"Talking"
"Thinking"
"Now die, Honey!" Miss. Dodds shrieked, leathery wings propelling her towards Persephone like a rocket. Suddenly out of the corner of her eye, she saw Mr. Brunner wheel himself into the room.
"What Ho! Percy!" He shouted, tossing the pen that he always carried around at her.
"Percy? Percy! What the hell gives him the right to call me Percy? We don't fuckin' know each other like that! And that isn't even my nickname!" She thought even as her hand automatically shot out to close around the pen. But the second her hand came into contact with the pen it changed, unfolding into a sword. Persephone brought the pen-sword up to block Miss. Dodds's newly revealed claws.
She looked back to the door, but Mr. Brunner was gone.
"You think we wouldn't find you eventually Halfling! Even if you don't stink of your traitorous father, once I got close enough I didn't even have to smell you! I COULD TASTE IT!" The winged woman clawed at her, desperate to have the almost forgotten taste of bastard flesh on her tongue once again. Her sisters would be so envious when she told them of this feast!
Persephone parried each of the Furies strikes, showing an ease with the sword that Ms. Dodds hadn't thought to expect.
"If you think I have anything to do with thunder thighs little temper tantrum you're so wrong it's not even funny!" Penny swiped at one of the furies wings, managing to score a long cut down the left, sending the woman screaming across the museum to clutch at her injured limb, bearing her fangs at the mortal as gold ichor seeped from between her claws.
Penny grinned right back a feral light in her currently glacier blue eyes, eyes that, much like the water they mimicked held no warmth, only the promise of a cold, slow death. The choker around her neck made of three rows of sea glass colored beads melted, flowing down into her hand and freezing into the shape of a second sword. She felt her lips pull ba, k even more, her smile now less like a smile and more like a hungry showing of teeth.
"I think I like the idea of you dying instead of me," She twirled her new swords and smirked, "Honey."
Furious the fury tore her hand away from her wing and took to the air again. A whip of fire appearing in hand to tear the demigoddess apart. Penny dodged to the side, metal sword darting out to tangle the whip around it, and then she pulled hard. Yanking Miss Dodds down to her level, she raised her ice sword and stabbed it into the right wing then pulled her hand to the side as hard as she could, Penny ripped the wing apart. The Fury dropped to the ground and suddenly demigoddess and monster were on even footing.
"Now that you're done fluttering around my head, how's about we really fight? … Alecto." Burning eyes met glacier cool and Miss Dodds, now revealed to be Alecto, could only feel shock and (though she would never admit it) fear.
"You know what you are!" This couldn't be! The little bitch wasn't supposed to be aware of her true parentage. She wasn't supposed to fight back! This was meant to be an easy mission; infiltrate the school, find the stinking bastard child, get her alone long enough to kill her, and be back on Olympus with her sisters by next week!
"I can not be defeated by some skinny bastard child!" Alecto thought as she twisted her wrist, producing a second fire-whip, shifting on her feet, she calmed her racing thoughts and focused her hellish eyes on the girl child. Watching as the Fury calmed herself, Penny felt the golden blood within her veins begin to boil; she always liked fighting more than talking it out, it was faster.
"Looks like it's time to stop playin' with my food." Tightening the grip on her swords, Penny flexed her feet, "Track is about to pay off." She eyed the other woman's feet and hands.
They burst into motion at the same time, colliding in the middle with a meaty thud! Penny shoved her shoulder into Alecto's chest, metal sword primed to stab her in the stomach. Alecto circled her arm down between them and then pushed, trying to get the distance to use her whips properly, but Penny stayed close. She swung her ice-sword down from her left shoulder to right hip hard, nearly catching Alecto in the neck; following through with her metal sword, scored her a small but deep cut to the ribs of her opponent. Knowing the only way beat someone as experienced as Alecto was at beating demigods, Penny pressed her advantage. She brought her arm back down on Alecto's neck, forcing her to bend backwards leaving her stomach unprotected, Penny thrust her ice-sword forward and up!
"H-How did y-ou kn-ow?" Gasping around the sword thrust into her chest flooding her body with ice, Alecto had to know how in the Hades this little demi-shrimp had bested her, one of the Goddesses of Vengeance!
"You want to know how I bested you, is that it?" The Goddess's wide eyes told Penny all she needed to know. Ignoring the gold liquid pouring down her arm, she noticed Alecto's feet were already turning to dust.
"I've done my research pretty bird." The last thing Alecto saw before crumbling to dust to await reanimation in The Pit was Persephone Jackson's terrifying, bloodstained grin.
Penny took a second to look around her. The ichor on her clothes and the ground was already disappearing, and their fight had done little damage to the Greek exhibit. She studied the pen-sword, 'Nicely made and sturdy. Function over form is always something I can get behind.' Writing on the blade near the pommel caught her attention. 'Riptide, huh? You must be a remnant of one of my half cousins'
"Well Riptide, I do believe you've fought well here today. I hope to work with you in the future." In response, the pen-sword warmed in her small hand and shrunk back into a pen with a click.
She turned towards the entrance the Greek Exhibit, stuffing the pen-sword in her jean's pocket.
"Well that was fun while it lasted."