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Chapter 25
Jason
Jason tried his best not to panic.
Thoughts were swimming through his brain: Who is it? Is this person going to kill me? How did they find us?
Jason decided it would be best to fight it.
He grabbed the hand holding his hair and pulled it forward over his shoulder.
He shot his leg out behind him to try to swipe the legs out from under it, but his feet connected with nothing.
And he realized it had no legs.
He wrenched the arm forward again, and it gave him enough momentum to flip the thing over his shoulder.
When it landed on its back in front of him, Jason could see it wasn't a person at all. It was one of those flying snake-fish women that attack the Argo II.
Jason, angry, summoned lightning from the sky.
The woman-beast started to wail in her high-pitched tone, and Jason knew that she was calling others to help her.
"SHUT UP!" Jason shouted, and he brought a huge bolt of crackling lightning down on her.
Her wailing ceased and the beast fried into black dust and blew away.
Jason looked up, and he saw a small swarm, of many ten of those flying fish-snake-beasts coming down toward him.
He gathered all his metal objects and turned to look around at the market people really quickly.
They simply seemed disturbed about the sudden bad weather.
Jason took off running down the path and crashed into the forest, then fell out onto the beach by the ship.
"Oh my gods, Jason," he heard Hazel's voice above him and he looked up.
Leo and Hazel, with streaks of oil, grease, cuts, and dust all over their clothes and face, were looking down at him.
"More women," Jason gasped.
Leo's face lit up.
Hazel shoved him on the arm and rolled her eyes.
"With wings," Jason continued, still a little out of breath. "And snake tails…and fish fins,"
Leo's expression darkened, and Hazel jumped up and ran off, shouting, "PIPER! FRANK! We have a problem!"
Leo helped Jason to his feet, and together, they jogged after Hazel while Leo filled him in on the progress of the ship.
"We still haven't really touched the engine," Leo explained, "because we didn't have any metal, but I can see you covered that."
"Hope it'll be enough."
Leo continued, "The hole is basically done, but we ran out of bronze plates. We still need to melt down the stuff Piper and Frank brought us, and that's going to take a little while. Sorry to tell you, bro, but I can't fight with you today if we're going to get this ship fixed and off the ground."
Jason nodded.
When they reached Hazel, Frank, and Piper, Piper was almost in hysterics.
Jason ran over and hugged her. "Piper, it's not that bad, we fought them before!"
She shook her head. It wasn't about that.
She pointed to the ship and to the mouth of Festus.
The pig was hanging, swinging like a pendulum, on its rope.
Dead.
Sorry about how short it is...I hoped you like the ending!
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