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Two Days Later: Camp Half-Blood
"Leo... How did you LOSE them?" Alyssa asked, pacing back and fort and back and forth throughout the Athena cabin.
Leo gave an impish grin.
"Uh, I mean... You shouldn't have let her get out of the border in the first place." Leo offered unconvincingly.
Alyssa let a scream of frustration out.
"So, before I go to tell ya know... Annabeth. Let me get things straight. You and Cahira frolic throughout some hiking trail right outside of Quebec. The land BEYOND THE GODS. A place where you know someone who wants you to die, Khione, runs amuck. Then on this totally safe nature hike you find a cave filled with First's killing darkness, and as soon as the Cahira's fire touches it, it disappears. Showing you bodies of nature-men much like yourself, that have been there for a possible maximum of three years... Then you let them connect, nice reunion moment. THEN the third one shows up and somehow you escape alive and without the girls." Alyssa explained in an accusatory tone.
"Uh-huh. I think you've got it." Leo winks.
Alyssa gives him a dead serious look and then walks over to her desk. She grabbed a spelling bee trophy and threw it at the wall. It was plastic so it didn't break, and Alyssa looked extremely disappointed. She sat down in the desk chair, grabbed a stress ball, a file, and started reading.
"So... Can I go?" Leo asked after a few silent moments.
"No, you are going to help me find them. Because these are three of the most dangerous and hard to locate girls in the whole cosmos. And because they are all together, they made themselves a threat." Alyssa told him quietly and kept reading.
"Okay, I'm triggered." Leo said and waved his hands around.
Alyssa raised an eyebrow and gave him a hard look with her beady grey eyes.
"You people think you can apply the word MADE to everything. People are not made into anything, they may seem one way... but you aren't made into things. Machines are made, orbeez are made, but HUMANS are not made." Leo tried explaining for what seemed like the thousandth time.
Alyssa pinned him with a stare that could almost compare to Annabeth's. She held up a few papers in her hand and then set them down on the desk.
"No, these girls were made. I don't know if you noticed, but they aren't human. They are monsters, but not because they wanted to be or because they were born that way. But because they were genetically engineered to be monsters. So yeah, they may not be machines, but I sure as hell believe I can say that they were made to be the way they are." Alyssa said.
Leo huffed, then looked around the cabin. He turned toward Alyssa who was somehow aggressively reading.
"You know... if all three of them are together. Then you could just turn on the mortal news." Leo suggested.
"What?" Alyssa asked seriously.
"I mean, if they truly aren't harmless then get this. Things will happen. Regular humans will get interested. There will be a trail, and then badda-bing badda-boom you've got a lead. Cause if there is one thing sentient beings love to do, it is stick our noses into business that isn't ours." Leo said and then gave her a finger gun.
Alyssa looked up, and the look on her face showed that she was very unhappy to have let Leo come up with that instead of her.
"Fine. You're right." Alyssa said, and as she spoke Leo's eyes dazzled.
"What was that?" He questioned, putting his hand right next to his ear.
"I'm not saying it again Valdez. Now get me leads." She commanded and buried her nose back into the papers on her desk.
Leo grinned, then considered getting t-shirts made that say 'Alyssa from Athena thinks Leo Valdez is right'. That would be swell.
Present Day: Underworld, Manor of Death
"So what did our lovely Malum do to attract your attention, Death?" Caligo asked as she filled her plate more than anyone at the table.
A dark smile crept over Thanatos' beautifully carved face, he picked up a glass of wine and then opened his mouth.
"Well, I went out into a war zone with you three once... I don't know if you remember, but it was quite an impressive show." He purred.
"I heard it's up for an Oscar." Cahira offered sarcastically.
Thanatos shot her a silencing look, but nothing mean.
"Anyway, I was impressed on what three mortal HUMANS could accomplish. But what got me to bring her into the Underworld, was because of a mass-homicide of a group of Neo-nazis. The forensics reports don't know exactly what to say, but apparently one died of strangulation, one of burned organs, and others in similar ways, all without being hung or burnt to a crisp. So I decided it was time to stop letting you ladies run amuck." He said in a happy tone.
"What attracted you to me?" Caligo asked quietly.
"Five missing hikers and one missing journalist who were found dead, but apparently there is no cause of death" He said and smiled.
"What about me?" Cahira asked him, she thought it would be because of her time at Camp Half-Blood.
"A village that burned down, full of POWs and soldiers in the Middle East. Well, full of bones that are too charred to identify." Death explained as he leaned into his chair.
The three girls stared at him, all with cold and calculating eyes. Then Malum spoke.
"So now that you have all of us... What do you need?" She asked cautiously
"I am thrilled that you have asked." Thanatos smiled. "I need you three simply to Die."
Then in that moment the entire underworld fell completely silent.
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