Elle

What the Hell was that? I thought as I took out one of my bronze daggers from my hair. I had gotten the smith at The Clann home-base to make me Daggers I could hide in my hair if need be, so whenever I went I always had hidden weapons. Like honestly, who ever thinks to check a persons hair to see if there's any weapons in there, so thats also why when I fought I always had my hair in a bun, because I can hide more daggers in my hair.

ROOOOOOOOOAAAR! again what the hell is that noise and where the bloody hell is it coming from? I looked up to see a manticore up on the second floor that over looked the boxing ring, tearing apart the building, probably looking for demi-gods to eat, apparently mortals don't taste as good as demi-gods. As the mortals all screamed and tried to escape i wondered what the mist made them see so I closed my inner eye that made me see through the mist and opened my eyes, they had made the manticore into a mob of people with heavy weaponry and guns shooting people and around the place. I quickly opened my inner eye again, the apparent 'gun shots' was actually the manticore roaring and the gun wounds was actually were actually the manticores scorpion tail. I saw the wounded mortals that were being stabbed by the scorpion tail, "those people wont live to survive this" I thought soberly "they will never go home after this and say hello to there families and there families will never have peace because they will forever be looking for people not this monster".

I eyed up this manticore, it had the body of a lion with bat wings, a scorpion tail and blood red eyes. I knew that I would need more help to take down this bastard then a couple of throwing knives and some daggers, as if the universe had heard my plea. "Because there was no way in hell that the gods are helping me, they don't care about any of their kids unless its for their own selfish gain" I thought, as Freya raced towards me with my sword and her bow and arrows since she is a daughter of apollo she is good with a bow and as a descendant of hermes she can use a dagger pretty effectively. "How did you know where to find me and to know to bring my sword?" I asked amazed, well I was interested the mob of terrified people had crumpled the boxing ring and had pushed me into the side of the wall near the exit. She smirked at me "Hello! descendant of the God of thieves, travellers and all that crap, I can practically SMELL trouble!" We both laughed at her remark, then I took my sword from her "lets get to work partner, you take down the wings, I'll take the tail then who ever takes it down will make the loser buy dinner" I propositioned to her. "Your on SISTA! lets GO!" she yelled as she started running to the middle where the boxing ring had used to be, the manticore will soon see us from the overhanging second floor and will hopefully smell us and try to make us dinner. If everything goes to plan everyone will get out if there smart and will leave us to deal with the monster, and then after the monsters dead me and Freya can then go to dinner and go on with the rest of our lives of us killing things like this monster.

Why did it get attracted to here though? Me and Freya had hidden our scents pretty well. Of Course the half-blood boys! they had sounded american; they mustn't of known about how to mask your scent. Hell Freya and myself hadn't learned about it till six months ago when the Australian Clann science devision had built a special perfume that masked our demi-god scents and even then the Clann had been pretty hush hush about it, apparently only the Australian database knew about it, So of course the boys must not have known about it they must not know about the Clann, apparantly in America they have some sort of junior 'camp' or something that the kids go to till their eighteen and if they survive to that age they get initiated to then join then Clann which I thought was pretty dumb cause then all the commanders were old and annoying.

Anyways back to the point, Freya had already started shooting at the manticore and it had begun to circle down on her, she never turned her back to it. She shot with perfect accuracy shooting at the wings causing tears in the wings and causing holes which made the beast lose altitude and crash to the ground. It stood up quickly and began to come at Freya, who had now thrown her bow and arrow away to take out her daggers and throwing knives, to which now she was using to distract the manticore so I could creep up behind it. Because the manticore and other monsters had mostly used our Demi-god scents to track us and hunt us down, some had grown lazy and had become unaccustomed to looking and checking out there surroundings to make sure there weren't been lead into traps. But since we could hide our scents now we could sneak up on them and kill them rather fast and effectively now.

I now stood behind the monster waiting for an opening to strike, the tail had been constantly moving trying to strike Freya that it hadn't really stopped moving. Then it did and I realised why it had put Freya in a corner and as it raised its tail to strike I ran at it and with my sword cut the tail off in one blow. The Manticore reared back in pain or shock I wasn't sure and realised that there was two of us and that it had just lost its best weapon its tail, It growled then ran at Freya.

Freya then unleashed a throwing dagger right into its eye, it roared loudly and staggered back, in its moment of weakness I ran forward and tried cutting it along its body, it reached out and tried to swipe at me which I dodged but the swipe hit Freya launching her into the wall. She fell badly on her leg "THATS IT NO ONE HURTS MY FRIEND AND GETS AWAY WITH IT!" I yelled I kneeled to the ground and put my hands on the ground as well, using my powers to search for water pipes. Water came from everywhere around me the ground, a sink near the back of the warehouse and some even from the sweat on my body, pulling deep in my stomach I made the water circle around its legs and into the ground making the water look like tethers, then pushing everything I had into the water I turned it to thick, immoveable ice. The Manticore roared and tried to move, but it was impossible it was stuck and I walked infront of the manticore. "Say hi to Hades for me" I said as I pushed my sword into the monsters neck and lobbed its head off removing its head from its body.

Its entire body vanished into gold dust that eventually disappeared, I was breathing heavily, exhausted and looked to Freya who looked the same as me but clutching her leg. "You okay?" I asked, "Nothing a little Ambrosia can't fix, leg just broken but its healing pretty quick with just the Ambrosia" she said grinning. "So I killed it" she grinned at me. "Nooo" i said frowning at her "I'm the one that took off its head". "Yeah but I'm the one that threw a dagger at its eye to let you cut the things head off" She argued, "Yeah but I'm the one that had to use my powers to hold it down to lob its head off" I said. She turned to me slightly frowning, then a smile took its place "Fine" she dragged out, "since I'm not as cool as you with super Poseidon slash water power I'm preposing you be so nice and share the bounty of killing it since I can only heal and not go all pew! pew! pew! and use water powers to kill stuff " she gestured towards a talon from the manticore and the poisonous spine tip that had been attached to the Manticores tail.

"Which part of it do you want?" I asked "The Claw or the Spine tip?", "I'm taking the spine tip, its poison never ends and can be put onto my arrows for battle" She answered deviously while slowing getting up and slightly hobbling to poisonous tip and picking it up and putting it into a bag, I hadn't noticed till then that she was carrying. "The claw is poisonous but mix a drop of the poison with water and your spit and it can be used as a healing instrument if you want that because your usually always clumsy when your not fighting" she sniggered at me. "so I'm a little clumsy" I started as I picked up the claw, and put it into a bag that Freya gave me. "at least I don't snore" I sneakily said as I went and put my arm around her shoulders. "I Don't snore!" she claimed affronted, "yeah whatever makes you sleep up at night, while I am awake cause your snoring your ass off" I not really whispered.

She hit me over the back of the head and I laughed, I quickly took some sweatpants and top out of the bag that Freya had on her bag, quickly put them since I was only wearing a crop top/sports bra and my stretchy shorts that were kinda short, while kinda walking, kinda stumbling. "So who's buying tea?" Freya asked as we walked out of the Warehouse, "SHHH! do you hear that?" I swear I had heard a noise.

HEYYY ITS SUE ANNE JAMES I HAVEN'T WRITTEN BEFORE BUT I WOULD LIKE TO THANK ALL WHO HAVE READ MY STORY AND I BEG THAT YOU PLEASE FOLLOW OR COMMENT ON THIS STORY. AND I BEG IF ANY OF YOU WANT TO CAN YOU PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! MAKE A COVER PAGE FOR THIS STORY SINCE ITS KINDA LACKING ONE. THANKS

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