Violet S. Green and the Olympians

The Fight (Again?)

After the very exciting walk to the stop, I realized they had walked me to the middle of the woods. Well, that's just peachy, strangers just told my I'm the daughter of a god, told me they were too, one can teleport, and that I'm supposed to just sit here, well, stand here like it's normal? "Hey, why are we in the middle of the woods? Didn't you say we were taking a bus?" I asked, to the group as a whole. "Who said we were taking the mortal bus? Well, we're actually taking a cab, but we didn't want to scare you thinking that we were going to be in a car by ourselves with a stranger. We're taking the Gray Sisters' Taxi. It's run by, some, eclectic, women. You'll understand when we call them," Nico responded, smirking at me.

He didn't really seem to be the type who smirked, but sure. Something shiny caught my eye on his left hand, a wedding band that said "My Sunshine" on it. It seemed like Nico married a total opposite, seeing as he was the more of a brooding type. I blinked and saw that the engraving was written in some weird language that I had understood for some reason. Seeing as we're all half Greek, I'm going to assume that it's in Greek and not in caveman. I looked around where we were and saw a clearing straight ahead of us, and the road was to our left, just a little ahead. "Dang it, I don't have any drachmas in my pocket, they must have fallen out. Carson, you got any?" Nico asked Carson. "Uh, let me check, I think I do." Carson looked around in his hat.

Wait, his HAT? You know what? I'm just gonna pretend like that COMPLETELY NORMAL. "Yep, found one! Catch!" Carson threw the golden coin towards Nico. "What is that? Is that the drag-ma or whatever you were talking about?" Ms. Maria, rather Hazel, answered this time. "Yes Violet, it is. It's a drachma, the demigod currency, rather, Greek demigod currency." "Wait, you mean there's other types of demigods?" I asked, since she specified if was Greek. "Well, yes, but we'll get to that at camp, okay?" "Sure thing, another thing to wonder about," I grumbled. "What Violet?" she said. "Nothing, never mind." "Okay guys, stand back, I'm calling the taxi." He threw the coin onto the empty road, and he said, directly to the road "Steti oh harm-a diaboles!" (Stêthi, Ô hárma diabolês) At least, that what it sounded like. The coin got sucked up by the asphalt and I heard a roaring in my left ear. I looked and saw a gray speck barreling towards us. I covered my ears in the hopes of drowning out the noise. It pulled up and I saw 3 ladies in the front. I looked at their faces and saw, empty eye sockets. Wait, but they were a taxi.

"Why are they blind?" I whispered to Carson. "They aren't technically blind. They have one eye to share. I've never actually taken the cab so I'm a bit nervous based on what I've been told about them," he whispered back. Oh great, ONE eye. Absolutely marvelous. I saw Nico and Hazel walk over to the cab and talk to the ladies who seemed to be bickering. Nico leaned over the window and took a small object out of their hands, which was likely the thing they were fighting over. I looked closer at it to find out that it was their one eye. I internally gagged. I honestly give up on trying to understand. "Violet! Carson! Come on, we're going," Nico yelled. Carson and I walked over and got in the car. Hopefully we'll be fine.
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I am NOT fine. The ladies just bickered the whole time and it felt like we were going 1000 miles an hour. I saw that Carson looked a bit green. We had gotten dropped off a few acres away from what Hazel and Nico said was camp. We waited for Carson to turn a little less green and caught our breaths. We suddenly heard a voice behind us. "Hello demigods, nice to see you. My my my Nico, you've grown into a man. What happened to your hunter sister? Oh that's right, she died. All because of good ol' Percy Jackson. Oh, is this your replacement sister? How cute," it said.

"Nothing is CUTE about Bianca's death," Nico said, with the venom in his voice making my blood run cold, as he whirled around. "Oh great, it's you again. Took you long enough to come back. Violet, Carson, stand back. Hazel and I have got this." As if I was going to listen to that. I stood back though, I didn't want to get in the way. The man revealed himself as a lion... thing. Maybe a manticore, I learned about them in this one book for English. I saw Nico and Hazel pull out their weapons. The manticore slashed at the pair, and they dodged it. Hazel clearly was still recovering from her pregnancy and she was already tired from the long journey. Nico stabbed at the monster's right as Hazel stabbed his left. It was a blurry of weapons and claws and I saw the monster's tail getting ready to strike. I tried calling out but it was too late. Hazel got a poison spike in her shoulder and with a final strike fainted, from exhaustion or the poison I couldn't tell. Nico saw her crumble to the ground and continued to fight with even more vigor than before. Before long though, he was slowing down while the monster continued to slash at Nico.

"Carson! Get Violet to camp! I'll hold him off," I heard him call out to us weakly, his strength clearly waning. Nope, not gonna happen. "Carson, do you have the dagger I used before?" I asked Carson. He looked at me and didn't try to stop me, which was surprising. He nodded and gave it to me. I ran in to help Nico as well as I could. "Well well, the blessed one decided to join in, more demigod for me." God, I couldn't with this guy. "Violet I told you to stand back!" "Well, you're clearly failing and could die, Hazel fainted and you need to get her out. Please? I can hold him off, I promise," "Last time someone promised me something, my sister died. Even if I'm over that, I am not risking a demigod's life." "Nope, not gonna leave." Nico sighed and gave up. I don't know how I'm even doing it, I've never taken dagger lessons. It just... felt right, probably some other godly thing.

I carried on trying to slash at the manticore, getting more and more out of breath, when I felt a drop of water fall on me. Of course it had to rain NOW. I love water and all, but mud is not the best thing to fight it. The water was coming in a heavy drizzle and I felt a jolt of power surge through me, which is VERY confusing. I slashed with more vigor than ever and somehow the water stayed off of me and Nico, while thoroughly soaking the manticore. I saw that the mud forming underneath us sucking up the manticore as well. Nico looked confused but kept fighting. I saw the manticore weakening and slowly sinking. Vines also started growing around my feet and then started to go towards the manticore. I looked up and saw a large tree, oak, and knew what I had to do.
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AN: I really wanted to finish the fight but writer's block is a female dog. It will end next time though, I swear on the River Styx. This chapter is really badly spaced, mostly because I don't switch scenes every 10 seconds.