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Leo's pov

"Hey Sump, Torque." I muttered uneasily, looking around for some machines to hit them with.

"Oh great, there's another one." muttered Chris from behind me.

"Get'em brother, before Ma gets here." Cackled Sump, as Torque grabbed the spit from the fireplace, and began advancing towards us.

He was barely a few feet away when Chris, who had had her face screwed up in concentration for the past few seconds, threw up her hand in the classic 'stop' gesture, crying "Wait!"

Torque stopped in confusion, he was plainly not used to being addressed in such a fashion. "If I'm to be eaten, I want to be cooked properly." Continued my girl-friend-to-be (if we ever got out of this alive). Honestly, don't you know that if you want your demigods to be juicy, you surround them in aluminium foil and roast them, if you cook us on a spit all the juices fall into the fire and evaporate. Don't you monsters know anything?" Um, what? I thought confusedly, but my partner plainly was not finished. "B-but to do that you need stuffing, a-and foil. So why don't you get that?" she asked hopefully.

Sump and Torque looked at each other, plainly trying to process the far too complex information that had been presented to them. Finally, Sump spoke "I'll get the stuffing, you guard the prisoners."

"Well that didn't work, did it?" I whispered urgently to Chris.

Torque grunted from the doorway "No talking." As he menacingly waved his club.

"We'll see." She whispered, smiling evilly. "So Torque, nice stick you got there." Grinned Chris. "pity you're too afraid to use it."

"What?" Screamed Torque and I simultaneously, my voice perhaps a little higher pitched than his.

"Just trust me," she whispered "When he attacks, dodge and run for the door. It'll be a lot easier with just one of 'em"

"That's you're plan?" I whisper-screamed back. "You're gonna work him up into a fit of rage and make him attack us?"

"It's an Ares special." she replied, grinning innocently before turning back to the Cyclops.

"Well, if you were a real monster you would have killed us by now. I mean, there's no real point in keeping us alive is there?" she stated, chuckling evilly.

"Yes, to make you suffer as you cook." Screamed Torque in response, Chris however, was not fazed.

"Oh, how cliché can you get." she replied, waving her hand. "A real monster would have bashed our heads in and eaten us raw. But then I suppose you wouldn't have any idea what a real monster was, now would you?"

Well, whatever else you could say about this girl, you gotta admit she's got guts.

"Come on, stop being such a woman, bash us in." she continued to taunt.

What the hell did I see in this girl?

With an enraged yell, Torque launched himself at us, ready to strike. Right at the last moment Chris dove to the side, dragging me unceremoniously behind her. She leapt to her feet without a second's hesitation, and began sprinting to the huge, oaken door. I dashed quickly after her, reaching the door at the same time, slamming our shoulders into it simultaneously.

It swung open painfully slowly, and we rushed through it, slamming it shut behind us, triumphantly locking Torque out.

The corridor was pitch black, lit only by the yellow fire I had summoned. Through the gloom I saw Chris slinking towards me, she grabbed my hand in her sweaty palm, gesturing for me to be silent, and to follow her.

Trying to ignore the fact that she had just willingly touched me, we tiptoed down the passageway, passing door after door, some of which had non-human noises emanating from them.

"Where are we?" I whispered.

"No idea, but I'm guessing some sort of underground passageway, with monsters." She whispered back intelligently.

"No shit Sherlock." I replied, mimicking her voice from a few weeks before.

"Shut up." She snapped back, her voice sounding angry, but she was betrayed by her twinkling eyes and twitching lips.

"Hmhm, you know you love it." I murmured sexily.

"Leo, you sound like a frog when you try to be seductive." She laughed back, quietly. "Now come on, there looks like there's a ladder up ahead, it should lead us somewhere."

Oh she wants me so bad.

Sorry that was so short, but I'm going on holiday today and I had to pack. I'll try to write on the plane tomorrow so I'll update as usual. See ya suckahs!