I am so sorry it took me so long to upload and i promise never to do this again...But i could not for the life of me remember what happened in the movie...still frantically searching for it online...if anyone knows a good site to watch movies, let me know please 3
As always, review and enjoy!
Riding on a tame Scorpiox was strange, but not strange enough to keep Thea awake. She passed in and out of a dreamless sleep for two days, trying to regain her strength. The skins and pelts of fur that acted as her bed were too soft compared to the hard ground she normally rested upon. She was sitting up and stretching her tense muscles when Draco entered her caravan.
"We have to walk from here, the Djiin can take us no further." he said as she stood. Her bandages were no longer tainted with blood. They only hid her chest, revealing a toned stomach. Draco handed her a armored tunic, turning away as she changed. Thea used a strip of leather to tie the oversized garment around her waist, tightening it around her body. Before leaving the caravan, Thea reached down to her blade sheaths. She smiled as she felt the cool blade hilts against her finger tips. One pro of having god blessed weapons, they always came back.
Thea threw back the canvas flap and walked out, stepping down from the Scorpiox into a rocky landscape. Thea saw the group gathered around Io, who was standing at the entrance of a winding stairway that led into the mountain range. She was distressed to see that only Draco, Eusbisos, and two other soldiers were left of their original numbers. Thea went to stand beside her comrades.
"What is this place?" Eusbisos asked to no one in particular.
"It is where the Kraken defeated the Titans, and what Argos will look like if we fail." Draco said cheerfully.
Argos…and Greece…Thea thought sadly gazing at the ruins at the base of the mountains.
"Every step we take is an insult to the gods." Eusbisos stated gravely, looking around anxiously. Perseus came up from behind, passing by with a grin on his face.
"Good." he declared and started up the crumbling steps. Io stopped him as he passed her and whispered something at him. Thea's blood turned hot under her skin as she watched the short exchange between them.
With a jolt, she remembered that she shouldn't care about things like that, wasn't allowed to care. But the foggy memory of Perseus leaning over her, his skin pressed against hers, made her blood boil for an entirely different reason. Screaming at herself internally, Thea followed her group up the mountain.
Night had fallen by the time Perseus led the group to the witches home. A thunder storm raged overhead, fog rolling along the grounds surface. The only light they had to see by was from their torches. Perseus stopped and tossed his torch into a pool of dark liquid. It ignited, illuminating the small area. The group stiffened as an echoing hiss reverberated on the rocks around them.
"Visitorssssss." a witch said using the eye that the three sisters shared between them to survey the group. Her sisters began to hiss out questions behind her until the three witches came out from behind the mist to investigate. Thea stood her ground as they emerged; grey, hunched creatures with strands of hair, slits for noses, and black lips that coved rotting teeth…the Fates. The leader, the one with the eye, approached Perseus as her sisters hissed for information.
They converged around him and out of instinct, Perseus drew his sword.
"Warrior…" Thea warned taking a step closer to him. Attacking the witches would not persuade them to tell him how to kill the Kraken. He sheathed his sword.
"We didn't come here to fight." he stated as the witches began to rub their gnarled hands over his body.
"I have a question." he revealed. At this, the witches hissed and laughed and began to taunt him with all the possible answers they could give him.
"Witches." Draco chastised their teasing, holding his spear defensively. The leader growled at him and advanced. Thea moved in between them, resting her hand on the hilt of one of her blades. The witch regarded her, the red eye in her hand swiveling around, a low snarl escaping her black mouth.
"Easy." Perseus's tone was full of warning as his panicked gaze met Thea's, "Stay on me ladies." he practically purred. The witches returned their attention back to him, and Thea could breath again. She turned and sent a glare towards Draco for his big mouth.
"I've come to ask about the Kraken." Perseus said. The witches began murmuring among themselves.
"A wasted journey." one said.
"An impossible task even for a demigod." said another.
"It must have a weakness." Eusbisos said, his voice quiet. The witches rounded on him, laughing wickedly.
"Maybe," the witch with the eye hissed, "but that knowledge requires a price. A sacrifice!"
The witch launched itself past Thea. Eusbisos was taken by surprise as the witch leapt at him with incredible speed. They fell to the ground, the young soldier at her mercy. Thea reached for her sword hilts and turned to rescue him when Perseus cried out. Another witch had him in a head lock, leaving him gasping for air. She heard Draco shout and turned in time to see the last sister knock Io to the ground.
"The Eye!" the witch who held Perseus snarled, struggling as he fought against her. Her sister, who attacked Eusbisos, threw the eye to her. Thea caught it in midair and ran to the edge of the mountain.
"Let them go!" she ordered, dangling the eye over the side.
"You wouldn't dare…" hissed the witch holding Perseus. While she was distracted, he threw his head back and collided it against the witches face. She loosened her grip on him and he pushed out of her arms, throwing her to the ground and drawing his sword.
"We cannot answer your question without the eye!" the witch over Eusbisos growled. Thea moved closer to the edge, eyes flashing with rage.
"Let him go!" she roared, voice echoing impressively on the rocks around them. The witch crawled away from him, joining her two sister as they approached Thea.
"Now answer his question." Thea commanded, holding one blade tightly in case they attacked. The witches turned to Perseus and started to hiss at him.
"How do we kill the Kraken?" he asked tightly.
"There is a solution, but it is impossible…" began one of the witches. Thea reached her arm further over the chasm warningly. The witches moaned in distress.
"The gorgon Medusa. Anything of flesh turns to stone under her gaze. Her prison lies across the River Styx, at the edge of the Underworld." another witch explained, her tone desperate.
"She's no use to us alive. She'd kill us all." Draco said angrily.
"Then we take her head." Perseus countered looking up at Thea as the witches called out for their eye. Thea nodded her head and tossed the eye over by the pool of flames. While the witches were occupied, the group walked away. As they were about to pass through to the stairs, the witches came towards them again.
"Wait!" they hissed, causing the group to halt, "Don't you want to know more demigod?" Perseus turned towards them slowly.
"Perseus, don't." Io warned. Thea stood beside him, blades ready for an attack.
"Tell him, tell him…" the other two witches hissed.
"You're journey does not end well. The Fates have spoken, it is your destiny. You will die son of Zeus." the leader snarled. Thea stiffened.
"They lie." she whispered. She would die before she allowed that to be true, she would fight it to her last breath.
"And you, the god of war's little champion. Your actions are still tied to the fate of Greece. Live your days as if they are your last, girl." the witch hissed at her.
Thea felt anger spark within her…as if she could forget. She was still a sacrifice, just a playing piece in the gods game, still as good as dead. With her comrades behind her, Thea straightened and laughed, the sound echoing off the rocks eerily.
"I welcome death if it will save the people of Greece from the gods wrath." she stated calmly and clearly. She turned her back to the growling witches and began to make her way back down the mountain with her companions walking by her sides.
