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Demetri stood there, hands on his hips as he stared intently at Sunshine to do his thing. Which…apparently was flopping onto the floor and rolling to his side as he mowed for…something? He'd decided it was more than likely food. So Demi knelt down beside the cat, putting his hand near the edge of the Cornucopia as some dry cat food spilled out into his palm before he placed it on the food for Sunshine to eat, listening to Alexios as he spoke. His smile hardened, eyes now affixed to the cat as he decided the best course of action. ”While it would help immensely to have a god by our side, I can't ask that of you. We can't afford to lose any gods. Besides, I cannot order you to do something you don't want to do, so it's your decision not mine if you follow me into the pit.”

Nancy hadn't acknowledged his offer in the slightest. No doubt either moving through the motions to finish this sooner, or simply planning for ways to kick him out of the doors before he had a chance to help her. Her pride always seemed to get the better of her, and he needed her to know that there were Greeks willing to stand at her side as well. So, as Joanie began her flight and everyone began to follow, Demi stood back up, following behind until Zeke grabbed his arm to slow their gait. He expected this sort of reaction from both of them. But it still hurt Demi to hear him say it. ”Face the facts Z. If she goes you'll follow. You've made that dangerously clear to me already and I won't be left behind. Not again. You didn't choose to be demigods. We didn't choose this quest. But we can decide that as long as the three of us are together, none of us are gonna be alone. Demigods travel in three's. Damned what she says she won't go alone.”

Cassian watched in amazement as Aron and Anya took out the remainder of the players there. Letting out a small chuckle of amusement as he leaned against a partition. ”Nice shots. Looks like that's the last of them.” He said as he twirled his gun around his finger before holstering it once more. It appeared their little game of tag was done, and before Cassian could ask where to next, Aron had come up with an idea. Only fair, they played Skeeball for him, then laser tag for Anya, made sense to have Aron pick the next game. While Aron didn't have a specific thing in mind, he did have a certain location apparently.

”The basement? Alright, sounds cool. What kind of games do you think they have down there?” This place was huge, and the vast amount of games Cassian was seeing was more than he'd ever seen in a local arcade. Some he didn't even recognize. As they were about to head out, he heard Nancy calling out to him. Threatening him as usual. ”Hey! Nancy, my friends and I are going to head down to the basement! There's some wicked games down there apparently and we wanted to check them out. You guys wanna come? That's fine right Aron?”

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The others were seemingly becoming set on that course of action to go through the doors now and to go off and find the person who was now stuck in Tartarus. That certainly was an interesting development, and she just shrugged slightly when Kristin complimented her. "You can see dings around you, I can 'ear dings around me, naht dat beg o' a deal," she said as people started heading off to try and find Cassian.

She wasn't at all surprised that Cassian was very much mentally off the deep end so to speak right now, Nancy then proceeded to threaten with having her dragon set him on fire. "I could always just sahrt o' smack 'im in de face a few times, dat snapped Zeke out o' it befahre," she offered, though she was fine with Nancy lighting someone on fire for being stupid at this point now. They really didn't have time for this, at all.

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Jason wasn't sure what to expect when they got up closer to where they were heading. Which he still wasn't entirely certain where exactly they were going or what they were doing once there. Things weren't always super clear about that sort of thing, but he didn't say anything else with regards to what's going on, and just sort of followed along after the others. Heading up the trail, before eventually, they were interrupted by the howling of wolves, and others popping up near them

This was not something he expected, and hearing Niah's words about them made it a bit apparent she definitely knew these guys. Which was either a good thing or a bad thing, but based on the conversation it definitely seemed to be the latter. Great, now they were having to deal with this instead. They were likely heading for a fight, but not instantly it would seem, he just rested a hand on the hilt of his sword, waiting to see if they'd make a move first or not.

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More chaos was coming their way, so this was not something she exactly was too thrilled about. But it was to be expected. Actually Mary was surprised that it had taken this long for more chaos and monsters to show up. Werewolves could just be added to their list of problems and encounters on this quest. She wasn't entirely sure this was going to work out in their favor, and Niah's comment wasn't fully needed, especially after the werewolf explanation, but she didn't say anything.

"Well this is definitely going to be interesting," she muttered under her breath. Thankfully they were in a large area that had plenty of plant life and such she could more easily use her powers if she needed to. Which she was more then prepared to do that if need be, but she was fully prepared to go fight with her throwing knives, trying to keep them at a distance would be the best thing to do in a fight against the monsters here. She was more then ready to potentially fight if need be.

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San Fransico, Sierra Trail:

Lycaon gave Niah an evil smirk towards her knowing that he was getting under her skin, some of the wolves that surrounded them however seemed to be disinterested in fighting the group of Demigods, however the rest were still very much eager for a fight. They shifted into human forms, they all brandished either a celestial bronze weapon or an imperial gold weapon. They quickly charged forward towards the group of demigods. One of them managed to knock Jason down onto the ground with their weapon drawn at them and was about to bring it down on his head when a massive vine swung forward managing to knock the werewolf off of him and sent him flying into another one of it's allies.

Then another one managed to sneak up behind Stella and grabbed her lifting the young demigod up into the air, and attempted to run away with her towards the castle before them. One of them charged forward and tried to attack Andy but she was able to kill it instantly as the werewolf burst into monster dust. Mary would also end up getting hit with a sword giving her arm a nasty looking cut, while Lycaon stood back and watched the group fighting in front of him while smirking.

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"We'll bring up the rear." Kristin said as she looked at Janelle as she started to follow the group over towards where Cassian was letting Nancy's pet dragon lead the way. "I'll go in if you are then someone has to watch over my betrothed." Alexios said to Demi, he didn't want to leave him to find for himself in Tartarus and he didn't trust the rest of the group to keep him safe.

Anya and Aron both quickly tensed up when they noticed the rest of the demigods suddenly showing up. "Well shit.." Anya muttered to herself, only Nancy would quickly notice something was off with Cassian's two new companions. They both had flaming hair, and each had what looked like a donkey leg and another donkey like leg but this one was covered in celestial bronze, and they had wings. Nancy would know right away that they were Empousa a distant cousin to her friend Madalyne, creations that Trivia had made. Aron quickly grabbed Cassian and held him tightly against him he would slowly be dragged towards one of the doors leading out of the laser tag room.

Anya would suddenly teleport and would reappear inbetween Zeke and Demi they both would suddenly get a rather hard kick with the celestial bronze hoof knocking both demigods into a nearby wall denting the wall slightly. Anya would let out a hiss as Kristin quickly drew her spear out and tried to swing at her. "Why don't you attack your friends." She said to Kristin as she stopped mid swing, and turned to face Janelle and tried to swing her spear at Janelle but she would miss Kristin was charmspoken by Anya.

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The last thing that Madalyne remembered was being in the Labyrinth with Mary and her niece Andy and Damon a demigod that they bumped into during their time in there. They were fighting on a bridge on the way out before being grabbed by a monster by the neck and then feeling her neck snapping and everything going black. The next thing Madalyne found herself was in some kind of pod with some strange fluid around her. She could hear monsters outside of her pod, and then they broke it open and forced her out she would let out a loud scream and she quickly shapeshifted into her wolf form.

The monsters were suddenly distracted by a new voice and one of them was killed by a blast of rainbow light, using that time while they were distracted. Madalyne pounced on the closest monster sinking her teeth into the monster's neck before ripping it open and the monster turned into dust. The monsters quickly panicked now and the quickly fled leaving the two alone now, once they were out of sight Madalyne slowly started to shift back to normal.

Unlike Leda who came here fully clothed she was completely naked, she quickly looked around and found some tattered furs nearby from the monsters that they had killed and quickly got changed. Madalyne looked at her savior and quickly realized that it was one of the Greeks, the girlfriend of the daughter of Neptune she was somehow down here now. "Thanks for the save there." Madalyne said to Leda as she looked at her fellow demigod, and noticed that she was deathly pale looking. "How did you end up down here?" She asked Leda as far as she knew Leda was normal. She looked around and noticed some more tattered furs and handed them over to Leda, she could smell her well enough. "These should hopefully disguise you enough from the others down here." Madalyne told her.

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Ezekiel frowned while Demetri spoke as they walked. Demetri raised several good points, which didn’t make Zeke happy. He wanted his boyfriend safe. Away from this hellish nightmare, but Demi wanted to be by his side. The group approached Cassian, who was standing with two others. Zeke took Demi’s hand and squeezed it.
”I did promise not to leave you behind,” Zeke said. He smiled a little at Demetri, ignoring the god’s vow to follow Demetri wherever he went.
Movement caught Ezekiel’s eyes, and he looked over in time to see one of Cass’ buddies approach Demi and Zeke. ”Wha—.” Before Zeke even got a word out, he was kicked in the stomach and flung back. His back slammed into the wall, creating a whiplash scenario in his body. He dropped forward on the ground, landing on all fours and tried to catch his breath. Zeke wheezed in and out, struggling to gain air. Celestial bronze was no joke. Ezekiel’s bow materialized in his hand, and he pushed himself to his feet. ”Cassian, you have shitty taste in friends.”

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Stella had thought she had been ready for an attack, watching the werewolves move in around them. However, it seemed that she hadn't been ready for one to come from behind her, as it snuck in behind her and lifted her up from behind. "Put me down!" She cried out as the wolf turned to carry her off to the castle ahead of them. She swung wildly at that point, her first blow missing as she was more panic flailing at that point. She didn't want to be carried off and away, or worse. Could these things change her? Werewolves were real too, so what was to stop her from becoming one as well?

Arbor seemed to realize what was going on and chased after the wolf, snapping at the werewolf at that point. Stella could hear her pet and decided to swing again. This time the scythe hit, managing to land a pretty bad blow. The werewolf cried out in pain, dropping Stella, and dropping a bit, and presenting its neck to Arbor. The plant wolf took the chance, and dashed in and landed a strong bite on the werewolf's neck. With a painful yelp and cry, the werewolf vanished in a shower of gold dust, like any slayed monster. "Good boy." Stella reached over to brush some of the dust off of him before she dashed to join back with the others to help them.

Niah didn't care about the other werewolves. She went for Lycon. It seemed, since none of them had attacked her that it was a similar thought. A re-match. Too bad Nancy wasn't here to pop all their heads like the ones at the train stop. The memory gave her the strength she needed.

She drew her invisible sword and attacked Lycon. He was able to parry. The pair of them exchanged another attack and perry before Niah was able to land a blow. It wasn't big, it wouldn't be enough. She would have to continue to press the attack.

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Andy didn't know these were the werewolves that had doomed her aunt, which might have been a good thing. However, they were attacking so she had no scruples with attacking back. Unlike Arthur fighting had come more naturally for Andy, she wasn't afraid of it and didn't feel guilty when killing monsters.

The dust settled from the one who had attacked her and she turned her attention to the next one. Lightening striking near him, but missing. Chocolate took that as a cue though and attacked the werewolf too killing it. She was a little surprised. Up to this point he hadn't done much fighting maybe he didn't want to be shown up by Arbor.

Andy tried to hit another and it was the same, she missed the man but Chocolate went for the kill. She smiled. Even if she wasn't able to take the werewolves out at least Chocolate was doing a good job at it. She went for a third but both of them failed this time. Her lightening went wide and the werewolf seemed to have wisened up that the dog wasn't just for show.

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Demi hadn't responded to Alexios’ bravado. He didn't want the god to feel as though he needed to follow him into The Pits and back. Especially since if anything happened to him he'd have the gods of War and Love gunning for him and Zeke for allowing such a thing to happen. ”Then don't leave me behind.” Demi replied back to Zeke with a smile as he squeezed his hand. He was about to tell the others to knock it off, that Cassian was clearly heading to as well and may have found other stray demigods within the hotel. That is until he recognized one of the twins. Aron. ”You again?!” Was all Demi managed to get out before the other Empousa appeared between Zeke and himself and knocked them both back with one swift kick.

Air left his lungs as the wall dented behind him. Trying to regain his footing as his vision refocused and he saw Aron pulling Cassian away into another room. ”That guy and I have beef. Never seen you before though.” Demi said as he snapped his fingers and his earring shifted into a dagger coated in the flames of Hades himself. His other hand unsheathed one of the weapons gifted to him by his father Zeus. Lightning crackling around its bolt shaped blade. He threw his dagger wreathed in flames at Anya, having it fly past her harmlessly. That was fine, it was distraction enough for him as when she turned back to look at him he'd already closed the gap between the two, slicing her across the chest with his crackling sword. ”Touch my boyfriend again and I'll hang your head next to your brother's back at camp.”

He called his dagger to him, hoping it would embed itself into Anya's back on its return. Unfortunately it missed the mark again, flying past them all and getting stuck in the wall behind Demetri next to Zeke. ”Babe mind getting that free for me? I've got a score to settle.”

”Wait no guys, they're cool! They're with me.” Cassian called out to everyone before all hell broke loose. Why did his demigod friends have to be so aggro? Anya and Aron were chill and there was no need for any of this violence. He was about to step in between them all to stop the chaos, but he quickly felt someone press themselves against him from behind. No weapons were drawn nor lives threatened. Just him and Aron slowly making their way back to the darkened laser tag arena.

Cassian's heart fluttered a bit. Feeling him pressed so tightly to him has his stomach in knots, butterflies bursting inside of him. His cheeks reddened as he blushed at the thought before allowing himself to move in stride with Aron. ”If you wanted to get some alone time with me you just had to ask. No need for the whole show.”

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Well things seemed to be escalating with regards to everyone around her. She could tell that there were monsters that was starting to cause issues, but she didn't know what they were, but she could vaguely tell where they were. Then came apparently Kristin deciding to try and take a swing at her with her spear. "What de? Watch where you're swengin!" she said instantly to Kristin, not able to really tell that there was anything wrong with her, aside from the fact that she tried to attack her.

Deciding that she had enough of this, she decided to try to put the monsters asleep. Janelle was also aiming to put Cassian and Kristin asleep too, because Cassian was being stupid and Kristin had tried to attack her. Something had to be slightly disorienting or something to her, as despite Kristin being the closest, she missed her entirely. However she did hit the Empousa and Cassian, who all would slump to the ground sound asleep. She was hoping that she had managed to get everyone causing chaos for the time being anyway.

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Was it really that surprising that chaos erupted and the werewolves decided to start attacking them? Not really. He'd been expecting that and was a bit surprised that it took that long for the werewolves to actually attack them. He went to draw his sword before he got thrown backwards, and almost got stabbed before a vine shot out of nowhere and knocked the werewolf away from him. He couldn't exactly tell which person had actually done that (there were more then a few people who could have done that) and he got back up on his feet.

Drawing his sword, he instantly went straight for the nearest monster and took a swing at them. The sword didn't really connect too well against the werewolf. So Jason instantly went in for another attack, and the sword went straight through the monster this time, killing the thing and he took a step back, looking to see what other bits of chaos were happening around them.

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At least they all had been somewhat prepared for the inevitable fight that ensued. Mary was about to start throwing knives when one of the monsters decided to attack and strike at her with a sword, causing a nasty gash across her arm. "Well that was rude," she mumbled, as she looked at the werewolf that had decided to strike at her. The first thing she needed to do was put at least a little bit of distance between her and the creature.

Thinking nothing much of it, she put a little distance between them rather quickly as she drew forth a throwing knife and took aim. Clearly the gash on her arm wasn't helping her aim, as her first throw sort of just kind of grazed the werewolf instead of actually doing any damage. Mary instantly grabbed another knife, and threw it with much better accuracy now and managed to not instantly kill him, she did at least mortally wound the thing so it was going to die fairly soon, so that was something at least.

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Nancy tried to remind herself that they needed Cassian to come with them. It was a struggle.

He was clearly either under the Hotel's charms or under the sway of his own innate delusions, it was difficult to say. Or perhaps it was the influence of his friends - Empousai. Trivia's children. She tried not to look for traces of Mads in their faces, as one of them took Cassian hostage, backing away - the other then doing something to entrance Kristin. She tried not to have flashes of Mads' imagined death, of her resurrection in Tartarus as a monster, as her features morphed from her own until her hair was fire and her leg had shifted, until she looked exactly like the monsters before her. She really tried. She tried to only feel her anger, her rage, her hate - to shove aside all other emotions.

The fight had broken out quickly, everyone trading blows - and Janelle even managing to put some to sleep. Nancy called her imperial gold twin daggers to her hands, giving them a slight twirl before going in for blood.

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Leda raised an eyebrow, appraising Mads' temporary outfit. Had this been Drag Race, she would've been lip syncing tonight in her opinion. But she kept that comment to herself, making a mental note to tell Kiera later - and then it occurred to her... There wouldn't be a later. Her shoulders slumped slightly, as the weight of loss made itself known. She was dead. She'd died a hero's death, the glory she always had wanted and yet... all she really wanted was to be back at camp with Kiera, to have her girlfriend in her arms, safe and sound. She realized in that moment that she had never wanted to be a demigod, not really.

"Gross," Leda muttered, giving the furs Mads had passed her a sniff. But she didn't want to find out what happened when a ghost died in Tartarus, so she slipped them around herself, even as it made her want to gag. "I think I died? Not sure why I ended up here, Mum's got some explaining to do." She said it all casually, like she was remarking on the weather, and not trying to explain why a non-monster had died and gone to Tartarus. But it was the only way Leda knew how to cope with this - to just breathe and flow. "What about you? Rabid dog bit ya?"

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Lycaon looked at Niah and smirked as he was able to easily block or dodge Niah's attacks. "For a stinkin Roman you fighting certainly could use some help." He taunted her as he hit her with the pummel of his own weapon. There was a snaping sound and Niah would end up on the floor with a bloodied and broken nose he aimed the point of his own sword right at her neck and stared her down. "You should all surrender and just hand yourselves into the boss." He said while looking down at Niah and smirked at her a little bit. "Of course you could always join your friend." He told Niah. Lycaon was then hit with a large vine and he was quickly bound very tightly as Persephone approached while offering a hand for Niah. "Are you alright?" She asked her.

The remaining werewolves continued with their attacks, as one of them managed to take a swing at Stella's back leaving a rather nasty gash across her back. Another werewolf had ran up to Andy and managed hit her, then another werewolf managed to tackle Mary to the ground trying to choke her out. While the other one had managed to sneak up behind Jason and jumped onto his back using its weight to bring Jason down onto his stomach.

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The fighting had quickly stopped thanks to Janelle putting Kristin, Cassian, Anya and Aron to sleep, the four of them would collapse onto the ground and had fallen into a peaceful sleep. "Well that was certainly anticlimactic." Alexios said as he would lightly tap each of the sleeping people slightly with his foot. Alexios was kind of hoping for some more excitement Nancy was able to kill both of the Empousai without much issue at all.

Kristin would slowly start to wake up slightly letting out a slight groan, the charmspeak had quickly worn off the moment that Anya was killed, thanks to Nancy. "What happened?" Kristin asked slowly starting to sit up, her head was ringing slightly as she looked at the two monster dust piles. Cassian would be able to wake up now as well to, and the Lotus Flower effects would be gone for now as well to.
 

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Madalyne was slightly glad that she wasn't alone here now at least she had some company right now, though she did feel bad that Leda ended up dying and somehow ended up down here. "I died back in the Labyrinth by some monster while letting the others try and escape." Madalyne said to Leda, she really hoped that they could find a way to get out of here. "But yeah a werewolf bit me before the fall of New Rome." Madalyne said as she showed her the scar where she had been bitten very few people knew about her condition and she didn't mention it really to the others outside of the group of people she was closest to.

"We should try and find the Doors of Death that should be our only way out of here." Madalyne said, she remembered that two Greek demigods were able to somehow escape. But she couldn't really remember their names, she wanted to try and find Niah and Nancy again and she didn't want to be down here forever. "Shall we head on out?" Madalyne asked Leda.

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The bow in Ezekiel’s hand seemed useless as everyone quickly sprang into action. Demetri lunged into an offensive attack, surprising Zeke. Other than training at camp, Zeke had never seen Demetri in action before. Zeke wasn’t sure if he should be confused, turned on or disappointed. Demi's voice prompted Zeke back to the present, and he turned slightly, staring at the flaming dagger embedded in the wall.
”Uhhh….” Zeke was reasonably sure the god weapon would attack him if he touched it.
While Zeke debated touching the dagger, Janelle quickly put the demons to sleep along with a drugged Cassian and charmed Kristin. Clearly, there was some pent-up energy within the group for them to quickly take up the offensive. Nancy took her twin daggers and smoothly dispatched the enemies. Zeke watched his half-sister carefully before looking away.
”Quick thinking, Janelle,” he praised before looking at Demetri. Clearing his throat, Zeke turned and pulled the dagger out of the wall before handing it back to his boyfriend. ”I believe this belongs to you.”

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Stella had been riding a bit of the adrenaline high from killing that first werewolf that had grabbed her to notice the other one behind her. Maybe it was something about not really having any good combat training before leaving, but this was the second time an enemy got her back, but this time was worse. She let out a cry as the claw dug in and tore apart her flesh, leaving a nasty gash that was bleeding. She could barely remember that they had something that might fix that in their packs as the pain ran up and down her body. It stung and burned at the same time, and she could feel tears swelling up in her eyes.

Arbor turned and growled and lept at the werewolf that had just attacked his master. This attack landed with a minor bite to the werewolf's arm, causing him to reel a bit. Stella turned to face that same one and lunged forward, stabbing at the monster with another attack, which landed true. The werewolf disappeared with a howl and a poof of dust. Stella reached behind herself to feel her back and felt something sticky and warm and wobbled a bit. "That's...not...good..."

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Demetri was ready, blade in one hand as the other was in position to grab his other in the event Zeke couldn't get his dagger out of the wall. Lightning danced along its edge, illuminating the right side of his face before…everyone…just…fell asleep? His stance softened, his gaze turning towards Janelle with a stupefied look. What took him more by surprise was how quickly Nancy went to dispatching the two Empousi once they'd hit the ground. He stowed his blade back with the other before pouting and crossing his arms at the scene. ”You're telling me! I was ready to have a grudge match against that asshole. Worst bully I've had to date.” He said, answering Alexios’ remark on the matter.

When Demetri turned to look at Zeke, he saw a dumbfounded expression across his face. It was cute to be honest, and one of the many looks he enjoyed on his boyfriend. When Zeke handed him back his dagger, Demi took it in hand, pulling Zeke closer and pressing a kiss against his lips. ”Thanks Z. I really gotta get better at aiming that thing. The weight was thrown off a bit when it got enchanted by flames from Hades.” He said with a shrug as the dagger became an earring again and he placed it back on. He made his way over towards Cassian, grasping his hand as he helped lift him back up.

The fog began to lift from Cassian's head, his hands instinctively going for his eyes as he wiped away sleep from them. Bits of sand littered his hands as he yawned and stretched, only to find his hand now grabbed by another as he was lifted up off the ground. ”Awe man…I fell for a monster?” There was a deep sigh of disappointment from himself after he said it. Looking towards the others as he adjusted himself. ”Thanks.”

”Don't sweat it. I fell for the same monster. It's what he does. Lures you, entices you, gets you alone, then tries to kill you. Though it didn't end well for him last time so I can see why he panicked when he saw me again. Anyways, Onions you were charmed, Janelle had the quick thought to knock everyone out with a wave of sleep, and then Nancy finished it all off. Now we head down to the Doors.”

Cassian wasn't sure how to take any of the information that was just given to him. The idea that he'd fall for a monster let alone the same guy as Demetri Rowan Howell was just too much to process. He looked towards Zeke and wondered for a moment if he was his type before deciding that he didn't even care. He'd sooner date Alexios. ”Then let's move.”

"Never." Niah said gritting her teeth at Lycon. She didn't know how she'd get out of this, but she refused to surrender to him. Thankfully Persephone had stepped in. Niah sighed relieved and took her hand getting back to her feet. "Yeah, thanks for that." She didn't know if Persephone could get involved in this fight, but Niah figured she only would have if she could.

"Gonna help them now, you've got him?" She gave a head tilt indicating Lycon, before joining the fray. She went straight for the werewolf messing with Andy. She killed that werewolf and spun heading for the next nearest one. It gave her immense satisfaction to be killing these werewolves, she hoped that Lycon was watching. Another werewolf fell at the swipe of her sword. She noticed somewhat out of the corner of her eye that Andy was following close on her heels.

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Andy was reeling a bit from the werewolf that had suddenly attacked her. She was a bit off balance, but there was Niah behind the cloud of dust that fell. Niah, nodded at Andy once and moved on. Andy blinked a little stunned. She hadn't expected that. But she saw that Niah was heading for another werewolf. She followed after her, going to stab the next werewolf while it was distracted by Niah, but it didn't matter because Niah had already killed it and was moving on to the next one.

Andy got the feeling that Niah was pissed and taking out all her anger on these werewolves. She quickly figured out that it was probably these werewolves that had turned Mads. She followed again. This time getting in a jab with her knife on the werewolf and it turned to dust.

Chocolate jumped and bit another werewolf, it also dissolved. She was thankful for the little dog and hoped that Hellhounds were immune to becoming werewolves. She did not want to think of what that combination would be like.

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Janelle was just about done with all of the group for the most part with regards to them hoping to actually accomplish anything. The people around her seemed to not figure out the simplest of solutions, since sometimes outsmarting your opponents instead of charging in swinging was a better solution in her mind. So why did everyone constantly feel the need to go in swinging without thinking of what they were doing? Nope, because she was surrounded by morons for the most part.

"What 'appened is dat you decided to take a swing at me," Janelle muttered under her breath with regards to Kristin's question, before paying attention to what else was being said around her. Namely people referring to what she was doing as "quick thinking" which to her was a dumb way to talk about it. "Maybe if people actually used deir 'eads befahre fully chargin in if pahsseble ahthers might actually comb up wit decent ideas," she then said out loud to everyone else.

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Things were definitely going out of control with regards to the whole werewolf situation. They definitely seemed a bit out numbered and not doing too well with regards to things on their side of the fight. They kind of seemed to be losing a bit when the monsters decided to try and pounce on all of them. One of them had managed to knock him down to the ground having landed on his back, knocking him down to the ground, making this a really really bad situation.

Jason instantly moved onto trying to get the monster off of his back, and luckily managed to throw the thing off. He rolled over and back up onto his feet, grabbing his sword into his hand once again. Without a second thought he swung it and killed the werewolf quickly. Though he started looking for the closest monster to hack at if needed.

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Mary was trying to figure out the best way to figure out what was going on or what to do. They weren't doing the best with this fight and she personally just wanted it to be over. She was kind of just over with the leader sounding like he was being a bit cocky and trying to get underneath Niah's skin in general. Which was honestly was not seemingly making the situation either. Though he was clearly needing to shut up and stop with the whole villain monologuing really.

Then came the other issue of the other wolves deciding to pounce on everyone else. Which unfortunately included her as one tackled her to the ground and was trying to choke her. Mary tried to get out of the grip, but wasn't able to, so she switched to a different tactic of trying to summon up vines to toss him up. Her first attempt was not exactly working out for her, but her second attempt resulted in her managing to throw the monster off, allowing her to be able to get up off the ground.

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Nancy wiped the grime off of her daggers on her jeans, observing the scene with disinterest. This wasn't where she needed to be - it wasn't where she wanted to go. She needed to go find Mads now - before it was too late, before something else terrible happened. The clarity of that goal was the only thing she could afford to think about, as her daggers vanished from her hands, the magic items ready to be recalled when needed. "Greek incompetency," Nancy deadpanned as an answer to Kristin, when she asked what happened.

Everyone seemed fine. The party was together. So Nancy marched on ahead, focused on her task, focused on finding Mads and rescuing her. Her father was working on a cure, they'd be able to bring Mads back to them, adminster it, and she'd be free - free of this curse, free of all of this bullshit that the gods made them go through. Maybe they'd run away together, her and Niah and Mads, and leave all of this behind them. They hadn't chosen to be demigods.

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Leda raised an eyebrow, as Mads showed her the bite - a werewolf? It was a bit CW for her tastes, but she supposed it couldn't be helped. Some monsters had made it into the popular imagination, becoming a bit saturated - hell, there were even vampires that they had to contend with. "That really bloody sucks," Leda frowned. Out of their situations, Mads' one was admittedly worse - she was a monster, she'd be stuck in this vicious cycle of death and rebirth forever. At least Leda would get to kick back in Elysium for a little while, only going for rebirth when she felt like it.

But strangely, rebirth didn't... appeal to her the way she thought that it would. Maybe it was because she couldn't imagine being a baby right now when her girlfriend was an adult... Was Kiera still her girlfriend, now that she was dead? Did dying cancel out the relationship? She frowned. She had bigger problems to worry about, other things to do, but that still stung - the idea that it was over between them... That Kiera would move on and find someone else.

"Doors of Death, got it - and then a shower to get this stink off," Leda agreed. "Let's go."

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San Fransico, Sierra Trail:

The werewolves looked over at their leader seeing that he was all tied up by the goddess Persephone and they started to look at one another as they started to panic slightly. The goddess used the vines to completely wrap around Lycaon, until he was completely encased in them, and with a quick flick of her wrist the vines quickly tightened around the werewolf leader. There was a loud cry in pain and a few loud snapping sounds and then everything had gone quiet. Bits of tiny monster dust could be seen through very small openings in the vines, eventually the vines disappeared leaving a small pile of monster dust behind. "Retreat!" One of the wolves said, as they shifted back into their wolf forms and quickly fled into the woods. "Well that was easy." Damon said as he looked at the group before him. "Shall we move forward?" Persephone looked at the group as well satisfied that the threat had been dealt with.

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"Sorry that wasn't me in control.." Kristin said to Janelle as she looked at her for a moment as she rubbed the back of her neck slightly and stared at Nancy and gave her a slight glare for a moment. There wasn't a real easy way to avoid charmspeak unless you had something to cover your ears with that way you could avoid the effects of it. Alexios stared and glared at Zeke as Demi pulled him into a kiss as some more jealousy was visible from the god. "So how many ex boyfriends do you have?" Alexios asked looking over at Demi trying to get under Zeke's skin a little bit more.

"Lets just keep moving." Kristin said as she decided to follow shortly behind Nancy and headed down a flight of stairs that led down to a sublevel of the casino itself. It looked like it was mainly used for storage of some kind as Kristin looked around eventually came up to a set of double doors and tried to open it. Only to find that it was locked, she tried again this time with some more force, but she was able to finally break through the door.

"Well you all certainly took your time to get here." A familiar voice said as someone sat on a chair there were a few more monsters in the room more or less acting as extra guards the woman wearing a hood who eventually stood up and stared at Nancy, the hooded person took the hood off revealing that it was Leandra.

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Madalyne nodded slightly letting out a slight sigh as she covered up the scar once more, hopefully they would be able to get out of here alive. She was worried about Nancy, Niah as well as Andy she wanted to get back to the three of them she considered them all her family she knew that Nancy was probably living out her worse nightmare right now. "A shower would be great right about now honestly." Madalyne said to Leda, the air around them was so hot that she was constantly sweating.

The ground started to rumble Madalyne quickly paused as she quickly motioned for Leda to hide behind something luckily there was a large boulder in the way. Below them were several cyclopes talking amongst themselves then a loud roaring sound could be heard as a massive Drakon suddenly came out of the woodwork and charged the group of cyclopes that were there, some of them were quickly eaten. While some of the others were quickly set on fire by the drakon's firebreath turning them all into crispy fried cyclopes and were quickly eaten as well to.

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Stella could tell that the fight was still going on for the moment, until... that loud cry of pain and the shower of monster dust that had been the leader of the werewolves. The fight was quickly over at that, with the rest of the werewolves running off now that they lost their leader and pack alpha. She was thankful for that, as she wasn't sure if she could keep fighting right then and there at that point. She put her scythe away and winced a bit as her back was still aching a bit and bleeding.

"B...before we move on, uh... can I have a bit of that stuff that is suppose to heal me? I know we got a bit when we left and I can't... remember which is which." Stella could feel her back getting stickier, and she didn't even want to know how bad it was. Maybe she was making a bit of a mountain out of a molehill, but she had never really experienced anything like this before. She really wanted to make sure she was in the best condition, since there was another fight coming up, that was for sure.

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The effect of Demi’s kiss snapped Ezekiel out of his confusion. A lopsided grin formed as he watched Demetri walk away. Zeke looked round at the others, making sure they were okay. His gaze landed on Nancy. Ezekiel was worried about her mental state, but it was like adrenaline, in a way. If you slowed the person down too much, the reverse would happen, and they would either feel everything right away or slip into shock. Right now, Nancy’s instincts were to fight, and Zeke saw that as the better alternative to running or freezing.

Ezekiel felt eyes on him and shifted his attention back to Demetri and Cassain, the latter staring at Ezekiel. ”Like what you see, Rudenko?” Ezekiel smirked, resting his bow on his shoulder, in that “I don’t give a fuck” kind of way.

Now that they had the lovely Cassian back, Nancy marched on ahead, clearly ready to get on with the quest. Ezekiel dropped his arm and followed Nancy and Kristin. He looked at Demetri, indicating he should follow them. Zeke heard Alexios’ grating voice and Zeke rolled his eyes as they walked. ”I really don’t think this is the best time to discuss past lovers. Maybe wait to ask on the honeymoon, ya?” Nancy’s armour may have been fighting now, breakdown later, but Zeke’s was sarcasm times a thousand.

They reached the Doors of Death, and honestly, they were a letdown. Ezekiel was expecting some sort of riddle three that needed to be solved or a spooky green light with fog rolling out from underneath the door. Instead, it just looked like a typical set of banquet room doors. Kristin managed to heave the doors open. What greeted the group on the other side had the surprise effect Ezekiel initially sought.

”Leandra? What the actual fuck?” Zeke remembered Leandra's trial with the Romans only because they had refused to meet with the Greeks until they had completed their business with her. It was the first fight he and Nancy had gotten into because Zeke was somehow the liaison between Romans and Greeks. After that, though, Nancy and Zeke’s relationship started to build, and he got some tea on Leandra.

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Demetri halted in his steps as Janelle spoke. At this point in the quest her voice was grating to him. It wasn't a particularly bad voice, if anything he lived the accent, but her contact criticism of others was driving him up a wall. ”Maybe you could use your head to see that this isn't the time to pick fights with teammates. Besides, you can't help being charmspoken, we weren't prepared for it, and clearly that's eating away at Kristin so lay off.” He'd've shot off a remark to Nancy too, but she was still grieving, and being a bitch was clearly part of her process. He kept walking once more, sparing a glance at Zeke as he teased Cassian. ”Of Course he likes what he sees, you'd have to be an idiot not to.” He was about to say ‘blind’ but clearly even they fell for Zeke.

”Nonsense Z! This is the best time to talk about my exes. Let's see, I didn't date that guy. I meant he was the worst to date as in to this day not as in a romantic way. Although, that asshole did pretend to like me and lured me out into the woods for what was supposed to be a hot make-out session but as soon as we were alone he kicked me in the stomach and began his attempts to kill me. Not exactly how I thought third base was going to go. My first boyfriend…well he had a smoking body, lean, blonde hair and amazing blue eyes. His name was Zeke, well it still is Zeke technically. Funny enough he was also my first kiss, as well as…well you shouldn't really be thinking about the other stuff now, it's uncouth.” Demi shot a wink at Zeke and by then they'd reached the doors. Or at least the doors to the Doors. What he didn't expect to see was Leandra, his Roman escort back during the war.

To say things were both tense and awkward was a massive understatement. It was as if everyone had a proverbial dagger at each other's throats for one reason or another. Janelle at Demi and Zeke for the whole dating situation, as well as at Kristin now for the accidental attack via charmspeak. Nancy hated every Greek that wasn't Zeke and was on such a roller-coaster that he couldn't tell where her next stop was. Demetri seemed to share that tension back around Janelle, either for attempting to be the other woman or her general behavior he didn't know. It was rough, and this quest looked like it might break them.

For that reason alone he'd chosen to remain silent. He didn't need to quip back with Zeke or try to calm down Janelle. He didn't need to chastise Nancy or even Demi for the way they were speaking. No, he wanted to be invisible for the first time in his life. To blend in and move forward until the job was done. That is, until they reached their destination. He saw someone he felt he may have seen at camp, the name certainly rang a bell but so much happened when the Roman's arrived that he hardly kept track of it all, especially with how hostil Nancy was from the start. So he drew his bow, an arrow poised at the woman's throat incase she decided to fight them.