Blessings from Khaos

|And Nothing Could Ever Change That|

Lea was in the midst of showing off her powerpoint; they were on slide 565, when the charms on her siblings started to blare.

"People believe in plenty of other deities and spirits nowadays," the one called Mercurius was saying in reference to the slideshow.

"But the Greco-Roman gods are just fantasies. How rude," Hermes finished.

Lea scoffed. "You are not Stephanie Tanner."

She would have said more, but she curled into herself, gasping in pain.

"Leaneíras?" the counterpart of her Father called out in worry. But Lea didn't answer him, teleporting in the next instance until she appeared upon the makeshift battlefield; Charleston, her senses told her, where Livia and Percy were engaged in a swordfight. There was foreign mageia coating them, and well... it was covering all of them.

Lea froze everyone in place; breathing heavily through her nose at the pungent feel of it though those that weren't trying to resist it managed to move.

"Let me go," Livia snarled, sounding very much like the animal that she was raised by.

Lea booped her on the nose. "No. Not until I figure out why foreign mageia is flowing through you."

Jason landed beside them in the next moment while Octavian rushed to Livia's side.

"Foreign magic?" Percy asked as he forced himself to relax.

"Mm, yes," Lea hummed, leaning into his space as she looked him over. "I don't see how because the charms should have stopped any mageia or mist from attacking you unless it came from a trusted source like Lou Ellen or Medea."

She turned to Livia, scanning her with her mageia before blinking and tilting her head as a mageia shield manifested over them. Purple flames spluttered against it, and Lea raised a brow, eyeing their surroundings trying to figure out where it came from. This was like Aeëtes and Hekátē all over again.

"I wonder how they got it on you," she murmured, stepping away from the two as she looked around. "Give me a second. I'm going to have to purge it from all of you or you can all jump into the lake, have Medea summon a bunch obsidian, fluorite and black tourmaline crystals and repeat: If truly I am cursed today, let water wash the hex away."

She batted aside another blast of mageia while her siblings pursed their lips, Livia looking over her legion in contemplation. "We'll wait for you."

"Cool," Lea stated, not mentioning that it would be considerably more painful if she did it. "Now can you tell me what happened? It shouldn't have been eidolons. I got rid of those, and the charms I slipped in Percy's pockets should have covered that entire ship and everyone on it from being possessed."

It was obvious to them all that whatever happened came from the work of the mysterious person that was attacking her with very weak spells. Lea hadn't felt mageia that weak since she first started her own training.

"They attacked New Roma!" Livia snarled.

"It wasn't us!" Percy argued.

"It was your ship!"

"Lea just said it was foreign magic."

"Can you both shut up," Lea snapped, spreading her senses out. "The spell targets the limbic system of your brain, feeding on your negative emotions and increasing the intensity of what you feel. Livia, you feel resentment towards Percy for being kept and raised by Mom. You feel resentment for Jason who had the audacity to cheat on you and bring another girl into your home. You feel a lot of resentment towards Piper for being the girl that he cheated with. You don't like Annabeth for being what represents what hurts Octavian who hates Annabeth, doesn't like Percy and Piper and Jason for hurting you."