With a snap of bone, the fight was over. Persephone had killed the werewolf leader and the other ran away. Niah smiled, it was a satisfied grin. However, it faded quickly. Now that asshole was in Tartus. He probably would see Mads soon. She shook her head and then turned to the group. "I'm ready-" She cut herself off at Stella's question. She turned her attention to Stella and saw how badly the young girl was doing. Niah's stomach clenched, had Stella been bitten and she hadn't seen?

Andy reached into her bag and pulled out a first aid kit. "Here, my brother put this together for me. I don't know what all is in it, but it might help." She offered, Naih took it from her and opened the box.

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After handing the box to Niah, Andy stepped back. She didn't know first aid, so she just watched as Niah set about to help Stella out.

"Let me see your back, please." Niah said. Andy wondered why Niah wasn't just giving Stella a piece of Ambrosia. Stella moved so that Niah could start examining her back. Niah's hands were shaking as she looked over the other girl's back and because of that she dropped a few items. It took her a moment to gather her wits about her. Andy was nervous for Niah (and Stella). Niah was clearly shaken.

Once Niah had cleaned up Stella's back and then given her some of the Ambrosia. Stella was much better off. Andy let out a little sigh of relief and looked at the others checking to make sure they were all okay too.

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She just shook her head in the direction of Demetri's voice, "Actually if you paid attention towards anythin it wasn't really addressed towards 'er, dough I dedn't know dat's what 'appen sence I can't see what 'appened! I just 'eard and could tell dere were sahme attempts at fightin, and sahmeone swengin at me, none o' whech were successful. De cahmment was mahre towards those who instantly decided to start swengin wethout care, whech frahm de sounds o' it would actually 'ave ended up bein you. So de cahmment was mahre towards you den anyone if you are takin such great ahffense to it."

She was basically completely done with Demetri clearly not getting how to actually pay attention. How was she supposed to know half of what he said? All she knew was that someone, which she figured was Kristin only from the comments she made and the fact that she was somewhat close by to her. Otherwise there was no way for her to know that is what happened to Kristin at all.

Janelle wasn't even entirely sure where it was they were going, but she figured they were heading to the basement, reaching the area they were supposed to go she figured, there was the sound of someone talking, and it wasn't necessarily a voice that she recognized, maybe but she wasn't sure entirely, though it sounded like others were familiar with the person, even if she herself wasn't for an instant. Though whoever it was being there was definitely not a good thing.

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Well that was over with now, thankfully. The werewolves had all taken off and the leader was now turned to dust, which meant they could probably go onwards again without worry for a few minutes. But they probably shouldn't be rushing too fast since a few people had some injuries that they needed to deal with first, so he was perfectly fine with them waiting a few minutes to move on past this area.

"Was a bit anticlimactic, seemed like at the beginning of the fight it would have ended after a little bit more, not that I'm complaining because those things were annoying," Jason agreed with Damon, looking at the others as Niah was treating the injuries on the two who had seemingly asked for it. They hadn't even reached their goal yet and they were running into issues and monsters left and right, this was definitely going to continue to be a long quest.

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She was just glad that the whole situation was over, werewolves were no joke, and if she had to guess, it would have been only a matter of time before someone potentially got turned by one. That would not have been a good thing and would have resulted in bigger issues then what they already had to deal with. Definitely made things interesting for a quest, but still wasn't a good thing for survival and other issues they had to deal with, since she really didn't want to deal with anyone else dying.

Walking over to where Niah was with the two younger ones, she turned to look at Andy and Stella, "Are you two okay?" she asked them, though she herself still had the nasty cut on her own arm. She was more concerned about the two younger ones. Her own cut was a bit painful, but she just hoped that the two of them were alright now that their injuries were dealt with. Which was a good thing, since they probably should get going from here, since the fight likely caused some noise and who knew when another group of monsters would show up to attack them.

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Nancy reacted on pure instinct as the hooded figure at the door, surrounded by monster guards, came up to her, removing their hood. Of course it was fucking Leandra. She summoned her daggers to her hands and shoved Leandra up against the wall, pressing one of her blades to her throat. "Don't move," Nancy hissed, her eyes ablaze with fury. She was sick and tired of Leandra, and of course she was here - of course she was working with the enemy, was working against them, she probably fucking cheered when Mads died. Before her eyes, Nancy saw Leandra's face twist into a hideous sneer, as Nancy moved her other dagger to Leandra's midsection - to keep her pinned, to make her threat clear, that any action at all would result in death.

Leandra pushed her hand away.

Nancy slit her throat without a second thought.

Her fellow demigod's blood spilled out - not the first blood she had spilled in the Lotus Hotel, as her mind unwillingly flashed back to that night, to that scene, to that horror. Nancy was soaked in Leandra's blood, and as Leandra gasped out her last, struggling to live, struggling to breathe, Nancy finished the job - she finished her and let the body drop to the ground, her hands shaking, her body cold, as she was simultaneously there and far away - in this moment and not, present and absent. Her ears were ringing and the room was spinning before her, and she felt violently ill, she felt like she couldn't breathe, like her throat had been the one that had been cut, like - like - like....

Like it had done nothing to dim her rage, nothing to quench her fury.

Nancy's gaze then shifted to the monsters, her eyes darting around erratically as she settled into a crouch.

"Who's next?" she murmured.

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Leda nodded, quickly hiding behind the boulder with Mads. She didn't have her sword on her, and while rainbows could be powerful, they weren't always the most effective thing. She wasn't even sure how it would work, killing a monster down here - would they just reform right in front of them? Or would they reform elsewhere in the Pit? No, the smarter play was to do what she hadn't done when she was alive - to learn from that and hide and wait and watch. If she was going to make it to the Underworld proper, she'd have to survive this. Madalyne would have to survive this as well, clawing her way to the surface.

Her heart ached slightly as she saw the cyclopses - she wondered how Hercules was feeling. She didn't like that he thought of her as a mother, it was incredibly annoying, but she also didn't want him traumatized over her death. Kiera was definitely traumatized about it. She didn't want her girlfriend to cry for her, but she had to admit, it was a little bit nice to know she was missed - to know that she mattered that much.

She didn't dare speak as out of nowhere, a drakon appeared, roasting and eating the cyclopses below.

Leda really hoped they wouldn't have to fight that thing.

She didn't know how fast she could run as a ghost.

And she didn't know how fast a drakon could chase them either.

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Persephone approached Mary as she looked at her. "May I take a look?" She asked her, whenever Mary did she looked at the wound, it didn't look that bad. For a mortal she would have needed some stitches, but luckily they had a goddess on hand she started to will a vine to come to life in her hand, and gently held it over Mary's wound. It started to wrap over the wound she gave Mary a friendly smile as a flower or two popped out of the vines.

"The vine will heal your wound just take it off in a few hours and it should be fully healed." She told Mary as she looked over at Jason and Damon. "Do either of you two need any injuries tended to?" She asked them as Damon shook his head slightly. "I'm good thank you for the offer though." Damon said as Persephone turned to look at Jason. "We should move out once everyone is patched up." Damon however did tell the group.

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Kristin quickly drew out her spear and before she could even do anything she watched as Nancy quickly took action and killed her fellow demigod, ruining any chance that they had for any kind of answers. "Leandra one of the Romans who was apparently a traitor or something was here and Nancy just killed her." Kristin said to Janelle she could feel the tenseness of the air in the room waiting for something to happen. Some of the monsters quickly drew out their weapons all of them glaring at Nancy, however theu didn't attack just yet.

Leandra's lifeless body was now on the ground, however something weird started to happen, as Leandra slowly started to raise herself from the dead blood covered her clothes and body, as she glared at Nancy. Leandra cracked her neck and stared at Nancy as she quickly charged behind Nancy and knocked the girl onto the ground, drawing out her own imperial gold weapon at Nancy's throat. "Wow and here I wanted to have a civil conversation with you, and an offer to bring your friend back. I'm honestly still surprised that they gave you title of Preator." Leandra said pointing the knife at her throat.

She looked at one of the monsters and did a quick gesture, as the monster quickly charged at Cassian and grabbed the demigod and threw him across the room and through the Doors of Death and they quickly shut and locked behind him. "And don't worry your other friend that was tossed in there will be okay, so long as you all do what I say." Leandra said smiling down at Nancy, she looked at the rest of the group daring them to attack.

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Madalyne watched as the Drakon took its time to eat it's meal of cyclops, it took a moment to pause and started to sniff around the air however it didn't pick up their scent at all luckily for them. Once the Drakon had finished it's meal it started to wander off the ground shook with every step it made. As it got further and further away from them the ground shaking started to lessen until it was completely gone. "Well at least it didn't smell us or anything." Madalyne said to Leda as she started to get up from where they were hiding and started to look around and approached the area where the Drakon had been moments ago.

She honestly had no clue where to even go or where the Doors of Death even were, she really didn't know what time it was at all really either. "We should find a safe place and try to figure out a proper plan to get out of here, and maybe get some rest or something to." She told Leda as she started to head out again and started to look around the area trying to find a suitable location to hide. After a few minutes of searching Madalyne managed to find a cave that they could use for shelter. "Here that should do." Madalyne said as she walked over towards the cave, luckily the gave wasn't that big and it looked like it hadn't been used in a long time as well to.

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Stella was glad that someone had heard her asking for help, and when Niah came over, she did as she was instructed. She did wince a bit as the wound was cleaned up, but that was normal, as it stung. Thankfully that was over quickly and she was munching on the ambrosia piece. It reminded her of her otou-san's miso soup, the one he made every day for her and her father. The one she remembered having for every time she had been ill or had a sore throat. It made her miss her father's even more painfully in that moment, and she had to blink away tears.

"Thank you Niah, that feels loads better. And thank you Andy for the supplies." Stella stretched a bit, her back feeling much better, and the wound having healed up, no longer causing her issues or bleeding. Sure, her shirt was ruined, but that was alright for the moment. They did need to get moving. "I'm ready when everyone else is. Thank you for waiting."

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Zeke winced when Demetri snapped back at Janelle. He really wished this group could just set their egos aside and get along. Ironic because Zeke hated Alexios. But that was completely different. For example, Ezekiel hated that Demetri had just given in to Alexios and started talking about his exes. Truthfully, Zeke was curious, but now really wasn’t the best time. It was interesting to know that the Empousa had tried to kill Demetri that way. Then there was this other ex who sounded like another Greek God. Zeke frowned, trying not to let it affect him. His name was Zeke. Ezekiel’s jealousy quickly deflated, and he looked at Demetri. Who, of course, kept going. Ezekiel started to blush and rubbed the back of his neck uncomfortably.

Leandra being present was not something Ezekiel had planned for, but before anyone else could say or do anything, Nancy charged in and made quick work of killing her. Ezekiel swallowed, the sound loud in his ears. He shifted his feet uncomfortably. Wherever Nancy went, she wasn’t really present anymore. Zeke knew he should try to get through to her, to bring her back, but he didn’t move to. They needed her. They needed the killer.
Ezekiel tried to distract his mind by focusing on the other monsters in the room, but then something straight out of a zombie movie started to happen. Ezekiel’s eyes widened as he watched Leandra come back to life and get the upper hand on Nancy. Zeke shifted the bow in his hand, standing closer to Demetri. Cassian got tossed through the doors, leaving the rest of them to deal with Leandra and her cronies. Ezekiel kept his eyes on the monsters.

”Nanc…” By saying her name, Ezekiel tried to attempt to remind Nancy she had control, that she was in charge here, and that they were all here to help. Leandra was using Mads against Nancy at the moment. Ezekiel could empathise with how he might feel if he were Nancy in this situation, and it was Kristin who had been killed, or Nancy, or Demi, or Janelle, hell, even Leda. Who else would he harass at camp and would make him eat shit if it wasn’t Leda?

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Nancy's eyes widened, in a mixture of horror and rage and a tiny fraction of relief as Leandra's body knit itself back together, as the corpse rose, filled with life once more. Her blood boiled as Leandra gained the upper hand, their positions reversed as the zombie held a knife to her throat, as the monsters shoved Cassian - fucking grody ass Cassian - through the Doors of Death. She hated the way that Leandra smiled at her, briefly imagining knocking out all of her teeth, or better yet, prying them out. She would find new ways to make Leandra suffer.

Especially as Leandra held Mads before her like a bait, like temptation.

Especially as Zeke softly said her name.

Nancy inhaled deeply.

"Nothing you can say is worth shit to me," Nancy snapped. "Nothing you can do is worth shit to me. You're just a sad little powerless puppet doing your best to make other people miserable - but guess what? You're nothing. To anyone. No one is going to remember you, no one is going to sing little songs about Cupid's fucked up daughter, no one. Not even the rats that will eat your spleen as you rot in a dumpster like the trash you care."

"So you can go fuck yourself." Nancy then spit in Leandra's face.

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Leda let out a slight sigh of relief as the drakon wandered away, its movement shaking the ground. They were safe - for now, at least. But she was still plagued by questions, by worries about what would happen if they were to be hurt here, if she could die a second time. As a demigod, she had always been comforted by the fact that she knew what would happen when she died - she knew that she would end up here in the Underworld, that she could be given the rewards heroes deserved. She didn't know what would happen now though, that safety, that security was gone. In its place was fear.

"Can ghosts even rest, y'know?" Leda said, as they made their way into a cave of sorts, not too large and clearly disused. It'd be an okay spot to take shelter, and it didn't seem like any other monsters lived there. Well. She supposed monsters weren't in a huge habit of living in Tartarus anyways, likely shambling along to try to reform, to come back to the mortal realm to find more demigods to terrorize. "Or what's to happen if you die, eh? Do you vanish? Or... will you just stay right where you are, since monsters respawn here?"

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Demetri didn't have time to respond to Janelle's comment. He wasn't even sure if he was going to in the first place, but regardless of that fact, all words died upon his tongue at what happened next. Leandra was sat before them, and without so much as a word, Nancy ran over and slit her throat in cold blood. He watched as her body hit the floor, lifeless, blood pooling out. She just wanted to talk. They could've been civil. He felt shaken, his legs were like gelatin, his hands trembled slightly at the sight. It was one think to act against a monster, they respawned, and hell most of them attacked with the intent to kill. But one of their own? A demigod that had shown him nothing but kindness? Leandra mentioned that Nancy was a bitch and disliked her, but enough to kill her? His eyes were wide, horror numbing him at the events that had unfolded. He couldn't even react enough to draw a weapon.

Then, like something out of a horror movie, she rose again. There was a loud snapping sound before Demi screeched like a girl. A high pitched sound rang out as he pointed at Leandras bloody body that now stood. ”Zombie Demigod! Zombie Demigod!” Another monster moved, grabbing Cassian and tossing him like a ragdoll into the Doors of Death before they closed. They'd already lost a companion, Leandra was holding Nancy at knifepoint, and everyone else seemed too stunned to act. He didn't want to see anymore bloodshed. Any more deaths. ”We're supposed to be a team dammit! Demigods should stand alongside each other, not against!” He yelled as he charged forward, leaping mid-air and shifting into a large constrictor. His tail end wrapping around Leandra’s arm and wrist to stop blood flow and hopefully have her drop the Dagger, his torso ensnaring her other arm and pinning it to her side as he wrapped around her body and his faced hissed near her neck. How did things get so fucked up? They were friends…weren't they?

Niah patted Stella gently on the shoulder. "You're welcome." She handed the box back to a nodding Andy who stuffed the box back into her bag. "I am ready." Niah started walking again. Leading the way up the hill.

It had only been a few days since they had left Camp Half-Blood, and in that time Niah's little group had dealt with a few monsters, but it had been peaceful for a while on the train. Those hours fell away and Niah drew herself together. She had to keep it together.

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Andy followed in Niah's footsteps, still clutching the sword. It was a good thing camp encouraged a lot of physical activity because this hike would have been too much otherwise. She was hungry, unsure of the last time she had eaten, sometime in the Labyrinth. Before things had gotten bad. She wished she had some snacks on her.

"Oh, hey, I'm sorry I don't remember what your quest was." She said finally breaking her silence. She knew what her quest was, to get the sword from the Labyrinth. But other than that she didn't remember what anyone else was doing. Andy knew that Arthur had gone to the sea and Nancy had gone to the Lotus Hotel, however, she didn't remember what the quests were in specific.

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"Lets get going then." Persephone said as she started to follow shortly behind Niah up the hill where they were in front of the massive structure that was Mount Othrys, there weren't any monsters waiting for them just yet but the goddess continued to move forward and headed into the building that was just below the mountain itself. The hallway was pretty dark the group would hear what sounded like wind or something along those lines.

Eventually they were led into a rather large room at the center of the room itself Niah would instantly recongnize that it was the god Terminus the God of Boundaries in New Rome. He was on his knees holding up the weight of the sky itself, and just behind him was a man wearing a rather fancy looking suit sitting on the throne of the Titans in his hand he was holding Zeus' Master Bolt. "What brings you all here?" Said the Titan Atlas as he stood up glaring at the goddess and the group of demigods before him.

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Kristin was still a little bit stunned as the monster tossed Cassian through the doors, but she quickly snapped out of it as the monsters quickly sprung into action and charged forward, a cyclops managed to punch her knocking her backwards and into a wall. She groaned slightly as Kristin slowly started to stand up again drawing out her spear and charged forward managing to stab her attacker killing it instantly. Another cyclops ran up to Zeke and knocking him down onto the ground and swung its massive club at him, hitting him in the stomach, breaking a rib or two. And then a third monster charged forward hitting Janelle with it's club as well knocking her back with a rather loud thud hitting her head slightly causing it to bleed.

The god Alexios was jumped by three cyclops as they attacked him knocking the god back slightly but he managed to get up and took the three out with ease. "You really are hurting my feelings, and some friend you are condemning her to the fate of being trapped in Tartarus." Leandra said and she started growling noise as Demi decided to wrap around her body restraining her, luckily for Nancy she would be able to disarm the traitor and use her own knife against her cutting her side slightly.

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Madalyne thought for a moment, she was a daughter of Trivia however she didn't have any of the abilities of necromancy or the control of the undead and ghosts like some of her other siblings had. She wasn't sure what would happen in Leda's position as she reached over to gently touch her shoulder. She was physical to the touch and she did kill some of the monsters that were harassing her when she woke up, which was slightly interesting. "I honestly don't know, like how do you feel?" Madalyne asked Leda, when she asked her what would happen if she herself would die in here.

"I'm pretty sure i'm alive again, if I were to be killed i'd probably just rise again somewhere else in thus cursed place." Madalyne said as she leaned forward and looked down at the ground for a moment. She started to think for a moment as she looked at Leda getting a slight idea. "You can do that Iris Message thing right?" Madalyne asked knowing that the Greeks tended to use the Iris Messaging system for communications a lot. "We could try and send a message out somehow that way possibly it might be a bit of a far shot though.." Madalyne suggested, if they could get some kind of message out they can tell their friends and loved ones that they were okay somehow.

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She didn't say anything more with regards to the chaos or whatever that was happening. Janelle was pretty certain that any interactions she had with Leandra (if any) had been kept to a minimum, so she didn't fully care who it was that was working with the monsters. All she seemed to know was that Leandra was a bit insane it would seem, and apparently Demetri had been friends with her at one point from the sounds of it. Go figure he'd be friends with the crazy person working with the monsters who also had thrown Cassian behind the door.

There wasn't eovbmuch time for her to comment or say anything about it before she got thrown backwards and disoriented slightly from it. She moved her hand to her head and felt a little bit of blood there coming from an injury, it took her a moment to reorient herself as she got up off the ground, and now she had time to comment about something. "O' course Demetri is friends wit de crazy demigahd, what else is new," she muttered as the fighting seemed to cease a bit at the moment.

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Jason just sort of waved off Persephone when she asked him if he was alright. During the fight he hadn't actually gotten really injured or anything, so he was perfectly fine with moving on to get going. The others seemed to be doing alright now with the healing and all, so they should probably get moving. At least that's what he thought about it after all.

Getting to the building at the base of the mountain, he wasn't entirely sure what to really expect after all. Though seeing some people he didn't instantly recognize there. It was a weird sight to him to see, and the one guy who had what was obviously Zeus' lightning bolt in his hands asking what they were doing, and now that was not a question he was sure he really wanted to answer.

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Mary gave Persephone a slight smile, "Thank you," she said, before turning to look at the rest of the group. "I'm all for heading out," she commented to the others. Eventually she was glad that they were all heading off to continue onwards to their quest. Or well, at least the quest for the other three. She and Andy had already accomplished their own goal of getting the sword. This quest was mainly for the other three to accomplish, at this point they were just tagging along.

The room that the eventually entered was a rather large one, she didn't necessarily recognize the person who was now literally holding up the world, but it didn't take much to figure out who the person was holding Zeus' lightning bolt and sitting on the throne there. "Aren't you supposed to be the one with the weight of the world on your back?" she said to Atlas, wondering how this whole situation was going to go.

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"So, our quest, if I remember right is: 'To find the bolt, the child of the flower, war and oaths, one must save the God of Boundaries, carrying the weight of the sky in the seat of power of the titans.' So uh..." They had reached the Mountain, and the building in front of them. It was a rather imposing building, and Stella didn't like the feeling coming from it. As they entered the building it was dark, and cold. Stella reached down to pet her little wolf, as he didn't seem to like it inside there as well. They entered the large room and the scene inside sent chills up and down her spine.

There were two men in the room that drew her eyes first. One was pinned by what looked liked the sky, crushed by the weight of the sky. The other was the man in the suit, looking smug and holding a crackling bolt of lightning. If the quest was right, the guy being pinned was the God of Boundaries, and the one in the throne was the Titan, Atlas. Either her, Jason, or Niah would have to hold up the sky to free the God, if the prophecy was right. "Oh boy... this isn't good."

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Nancy's rage increased exponentially, as Leandra dared to accuse her of being a bad friend to Mads, as if she wasn't doing everything she could to help Mads, to get her back. She disarmed Leandra quickly - Leandra had always been a shitty fighter, and it helped that Demetri, having come to his senses, had turned into a snake and partially constricted her. "I'm done listening to you," Nancy spat, before grabbing Leandra's tongue in her hand, and severing it with her dagger. "You're never going to dirty her name with your disgusting mouth, you goddamn mega bitch."

She held the tongue in her hand, even as the blood trickled from it, and she turned her attention to the monsters. She whistled, trying to find the right pitch, the right frequency. She tried to build that resonance, to explode their brains from the sound - and at first, she was struggling to focus, struggling to find the right note for violence, but then she found it. Three of the remaining five monsters exploded into dust and gore.

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"Normal, I think?" Leda said with a shrug. She wasn't really sure how being dead was supposed to feel like - she felt pretty much the same, although she assumed that she didn't need to breathe or eat or drink or anything anymore. She probably didn't need to sleep either. She was free to just sorta vibe for the rest of time. It had sounded nice in life, the idea that she could just chill like a hero in Elysium, that she could have parties and all the food and drink she wanted and rest on her laurels. But now, in Tartarus, it all seemed empty - faded and lackluster.

"Yeah, I can give Mum a ring," Leda said, before immediately settling on a person to call. She held her hand out in front of her, summoning up a soft beam of rainbow light. She didn't have a drachma or anything on her, nothing to offer Iris as an offering, but hopefully... Hopefully her mother would be kind. Hopefully she'd do this much for her. She had just died after all.

"Mum, I owe you a drachma," Leda said. "Would you mind putting Kiera on? She's probably at her dad's place right now."

She waited, anxious for a moment, before the rainbow rippled - and a grainy image of Kiera came on through. "Kiera! Luv, it's me! It's Leda! Can you hear me? I didn't have any change to offer Mum, hopefully the quality's not too bad..."

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Ezekiel felt for his boyfriend after Demetri screamed and shifted to try and stop Leandra, but also get everyone to get along. Unfortunately, the lure of power always beats out friendships. Besides, friendship didn’t mean much to the gods. They were a jealous bunch, and one always demanded to be above the other.
Ezekiel didn’t get time to try, and talk to Demetri or help Nancy. He saw something flash and turned his head in time for a Cyclops to knock him down, then hit his torso with a club. Ezekiel grunted from the force and winced. The familiar feeling of broken ribs greeted him. Ezekiel rolled to his side, ignoring the blinding flash of pain from sudden movements. He strung an arrow and pulled back on his bow, aiming an arrow for the Cyclops eye and released.

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Demi hissed towards Janelle as she insulted the memory of his friendship with Leandra. Not that she'd know given that she was blind. Ofcourse she would think something like that, but the truth of the matter was, Demetri tried to make friends with everyone. Really the only person he had been at constant ends with was Zeke, but all of that was just antagonistic nature that he'd inadvertently let out because he couldn't control his feelings about how he'd actually felt about Zeke. Now that all of that was settled, they were together and for a while he'd had no real enemies, but Janelle was proving to test that theory and Nancy was constantly trying to throw his friendship back into his face.

Rage bubbled inside of him at the thought of it all. The only three kind Roman's he had met and each one abandoned him in one way or another. Marco and Em were off to live their lives, Leandra had vanished from the camp only to come back as a monster zombie thing that he still couldn't get his head around. Even Zeke had felt distant since the mission began and his sister slipped away. It felt as though he was doomed to lose everyone he cared about. His grip only tightened on Leandra, hoping to keep her from attacking Nancy, even if she was parading around with her to guess in her hand.

The farther into the hall, Niah got, the more nervous she got. Upon seeing Terminus she tensed. She wanted to run to him and help right away. She liked the god. He was a stickler for the rules and had always been good at his job. Niah glared at Atlas.

"What do you think brought us here?" Niah said, irritation carried deeply in her tone. "Let's do this the easy way Atlas. Give us the bolt, you take back up the weight of the sky, and let Terminus go. We can walk away if you do that." She didn't expect the Titan to take the offer. But she felt it wouldn't be right to not at least put it on the table.

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"Oh, thank you." Could they help? Andy didn't think they couldn't and if not Persephone would say something, right? Andy wasn't certain how picky prophecies could be. She followed the others up the hill and eventually to the top of the hill. She wondered about the wind noise but figured it might just be because they were on a tall mountain.

Andy's eyes fell on the Master Bolt. She knew in her bones what it was. Even if Stella hadn't just told her the prophecy that had brought their group here she would have known. She also knew that it didn't belong in Atlas' hands. That was her father's and while she had had little interaction with him she wanted to prove herself to him still. A part of her hated that feeling. He hadn't ever really been there for her. She had seen him maybe twice in her whole life and yet she wanted to be worthy of him. She knew she'd be joining this fight to get the Master Bolt back.

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San Fransico, Sierra Trail:

Atlas turned his attention towards Niah and rolled his eyes and smirked at her. "I'd rather go to Tartarus than to hold the weight of the sky again." He said as he pointed the Masterbolt directly at Persephone and fired off a lightening bolt at the goddess sending her back and slamming into a wall. He then stood up and quickly charged at Andy hitting her with the Master Bolt, she would receive a nasty shock from it knocking her backwards and into Damon who let out a slight groan.

Terminus was helpless and watched as the others fought to save him they needed to make sure that Atlas was alive and they can put the Titan back where they belong. Otherwise someone else would have to make the sacrifice and hold the weight of the sky upon their shoulders. A group of ten cyclops would charge forward. They would attack both Jason and Mary only to miss as another charged at Niah grabbing her and throwing her across the room. She would be lucky though and would land on her feet.

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One of the cyclops had charged towards Demi to try and pry the snake off of it's master and was mere inches from grabbing Demi the snake when Alexios quickly charged in. He grabbed the monster by the neck and lifted it up and glared at him his grip started to tighten even more as he stared at Demi. "Are you alright love?" Alexios asked as he snapped the neck of the monster and tossed it to the side just as it burst into monster dust.

Zeke was lucky as he managed to shoot an arrow at the cyclops' eye and the monster growled in pain as it stumbled backwards Zeke fried off a few more arrows that managed to kill it. Turning the monster into dust which covered Zeke from head to toe leaving a club behind in it's wake. Kristin started to relax as she watched Nancy quickly remove the tongue of Leandra and she could hear the woman's cries in pain, she was still alive. "What do you want to do with her?" Kristin asked looking at Nancy, since she hated her the most out of all of them for her obvious betrayal luckily for them all the room was clear of monsters for now anyway..

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Madalyne sat there for a moment as she watched Leda do her thing unfortunately she didn't have any kind of money on her to help pay for it, however it looked like Iris was able to get the call through which she was really happy and glad for. Though she was slightly jealous she was sort of hoping to try and contact Niah, Andy and Nancy the three of them were her closest family still. She wanted to say hi to them and let them know that she was okay. Madalyne took a step to the side so that way she was out of view of their call wanting to let Leda have her private moment with her living girlfriend.

It had taken them a few hours but Kiera and Leda both would make it safely back to New York, Kiera and Sera were unloading their things from the carriage that their father had provided them. When suddenly an Iris Message appeared what she saw she wasn't expecting as she suddenly dropped what she had been carrying.

Tears started to run down her eyes as she was able to see her girlfriend before her as she looked back at her speechless for a moment. "Is that you Leda, how I watched you die?" Kiera asked even if the call was grainy she was still able to see her girlfriend as she whipped a few more tears away. "Where are you?" Kiera asked she wanted to immediately search for her.

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Ezekiel peppered the Cyclops with arrows, watching it stagger back until the killing blow turned it to dust. Ezekiel coughed as he was covered in monster dust. ”Gross,” he complained. Ezekiel looked around, ensuring the space was clear of other monsters before picking up the Cyclops’ club. It was rather hefty. Zeke doubted he could use the thing effectively, but it was fun to hold on to for the time being.
Leandra’s screaming caught his attention, and Ezekiel grimaced as he saw blood pour from her severed tongue. Ezekiel could kill when needed, but the sight of blood bothered him. His fingers twitched at his side, wanting to heal Leandra and save her from her pain. To distract himself, Ezekiel shifted his focus to Demetri. He tried to lock eyes with the snake and get a feel for his boyfriend's feelings. While Zeke’s eyes focused on Demetri, his other senses remained alert for other monsters and Nancy’s voice.

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Stella could only watch with wide eyes as her Goddess sister went flying with a bolt of the master bolt, being sent flying across into the wall. She let out a cry as the attacks started and seemed to ignore her. Maybe it was some kind of luck or some kind of sign? Those words she had just said earlier were echoing in her brain, and she knew it had to be one of the three of them. Jason and Mary were in the thick of Cyclopses and Niah, well, was also dealing with them. She could see an opening and she ran over to the god currently pinned under the roiling sky and knelt down next to him.

"Uh hi Mr. God of Boundries, sorry I don't know your name, but uh... give me the sky. Please? I'll take it for you so that you can be free, and go fight Atlas." Stella somehow knew this could go all wrong, that this could kill her, and she would never see her family ever again. However, if she didn't take this weight, the god would stay pinned and they needed the advantage.

"...Foolish mortal, but fine. Please take this burden!" Terminus said and with that Stella slipped under the sky and went to hold it up, willing the plants to help her. It wasn't often one could say they literally had the weight of the world on their shoulders, but for that moment, Stella did. It was heavy, painful, agonizing. She could see why Atlas hated this task, and he was a titan, so he probably could tolerate the pain better than her. As vines grew around her legs to help her, her puppy darted up and nuzzled up against her, adding his strength to hers. As she hefted the sky above her, a streak of grey appeared in the front of her hair, a sign of the burden she was currently taking on.

Niah scowled. "It's your job!" She drew her sword and was about to attack Atlas, but a group of cyclops got in her way. She was thrown but thankful she was able to land on her feet. Her powers had never been fighting powers. Yeah, she could fiddle with emotion, and that sometimes worked to get someone mad enough to make a mistake or to make them not care about the fight. But the power she considered her real power had nothing to do with battle. Everything in battle was pure training. Without a group of Romans though there were none of the tactics she would want to use. And her group had been on a train there hadn't been any time to work through tactics. She'd just have to do this the Greek way -total chaos.

Niah was mad. Today had been a lot. And she had lost in that fight against the stupid werewolves. Sure she had taken out several after but Persephone had to save her. She was not going to let that mess up this fight though. She would be practical, she would be cool. She ignored all the cyclopses and made her way back over to Atlas. He would suffer. He would take the sky back. She jabbed at him, almost hitting him but he blocked her at the last moment. She used his movement against him and moved just slightly getting in another attack under his guard. She had wounded him. She grinned, feral almost. And attacked again. Atlas must have been surprised or confused that she had hurt him that he wasn't fast enough and she cut him again.

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Andy felt tingly. The lighting that had hit her had hurt. She wished she had been ready for that, she could have redirected it. Andy did reach out and try to collect some of the residual power, but it slipped through her metaphorical fingers. She watched as Stella went over and took up the weight of the sky. She blinked a bit surprised that she would. Andy wouldn't have thought to do that either. How would they get Atlas to take it back?

She frowned and tried to pull the lighting again. Sparks flickered off her hands but nothing more. She hated that. Hated that she wasn't doing anything. She had wanted to hit all the damn Cyclops and Atlas. But she might have spent too much energy in the fight at the trailhead. She was tired, but she reached one more time pulling and found it she focused her attention on one of the cyclops near her. Hitting it and killing it. The dust fluttered to the ground.