2 Demigods with 1 Arrow (Leo Valdez)

Legendary Battle part 2

Amoriel could barely find the moment to breathe. It felt like the fight was all around her and every direction she turned, another monster was charging at her. It was completely terrifying to watch her. She stopped at nothing and her once mint green irises had turned almost black. Sweat glistened on her forehead and her sword was quite literally dripping with monster blood. She looked like a stunning killing machine.

wolf launched itself at Amoriel. She stepped back and kicked him on the snout, effectively knocking out the wolf. Maybe only silver could kill it, but a good old-fashioned knocking out never disappoints.

Leo had taken on Khione herself. While fighting a goddess should've been suicide, Leo was the right man for the job. She kept summoning ice daggers to throw at him, blasts of winter air, tornadoes of snow. Leo burned through all of it. His whole body flickered with red tongues of flame-like he'd been doused with gasoline. He advanced on the goddess, using two silver-tipped ball-pen hammers to smash any monsters that got in his way.

Finally, Amoriel stabbed her last earthborn and before she knew it, Jason had grabbed her arm and placed her on the back of his newfound friend. She couldn't help but cling to her best friend since the horse felt like it was nothing but smoke.

"Okay, where the heck did you get this horse?" Amoriel asked as they started to circle the place before stopping near Leo.

"I dunno," Jason shrugged. "But he's mine now."

Amoriel shook her head, " Only you, Jay-Jay. I swear, only you."

They watched as Leo was bearing down on the goddess of snow.

"You're too late," Khione snarled. "He's awake! And don't think you've won anything here, demigods. Hera's plan will never work. You'll be at each other's throats before you can ever stop us."

Leo set his hammers ablaze and threw them at the goddess, but she turned into snow—a white powdery image of herself. Leo's hammers slammed into the snow woman, breaking it into a steaming mound of mush.

Piper was breathing hard, but she smiled up at Jason and Amoriel. "Nice horse."

Tempest reared on his hind legs, arcing electricity across his hooves. A complete show-off. "He's a show-off, just like you Jay-Jay," Amoriel muttered.

Then she heard a cracking sound behind her. The melting ice on Hera's cage sloughed off in a curtain of slush, and the goddess called, "Oh, don't mind me! Just the queen of the heavens, dying over here!"

The four of them jumped into the pool and ran to the spire.

Leo frowned. "Uh, Tía Callida, are you getting shorter?"

"No, you dolt! The earth is claiming me. Hurry!"

What Amoriel saw inside the cage alarmed her. Not only was Hera sinking, but the ground was also rising around her like water in a tank. Liquid rock had already covered her shins. "The giant wakes!" Hera warned. "You only have seconds!"

"On it," Leo said. "Piper, I need your help. Talk to the cage."

"What?" she said.

"Talk to it. Use everything you've got. Convince Gaea to sleep. Lull her into a daze. Just slow her down, try to get the tendrils to loosen while I—"

"Right!" Piper cleared her throat and said, "Hey, Gaea. Nice night, huh? Boy, I'm tired. How about you? Ready for some sleep?"

The more she talked, the more confident she sounded. It seemed to have some effect on the cage. The mud was rising more slowly. The tendrils seemed to soften just a little—becoming more like tree root than rock. Leo pulled a circular saw out of his tool belt. How it fits in there, Amoriel had no idea. Then Leo looked at the cord and grunted in frustration. "I don't have anywhere to plug it in!"