CHAPTER 14
She entered the tunnel, and it was not what she had expected. She emerged into a valley, a huge, beautiful valley. In front of her was what looked like a fortification. A large wooden door stood at the front, surrounded by high walls. She saw a city in the distance. A city? In a maintenance tunnel? She was losing her mind. She stopped and listened. Battle. She could hear the sounds of a war being fought. She ran for the entrance, no longer caring that she was going crazy, and focused on finding Noah and Connor.
She ran through the door, looking around and trying to get her bearings. She was in what looked like an encampment. Buildings were stationed everywhere, in neat rows, and on the roads, two opposing armies fought. An army of monsters, against armour-clad Roman warriors. She shook herself. Roman? They had the swords and the shields, and the Roman helmets. Were they demigods? She wasn't even aware that there was such a thing as a Roman demigod. Well, she thought, I'm here and I'm a Greek demigod. How far-fetched could a Roman demigod be? She unsheathed her staff and ran at the closest monster, switching it to spear form as she leapt and impaled it in the back. The Roman that was fighting it looked at her, shocked, before charging off to attack another monster. She went to work fighting the other monsters, using her water manipulation abilities to push them around and stop them from attacking her.
She located a water source underneath her. A well? A pipe? Something. She concentrated and she felt it rupture, the water shooting upwards, cracking the earth as it moved. She stepped back as the water shot out of the earth in front of her, and she concentrated, willing it to obey her. She swiped her staff and the water obeyed, throwing itself out in a wide arc to hit the monsters in front of her. She spun the staff, and the water forming a kind of hurricane, the water swirling around her. Pushing her staff out again, the water rammed all of the monsters around her, forcing them to explode into dust, and sweeping it up in the violent current. The willed the water to form a surface and she stepped onto it, willing it to move down the road, a violent, writhing mass of water being ridden by the daughter of Poseidon, absorbing and drowning any monster in its path. She flew through the camp, the Roman soldiers gone, charging ahead of her as a unit, trying to get to the city.
She changed her course, not wanting to drown any of the Roman demigods, and went a different path, killing any monster she saw. Stabbing with her staff caused water to leap out from the mass, grab any monsters it touched and pull them back into the water to drown and disintegrate. She was approaching the city when she saw Noah and Connor, fighting as part of a Roman wedge formation against the monster army. That decided it for her, she was fighting alongside the Romans. She was approaching the fray from the side, and pushed forwards with all of her might. The water shot forwards, striking almost the entire army in front of the wedge, pushing them all away and disintegrating most. She held the water long enough to drown the monsters, and then relinquished her control. The water lost its substance, leaking back into the earth.
She sighed, the water manipulation having taken alot out of her. The wedge had stopped, the Romans watching aghast as the daughter of Poseidon sighed and leaned on her spear. She saw Noah and Connor beaming, and they ran out from the wedge to hug her and make sure she was alright.
"I'll tell you about it when we're done here. Now - where am I? Who are these people?" she asked, looking at the Romans in the same way they were looking at her, with caution.
"We'll tell you about it when we're done here. Come on, we need to get to the city." Noah said, running ahead, the Romans following him, yelling a battle cry.
Connor just winked at her, smiling, as he followed Noah.
She sighed, her brief rest over, and she ran after them.