Hello all Storm here with a new chapter! Here we'll be seeing the first part of the quest of our heroes encountering the Furies along with Medusa, with a few twists. So, without further ado.
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Kyoko, Percy, Annabeth and Grover exited the van with Argus helping the latter three with their bags. Kyoko didn't need help, given she kept all her stuff sealed away on her person.
It hadn't taken them a too long to arrive in Manhattan, with it now being sunset and starting to rain, with Argus dropping them off at Greyhound Station. When she had gotten her first look at the massive city, Kyoko had been amazed, having never seen such a large city or giant buildings in the Elemental Nations, and having only read about them during her lessons with Annabeth.
Though the novelty didn't last, as she became irritated with all the different sounds, smells and lights. Not to mention, she could hardly feel any natural energy at all, which only added to her irritation. And what natural energy she could feel felt tainted and corrupted, which made her sick.
The Uchiha then noticed Percy pulling something off a mailbox, she was able to see that it had his picture on it, just before he ripped it to shreds.
"Something wrong?" Kyoko asked as Percy threw the shredded paper in a nearby trash can.
"Just by a Step-Father being a giant prick, so nothing new." Percy muttered darkly, before gaining a pensive look as he looked off in a random direction.
"You want to know why she married him, Percy?" Grover asked, shouldering his backpack and seeing where Percy was looking.
"Were you reading my mind or something?" Percy questioned, looking at the Satyr.
"Just your emotions. Guess I forgot to tell you that Satyrs can do that. You were thinking about your mom and your stepdad, right?" Said Grover.
Percy just nodded silently.
"Your mom married Gabe for you, you call him Smelly, but you've got no idea. The guy has this aura…. Yuck. I can smell him from here. I can smell traces of him on you, and you haven't been near him for a week." Grover said, while turning a bit green at the thought of the odor.
"Thanks, where's the nearest shower?" Percy said sarcastically.
"You should be grateful, Percy. Your stepfather smells so repulsively human that he could mask the presence of any demigod. As soon as I took a whiff inside his Camaro, I knew Gabe has been covering your scent for years. If you hadn't lived with him every summer, you probably would've been found by monsters a long time ago. Your mom stayed with him to protect you. She was a smart lady. She must've loved you a lot to put up with that guy, if that makes you feel any better." Grover said comfortingly.
Kyoko saw the struggle in Percy's eyes, it didn't make him any feel better. In fact, Kyoko knew Percy probably didn't even care about this quest or retrieving the Lightning Bolt, only about getting his mom out of the Underworld. She wouldn't be surprised if he also resented, or even hated, Poseidon.
Not that Kyoko can blame him, if it was either of her parents, she wouldn't care about anything else, but saving them.
As they waited for the bus to arrive, Annabeth, Percy, and Grover started playing Hacky Sack with one of Grover's apples. Annabeth showing off by bouncing it off her elbow, shoulder, and knee.
Kyoko didn't partake as she pulled out her journal, which she filled out with ideas that she had for Jutsu, Weapons, Armor, Seals, and other things she could use to improve herself. Though she looked when she saw that Grover ended up eating the entire apple, core, stem, and all.
Finally, the bus arrived and the four boarded it, though Kyoko stiffened slightly as her danger senses went off.
"What is it?" Annabeth asked, after seeing that she stopped.
"Nothing, just keep on guard." Kyoko warned, since she didn't know what was nearby, only that it was dangerous.
Thankfully, they found seats at the back of the bus. Though Kyoko soon became aware of what set her on edge, when three old ladies got on the bus. They all wore a crumpled velvet dress, lace gloves, and carried big paisley purses. They also wore shapeless knit hats that were colored orange, purple, and green respectively. One of them looked up, showing black eyes and Kyoko cursed as she realized who they were.
"The Kindly Ones, all three of them." Kyoko muttered, with her fellow demigods gulping, while Grover shook nervously.
"I thought you said they could be dispelled for a lifetime." Percy muttered to Annabeth, remembering what she told him about what happens to monsters when they are killed.
"I said if you're lucky, you're obviously not." Retorted Annabeth.
"All three of them, Di Immortales!" Grover whimpered.
Kyoko remained calm, while getting ready to use her Hidden Blades to kill them quickly, though she hoped there's a chance it could be resolved peacefully.
"It's okay, the Furies. The three worst monsters from the Underworld. No problem. No problem. Well just slip out the windows." Annabeth said, thinking hard on the different escape routes.
"They don't open. There also isn't a back exit, even if there was one, we're almost at a tunnel." Kyoko said, having already looked for possible exits when they got on the bus, after she sensed danger.
"Crap." Muttered Annabeth, knowing this just got a lot harder.
"They won't attack us with witnesses around, will they?" Percy asked, figuring the Furies wouldn't want to expose themselves and the Greek World to mortals.
"Mortals don't have good eyes, their brains can only process what they see through the Mist." Replied Annabeth.
"Basically, they'll only see three old ladies killing us, or us killing them." Kyoko clarified.
"They could see that or something else. Either way, we can't count on mortals for help, maybe an-"
"Before you say anything, there's no hatch on the roof either." Kyoko cutoff.
"Wonderful." Annabeth said, pinching the bridge of her nose.
Just then, the Furies got up and spoke in flat voices, like they had rehearsed what they would say.
"I have to use the restroom."
"So do I."
"So do I."
"Let's see if we can try negotiating first, they were obviously sent here, believing that Percy stole the Helm of Darkness. Maybe we can get them to see he didn't do it." Kyoko suggested, since she'd prefer avoiding a fight on a confined and crowded bus.
"Maybe, but just in case, Percy take my hat." Annabeth said, passing her invisibility hat to Percy.
"What?" Percy asked, not knowing the hat's power.
"It'll turn you invisible. Go up the aisle and let them pass you, get to the front and get away." Annabeth said.
Percy looked ready to argue but nodded reluctantly since Kyoko was still there and could handle the Furies if it came to that.
The moment Percy put the hat on, he vanished from their sight. It looked like the Furies might have caught his scent but kept moving forward.
Once they reached the back of the bus, they instantly zeroed in on Kyoko and let out a hideous wail and began transforming. Their faces were still the same, but their bodies had shriveled into leathery brown hag bodies with bats wings and hands and feet like gargoyle claws. Their handbags had also turned into fiery whips.
"Where?! Where is it girl?!" One of the Furies hissed, as the other people on the bus began screaming and cowering in their seats.
"The Helm of Darkness isn't here; I didn't steal it, and neither did Percy. We're trying to find it and the Master Bolt." Kyoko said calmly, hoping they would listen, though the Furies shrieked angrily.
"The fact you know the Helm is missing proves your guilt Daughter of Hera! Give us the Helm or suffer eternal torment!" The Furies demanded.
Hearing this, Annabeth drew her knife while Grover grabbed a tin can and prepared to throw it.
Though before they could attack, the bus suddenly jerked to the side, throwing the Furies and mortals around the bus. Kyoko was able to keep her balance by channeling Chakra to her feet, and looked to front, seeing the driver seemed to be fighting for control of the wheel with an invisible force.
Knowing it was Percy, Kyoko took the opening and activated her Sharingan, before locking eyes with the Furies.
"Genjutsu: Sharingan." Kyoko said, trapping them in an illusion, but she didn't know for how long.
Not wasting a second, Kyoko drove her Hidden Blades through two of the Furies' heads, while Annabeth stabbed her knife in the third one's chest. Thankfully, all three Furies disintegrated into gold dust, while one of their whips was left behind as a Spoils of War.
Though while the Furies were dealt with, they still had to worry about the bus wheel being fought over. But they didn't have to worry about that long, when it suddenly spun around and crashed into a tree.
"Ugh, I'm going to kill that seaweed brain." Annabeth growled, while standing up on shaky legs.
Kyoko though tensed when she heard thunder overhead and quickly sealed up her friends bags, along with picking up the whip. Annabeth seemed to have the same idea of what was happening.
"Get off the bus, now!" Annabeth shouted.
Not needing to be told twice the four questers ran off the bus, while the rest of the passengers were wondering what was going on.
"Hey what about our-" Percy started.
"I have them sealed away; we need to get away now!" Kyoko said, as they made some distance between them and the bus.
Not a moment later, a bolt of lightning shot out of the sky, straight onto the bus, destroying it much to everyone's shock.
"Oh." Percy muttered, looking at the flaming bus with wide eyes.
"Come on. Let's just be glad that Kyoko managed to seal our stuff in time." Annabeth said, motioning to the woods, knowing they had to get away, with the boys nodding in agreement, relieved that their stuff was safe.
Kyoko, meanwhile, glared up at the sky.
"Hey! Asshole! We're trying to get your stupid toy, and you're trying to kill us?! Do you want the damn bolt back, or not?!" Kyoko shouted at the sky.
*Olympus*
Meanwhile, in the Olympian Throne Room, Zeus was trying to make himself as small as possible as all the gods and goddesses were giving him pointed looks; especially Hera, Poseidon, Athena, and Hestia.
"You know, she kind of has a point. What idiot tries hindering a quest to retrieve their own weapon?" Apollo whispered to Hermes, not wanting their father to overhear them.
"The warmongering kind." Hermes replied quietly.
"Will you two be quiet!" Artemis whispered, while glaring at her brothers.
Though she didn't rebuke their statements, since even she had to admit that Zeus wasn't winning himself any allies, if he and Poseidon do go to war, by hindering the quest. The fact that said hindering nearly killed the questers didn't help either.
*With Kyoko, Percy, Annabeth, and Grover*
"Are you insane?! I told you to run, but instead you crash the bus and nearly got us thrown into the river! What were you thinking?! Don't answer, because you clearly weren't!" Annabeth shouted as she chewed Percy out for his reckless actions.
"Enough, Annabeth. What Percy did doesn't matter, because it wouldn't have made a difference. The Furies refused to listen and would have attacked anyway, which likely would have resulted in the bus crashing regardless. At least this way, we don't have to worry about them calling for reinforcements, and besides, we got one of their whips." Kyoko said, holding up said whip, with Annabeth reluctantly nodding in agreement since the Furies would have attacked anyway.
"So, who gets it?" Percy asked.
"Here Annie." Said Kyoko, tossing the whip to the surprised Annabeth.
"Me? Why?" Annabeth asked, not knowing why Kyoko gave her the whip.
"Well for one, it'll be good for you to have a mid-to-long-range weapon that can incapacitate enemies, given the Furies' whips can induce intense pain, along with being able to create Hellfire, so it'll be a good alternative to your knife. Besides, I already have several Fire Jutsu, its pyrokinetic powers wouldn't match with Percy's water-based powers. And do you really see Grover of all people using a whip? Much less one used by a Fury?" Kyoko asked, while motioning to Grover, who was shivering just by looking at the whip.
Hearing her reasons, Annabeth nodded, seeing the logic behind them and attached the whip to her belt. She wasn't going to use it on the quest, since she didn't know how to use a whip, but she'll train with it back at camp.
Though she scowled at Kyoko's next words.
"Besides, you're already a sadist, so now you have a weapon to match." Kyoko said.
"I'm not a sadist!" Annabeth denied, given Kyoko's been calling her a sadist ever since she forced her to watch those videos for cheating with her Sharingan and Shadow Clones during her lessons.
"Sure you aren't Annie, sure you aren't." Kyoko said in a flat tone, obviously not believing her.
"I'm not!"
*Later*
After walking through the woods for a while, with Kyoko unsealing a few snacks for the others, or tin cans for Grover, they soon came upon a two-lane road. They saw a closed down gas station, a billboard, and an open business with neon lights and the scent of food.
It was one of those weird roadside curio shops that sell lawn flamingos, wooden Indians, cement grizzly bears, and stuff like that. The main building was a long, low warehouse, surrounded by acres of statuary. The bright red neon sign on the front gave the demigods a headache with their dyslexia, especially since it was written in cursive. Blinking a few times and focusing, they were able to make out what was written.
"Aunty Em's Garden Gnome Emporium." Kyoko said, while seeing the entrance was flanked by two cement garden gnomes.
Kyoko then saw Percy and Annabeth crossing the street.
"Oi, what're you doing?!" Kyoko said, while grabbing them by the arm and pulling them back.
"The lights are on inside, maybe it's open." Annabeth said.
"Maybe they have a snack bar." Added Percy, smelling the food inside.
"Are you two crazy? This place is weird." Grover said, getting a bad feeling from the shop.
Kyoko nodded in agreement, as something just seemed off about the stone statues in the front of the shop. It felt like they were watching them.
"Guys, I think we should leave." Kyoko said.
"Yeah, I smell monsters." Added Grover.
"Your nose is clogged up from the Furies. All I smell is burgers. Aren't you both hungry?" Annabeth questioned.
"I'm a vegetarian!" Grover retorted.
"One of my mother's sacred animals are cows!" Said Kyoko, now knowing that something was wrong.
Suddenly, the doors creaked open and they saw someone standing there. An adult woman wearing a long black gown covering her entire body except her hands and head, a black veil covering the upper part of her face, long purple hair that went all the way down to her feet, and her hands and lower face showing her pale skin.
Looking at the woman warily, Kyoko could sense several emotions from her; mostly sadness, despair and the biggest one being rage.
"Children, it is too late to be out all alone. Where are your parents?" The woman asked with a soft and silky voice.
"They're…um…" Annabeth said, trying to think of something to say.
"We're orphans." Percy blurted out.
"Orphans? But, my dears! Surely not!" The woman said in a rather convincing tone.
Kyoko smacked Percy before he could say anything else that was stupid.
"We're lost and if you could point us in the right direction to the nearest bus or train station, that'd be appreciated." Kyoko said, wanting to get away from here as fast as possible.
"Oh, my dears, you must come in, you poor children. I am Aunty Em. Go straight through to the back of the warehouse, please. There is a dining area." Said Aunty Em.
"No, that's fine, we don't want to intru-" Kyoko stopped when she saw Percy and Annabeth going inside, with Grover following nervously.
Mentally groaning, Kyoko followed them inside.
The warehouse was filled with more statues of people in different poses, with all of them wearing different outfits and sporting different expressions on their faces. While doing nothing to ease the tension Kyoko felt, or the confusion when she felt a spike of rage whenever Aunty Em looked at Percy or Annabeth.
'Something is definitely not right, here.' Kyoko thought as they reached the dining area.
"Please, sit down." Aunty Em said.
"Um, we don't have any money, ma'am." Grover said.
"No, no, children. No money. This is a special case, yes? It is my treat, for such nice orphans." Said Aunty Em with a "kind" smile.
"Thank you, ma'am." Annabeth said gratefully.
Kyoko noticed how Aunty Em stiffened at Annabeth's words, while her smile became strained, as if she's forcing herself to be nice.
"Quite alright, Annabeth. You have such beautiful gray eyes, child. Such. Beautiful. Eyes." Aunty Em nearly hissed.
'How does she know Annabeth's name?!' Kyoko thought in alarm.
Kyoko's eyes followed Aunty Em behind the snack counter, before she returned with several trays double cheeseburgers, vanilla shakes, and XXL servings of french fries.
"No thank you, I'm not really hungry." Kyoko said politely, refusing to eat cow meat.
"Forgive me, I suppose you wouldn't like such food Kyoko." Said Aunty Em, in a kindlier tone than before, which just confused Kyoko further.
Though Kyoko then began hearing a hissing sound but couldn't pinpoint the source.
"What's that hissing sound?" Grover asked.
"Hissing? Perhaps you hear the deep-fryer oil. You have keen ears, Grover." Said Aunty Em.
"I take vitamins. For my ears."
"That's admirable, but please, relax." Aunty Em cooed softly.
Kyoko's eyes darted around the warehouse, keeping aware of her surroundings and hoping to find out what was setting her on edge. Though her eyes then fell on a statue of a young girl holding an Easter basket. The detail was incredible, much better than you see in most garden statues. But something was wrong with her face. It looked as if she were startled, or even terrified.
Immediately, it clicked together for Kyoko on where they were and who this woman was. And she knew that they needed to get out of here, especially Percy and Annabeth.
Looking at the woman, after now realizing who she was, Kyoko couldn't help but pity her for the pain she's suffered.
"Ah, you notice some of my creations do not turn out well. They are marred. They do not sell. The face is the hardest to get right. Always the face." Aunty Em said, while muttering the last part.
"You make these statues yourself?" Percy asked, while feeling a bit sleepy.
"Yes, I once had two sisters who I loved and protected, but they're gone now. Leaving me alone with just my statues. Alone, always alone…" Aunty Em said with real sadness and pain in her voice.
"Two sisters?" Annabeth said, pausing in her eating as her mind started clearing up after hearing that.
In response, Aunty Em looked at Annabeth with a cold smile that also had a dangerous edge to it.
"It's a long and terrible story, not one suited for children I'm sure. You see Annabeth, I was once a Priestess, one loyal and devoted to my patron. But my patron, she had a…rivalry with a petty and cruel god. My patron and the god both desired to be the patron of a city, with my patron being able to win a competition between them. But the god was a petty man and in retaliation, he tried to seduce me, his rival's Priestess, within her own temple. I rejected his advances, desiring to remain loyal to my patron, but I underestimate just how cruel the gods can be. So, he took me against my will right before my patron's statue; again and Again and AGAIN! I begged and pleaded for him to stop, for my patron to help me, but no help ever came. When the god finally left, I pleaded for my patron for forgiveness and mercy. But do you know what she did instead?!" Aunty Em said as she was practically shaking with rage at this point.
Annabeth, now looking both incredibly pale and sick, shook her head slowly. With Grover and Percy also looking pale and sick at the story, though Kyoko just looked at her in sadness.
Though the four immediately jumped up from the table, when Aunty Em stood up and then threw the table across the warehouse.
"Don't look in her eyes!" Kyoko shouted, as they all closed their eyes or looked away.
"SHE TURNED ME INTO THIS!" Aunty Em roared, tearing her veil and cloak off, revealing the monster underneath.
The ends of her purple hair gathered together and transformed into snake heads, black and gold scales appeared on her arms and legs, with her nails growing into talons, a long snake tail grew out of her lower back, and her only clothing consisted of an armored bikini.
"Medusa." Kyoko said, while Percy, Annabeth, and Grover were a little shocked and afraid at learning just who they were dealing with.
Though Percy and Annabeth also realized who Medusa was talking about in her story.
Their parents.
"That's right, Kyoko Uchiha. What's the matter Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase, don't you wish to look at the result of your father raping me and your mother abandoning me! Go on look at the monster they created!" Medusa hissed, while her eyes glowed with her desire to turn them to stone.
"Yo-you're lying, that's not how the legend goes!" Annabeth said, refusing to believe Medusa's story.
Though she shivered when Medusa giggled darkly.
"What use do I have lying, when I plan to kill you?" Medusa asked, making Percy and Annabeth stiffening since that was true.
What did he gain by lying to people she's going to kill?
"That is the truth, your parents are nothing but a rapist and a traitor! They used me and then tossed me aside, turning me into this creature you see now! The only ones who didn't abandon me were my sisters! They stayed by my side, even as I slowly turned into a monster, into the Gorgon! Even when I killed hundreds of people, they stayed with me until the point where I saw them as intruders in my territory, but even then, they stayed! And in the end, when I only saw them as intruders, I devoured them! My own sisters! Poseidon and Athena took everything from me, my innocence, my humanity, my family! Everything! And now they'll get to see their own children turned to stone and shattered! Though while I'm sure they'll just make some replacements, I can at least hope that it'll hurt for a moment." Medusa said cruelly.
Kyoko glanced at Percy and Annabeth, seeing them not even trying to reach for their weapons. Medusa's words and story had destroyed their will to fight back.
'No choice.' Kyoko thought, while activating her Mangekyō Sharingan.
"Mahakala!" Kyoko called out, activating one of her Mangekyō Sharingan's powers.
Immediately, the moment the word left her, time froze around Kyoko as her friends and Medusa became as still as the statues around them.
'I have ten seconds!' Kyoko thought, while unsealing a Celestial Bronze katana, she didn't pull out one of her personal weapons since the situation didn't call for it.
Moving quickly to the side, Kyoko went to decapitate Medusa, but she hesitated for a moment. Looking at Medusa, who was thankfully blinking, so her eyes were closed, Kyoko felt her sadness for her grow when she saw that she had been crying.
'She wasn't always a monster; she was just an innocent girl, who was used and then tossed aside.' Kyoko thought angry at seeing firsthand, one of the millions of lives ruined because of the gods.
"I'm sorry for this. But I swear, I'll find a way to save you, I promise." Kyoko said.
While Kyoko never swore on Styx, she was a girl of her word. If she made a promise or an oath, then she'd kept it and didn't need a threat to keep it.
Seeing that time was starting to move again, Kyoko swung her sword and decapitated Medusa.
Percy, Annabeth, and Grover flinched when they heard the thump and slowly turned to see what it was. Only for their eyes to widen in shock, when they saw Medusa's severed head, while Kyoko was on her hands and knees, panting.
"Kyoko!" Annabeth said, as they rushed over to her.
Lifting her head up, they saw blood leaking from her left eye.
"Kyoko, your eye…" Annabeth said, while trailing off at the end.
"It's…it's fine, just my Mangekyō Sharingan takes its toll, even for one use." Kyoko said, while wiping the blood away.
"What, what did you do?" Percy asked hesitantly.
"It's called Mahakala, one of three powers that my Mangekyō Sharingan grants me." Kyoko answered, while not elaborating any further, since she didn't want people finding out just how powerful her eyes were.
Mahakala was the Mangekyō power in her left eye; it allowed her to freeze time in the surrounding area for ten seconds, but it could only be used five times a day. If she used it any more than five times, then she'd temporarily go blind. It's also why she constantly makes sure to improve her speed and agility, allowing her to use those ten seconds to their fullest. But it also puts a bigger strain on her eyes than Amaterasu and Susanoo.
Nodding slowly, they then turned to Medusa's head with Percy and Annabeth immediately feeling nauseous as they remembered her story.
"It…it wasn't true, right?" Percy asked slowly, while praying that she had lied, just to hurt them.
While he may be angry at his father, he didn't want to hear the fact that he raped a woman just to get back at Athena.
"It's true, all of it." Kyoko said, while standing up, with their heads snapped towards her.
"You knew?!" Annabeth demanded, horrified that Medusa really wasn't lying to them.
Kyoko simply nodded solemnly.
Percy stumbled slightly at hearing this, while Annabeth covered her mouth and swallowed her vomit. She's known about the Greek World for years and had always believed that Medusa was Poseidon's girlfriend. Now to hear that wasn't only not true, but that she was once been a Priestess of Athena, before she was raped by Poseidon and her mother turned her into…
Annabeth couldn't hold it in anymore and ran to a nearby trash can before emptying her stomach's contents. Percy would have as well, the only reason he wasn't was because he's still, thankfully, in shock. As well as still being new to the Supernatural World.
"How? How did you know?" Annabeth asked, while wiping her mouth and eyes.
"My mother. She told me the truth of all the legends and myths, every act of cruelty, every destroyed city, every curse; she told me the truth about all the gods and goddesses. Including herself." Kyoko said, which only horrified them as they wondered what other legends were false also.
"And you still care about her? Knowing everything she and the other gods have done? How?" Annabeth asked, since after learning the truth about Medusa, she wasn't sure she could even look at her mother, the woman she idolized, and not wonder about who else she made suffer.
"Because, she was honest. She could have lied and told me the altered legends, but she didn't. She told me the truth, knowing I could have ended up hating her for what she's done, for those that suffered from her anger. And yes, I'll admit that I was horrified and hated her at first. But I eventually forgave her, after seeing that she genuine regretted what she's done and wanted to become a better person. That's why I can still be proud to be her daughter." Kyoko said.
"And how can we be proud, knowing our parents did that to an innocent person?!" Percy demanded, while pointing at Medusa's head.
Percy didn't want to think about it, but what would have happened if his mom had rejected Poseidon? It made him sick to thinking about it, but how could he not after hearing Medusa's story.
"I don't know, it's an answer that you can only figure out on your own. There is even a good chance that you may never forgive them for their sins." Kyoko said, not having an answer for them, since it's different for each person, depending on their personality and/or the circumstances of how they learned the truth of their Godly Parent.
She was able to come to terms with it, because her mother told her the truth from the very beginning. But Percy has only just learned who his father was, while Annabeth grew up idolizing her mother. While she wanted to help her friends, she couldn't, as this was something that they'd have to figure out for themselves.
For a moment, Percy remained silent before storming off to the back office, returning with a box and the address to the entrance of the Underworld. Setting the box down, Percy placed Medusa's head inside before scribbling a note addressed to his father and Athena.
We know!
From,
Percy & Annabeth
"Do you have to involve me in this?" Annabeth asked, concerned with how this could be taken.
"Are you just going to brush this under the rug like them?" Retorted Percy, refusing to ignore this.
Looking at the head again, Annabeth nodded since this wasn't something she can just forget.
Putting the note inside, Percy sealed the box and wrote the address on top, before placing some drachma on it. It then vanished with the sound of a register.
"We'll head to North Carolina, which will give us a way surefire way to Southern California. Though we'll have to take a train, then see about getting a ride to California." Kyoko said after a moment, with the others nodding in agreement.
With that, the four questers exited the Emporium.
So, what did you think, good. Yep Kyoko tried ending things peacefully with the Furies, only for them to end up not listening, resulting in her and Annabeth killing them and getting one of their whips as a Spoils of War, with Kyoko giving the whip to Annabeth. Next we see our heroes encounter a different Medusa, who's appearance is based off of Stage 2 Gorgon from the Fate-series, and hearing a much darker version of her legend. We also see one of Kyoko's Mangekyō abilities Mahakala (Mahakala being a deity common in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Sikhism, and known as a God of Time) allowing her to freeze time for ten seconds for five times a day, with her being temporarily blinded if she goes over that limit. Finally Kyoko has made a promise to one day save Medusa from her curse while Percy still sent Medusa's head to Olympus, but rather than as a middle finger it's a message to Poseidon and Athena that they now know the truth. So, review if you liked go away if you didn't.
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