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Chapter 1
"NICO!" Leyna yelled as she chased the grave keeper round the stables.
"Yesss?" Nico said as he climbed up a ladder.
"Help me find Percy!" Leyna yelled as she barreled after him.
"Oh my gods remember the last time we found him?" Nico said as he sat on a bale of hay. The last time Percy was missing he was sleeping with his fiancé in the stables. Terrible time to walk in.
"Oh where could he be?" Nico asked as he threw a bale of hay down towards the horses.
"Dunno but we have to find him." Leyna said as Nico walked towards the hen's window.
"What is with the crowd over there?" Nico asked he pointed out the window towards the square.
"Dunno, hope Percy is okay." Leyna said as she dusted off her red work pants and pulled the straw from her raven hair.
"Let's go check it out then." Nico yelled as he grabbed Leyna's hand. Leyna slid down the ladder and ran out the door.
The two arrived to see the a gigantic crowd and the king standing at his golden throne looking over something, or someone.
"Sentenced 75 slashes for disobeying the law." The king declared as one of his men threw their arm back, bloody whip in hand.
Leyna and Nico pushed towards the front of the crowd to see a bloody Percy chained to a wooden post.
"PERCY!" Leyna yelled as she ran towards her bleeding twin.
"WHAT HAVE YA DONE TO MA BROTHER!" Leyna yelled at the king as she looked her bleeding brother over.
"He disobeyed the law." The guard with the whip said deadpan.
"Which one of the billion?" Leyna asked through gritted teeth.
"He decided to justify the augur." Octavian, he would pay Leyna thought to herself.
"So just because Octavian is a terrible augur means ya can beat my brother? I don't think so." Leyna said as she got up and marched up towards the gigantic throne.
"Would you like some lashes too stable maid?" The kind said as he spat in Leyna's face.
"Guards give her 50 lashes." The king said as he shoved Leyna backwards violently.
"I don't think so buddy." Leyna said as the nearest guard came at her, sword in hand. Leyna simply twisted his wrist and disarmed him. She then stabbed the guard who's friends decided to tackle Nico who was now on the ground fighting. The guard slumped over and dried the blood off on her work pants.
"Really?" Leyna said as she braced herself for the other guards rushing out from behind the throne.
"LEY!" Amanda Fray yelled from the crowd. Amanda was a weapon inventory checker, who had dirty blonde hair and a muscular build.
"Oh my gods." Francesca Rob said as she ran forward. Francesca was a humble merchant with auburn hair that covered her shoulders and her dusty cheeks.
"IS THAT ALL YA GOT MINOS!" Leyna yelled as she stabbed the next guard. Nico was busy unchaining Percy from his post with Annabeth, a castle librarian who happened to be his fiancé, while Francesca and Amanda were blocking guards from getting at Leyna.
"ARCHERS!" King Minos yelled as Leyna took out 12 more guards. Soon Nico and Annabeth successfully unchained Percy and had him wrapped in Nico's dusty black coat. Soon Leyna had taken out 30 guards at least. She was on fire.
"FRANCESCA BEHIND YOU!" Amanda yelled as she threw a hammer at a guard charging Francesca from behind.
"Thanks." Francesca said as she grabbed a sword from the ground.
Soon the guards had the group surrounded the small group.
"You really want to fight them all?" Nico said as he supported Percy between Annabeth.
"They hurt him, so shit is going down." Leyna said as she ran at a smaller guard. She easily stabbed him while the other guards proceeded forward, about a hundred at a time.
"Leyna Smith Jackson. Where on earth have you learned your fighting skills? I have never seen such a lowly peasant fight so well, especially for a woman." King Minos said as he walked down from his throne.
Well, before I came here I practiced with my dad. Then he went away on a sea journey to fight in the war. Suddenly the Roman's attacked our home. Romans were everywhere. A girl has got to protect what she loves so if that means blood blood will be shed. But you wouldn't know what love is since you killed you own daughter. Leyna thought to herself but held her tongue knowing that would only lead to a bigger punishment.
"Not answering ey? Well then good thinking. Since you and your companions decided killing my men would be a smart idea you will suffer greatly. No whip in the world could withstand so many lashes. We would need 1,000 men at least." Minos went on and on about punishments before Leyna interrupted.
"Ya know I think it is funny how you give out so many punishments but pay other people to inflict the pain. We defied you not anyone of your men, except maybe the few who's souls have gone to Hades but why don't you punish us instead for defying what you call rules." Leyna said as she went over to her brother and started making a run for it. The group was blocked by a group of Greek warriors with deadly looking weapons. At that moment a slave trader in a simple toga walked by.
"You know I won't be the one to inflict the pain, PROCRUSTES!" The slave trader looked over in Minos' direction while wearing a crooked smile.
"Yes my king?" Procrustes asked as he walked forward with his cart full of slaves.
"Why are you here? I have told you times before I do not want your filthy slaves." Minos said as he jumped down from his throne.
"I thought that maybe I could buy some of your slaves my King." Procrustes said as he kneeled.
"I have heard you do not show mercy to any of your slaves am I correct?" Minos said as he walked towards the slave trader. Procrustes nodded meekly as he looked the group over.
"I will give you these peasants for 200 gold drachmas." The slave trader raised his eyebrows while studying the group over.
"What do we have here?" Procrustes said as he looked at each one of them.
"A fisherman, a librarian, grave keeper, weapons expert, a merchant, and a stable maid all of which can fight." Minos said as he shoved Leyna forward. Leyna turned around and gave a death glare worthy of Zeus.
"Okay then sold!" Procrustes said as he handed over 5 big bags.
"Now get these things out of my sight." Minos said as a few of Procrustes' men started chaining the group together.
"Good goin' Percy." Leyna mumbled as she was chained next to her twin.
"Very sorry." Percy coughed as they tightened his chains.
"At least we know some people." Nico said as he turned his head. Sitting in a silver tattered outfit was the one and only Thalia Grace. Oh joy my cousin has been locked up. The one and only Thalia has been put in chains. The world must be coming to an end. Leyna thought as she rested her head on Nico's shoulder. It was going to be a long day.
