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Demetri could feel the wind brush against his scales as the Ogre inched closer and closer towards him. The gust brushing past him as all momentum stopped courtesy of Alexios, as he snatched the massive beast by its throat before snapping it in half with barely any issue. Another monster fell by Zeke's arrows and the room was oddly silent save for the garbled screams of Leandra. Demi reared his head towards Alexios, then examined the room before slithering off and shifting back into himself a few feet from where Leandra and Nancy stood. Kristin asked what they wanted to do with her, as if it was even their choice. Zombified or not, Leandra was still a person regardless of how the Roman's seemed to want to treat her.

But it was there that it dawned on Demi. Locking eyes with Zeke, a slight shiver to them as he realized something was wrong. Someone was missing. ”Where's the Giant? Where's the King? The whole point and need for a god to be present was because the might of both a god and a demigod was needed to take down a giant. But the room is empty except for Leandra. And without her tongue she can't tell us anything.” His eyes scanned the room, searching for an answer when he thought about how Leandra revived herself. A thought now eating away at the back of his mind. Did she become the King of Giants? Or was the King impersonating her?

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Nancy stared at Leandra, her eyes twitching as she contemplated what to do. Her adrenaline hadn't gone down yet, and a tempest of emotions were rippling through her body, most of them rage - most of them anger, hatred, aggression. Leandra couldn't die. But at least it seemed she couldn't regenerate body parts - couldn't grow another tongue. Nancy would never have to hear her again - would never have to suffer through another conversation with Cupid's daughter.

And then her head snapped to the side, snapped as Demetri started going on and on about prophecies, about how they needed to talk to Leandra. Nancy was sick of prophecies. She hated it, hated those glimpses of the future. It was nothing more than a curse, nothing more than another way to be hurt. She wanted to scream at him, to tell him that he didn't need to fret so much about prophecies, that things would happen the way they'd happen and then it would be over. But more importantly, she couldn't stand to have Leandra in her sight.

"We'll tie her up and bring her back to Ne- to Camp Half-blood to face justice. Again."

She had no doubts as to how Leandra's second trial would go.

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From the grainy image, Leda immediately recognized Kiera's surroundings - she was back in New York, back in the city. She was safe. Relief filled her, as much as her dead body could have an emotional response. "I'm in Tartarus, luv - not sure how, really, I ought to be in Elysium by now. There's another girl here with me, the Roman leader - Madalyne." Leda then hesitated, not really sure what to say - could she ask for Kiera to come for her? Maybe they could meet up at the Doors of Death, find their way on out?

"I'm definitely dead but... I'm okay, I think. Nothing's broken. Well. Nothing on me now. I don't know why I'm in the Pit, but... Well, not to get your hopes up, but there's a chance I could just pop out through the Doors of Death? Come back to life and all? Hades won't be thrilled, but I bet he'd have too much paperwork to handle. How are things up there? The quests all complete?"

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Sera held a bag in her hands, she looked rather shocked when seeing Leda in the Iris message. Someone who was dead now...living? How in the world was it possible. She saw Leda was dead, killed in that cave, no longer breathing. This was like a weird plot twist in a soap opera when the lead dies in a mysterious way but suddenly appears again just fine!

Leda said she was dead from what Sera could hear. It still was confusing. "Doors of Death? Sounds like a resurrection stone hmn...." She murmured and rubbed the back of her neck. "Sorry didn't mean to butt in, just....weird that theres a door that can bring you to life again." If that was a thing, cool! Kiera would get to have her girlfriend by her side again and no more heartache.

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Janelle wasn't entirely sure what was going on with everyone. Aside from it sounded like Leandra had gotten fairly hurt or something based on the cries of pain, but she was suspiciously quiet now when it came to actually talking. So whatever happened had to do with her mouth, that much was obvious now. Everyone started talking about what to do with her now, and Demetri (the idiot) was talking about how she was the only one with any potential info and now couldn't tell them. So she was assuming that there were no more monsters right now.

From what she knew and had heard, Leandra wasn't going to tell them anything anyway. "We dahn't need 'er to talk to potentially get info... You can tell a laht about a persahn wit what goes through their mend and subconscious. I can put 'er to sleep and see about enterin and viewin 'er dreams ahr sahmethin similar, and we can see if we can get de info you want dat way," she commented with a bit of a shrug. Figuring she'd give them the option of doing things that way.

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Well this was not going to end well, considering Atlas was supposed to be the one holding up the world, and clearly he had gotten someone else to do it. The cyclops were attacking them, and luckily he managed to avoid getting hit by one of them that had charged forward to attack. This was not going to be a fun fight, that much was obvious, and Jason instantly pulled his sword out again, figuring now was definitely a good time to attack the cyclops.

He charged forward attacking the one that had initially charged at him, and swung his sword. Nothing fancy, he was just going for a simple attack to try and kill the thing. Didn't take much as he swung and took the cyclops down, and his attention turned towards the other monsters in the area. Charging forward, he managed to take down another one, turning it to dust. As he managed to do so, he tried to attack one last one, but his swing missed, oh well, at least he managed to take down two of them.

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Mary was wondering what best to do and who to target, when she barely managed to avoid one of the cyclops coming towards her and attacking her. Guess that answered that question as she swung her sword in response back to the monster, turning it to dust in a bit of revenge. Her attention shifted towards the other monsters, and she managed to take down two more near her. Now that they were down a few of the cyclops, they had time to actually focus on getting Atlas back to doing his job.

That's when she noticed Stella and what the hell she was doing. Her eyes went wide, wondering what the hell the kid was even thinking with regards to that. She took the entire freaking sky onto her back! "Stella what are you doing?? You should not be doing that at all! What are you thinking?" she said instantly as she raced over to where Stella was, wondering what was going through her head.

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Terminus was grateful to have the weight of the sky off of him now, he looked at Stella for a moment feeling bad that the young mortal was holding it up for her. "We'll take care of him." Terminus said as he looked at Persephone as she nodded back, Stella was handling it fairly well despite the weight of the entire sky on her shoulders. However she wouldn't be able to do it for very long at all, and they needed to get Atlas back on his task as soon as possible.

"A job that your Olympians forced upon me!" Atlas yelled back at Niah as he sent another bolt of lightning from the Master Bolt, luckily for Niah Terminus had quickly stepped in taking the brunt of the attack leaving a nasty looking scorch mark on the god. Persephone quickly used one of her vines that wrapped around Atlas' arm forcing the master bolt to drop from his hand landing next to Niah.

A cyclops would charge right at Mary knocking her back, and nearly toppling Stella in the process. Andy would nearly be hit by a cyclops that charged her but missed. And another cyclops would charge behind Jason hitting him in the back of the head with it's massive club, causing Jason to bleed, he would get a heavy concussion from it. Damon would be seen taking out one of the cyclops easily bursting it into dust.

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Kristin looked over at Janelle she did have a good idea actually Leandra probably did have some information that they could use to try and find out what she had planned. She stared at the Doors of Death as Demi mentioned about the prophecy again, she had almost forgotten about it completely until now. And as if right on cue the Doors of Death opened, and a massive figure with dragon like legs came out of them and stared down at the group of Demigods.

Leandra started to calm down slightly as she turned to look at her master and then smirked at the group, but she didn't say anything at all really. "You let these puny mortals beat you already?" Porphyrion King of the Giants said to Leandra who looked down, as he stared at them and then the young god that was accompanying them. "I have to do everything myself." Porphyrion said sounding very annoyed as he charged at Alexios knocking the god backwards and slamming him through the nearby wall letting out a loud roar.

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Kiera whipped away a few more tears she was just really happy to hear and see her girlfriend once again. we just finished our quest, not sure about all of the others though." She said as she thought for a moment she was really hopeful to get her girlfriend back as she looked up at Leda. "There was another quest if I remember right some of the others are going to the Doors of Death maybe they'll be able to meet you guys there. I'll meet you th-" Kiera suggested, however the call would suddenly drop for them, she turned to look at Sera. "We need to get back to camp and report everything." Kiera said, then she was going to go to look for the Doors as soon as possible.

Madalyne listened to the conversation she didn't say anything else until the call was suddenly dropped. "At least the two of them are doing alright." Madalyne said trying to reassure Leda, maybe Hades will totally forget about them trying to smuggle Leda out of Tartarus, she still didn't have the slightest clue where to look for the Doors of Death on their end though.

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Ezekiel shifted closer to stand next to Demetri. His arm brushed against his boyfriends before his fingers twitched to link with Demetri’s. Ezekiel liked the idea Janelle had, more than Nancy wanting to put Leandra on trial again. Truthfully, he didn’t see the point in that. At the moment, they had bigger things to deal with. And right on cue, the Doors of Death opened once more. The King of Giants marched out like he owned the world. Ezekiel took one step to block Demetri with his body. It was time for the title fight.
Ezekiel stumbled back, pushing Demetri further out of the way as Alexios was tackled by the giant. Zeke turned his attention to the doors and then looked at Nancy. Ezekiel wasn’t sure if they needed the giant killed before they entered or if it was now a free-for-all.

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The wind was howling in her ears as Stella stood there with the weight of the sky upon her shoulders at that point. The fighting around her was almost muted by the sounds, and she almost could tune it all out until Mary came running over and demanded to know what she was doing. "Prophecy... it said one of us had to take it... Niah and Jason busy... I'll... I'll be fine." Stella offered a small but pained smile to Marygold as she stood there, willing the plants to help keep her stable even as she became a bit distracted talking to Marygold.

"Need both gods free to fight..." She was cut off from whatever thought was next by a cyclops charging in and knocking Mary back and into Stella. Stella could feel herself nearly topple and that weight above her was suddenly threatening to topple down and smother her, and everyone there. She steadied herself with the help of her plants and her pupper and focused on holding the sky back up and grunted a bit. She really needed someone to guide back Atlas soon, as she wasn't sure she could hold the sky up for too much longer.

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Demetri blinked slowly. He couldn't believe what he was hearing. At the very least Nancy wasn't willing to play Judge, Jury, and Executioner again. Leandra was to face trial for her crimes amongst her peers. But what baffled him most was what Janelle had said next. He looked at her dumbfounded, jaw slightly dropped, as she laid out her plan on how to gather information. ”What?! I didn't know you could do that?!” He said with similar excitement a small child would use when learning of a new Superhero Power. The excitement was short lived however, as the Doors of Death began to open up and a massive monster came out and stared them all down.

The Giant King came barreling towards Alexios, slamming him back just as Zeke placed himself between the King and himself. He pressed backwards against him, forcing Demi to shuffle back as the Giant pummeled into Alexios. ”Babe, what're you doing? We need to get in there and fight. Only the combined power of a god and demigod can fell him. So…” Demetri unsheathed his twin blades. The lightning bolt shaped swords began to crackle with energy as sparks arched from one point to the other dancing along its edge. ”What's the plan? Think you could blind him with some light? Bigger eyes must be easier to hit right?”.

Demi offered as he combined the twin swords together to make the full bolt in one hand. With his free hand he began to try and pull on the shadows surrounding Porphyrion. At first the shadows wouldn't obey. Simply standing idly by as he tried to summon them, then finally tendrils shot out, wrapping around the legs and arms of the giant before quickly being snapped away. He tried once more, with the same song and dance as before before finally they were able to entangle the King of Giants for good to offer him up for the others and Alexios to attack. ”I can't hold him forever. So whatever you want to do, do it now!”

It didn't take much for Niah to decide to pick up the master bolt. Andy was running to help Stella, that would be the only other person Niah thought should have the Bolt. She held it in what would normally be her shield arm, and with a nod to Terminus as a thank you for taking the brunt of the attack she moved to stab Atlas again. With both gods fighting him Atlas was too distracted and Niah was able to get another jab in.

"Except I'm Roman." She snapped at Atlas. That wasn't the full truth. Her mother could have gone either way, but the Greeks didn't have a place for her in their camp so it hadn't been an option. She was thankful she had gone with the Romans too. She took another jab at Atlas hitting him again. Her third jab missed as Atlas dodged. But that was fine with Niah. She could be a distraction for someone else. Dragging him off to his place.

"This is your punishment. The weight of the sky is what you must carry." She told him.

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Andy looked around the battlefield. She could join the fight with the older kids, but she saw that when Mary was hit it knocked Stella off her balance. The Master Bolt had fallen to the ground, and for a moment she was torn. What should she do? Stella was keeping her feet under her, but it was a struggle. She ran over to her.

Andy slid in next to Stella taking some of the weight of the sky onto her shoulders. "Just because the prophecy said one of you had to take it, that doesn't mean you have to do it alone." She said trying to sound reassuring. Andy didn't know Stella very well, but she didn't think anyone who wasn't a God or Titan should have the weight of the sky on them alone.

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Nancy cursed under her breath in Latin. Of course the fucking grody ass bitch of a giant had to show up NOW. At least there was one thing that she and Porphyrion agreed on - Leandra's uselessness. Had situations been different, she might have gossiped with him about everything Leandra had ever done that was incompetent at best and sabotage at worst.

A certain focus came over her, one that she found in battle - that she found when death was on the line. She was used to fighting as a unit, as a group - but in this host of Greeks, that wasn't an option. They were all individual fighters, they didn't know Roman strategies and maneuvers. So Nancy would have to adapt to them. The party god was sent flying, again something that she found it difficult to show sympathy for. Let him rot. He was no better than Bacchus.

Demetri restrained the giant, and Nancy's bow - Kallisto's bow - materialized in her hands. She offered up a prayer to Diana, that the Huntress would guide her hand, and she fired off glowing arrow after glowing arrow. Three arrows lodged themself in the giant's chest, a fourth missing.

But she would do this.

They would do this.

For Mads.

For Mads.

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Sera was there, too - Leda had almost forgotten about her. She was Kiera's sister, yes, but they had just met the demigod - had just ended up picking her up on their quest, replacing the spot that had been meant for Arthur. She didn't mean any ill will by it, she just didn't know Sera very well - and in the process of, well, dying her thoughts had been elsewhere. But before Leda could even properly answer, could begin to explain what she knew about Tartarus and the doors, the connection dropped.

Leda smiled ruefully. The gods could only help their children so much. She ought to be grateful Iris did that much for her.

"Thanks, Mum - 'preciate it," Leda murmured, a soft prayer. She collected her thoughts, though, and turned her attention back to Mads. "All the monsters down here, they'll be heading for the Doors. If we follow 'em, we should find them - find our way out," she explained. But then guilt quietly enveloped her. Mads hadn't gotten to say a word. "I can try to ring someone for you, if you'd like? Mum might let us make a second call, she's pretty chill... usually."

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"Right, lets go then." Sera agreed, helping her sibling pick up the bags she'd dropped. "Do we need to hail a taxi or something to get to camp?" Probably would be the fastest way to get there since she had no clue how far away Camp Half Blood was from their location. Plus lugging their stuff while walking would not be enjoyable at all. She really hoped to just get in a car and be driven to where they needed to be. Really the demigod couldn't wait to see camp, wondering how the place would look, she'd been camping before but that was tents or in an RV.

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Atlas glared at Niah as he charged at her and knocked her towards the ground making a dive straight towards the Master Bolt and managed to grab it. "You'll have to drag me back over there then." Atlas said to Niah as he quickly aimed the Master Bolt directly at Jason, a loud crack of thunder could be heard as a lightning bolt shot out of it directly hitting Jason in the chest. His body was sent flying directly into a nearby wall a loud crack could be heard as his body fell to the ground, killing him instantly.

Atlas laughed slightly as he turned to look at the two gods Persephone quickly used her vines and restrained him once more, Terminus would charge at Atlas slowly knocking the Titan towards Mary and Stella back to his prison. Andy would feel the weight of the sky now on her shoulders as well to, like Stella she would start to get a gray streak of hair due to holding the sky up. The cyclops continued to attack Mary knocking her back again another loud roar could be heard from the monster.

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Kristin looked at Janelle. "Do whatever you need to get info out of her." She said to Janelle, they had to go up against Porphyrion and take out the hulking giant. Luckily they had a god on their side and that should make the fight a lot easier. She quickly charged at the giant using her spear and managed to stab the massive giant in the stomach. However that didn't really phase him as he stared at her he grabbed her by the neck with managing to break one of the tendrils from Demi. "Puny demigods." He said as he quickly tossed her throwing Kristin directly into Zeke and Demi knocking the two of them onto the ground.

With Demi's concentration gone now Porphyrion was easily able to break free fully now. "I am here for you now." Nancy would be able to hear Diana's voice, as the Goddess of the Hunt appeared right next to her with her own bow drawn she shot off an arrow directly at Porphyrion knocking the giant back slightly. Alexios managed to jump into the fray once more as well to, drawing his own sword out taking a swing at Porphyrion only to miss.

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Madalyne was at least happy that she was able to make contact with her girlfriend back in the world of the living, she nodded slightly just follow the monsters and they would lead you to the Doors of Death. The only real issue with that was to try and not get caught by them, she knew that she would probably just respawn somewhere else within the Pit itself. She however wasn't sure what would happen to Leda she was already dead anyway. "Sounds like a good enough plan then." Madalyne said giving Leda a smile.

She thought for a moment when Leda offered to try and make contact with someone, there were only three people that she wanted to make contact with which were Niah, Nancy and Andy. She wasn't sure how reliable the Iris Message would be seeing as Leda's call had ended so suddenly. "If you could try and make contact with my friend Nancy that would be nice." Madalyne said hoping that the greek god would do it for her.

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Kiera was just really happy to know that her girlfriend was able to make contact, she didn't know much about Tartarus was however she just needed to get there and save her girlfriend. "Yeah we have to make it to the Empire State Building, thats where Mount Olympus is located, from there we can get in contact with the camp and someone will pick us up from there." Kiera told her sister, she then started to grab her things.

[color==DeepSkyBlue]"We just need to be careful of monsters still there are a lot here despite being very close to where the gods live though."[/color] Kiera said to Sera as she started to leave the pier and made her way over towards the nearest street. She just needed to reorient herself and find out where they were in the city and go from there.

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Stella was glad that Andy came over to help her, and frowned as she saw the grey streak appear in her hair as well. They would have twin streaks of grey in their hair, for gods knew how long. She could feel herself wavering for a bit, but as her strength began to fail her, she looked to Andy and then felt Arbor nuzzle in from behind, and urge her to hold on a little bit longer. Atlas was being knocked and dragged back towards the sky by the two gods, and that was good to see.

However, the sound of lightning and a sickening crack got Stella's attention and she watched as Jason flew into the wall and his body fell to the ground, rather lifelessly. From the way he fell, the way his body was twisted, Stella knew he was gone... the older demi-god she had been traveling with, the son of the God of War, was gone. "JASON! NO!" She felt tears rise up in her eyes as she looked around, hoping that someone could help him, one of the gods could bring him back, but somewhere in the back of her mind she knew better.

Breath was knocked out of Niah when Atlas shoved her grabbing the Master Bolt. Her vision blurred a bit, but she stood back up. She adjusted her grip on her sword. Atlas attacked Jason. She knew he was down, probably forever. Niah had grown fond of him over the last few days. She wouldn't cry for him, but as the Greeks had gone he had been alright. Anger boiled within her.

She drove forward pressing an attack on Atlas. With Persephone and Terminus helping they could drive him back she knew it. He parried her attack. The Cyclops had become completely secondary to Niah. She was determined to drive the Titan back into his place. Her next attack forced him to take a step back. Close to the two young girls who held the sky up. She didn't allow her attention to waiver, just drove another attack into Atlas. He took another step. It was incremental, but it was something. One more step was one more step closer.

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Andy trembled under the weight. Sweat prickled the back of her neck but she persevered. Jason going down caused her to wince. She knew a dead body when she saw one. She had seen too many of them for her age. Andy closed her eyes against it.

She held out her fingers, questing to find Stella's. To gain and give comfort and support. They both needed strength to keep this up. It would kill them if they didn't keep their will strong.

Chocolate knew that the fight was going badly. Niah was distracted, as were both the gods. The two children were pinned under the sky, literally. Jason was down, and Mary was being beaten up alone by the Cyclops. He darted in trying to bite the heels of the Cyclops but he couldn't get a good bite.

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Ezekiel grunted when Kristin hit him and Demi. Instinctively, his arms went around Kristin to keep her from taking too hard of a hit.
”You okay?” He asked her before letting her go. He
shifted onto his knees, checking to make sure Demetri was okay before looking at the monsters around them.
”We need to work together! We have to pool our powers together and hit in succession or in some way that unites us.” It just made sense with the prophecy and with what Demetri said. Even though Zeke would have loved to just step back and let Alexios help or get his ass kicked. Honestly, either outcome Zeke would have been happy with.
”If I try to blind them, maybe you can bind them Demi, and Kristin can throw some daggers at them,” he suggested. Ezekiel called what light was in the room to his hand and directed a beam at the giant to blind both his eyes. ”Now!”

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Demetri struggled against the strength of Porphyrion. The massive Titan pulling and tugging against the shadows that bind him as Demi fought to keep him still. He watched as Nancy loosed arrows into the massive monster's hide, and for a moment he felt hope. Hope that was quickly shattered as the Titan got one arm free, grabbing Kristin and choking her. Demetri froze, thoughts running rapidly in his head about how it was his fault she got caught. He wasn't strong enough, or good enough, he fucked up. Before long Kristin's body was flying across the room and slammed into him and Zeke. But as he fell backwards, shadows pooled from beneath him, rising up and creating a cushion that Demi softly landed on before being gently placed onto the ground as the shadows melded away.

Demetri got up from the floor after Zeke had managed to check on him. His eyes quickly scanning over Kristin as he worried that his mistake could have been fatal. But if Zeke wasn't worried, then he shouldn't be either. So as he watched his boyfriend gather the light, he began to gather shadows. At first, none came to him, none bent to his call, then suddenly a burst of tendrils ripped forth towards the Titan wrapping around his arm once more. Demi was about to celebrate, when the monster tore through his shadows and broke himself free. ”He's hard to pin down.”

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"Yes, I can, I 'ave dahne it befahre," she responded simply to Demetri, referring to the last time she had done it while on a quest with Zeke and Kristin before. It wasn't anything too fancy or difficult, honestly it also wasn't exactly that impressive of a thought. It was just called using a brain, and Demetri had still yet to prove that he had one at all. Reminded her of what the Scarecrow had said in the Wizard of Oz "Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking."

Of course chaos started continuing to erupt as the giant or whatever it was started attacking. Not like she could actively tell what was going on, only she could tell from the sound cues around her. However Kristin told her to still get the info from Leandra's head, and that was something that she more then happily would do. She managed to find where Leandra was and put her to sleep with her powers, before mentally using her abilities to dive into her head to see what sort of things appeared in her dream world.

She saw a few different scenes that played out as she watched, leaning back and seeing what was going on. The first thing that popped up was seeing how Leandra had managed to escape the camp, getting a follower of her to help her and sneaking out of the camp. That was a big thing. At least that explained how she got there more or less. The next thing though was a vision she wasn't entirely sure how it popped up from Leandra's head, but it stood out to her as well.

Them down in Tartarus by a shrine to Hermes.

At least she was fairly certain that was what it was, she had no way to know for certain, but it definitely seemed to fit the description of a shrine, and it seemed to be one for Hermes, which was not one that she would have expected but okay? It was a bit of an odd vision, and Janelle eventually got out of Leandra's head and wasn't sure if now was the time to explain what she saw, or not.

"Do you want to know now what I gaht frahm 'er 'ead, ahr would you prefer waitin until de fight is over?" she ended up asking, trying her best to stay out of the way of the fighting that was going on currently.

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Nancy's body shivered as she heard Diana's voice - as the goddess materialized next to her, a quiver full of arrows and immediately on the defensive. The hollow numbness and anger that had filled her snapped, the shield, the facade cracking apart. Her hands shook and she blinked rapidly, trying to clear her eyes of the tears - to keep her chin from wobbling - to keep herself from coming undone, from shaking apart. Diana was here - here in the bowels of the Lotus Hotel and Casino, here in Nancy's darkest moments. Her aunt, her goddess, was here.

And as much as Nancy felt like breaking, that same pain she turned into strength. She let her emotions guide her voice as she shrieked, not quite managing the right resonance at first, but eventually the waves settled, an onslaught that collided into the giant, stunning Porphyrion. Working together, in unison, was something that the Romans prided themselves on - and with Diana by her side, hope crawled into her chest and expanded ever outward. They could defeat this giant. They could save Mads. They could save everyone.

She loosed another arrow from her bow, and it hit its mark, landing in the giant's eye.

But even for all of that, for everything they'd done, he was still standing - he was hardly bloodied. They had a fight ahead of them - and a long one at that.

"Unless it's relevant to this fight, let's wait," she told Janelle, sounding more like herself.

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Leda nodded, hearing that Mads wanted to talk to Nancy - one of the Roman praetors, from what Leda remembered. It felt like a lifetime ago that she'd left Camp Half-blood. Well, she had died. Everything felt distant now in this place, like a dream, like someone else's memory. Except for Kiera. Kiera was the only thing that felt real anymore, that made her heart feel like it was still beating, that she wasn't just a shade of her former self.

Leda bowed her head slightly, pulsing out a soft rainbow in front of her again. "Mum, if you wouldn't mind, it'd be super chill if you could show us Nancy, the Roman Leader?" She hoped that Iris was in the mood to take another message - and that it could reach her at all. The last message had glitched out, ending prematurely. And she didn't have an offering to give her mother either - if they ended up making it out of here, they'd need to make sure to burn a few meals or so to her mom in thanks.

But luckily, the rainbow in front of her shimmered, showing a grainy image of the Roman leader - and a scene of absolute chaos.

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Sera nodded towards her as they headed away from the pier. Looking around at the city around them, how it was just so busy even at a time like this, as they tried to find out what street they where on. "Oh theres a sign over there." She pointed upwards towards a pole that would have traffic lights attached to it. Showing off the two roads that crossed together. The signs were large but white against green always was hard to read from far away or if light glared over the letters. "I can't see it from here, maybe you can? Unless we need to get closer to it then lets do that." The young girl suggested but hoped maybe Kiera could read it from the spot they where standing at.

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San Fransico, Sierra Trail:

Atlas chuckled seeing the dead demigod on the ground as he turned his attention towards Janelle next aiming his masterbolt at her sending her back, and knocked her out. She was still breathing but would be out for quiet sometime it looks like, both Persephone and Terminus used their strength along with the help of Niah. Persephone quickly got in front of the two girls and helped them hold up the sky, he was mere feet away from the sky now. "I'll hold the sky." She said letting the girls be relived of their burden, she then used her vines that wrapped around Atlas' feet and quickly yanked him towards her. And with the help of Terminus he shoved the Titan forward forcing the Titan to stumble back the goddess quickly got out of the way and Atlas quickly replaced her back where he belonged dropping the Master Bolt in the process. The only thing that remained now were the few remaining cyclops who were busy fighting against Damon.

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"I'm fine." Kristin said as she slowly started to stand up and cracked her neck slightly, she looked at Zeke for a moment she didn't have any throwing knives on her other than her spear really. She then turned to look at Janelle it was good that she was able to get some information out of Leandra. "Tell us what you found out." Kristin said as she charged forward towards Porphyrion and managed to cut him with her spear aiming for his legs causing the Giant to howl in pain.

Alexios quickly charged forward and managed to punch the Giant in the face knocking him onto the ground, hurting the Giant pretty good while Diana fired off a volley of arrows at the Giant to, he slowly got up again and snapped the two arrows off and tossed them to the ground. Three of her shots missed however two of them managed to hit him in the chest as well to. The fight was slowly turning in their favor it seemed.

Suddenly in the middle of the fight near Nancy she would get an Iris Message.

Madalyne sat there waiting patiently hoping that Iris would be able to send her message out, and it seemed that the goddess had come through. She could see the fight that was going on before her they were indeed inside the Lotus Hotel, and they were fighting against Porphyrion. "Nancy are you there?" She asked she knew that it was a really bad time to see her best friend however made her really happy and hoped that they were able to talk for a little bit. Madalyne looked at Leda for a moment she was really grateful that the greek was able to get her into contact with Nancy.

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Kiera followed behind Sera a little bit and looked up at the street sign she could see a little bit better. "This is FDR Drive that we are on." Kiera said as she started to think a little bit, she didn't really trust taxi cabs anymore really the last time that they were here just a day before. "There's a subway station on Fulton Street that we can use to get there it's about a thirty minute ride over there so should be pretty quick." Kiera said.

"Or we can take a taxi but last time we did that it ended up being a monster as a cab driver or we can walk over there which is about an hour and fifteen minutes from here to. But most likely we'll run into monsters on that long walk as well to." Kiera told Sera, at least they had a few options to get there but either way they'll encounter a monster or two anyway on their way to the Empire State Building.