The Daughter Of The Sea: Princess Of The Thieves

Chapter 2

Priscilla shadowed herself towards the garage and was met by a hug from her older brother then given a small baby. The older boy was Matches and has always been fiercely protective of Priscilla but was also the babysitter to the small baby in Priscilla's arms. The baby was called Rescel and was a demigod child, but they weren't sure of what heritage or which Olympian yet. When Rescel was found, a few months ago by David, he was found on a small raft floating across the river with nothing but a blanket and a note that would need to be opened when Rescel turned 15.

 It was Priscilla who volunteered to raise the child as her own cause she felt close to the kid and has been the only mother figure the child has ever seen despite her royal duties and projects that make money to keep their gang from living off of poverty. Nevertheless, the child was of Priscilla's love and care and heart and the gang was happy for Priscilla when she found the reason to love again.

As she looked down on her loving child and saw that Rescel was sleeping without a care in the world before smiling. She then took her child over towards his makeshift cradle, crafted by a legacy of Hephaestus, and gently set him down in it to let him rest some more with the little peace that he had on the streets. "My Lady?" a nervous voice asked from a few feet away from her making Priscilla turn to see a nervous looking Josh standing at the doorway that entered to Priscilla's and Rescel's sleeping room.

"Yes, Josh. What is it?" Priscilla asked in a calm, and whispering, tone before standing up and turning fully to face her message from someone.

"I'm sorry to interrupt you at this time but there is a monster running rampant on the loose chasing a trio of kids through the park before heading into the woods that could lead it to our town," Josh replied in a nervous tone.

Priscilla looked away horrified of what would happen if the monster made it into her home before breathing in deeply and taking charge of what to do. "Josh, gather up all the young that cannot fight and take them into the lower part of the underground house and guard them with your life. Take my son along as well for his life may be in danger to and promise me that you will sacrifice your life to protect him," she said to him in a stern tone picking up her only son gently before handing him to Josh.

"I promise that I will protect him and give my life for both him and the younglings," Josh vowed with the truth set in his eyes.

"Then be careful and warn my father of the monster's existence before telling him to ready the weapons meant for a monster like this," Priscilla commanded before heading out to the weapons room to grab her special weapons from Phoebe to finish this job once and for all on this monster.

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She waited high in the trees with Markus as her guard and look-out to find out where this monster had gone and where it may be in these woods. Her special bow and arrow were out and ready to be used in both hands but, as of right now, her weapons were at ease since there had been no sign of this monster for over thirty minutes. "Any sign?" she asked Markus in German in case if anyone of their enemies was listening in on their conversation.

"Not even a shred of evidence My Lady Princess," Markus whispered back in German before looking out and around again searching for any clues that he must've missed.

"Keep your guard up, it will attack when we least expect it to," Priscilla replied softly in German before looking over on her side of where that monster might be.

"Roger My Lady," Markus whispered back in German on alert and focused.

They sat in silence for another few minutes before Priscilla felt something through her powers. "Markus, down!" she whispered sternly quickly jumping out of the tree and heading into the bushes with Markus following not far behind her as he knew not to questions his Princess's commands.

After they made it there, a roar sounded not far from the tree they sat on and soon a monster came running out from the left of the tree before bumping into it hard as if it was expecting something to fall out of it. "Pasiphae's son," Priscilla whispered in English with horror laced to her voice and tone.

Markus looked at Priscilla worriedly before looking at the Minotaur with a frightened look on his face. Observing, and watching the Minotaur for a minute, Priscilla began to come up with an idea on how to beat it or how to keep it distracted until help arrives cause, knowing her father and brothers, they would've heard the roar by now and would be charging their way up to where she and Markus are to take the monster down. "What's the plan Princess?" Markus whispered to Priscilla, in German, worried for both of their safety on how to beat the Minotaur.

"Well, it can't see very well so it relies on smell very much since it's hearing isn't so good as well and whenever it charges, it always go straight. So we have to dodge at last minute and maybe find a way to beat this monster by using one of its horns as a reference to disintegrate it for a while. But for now, scatter to throw our scents all over and confuse him," Priscilla whispered back in German, eyes watching the Minotaur get slowly back up onto its feet and began sniffing the ground for the scents that were up in the tree a few minutes ago.

With a quick, and reluctant, nod, Markus went left as Priscilla went right to confuse the monster and quietly made their ways around towards the far back in opposite directions to confuse the Minotaur. Priscilla sensed something happening with her telekinesis powers and quickly took a fast move to her left to avoid the Minotaur's charging style towards her as it had probably figured out the plan and instead followed the most powerful scent that it smelled. Angrily looking up at the monster between the fallen strands of her silky black hair, Priscilla took out her hidden celestial bronze dagger, while putting away her original bow and arrow, and held it in front of her in a threatening manner to possibly throw a bit of scare into it.

It didn't have any effect on it at all and ran charging towards her before reaching out to grab a hold of Priscilla but she dodged quickly with ease and threw her dagger right into its chest. It went true and yet nothing happened but it only slowed it down a bit giving Priscilla enough time to jump onto its back and grab a hold of one of its horns. The Minotaur tried to throw Priscilla off with everything that it could but she just held on tighter and tightened her grip around the horn until she felt it go free and was thrown onto the ground. She landed on the ground with a hard thud and tried to get up but she was winded. Marcus quickly leaped onto the Minotaurs back to draw his attention away from Priscilla and held onto the other remaining horn for dear life. He was then thrown onto the ground harshly as Priscilla got up shakily and glared at the Minotaur for putting her family in danger.

The Minotaur then turned to her and roared angrily at her while Priscilla said in an angry dark tone, "Come at me you bucket of beef head!"

As if offended by her words, the Minotaur roared and charged straight at Priscilla, who waited until the timing was right then rolled to the side on her right before lunging her left hand, that held the broken horn in hand, upwards into its chest right next to her dagger. The monster then disintegrated into dust leaving her horn and dagger behind. Priscilla breathed in and out in a labored manner before standing up, while putting her dagger away while still holding her spoil of war, and walking over to where Markus was to check his pulse. Feeling his neck, she found a good pulse indicating that he was alright and was just unconscious due to his eyes being closed and regular breathing.

Priscilla sighed with relief before feeling the darkness overtake her and fell to the ground while letting unconsciousness overtake her.