Present Day: Camp Half Blood
"So what exactly did she tell you Leo, because we might need to be worried." Alyssa said as she nervously braided and unbraided her hair.
Leo looked down at the note that had appeared on his bed the night before. The handwriting was nice, but it was an extremely strange note for Cahira.
"Okay, for the thousandth time... Do not come looking for us, we are safe and happy. XOXO Chair." Leo read from the paper.
Alyssa stared at the note once again. Then sighed, she released her hair and then gasped.
"Leo, whats that paper made of?" She asked.
Leo gave her a crazed look.
"Do you think that I know?"
Alyssa snatched the note and smiled. She ran to her desk and then put it under a microscope, after a silent moment she smiled.
"Leo, do you see this?" She asked joyfully.
He shook his head and looked at it.
"The molecular structure says that it's from the white poplar tree! There's only one place in all of the universe who uses that paper." Alyssa explained, and she waved the paper in front of his nose.
"Where?" Leo asked.
"The Underworld!" Alyssa exclaimed.
Leo's jaw dropped.
"She's dead?" He asked.
"No, stupid." Alyssa scoffed. "At least I don't think so. But this means that she's in Hades' palace. I'm assuming her other sisters are too. Which is good, I guess. Cause then they won't be able to hurt anyone else."
Alyssa sighed in relief and sat down, Leo gave her a look.
"Why did you say that?" Leo asked quietly.
"Because they did hurt people." Alyssa explained and set down the note.
"That doesn't mean that they should be left in the underworld! Especially when they're all emotional and easy to influence. They could be forced to do some bad stuff!" Leo explained.
"Leo, they do that stuff on their own!"
"How do you actually know that?" Leo sighed.
Alyssa gave a frustrated groan and squeezed a stress ball, then she stopped and looked at Leo . She picked up a manilla folder marked as confidential and handed it to him. Leo sighed and grabbed it from her hand.
"Do you want to read just one mission log? Then maybe you'll see why this is best?" Alyssa asked him.
Leo frowned and cracked open the folder.
10-3-1998, mission in Sinjar was successful subject 1,2,and 3 proved worthy. Battle was finished before a war could outbreak.
5:59pm Flight arrives and subjects are removed from their induced rest.
6:00pm Subjects 1, 2, and 3 leave for their designated combat areas.
6:05pm Subject 1 returns, death count 129 women and 37 children
6:09pm Subject 3 returns, death count 2 men
6:10pm No return of Subject 2, search party sent out
6:23pm No return of search party, second search sent out
6:31pm Second search party returns, Subject 2 is unconscious and carried by Privates Jorgenson and Halstein
6:32pm Bodies of soldiers (Abernathy, Garza, Holmes, Perez, Quincy, Ramirez, and Williams) found, causes of death burned alive.
6:33pm Subject 2 reports kills, death count 645 men and 278 women.
6:35pm Subjects put into hypersleep.
6:40pm Flight departs, mission complete.
Leo sat for a moment in bewilderment, staring at the report... He knew that Subject 2 meant Cahira, but how could she have killed so many people in just one mission.
"So, do you understand that if there is a place are able to be safe that that is the underworld..." Alyssa asked.
Leo kept staring.
"Leo. This is one of thirty four missions. Most of these missions were not even necessary, they were just demonstrations for interested clients. These aren't girls. They're weapons, and I know that Cahira and I were friends, but I saw that in her. She was a weapon, a money making machine." Alyssa explained.
"She was made that way. You said so yourself. So don't give up on her because of how she was made."
Three Weeks Later: Thanatos' Manor
Each of the girls had grown used to sitting at lavish banquet tables every day, and spending days walking through the Underworld beside Death.
On his left was always Caligo, he treated her as his own child, it made sense. Peaceful deaths living together. On his right Malum, she treated him as her son exposing him to cruel and evil ideas.
But he always let Cahira walk in front of him. He treated her like a lover, showing her all of the wonders of Elysium and the wonders of history. But she was never truly warm toward him, and that truly disturbed him.
"So Ladies, are you ready for tonight?" Thanatos asked.
Each of the girls looked up, willing eyes. Except Cahira, she was still skeptical.
"I see Cahira, that you are worried. But you don't need to be. Everything will be exactly how we discussed." He purred.
His aura was calming, and Cahira let all of the tensions leave her soldiers. Soon she would be better, soon she could be as close to free as possible.
"I am ready." She whispered.
Thanatos gave her a pained look, but his beautiful face remained beautiful, and Cahira hated him for that.
"Well then. Let's go." He smiled and then soon they were at Hades' palace.
Hades was sitting in his throne, dark eyes alight. Persephone was beaming at his side, ready to have more eternal friends.
"So, you know how this works?" Hades asked.
All three girls nodded, and they went to the center of the room. Caligo would kill Cahira, to finally give her peace. Cahira would kill Malum to give her a warrior's death. Malum would kill Caligo, because Caligo never caused any pain and she wouldn't feel any.
Then the there girls joined hands and decided their own fate, and had reached the end of their path's toward Death.
Present Day: Camp Half-Blood
"What exactly do you mean, goddesses?" Alyssa asked Leo while training.
Leo grunted as Alyssa struck her sword, he spun around and used a full body shield to deflect her blow.
"I mean I got another note. Each girl is going to kill the other in some weird ritual to become goddesses. Each one an assistant to Thanatos." Leo panted as he danced around the circle, trying to avoid combat.
"So, they're being given immortality and even more powers?" Alyssa groaned and struck his shield.
"Pretty much."
Alyssa went to strike again, and hit her mark, ending the duel. Both took a step back and Leo looked vaguely offended that she beat him.
"This is out of our hands Leo." Alyssa said and patted him on the shoulder.
Leo sighed and looked down, disappointed he could not held his fellow fire-person.
"They were made into monsters. Let those monsters be destroyed and let them be made into goddesses, It's a lot better this way." Alyssa smiled and then let him go.
Made, from one form to another. But Made all the same.