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🍪 — 020. fulfilling the prophecy.
ISA WHISTLED SHARPLY THOUGH HER TEETH, and a moment later Red appeared in his pegasi form, knocking red-eyed wolves off their feet and hard onto the ground making it easy for Isa to slash them.
"Good job, Red!" Isa praised and climbed onto his back, "Let's get rid of the rest."
The group separated. Piper was surrounded by Earthborn, but she seemed to beholding her own. She was so impressive-looking as she fought, almost glowing with beauty, that the Earthborn stared at her in awe, forgetting that they were supposed to kill her. They'd lower their clubs and watch dumbfounded as she smiled and charged them. They'd smile back ─ until she sliced them apart with her dagger, and they melted into mounds of mud.
Jason had summoned a Venti; it tried to shake Jason, then tried to dissolve into mist to lose him; but somehow Jason stayed on. He willed the horse to remain in solid form, and the horse seemed unable to refuse. The blonde bot charged into battle, swinging his icy piece of wood, knocking aside wolves and plunging straight through other venti.
Leo had taken on Khione herself. While fighting a goddess should've been suicide, Leo was the right man for the job. She kept summoning ice daggers to throw at him, blasts of winter air, tornadoes of snow. Leo burned through all of it. His whole body flickered with red tongues of flame like he'd been doused with gasoline. He advanced on the goddess, using two silver-tipped ball-peen hammers to smash any monsters that got in his way.
Isa realized that Leo was the only reason they were still alive. His fiery aura was heating up the whole courtyard, countering Khione's winter magic. Without him, they would've been frozen like the Hunters long ago. Wherever Leo went, ice melted off the stones. Even Thalia started to defrost a little when Leo stepped near her.
Khione slowly backed away. Her expression went from enraged to shocked to slightly panicked as Leo got closer.
"You're too late," Khione snarled. "He's awake! And don't think you've won anything here, demigods. Hera's plan will never work. You'll be at each other's throats before you can ever stop us."
Leo set his hammers ablaze and threw them at the goddess, but she turned into snow ─ a white powdery image of herself. Leo's hammers slammed into the snow woman, breaking it into a steaming mound of mush.
Then Isa heard a cracking sound behind them. The melting ice on Hera's cage sloughed off in a curtain of slush, and the goddess called, "Oh, don't mind me! Just the queen of the heavens, dying over here!"
