𝙼𝚎𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚘𝚒𝚊 (𝙇𝙚𝙤 𝙑𝙖𝙡𝙙𝙚𝙯 𝙓 𝙊𝙘)

δεκαεννέα

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The earth was shaking much too violently for Elena's liking. She had done her best to shield her brother from the loud sounds but it was no use, the little boy had begun to cry and wail. She tried soothing him but it only helped a little, she was becoming slightly worried. The blast had been the result of one of the cannons on board the Argo II. Elena knew this because a month prior, Leo had shown her a small version which he had accidentally set off in the bunker, the cannon ball had left a small crater in the rocky walls of Bunker 9 but the problem here was that these were much bigger and more lethal, so who was setting them off? It can't have been Leo, he was much too sweet to do that, maybe Gleeson Hedge- no, he didn't like the smell of the gunpowder- perhaps that boy Octavian? He certainly seemed pasty and spiteful enough to do it but why would he attack his own city?

Elena had been so lost in thought that she hadn't seen the circle of Romans who had seemed to trap Piper, Jason and herself.

"I'm on your side!" Jason kept pleading, it didn't seem to be much help considering he was wearing a Camp Half-blood shirt, his purple cloak had been ripped. Beside him Piper was charmspeaking but it didn't seem to be helpful considering the loud shouts from the Roman kids. A particularly burly kid stepped forward trying to grab Elena's hand. She frowned as he began to step closer. As quick as she could, she summoned a black shadowy tendril from Jason's shadow and swatted the boy who flew backwards into the crowd.

"Don't kill them Elle." Jason yelled over the explosions.

"I didn't mean to!" She responded, she really hadn't meant to send the kid flying

The crowd seemed to watch her bug-eyed for a split second before yelling and closing in on them. Then the plates and stones started flying. She had done her best to shield Ere from the large debris flying at him; the shields of shadow had a limit to how much they could be used and soon the shield around the boy was falling.

"Romans!" Jason cried, "Please!"  He had been shielding Piper from the storm of rocks but someone must have had really good aim or lucky possibly both because Elena turned to her friends just in time to see Jason get hit with a brick over his eye and crumple to the floor, Piper gave a cry of shock as she knelt next to him. Elena sighed, she looked around for Annabeth and Percy who were a little distance away. Annabeth gave her a look of shock as she mouthed get to the ship.

Elena gave a firm nod. She must have been more distracted than she had thought, she hadn't seen the rock coming towards her, it was small, not enough to do her any damage but enough to hurt a baby. The rock flew and hit her brother in the head. Ere began to wail as a small river of blood began to trickle down his head. She wiped the blood off his forehead and watched as the wound disappeared. Ere sniffled lightly. Thank gods he had healing powers. Elena looked at where the rock had come from and glared.

"WHO DID THAT!" She roared, sending tendrils of smoke towards that area. Several campers went flying as she took out her scythe. "WHO HAS A DEATH WISH?!" she asked, seeing red. The Romans looked at the petite girl uneasily backing away. Had they thought she'd be an easy target because she was smiling and polite the whole time.  Elena felt her wings unfurl, she was vaguely aware that she had begun to get further and further from the ground. She waved the hand where the scythe was in, in a hacking motion and several more Romans went flying as the force of the wind blew them away. Piper looked up at her from the crowd.

"Elle," Piper was yelling, "Don't kill them!" Elena felt her mind go blank for a second, not killing them seemed very nice. She shook her head, snapping back into reality.

"Did you just charmspeak me?" she asked incredulously.

Piper had the grace to look away guiltily, "I'm sorry Elle, you just look really frightening right now."