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The Ever Twisting Wind: Of Monsters and Titans

Chapter Eleven: Make or Break the Titan's Back

Beta: ShadowofAxios

Andi marveled at the large glowing feather as she twirled it between her fingers. A warmth came from it that drove away the chill of the nippy desert night.

"So this thing has healing properties?" She asked Wendy as they both kept a wide berth from the direction the Phoenix chick had waddled off towards, presumably on it's way back to it's nest.

Wendy nodded her head eagerly. "Oh yes! The Phoenix's regenerative powers are legendary for a reason. From its tears to its feathers, every part of it has incredible healing power. This is an amazing spoil of war, Andi. You could heal anyone with this! Even if they were on the brink of death!"

Andi wrinkled her nose. "That sounds like it'd piss my Uncle Hades off. One of them already doesn't like me. I'd rather not irk the other."

"Knowing how often you get hurt-"

"Hey!"

"-It's best you keep it on your person." Wendy said in a lecturing pose.

Andi grew flustered. "I'm not that bad…"

"Andi?" A shocked voice called out from the distance.

Andi turned towards the voice and was pleased to see the questers that she'd set out on this increasingly crappy mission to meet up with.

"Finally!" She tossed her arms in the air, along with her new feather. "Do you know how hard it is to find a group with nothing but them being in the 'west' as your only clue? Annoyingly so, that's what."

In her excitement, the youngest daughter of Zeus literally skipped over towards the questers. She easily recognized Percy, Grover, and Thalia. They all looked somewhat scuffed up but generally looked okay. Percy was even sporting a rather flashy duster of all things.

The other two questers were clearly hunters.

One she recognized as Bianca. Even under all the trappings of being a Hunter, the silver ski jacket, blue jeans and black combat boots, she looked exactly the same as when she had last seen the girl. The look suited her though, her long dark hair was now in a braid that framed her face well. It served to draw attention to the fetching splash of freckles across her nose and her black eyes. She also had a silvery aura around her now, like moonbeams or something.

The last one looked like some Persian princess. She wore the same garb as Bianca, but also had a silver tiara on her head and carried herself with confidence. Huh, Nico was right, she did look snooty.

"Why do you have a big feather fan?" Percy asked in his typical way of paying attention to the irrelevant minor details.

"Why do you look like you strolled out of the Wild West?" Andi retorted.

"Fair point."

"I'm sorry, but is he always this stupid?" Wendy abruptly asked, looking offended on either Andi's or the Phoenix's behalf. "How can he not recognise what this feather is!?"

"Thee gets used to it." The tiara wearing Hunter said. "A most unfortunate thing indeed."

Andi ignored the byplay for a moment, she already knew how much of a feather brain Percy could be at times. Instead she decided it was time to put away the Phoenix feather, she wasn't going to carry it around with her the whole time.

Andi turned to the Aura. "Wendy, come here please. I need your hair."

Wendy compiled and turned around. The daughter of Zeus pinned the large feather into the Aura's own fiery hair, making it glow slightly brighter.

Andi smiled, her hands on her hips. "I hope it's ok. I'm not good with fashion."

Wendy played with it, looking flustered at such a gift. "Thank you."

"Just keep it safe for me, Red. Gods know I'd lose it with my luck."

"I'm sorry, but can we focus on the fiery hellscape we just saw a few minutes ago!" Grover cut in, being the straight man that he was.

"Cleary Zeus' youngest engaged with the avian of life, the Phoenix, and bested it." The Hunter said, clearly impressed. "We have not met before, young one, but have you considered joining the Hunters? I am Zoë, Lieutenant of Artemis."

"Oh gods, here we go. So typical! Can you give it a rest, Nightshade?" Thalia rolled her eyes at the hunter, before turning an angry glare at Andi. "And you! What are you doing here, you brat?"

"I don't know," Andi shot back angrily. After the shitty day she'd had so far, she had no patience for Thalia's bullshit. "A goddess is kidnapped, and a good friend of mine is missing. Geez, I do wonder why I could be here!"

Thalia looked a little surprised that Andi had stood up for herself, but recovered quickly and continued to needle Andi. "Well, we don't need your help. So buzz off."

"Aw, too bad. So sad. Suck it up." Andi scoffed at her and turned to Percy, jabbing a finger into his chest. "And you! You didn't even I.M. me about Bethy going missing. You got cotton in your brain or what?"

"I was kinda preoccupied." Percy said, holding his hands up in a placating gesture. "There was this thing with a sea cow, and it was all downhill from there."

"Thee cameth here without permission like the boy?" Zoë cut into this conversation like a icy blade.

"Yes."

The lieutenant of Artemis frowned and shot a look between Percy and Andi. "I see. I revoke mine own earlier invitation. Thee has skill, but the hunters hast no room for one who disrespects authority so. It'll only serve to hath her comrades killed."

Andi took a deep breath and ignored the barb. "Yes, I'm a walking troublemaker. I'm sorry for existing."

"Um?" Bianca raised her hand, like she was in class. "Don't we have a quest?"

"Bianca's right, let's walk and talk." Andi hopped on that bandwagon, she very much wanted to get away from getting chided by someone else today.

The others nodded in agreement at Andi's suggestion and set off again, the champion of Hecate and her partner falling into step with them.

"Wait, where are we going?"

"The junkyard of the gods. How did you even get here?" Grover asked as he fiddled with his pipes.

"Well, I learned about Annie being missing, so I headed back to Camp to help."

"And the wizards-" The satyr asked worriedly.

"Ida's covering for me." Andi explained. "Anyways, after that I got stuck in Camp for a while, but I snuck out." Thalia snorted at this, while Zoë shook her head disapprovingly. "I ran into some trouble but I eventually made it to Manhattan and ran into Lady Aphrodite-"

"Funny, we just ran into her on a date with Ares." Percy snorted.

"So that's what she meant about a date." Andi shuddered. "Brain bleach!"

"Used it all already."

"Damn you. Anyway, she told me to head to Jersey. Met some folks there that really helped me out." Andi looked nervous at this. "Before that though, I had a run in with some mortal soldiers."

That garnered everyone's attention.

"Black military types with real scary guns?" Grover gulped.

"Yeah."

"We ran into some of those guys in Maine." Thalia clicked her tongue in annoyance. "They've teamed up with the Titans. They weren't that much of a problem though."

"Seriously?" Andi drawled. "What gave you that impression? They exploded me in a Starbucks. With people inside!"

Zoë showed concern at this. "Blast it all. Curse these greedy mortal men. Of course our foes wouldst employeth such scum."

"So? Sure we had a little trouble with them in Westover Hall, but we can take them." Percy shrugged. "I mean, we've got superpowers."

Andi's glare made him pause in his step as she hissed at him. "So do I Percy! That was until I got a flashbang to the face and fragged! You ever get hit by shrapnel? It's not fun!"

"I can never look at a pineapple the same way ever again." Wendy shuddered in fear, clinging close to Andi.

"Pardon my manners for not greeting you sooner. It is a pleasure to meeteth thee, young one." The older hunter greeted, before turning to Andi. "Wherefore doth thee hast an Aura with thee?" Zoë asked, looking curiously at the wind spirit. "Didst she cometh to thy aid against Phoenix?"

"This is Wendy, she's my partner. She's been helping me out for a few weeks now."

"Hello." Wendy waved at everyone. Though she did give Thalia a raspberry.

Blue static flashed in Thalia's hand at that.

"About these mortal soldiers, Andromeda is correct." Zoë stated firmly, ignoring the interaction. "While vile, these men art trained militia. A bane to you foolish heroes. Blades doeth little to counter a bullet between thine eyes."

"I managed to take out a bunch of them before they spooked at the sound of the NYPD." Andi told the group.

Zoë once again had an impressed look on her face, shooting Andi a thoughtful look even as she whispered under her breath. "Perhaps the recklessness can be trained out of her?"

"Take out?" Grover asked curiously.

"...Killed." Andi shifted a little as she looked down at her feet. She wasn't particularly proud of the blood on her hands, but survival came first and foremost to her. "There was at least a dozen on me, snipers too. They had me cornered. I had little choice."

Bianca looked aghast at Andi's admission. Even Percy and Grover looked a little uneasy too. Thalia just snorted in disgust. Only Zoë looked understanding.

"It wast the best choice thou couldst maketh in yond situation." Zoe looked at the rest, a chiding look on her face. "Doth not scorn her choice, if it wast thee, wouldn't thou doth the same? Wouldn't thee hast done the utmost to survive? She hadst done better than most wouldst. "

"Say that again!" Thalia snapped at Zoë.

Zoë simply raised a brow. "She did deal with the situation better than thou wouldst hast. Thy klutziness with thy shield is most obvious."

The youngest child of Zeus was unsure how she felt over Zoë's compliment on her surviving her encounter with the gunmen. She didn't feel special about it. All that she hoped for was that she didn't run into those guys ever again.

Percy looked grumpy at this. "At least you didn't have to deal with undead warriors."

"Oh gods, what did you do to piss off Uncle Hades?"

"Nothing!" Percy's face turned red, probably upset at the accusation. "These guys were summoned by the General. He grew them out of teeth."

"Dragon teeth?" Andi asked in surprise.

"Uh, yeah."

So just like the ones from the story of the Fleece! Andi hummed at this. "You guys hit them with a purification spell?"

"None of us art practitioners of the arcane." Zoë told her. "Except for thee. Now."

"Oh, I thought since you were Artemis' top gal, you'd know some of the trade."

"I hast nay needeth for the art of magic." The elder hunter dismissed. "Arts of the hunt art all I require."

"Well, if we run into them again, I think I might be able to take them out."

"You and Bianca can deal with them together." Percy observed. "She's already took out one by herself."

"For real? Wow, you go girl!" The excitable pint sized heroine said. "How'd you do it?"

"I-I don't know." Bianca said, hunkering down into her ski jacket as everyone's eyes turned to her.

"Hm, maybe she's related to a death deity?" Andi hummed in thought, tapping her lips with a finger. "Like Hecate, Thanatos, or even maybe Uncle Hades. Oh, that'd be cool! We'd be cousins!"

"Let's not get into that." Thalia grunted. "If you let her, she'll be so ridiculously clingy that you'll want to stab her. I know from experience."

Andi glared at Thalia for that, looking ready to give her own 'stabbing' comment in return.

Sadly, Percy squeezed between them and held up his hands. "Guys, give your regular spats a break for now. We've gotta focus on saving Artemis and Annabeth."

The sisters glared at one another and huffed, looking away from each other.

The youngest daughter of Zeus was surprised with just how little Thalia's words stung now. She had become pretty numb to the constant barbs.

After all the drama she had dealt with so far today, Thalia was nothing but a nuisance. Barely worth her notice. But Andi wasn't up to taking anymore crap in general, not even from her sister.

If Thalia wanted to bully her? The young witch was more than willing to give her a black eye in response.

"So Andi," Percy asked leaning in to whisper to her, clearly trying to distract her. "You mentioned you had some trouble on the way to Manhattan. That means D caught you too?"

"Yeah." Andi admitted, looking down as she did. "Apparently he hates my utter existence."

"He thinks Andi is being spoiled by Lord Zeus." Wendy added, sounding worried.

"Wow, he just hates me for being a hero." Percy blinked and patted her shoulder. "Tough break."

"Yeah, I'll just roll with it for now." She smiled up at him a little, even as she wanted to kick him in the shin. Percy didn't know what he was talking about. He didn't know a damn thing about what it meant to have a god truly and utterly loathe him.

Not even Ares hated the both of them to this level.

Feeling like she would strangle him if she kept talking to the ignorant Percy, Andi decided it was to time to talk to someone else. Looking around, she spotted Bianca trailing at the back of the group radiating unease.

Frowning, Andi decided it was time to catch up with her old friend.

"So, turns out gods are a real thing. Who knew right?"

Bianca cracked a weak smile. "Yeah, that was a shocker. Even more so when Nico and I found out about you. We kind of recognized Percy from the Lotus."

The daughter of Zeus looked sad. "I'm sorry we left you there, just, we were in such a rush to stop World War III, and I didn't even- I'm a terrible friend, Bianca. Hope you can forgive me."

"Hey hey hey, it's not your fault." The young hunter hurriedly said to her.

"It's not like it you could have helped her, Andi." Wendy added in comfortingly. "No one gets out of the Lotus without some godly help. You had help from Ares and your grandfather. " The young Aura shuddered at the mere mention of the dread Titan King. "So don't blame yourself."

"Then how did Nico and I get out?"

"Your godly parent decided to do something?" Wendy offered with a shrug.

"But why wait so long?" Bianca asked, sounding hurt. "It was seventy years!"

"Maybe they had a good reason?" The witch suggested. "I'm not sure, I'm not a god after all. They tend to do whatever's in their best interests, not ours. How are you adjusting to all this though? It's a bit of a shift in perspective."

Bianca played with her braid, "It's an adjustment. The girls in the Hunt explained a lot of things to me. But it's still overwhelming to be honest."

"It was for me at first too." Andi agreed. "But you'll get used to it."

Bianca nodded uncertainly. "I guess. So what do you think about the Hunt?"

Is Bianca questioning her decision? Andi mused as she eyed her nervous looking friend searchingly. Should I be honest? Would it offend Artemis if I was? Oh, heck it.

"They invited me to join them twice, actually three times counting Zoë from earlier." Andi thought back. "But it's not for me. While an all girls club sounds cool, with how they act? I'm not all that impressed by them. To me, they are- Err, what's the word? Femnazis? Yeah, I'm not a real femnazi."

Bianca looked like she wanted to defend her new friends, but had a stumped look on her face. Like she didn't even know what to say. Instead, she asked Andi. "When did they invite you the first time?"

"Oh, it was actually last Christmas. Bethy, Will, and I went to England and I slew this big boar that burped lightning."

"We ran into a big boar earlier!" Bianca pointed out.

"Bianca is speaking of the Erymanthian Boar." Zoë informed at hearing her young recruit's exclamation. "Andromeda hadst bested the beast of our lady, the Calydonian Boar. A noble swine. A worthy opponent."

"Oh! Wow." Bianca whistled in awe.

"Indeed." Zoë acknowledged. "But we can speak of this later. We art here."

"Where is here exactly?" Andi asked. "What's this junkyard of the gods?"

Before them was a mesa surrounded by junk that glinted in the moonlight. The whole place was full of broken heads of bronze horses, metal legs from human statues, smashed chariots, tons of shields and swords and other weapons, along with more modern stuff, like cars that gleamed gold and silver, refrigerators, washing machines, and computer monitors. You name it, and it was there.

"It's where the gods, Hephaestus mainly, dumps their rubbish." Grover explained helpfully, gesturing at the piles of junk. "The usual trash, broken appliances, failed prototypes. Those kind of things."

"Great, another place belonging to the smith god. Hope it doesn't try to kill me like last time-and I just jinxed it. Shite." Andi palmed her face. Hard.

"Way to go, Andi."

"Zip it, goat boy. Let's just climb over this heap of garbage."

As Andi picked through the junkyard alongside the others, she couldn't help but be on edge. Even more so than the others, she still vividly remembered the Battle-Cano and was wary of a repeat. That combined with her superior eyesight was what allowed her to spot the faint distortions in the air out of the corner of her eye.

Her bow was in her hands in a moment, an arrow drawn as she spun around towards the distortion.

"Andi?" Percy asked, seeing her tense.

"We're not alone." The witch claimed, everyone tensing at her words.

"Be on thine guard." Zoë ordered, drawing her celestial bronze knives. "Spread out and alert the rest of us if thee findeth something."

"I thought you don't split up at times like this? It never ends well in the movies."

"Tis not a movie, Satyr." The hunter shot back. "But stayeth in pairs."

The questers separated, Andi with Wendy in tow climbed over a small mound of silver plates and lunchbox memorabilia. She had just slid down the slope on the other side, when she heard a faint clicking noise.

"Andromeda Potter." A familiar, annoying voice breathed out in surprise from nowhere. "Fancy seeing you here."

Andi withheld a groan. She knew that voice all too well. "GLaDOS the yammering AI. My utmost pleasure to hear you again."

"I'm amazed you still function, I thought you'd have killed yourself by now."

"I'm sorta the tenacious type." Andi quipped, her voice tight.

"Andi?" Wendy asked warily. "Who are you talking to?"

"An acquaintance, if I'm being generous."

"She's invisible?"

"Lo-"

"Of course, I am." GLaDOS replied sounding insulted. "Or at least this drone is. I'd never be able to scavenge the gods' refuge otherwise. If nothing else, the Olympians are good with protecting against thieves."

"You know, I've really wanted to get some payback for the attack on camp just to get you out of the attic." Andi's grip on her bow tightened as she glared in the direction of the voice.

"Chell might have went a little overboard with that." GLaDOS agreed, to Andi's surprise. "She was so desperate to free me-"

"That's no excuse." Andi hissed angrily.

"I suppose not."

"So how about showing yourself? Let me get some payback." Andi suggested in a faux kind tone. "I promise I'll forgive you after I wreck whatever tin can you're using now."

Andi mentally crossed her fingers the whole time.

"I think not. It would be a waste to allow a perfectly good drone to be destroyed just to sate your need for wanton destruc-." The AI paused mid-sentence, before continuing in an amused tone. "The security system was just activated. One of your friends must have taken something."

"What?" Andi exclaimed in concern as she turned in the direction she'd come.

"I guess it's time I pay back the favor for freeing me from Hephaestus' forge." The AI said, sounding resigned.

"What do you me-"

Just then two things happened very quickly. Firstly, the ground suddenly began shaking violently as in the distance Andi saw what looked like a massive metal man stand up. The daughter of Zeus barely noticed that though as she was more concerned with the second thing, since it was happening right in front of her.

Suddenly, the area she was in front of shimmered to reveal a strange vaguely insect like machine with a pair of large pincers on either side of a vicious looking maw and a frill around most of its body that was held in place by a set of bladed limbs that moved up and down seemingly at random. The thing's strangeness was topped off by it hovering a few inches off the ground all whilst giving a barely audible, even by Andi's superhuman hearing, hum. The machine dropped the piece of what looked like scrap it was clutching in its pincers and grabbed hold of a surprised Andi.

"Andi!" The demigod heard Wendy shout just as the daughter of Zeus and the machine were consumed by a flash of light.

As the light died down, Andi was no longer in the junkyard.

Instead it looked like she was in some kind of foundry. The whole place was boiling hot and there was molten metal everywhere. Smelting units were all around her, with the liquified metal being poured here and there as conveyor belts carried junk in every which direction. With dozens of the strange drones carrying all manner of stuff around all over the place.

"There, we're even." GLaDOS declared as her drone released the daughter of Zeus. For her part, Andi didn't waste any time, she immediately changed Skyline into its sword form and swung it down on the insectoid machine's head. It cracked open easily, sending sparks and various electronics flying everywhere.

Everything in the foundry stopped as the drone dropped to the ground from its hover, clearly disabled.

"Is this how you repay my kindness, daughter of Zeus?" GLaDOS shouted from all around her, sounding furious.

Oh shut up! Andi thought to herself angrily. Right then, all she could really wanted was to just rip out the mechanical bint's voice module!

She glared all around her. "Where am I?!"

Andi's answer was alarms going off, red warning lights spinning all over the place and the drones putting down whatever they were carrying and charging at her, their pincers clicking aggressively.

She fired an air bomb arrow right in the heart of the nearest group, reducing them to scrap.

GLaDOS gave a furious roar that echoed from all around her, even as more of the machines appeared. With even more of them handing in her direction, presumably streaming in from throughout the entire factory.

The demigod began to flee down a hallway. There was no way she'd stand and fight in a place like this. The crazy AI was no doubt building her forces here. Like bloody hell I'm sticking around here. Now where's a damn exit? Those things might have gone down easily, but I'm not waiting for whatever other surprises this bint's got up her servo.

Andi ran down the hallway, hoping to find an exit from this place. It was the second time she was teleported right into hostile territory today and she was getting tired of it.

FML, just screw it all! Andi gripped on her terrible, terrible luck. "What the shite Fates?"

Thankfully, the insect like drones were slow things and it was easy for Andi to keep ahead of them.

Unfortunately, for the daughter of Zeus things rarely ever went well for her. She was just about to breathe a sigh of relief when she heard rapid metallic footfalls, dozens of pounding noises that filled her ears as she looked ahead.

You have got to be kidding me!

It was like that movie with the dinosaurs. Charging in her direction, were dozens of knee high skeletal veloci-somethings, with deadly looking enlarged claws and menacing glowing red eyes. They were tiny but the machines looked very dangerous indeed. Especially, as they breathed gouts of fire occasionally while advancing on her.

"And now fucking dinosaurs!" The frustrated daughter of the skies complained as she saw her latest enemy. "That's it, tell the world I wanna get off! I demand a refund!"

Andi aimed her bow, bombing the center of group. While the blast of air got a few of them, these dinos seemed to have been made of sterner stuff than the insectoids. This meant that there were still plenty of the dino machines. Something they exploited by breathing fire in tandem, creating a massive wall of fire that flew Andi's way.

Andi took a step back at this, prepared to counter with a wall of air, but the clicking noise behind her stopped that idea. She was in a literal pincer. Without many options, the daughter of Zeus did something reckless once again.

Cocooning herself in spiraling winds, Andi dove right through the attack.

The moment she broke through, she felt something cold and heavy slam into her, throwing her into a wall and beginning to claw at her. Her cocoon of air offered her some protection but it was no Storm Mail and the dino-machine that had jumped at her began leaving deep cuts with its claws.

Even as its fellows moved to capitalise on her weakness, Andi acted. Summoning her powers, she unleashed an explosion of air that sent all the enemies around her flying.

Jumping to her feet before they recovered, she took off in a run.

Andi winced at the cuts along her side and legs, but she ignored it. It was nothing life threatening and her pain tolerance was very good.

Aren't these places supposed to have exit signs or something? So much for keeping up to-Hello! Andi paused her mental rant as she rounded a corner and spotted just what she wanted to see, an exit sign pointing to the left.

Deciding that Tyche was finally giving her a break, she dutifully turned left and found herself in a big empty room. Where on the opposite side in big bold letters read "EXIT" in bright red neon.

"Yes." Andi pumped her fist and ran towards it, only for a flash of light to halt her in her tracks.

The light faded to reveal a young woman in her mid twenties. She had dark brown hair in a small ponytail, pale blue eyes, and light brown skin. She wore an orange jumpsuit with the upper part folded down and tied around her waist, revealing a white tanktop drenched in sweat and a choker adorned with a huge ruby. She had a white wristband on her right wrist, and held a odd looking white and black gun.

The weapon had a large transparent barrel that contained what looked like a blue star. Its muzzle was bracketed by two pairs of claw like arms, one below and the other above. It looked similar to the guns that had been used by the droid that attacked Camp, so it put Andi on edge. Even more so with what was behind the woman.

Milling about behind her like a pack of overeager children were a half dozen minivan sized light blue drones. They looked vaguely insectoid but not like the scavenger machines from earlier, these looked more like spiders. Each machine had four "eyes" fitted on the surface of their bodies. Three are on the "head", with the last beneath the abdomen that Andi spotted as they fidgeted. They had four legs that ended in wheeled footpads and two arms. It was what was mounted on those arms that gave Andi pause.

One was armed with an obvious flamethrower from the muzzle of which a small flame burned.

Another was equipped with some kinda freeze ray, if the frost coating the gun was anything to go by.

Yet another had something that sparked with electricity occasionally. That one didn't really worry Andi much, she was immune to electricity after all.

The others had weapons that Andi couldn't guess at but considering what she knew about her opposition, they would undoubtedly be nasty surprises.

"Hi." Andi said to break the silence that had fallen over the room.

"Hello!" All of the big drones said, waving at her merrily.

You know, for a bunch of killer looking robots, they were kind of cute.

The woman just rolled her eyes in fond exasperation, before stepping forward to address Andi.

"Greetings Potter, my name is Chell Johnson and I must ask you to surrender." The woman 'said', her voice coming from her choker where the ruby flashed with crimson light as she 'spoke'.

"Question, if I surrender, I die right?"

"No," The woman countered. "You'll just be handed over to the Titans as a prisoner."

"Which means I'm as good as dead. So I'm not really going to surrender if that's the case!" Andi affirmed.

"Do you really think you have a choice?" The enemy asked gesturing towards the swarm of dino and scavenger machines that Andi had only now noticed had filled up the hallway behind her.

"Well, shite."

The big spider drones gasped at this, one of them whispering out fearfully. "You used a dirty word!"

"Mummy Chell is gonna spank you!" Another warned shaking its large gun for an arm in a chiding gesture.

"I'll have to decline that." Andi smiled weakly as she took a few steps back.

Chell for her part just blushed lightly at her creations' unintended innuendo.

"Stop teasing my daughter, Potter." GLaDOS said, her voice once more echoing from all around her.

"Mother, I can handle this." Chell sad blushing even more furiously.

GLaDOS' only reply was a burst of static, one that seemed distinctly disgruntled.

Coughing to regain Andi's attention, Chell spoke without any hint of her previous embarrassment. "As I was saying before we got sidetracked. Do you really think you have any option besides surrender, Potter?"

"Sure!" Andi replied with false cheer, doing her best to hide her nerves. "I can always do this!"

With that exclamation, the daughter of Zeus aimed her bow to the side of the room and fired three air bombs right at it. The powerful blasts badly damaged the wall, causing concrete and metal to cave in, but after the dust settled the wall still stood.

"...It's reinforced, isn't it?" Andi's shoulders slacked a little.

Chell nodded.

"FML, FML, FML." The younger demigod chanted underneath her breath. She backed away towards the tunnel she had come from. Only to stop as the drones there clacked their claws and pincers at her threateningly.

"Tachikomas, capture her." Chell ordered sternly while the now named Tachikomas whooped with glee and advanced on the child of Zeus. For a moment, Andi looked between the two armies of machines looking defeated but she couldn't keep the front up long.

"Sonic Move!" Andi declared with a smirk and streaked right past the drones. She headed right for the door behind Chell, only to go through a blue portal that had suddenly replaced the door. This caused her to come out from a red portal that had opened up on the ceiling, leading her to end up right in the middle of the room again.

She looked towards Chell, seeing her smirk as she patted her freaky looking toy. "Nice try, but you can't escape."

"Don't say I can't, because that will just encourage me to prove you wrong." Andi told her with a tense smile as her eyes looked everywhere for another possible escape route. They landed on the Tachimahosits, who were sporting those scary looking weapons.

"Please don't shoot me!" Andi pleaded with as much terror as she could put into her voice while stepping towards the wall she had tried to destroy earlier.

"You're scared of our guns?" One of the drones said as it charged up its electrical gun, lightning arcing up and down the barrel. "Well, eat this!"

Chell's eyes widened. "No!"

It was too late, the gun fired just as Andi Sonic Moved out of the way. Andi didn't know what the thing was, she'd thought it was some kinda tesla weapon. But that obviously wasn't it. Instead the gun fired some kind of energy beam that tore through the air before impacting the wall and leaving a gaping hole.

One big enough for a Hummer to drive through, or rather, a petite demigod to escape from.

"Thanks for lacking common sense, bye! Sonic Move." Andi bolted right out of the foundry, and out into the city beyond.

The daughter of Zeus blitzed through the streets of the city she found herself in. She pulled off at least three Sonic Moves before she felt she had put enough distance from the foundry and finally came to a stop to figure out her current location.

All around her were cars and trolleys zipping by, going through the ascending and descending slopes of the area. Buildings of multiples sizes stretched out into the distance making up a beautiful skyline. It was populated by dozens of early birds, it was still only early morning, that were walking about on their way to work, some errand or other business. Andi herself was currently in something of a small alley between two buildings and looking out onto a moderately busy street.

Stepping out onto the sidewalk and looking off into the distance, Andi spotted the iconic Golden Gate Bridge.

"So I'm in San Francisco." She nodded to herself. Alright, she was on course! Now she just had to find some way to regroup with the others and-

Just then a sound of an electrical discharge caught her attention, and the daughter of Zeus looked up to see a golden drone hovering above her. It had a cylindrical body that had three fins that rotated around it and which ended in a single red "eye" that was glowing ominously.

On reflex, Andi fired some arrows at it. However, she was an instant slower than the machine and it managed to discharge a beam of red light that burned her right arm badly and caused her to almost drop her bow from the pain. Thankfully, her arrows filled the laser toting drone full of holes thus preventing it from capitalising on her weakness.

Unfortunately, the drone's attack was just a distraction. Even as it died, flashes of white light filled the street around her. They faded to reveal the entire posse of those Tachiwhatsit things.

"Fuck all kinds of duck, for real." Andi scrambled for her bow, grabbing it as she ducked under a ray of frost. The beam shot pass her and out into a street, hitting a passing car. The automobile flipped as ice swiftly encased it. To make matters worse, the impact with the ground proved hard enough that it and it's equally frozen occupants broke apart into chunks.

"What are you doing!" Andi shouted in shock, glaring at the freeze ray wielding machine. "You just killed those mortals!"

"You ducked." Chell's voice replied from the same drone. "It wouldn't have hurt you, much. Them? Well, results speak for themselves."

"They're not a part of this!" Andi cried out as screams of panic filled the streets.

Chell's only response was to issue a chilling order to her children. "Hit that cluster of sheep."

"You got it mommy!" A Tachi-thing said as it released a gout of flames towards a group of fleeing mortals.

"NO!" Andi roared in fury and created a wall of air that blocked the fire. Only to gave her leg grazed by a laser from another of the machines, forcing the younger demigod to a knee.

"You heroes are so typical. Why waste your life for them when you could have fled."

Andi glared heatedly at the drone Chell spoke from, her electric blue eyes glowing. "I value human life, unlike you!"

"And it's led to your downfall. Surrender or I'll roast as many little mortals as I wish."

Andi hesitated, she knew surrendering would probably lead to some pretty terrible stuff for her. Probably torture and likely death. As much as she wanted to save the mortals, the prospect of that gave her pause.

Her monster of a opponent was not about to let her have time to think however.

"Fire the railgun."

"Yay! I get to have fun too!" One of the drones equipped with a gun with a particularly long barrel declared cheerfully as it aimed the weapon at a skyscraper off in the distance.

The daughter of Zeus' eyes widened. "No please-!"

The drone fired the railgun, sending a streak of energy flying through the sky that closed with its target in an instant. The attack blasted a massive hole through the building, apparently destroying some of its important structural supports in the process and causing the tower to begin to collapse.

Intense heat washed over her as part of the weapon's discharge, but Andi didn't even notice. She was too strongly gripped by horror as she saw the building come down. She raised her hand, trying in vain to maybe slow the debris' descent, but she only had weapons aimed at her for the trouble.

"Now now, watch the show. Don't ruin it."

Andi's knuckles turned white at this. "What the bleedin' hell, woman! Just stop! I give up, just stop this!" She hung her head, feeling ashamed, scared, and dozens of other things.

A broken laugh met her surrender. It sounded terrible, like it came from someone whose throat had been torn out or badly burned. It was utterly inhuman. With a chill down her spine, Andi realized that this was Chell's natural voice not the one created by the vocal synthesizer she wore.

"Mommy has a nice laugh." One of the Tachithingys commented as it moved to restrain Andi, the others all nodding or making agreeing noises.

"Thank you sweeties," Chell replied sounding maternal. "Now secure the prisoner."

"Yes mommy!"

The lead drone was just reaching out to grab Andi with the one arm that didn't have a gun, the freeze ray, grafted to it when a way cry rent the air.

"Hippogriff Express!"

As one the Tachimagigs all looked up. Only to be bulldozed by a duo of angry Hippogriffs pulling a war chariot.

Specifically, Andi's war chariot.

With Wendy at the reins!

"Silver, Quill?" Andi asked in surprise as Silver plucked her from the ground by his talons, even as Wendy pulled up hard on the reins and the chariot flew up into the air.

Blasts of fire, ice, plasma and beams of lasers and unidentifiable energies fired up at them. Wendy skillfully evaded the attacks. The robots were indiscriminate in their shots though and more than one building was clipped by their deadly fire.

"Pull up! Wendy, pull up!" Andi screamed. "Take us above the city!"

Andi might still be afraid of heights but she'd much rather deal with that than the guilt of being the cause of more deaths.

"Roger!" Wendy replied as she once more pulled hard on the reins, pulling them into a hard climb trailed by an unrelenting barrage of fire from the enemies below.

Even that petered away though as they flew above the clouds and apparently the range of the drones' weapons.

As they entered relative safety, Wendy heaved a sigh of relief. "I think we're all clear."

"Looks like." Andi agreed as she relaxed a little too.

They all took a minute to calm their nerves, before a mischievous twinkle entered Wendy's eyes.

"Mr. Silver, fling her aboard!" The Aura ordered with a smirk.

"Wai-" Andi cried in protest, but was ignored as the hippogriff obeyed, tossing the demigoddess above them.

Andi let out a short scream at being suddenly girlhandled by her hippogriff friend but calmed down as Wendy's winds wrapped around her and pulled her into the chariot cab.

"Thank you, Mr. Silver."

Ticked off with being thrown around like a beanbag, Andi reached over to smack Wendy lightly on the arm in protest. Unfortunately, this pulled on her wounds and elicited a wince from the girl.

"Ow."

"This is why I told you to keep the feather with you." Wendy scolded her as she tied the reins to the chariot. "Mr. Quill, the flightpath is yours!"

Quill squeaked in affirmation.

"Not the time Wendy," The daughter of Zeus grunted. "More healing, less scolding!"

Wendy nodded. "I will refrain for now, but I reserve the right to do so later."

"Permission granted."

The Aura untied the feather from her hair and laid it against Andi's wounded arm. Closing her eyes to concentrate, Wendy channeled her power through the feather, her fiery tresses glowing as she did so.

Steam hissed from the wounded limb, the burn sizzling as it was replaced by unblemished skin while her many scratches faded away. Wendy opened her eyes, seeing her first attempt was a success and cheered. "Wonderful! Now for the leg."

She repeated the process and in mere moments, Andi was combat ready once more.

"That thing rocks." Andi marveled as she poked her once burned arm. "So now that I'm all healed up, mind explaining how you found me?"

"Well, after getting separated in the junkyard," Wendy gained a solemn look at this, "I used our connection to track you down, running into Silver and Quill along the way."

We thought she was violating our territory so we confronted her. Quill helpfully picked up the story. But once we heard what had happened we immediately volunteered to help.

Yup. Silver chimed in. Even brought along your chariot just in case.

"Thanks a bunch guys." Andi said sincerely. "I really appreciate it."

Not a problem!

Anytime.

"I'm your partner, of course I'd come save you." Wendy said pouting a little, seemingly hurt that Andi seemed to think she wouldn't do so.

"I know you would," Andi said ruffling Wendy's hair affectionately. "I'm still grateful though."

The Aura smiled at that. Satisfied that she'd appeased her partner, Andi turned to the hippogriffs and decided she could satisfy her curiosity. Sure she had a quest to worry about, but she really needed a break right now.

"So Silver, Quill, you said Wendy ran into your territory? So you're nesting near San Fran?"

Indeed. Quill replied. Though I'm unsure how to explain the exact location to you, My Lady. You humans use different ways to map things.

"That's not a problem. If I want to visit I can just ask Wendy to lead the way."

"Yup." The aforementioned Aura agreed.

"So you like your new place? It's better than the Camp's stables?"

No offense, My Lady, but anywhere is better than those stables. Silver replied. Expecting us to live alongside all those pegasi, blegh. I'd sooner live in a sewer.

Don't be such a drama queen. Quill told his fellow hippogriff. To answer your question, My Lady, our new nest is wonderful. You really should visit sometime. We'd be happy to show you around.

"I will." Andi promised with a smile, before growing serious. The break was over, time to get into mission mode again. "Wendy, where are we going?"

"The Garden of the Hesperides. Before I set off to find you, Miss Zoë said to meet the others there. They should be able to get there later today. She said we should regroup nearby and wait for sunset, so we can go in together."

"Why sunset?"

"It's the only time that the doorway to the Garden is open."

"Copy that." Andi said with a smile. Looked like they had a plan. That was always a good thing.

My ladies, Quill called out suddenly. We're nearing Othrys.

"Othrys!?" Andi called out in alarm. "Why are we heading to the Titans' main base?"

"Andi, calm down." Wendy reassured. "The Titans' fortress is gone. The gods completely blasted it from existence during the last war."

"Right, dad sheared it off the top. Still…"

"The Garden is on the mountain, Andi." Wendy added. "Atlas was supposed to be imprisoned under the sky there too, which means it's likely where Artemis is after being forced to swap places with him. At least that's what Miss Zoë thinks."

"So? It's still crawling with the Titans' army, isn't it? Great, just great. Oh and a Titan."

It should be just pass this cloud bank. Silver commented.

As if on cue, the chariot flew past a large cloud and they caught sight of the dread mountain.

"That doesn't look like the fortress was disintegrated to me." Andi said fearfully as she gazed at the top of a mountain on which lay a ruin. One, which even before her eyes, was slowly rebuilding itself. All over the mountain top, new blocks of black marble were materializing from thin air and assembling themselves into walls, and columns sprouting out from the earth like plants. It was too slow to be noticeable if one was at ground level, but from the air, it was almost obvious as whole sections just seemed to be more real, more complete with every passing moment.

"...Maybe Lord Zeus could blast it again?" Wendy suggested weakly.

"I don't see that happening right now."

They were just circling the mountain, looking for a landing spot when they were met with a reception.

"Welcome to Othrys, little fly." A booming voice echoed from the mountain. It was so loud and imposing that it almost seemed like the very mountain itself was speaking to them.

"Evasive maneuvers! Bank left!" Andi cried out.

The hippogriffs weren't fast enough though as a massive vortex consumed the group.

Suddenly, the air around them transformed into the inside of a massive vacuum cleaner and began sucking them towards the mountain. Both Andi and Wendy called on their powers over the wind to fight it, but whatever force was behind the vortex was powerful. Much more powerful than even their combined strength and they failed to stop it as it drew them in.

As they were drawn towards the mountain, the chariot was torn apart by the suction, sending debris flying everywhere. One particularly big chunk slammed right into Andi. The daughter of Zeus struggled to stay awake but it was too much, and all went dark.

Andi woke up with a throbbing headache. She used one hand to rub her head while the other grasped around, feeling straw around her. Taking in her surroundings, she realised that she was in a cell. Bars covered the front of what looked like a cubicle hewn out of the rough stone of a mountain. The only things inside were a bench and a pithos.

"...Bugger me in the glens."

Captured. Andi was a prisoner of the Titan army.

She figured Ares and Mr. D were laughing their arses off over this.

Fantastic. Thalia was right, I did wind up in jail. Fuck her. Andi looked around her again, noting that she wasn't even restrained. Wow, either I'm being really underestimated or this General guy is a dummy. Probably the former.

The girl was perfectly fine with this.

Hopping to her feet, the demigod pressed her face against the bars to look around some more. Flanking the cell were a trio of Laistrygonian giants. They were these eight-foot-tall cannibals with heavily tattooed arms, yellow pointed teeth, wore leather armor with spikes around the shoulders and were armed with iron clubs.

"Don't I get one I.M. call?" Andi asked nicely, a pretty smile on her face.

Her cheek wasn't appreciated though and she nearly got smacked as one of the giants banged her cell's bars hard, grunting at her.

Okay, so the bars are pretty sturdy. Seems these lump heads aren't going to get me out. Let's play this up.

"I demand a lawyer! I have rights! This is America! I'm a bleedin' American now! I read about how this stuff should go down!"

"Shut up, runt." One sneered at her. "You're a prisoner of war."

"Take me to your leader?" Andi took a shot, only for another to swing his club at her bars. Making them jostle, but still remain firm.

"Stop talking!"

The daughter of Zeus pretended to look apologetic. "I'm a rambler. Comes with the territory of demigodhood. A real disease mind you, actually contagious." She looked at them worriedly. "You blokes are cool right? No rambles?"

One of the giants looked to the one to the far left. "You've been talking a lot lately… must be from that kid of Demeter you ate last week."

"I do not!" The accused Laistrygonian giant snarled and pushed his accuser.

"Why you!"

As the two began to tousle, the third tried to stop them, only to be swept up into the brawl. As they bashed each others heads with their clubs, Andi smiled. Stepping back, she quietly chanted a spell.

Jailbreak!

"επικαλούνται: κατάρρευση (Invoke: Implosion)."

As the spell words left Andi's mouth, a point in space in front of the bars of her prison began to distort. It began to suck in air in a vortex effect but it was not just air that was drawn in. The powerful forces unleashed by the spell also served to pull in the metal bars of her cell, causing them to bend and snap.

The three giants, standing on either side of the cell as they were, were drawn in by the vacuum effect as well. They struggled against the suction but it was hopeless, the power of Andi's spell was too great. Despite using all their strength and their desperate grasping at any and all handholds they could reach, their lower bodies were drawn into the vortex and crushed. The damage was too much and while screaming in agony, their bodies collapsed into gold dust.

That was easy.

"Now that I'm out, I've gotta rescue Wendy." Andi said with determination as she stepped through the wreckage of her cell door. She could feel a faint pull in the connection she had with the Aura, it was barely noticeable however and the daughter of Zeus wasn't surprised that she never noticed till now. Sadly, unlike Wendy she couldn't feel any sense of where her partner was through it. Thankfully, she had other options.

Grabbing a broken piece of the bars of her former cage, Andi cast the Point Me Spell on it and directed it to show her the way to Wendy. It was a nifty little spell she'd discovered in the notes left behind by the Hecate kids when they abandoned Camp. It was a variation of the Four-Point Spell that the wizards used to turn their wands temporarily into a compass. The Point Me Spell was far more useful however as it served to turn the target object into a compass that pointed in the direction of what the caster desired.

As Andi's magic took hold of it, the metal bar jumped to life and began pointing towards her right.

"That way it is."

She didn't know who heard the result of her implosion spell going off, but Andi did know she had to act fast. The demigod dashed through the halls, sticking low and to whatever shadows she could hide in to avoid contact with any roaming guards.

It took her only a few minutes to find Wendy's cell. The Aura was being held in just the next cell block over. Her cell was different from Andi's though as its bars was covered in glowing runic etchings that must have created some kind of magic that prevented Wendy from simply transforming into wind and drifting out of the cell. The Titans must have thought that the magic was enough to keep her restrained because she was only being guarded by a lone Laistrygonian.

A very nervous giant as it was subjected to an unblinking glare from his prisoner. Wendy was sitting stock still on the cell's bench levelling the coldest stare she could manage at the monster, her head swivelling to keep him unerringly pinned with her gaze even as he paced in front of her cage obviously desperate to somehow escape it.

"Stop that!" The giant whined. "Please just stop staring at me like that!"

Wendy didn't reply, just kept looking at him with a look that told him that once she got out, she'd end him.

Atta girl, Wendy. Andi thought to herself proudly, as she snuck up behind the distracted guard.

"Oh just kill me. I'd rather a trip to Tartarus than more of this."

"'I'll be glad to oblige." Andi declared as she used a conjured wind blade to cut the monster in half.

"Andi!" Wendy cheered. "What took you so long?"

"I was knocked out." Andi explained. "How long has it been?"

"A couple hours." Wendy replied. "You ok?"

"Yeah. You? Silver and Quill?" Andi asked even as she gestured for her partner to back up from the bars.

"I'm fine." The Aura replied as she obeyed. "I don't know where they took the others though."

"Alohomora." The cell's lock resisted Andi's spell, but the demigoddess just pushed more magic into her spell and after a moment of struggle, the lock gave out and the cell door snapped open.

"There she is!" A voice cried out, even as Wendy stepped out of her cell. "She's freeing her pet Aura."

Turning to the sound of the voice, the duo spotted a group of guards rushing over. They were a mixed bag of seal like things with dog heads that Andi recognized as Telekhines and Scythian Dracaena.

"Sod off, you dirtbags!" Andi shouted at the advancing guards as she sent a cyclone of cutting winds down the corridor. Wendy joined in, adding her own scorching winds to the mass of deadly air. In minutes, the monsters were shredded, leaving behind nothing but golden dust.

"Before we go anywhere else, we'll need to get our gear." The child of Zeus concluded as she eyed the piles of gold dust in the corridor. "The guards are obviously onto us. We need our weapons."

Wendy nodded. "Any idea where they put our stuff?"

"No, but I know a spell that can show us the way."

By now the whole palace was starting to swarm with guards, so they had to sneak pass at least three separate groups of monsters that had been searching the dungeons for them, but eventually Andi's spell led them to a room that had a sign that helpfully indicated that it was the armory hanging over a pair of large metal doors. It was guarded of course, by a dozen Dracanae, but a quick barrage of air hammers easily took them out.

"We've gotta be quick." Andi warned, as she pushed the doors to the armory open. "They'll be sending more- Whoa!"

Wendy echoed the daughter of Zeus' awe as she too gasped at the sight before her.

The armory was a immense vault filled to the brim. In racks, stands, shelves and neat stacks on the ground were countless knives, swords, bows, polearms, necklaces, books and all manner of trinkets. Everything was giving off waves of magic causing the whole place to be practically smothered in ambient magic.

Andi quickly shook off her shock. "Come on! We need to hurry."

"Right." Wendy replied as she zipped off into the armory. "I can feel my feather is this way."

Looking down at the trusty metal bar, Andi recast the Point Me Spell. This time, she had it direct her towards Skyline.

"Hopefully, my dagger is there too." She hoped so, constantly using the Point Me spell was just getting repetitive. The witch inwardly complained as she followed her spell's directions towards a rack of swords hidden amidst the vast collection of weapons.

Tyche it seems was finally on her side -Andi made a mental note to remember to make a tribute of food to her the next meal she had- as she spotted her drakon dagger on a neighboring rack of short blades. Among which she found something that gave her pause. Sitting next to her poisonous knife was Bethy's trusty Celestial Bronze dagger.

If that's here, then Bethy should be too!

Andi stuffed the dagger in her boot for safe keeping as she frowned. "We need to take this place down. Like hell I'm letting these arses be this well equipped."

"But the guards." Wendy fretted as she flitted over, her Pheonix feather in her hair once more.

"We'll be-" Suddenly a booming voice was heard.

"MY ARMORY!" The voice of Andi's granddad echoed throughout the reassembling castle.

"-fine. What is with me and jinxes!" The daughter of Zeus complained as she grabbed her weapons. "We're going. Move, move, move!"

Wendy heeded her words as they bolted from the armory and Andi held out her hand just before they turned down the hallway.

"Confringo!"

A light the color of fire flew from her palm as she poured a good amount of magic into the spell. The spell impacted the floor of the vault just past the door and caused a massive explosion that rippled through the air. The armory crumbled, burying the weapons within as tons of stone crashed down.

"Move!" Andi hissed as she pushed the gaping Wendy around the corner.

"What now?"

"We get Bethy then we make a plan." The daughter of Zeus answered with firm resolve.

By the time the duo managed to find Annabeth, her cell block was flooded with guards. Andi could count at least two dozen of them and she was pretty sure there were more hidden somewhere out of sight. She was not enjoying the odds. Especially with how weak and feeble Annabeth looked in her cell. Hades, some of her hair had even turned grey!

What did they do to you?! Andi thought in silent rage as she wanted nothing more than to massacre the monsters, but stayed her hand. Be calm, be rational. That's what Bethy would do. Andi turned back to Wendy. "We need to move."

"But Annabeth-"

"Will be fine." Andi swiftly cut her off, bottling down her own sense of agitation and disappointment. "I may want to gut him like a pig, but Luke isn't going to let Annabeth die. He's an arse like that."

"You sure?" Wendy asked uncertainly.

"Yeah." Andi managed through gritted teeth. "Let's go rescue Silver and Quill."

"Alright."

They had barely made it a few hallways down from Annabeth's cell when the duo were forced to duck into a curiously unlocked room to avoid a group of Telekhines as they rushed in the opposite direction on the way to reinforce the guard around the daughter of Athena's prison.

"Andi!" Wendy whispered in awe to the distracted demigoddess who was eying the monsters as they passed.

"What is it?"

The Aura just pointed towards a tapestry hanging on a wall inside the room they had taken shelter in. It had the image of a woman hanging upside down by her feet, her arms bound around her legs and her body being encased in what looked like white armor. The thing was flanked by a pair of statues that looked like crude imitations of tall men but with exposed gears and pistons and sheets of armor that Andi instantly recognized as automatons. She'd enough experience with them lately to know. They didn't look like anything Hephaestus or his mad daughter would have made though.

Probably Telekhine work. They're supposed to be tinkerers too.

Andi didn't know why the machine men weren't activating, but she wasn't about to give them the chance. Summoning Skyline to her hands in its bow form, she conjured a pair of air bomb arrows and shot them at the two automatons. The machines shattered to a million pieces at the blast.

"Andi we need to take that tapestry!"

"Why? Guards are going to be here any minute, we need to go!"

"I think, maybe, that's it's someone's tapestry of fate." Wendy whispered still in awe at the thing. "If the Titans keep it, they can control the fate of whoever it's about."

"...Yeah, we're taking this thing." Andi instantly said. Like hell she'd let Kronos have something like that. She didn't know whose tapestry it was, but whoever it was didn't deserve to made the Titans' slave. Calling on the winds, she ripped the tapestry from its place hanging on the wall and into her hands where it transformed into a handkerchief that Wendy snatched up and stuffed into a pocket of her dress.

"Let's go!" The Aura nodded and the partners fled from the room to the sound of monsters chasing after them.

"There they are! Get them!"

"Wendy! Run faster!"

"I'm running as fast as- Oh I'm idiot!" Wendy said with a groan. "Andi, get ready."

"Ready for wha-" Andi began only to be silenced as her partner transformed into her Storm Mail and the two of them flew down the corridor leaving their pursuers behind them roaring in frustration.

"It's so lovely to fly."

After they were sure they had shaken off their pursuers, the duo landed and dropped the Storm Mail. As useful as flying was in getting away from a horde of monsters. It was pretty attention grabbing and not really conducive to sneaking around an enemy's fortress. That and neither of them were entirely sure how long they'd be stuck down there and so they didn't want to exhaust themselves maintaining the Mail, which while plenty cost effective in terms of fatigue could still be draining if used too long.

Safe from immediate danger, it wasn't hard for them to find Andi's favorite pair of hippogriffs. She had just used the Point Me Spell on Skyline for a bit to show her where to go. To no surprise to anyone, it led them to the first place that came to her mind.

What would monsters do to a pair of large avian-equine?

Eat them, of course. Thus they found their feathery friends about to be prepared for dinner in the kitchens.

By this point, dodging roaming patrols and guards on duty had practically become second nature to the duo so they made it there without incident. What they found there was a little of a problem though. The place was crawling with Laistrygonians, all of them salivating, some literally so, at the prospect of hippogriff for dinner.

Please no! I'm too handsome! Andi heard a squawk that sounded like Silver echoing down the halls from where she and Wendy were hidden in the shadows of an alcove just down from the door to the kitchens. Take the less handsome one!

You sellout! But thank you for the mild compliment slash insult. That was no doubt Quill.

You are welcome!

Andi and Wendy peeked into the kitchen to see Silver strapped to a large table, with a Laistrygonian looming over him and sharpening a butcher's knife. He was wearing a chef's hat and an apron, which read: KISS THE GIANT, that was covered in blood and BBQ sauce. Silver was bound in ropes in the corner, as he tried to worm his way across the floor in a bid to do something to help his other half.

All around the kitchen were other Laistrygonians spectating the event and cheering the chef on or offering suggestions on how he could serve the birds for dinner.

That wasn't going to happen, not on Andi's watch.

Raising her bow, she fired off arrows in rapid succession. The audience of five all took a shot to the head, turning into dust. Through sheer luck, or possibly some interfering god, the chef avoided this fate by sheer chance as he moved his knife just as the arrow flew from her bow and it blocked the arrow.

The knife clattered along the stone ground, the chef blinking his eyes stupidly in confusion at this sudden development and looked towards the door. Andi drew another arrow.

"Uh, you want some hippogriff wings?" He weakly offered, his hands up in surrender as he looked down at Silver.

Wings! Wings?! Why my breasts would be far more scrumpalicious! I'm not some football game side dish! Silver screeched in outrage.

"Screw your wings." Andi told the giant as she fired off her arrow. It flew true and struck the monster right between its eyes, reducing it to gold dust.

My Lady, if I was not belted to this table, I would glomp you. Silver told her in thanks.

"No prob, Silver. Wendy, free Quill." Andi said as she changed her bow to its sword form and sliced open the belts that were keeping him restrained. Immediately upon being freed, the hippogriff got to his talons and hooves, and snuggled her.

I was nearly a side dish! Silver's beak quivered as his large eyes teared up.

Andi patted his feathered head. "There there."

My Lady, crybaby. The guards. Quill reminded them as he flexed his newly freed wings

I'm not a crybaby! Silver screeched in indignation, and looked to the side. I'm merely sensitive.

"Birdbrains, focus!" Wendy chided them, wagging her finger sternly as she did so.

Yes. The two nodded, getting serious.

"Let's get out of here." Andi said, getting ready to use her locator spell once again but Quill spoke up.

We can head left, there's a stair that leads to the surface not far in that direction.

"How did you know?" Andi asked in surprise.

Yes, about a hundred feet I think. We saw it while they were dragging us down here.

"You two managed to maintain a sense of direction while they were hauling us around?" Wendy asked, sounding impressed.

Of course. Quill replied sounding peeved that the nymph was doubting him.

Unlike you Aura, who just let other winds and your moods direct where you go, we hippogriffs need to keep a perfect sense of direction when we fly. An equally miffed Silver explained.

It's a matter of survival. Quill added, with a stern glare in Wendy's direction.

"Oh." The Aura said in a chastised whisper. "I didn't know that."

Well, now you do. Quill said sounding proud to have educated Wendy about the greatness of his kind. Silver nodding along, beaming with equal pride behind him.

Hams, the both of them. Andi thought to herself as she rolled her eyes. "Ok, that's enough of an education on the talents of hippogriffs for now. Let's getting going. Lead the way guys."

They went down the corridor, avoiding another group of monsters that seemed to be rushing to see what the ruckus was in the kitchens. It was rather difficult with Silver and Quill's lack of stealth, but Andi made do somehow. The Invisibility Spell was really useful there, it was taxing on her magic but with a pair of otherwise very noticeable hippogriffs with her, she had no choice. She'd even had to muffle the air around them to hide their squawking at every shadow which they seemed certain were all hiding some monster out to eat them.

They climbed the stairs with no incident and emerged into what looked like a half finished hall. The stair seemed to open up into a small adjoining room, though the wall that separated it from the rest of the hall was only chest high at this point and gave them a good look at the equally unfinished state of the hall beyond. Its walls were half-formed and its roof was little more than blocks of stone lying on the ground.

"Ok, Quill, Silver, time to go."

Right. Get on My Lady. Quill offered, lowering himself to allow Andi to mount him.

The demigod just shook her head. "Sorry guys, but we've staying. We still have a quest to finish."

But-

Quill was silenced when Silver kicked him in the flank. Be quiet. Turning to face Andi, he continued. We understand. We'll go get reinforcements and be back as soon as we can.

"I never said anything about reinforcements."

You can count on us, My Lady. We'll bring the whole flock to help. Quill said confidently.

Andi just sighed, before levelling the hippogriffs with a stern gaze. "Just go. Now."

Silver and Quill nodded and flew off into the wintry night sky.

The summit of Othrys was unremarkable in itself, especially considering the magically reconstructing fortress that Andi had explored, largely unwillingly, on the way there. What was eye catching were the gray clouds that swirled in a heavy vortex, making a funnel cloud that almost touched the mountaintop, but instead rested on the shoulders of a twelve-year-old girl with auburn hair and a tattered silvery dress: Artemis. The goddess' legs were bound to the rock with celestial bronze chains.

The sight was quite the spectacle, but what really caught Andi's attention was the fight that was raging just in front of the bound goddess.

Thalia was fighting Luke next to a large golden coffin that just reeked of evil -her granddad no doubt-, his cursed sword, Backbiter, clashing with Aegis and creating balls of yellow lightning that arced across the area each time. Off to the side, she spotted Annabeth bound, gagged and guarded by a couple of Dracaena and worryingly still looking as out of it as when Andi had seen her in her cell earlier. Meanwhile, Percy and that Zoë girl were fighting a giant in Greek armor that radiated power. Well, fighting was being very generous seeing as how the giant, Atlas if Andi was to take a guess, had just sent the son of Poseidon flying into a wall and was basically just swatting aside the Hunter's arrows.

The Titan looked like a living statue, with well built muscles that looked like they were carved out of stone. He had light brown skin with a brutal face, huge shoulders and hands that could probably break anything into little pieces. He fought in full Greek battle armor as he swung a javelin around. All while he laughed as he played with Percy and the Hunter.

Andi saw no sign of Bianca, which worried her, but the demigod kept her focus on the fight. She could worry later.

"Andi, look." Wendy whispered urgently.

Turning to see what had caught her partner's attention, Andi's blood ran cold. Marching up the side of the mountain, from the beach where a cruise ship - the Princess Andromeda, probably - was docked, was a huge army. Dracaenae and Laestrygonians, monsters and half-bloods, hell hounds, harpies, and a host of other monsters. There were hundreds, and all of them were marching toward them. In a few minutes, they would be here.

The daughter of Zeus looked Wendy dead in the eyes. "Armor up."

The Aura obeyed without hesitation and soon the daughter of Zeus was cloaked in her Storm Mail. Drawing Skyline in its bow form, she was ready for battle. For a moment, she considered what to do, but it was a no brainer. Thalia could handle a fellow half blood. As much as she hated to admit it, rescuing Annabeth wasn't a good idea at the moment either. As out of it as she looked, she would just be a liability in the other fights. It was better to just leave her be for the moment. Percy and Zoë on the other hand looked like they needed all the help they could get.

Hope I'm making the right choice. Andi prayed. She was gambling on the Titan being too arrogant to use his prisoner as a hostage to force them to surrender if things didn't go his way.

Flying into the fight against the iItan, and fighting off the slight nausea that the action was causing, Andi pulled back on her bow and fired off a massively oversized wind arrow at the immortal. The Hunter had tried to use quantity on him but that obviously hadn't worked. Time to try a new approach.

Sadly it proved just as ineffective as the arrow impacted the side of the Titan's head and only served to forcibly tilt it slightly. It did no damage whatsoever.

Shite! I'd have thought it would've at least give him a cut or something.

The Titan turned to face her and a cruel smirk spread across his face. He was about to say something, but a rain of arrows from Zoë distracted him and he turned to knock them out of the air.

"Andi?" Percy called out in surprise, as he caught sight of her. "We thought you were dead."

"Come on, Baywatch. I'm stupidly stubborn over living." Andi cracked a joke, trying to hide her nerves. "So who thought it was smart to fight a Titan?"

"Jackson." Zoë replied even as she joined the conversation, without once stopping her seemingly unless barrage of arrows on the Titan.

"Figures."

"Love you too, Andi." Percy dryly commented as he held his sword in front of him.

"Ah! Zeus' other little spawn." Atlas smiled wickedly, making him look very evil. "Did you enjoy your cell?"

"Kinda blew it up, and your armory, and some other stuff."

"I heard." Atlas said through gritted teeth, stomping the ground hard and creating a localized earthquake. Fortunately, everybody managed to keep their balance and so were able to evade the follow up sweep of the Titan's spear as he continued threateningly. "You shall pay dearly for that. Just like the lost Hunter already has."

Andi glanced at Percy and Zoë, she had an idea of what the Titan meant, but dearly hoped she was wrong. The others both looked away.

"So she's dead."

"Yes, Andromeda." Zoë said, shame faced over the subject.

"We didn't see her body though." Percy offered, even as he barely rolled away from a thrust from Atlas' massive spear.

So she might still be alive. Andi prayed that was the case.

The daughter of Zeus bottled up her emotions over the subject as best she could though and tightened the grip on her bow. They were in the middle of battle, now wasn't the time to think about it. She glared at Atlas, arrows forming between her fingers. "I'm set for a fight if you guys are."

Percy's grin didn't reach his eyes. "Maybe you didn't notice? But we're kinda in one already."

"You're such a prat." Andi grinned back as she let her arrows fly.

The Titan swatted the arrows away as they exploded in his face. Unfortunately, despite the direct hit, as the smoke cleared, the Titan remained unharmed.

"So you have a magical laser or something?" Percy asked as he ducked under a swing from Atlas, going in for a stab. His thrust was strangely off though, almost as if Riptide was suddenly a lot heavier than he was used to. The Titan took advantage of whatever it was and kicked him in the stomach so hard that he was sent tumbling near Artemis.

The daughter of Zeus glared heatedly at the Titan and cast her Reinforcement spell on herself. Her entire body was strengthened by the spell as the magic sought out the muscles, bones, ligaments and other components that made up the complex biological machine and enhanced them. Temporarily filling in any imperfections and making the whole thing more efficient, more powerful. Using the enhanced strength that she'd gained from the spell, she drew her bow back much further than she usually could.

She fired off the same oversized arrow she'd first used on Atlas but this time she let fly two of the things instead of the lone one. She normally could only manage a single such arrow per pull, but with the enhancement of her magic she could double that feat.

The spell came with a price however, as it left her muscles feeling tight, like they could snap at any moment. Reinforcement worked by enhancing the body and making it work beyond its physical limits, while part of its effects was to raise those limits in the first place, it did not eliminate them nor did it serve to stop the strain of pushing the limit of one's abilities from taking its toll. Thus the longer Andi used it, the more she tore her body apart. Despite this, the girl kept her focus and continued her powered shots. She aimed for joints of the General's armor, hoping to at least slow him down .

Atlas boomed with laughter as he evaded with flexibility you'd think his stature should not have allowed. "Is that all you can do? Pepper me with twigs and puffs of air? I must say, I'm disappointed!"

"Oh yeah? Why don't you try this then? Αερο (Aero)!" The arrow Andi fired twisted into a spiraling squall that howled as it cut through the air like fan blades.

The titan took the spell head on, not worried whatsoever. As it passed him, it left nothing more than scratches on his armor, barely noticeable ones at that. He raised his large palm in Andi's direction which made the hairs of the back of her neck stand up.

"Sonic Move!" She blitzed out of the way, just in time too. A moment later, a blast of energy leapt from his palm and obliterated the place where she'd been standing. The area was reduced to little more than a smoldering crater.

"Now now, child of Zeus. I took your feeble attack. You should withstand mine." Atlas chuckled cruelly even as he spread his arms wide, in the process conjuring dozens of orbs of raw power that surged through the air as beams of destruction.

"Sonic Move!" Andi shouted as she invoked her trusty spell to desperately engage in evasive maneuvers.

The Titan let out a gloating laugh at this even as his attacks subsided. "You run away well, little fly!"

The strain of her Reinforcement magic finally started to take its toll though and as Andi dropped out of her latest Sonic Move, she felt something in her arm snap.

Andi! Wendy cried out worriedly.

"Don't worry, I've got this covered." Andi reassured, as she cast a healing spell. "Καθαρό αέρα - επούλωση του ανέμου (Invoke: Pure Air - Healing Wind)."

The spell healed the damage but only barely. It wasn't a particularly powerful spell and the injury Andi had caused herself was within the upper limits of its capabilities. She'd picked it up because with how much she tended to get hurt, Ida had insisted that she learn at least some minor form of healing magic. She wasn't like Apollo cabin and the spell wasn't as great as the Pheonix feather, but hey, it mended what it needed to.

Andi you need to dial down that enhancement magic. Wendy advised.

"Doing it now." Andi agreed, as she did just that.

Atlas had moved to capitalize on Andi's distraction by stabbing her with his spear, but Zoë kept him occupied by shooting a salvo of her arrows at his face. He easily knocked the arrows out of the air with a wave of his hand, but it annoyed him enough to refocus his attention towards the Hunter and giving Andi the breather she needed.

One she used to cast a new spell. "καθαρό αέρα - κάλεσμα στα όπλα (Invoke: Pure Air - Call to Arms)!"

Thrusting an open palm towards Atlas, spiraling winds surged forth and in a matter of seconds coalesced into two dozen Auras. They swarmed the Titan, spears and blades of wind slicing at him. They did no real damage, but they kept him occupied as he tried to swat them out of the sky. Their forms transforming into formless wind each time his deadly palm got anywhere close to hitting them. Even then the sheer power of his blows sometimes proved too much, and the Aura were dispersing one after another.

Seeing their foe was preoccupied, the Hunter drew her celestial bronze daggers and flew at the Titan. "Die!" Zoë cried out as her knives dug into the General's collar bone.

Atlas released a bellow and a crack echoed across the mountain top as the back of his hand connected with the eternal maiden's body sending her flying. She smacked right into a wall, hard enough to send it crashing down onto her.

"MONSTER!" A voice roared as an eagle's screech filled the air soon after. It's talons clawed at Atlas' face, making the Titan try and bat it away. The eagle shifted into an enraged Artemis, her eyes burning a fierce silver as moonlight lit up of the area. The air shimmered as she drew two knives the size of her arm.

The two immortals fought. Atlas was laughing in joy as he swung his javelin around. Artemis was a blur of silver. She kept fluidly shifting throughout the fight. One moment she was in the shape of a tiger, the next she was a gazelle, then a bear or a falcon. She moved from offense to evasion without once missing a step or leaving an opening. The goddess of the moon was fighting with a grace and skill that left Andi awestruck.

By far, Artemis was the coolest sister ever.

All the while, the remaining few Auras aided the goddess in her battle, doing what little they could to at least distract the Titan.

Andi! We need to help Zoë.

At her partner's reminder, Andi shook her head to clear it and regain her focus.

"Right." The daughter of Zeus declared as she guided them towards where the Hunter had fallen.

She quickly began moving the stones that had buried Artemis' lieutenant to the side, using magic to levitate the heavier blocks when the need arose. It took an agonising minute of digging, during which the sound of the battle between the deities raged in the background, until she finally found Zoë. She was pretty badly hurt, her side was bleeding from a wound that looked green. Her face was swollen with one eye looking damaged and one of her arms was broken. Yet, amazingly, Andi's super hearing picked up the Hunter's shallow breaths.

"Wendy, get that feather ready." Andi said as she struggled to move another rock off Zoë.

"Right!" Wendy nervously replied as she returned to her true form and drew her Phoenix feather from her hair.

Meanwhile, Andi clutched the Hunter's good arm and looked her in her good eye.

"It's going to be okay, we'll fix ya right up." She smiled, trying to be brave for the Hunter. To be honest, it looked bad. Very, very bad.

"It won't work. Ladon's poison. Titan's curse. Mine own fate." The Hunter hissed in pained whispers.

"Nonsense." Andi reassured sternly. "Wendy!"

"I'm trying." The Aura replied, her feather already stretched out over Zoë's body and glowing brilliantly as she channeled her power into it. "It's not working!"

"Told thee."

"You seriously love the last word, don't you." Andi gave her a glare, but there was no heat behind it. The daughter of Zeus placed her own hands over the Hunter, casting every healing spell she knew to add to Wendy's efforts. But alas, it was to no avail.

The hunter just gave a brittle smile, too pained to reply.

Andi looked over to the battle, seeing the two immortals going toe to toe. As she did, she noticed something that really caught her off guard.

"That waterlodged idiot!"Andi shouted as she saw a pained face Percy about to be flattened by the sky.

"He is brave, for a boy." Zoë commented in a barely audible voice.

"A stupid boy." Andi corrected her. When they made it through this she was going to give her cousin a right earful!

Zoë gave a hacking laugh at that.

The battle seemed to be going in the goddess' favor so far, as she tricked the Titan into being led back towards where he had been imprisoned for so long by feigning giving ground. She settled the deal when suddenly as fast as thought, Artemis grabbed his javelin shaft while he was in mid thrust. It hit the earth right next to her and she pulled backward, using the javelin like a lever, kicking the Titan Lord and sending him flying over her. He fell towards his ancient gaol and pushed Percy out of the way. For a moment, the sky dropped eagerly towards the earth intent on destroying everything around the area, its gleeful intent to avenge itself against its treacherous wife clear, but then Atlas shot up and took his ancient burden once more.

"Noooooo!" He bellowed so hard it shook the mountain. "Not again!"

Percy wobbled, trying and failing to stay on his feet. Andi gave Wendy a look. "Keep an eye on Hunter girl, here."

The daughter of Zeus rushed towards Percy, to make sure he was okay. As she did so, she saw the conclusion of Thalia and Luke's fight. She looked on as her sister kicked him off the mountain while Annabeth -who had amazingly somehow freed herself- screamed in horror.

Andi had reached Percy, just in time to join him in looking over the edge of the cliff. The cousins quickly turned their heads away, the single glimpse they saw of Luke's broken body on the rocks below was more than enough.

The champion of Hecate felt vindicated. Luke deserved this. The saying "you reap what you sow" rung very true in this situation. The traitorous son of Hermes' fate was justice for all the demigods he had hurt in his pitiful revenge scheme. It was nice to see the Fates on her side today, because this made up for every shite moment she endured during the dreadful day so far.

The girl held up Percy, who looked ready to pass out.

"You are so stupid." Andi told him in relief that he was okay.

"Aw, you do care." He said, trying to be his usual charming self. Though it came out with a bit of a slur.

Chants of anger and battle cries came from below, along with the steps of hundreds of monsters.

"Andi! The army!" Wendy shouted in warning, pointing as the first few monsters from the cruise ship reached the summit.

"Shite!"

No one was in shape for a major battle. The demigods were all exhausted and the lone goddess was frozen as she stared down helplessly at her dying lieutenant.

Just as Andi was about to ready herself to fight another desperate battle against the odds. A biplane of all things swooped down out of the sky, escorted by a whole flock of hippogriffs.

"Get away from my daughter!" A handsome, athletic, middle-aged man with sandy-colored hair called down, and the plane's machine guns burst to life, peppering the ground with bullet holes and startling the whole group of monsters into scattering.

"Dad?" Yelled Annabeth in disbelief.

The various airborne monsters, the harpies, dragons and a dozen different things, rose into the air to attack the plane, but the hippogriffs intercepted them. Tearing into them furiously with their talons and bucking them with hooves.

For feathered glory! Silver and Quill screeched as they led the charge.

"Them my hippogriffs! Whoa! Kick 'em in the flank!" Andi cheered, glee on her face at the sight of reinforcements.

"Run!" Annabeth's father shouted, his voice growing fainter as the biplane swooped by.

This shook Artemis out of her grief. She stared up at the antique plane, which was now banking around for another strafe.

"A brave man," Artemis said with grudging approval. "Come, we must get Zoë away from here."

She raised her hunting horn to her lips, and it's clear sound echoed down the valleys.

The plane swooped down again. A few giants threw javelins, and one flew straight between the wings of the plane, but the machine guns blazed. Andi realized with amazement that somehow the mortal must've gotten hold of celestial bronze to fashion his bullets. The first row of Dracaenae wailed as the machine gun's volley blew them into sulfurous yellow powder.

"That's… my dad!" Annabeth said in amazement.

"Yeah and he's awesome!" Andi told her with a beaming smile.

They didn't have time to admire his flying. The monsters were already recovering from their surprise. Already, the giants with javelins were getting into firing lines and raining their missiles in ordered volleys at the hippogriffs and the strafing plane, even as their aerial compatriots began pulling them with hit and run attacks into their killzones.

Just then, the moonlight brightened, and a silver chariot appeared from the sky, drawn by the most beautiful deer Andi had ever seen. It landed right next the goddess and she called out to the scattered half bloods.

"Get in!"

Andi and the others scrambled to get on board. Annabeth and Percy helped a particularly exhausted Thalia on while Andi assisted Artemis in carrying Zoe. Andi and Wendy wrapped Zoe in a blanket as Artemis pulled the reins and the chariot sped away from the mountain, straight into the air.

"Pull back!" Andi shouted to the hippogriffs and Annabeth's dad. "Retreat!"

The witch didn't know if they heard her, the goddess' chariot sped away too quickly for her to make sure. She prayed that they did and heeded her call though, she didn't think they stood a chance against the army if they didn't.

She was pulled from her morbid thoughts when Percy spoke up.

"Like Santa Claus's sleigh," Percy murmured, sounding dazed.

Artemis took time to look back at him. "Indeed, young half-blood. And where do you think that legend came from?"

"Do we even celebrate Christmas?" Andi pondered. She did enjoy getting those presents. Oh! And the nog, you could never forgo good eggnog.

Artemis gave her youngest sister a sly look, but said nothing. Instead choosing to just continue dashing away in the night sky.

Behind them, the army of Kronos roared in anger as they gathered on the summit of Mount Othrys, but the loudest sound was the voice of Atlas, bellowing curses against the gods as he struggled under the weight of the sky.

Boom! Titan's Curse is nearly done! Thanks to the team of Nameless and Axios as usual.

What a ride? Am I right?! Andi's day has just been totally bonkers! GLaDos is back and with her daughter too! Hope you all enjoyed Chell. Along with some of the shoutouts we did this time around. I want to spoil them, but I also want to see who can figure out what's what. What do you think, Nameless, tell them or nah?

Nameless: Most were pretty obvious, but just in case you aren't familiar with the stuff: The scavenger drones were Zerg drones from Starcraft, the raptor droids were Bioraptors from Zoids, and the Tachikomas were from Ghost in the Shell.

E4E: Ah, Zoids, many an allowance of my childhood.

Nameless: I wonder how you guys liked the way that we characterised Chell? We basically had her inherit her dad's inability to relate to biological people and added in a dash of mistreatment as a kid (you try being a mute mixed race looking orphan kid and not get at least some abuse. Now add in the traits of a demigod and this just becomes certain.) and you get her complete disregard and utter cruelty towards mortals. She's not incapable of feeling for others though, she just doesn't identify with mortals. She still feels for her creations and to a lesser extent other demigods.

E4E: On another note, you all thought Bianca was going to live?! Ha! You fools! I made you care, with Andi befriending her and such. Ah, I love you all, but thou are naive! I slaughtered Lupin in Rhode, you think I'm afraid to kill people? Even if they are destined to die, but that's not my point! Sorry guys, I just like to put your hopes up and pull em away. XP

Now for the fighting bits. You all saw Andi pull out some spells from nowhere, but what do you think she's been studying for? Seriously, that's the fruits of her labors and we are showing it. Andi's got an upgrade my peeps. Wait til you see what else she's got in store for you all.

Nameless: We'll even make this something of a point when she gets back to Hogwarts, with wizards who knew her commenting on how she's finally starting to live up to her potential.

Next, it's time for judgement from the gods and as you can guess, the Yule Ball! Do we have some surprises for you all. You're going to love it.

Nameless: Though probably not in the same chapter, who knows? We'll see.

We do bloat our chapters these days. XP We do it for you guys of course.

Now, smash that review button! No flames! And peace off my peeps!