And yet again, I don't own anything except some of the plot line. I know sad right?
"Well shit!"
As soon as I opened the door, thousands of pairs of eyes suddenly turned to look at me. None of them were sympathetic about the numerous bloody gashes on my abdomen, nor were they friendly. All were aggressive, annoyed about being interrupted from doing whatever they had been doing. The owners of the eyes just had to be monsters. There were a few chimeras and of course Echidna had to be by her sonny's, then there were hundreds upon hundreds of cyclops ( I sure hope that they weren't from Dad's domain), and of course the empousa had be in on the action too. Also in the mob of monsters was Geryon who I'm pretty sure had it out for me, some gigantes were there too, swarms of harpies, Dr. Thorn was there along with some of his manticore buddies, even the Nemean Lion was in the mob. An old friend of mine was right in the front of the mob, Beef Head himself, some telekhines looked like they had just got done with forging something, they were covered in scorch marks and held their hammers in their flipper hands.
While they were staring at me, I was slowly backing away from the door and trying to find something to fight with because I realized Anaklusmos hadn't returned to my pocket after I lost it in the Cocytus. I grasped around with my hands while defiantly watching the sea of monsters to make sure they stayed there. After a while of blindly searching, I found a staff made out of celestial bronze and a silver metal, a serrated celestial bronze and mortal steel dagger the length of my forearm, and finally a broadsword with a helix design of adminium and celestial bronze with a shiny gold metal in the center and edges. So I think the odds are in my favor, one demigod with a few weapons versus a thousand or two deadly monsters armed to the teeth. This will be so fun.
Twelve minutes past and they snapped out of their trance and charged at me. In those twelve minutes I moved myself so I was just outside the room that the mob was at so they would have to come through the doorway one at a time. As they charged, the whole building shook with the pounding of thousands upon thousands of limbs hitting the floor. When the first line of monsters was just a few meters away, all I could think of was just how alike my situation was to the 300 movie and how I couldn't die like Leonidas and his men. I had to survive for Annabeth and the world, mainly Annabeth. But before they actually reached me, everything stopped and before me appeared six women who looked like they were made of mist. I knew I would have trouble distinguishing between them all because none of them had any significant differences.
"Hello Perseus, I am Alala spirit of the war cry." The first woman stated.
"And I am Alke spirit of prowess and courage." Said the second woman.
"I am called Anaideia spirit of ruthlessness, shamelessness, and unforgivingness." The third woman practically shouted.
"They call us Androktasiai the spirits of battlefield slaughter." Said the fourth woman, but her voice sounded like it was multiple women speaking at the same time.
"My name is Bia, I know kinda short. It's so stupid! Ugh. But anyways I am the spirit of force, power, bodily strength, and compulsion." The fifth woman stated.
"Wait," I blurted out,"so you're the spirit of the force, like from Star Wars?!"
"Saddly no I mean if I was, that would be soooo awesome!" She replied.
The last woman coughed into her hand and Bia and I stopped talking.
"Moving on, I am Hysminai the spirit of fighting and combat." The last woman proudly said. Her voice was similar to Androktasiai with many voices speaking at once.
With that information known I cautiously asked,"Uhh, ok? So why are you here my ladies?"
Bia decided to answer and sarcastically said, " Well we were all in the neighborhood and thought why not talk to you before you die."
And me being me, I totally missed the sarcasm and exclaimed, "What?!"
"Perseus, that was sarcasm! No we heard the thunderous roars of the monsters and decided to check it out. Once we saw you, we couldn't leave you alone to face all of them without some help. So we have come to bless you since we can't physically help you against these monsters.
"Oh." I intelligently replied.
"Ha! I told you he would say that! Pay up." Alala shouted.
The others grumbled to themselves and fished out five drachmas each.
After they got all their betting problems out of the way, Alke suggested that they bless me all at once so I wouldn't have to go through the feeling of being blessed by them six times. I agreed with her so they told me to brace myself, I did but I wasn't prepared at all for the excruciating pain of their blessings. It felt like my blood was turned to pure magma, my skin on my whole body was being burnt off and having salty alcohol poured on me. So in other words, it was terrible. So bad in fact that almost immediately after they blessed me, I passed out from the pain.