The Repeated History of the Heroes

the unmagic school bus

       As they walked from camp Zoe sighed, "This is the shittyist time of day, like ever."

        "Someones not a morning person," Andy muttered,

       "Shut the fuck up," Matt and Maggy trailed silently behind them.  Before they had left Zoe had given them the talk on fighting, apparently Matt was okay with knives, Maggy just thought her axes looked cool but that didn't change the fact that she told them to let her fight if they had to.  She would not let them get hurt, especially if she knew she could do something about it.  Both of them had objected a little, Maggy had told her she would do something if she had to, Matt agreed with that statement.  She couldn't protest to that anymore really, she was fully armed though with a knife strapped to either boot, brass knuckles secured in her right sleeve and of course her sword wrapped around her wrist.

        "How are we getting into the city?" Maggy looked concerned and rightfully so.

         "Gray sisters," she smiled brightly,

         "Oh! are those the one eyed people that drove us?" Matt asked,

         "Of course," she threw the drachmas into the air and they evaporated before hitting the floor.

         Maggy sighed, "Why do you hate me?" 

         "I don't" she smiled as the vehicle appeared and they piled in, "Excuse me?"

         "What?" barked on of the sisters turning her eyeless face back,

         She leaned forward, "Do you have any prophetic guidance for us?"

        The sisters' laughter filled the car, "Yes but we won't tell you unless you do something for us."

        Of course, every immortal needed something, "What do you need?"

        "I dropped my scarf the other day when we picked up a specific goddess, I need you to retrieve it for me."

       I could say no, "Where is it?"

       "We will take you there," should've said no, but their speed picked up and Maggy let out a tiny scream and Matt laughed at her.  Andy's hand gripped her knee as they turned and she bit the inside of her cheek.  Is he trying to kill me? 

        "Zoe is it needed for you to keep doing this to me?" he breathed,

        She patted his hand, "Because I like scaring you,"

        His grip on her tightened as they took a sharp turn, "I don't think that's what it is."

       "Okay Cupid, what do you think it is?"

       He just raised his eyebrows before the car skirted to a stop and he banged his head into the seat in front of him.  "Ow!"

       "We're here," croaked the gray sisters in unison, "Be back in an hour,"

        As they tumbled out Maggy sat down, "I hated that so much, where are we?"

        Matt looked around, "Looks like an abandoned carnival to me,"

        "Thanks, couldn't tell,"

         "Why did you say yes?"

        Zoe pinched the bridge of her nose, the wind howled through the ripped tents sending a chill straight through her clothes.  It was almost light outside and the air smelt of snow.  "I had to say yes, listen before the oracal went away everyone consulted her before quest.  Then she was gone and we've been left to look through her old notes.  Whatever she wrote about us wasn't a prophecy it was a vision.  They could have life or death information and I'm too busy to die."