Present Day: Camp Half Blood
Two weeks into life at camp, and Cahira and Leo had become great companions. Leo taught her how to talk normally, and she taught him nothing. She felt a great relief at being able to have friends, people she could trust. She loved having someone like her.
"So can you repeat what we practiced?" Leo asked.
Cahira smiled and then took a deep breath.
"Aye yo fam, check out my mixtape." Then she lit her hand on fire.
Leo busted out laughing.
"That is gold." Then he looked at her. "So are you."
She groaned and laughed as well, but out of the corner of her eye she caught a flash of light.
"Um, Leo I am going to use the uh tinkle box. BRB?"
"Don't ask, own that BRB." He said and then pulled something to tinker with out of his belt.
Cahira smiled at him, and then she followed the light. In the time she had been here, her style had changed from all black and covering into an orange t-shirt and demin shorts. She seemed more relaxed all together. But anyone who was really paying attention would notice that she became shiftier. Cahira had told Alyssa, Leo, and that one couple that she quit using her fire.
But her time here had taught her how to be smarter and more ancient warrior-like. So her fire became that way too, and as she followed the light into the forest she knew it was her fire soldier. It stood at attention for her, and she nodded at it.
"Show me what you've seen." She ordered.
As she spoke, a screen of fire appeared and showed his findings. It showed a cave that seemed to emit darkness.
"Where is this?" She asked.
The map shifted to show a point a little further north than where she was. She nodded in thanks to the flame and then it disappeared. She let loose a breath and then went to where she knew Leo was waiting.
"Hey," He said showing off a tiny dragon he made "For you my golden dragon."
She smiled and took it. Then bit her lip.
"Leo, I have to go." She said.
"Uh, you just went." He laughed.
"No, I have to go. I know where Caligo is. I have to get her." Cahira said seriously.
Leo's grin melted off of his face, his gaze turned questioning.
"How?"
Cahira gave a phantom of a grin. She waved a hand to her right and a fire soldier appeared. It saluted and then more appeared, each saluting until they had made a full circle. They each showed a map of where they had been.
"Poseidon's underpants kid! You kept this a secret?" He gasped.
"Leo, I'm sorry." Cahira muttered.
"You should be- for not showing this to me! Oh my gods, this is insane! How did you do this?" He ran around the circle inspecting each of the warriors.
"It was how I was-"
"If you say, 'how I was made', one more time without showing me any form of machinery on you... I will lose it, like actually I'll make a wildfire look like a candle." Leo shook his finger at her.
Cahira gave him a soft grin.
"Nothing you can say will convince me to stay." She told him, laying a hand on his shoulder.
Leo looked at her for a moment, then a wicked grin was painted on his face.
"Okay, now you just have to find a way to not let Percy and Annabeth know you are leaving. Don't forget about Argus, I mean he is ALWAYS watching." Leo said, and then began cleaning under his nails with a screwdriver.
"You would be surprised at how easily I can slip away. Valdez. It's, uh, smoother than you sliding into the AM."
"DM."
"Right, but please don't tell. I'll leave anyway. I'd rather not have company." Cahira said as she started walking toward the Big House, where she had been staying."
"I get that, but are you going to at least tell me where you're going?" Leo asked, trying to keep up with her wide strides.
"No."
"Okay, you're being secretive, I get that too, but are you gonna come back?" He asked quietly.
Cahira stopped in her tracks. She turned slowly toward him, her golden eyes pinning him where he stood.
"Why do you care?" She asked.
"You aren't the only fire person who doesn't want to be alone." He whispered.
"You have a family, a cabin filled with tons of brothers and sisters. You have Fetus's figurehead. You have your Seven. I don't, I have my sisters. So I want to be with them. And if Caligo wants to come here, then we will, but if she wants to stay in Canada. Then we will, and if she wants to go somewhere where we can't hurt anyone else. Then we will." Cahira said and then started moving forward.
"You know, you're hurting my feelings, and our friendship. If you leave and don't come back." Leo said, still trailing behind her.
"Exactly. I don't want to hurt anyone else." She said.
Fifteen Years Before: OMS aircraft
"So you have these girls in a heavy trance?" An extremely attractive man asked.
"Yes, they aren't to be awakened until we get there." The operative said, staring at the man.
He was beautiful in a strange way, a deadly way, like the three girls in their containments.
"So the one who is like the galaxy is Caligo." He asked, was met with a nod.
"Then there is Cahira, the golden one." He stood, the operative gave him a look.
"Don't say the last one's name. She'll kill you." The operative whispered.
"Oh you mean Malum." Her eyes snapped open and he smirked. "She can't kill Death."
A dark power left his hand and then covered her containment, as it disappeared she could be seen asleep again. He smiled and then looked at the three of the girls.
"I want to see what they can do, and if I like it. Triple whatever your top bidder is offering and I'll pay that."
The operative took a shallow breath and smiled at him.
"Well then I hope you like what you see. Mr?"
"Thanatos."
Thirty minutes later, they landed in a war ravaged area. Each of the containments opened and the girls stepped out. Caligo in a deep purple dress, it was flecked with white stars and she smiled. Her hair was in soft waves and she looked at Thanatos and gave a soft smile, she stood before the doors.
Cahira left her containment, she was dressed in simple white pants and a shirt. But on her feet were dark heavy boots. She looked at the operative with hate in her eyes, and the same way at Thanatos, she went to join Caligo.
Finally Malum left hers, she radiated doom. Her pale grayish skin was almost translucent. Her dark hair hung limp on her head, she was in a dark ensemble that Thanatos couldn't tell what exactly it was. Her eyes didn't really focus on anything except her sisters.
"Alright ladies, you know what to do. We're going to impress Mr. Thanatos here today, got it. Now lets move." The operative called out, and opened the large door.
The girls left, and Thanatos followed.
"Sir, that is an active combat zone, you don't want to go out there."
Thanatos smiled at here.
"I have souls to collect anyway." He smiled.
Each of the different girls went their own ways, he separated his attention so that he could see everything in realtime.
Caligo:
Caligo went into the city, and Thanatos was sort of confused until she reached her hands out. A calm and peaceful darkness dripped from her fingertips. Stars and galaxies appeared in the puddles of darkness. Women covered in acid burns and bruises left their homes, holding near starved children and pregnant daughters who were too young to be wives.
They came toward her, afraid of the darkness.
"Be calm," She said soothingly. "I am here to give you relief and a life better than what you have now, all you must do is touch the darkness."
And one after one fell as the darkness spread. Thanatos was impressed at her through nature, but upset because of the extra work.
Her eyes looked empty as she stared forward and let her darkness spread. With every life she claimed, her eyes shone brighter.
Cahira:
Thanatos watched her closely, she walked toward the battlefield. There was a group of men who were readying to go into battle, she smiled at them. They stared at her and ordered a series of "get down" and "get her out of her" had on the flag of the country she was not here to kill, so she kept going on.
The wind whipped her hair around and she saw her victims. She stood still and then raised her arms, around her fell silent. She locked her mesmerizing eyes with the group.
"I'm sorry." She whispered inaudibly and then set the world ablaze.
The flames were so hot and brutal that the soldiers felt no pain, but their whole force was wiped out. Shouts of confusion and joy came from behind her, but she turned and it fell silent again. Cahira headed toward the city to find more soldiers.
Malum:
The bringer of doom stood at a door into a room of very vile and evil men. Thanatos was intrigued as to what she might do.
Malum pushed open a door and the men in the room looked at her.
"I am the face of retribution for every person you have every harmed. Feel their pain, and therefore. My wrath."
Then an angry and red light flared from her chest, it surrounded every being in the room. In their deaths the felt every bit of pain of they had ever inflicted. Screams of anguish, heartbreak, and pure unfiltered pain called out across the city.
In less than an hour, all of the girls were back in their containments, and Thanatos stood before them. He turned toward the operative.
"Playing a god is not something your organization should be doing. This is not just weaponry, this is a monstrosity." Then Thanatos disappeared.