Heroic Spirits Of Olympus: The Lost Hero

"Burn Everyone"

"I'll send you all burning into the fires of hell.. none shall hear your screams.. ALL of you shall BURN!!!" Jalter knew these words should've sounded more threatening.. but they really didn't sound quite so threatening when you were tied up like a sack of sausages hanging from the base of a robot dragon's neck being hand fed tacos by a weird scrawny boy with a tool belt. 

"Yeah, just let me know if you want more.. plenty more where that came from." said Leo breezily. 

Jalter gritted her teeth. Never had she felt more humiliated..

No.. that was wrong..

Honestly the most humiliating experience of her extremely short life had been working for Shinji, but this was a close second... then again.. very short life.. she had few things to compare it to except for stuff in the Real Jeanne's life, which didn't count in all honesty because they were simply the memories of another person. 

Jalter was an impossibility after all.. an impossibility made possible by the Grail the Earth Mother possessed. 

Jalter looked at Nero, who was staring at her intently. "What!?"

Nero smiled. "You... are spectacular! Yes! I've decided that you are most spectacular! Umu!"

Jalter blinked. "Eh?"

"Your spirit, even after the humiliation of capture, you still swear to defeat us.. an unbroken will even in the face of the possibility that we might even attempt to violate you.."

"ExCUSE me!?" said Piper. "How is that a possibility!?"

"Or even execute you!!" said Nero.

"Uh.. how about we not..?" Leo said. 

"UNDER ALL THOSE POSSIBILITIES!" Nero said. "And still, you declare yourself fighting till the end.. that is death in the most beautiful of fashions.. "

Nero smiled brightly at Jalter. "I admire you.. you are a unique kind of beauty I would welcome into my Roma with open arms!"

Jalter just continued to stare. She wanted to say something insulting to the woman before her.. she wanted so badly to say something scathing that would make her wriggle with discomfort or perhaps gasp with horror..

But nothing came to mind now. This girl, in spite of being an emperor.. was so honest, guileless and innocent, that there wasn't anything that could hurt her.. if Jalter tried to insult Nero at this point, she'd only smile and remark about how much harder Jalter was fighting and how beautiful she was because of it..

"Mumumumu!" Nero clapped her hands together. "My dear allies.. I have decided.. as Quest Leader, I declare that we make this woman our ally!"

Archer raised an eyebrow but didn't say anything, Piper on the other hand looked aghast. "You.. REALIZE.. she's with Dylan right...? And she tried to KILL us!!"

"Yeah.. I don't want to be the actual Chestnuts Roasting over an Open Fire come christmas time." said Leo. 

"It matters not if it is our enemies who roast instead." said Nero.

"Nero.. consider this carefully." Archer finally spoke up as Fran continued to use a brush to keep Festus's wiring free of frost behind him. "I won't deny that Jeanne D' Arc Alter would make a useful ally. But so would Kronos.. so would Goetia.. so would Hyperion.. so would any enemy. Any enemy is a useful ally.. however it is still a matter of whether they want to become our allies.. this isn't Pokemon.. just because we caught somebody doesn't mean they'll be inclined to obey. What reason can you provide Jeanne Alter for siding with us...? And what can she offer us that we don't already have?"