Demigod SMP | DSMP x HoO Crossover | Book 1

Chapter 14 - Dwarfs And Empousai

"Hello Eret!" Ghostbur waved to the newcomer cheerfully. Piper, Jason, Frank, and Hazel found a strange man in the mountains down below named Eret. Eret and Ghostbur seems to know each other.

They've given Eret the biggest clothes they have for him to change into. To Hazel, though, Eret is just really tall. In fact, it's the first thing she noticed about Eret when they first met.

Everyone on the Argo II (except Eret, who they didn't trust enough yet, and Coach Hedge & Piper, who are steering the ship. They didn't really want Ghostbur with them but Ghostbur kinda just phased through the walls) were gathered in the mess hall. They had been talking about the House Of Hades with Nico feeding them more information about it.

Suddenly two dwarf-like people- uh, things? Whatever they are? Hazel has no idea what they are. Long story short. They somehow tied up Piper and Coach Hedge. Then the two of them quickly stole Piper's dagger, Leo's Wii controllers, the Archimedes sphere, and some Blue.

"Huh?!" Ghostbur didn't seem to comprehend what happened as the Blue was pried from his hands.

Surprisingly, Eret has good reflexes. (The man has been through wars, what did you expect?) After he realized what is going on he quickly held onto his belongings and delivered a kick to one of the, um, gnome things or whatever they are. The two dwarf/gnome/whatever-they-are creatures quickly got off the ship.... but not without taking Eret's crown as well. (Oof I'm so sorry your majesty King Eret! 😭 THIS IS FOR THE PLOT 😔)

"No!" Leo yelled.

Nico groaned from the floor, "Ughhhh."

"Piper!" Jason cried, proceeding to get to his girlfriend's side.

Frank shouted, "Monkeys?!" (No they're not. Calling them monkeys is an insult to monkeys 😂)

"Not monkeys." Hazel sighed, "I think those are dwarfs."

"Stealing my STUFF!" Leo yelled again even louder this time as he raced after the dwarfs.

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"Ranboo I have a question." Annabeth told her friend. She was trying to talk to make the situation lighter and to get answers. Annabeth had always noticed how Ranboo never looked anyone directly in the face, not even to his most trusted friends.

"Oh that's easy. You know how I'm part enderman, right? Well, endermen are a type of neutral mob. Passive mobs are friendly, aggressive mobs are, well, aggressive, but neutral mobs are neither. They won't attack you unless provoked." Ranboo replied.

Annabeth nodded along, "I know, but that doesn't answer my question?"

Percy muttered, "Passive and neutral types of mobs sounds great. Looks like we've basically been meeting aggressive monsters our whole life."

Ranboo continued explaining, "There's one easy way to trigger endermen, which is to look them directly in the eye. Since I'm an enderman hybrid, I guess I kinda inherited that trait. I won't attack anyone, since I'm not a full enderman, but I hate eye contact. I don't even know why. It just feels so horrible and revolting."

"Oh." Annabeth said in understanding.

Suddenly the three of them heard voices. "Down!" Annabeth whispered. She pulled the two others behind the nearest boulder.

The voices they heard were female. They were arguing about who should be in charge, etc, but soon, Annabeth heard an alarming sentence.

"Before this war is over, mortals and demigods will tremble at the sound of my name — Kelli!"

Annabeth almost yelped out loud. Ranboo gave her and Percy a questioning look and Annabeth gave him a "we'll-talk-later" look.

Empousai. She mouthed to Percy. Vampires. Percy nodded grimly.

The Empousai's voices are getting further away. Annabeth crept to the edge of the boulder and risked a look.

Five women staggered along on mismatched legs — mechanical bronze on the left, shaggy and cloven-Hoover on the right. Their hair was made of fire, their skin as white as bone. They were all wearing tattered Ancient Greek dresses except for the one in the lead — Kelli — who was wearing a burned and torn blouse with a short pleated skirt.... her cheerleader's outfit.

Annabeth heard Ranboo gasp softly beside her at the scene. Annabeth gritted her teeth. She has faced many horrible monsters over the years, but she hates Empousai more than most.

In addition to their nasty claws and fangs, they have powerful abilities: manipulating the Mist, charmspeak, and change shape.

Now Annabeth really wished she still has her dagger.

Percy rose. "They're heading for the Doors Of Death." He murmured. "You know what that means?"

Annabeth didn't want to think about it, but sadly, this squad of flesh-eating-horror-show women might be the closest thing to good luck they were going to get in Tartarus.

"Yeah." She answered, "We need to follow them."

Ranboo sighed, "Right, let's go."

The trio set off. As they followed the Empousai, Annabeth told Ranboo information about Empousai as Percy watched for possible dangers. Then after Ranboo knows enough information about Empousai to deal with them, (he has Netherite armor and Netherite tools/weapons now) she moved onto telling Ranboo about the last few years.

"That's crazy! You went against the lord of time?!" Ranboo asked in awe. "Everything you guys do is just so cool. You really never cease to amaze me." Annabeth could see that he still looks at Percy with a tint of fear, but he's slowly warming up to Percy. He's like a scared and abandoned puppy who is trying to face his fears.

Annabeth thought Ranboo's pretty brave to face his greatest fear. Like her fear with spiders, Ranboo fears water. What makes him braver is water will actually harm him, but most spiders won't kill Annabeth unless it's poisonous or a monster.

So yes Ranboo's not that vulnerable. I've decided that in this fanfic Ranboo can only be killed with at least two full cups of water. Any amount of water lower than that of water will only give him a lot of pain and make his health decline but won't actually kill him. Hope that clears everything up.

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The demon monkey dwarfs have horrible fashion sense that hurt Leo's eyes. They have hair basically everywhere on their bodies but most of it were concentrated on their magnificent eyebrows.

One of the dwarfs set off a flash bang grenade that Leo created and experimented with. The flash bang grenades were filled with a rare vial of Apollo's music, pure liquid extract. It doesn't kill, but it left Leo with the feeling like he'd just done a belly flop off the deep end. Leo felt groggy and his vision was blurry.

Note to self. Do not leave boxes of magic grenades where dwarfs can get to them.

Leo has been creating several different types of grenades that can spray: acid, fire, shrapnel, or freshly buttered popcorn. (I think we can all agree that the last type of grenade is THE best)

Jason pulled the gag out of his girlfriend's mouth, "Piper!"

"Don't waste your time on me! Go after them!" Piper told him.

At the mast, Coach Hedge mumbled, "HHHmmmmm-hmmm!"

Leo figured that meant: "KILL THEM!" Easy translation, since most of the coach's sentences involved the word "kill."

That's not such a bad idea, actually.

Leo's thoughts has begun to clear as he realized what just happened and his sense of outrage came to boil. His Archimedes sphere and tool belt were both stolen by those dwarfs!

"Oh they are so dead...."

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