14. The Spear of- Food

The next day, we were all ready. Leo was already searching for Circes Island while Reyna, Bianca, Nico, and I were walking to the entrance of our old house.

Soon enough, there we were. I stood in the front of the door, hesitating. I slowly reached for the door handle and pulled. The door swung open with a creak. I stepped in and immediately felt my sins crawling on my back. I felt memories crawling throughout my skin.

Like that time Reyna and I were playing tea party and she dropped her cup and it broke, so we made a new one which she loved.

That other time when Reyna and I were playing with her dolls when she made a castle made of pillows for her fort against me. I was the enemy that day. Those days were the golden days. The days that I was actually happy.

But, sadly, everything happy has to end.

I kept walking in and said, "We'll split up in pairs. We'll cover more ground that way. If you see anything suspicious, tell me. Reyna with me and Nico with Bianca." With that we split up. I put Bianca with Nico because I knew that Nico would protest any other way.

I went down a hall into my room. It looked just like how I left it. The clothes drawers were still open and my bed was all made. There were a few things missing like my favorite bracelet that I still have and my backpack.

I walked around investigating the room when we heard a loud footsteps.

We turned around to see a cyclops.

"Well, well, well. Look who it is," He said in his low rumbly voice. "Seems about time you came. I've been getting bored."

I knew what he meant. He was sent to destroy us, and I wasn't going to let that happen.

We took stance and readied our swords. He charged at us and I blocked while Reyna stabbed him. He yelled in pain and pushed us away. We skidded away and charged once more.

It was two against one and we had the upper hand… until two more cyclops came in. We quickly killed the first one and took the other two on.

Once they were turned to dust, we went to another room. There was a spear lying on the bed. I took a step closer with Reyna behind me. I took the spear in my hand and examined it. Near the blade was the letters BR-A.

It was my mom's spear. I held it with a firm grip and said to Reyna, our job here is done, let's go and find the others. She nodded and we walked out of the hall into the living room to find two gorgons holding Nico and Bianca. They were tied up in ropes and stuffed in two separate cages. Nico was unconscious and when Bianca saw us, she said," Help! They knocked Nico out and I can't get out."

I was about to tell her to use her Hades powers but I remembered that she barely knew how to use them. I hid the spear behind the couch so it could be safe and I charged with my sword drawn.

They took out swords of their own and charged. We kept fighting getting nowhere. The gorgon I was fighting pushed me back and I hit the wall hard. My sword was tossed off to the opposite side of the room. The gorgon was advancing on me and I had nowhere to go.

I remembered the spear and I looked to my left and started to reach for the spear until a sword blocked my way.

I looked up and saw the gorgon. I punched it in the face causing me time to regain my strength and get the spear. I quickly grabbed the spear and stabbed the gorgon right in time. As it crumbled to dust, I ran to the cage knowing that the other gorgon was defeated.

I saw that the cage was open with Bianca beside Nico outside trying to wake him up.

"How did you get out?" I asked her.

"Your sword flew this way and I caught it. I cut the ropes for Nico and me and cut the lock off. Nice spear by the way," She said.

I looked at my mom's spear to see that the initials have changed. It was now HR-A.

"Must mean that it's your now," Bianca said.

"So, what now?" Reyna asked.

"First, we wake Nico, second, we get back to the ship and go to our next destination," I said.

"Food," We heard Nico mumble.

"Since Nico is waking-"I said being cut off.

"Food," Nico mumbled again.

"Fine," I said. "We'll get food first."

Blue cookies..