King Arthur And The Olympians: The Battle of the Labyrinth.

Arthur and Mordred go Surfing Together

"Welp... this is a load of crap." I said, staring at the Flesh Eating Horse Pen.

"That's putting it mildly.." Mordred said, wrinkling her nose. "I am NOT going in there.. I mean.. seriously.. I'm wearing a bikini, I don't want any of that on my skin.. "

"Really?" I said with surprise. I always had figured Mordred as the biggest tomboy out of the entire Pendragon family.. she seemed like the type of person who would jump and play in the mud when she was a little girl..

Then again.. she was grown instantly into a 16 year old body.. so it wasn't as if she technically ever had a childhood.

"Look! I like gettin' dirty.. but this kind of dirty is for pigs.. and.. er.. Flesh Eating horses apparently.." Mordred muttered as she watched the horses approach, sloshing through the filth in the pen.

"Hello there.." I said softly, reaching a hand out to one of the horses. "We are here to clean your stable.. it will be so much nicer.. yes..?"

"CHOMP!!!" the Flesh Eating horse chomped down on my hand, obviously thrilled for us to come inside and eat us..

I frowned.. luckily, as a Servant, my skin was stronger than ordinary sharp teeth like that, so it felt more like a puppy teething me. "Great.. just great.."

I pulled my hand out and stood back from the stable. "I don't think these.. Summer Outfits... are doing much to help them take us seriously."

"Ya think?" said Mordred. "Wish Perce were here, he could talk some sense into these nutjobs.."

"Something tells me even he'd have a hard time.. " I muttered. "I do remember tales of Geryon's Herds in the Camelot Library however.. this was one of Hercules's many labors.. if I remember correctly, he managed to channel a river into the pen.. "

"If there's a river nearby.. we could like.. I don't know.. dig a ditch across and funnel the water in.." said Mordred, scratching her head."er... maybe.."

I stared at my glowing blade, which wouldn't do what I wanted... and then at the water gun at my hip and sighed. "Something tells me we can't just dig it quickly.. but... well least we can do is find the river first.."

We did just that, searching around until we heard a rushing sound nearby..

There it was.. somewhere in the forest near the fields.. rushing through, a sparkling beautiful looking clean river..

Except there was something waiting there for us.. a Naiad, her hands on her hips, glaring at us as if she knew we what we were thinking.

"Oh no! I know what you're going to do.." said the Naiad.

"Nah you don't." said Mordred.

"You're going to try and clean that idiot three bodied man's stables with MY river.. MY water!" the Naiad growled. "My home!"

"... ooookay.. yeah, you know what we're going to do." said Mordred. "Er.. sorry, but we kinda need it."

"NO!" the Naiad growled again. "Look! I don't care if you're Heroic Spirits and all that, even when you're wearing those goofy swimsuits!"

Mordred blushed and looked away. "I don't look silly.. I think it looks cute.."

Even I felt a little hurt.. I kind of felt the crown and cape were cool to wear to the beach.

The Naiad looked a bit guilty now, and shook her head. "Sorry about the harsh insults.. it's just.. this one jackass.. he was handsome too.. asked me.. was really nice about it.. but then.. I mean my river was dirty for weeks... had to wash pollution out of my hair continuously.. and the guy didn't do a SINGLE thing about it.. didn't thank me or.. or.."