Legend Of The Demigods' Prophecies: The Tale of the Lost Beast {✓}

Chapter 14

CORAL

We travelled to Las Vegas from Utah, by bus which took us around 4 hours so we reached around five in the evening.

“Well, let’s not waste any time and just get over with the quest. Coral take out the compass that Chiron gave you and see where it leads us” I did what Ciera asked me to.
I took out the compass and it started pointing towards North and all of a sudden I was pulled by an invisible force which compelled me to run, even though my body wasn’t ready for it. The three of us ran to wherever the compass took us, we ran through tunnels, under bridges and literally into walls. After a whole twenty minutes of good cardio the invisible force made me halt in front of an old abandoned casino.

“Considering this is Las Vegas, this place is really fucking empty” I said trying to catch my breath.
“Maybe it’s you know the magic of the Omnifelveltine or something” Ciera said .
“Maybe.”

We stabilised our breathing before entering the casino.
“Oh, Lils before we enter, I advise you to wear Annabeth’s New York Yankees cap that you borrowed, we don’t know what awaits us, it’s better to be cautious rather than sorry” I told her.
“Awww, come on, I wanted some action too” she whined.
I smiled softly “you’ll be the one saving us if anything goes wrong, of course you’ll get the most action.”
She nodded happily and put on the Yankees cap and the three of us marched into the darkness.

As soon as we entered the casino, someone came and grabbed both Ciera and me and tied our hands.
“What the fuck?” I said and turned to look at our captivaters, they were wearing suits of armour and they were kinda invisible.
“Spirits” I thought, but why were they here? Wasn’t Hades doing his job properly?
“They’re here m’lady, just as you had planned, they walked right into the trap” I heard a amle voice say, the voice from my dreams.
“Very well boy, you shall be rewarded for the good work” a  female voice said, the same one from my dreams.
“Who are you?” Ciera asked.
“Hello Ciera, Coral, long time no see, hopefully you haven’t forgotten me” the guy said as he stepped into the light.
“Octavian,” I said, shocked.
“Well, yes Coral, it is I, Octavian, the former Augur of Camp Jupiter and currently the right hand of my mistress Nyx, the Goddess of Darkness” he said and Nyx stepped up.
Both of them looked opposite of each other, Octavian, was as pale as a ghost considering he was actually dead and Nyx, the goddess of darkness, awfully covered in all black robes, emitting the horrible stench of death and tartarus.
“But- but how did you survive? You’re supposed to be dead” Ciera asked him since i couldn’t find the words to say anything.
“Oh, my lovely Ciera don’t you see, i am dead, well half dead” he said pointing to his ghostly pale arms.
“When that traitor, Will and the other Hades’ kid, Nico, set me up in that canon and i died, I reached the underworld sure, but i was just a lost soul, with everything in chaos, i was left alone to myself, so i started wandering around and one day i entered Tartarus without my knowledge, it was terrifying, it was at that time my mistress, took care of me and sheltered me from all the ghastly terrors of tartarus, and asked me if i wanted to join her, because she was going to take over zeus, I couldn’t say no, because i owe it to her and i too want revenge from the gods, especially from Apollo for being the most fake out of them all” Octavian said and i could literally hear the hatred in his voice and see the burning passion of bringing Olympus down in his eyes. It was scary, and then Nyx spoke, “Now now Octavian, let’s give our guests a proper welcome shall we?” she clapped and both Ciera and my weapons were taken away from us.
“HEY! GIVE THAT BACK!” Ciera said attempting to kick the guard that took her weapons away, but she was pushed and she fell on the ground. I ran towards her “Don’t you dare touch her!” I said trying to headbutt the guard but I was punched instead and I spat out blood.
“Coral!” Ciera cried.
“I’m fine, don't worry about me, it’s just hard to do absolutely anything when your hands are tied” i told her.
“Now now girls, please behave” Nyx said and then furrowed her eyebrows, “Isn’t something missing? Weren’t there supposed to be three girls? Where’s the third one?” She turned to Octavian. Ciera and i looked at each other and we had a silent agreement, in my best acting wavering voice i said “She- she was killed when we fought the Hydra in the Island of Five Snakes” I was pretty sure Lilianah was cursing me out right out and it kinda made me smile, thankfully Nyx didn’t catch that.
“Oh? Well that’s sad, my condolences” she said in her fakest sweet voice and i glared at her.
"Where's the omnifelveltine?" I asked glaring at her dangerously.
“Now sweetie don’t use that tone with me. As for the omnifelveltine, you'll see it soon.”
“Bring it in” she ordered one of her guards. The guy who was ordered, went back into the darkness and emerged with a small sleeping creature in his arms, it was the omnifelveltine, with its glowing golden skin illuminated the darkness Nyx had created, even though it looked tired and wounded, the creature had never seemed so stately and beautiful before.
“What have you done to it?” I asked, looking directly into Nyx’s eyes.
“Oh, nothing much, we just starved it for a few days, that’s it” she smiled at me.
“Start the fire” she said and my eyes widened in fear.
“No, no wait, what the fuck you can’t do that”
“I can, and I will sweetie.”