Ransom

Chapter 39: Castor Winehouse

When Annabeth screamed attack, they each ran forward to attack while still keeping our circle formation.  Castor fought like a mad man, killing two monsters a minute, which is a huge improvement from what he could do when he was alive before death.

He looked up to see his beautiful girlfriend controlling part of the army, maybe twenty monsters. They burst into piles of golden dust. She proceeded to fly down and slice through two hellhounds simultaneously and land on top of a cyclops' shoulders. She stabbed him at the top of his spinal chord and he disintegrated. Once she started to fall, she sliced through three harpies that started to attack her. She proceeded to do all of that in just one minute. Allie White was truly amazing.

Castor turned back to his fight to see that his side was diminishing quickly. They could win this. He sliced and jabbed and stabbed at any monster that he faced. Their side was definitely smaller than the other side.

He fought alongside Leo, Luke, and Percy. Luke was a pretty good fighter for an eight year old. He was facing a hellhound at the moment, and he easily sliced it's head off. Then he stabbed a harpy that was spiraling down from above to claw his eyes out.

Leo shot fire at any monster that he could, and then slammed them to the the ground with his flaming hammer. Percy fought like madman, killing five monsters a minute. Castor continued to fight  as well, and soon their side was finished. They turned around to see that the others weren't doing as well. They still had what looked like 100 more monsters to fight.

Castor rushed forward and stabbed a telkine that was about to sneak up on Allie Grace. She gave him a quick nod of appreciation and continued to battle. She stabbed a cyclops in the eye and sliced off a furies wing in thirty seconds. Her mother, Piper, stabbed a hellhound and decapitated a griffin in ten seconds.

Hazel stabbed a drachnae and sliced off a harpies wing in the same amount of time. Annabeth stabbed a griffin, sliced off a cyclops' arm, and then stabbed a hellhound in its snout all in thirty seconds. Percy and her fought back to back.

Jason, Frank, and Allie came down from flying now, for all of the harpies and furies were defeated. Jason fought back to back with his wife, stabbing a hellhound and decapitating another in a mere second. Frank, in bear form, clawed through two telkines simultaneously and then ripped off a hellhound's head. Allie threw her spear and it stabbed two cyclops in the heart. She pulled on her necklace and it disappeared. Allie then took her sword and stabbed a hellhound and decapitated a griffin.

Castor was surrounded by blood thirsty hellhound's. He quickly sliced through three of their heads. Then, he stabbed another's snout. The last one jumped on top of him, but before it could do any harm, a sword made its way through its torso. A hand helped Castor up, and it was none other than Percy Jackson. "Thanks," he said. "No problem," Percy said. He quickly ran back into battle.

Allie Grace and Luke were doing pretty well. They fought back to back, stabbing and slicing any monster that came their way.

There were only about ten more monsters left to fight, and they were quickly defeated. The group cheered in victory. "Great job everyone," Allie White said. There was a slow applause heard behind Castor. "Great job, really, I'm impressed. I thought that you would be more banged up than just tired." Nyx said. "I'm guessing that your children didn't get to you?" Piper said.

"They did, I just sent them to the beginning of Tartarus, so they must travel from there all of the way to the River Phlegeton in order to truly be home." Nyx mused. "What do you want?" Allie White asked.

"I want what I told you I wanted." She said. Nyx reached out her hand and offered it to Allie. She shook her head. "You aren't going to get what you want. You aren't going to have me reborn, and then, in my weakened stage, beat me until I begged for you to end it." Allie White said. Castor sucked in a breath. That was the big plan? Revenge on his girlfriend?

"Would you rather that, or I take Castor?" She asked. Allie strode forward to stand in front of Castor and said through gritted teeth with a snarl on her face "Don't you dare." Nyx gave her a hearty laugh and then said "You do realize that I can make you and him die with the flick of a finger, right?"

"If you could do that, how come you haven't yet?" Allie asked. "I was having fun, and now I'm bored. So..." She said. Nyx snapped her fingers, and suddenly Castor's arm started to bleed and he had a massive migraine. "You-can't-do this-" Castor said.

He fell to his knees. Castor wasn't going to die the same way he died before. Castor remembered how he died very vividly. He was stabbed in the arm and hit on the head by an enemy demigod. He looked over at Allie. She fell forward on her knees as well and was staring straight ahead, her eyes filled with tears. Her neck was bleeding profusely and her eyes were wide with fear. Allie tried to take deep breaths, but she just didn't seem to be able to. The group rushed forward and helped her and him. Both of their heads were laying in someone's lap. Castor's head was in Piper's lap while Allie's head was in Percy's lap.

"Fix them!" Piper demanded. Her voice was laced with charm speak, enough to make Castor want to fix himself and Allie, which he desperately did. Nyx flicked her hand and Castor no longer felt as if he was dying. Castor's migraine was gone, but his arm was still bleeding.

He sprung forward towards Allie with Piper hot on his tail. Allie's neck was still bleeding, she seemed to be choking on her blood. "FIX HER!" Piper demanded, using her charmspeak to its full extent.

Nyx then said "I cannot."

"What do you mean you can't?!" Castor said. "The damage is done." Nyx said. As much as Castor wanted to run forward and strangle Nyx right now, he had to stay with his dying girlfriend. "Allie, just hold on. We can fix this." Castor said. Her eyes brimmed with tears and she shook her head, telling him that there was no way to fix it.

Hazel held her arms out above Allie and said "I'm holding her spirit in place. Once we get back to the Land of the Living I won't have to anymore, but for now, I do."

There we go! Now all that they had to do was go back.

Castor stood up while holding Allie's sword and walked towards Nyx. He then said "We're leaving." Castor didn't give her a chance to respond before he stabbed her in the face with his dagger, and then in the stomach with Allie's sword.

She bellowed in outrage and diminished to golden dust. "I don't know how long she'll stay dead, but we better move fast." Castor said.

He lifted Allie up and started to walk. Everyone else followed suit. Hazel held her arms over her and walked with Castor.

There was hope, they just have to make it to the Doors.

Awwwwwww
So sad ik
But I felt like writing this so I did
Whatcha gonna do?
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PS:
New book coming out soon, here's the description:
Magnus Chase has seriously pissed off Loki. He made a new friend, names Gaea. Not the Greek-primordial-goddess-of-the-Earth Gaea, but a nice Gaea.

Magnus, Samirah, Hearth, and Blitz get in huge trouble with the mischievous god, and so he took them captive.

Gaea gets a dream vision from Magnus, calling desperately for her help. She was his only chance, so she had to help him. But, she couldn't do it alone.

Gaea traveled to Midgard and requested the assistance of another famous Chase, alongside her Poseidon-spawn boyfriend. The two were an indestructible pair, so she saw fit that they would assist her in the job.

(This story is from Gaea's point of view, not Magnus's)

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