After we ate we returned to the Pegasi. The two brown winged horses were still exhausted. They were laying lazily eating the grass while lying on their wings. Ellie tried to force them to stand, but they stubbornly refused to budge from their position. "Stupid animals!" She cursed.

"Maybe Lexie just overworked them?" I shot a look at Lexie.

"Or maybe you're too heavy and exhausted the one you were riding."

"Then why is your's just as tired!" I snapped. "Are you saying you weigh as much as two people?" Even Ellie chuckled slightly. "What are we gonna do until they're ready?"

"No, I packed more than you two I'm sure, and I'm carrying your stuff too."She said gesturing to the saddlebags next to her Pegasus.

"If you two are done bickering like brothers and sisters can we figure out what we're going to do until the Pegasi are ready to fly again!" She realized what she had said.

"You do realize we are siblings right?"

"Although I still have my doubts." Lexie coughed.

"That's beside the point!"

"Look we're in DC, some of the best museums are here." Lexie pointed to the large white building behind us. "My dad and I went here last time we were here, it's actually kinda of interesting. I remember they have Dorothy's shoes from The Wizard of Oz, and an exhibit on the Revolutionary War one on the Civil War."

I immediately stopped her. "Sold! Let's go! Sounds interesting." I grabbed my backpack from Lexie's saddle bag and threw it over my shoulder. "Civil War exhibit first!"

"Quite a man you've got there." I heard Lexie mumble to Ellie, sarcasm dripping from her voice.

The first thing I did when I entered the museum was run over to the map that was next to the main desk. I scanned the map quickly looking for the Civil War exhibit. When Lexie and Ellie caught up to me I was ready to bolt over to the stairs and find the exhibit myself. Ellie grabbed my shoulder before I disappeared again.

"Sean!" She said pulling me around in a spin. "Calm down, take a breath."

I took a deep breath. when I had calmed down a little I said, "Sorry Ellie... A little excited, I've always wanted to come here!" I was shaking like a little kid.

"I can see that." she laughed. "But don't take off, gods know's what kind of monsters are around here." She looked around the gigantic room. "Okay, which way is it?"

I pointed to a room that was just above us on the map. "We just need to go up these stairs." Then I pointed to the closest staircase on the map. I motioned for them to follow me in the direction of the stairs. Ellie stayed close behind me, and Lexie lagged a few steps behind.

When we arrived at the exhibit I noticed four girls around our age huddled around a small cannon in a glass case. They were all wearing rather short skirts and my first impression of them was the cheerleader type of girl. They made me a little uncomfortable as Ellie and I crossed the room towards the first part of the exhibit.

Lexie stood by the doorway watching us. "We gotta leave here in an hour so don't just stand there if you want to see the rest of the museum." She ordered from the doorway.

I ignored her and turned toward the relics. The first thing I saw was an old uniform, it was worn and had bullet holes in several sections. Then I moved on to the weapons case. There was a large assortment of weapons, pistols, rifles, and cavalry sabers. One sat in a case by itself, I leaned over to get a closer look at it, but somebody touched my shoulder.

I turned around and all four of the girls had surrounded Ellie and me. Their mouths grinned malevolently. "Hi." Said the center one flirtatiously as she stepped between me and Ellie. "My name's Jordan, have you seen the culture exhibit?" She grabbed my hand and started to tow me away.

I looked back at Ellie. "Umm..." I stuttered. "I'm here with some friends, sorry." I yanked my hand out of her tight grasp and rejoined Ellie. "Maybe some other time." I lied.

"I'm too hungry to wait, so I'm gonna make you an offer." She grinned as her "friends" circled us. "You let us kill you and we'll make it as painless as we can, deal?"

Ellie gripped my hand tightly. "Go to Hades!" Ellie pulled out her sword and pointed it at the girl. "Back off, there isn't any way I'm going to let you kill us." The girl's growled, each showing long white fangs.

"You can try and fight us, but it'll just be prolonging your death." Jordan sneered. "You can run, but you'll only die tired." They took a step forward and all their hair burst into orange flames. Their skin's color drained to pale and their eyes changed to a glowing red. "So what's it gonna be?"

I looked around the room for Lexie, but couldn't find her. Ellie swung her sword at the girl to her left and she disappeared in a golden plume of dust. "We'll take our chances." She said swinging her sword again. This time her target dodged her attack and Ellie stumbled to regain her balance.

I drew my sword and rolled from where i was standing, just in time to avoid getting slashed by Jordan's claws. She hissed again and leapt at me again. I shielded myself with my sword, her clawed hands grasped around the hilt of my blade. We struggled over the sword for a few seconds, when she kicked me in the gut and sent me flying into one of the glass cases.

She threw my sword over the side of the railing. She slowly walked over to me. I frantically looked around the ruins of the exhibit for something to defend myself with. I dove for the sword I had almost landed on. My hands settled around it's grip. I immediately swung the bronze sword in front of me just as Jordan charged me.

She disintegrated into a pile of golden dust, similar to what had happened to the other girl. I looked for Ellie, she was fighting off both of the flame-headed, demon girls by herself. I was halfway across the room when an arrow sprouted from one of their heads and she burst into dust. I looked over and Lexie was pulling back her bow and launched a second arrow, killing the second demon girl instantly.

"Empousa." Sighed Lexie. "Freaking vampire demon girls." Lexie placed her bow back in her backpack. "You two okay?"

Ellie nodded and walked over to us. "Nice blade, where did you get it?"

I pointed over to the remains of the glass case it had been in. "I grabbed it when that thing threw my sword."

"A hero is only as good as his weapon." Lexie joked. "And you are a bad hero."

I ignored her comment and walked over to the ruined display case. I looked at the plaque above the case. "It was General Sherman's saber." I pulled the sword's scabbard our from the destroyed glass. "It say's it was given to him after his victory at Shiloh." I looked over at Ellie and Lexie. "I do need a sword of my own." I looked at the sword's grip, there was the shape of a woman stabbing a dragon on the hilt.

Lexie came over to me and looked at it. "That's Mom! Why is she on Sherman's sword..."

I was about to say something, but Ellie interrupted me. "That's all very nice, but we better get out of here before security get's here and wonder's why you are holding a museum artifact." It was true, I could hear the sound of people running down the hall. We must have made a lot of noise in the short amount of time we were fighting. "Come on let's get out of here!" She was at the steps now.

I looked at the hilt of the saber again. "Mom." I slid the blade into its scabbard, then ran down the stair's following Ellie and Lexie. We bolted down the stairs, and sprinted for the door way. Two security guards almost grabbed us, but we were able to slip away from them.

Once we were outside we ran to our Pegasi, Lexie flug her saddlebags over her's and climbed on. Ellie flung herself on her's and pulled me on behind her. The museum security was right behind us. I barely had enough time to wrap my arms around Ellie, when we bolted into the sky. I could hear the security guard's yelling behind us as we glided away, I couldn't help but wonder what they thought they had seen.