Chapter 21: Day II

Oasis POV:

I stood before the judges. Before they gave me my sentence, everything froze around me. Persephone appeared and grab my arm. She pulled me towards her garden. She said no words but looked into my eyes. She put her hand down on a stump, motioning for me to sit on it. I did.

"Wait here with me. Your hero is coming, in hope to rescue thy soul. Like Orpheus, he wishes to bring thy soul froth from the underworld."

"Why do you speak so timely?" I asked.

"I am a sucker for love. You and Nico remind me of Romeo and Juliet."

"They both die in the end. The play is a tradgey."

"I don't know. A pair of star-crossed lovers like yourselves is pretty hard to recreate. They had decided to be reborn again. This will be the last time they do this and then they are rewarded the paradise of all paradise." She got up and walked around. "Their souls would be you and Nico's age. It would be more than a coincidence."

I thought about the instant draw I felt towards Nico. "What happened the second time they were reborn?"

"Romeo and Juliet was the second time they were reborn. The first was Orpheus and Eurydice. And if I am correct you are Juliet's and Eurydice's soul recycled. Sad sad tale. For the Fates will not let your soul's love be. Always death, always tragic, never good.."

I let that sink in.

Jason's POV:

Two days. I could have asked Nico for the exact time we had left but after he'd tell me he said I was wasting precious seconds.

We flew west toward Nevada. We made excellent time. Nico and Percy were too tense to talk. They kept to themselves, so I did too.

I difted in and out of sleep during the travel. I tried to not sleep. When I slept Hera gave me dreams about how much I loved Oasis. Ugh, that lady is not know when to give up!

When we stopped in Las Vegas, Nevada,we decided to check in a hotel that night, it be easier then living off the land.

I suggested that we check in at the Lotus hotel n casino.

Percy and Nico looked at me like I was crazy.

So we got away from all the big name hotels and checked into a little motel 8 by a gas station.

We were sleeping peacefully, well me and Percy, Nico was on watch when the Minotaur came crashing through our wall.

At first we were little shocked, I mean who wouldn't be? But we quickly got into battle ready mode.

The Minotaur went straight for Percy, just trying to rip him to shreds, like he was angry about something and he blamed Percy for it.

He manage to wound Percy in his arm, but Percy recovered quickly and he stabed can easily.

The Minotaur disintegrated into gold flakes.

"Um, that wasn't any fun." I stated.

"Be quiet Jason! We're lucky was just the Minotaur. A lot of worse things could have happened, or is that what you want? Do you want to fail? Or do you want to be the hero? Like you always do?!" Nico yelled at me.

"Do you want to fight death boy? I'll fight you!" I said. I was not going to let this little punk insult me.

"Let's Go Golden Boy!" We fought for awhile, calling on all our powers, all our weapon skills and everything. Percy was trying to stop us by throwing water in our faces and yelling out things like "If you don't stop right now I'll kill you!"

We were so busy trying to kill each other, we didn't notice when a Hydra grabbed Percy by the neck.

I called on lighting to get the Hydra wounded while Nico ran to look in our supply bag for the little vial of Greek fire.

Nico finally found it threw it at the Hydra's head and it exploding, barely missing Percy.

The Hydra disintegrated like the Minotaur.

I ran over to look at Percy, I almost screamed when I saw his mangled body. At least he was alive, Nico went to the bathroom and brought nectar from our supply bag and water from the sink.

We mixed them together and poured it over Percy's neck and back. In a couple of hours he was okay just a little pale, so we told him to go to sleep and we would take watch.

"We need to stop fighting." We said simultaneously. We laughed.

"People are getting hurt, it's gone too far, can we just let this all go?" Nico asked.

"Sure, just don't provoke me anymore death boy." I said jokingly.

"Just don't get me mad Golden Boy." He said.

"So what do we do now?" I asked.

"Have you ever played Myth-O-Magic?" He asked.

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