Chapter 10- Monstrous:

Third Person:

Natalya frowned as she made her way to the cafeteria for lunch with the hosts. She just had that gut feeling that something extremely bad was going to happen, and she didn't like it. She glanced over to Sabrina, who had a similar expression as she went outside with Ritsu.

"Is everything alright?"

Natalya looked up at Takashi, who was giving her a worried look. She shook her head, and his frown grew.

"What's wrong?"

Natalya shrugged and sighed.

"I don't know yet. I just have that gut feeling. Anyway, we're hosting outside today, right?"

He nodded, still a little worried, and a little unhappy at her sudden change in subject.

"Good."

"Are you okay, Ghoul-chan?"one of the girls asked.

The guys she was hosting nodded in agreement. She shot them the biggest fake smile she could muster.

"Yeah, you don't need to worry about a thing."

The guests nodded, but still looked a little uneasy.

Takashi's eyes widened as a bird-like creature burst from the trees and went straight for Natalya. He charged, not really knowing what was going on, but Natalya had already pulled out a knife and was slashing at the creature, keeping it at bay as the guests ran away. Then Sabrina and Ritsu came from the maze a few minutes later.

Sabrina's eyes widened at the harpy. She was used to being attacked, but not in a place like this, where there was so many people around. She turned to Ritsu.

"Help get the people out of here while I go help Ghoul. Go, hurry!"

"But-"

"-GO!"

He shut his mouth and nodded. He turned to give her a worried expression as he worked to clear out the area.

Natalya grit her teeth and pulled a booby pin out of her pocket, opening it up so it turned into a celestial bronze double edged long sword that was extremely sharp. Sabrina joined her shortly with her bow and arrows.

"Why does it have to be a harpy?" Sabrina asked as she shot it's leg with extreme precision.

"Go back to Tarturus!" Natalya yelled as she cut its wing off.

When that harpy fell three more came from the same tree. The twins paled.

It was a nest full.

"Just what are these things," Hikaru yelled as he clutched to Kaoru.

One of the harpies dive-bombed towards the twins, only to be knocked off course by one of Sabrina's arrows.

"Harpies," Sabrina answered, "Nasty things- hate 'em."

"Who doesn't," Natalya huffed.

"Are you suggesting that you've dealt with these before," Kyoya shouted as he dodged another harpy, "Harpies are not real."

"Demigod," one of the harpies hissed, "You will die."

"Not today," Sabrina and Natalya chirped as they continued their attack.

Takashi and Hunny were doing an okay job at keeping the harpies away from the other hosts. Tamaki had his arms wrapped around Haruhi protectively. Kyoya was doing his best to stand out of the way as he calculated the situation. To his knowledge, no to his sanity, harpies weren't real. They were fictional Greek myths. So how did Natalya and Sabrina not only know what they were, but know how to handle it? And why did the harpy call them demigods?... There is no possible way that the Greek myths are true...

With the area cleared, Ritsu came back to the area only for his eyes to widen in shock as Sabrina shot down one of the harpies. Natalya jumped up and slashed off the harpy's head, turning it to gold dust.

"One down, more to go," Sabrina chirped.

"Get out of here," Natalya ordered the hosts and Ritsu, "it's not safe."

"No," Takashi growled as he used pushed her out of the way of a harpy's claws.

"Thanks," Natayla gritted out, "But you guys need to get somewhere safe."

"We're not leaving you," nearly every host and Ritsu shouted at once.

Taken back, Sabrina turned to them in surprise, only for a harpy to come in from her blind spot and slash at Sabrina's side.

Sabrina cried out and Natalya screamed as she ran towards the harpy with her sword out, cutting its head off. It turned to golden dust, gone, but the damage was still done.

"I'm fine," Sabrina said, "Keep fighting!"

Natalya's eyes showed worry, but she nodded. Natalya went back to slashing at harpies. Sabrina winced as she pulled her arms back to shoot her arrows. The wound was stinging her side as it bled. Ritsu growled, not wanting her to fight with that wound. Though both demigod twins had more than that as wounds, but all of their other wounds were just minor with bruising.

Natalya gasped as she was pulled into the air by one, and cried out in pain as another one sent her claws through her stomach. A second later she was falling. She waited for the impact from the cement, but it never came. Takashi had caught her. She nodded her thanks as she leaped out of his arms, much to his protest.

"I owe you one," Natalya told Sabrina.

After all it was her arrow that saved her backside. Sabrina smirked as she knocked another arrow.

"No problem, Ghoul. Now go be a ghoul!"

Natalya nodded and ran even faster, using her experience from dancing to gracefully take out two harpies that were in the air. Finally, Sabrina took down the last one, sending a celestial bronze arrow through the beasts head. Natalya high-fived Sabrina and sat down with a plop.

"Why is it ways harpies?" Natalya panted.

Sabrina shrugged as she held her hurt shoulder.

"Beats me."

Natalya groaned and turned to the hosts.

"First, yes, harpies and demigods are real. Two, we're demigods."

Kyoya pushed up his glasses and started writing in his notebook.

"Well, it would make sense if it was actually true."

The girls glared. Natalya retracted her sword so it was a normal booby pin and stuffed it in her pocket. Then she reached into her boot and pulled out a small package of amrosia and handed it to Sabrina.

"What is that stuff?" Haruhi asked.

"Ambrosia. Sorry, sis, the nectar is at home."

Sabrina shrugged and popped the square into her mouth.

"Still tastes good. Like Dad's cookies."

Natalya nodded and popped a piece in her mouth as well.

"Speaking of Dad, what do you think we're gonna do now?"

Sabrina groaned.

"And I really liked it here too. Damned harpies and their stupid sense of smell. What's the difference between demigod blood and mortal blood anyways?"

"Hell if I know."

Takashi knelt Natalya and started checking the immense gash in her stomach. She winced at his touch.

"Thanks, but I think it's gonna take more than your magic touch to fix this."

Magic touch, Sabrina thought as she raised her eyebrow, Ohhh he's blushing! Ritsu ran over to Sabrina and looked her over, checking over every inch of her. She shivered as his fingers gently ran down her sides as his eyebrows creased in concern.

"Are you okay?"

"Dandy," Sabrina chirped.

Ritsu didn't seem that convinced as he picked her up bridal style, a slight blush on his face. Haruhi rubbed her chin in thought,

"So you're demigods, you said?"

"Yes," Natalya sighed, "We're children of Athena, the goddess of wisdom."

"And battle strategy," Sabrina chipped in.

"So that means that the Greek gods were real," Hikaru asked.

"Does that make you immortal," Kaoru added.

"No," Sabrina laughed, but then stopped as it hurt her side, "They weren't real, they are real- presently. Olympus actually even moved to New York City, too much white and pillars for my tastes. They need some color."

"And no," Natalya continued, "We're not immortal."

"We wish we were though," Natalya and Sabrina said in union.

They both winced again at their injuries. The two guys looked at them in concern. Both Ritsu and Takashi felt knots in their stomachs looking at the injuries and just thinking about how often that might happen to them- it was terrible.

"So," Sabrina said, "who's up for some soy yogurt?"

"Or ice cream," Natalya added.