Some fight...
I snapped up open and hit my head against the railing under Xavier. Thunk! "ouch! damn!" I complained, I rubbed my forehead and Xavier woke me up. He looked down at me and asked, "Mario, are you okay?" I grumbled and I looked out at the ocean. The bright reddish light starts gleaming. "I'm fine..." I responded, I got out of my bunk and walked outside, Xavier followed. "Are you lying?" he asked, I looked at him and shook my head, "no, I'm not." He walks up and he whispered "did you hear that?" I looked at him again, "hear what? all I hear is the ocean." I responded, he put a finger over his lips and starts running into the ship. "Xavier!" I hissed, I chased after him. We ran into the storage room where we saw a goat shadow looking at us, holding food in it's arms but dropped them and held his hands up. "Who are you?" I hissed, my sword appeared at my hand. I pointed it at it. it spoke "Guys! It's me Alexis!" I looked at Xavier as I asked him to get a lantern to see him. To turn out, it was Alexis, he looked like a mess and I laid my sword down. My sword is gone and I patted Alexis on the back as he came up to us. "hey buddy! how did you get onboard?" I said, he bleated a bit and chuckled. "I kinda sneaked aboard before the departure and I didn't show myself because I didn't want to worry or scare anyone." He answered, Xavier asked him "have you been living down here the whole time?" Alexis nodded, all of us walked up to the outside and see Roanoke Island is nearby. Alexis looks at me and asked me to take out my sword. I did what he said and he spoke again "Mario, do you want to name your sword?" I looked at him perplexed, "sorry?" He sighed, "forgot, you don't get things fast enough." I looked at him a bit ticked. "You want to try me kid?" I replied, he shook his head, "no sorry, my bad." He chuckled, we knew better than to mess with a son of Ares... unless you're Athena. "Name your sword Mario, it'll know it's owner and your enchantment will be better." Alexis cleared it more for me, I nodded and start thinking of a name. "Victoria belli" I spoke in Latin, Alexis and Xavier looked at me oddly. What's going on? did I just spoke Latin? quick! what is the Greek version of the name! "νίκη του πολέμου (Nike Ares)!" I corrected myself, Alexis translated it. "victory of war? that's a good name." Alexis responsed, I look at Xavier. He shook his head a bit and looks at me "really?" he questioned, I nodded and my sword begin to shine again. I laughed and I start swinging my sword around. it's lighter and looks stronger, like it's meeting it's name. Xavier and Alexis backed up, "hey! watch where you're swinging!" Xavier warned me, I looked at myself and laughed as I put it away. "sorry, it's too amazing." Xavier walks up and splashed my face with water.
We got closer to the island and everyone slowly starts waking up. Some of them were a bit freaked with Alexis being onboard. Sheldon was happy as he ran at the satyr and hugged him. Alexis bleated again and we all laughed. The island was swarming with tourists, boats going in and out, in and out. I looked at Rane and asked, "what are we exactly looking for?" everyone looks at Rane and she sighed, "we're looking for a scroll." she answered, everyone ready themselves and I just thought, "wait, how are we going in there with this boat and weapons?!" Xavier said my thought, Karen laughed as she came up, "it's called the Mist, it hides all of this." I nodded and we landed.
We walked off board and I had a purple backpack with a button underneath it and if you push it, it'll turn into armor. I was wearing a blood red shirt and blue jean shorts. Xavier wore a sea blue shirt and cargo pants. Karen wore a bloodstained shirt (not real blood, I asked) which has "blood" across her shoulder down to her hips. Everything else was black, she wore punk ripped jeans. Everyone one else was just looking out, we were the retrievers. "Alright, is everyone ready?" I asked Xavier and Karen, Karen pushed me to the side and starts walking ahead of us. "Hey!" I exclaimed, "Are we going to need a map Karen?" Xavier added, I looked at him and nodded. Karen looks at us in hatred. What happened to the kindness you had? I start walking where all the tourists start from, Xavier followed and Karen followed us. Xavier looked at Karen and asked, "are you okay?" Karen snapped at him "Yeah I am!" Xavier walked up to me frighten. "she's in a bitchy mood now..." he whispered, I looked at lifted my hand up to my stomach and lower it to reassured him. "go get the map, the visitor center is over there." I pointed at a yellow building, with slanted roofs. He nodded and headed there and I turn at Karen. She looked at me and snarls, "are you okay?" I asked, "No! what do you think!" Karen bit back, I flinched. She sighed and put a hand on her forehead and stick some of her fingers in her hair. "Sorry, I'm just like this for now, I get angered from time to time without any reasons, I don't know why." she answered, I nodded and replied, "okay, I understand, maybe you're on your period." I joked, she looked at me ticked off and grabs my collar. "Listen here! Don't try to joke with me or about me when I'm in my period!" She threaten, I gulped (A little note, I'm not that cocky as a son of Ares is). "Okay, can you release your grip?" I asked, she released her grip and Xavier poked my back and I turned. Oh gosh, don't tell me he saw the whole thing... He pointed at the map and shows at Fort Raleigh. "There's a lot of tourists there, are you sure?" I said to Xavier, he nodded and we followed him. It was silent until we stopped in front of the fort. "hey guys, I have a question." Karen stated, we looked at her and in a union "what?" She looks at me and her eyes show a little fear. "This has been too easy, there isn't a challenge here! We got here and nothing has happened yet!" Karen explained, Now to think of it, I haven't really thought of that. A man walks up, he had brown hair and olive skin. He wears fancy clothes, not a tour guide. He had glasses to hide from the strong rays of the sun. "hello demigods" the man spoke with a Greek accent. "how do you know we're demigods!" Karen hissed, "who are you?" I asked, the man smiled and answered, "my name is Cecrops, son of Hephaestus and the first athenian king." he bowed, I looked at Xavier. He looked ready to pull out his trident with his hand in his pocket. I looked at Karen, her familiar tough look is on. I looked at Cercrops, "what are you doing here?" I asked, he looked at me and smiled. "sorry kiddos but I'm here to stop you from getting the scroll." he answered, he walked away to a tour guide who had a speaker. The tour guide gave him the speaker and he announced, "everyone, I hate being bearer of bad news-" if so, why are you against us? "-closed early for today, please leave now." all of the tourists start walking out of fort, some of them cursed and some whined and complained, but they all left.
Cercrops looked at us and walked to the interior of the fort, we followed him, my sword is at my side. Karen has her sword out and Xavier has his trident. "if you ever know my history, I was a amazing ruler, the athenians loved me, they called themselves Cecropidæ after me. I guess you will ask why I am evil, let's say all of the kings have something in common, the greed of land, my providers have given me a deal that I can't refuse." the king stated, Xavier retorted at him. "how do you know if your providers are lying?" good point Xavier, who are his providers? The king laughed and his legs turn into a serpent tail. How many snake related monsters are there? I'm getting quite annoyed now. He hissed and snakes started to appear behind us. They start slithering up to us and we turned to face them. They start loading their strikes and I pressed the button under my backpack and it turns into greek bronze armor. I took a step at the snakes and swung my sword at them seeing if they would flee. Sadly they curled up more and attacked me. My armor was thick enough to prevent most of their bites, but some pierced and I grunted. Xavier came to my side and pulled out water from a flask I didn't see on his right side of his shorts. He washed them with small waves. This is the third time he saved my ass, jeez I'm reckless. I turn to see Karen fighting with the first king, "Xavier, are you fine with taking care of the snakes? We have to destroy the creator, like in the games, kill the source and the rest will be easy." I said, he looked at me and agreed. I patted his back and start running to Karen. As I ran, I start to feel a little loopy. My surroundings starts to get a bit messy and foggy. I get next to Karen and fell on her. She staggered and push me off and snarls "don't get in my way!" I get on my feet and shake my head. Focus! Focus! Focus now! I look at Cecrops and start running at him, Karen followed me. I ducked at the last second from his steel sword. After he retracted his sword, Karen jumped off of my back and thrust her sword in his right shoulder and I went up and stabbed him in his chest. I fell on the ground. My vision gets more hazy and my eyes felt tired. I blinked and felt more out. "hey guys, get the scroll..." I ordered, I saw Cercrops turning into dust and the wind carried him away. Xavier rushed to my side and lifted me from the ground. "Mario! you're not going to give up now!" Xavier said, Karen walks up and punches me in the stomach. She grunted with the pain of punching metal but I had more pain swelling in my stomach. I woke up and growled, "what the hell!" Xavier exclaimed, I got up, Karen looks at Xavier. "pain can keep you awake, and that wasn't even close to fatal." Karen spoke emotionless. Karen takes the lead and we followed. We searched all of the fort rooms but we didn't see any scrolls. I was in and out, still on Xavier. "Mario, you're getting a bit too heavy, please take off your armor." Xavier requested, I chuckled a bit and pressed a button on a plastic box controller that was on my thigh. My armor starts breaking away, like a machine itself, it turned back into my old backpack. "better?" I asked, he nodded. Karen starts complaining and I told her to shut up from time to time, "we can't find the damn scroll!" she snapped at me. "we should retrace our steps, maybe we overlooked something." I retorted, Xavier nodded and we went to the fighting scene. At the dusts of the first king, it was the scroll. Karen scooped it up, it was papyrus paper with silver knobs at the end. I smiled, so did Xavier but Karen didn't, but she felt relieved by the expression on her face. We walked back out of the fort and towards the ship. I passed out in front of it.