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Chapter 11
Issac & Piotr
Piotr slammed the hammer down and immediately the weight his the bell. He gently set the hammer down, looked at the game worker and pointed to the stuffed peacock on the shelf, and said "That one please." In a gentle voice.
After accepting the stuffed animal from the vender, he turned to look for the one he won it for, but couldn't find him. So with a puzzled look he began his search for the other two heroes that were a part of his group.
Two hours had passed since he last saw the Sons of Hera and Aphrodite and Piotr was getting frantic. He had no clue what had happen to the two heroes, nor where the rest of their group were. He was at a lost as to where to look next.
"Oh sweetheart don't look so down!" said a tall woman with blond hair and huge boobs that nearly fell out of her tight red party dress. Which was completely out of the usual for someone to wear on a beach in the afternoon.
"I am sorry mama but I have lost my friends while trying to get something for someone." He said trying to be polite.
"Oh Piotr he'll love it!" She squealed grabbing the stuffed peacock from Piotr's stunned hands. "Oh young love. It's my favorite form of love! I should know I created it!" she said with a squeaky laugh.
"Lady Aphrodite!" Piotr said shocked as he went to kneel.
"Oh none of that now. I have to be serious now." She said as the atmosphere around her grew a little tense. "We've got a problem. And it involves both my son and the son of my lover. As I'm sure you've noticed my Angel and Demetrius have gone missing. This is the work of a man that I kinda sorta cursed for his arrogance. Anyway this man is not one to be fooled easily, only a Charmspeaker can do what I am going to tell you."
Piotr could only nod while he tried to think of a vengeful person that Aphrodite had cursed, and was drawing a blank.
"This man was a prideful and arrogant man, he spurned every attempt I had set up for him to find love. I even searched out his soulmate for him and he still spurned her! I mean Hera's curse on her wasn't fair either but still! She worshiped him for his personality not just his looks! Anyway, my curse was to have him fall in love with his reflection to feel his own rejection that these girls felt. Well it worked a little too well and he was caught in his reflection in a pool of water in the woods and wasted away there. But I learned from that. I had your father make me a special Mirror that I gave to my sister, Helen. The mirror will only work on him, that's the specific instructions I gave your father. It will act just like the pool from Ancient times. Grant it your father added other features to it that works for specific demi-gods, but I digress. Take this Mirror. Give it to Angel. He will know what to do from there." She handed over a hand held mirror before turning to walk away.
"Wait! You never told me who this man is!" Piotr shouted to her retreating back.
"It's the one man who gives me the titles of arrogant egotistical and narcissistic. His name is Narcissus." She said as her face contorted into an angry sneer. And with that the Goddess of Love and Beauty vanished into the crowed.
Issac jumped over benches, ran around corners, and sprinted across the road in his rush to get news to the others about what he discovered. Panting out of breath he came to a crosswalk at an intersection just a few blocks from the boardwalk.
"Excuse me young man would you be ever so kind as to help me across the street?" asked an elderly lady with grey hair and equally as grey eyes. She was leaning all her weight onto the walking stick made from what Issac could tell was an olive tree branch.
He looked around and saw no one else that would have been able to help her, so he nodded and offered his elbow to her.
"Your friends are in danger young hero." She said to him as if she was talking of the weather.
"I'm sorry?" Issac replied a little startled, looking at the woman.
"I don't like repeating myself when I know you hear me. You will take this bag and give it to the Son of Ares along with the piece of wood you carved earlier. It will protect him and save you all from dying before your time." She curtly said when they reached the other side of the road. She handed him a bag and hobbled of towards the beach saying no more and never looking back.
Looking into the bag he say a tightly strung up bow and a note. Reaching into his pocket and taking out the myrrh wood that he was carving, he looked between both the wood and bow, before looking back up to where the lady was walking, only to see that she had disappeared.
Realizing he just met a goddess he quickly put the myrrh wood into the bag and ran the rest of the way to the pier to find Piotr first.
Orion & Ivan
Orion and Ivan were just walking back to the Boardwalk after a game of non-lethal hunting, when they saw Issac run onto the pier alone. They looked at each other before taking off after the other demi-god.
They reached Issac just as her reached Piotr, who was looking off towards the end of the pier.
"Everything alright guys?" asked Ivan who was wearing an orange, yellow, and red, blended shirt and orangish-pink shorts with orange, red, yellow, and white stripped flip flops. On his back was a brown colored backpack that housed his Celestial Bronze bow and arrows, Therapeíes.
"No Nothing is alright! First I was with Nico and Shawn over in a clearing and they sensed the souls of the dead that escaped and Shawn sensed two in town right here! Then when I right down the road from the Boardwalk I run into a goddess who doesn't explain anything to me just gives me a bag with a bow in it and says to give it to Javen with a piece of wood that I was carving earlier this morning!" Ranted Issac. "And I have no clue who the souls are!"
"Actually one is Narcissus." Said Piotr and immediately all heads turned to him.
"And how do you know?" asked Orion. He stood there in his light grey gym shirt and light blue shorts and silver grey running shoes. In his pockets were hidden two bronze pocket knives that transformed into his Celestial Bronze hunting knives, Seli̱nófo̱to.
"Lady Aphrodite came and talked to me." He said before looking at the mirror in his hand. "I have to go find Angel and Demetrius."
"We all do" said a voice from behind them making the four boys turn around. "We have to find everyone before it's too late" Said Thalia who stood in front of Malcolm and Solaris.
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Ivan – Therapeíes – Remedies
Orion – Seli̱nófo̱to – Moonlight
