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Two weeks. That's how long this quest has been going on. It's been nearly two weeks since I've seen my sisters and Toni. Two weeks since I started killing innocent children. You could also say it has been two weeks since I met Adonis, but if that's supposed to cheer me up, you are sorely mistaken.
O, wait? You haven't heard? Adonis died. My handsome, strong, caring Adonis died. It happened a week ago when he, Kyle and I finally reached the New York suburbs. We nearly did a victory dance seeing as the Empire State Building wasn't that far away anymore, but something decided to crash the party.
A pack of monsters ended our brief happiness. We ran, but a hydra latched onto Adonis. It was over in seconds. Last thing I saw of him was the hydra ripping his body open with its claws. A sickening sound of human intestines splashing on the ground accompanied the visceral sight.
The event was so chaotic I didn't realize my boyfriend had died until Kyle and I stopped running. When it had happened, I had only peeked over my shoulder while Kyle dragged me forward. I hadn't made a peep. Yet when I realized the horrific truth, I collapsed. I shrieked, screaming until my lungs hurt. I was wailing and sobbing like a toddler whose parents just told her they had eaten her Halloween candy.
Kyle granted me a moment to process my grief, but when I kept crying and screamed louder and louder, he put an end to it. I suppose he was looking out for the both of us, not wanting the monsters to find us because of my hysteria. So he gripped my shoulders and looked me in the eyes.
"Kim, you need to be quiet! Please, stop screaming," he urged me.
"NO," I cried, shaking my head and sobbing. I must have looked like an utter mess, because Kyle frowned in disgust. "Adonis died! He's gone!"
This was followed by a string of unintelligible words, sobs, mumbling, and short shaky breaths. At least, that's what Kyle told me afterwards. I hardly remember it now, probably because my mind blocked out the bad memory. Kyle then held my shoulders firmly and shook me once:
"Kim, snap out of it!"
Startled, I inhaled and squeezed my lips close. Kyle's stern face looked blurry through my teary eyes, but his voice sounded clearer than anything.
"I know that he died and I know that it's heart-breaking, but we need to move on. You need to move on," when he stressed 'you', he shook me lightly for good measure.
"But I loved him," I whimpered. He looked down and sighed. He clearly didn't want to say what he was about to, but it needed to be done.
"You knew the guy for a week, tops! And let's face it, you two were doomed from the start: all but one will perish doesn't leave much room for interpretation, does it?"
"I could have…" I started to whisper.
"What? Do you honestly believe you could have changed the gods' mind? Would they have spared you because you were in love?" He didn't need me to answer; my silence already told him he had convinced me.
"What do we do now?" I asked as I wiped the tears from my face.
"You're going to have to be your bad-ass self again because those monsters are still after us."
So here we are a week later in Queens. It's already dark out, but we haven't found a place to stay yet. The streets are strangely deserted, so we can't ask anyone for help. My backpack tinkles with potion vials, my feet are killing me and I want to go to sleep, but the bright light of Manhattan in the distance beckons me further.
"Kim, can we please stop for the night? We're not going to make it to the Empire State Building for at least another day. We need to rest," Kyle whines.
"Just a little further, Kyle. I can almost smell the victory," I say, determined to keep trekking.
"That must be the smell of my feet because they haven't rested in hours. Come on, my blisters even have blisters!"
I sigh and turn to him:
"Fine! We'll ring someone's doorbell and…"
Somebody screams. We spin around, but don't know where the scream came from. Soon a cackle, roar and laugh follow. This means trouble.
"I have a bad feeling about this," Kyle mutters. I reach for my backpack, grab a few vials and toss him some.
"Keep your eyes open. Who knows what's about to hit us."
Unfortunately, we're on the middle of a cross-section, so the danger could come from any direction. The ground starts to shake beneath us, but not like an earthquake. It shakes with intervals as if something huge is stepping our way, but suddenly the tremors stop.
"My flame," I hear Adonis' voice call from behind me. I whirl around, but instead of my lost lover, I find a gigantic one-eyed man. The Cyclops is standing in the middle of one of the streets of the cross-section. He has a face only a mother could love, which smirks at me in contempt.
"Not who you were expecting?" he laughs in his real voice, a deep baritone. I should have remembered that Cyclopes can mimic any voice perfectly, but this is just cruel.
"No, my boyfriend was far handsomer than you," I scoff. I turn to Kyle, but I see him staring at the opposing street of the cross-section. A pair of gorgons grin at us, the snakes they have for hair slithering fiercely. The first gorgon has green vine snakes hissing at us, but I must admit, their flashy green scales beautifully complement her emerald-green eyes. The second one has corn snakes coiling all over her head, which have a reddish orange color and large darker-colored spots, which match the Gorgon's blood-red eyes.
Next, a chimera stalks between the two monstrous women. It has the head of a lion, the body of a goat and a diamondback snake as a tail. Its lion's head licks its lips as if we're its dinner, while its snake tail exposes its venomous fangs.
A second pair of heavy footsteps comes from the street to our right, where a snorting minotaur lumbers to us. It wields a massive stone hammer and aims its bull horns at us. To our left, a gargantuan three-headed black Rottweiler bounds our way.
"Great, we're surrounded by monsters on all sides. Any suggestions?" Kyle whispers. I peer at the Cerberus clone. Its legs are high enough for us to pass underneath.
"Yes," I whisper and then I yell, "Run!"
I stretch my hands and freeze all the monsters. I grab Kyle by the collar and drag him to the enormous Rottweiler.
"Aren't we supposed to run away from them?" he shouts terrified. I swing him in front of me and shove him through the Cerberus' front legs.
"This is a short-cut," I run after him under the colossal Rottweiler. We make it to the end of the street and turn left, but there we spot a new terror. The hydra, the nine-headed, acid-spitting reptile that killed Adonis, has its back turned towards us and is busy devouring a chestnut-haired girl, which I recognize as Malissa, a daughter of Juventas, after it has swallowed her whole.
At its feet, Ray, a grandson of Apollo and Nemesis, feebly tries to hit it with orbs of light, but it spits acid at him once and he dissolves into a steaming pile of human goo. Then one of its heads peers over its back and flashes several rows of sharp teeth. The entire hydra faces us, nine identical heads exposing a gazillion amount of teeth that could blender you to pulp with a single bite.
"Kim, let's go," Kyle pulls me back, but comes to a full stop when he sees what's behind us, "Oh crap!"
Three drachnes, reptilian women with long snake tails as legs, slither in place, blocking the street behind them. They're wearing silver armor and gold weapons, and they also have long, slick, black hair.
"Sssssorry, no passssss for you, kiddiesssss," one of them hisses. In a matter of seconds, the monsters from the cross-section have caught up with us too. Now we're surrounded from all sides by almost double the amount of creatures than before. My patience has run out.
"I've had it!" I shout. "How is this even fair anymore? What, sending 24 demigods after us wasn't challenging enough, so you summoned your monster minions?"
The creatures in possession of eye-brows furrow them in confusion, while the eye-brow-less ones cock their heads to the side. Kyle cowers behind me.
"With all the terrible ordeals we've already had to face, I would have thought you gods would slow it down and at least give us a fighting chance, but apparently, you just love to watch us get totally annihilated, don't you? You bunch of self-absorbed pricks!"
"Kim, don't upset the mighty, thunderbolt shooting gods," Kyle tugs at my sleeve, but I shrug him off.
"I mean, I killed demigods, evaporated harpies and withstood Pandora!"
During my rant, the Cyclops stepped closer staring at me in shock with his one eye. The idiot is now in firing range.
"Well, you know what? Bring it on, you glorified pets!" I throw an orange potion vial at the Cyclops and a sudden flash of light bursts from it. I shield myself and Kyle from the light, but the Cyclops' eye receives the full blow.
"Aaaah, my eye!" he screams, covering his face with his hands. He stumbles backward, crashes into the minotaur and hydra, and floors them. The other monsters attack, but now I smash a grey potion vial on the ground. When it breaks, a cloud of mist billows outward and covers the entire city block in a thick fog.
"Stay close to me, Kyle! Chaos is about to ensue," I grin confidently.
"This was your plan all along?" he asks baffled.
I nod. "Shout when you see a monster."
Two figures appear from the fog: the gorgons. They're bewildered by my mist potion, but when they spot Kyle and me, they smirk and their snakes hiss harmoniously. I stretch my hands out to freeze them and look for the monster I need. It doesn't step out from the fog, so I'll have to do it the magical way: one of my mist potion's sweet bonus features is that I can control the fog without casting a spell.
"Mist, show me the minotaur!" I demand as I raise my arm. The thick fog disperses and reveals the minotaur swinging at nothing in particular with his hammer. "Hé, big ugly hybrid, come and get us!"
I immediately have its attention and it stomps over to us. I take Kyle's hand and lead him to where I froze the gorgons.
"What are you doing?" the stress is evident in Kyle's voice. I keep my eyes on the charging minotaur.
"Trust me! When I say 'jump', you jump to the side, okay?"
"You want me to jump off a bridge too while we're at it?" he jokes nervously.
"Don't tempt me."
The minotaur towers above us, swings its stone hammer over its head and brings it down heavily.
"Jump!" I shout. Kyle jumps to the right and I jump to the left while the minotaur's hammer smashes the gorgons to mush. Next, I throw a brown potion vial at the minotaur and cast a vanquishing spell:
"Mighty minotaur, prepare to growl your final roar, for I will end your reign of blood and gore."
The minotaur lights up and turns to dust as its hammer drops to the ground.
"Chimera!" Kyle shouts. I spin around just in time to see the chimera open its mouth and breathe fire. I duck and the flames blaze over my head. If Kyle hadn't warned me, I would have been toast.
The chimera pounces me, but I roll over the ground. I jump to my feet and start running, but the chimera follows after me and manages to cut me off. It raises its snake tail and the diamondback launches at me, but I stretch my hands and freeze the creature entirely.
"Kyle?" I call out because I don't see him anywhere in the fog. "Mist, show me Kyle!"
The fog disperses again and I see Kyle being chased by the Cerberus clone. I want to help him, but also remember the frozen chimera. It needs to go before I can take out the overgrown Rottweiler.
"Mist, hide the chimera and show me the Cyclops!"
The chimera vanishes in the mist and the Cyclops appears in the distance. He's still rubbing his blinded eye, so I guess he'll have to follow the sound of my voice.
"Ooooo Cyyyycloooops, remember me?" I say in the sweetest tone possible. He hears me and my tone doesn't miss its effect; he's livid. He stampedes over to me and I keep calling to steer him in the right direction.
"I'm going to squish you like a bug!" he growls. He lifts his foot and brings it down with the force of a wrecking ball, but unfortunately for him, I stood a few feet in the other direction and he squished the chimera instead. The latter dies instantly, but its diamondback tail escaped the Cyclops' foot. Subsequently, in a final spasm, the deadly snake bites down on the Cyclops' big toe.
"Aaah!" he screams. He stumbles all over the place and swings his fists at anything he can find. I hear several buildings getting hit, but I also hear a giant reptile getting punched. Nine reptilian heads loom out from the fog and spit acid at the Cyclops. He gurgles a final scream as he chokes on acid and drops dead.
"Holy crow!" I exclaim. That was unexpected, yet awesome! However, the hydra now has its eighteen eyes locked on me. It opens its mouths, but I throw my other vial of gorgon's blood, the death kind, into one of them. The head swallows and not much later, the entire hydra collapses. That was for Adonis!
"Sssssilly girl," someone hisses behind me. The three drachnes slither to me, but before they can attack me, three huge Rottweiler heads bite the snake women in half. I look up to the Cerberus clone and see Kyle sitting on the middle head.
"Need a ride?" he calls sounding smug.
"How did you...?"
"Dogs are very affectionate animals. I just needed to rub its belly," he grins. My mist potion wears off and dead monsters lie scattered around us. We managed to survive even this, o mighty gods; what's next?
