the sleep. Nothing looked amiss on the train, and it was then that he realized they were stopped. Ezekiel looked around to see they had made it to Philly. He reached into his bag to get some water and took a sip before standing up and handing Demetri his jacket back.
”Since when did I become your coat rack?”

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For the last several hours Stella had mostly curled up with Arbor, petting him and relaxed a bit. Thankfully it seemed that the ride to the next 'major' stop was calm at that point, and they didn't have to worry about any monster attacks. She did eventually drift off into a sort of nap before the conductor poked his head into their compartment and presented them with the vouchers. "Thank you again, for all your help." She didn't really have anything to add when he asked if there was anything else they needed. She did look out the window to see it was night and stretched a bit.

"I guess the question is are we staying on the train or getting off? They said we'd have a lay over right?" Stella gently pet her puppy more, and sat there in thought. She was hungry as well, and she knew that her puppy probably wanted to eat as well, but she still had no idea if food or soil was the best thing to give him. She stood up and stretched a bit more, realizing that she really hadn't moved the entire time they had sat in the compartment.

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Nancy's watch had been uneventful. She hadn't really slept at all before it was her and Kristin's turn, instead just sitting by herself and taking some solace in the quiet and hush that had fallen over the car. Had the circumstances been less serious and dire, and had her questmates been comprised of friends instead of largely strangers, she might've doodled on the sleeping demigods. Most of her traveling companions today likely wouldn't have guessed it, but Nancy had somewhat of a soft spot for the occasional prank. The graveness of their present circumstances - the fact that no matter what, Nancy couldn't help but think about that place and those people every time she closed her eyes even briefly - obscured that lighter, more jovial side of them.

She figured that the Greeks figured she was a - in her own words - a goddamn megabitch. But she didn't care.

So instead of talking to the others and seeking out conversations during the ride, Nancy had listened to music instead. One of the modern demigods had helped her get the music she liked in a device she knew how to work, meaning that as the train pulled into Philadelphia, she was listening to Venus by Bananarama. She chuckled to herself slightly when the song had come on, as well as an ever so slight shake of her head. The universe had funny coincidences like that.

Nancy turned off the music, and pulled the earbuds out of her ears. They fell down in the process, but as she didn't use those weird ones without the wires, it wasn't an issue. She just put the jumbled mess back into her pocket, where the MP3 player was. Everyone looked pretty groggy, as Kristin told everyone it was time to get up and at them, and that they could head off to the station's lounge. "How long until the train leaves again?" Nancy asked. "I wouldn't mind getting a burger or a hot dog that hasn't been under a heat lamp since the Kennedy Assassination." She was somewhat hopeful maybe there was a good mall or something nearby, if they had the time. Some of the demigods had told her that mall culture wasn't really a thing anymore, which Nancy refused to believe. How could there not be a banging mall in every major city in America?!

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Leda smirked. She loved hearing Kiera call her her knight. She liked the idea of protecting her lady from dragons and evil wizards and all sorts of chaotic things, and she definitely wouldn't protest to see Kiera dressed like a princess from an old myth. She could feel Kiera's body heat up against her skin, and had they not been a) underwater, b) in front of Kiera's father's guards or c) in front of her sister, Leda might've been in the mood to continue the roleplay a little bit further. But alas, it was not meant to be. "Got it, just like a horse, lovely," she said. She had ridden horses a few times - not often, because they were annoying slow, but once or twice.

The ride felt like it took an eternity - Leda was getting somewhat impatient by the time they arrived, feeling like they must've been going in circles or looking at the same aquatic scenery, it got old so so fast. But she didn't want to be rude, so she didn't say anything. But Kiera likely was able to tell all the same, as Leda got more and more fidgety by the minute. Demigods weren't good at staying still. Demigods with the gift of super speed had it extra bad - Leda's ADHD had ADHD.

Camp Fish-blood looked pretty much like a knock-off Camp Half-blood to her - making Leda wonder if there was an aquatic New Rome copycat somewhere else on the ocean floor. Did the fish people demigods also have that Greek-Roman line split? And who were the parents of these aquatic demigods - did she have any fish people siblings down here? Her thoughts scattered slightly as she took in the defense preparations, that these demigods were getting ready for a battle. "Looks like that, darling," she answered Sera. "But we'll be fine. No need to fret. This is why we're here - where we're meant to be."

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Not a whole lot seemed to have happened during their time on the train to the next stop. This was going incredibly slowly at this point with regards to how quickly they were traveling across the country. They really needed to find some way to travel faster, but there likely wasn't a whole lot that they could easily do about that sort of thing, there didn't seem to be many options for traveling to Las Vegas, otherwise they probably would have done that sort of thing.

Cassian seemed to be thinking the same sort of thing with regards to traveling, but no one else had seemingly responded to the question, and she personally didn't know the answer to it at all. The consensus did seem to be though that they needed to see about wandering a little bit while they had the chance and maybe try to figure out what the situation was going to be or what they should do or be prepared for. That was probably a good idea in the long run.

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They finally hit a stop of sorts that would allow them to really wander around and get off the train. The conductor gave them some vouchers when the train stopped for something, which was nice of him to do. Now they had to decide what they were going to do. They were going to be in the area for a while now. The train did have to get repaired and all after the whole situation in general that had happened with the harpies. That was not something that he really wanted to repeat, but knowing their luck things would go sideways.

"Y+eah, wanderin around a lettle bet might be mahre den a bet nice at dis point. And food would be great and 'ahpefully wahn't end as badly as de last time we stahpped fahr food," Jason said with a shrug, getting up now to see about wandering off the train. They'd find some place to relax a little bit, get some food and maybe wander while the train was stopped and getting fixed. It was getting kind of late though, so he was figuring from what had been stated that odds were the train likely wasn't leaving until the early morning.

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Well a journal of sorts mentioning the camp and all was definitely intriguing, and her brain started searching a little bit to see if she could really remember those who it might belong to. Though she didn't remember anyone, what Andy said run a small bell, since the Labyrinth was a bit of a mystery, so over the years people have been curious about trying to map it out or something like that. It wasn't all that surprising that some campers had gone off to attempt to map out the Labyrinth, which was not the best idea at least in her opinion.

"Yeah a lot of people have tried to see about trying to map out this place. Which well... Kind of isn't the best of ideas, the Labyrinth is near impossible to try to create a map here... Not to mention all of the monsters... A lot of people have gone in and never gotten out again... Kind of guessing that the ones who more recently headed off into the Labyrinth probably wouldn't have gotten out, and maybe aren't still around especially if that got left behind." She wasn't going to sugar coat what she thought had happened to those kids at this point. They likely had ended up getting killed by the monsters in the area, at least that's how she saw things right now. There wasn't exactly any evidence to suggest otherwise at this point.

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Harrisburg Amtrak Train Station:

"No problem, they should have things fixed up in the morning, sorry for the in convince." The conductor had said, once the group had gotten off of the train, and into the station itself there was a lounge for them to sit in while the train was being fixed, which had a few vending machines and a small cafe as well to. There was also a nearby map of the city and a list of stores and restaurants as well as hotels in the area that the group could go to as well. The area was pretty quiet and didn't have to many people in the station itself being night and all things were pretty quiet in the station. The group could go exploring the area a little bit, or use the vouchers to check into a hotel for the night, or just stay in the station.

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One of the demigod merpeople came over looking at the three demigods before him, he was around Keira and Leda's age as he looked between the two daughters of Poseidon knowing that they were his kids pretty quickly. He then looked over at Leda and started to dig through his satchel handing Leda what looked like some kind of seaweed. "Eat this, it'll let you breathe underwater and talk underwater like the rest of us and give you a little bit more freedom." He told her, he then looked at the three of them. "So whats been going on here?" Kiera asked him as the boy turned to Kiera as she addressed him. "We managed to hold off a wave of Telekhines and Sirens that attacked us not to long ago and managed to hold them off. Some injured but no one died yet." He said motioning for the group to follow him to what looked like the underwater version of The Big House back at Camp Half-Blood.

Inside there were a few other merpeople around their age as well to, which looked like the usual head councilor meetings back at camp as well to. On the nearby table was a map of Camp Fish-Blood itself, with a few lines, which looked like the defenses that they had set up before the attack. "If you guys won't mind helping with repairing some of the defenses they were damaged in the last attack, or at least keep guard while we do that would be nice." He asked as Kiera looked at Sera and Leda, so far it looked like the camp just fought off the first wave. "Sure we can keep watch and help out." Kiera told him, he smiled and nodded. "Any questions?" He asked the group.

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Madalyne started to feel confident that the monster birds were gone now as she stood up and looked outside, the whole cabin looked like it was completely trashed sadly. She then went back down listening to Mary and Andy as they mentioned some demigods going missing and nodded slightly so far the Labyrinth they had encountered a bunch of monsters and no friendlies. "The coast is clear by the way." She said as she leaned back slightly as she thought there, was a bunch of supplies here and it looked like a good place to get some rest that they needed clearly now.

"Well we could stay here for the time being get some rest and take some food here and leave and maybe wait and see if anyone returns." Madalyne suggested, by the looks of the cabin it was still being used fairly recently there was a chance that they could get some help from whoever is missing down here as well to. Madalyne then started to climb out and started to look around the cabin, seeing what looked like some food that was put into some containers. Seeing that it was some cooked meat preserved in some salt it was something that they could eat along with some fruit as well to. "I don't think they will mind if we use some of their food, i'll make us something and one of you guys keep watch in the meantime?" Madalyne asked.

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Kristin made her way over towards the lounge area she looked over at the map of the city itself and looked around for anything nearby, there was a small cafe in the lounge area as well to. Kristin turned her attention over towards the group, and thought for a moment what they wanted to do. "Well theres the cafe lounge area we can get some food there, or theres a Taco Bell, three blocks away, a Burger King eight blocks away from here, or some Chinese place called Halal Fusion Chinese nine blocks away from here, you guys. I'd go with Taco Bell since thats the closest." Kristin suggested to the group.

She looked up at a nearby screen, that displayed the the departure time for their train again it was right now six in the evening as Kristin did the math. "It says a four hour layover here before it leaves again so we'd have to be back here before ten when the train leaves." Kristin answered Nancy's question, they had some time to figure out what their next moves would be. In a nearby corner only Demi would see Aphrodite nearby waving at him to follow her before disappearing around a corner again.

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Demi smiled at his boyfriend before taking back his jacket, slinging it on himself. He pressed another kiss onto his cheek before poking his nose with his pointer finger. "Since you apparently became a nightlight. Did you know you glow when you sleep Z?" Demetri hadn't noticed it the night before when Zeke had snuck into Zeus' cabin and spent the night, mostly because they'd had actual covers and pillows to help block the dim glow. That amongst other reasons. "It's cute though, if not a bit difficult to sleep with. Anyways, foods on the table what're we feeling? Personally I could go for a little Cheeky Nandos but I'll settle for a Whopper. Z?" he asked all smiles, dimples in full view.

The smile quickly faded as he spotted Aphrodite again, rounding another corner before disappearing once more. Demi bit his lower lip pensively as he debated on what to do next. "Rain check actually. Just saw an old friend who's asking me to follow her again. May as well see what she wants first before I go eat. Wait for me Z?" Demi said, annoyance coursing through his voice. Perhaps he'd passed her little test, maybe she was here to lift whatever curse she'd placed on him. Either way he made off towards her direction hoping to see her again and figure exactly what was going on.

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It appeared that no one had any input on a faster mode of transportation. It wasn't that Cassian wasn't grateful for the tickets that Janelle had purchased them, on the contrary it was a leisure few could experience as Demi-Gods even if they were just recently attacked, but the fact of the matter was that they were killing time. They'd moved one state over in a manner of hours, had a four hour layover to wait out and then had who knew how many more states to cross. Back home he'd only ever ridden one train, a bullet train meant for expediency. He'd hoped the one they were boarding cross country was one of the same, but if it was it didn't seem like it. But maybe that was just the nerves talking.

As Kristin listed off the different locations nearby, Cassian could feel his stomach rumble. The irritating gurgle distracted him from what it was he was trying to think of. A name just at the tip of his tongue, but each time he came close to sounding it out his stomach pestered again. He groaned in annoyance before lifting his head back wondering how safe they would be on a plane. "Damn, TacoBell really sounds good right now." he paused. "Damn? Damn, damn, damn, damnation! We could try and bribe the Chariot of Damnation! Normally they only operate in New York but if we have enough drachmas we can certainly attempt it. We're only one state out so far, so if ever we wanted to try them now's the time. Even if we can't make it all the way we have the train tickets so we can catch the train the rest of the way."

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Andy exited the small basement they had been hiding. She carried the journal with her. She could make some guesses about what may have happened to the campers that had left it behind. None of them were great endings for them. There was a small hope that the group was still alive.

"We're really lucky to have the book you have then Mary." Without that book they certainly would have gotten lost. "They might not mind." Andy knew all about rationing her food. She knew when she could share and when she couldn't share food. And almost every time she would share. If you had a place to stay and couldn't share food there were other issues at play. She didn't know how to express that though.




Niah didn't feel comfortable with the idea of going to a hotel. However, the small cafe seemed to be a good option.

"Let's get food at the cafe. We can discuss options from there. But I don't know how I feel about going too far from the train. Even with so much time." Niah really wanted to go for a walk, but she figured food would be the best first choice. She didn't imagine sleeping at the train station would be a great experience.

"Does that sound good?" There was some niggling fear of getting too far from their mode of transportation that Niah couldn't push aside. If the other two insisted on a hotel she'd go too, they were NOT splitting the party.

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Magical seaweed for breathing? That didn't surprise her, it made sense that there'd be such a thing. At least now Leda could do more stuff and not worry about drowning underwater for any reason. Sera listened to the demigod. Nodding gently as he spoke. "I can help out repairing. I'm okay with building things...not great but I know a little bit. I put together a bookshelf once with my uncle." She replied. "So just show me what I need to do and I'll help out my best with the repairs!" Hopefully they'd be able to get enough repairs done before another wave came. She went to go and help repair the defenses, it was important not to delay such a task. She figured they'd have the normal tools like hammers and nails and such to repair things but maybe they had other items to help protect the Camp from attacks. It was a camp for demigods, so they had to have magical items as well for protection, right? Maybe she'd ask about it when there was time to do so.

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Ezekiel frowned at Demetri’s statement. Glow? Like a nightlight? He wiggled his nose after Demi tapped it and frowned. ”No, I didn’t know I glowed…” He wasn’t entirely sure Demi was telling the truth. He grabbed his bag, stretched a bit and nodded.
”I could go for a burger,” Zeke agreed. His stomach rumbled in anticipation, but his eagerness was cut short. Demetri had seen someone, an old friend, he said, but Zeke had a bad feeling about it. ”Seriously? What more does she want?” Ezekiel sighed when Demetri walked off. He wanted to go with him. It really wasn’t good for Demi to be on his own, whether he was meeting a goddess or not. He looked around and went to join the others.
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Stella gently bent over to latch the leash back onto Arbor, hoping that the vest was still visible to the mortals, indicating her little pup was 'In Training' and that he was not to be bothered. She gently took the end of the leash in her hand and helped Arbor down from the seat at that point and pet the top of his head as they both stretched a bit more. She listened to both Jason and Niah as they spoke and nodded. It didn't seem like a good idea to split up, and she really was hungry at that point.

"The cafe sounds good. I don't want to go too far away even if the train isn't leaving till morning. I just hope that we can get something for Arbor as well." She smiled as she went to follow them both, stepping off the train and onto the platform. She relaxed a bit, and hoped that they could have a peaceful moment. However there as a bit of a nagging voice in the back of her mind, reminding her that while they had been lucky earlier, that didn't mean they were still going to be lucky.

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Over at the station lounge it looked nice for the most part, there were a few chairs and couches around the area for them to sit at as well as some tables. At one end of the lounge was a small cafe of sorts there that the group could get something to drink and eat while they waited for their train to get fixed. But there wasn't anything like rooms for sleeping either, the couches didn't look all that comfortable really either if the group did choose to sleep there. Some of the other passengers who were going further down the trainline were now filing into the lounge to getting something to eat and drink, while they waited for either another train to pick them up, or were waiting for their train to be fixed as well to. The coast was clear for now, whether another group of monsters showed up or not they were safe for the time being.

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The camper smiled and nodded towards Sera as she went off to go and help out with some of the repairs, Kiera waited alongside her girlfriend however waiting for her to eat the seaweed that the camper had given her. She didn't want her girlfriend to end up drowning or anything like that. "I'll come with you!" Hercules the Cyclops said as he quickly followed shortly after Sera towards one of the barricades that were destroyed in the attack. There were a few fish campers hard at work with doing the repairs, when one of them turned to face the cyclops they gave him a friendly cyclops, knowing that not all of them were evil.

"Thank you for the help." They said as they gestured towards a set of tools and supplies seeing that Sera was rather young and moved over to her and motioned her to follow them over to one of the broken barricades. The barricade itself looked like it was made out of some kind of coral. "So what we need you to do is basically this." The gestured to what looked like some kind of cement like material, though it looked more like it was made out of sand from the sea floor. They took a glob of it and started to apply it to the barricade, and then started to smooth the whole thing out by applying it over the cracks as well to.

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"Heres hoping that they won't mind then.." Madalyne said she really hated that she was using someone else's food and supplies, but it was something that they needed to do to survive. Sure they did have their own food and supplies that they could use, but she wanted to use what was there right now instead of digging into their own stuff first. Madalyne started to look around finding some pots and pans that looked rather old but they were still useful. She moved over towards the cooking pot and grabbed some water that was there and poured a bunch of it into the pot as well and grabbed whatever meat and vegetables that were there and started to make a stew of sorts.

There however was someone that was watching the group from afar seeing Andy had their back turned towards them, they quietly snuck up taking a celestial bronze dagger to Andy's neck pointing it at her throat while having a firm grip on the smaller demigod. "Who the hell are you and what are you doing here?" They asked, Madalyne quickly turned around drawing her sword seeing a demigod with a rather old and worn out version of the orange Camp Half-Blood shirt. The camper looked to be a boy a little bit older than Madalyne and Mary were as he stared at the group. Madalyne held up her hand putting her imperial gold sword away as she held up her other hand seeing that her niece was in danger. "We aren't here to hurt you, we were just looking for food and supplies and passing through." She said trying to stay very calm.

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Kristin looked at the group as she thought about the food options, she was actually kind of craving some Burger King, she always did have a soft spot for their mozzarella sticks and their chicken fries as well to. "Well my vote is for Burger King if you guys want that." Kristin said as she watched Demi walking off into the distance and sighed, she had a feeling that it was more Aphrodite stuff or something since she had a thing for messing with Demi and Zeke's relationship and called out to him. "Just yell if you see a monster or something." Kristin told Demi as her attention turned to Janelle. "So what did you want to get Janelle?" Kristin asked her.

When Demi rounded the corner he would see Aphrodite standing there giving him a smile as she gently wrapped an arm around his shoulder. "So your father and I were talking, and he wants me to basically join his petty little war with his brothers. Which is sooooooo annoying, but anyway he offered an interesting proposal." Aphrodite said as she led him towards a nearby seat where a boy who looked around Demi's age he looked incredibly embarrassed seeing his mother bringing him a suitor. "Really mother you want me to marry a son of Zeus?" He said to her, as Aphrodite rolled her eyes slightly as she turned to Demi. "This is Alexios, son of Ares and yours truly, your betrothed." She said introducing her son to Demi.

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Nancy took in the information, hearing that the best option for her to get the burger her heart desired was to go about eight blocks or so to Burger King - and that they had four hours until they needed to get back on the train. Cassian seemed to be glitching, stammering about some sort of Damned Chariot. Nancy had never heard of whatever he was going on about, but it hardly sounded pleasant. Nancy raised an eyebrow. "What's your damage?" she couldn't help but ask him, against her better judgment. "Oh, I'm feeling totally rad," she told her half-brother, as he inquired.

"If I have to stand here another minute though, I will gag myself with a spoon," she complained. "Burger King sounds great to me. Do they still have the long buns there?" she asked. She hoped things hadn't changed too much, but she guessed that a fast food joint would stay more or less consistent. She gave Joanie a few scritches, hoping that her dragon might like some of the fries or burgers that they had at the joint. And she was somewhat hopeful Zeke would come with them as well.

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Leda was somewhat disappointed she was being given what looked like magic seaweed, and not magic weed. She could've gone for an edible or too. She'd never fought while high before and it sounded like it had the potential to be loads of fun. But she couldn't really be too disappointed - some magic seaweed letting her operate normally underwater, without having to cling to her girlfriend for magic bubble protection? That sounded pretty nice as well. Leda took the seaweed and swallowed it quickly, trying not to think too much about its taste - she already struggled when it came to eating veggies. "Sick, thanks," Leda said.

Sera had already run off with Hercules to go help with repairs, adorably explaining that she had put together a bookcase once. It was cute, seeing someone who had just really started the mad descent into the world of myths and legends - Leda didn't recall the last time she had done something just... completely normal. She had left that world behind when she started attending Camp Half-blood full time. "Guard duty's a bore, let's say we help out with the repairs, hmm luv?" Leda suggested, before heading off after where Sera and Herc had gone.

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Location: New York City

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Sera wondered if Cyclops' were good at construction but hey she'd find out soon enough by seeing what Hercules could do. "Oh huh kinda like cement!" She noticed how it was sand not well... whatever cement was made of. She knew it was a powdery material that got gloopy when wettened. The girl grabbed the tool for the sand cement mix and started putting globs of it where cracks and holes where. This was so much easier than making a bookshelf, plus it wasn't loud at all since hammering the back of the bookshelf was a horrible thing to do. Ugh banging sounds always startled her.

She was smoothing out the sand cement globs making sure it wasn't too lumpy against the coral barricade. The girl looked over when seeing Leda and Kiera had come to join them. "Look, I got this all done!" She showed off the section of coral that was fixed up. "I hope I did okay... it doesn't look bad does it?" The girl seemed to be at least opening up a bit more with talking to them.

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"I don't know babe, but I'm going to find out. Whatever it is, it can't be good." Demi responded before having made his way towards the Goddess. Waving his hand up in the air as he said goodbye to the group with his back turned towards them. His wave turned into a thumbs up in response to Kristin's suggestion to yell in case of a monster. "I was planning on doing that anyways." he muttered under his breath. Demetri was about to start yelling at the Goddess, asking her what the hell she wanted and why she had to keep pestering him. But before he could do any of that, she snaked an arm around his shoulders and began to lead him towards a bench. For a moment, the embarrassed looking boy caught Demi by surprise. He was exceedingly gorgeous, and it was almost as if beauty itself had been perfected. There was a split moment where he reminded him of Marco, and once Aphrodite introduced them, he knew why.

Demi's slight blush quickly faded back to pale skin when Alexios mentioned marriage, and Aphrodite echoed the sentiment. "Hold the phone! Marriage?! Betrothed?! I didn't agree to any of this! And wait did you say Ares and…but that would make him a…" The gears slowly turned in Demis mind, as he processed all of this with his jaw dropped. If anything the children of two gods made a god, and they needed one to vanquish the titan. He let out a massive sigh before pinching the bridge of his nose. "This is going to be really difficult to explain to my boyfriend. But…Alexios…is this really something you want?" He wanted to give him the choice, the option to back out. Something Demi didn't have. Hopefully he'd plan to stay on, help the quest, and slay a titan. Demi then turned to face Aphrodite. "I want no more interruptions from you. Got it?"

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Most of the others seemed to be focusing on Demi’s issue rather than their own. The excitement Cassian had slowly faded away as he once again felt like he was thrown by the wayside because of the child of Zeus. Great. What's more everyone seemed to be very gung-ho about Burger King, leaving him all alone on the Taco front, and everyone knew demi-gods couldn't go off it alone. Well everyone but Demi it seemed. Nancy was the only one to even acknowledge that he'd spoken, but as usual it was more of a critique than something helpful. "What's my-?" Cassian cut himself off before he got too heated, letting out a soothing breath before he continued.

"I can explain it in full at Burger King. But…I have no idea what in the world a long bun is. So…I don't know if they even carry that for you. But the rest of the menu I'm sure is relatively unchanged." He tried to answer in as leveled tone as possible. It was borderline apathetic. "Janelle, Kristin, and Nancy you guys can go up ahead if you'd like to. I'd offer but I already know where I stand and Nancy seems raring to go, Zeke most likely wants to wait for Demi and we have to move in threes so." It was annoying and a hassle, but sadly true. The best bet for trios right now was girls with girls and boys with boys. Janelle couldn't stand Zeke and Demi, Nancy couldn't stand him, and she clearly wanted to get going so…

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NO! Andy didn't care that Mads was trying to talk the kid down. She shocked the boy. He didn't let go of her. So she did it again and this time twisted pulling away from him.

"Do that again and I'll send you to meet Hades." Andy said glaring at the kid. "Now if you want to talk like normal people sure. But you don't sneak up and hold a dagger to people's throats. Especially if that person can zap you."

She crossed her arms and harumphed. She didn't care if it meant they had to leave without food. She didn't even care that he was wearing the classic orange shirt, which meant he was from camp. Andy didn't know him.




Taking a look around the room Niah sighed. "Alright I have to admit I don't want to sleep here. But food then we can discuss sleeping." She was really hungry at this point. Having not eaten since breakfast. If she saw a harpy again she'd probably just stab it.

Quests were done better with friends. She remembered the quest she had taken with Nancy and Mads ages ago. They hadn't been friends yet. But that quest had made them all very close. Would this quest make the three of them friends? She sighed and looked at the menu on the wall trying to decide what to eat.

There was already a line starting to from at the counter, so Niah joined it. She figured she could decide what to eat before she got to the front. And since she was starving she'd eat just about anything at this point.

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Janelle wasn't sure about what to do or them going around anywhere for food or something. She wasn't entirely sure what to do overly so with regards to that. Personally she didn't very much care what she had for food or anything, whatever worked out for her. The others were seemingly trying to decide on something, while Cassian was going on about other potential ways for them to head off places and move along faster to their destination. Personally she didn't know what it was that he was referring to but that wasn't too surprising to her.

Hearing Kristin directly ask her what she wanted for food, she just sort of shrugged a bit, "I dahn't really care what we do ahr anythin fahr food. I'm fine wit any o' de options," she ended up saying in response, not entirely sure what else to really say. Though it sounded like the others were leaning more towards burgers or something, which she was fine with. She just was hungry and was fine with really anything at this point.

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"De cafe sounds fine to me," Jason responded to the other two when Niah asked about it. Following the other two over to that area, he couldn't help but slightly agree with Niah about staying there or sleeping in the lounge area. Truthfully sleeping in a train station likely wouldn't have gone over all too well. Since stations were known to be loud and all usually, it likely wouldn't be too comfortable, but wouldn't really have been the first time that he had ended up sleeping for a few hours in a train station, since sometimes someone could be too tired to move around more to get to a hotel or something.

Jason looked at the other two as they entered the area. "I mean it could be wahrse, but if you all want to maybe try and sleep sahmewhere else dat's fine. But food is mahre impahrtant at dis point and 'ahpefully dis time we wahn't be thoroughly interroehpted," he said as he stepped into the line with Niah. He wasn't exactly sure what he wanted for food, but he had a little time to choose something.

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"I don't know... There always is a slight chance that someone might show up," she commented with regards to the using some of the food in the cabin. That was the part that struck her as a bit odd at this point, that being how the food was still viable and hadn't gone bad or anything like that. Which to her seemed to signal that the cabin was still actively in use, which also meant that the owner might come back at some point. Though she didn't know if it was the campers, since the odds of them still being around were kind of slim considering the landscape of the Labyrinth.

Of course, before she could say anything else, someone jumped out of seemingly nowhere and grabbed a hold of Andy. Who then proceeded to shock the guy into letting her go and she got away rather quickly from him. It took a second for her to recognize the person in front of them, considering the fact that it had been 3 years since she had last seen him or anyone else who had gone on that trip to the Labyrinth. She also figured she was the only person who might be recognizable to him though, so she instantly moved to be in between Madalyne, Andy and the guy. "Hold it, everyone needs to calm down there is no need for threats or attacks at all. Your Damon right? Son of Hephaestus? I remember you guys leaving camp 3 years ago when I was like, 14. I'm Marygold, daughter of Demeter, we're from the camp and on a quest. We're not going to hurt you or anything okay?" she could understand him being a bit hesitant to potentially trust them, seemed like he wasn't used to there being around a lot of people. She hoped that maybe he'd at least vaguely recognize her or something or at least see her as a familiar face of sorts.