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Glory had a major headache going on. It throbbed and spiked behind her eyes when ever she tried to look around. Everything seemed blurry and hazy when ever she opened her eyes, so she eventually just went back to sleep.
"She woke up again, aware that there were two things poking her.The nerve of some—never mind, it's just Tsunami and Deathbringer. Still. She thought.
"I'm up, I'm up." Glory grumbled.
"Shhh, the snake wo—"
"Dracaenae." Deathbringer informed her.
"—yeah, right, the dracamey's or whatever are right outside the door, so sush." Tsunami whispered bossily.
"Aren't you the one making all the sound?" Glory hissed back. Tsunami hit Glory grumpily.
"Hey! No hitting Glory." Deathbringer said.
"Anyways, so, we escape by getting our weapons back then killing them all, agreed?"
No." Glory and Deathbringer said simultaneously.
Glory looked around and saw they were in a dark, damp and dirty looking room. By the door, two of the Dracaenae stood guard. Glory frowned. Only two... We could take them out rather easily, if we had our weapons, Glory thought. Or... Yes. A plan had formed in her mind.
"Or we can take them, bind them, take their weapons until we find our own, and escape."
"I like that idea much betuer than charging in." Deathbringer voted. Tsunami muttered a "Fine...".
"Alright, I take the left one, Deathbringer, you take the right. Tsunami, you go find something to bind them with and return as soon as possible. Alright, go!" She whispered to them.
She snuck close to the door by using the walls, using it to shield her from view. Glory looked over at Deathbringer and he winked at her. She rolled her eyes, although she strangely felt happy even though they were prisoners (again, why did this keep happening to them?).
Glory sized up her target, she was smaller than the other one, she had a sword and shield and seemed pretty relaxed and lazy. Easier for her to capture her then. Glory suddenly ran forwards, knocked down the weak door, and grabbed her before she even had time to process what was going on. In a blink of an eye, Deathbringer and her were dragging back the struggling monsters into their little cell. Tsunami came up to them and started tying the monsters up with strips of really gross looking cloth.
"So, we take their weapons and go." Deathbringer nodded and so did Tsunami. She unarmed one of the monsters and found an extra dagger on it as well, she gave the dagger and shield to Tsunami. Glory kept the sword to herself, seeing as it was the thing she fought best with.
When they were ready and the Dracaenae were tied up safely, they snuck into the surprisingly small hallway. The only other exit they saw was a small little room, with tons of things piled up in it, so Glory took a chance and went in.
The inside of it was filled with stolen things. Or things from past dead demigods, seeing as there were many celestial bronze weapons laying about, but there were also many other cool things other than that. There was mainly one thing that stuck out to her than all the rest. It was a backpack, the only one other than theirs (which they had already retrieved, along with their weapons). But that wasn't the only thing. It was half open, revealing a silver laptop with the a Greek letter on it; Δ. [Can you guys guess where you've heard of it before, and who's it is? ;) ] It picked her curiosity, so Glory unslung her bag and dumped her stuff into the other backpack, then took it as her own. She'd have time to look at it once she had time.
They searched the room and corridor once more, but didn't find anything. Where was the stupid exit to this place? Glory started to think there wasn't an exit, but didn't give up. Glory looked at the ceiling, frustrated. There was something odd about it. It seemed to have little slits in it, and looked like metal painted over.
"Guys, I think I found something!" Glory shouted at them. They both came running over to her, and she told them about the cieling thing.
"I believe it's called a vent. It's brings air in or something like that." Deathbringer told Glory. Air.
Air.
Like... Fresh air? Air from the outside world? Or somewhere else? Even if it led to more monsters, it would still be worth it.
"Maybe we can get out through the vent?"She suggests.
"Yeah, but what if it doesn't lead outside?" Tsunami argued. "Or if it leads to more monsters?"
"Isn't that why we have weapons? Also, there's no other clear exits." Glory shot right back.
"I'm with Glory." Deathbringer decided.
"You always are." Tsunami said.
"I'm her loyal bodyguard, so of course." He answered back. Glory had a feeling it wasn't just that.
"For the millionth time, I don't need a bodyguard!" Glory scowled at him.
"Of course you don't, it's just the reason why eleven assassinations against you have obviously failed." Glory rolled her eyes at that.
"Honestly, you could at least make it a believable number, like zero. Now, I'm going in there without you guys or not. Now shoo." Glory waved them away to get some space for taking out the metal grid.
Glory hooked her fingers through the slits and tugged with all her might. The grid groaned but didn't break off. Again. She pulled even harder, and felt the grid snap. Looking up, she sat that she had pried the grid off, just like she'd planned. Glory reached up and inside, then heaved herself up. It took awhile, but she managed.
"I'm up!" Glory called down.
"Watch out, I'm coming up too!" Deathbringer yelled back.
She scooted further down the little tunnel-vent and waited. Pretty soon Deathbringer had made it up, and then so did Tsunami.
Glory took the lead with Deathbringer right behind her and Tsnuami in the rear. Scrabbling on hands and knees would've been pretty embarrassing, but she wasn't the only one doing it, so she felt fine.
Just in case, Glory was trying to memorize the path they took, just in case they needed to turn around. Left, right, right, left, straight, left, right, left, left... It started to blur together a bit, but Glory still continued anyways.
Were those... Screams that she was hearing? Those were definitely screams, even though they seemed quite awhile away. Was the tunnel light become more red, too? All these signs were starting to indicate they were not in the upper world. She'd heard descriptions of the underworld, but it surprised her that they were actually nearing it, especially from a vent. Glory found herself not wanting to reach it, and was too busy thinking what it would be like—horrible, like the volcano island?—to notice the changes in the air, how the red light was stronger and the screams now a lot closer— until she turned a corner, and took a step out into empty space from where the vent was on the cave wall. Glory yelled, trying to regain her balance and tried to push herself backwards, but she found herself tipping over instead. Glory freaked, she didn't have wings! STUPID SCAVENGERS WHY DONT YOU HAVE STUPID WINGS! Glory mentally yelled, before losing her grip on the vent and falling fowards.
"GLORY!" Twin voices yelled behind her. A hand caught her ankle firmly.
"Ow!"
"I'm trying to save your life! Or do you want me to drop you? Urg, you're heavier than you look, you know?" Deathbringer answered back.
"Oh, thanks. That's very nice of you to say."
"I didn't mean it like that. Anyways, can you find any hand holds and foot holds?"
For once, Glory looked up from the far way floor below. She gasped. Spread out before her was a close up view of the Fields of Punishment. She could see someone being flayed alive, while being whipped on a post at the same time and another being swarmed and bit by rabid rats over and over again, and yet another had the punishment of having tigers tear out his organs and then being healed instantly, only to begin the process anew.
This was where all the evil people went, especially the ones who insulted the gods, or did crimes against them... Like sneaking into Elysium.
What if this is where we end up if we fail?
Hello! Pretty exciting, yes, no? Well, I hope it was. I at least found it pretty fun to write. Woah... This took a lot longer than I thought it would to write. Nice. Anyways, bye!
-FlopsMcGee