[IC] Ω Heroes of Olympus: the Stolen Muse (Nallore, Morose & KazAlkemi) Ω

[Morose]

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🌈 Leda Storm 🌈

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Location: Houston, Texas
Skills: Greek Mythology, Superspeed

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"Be careful Zeke, if you start praying to Artemis someone might call you a kiss-ass," Leda told him, not at all a bit bitter from their argument outside of the Wendy's. She didn't mind walking too much - scratch that, Leda hated it. She was the daughter of a messenger goddess. Her mother traveled across the world instantaneously, Leda possessed a fraction of that speed but it was enough to make walking feel like an eternity - as if her entire world was her caught behind a slow and incompetent person at an ATM when she was running late for something. Her impatience was particularly bad now, as they were so close to the goal, so close to finishing this quest.

The ground shook and Leda turned just in time to be sent flying. She hit the ground hard, no doubt skinning the back of her leg or something. Dazed, Leda tried to remember anything she knew about the Colchis Bull, but she was coming up blank. All she knew was that they were sacred to Hephaestus and she doubted shouting Aphrodite is a whore would work. "I'm gonna try to run us the rest of the way to the club, maybe the bull and Marysas can kill each other - Godzilla v Mothra or something." She grabbed Kristin and Zeke and took off at a run, managing to get halfway to the comedy club before she had to come to a halt, panting hard and trying to catch her breath. It was difficult to run and carry someone, much less two people - and the bull was hot on their heels.

[KazAlkemi]

Ezekiel Kel

Location: Houston, Texas ---> RUNNING WITH THE BULLS
Skills: Stamina;

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Ezekiel turned his head and smirked at Leda before he focused on walking, holding his head high. "Well she is my auntie," he reminded her. It was a rather quiet walk, for the most part. Monsters started to close in around them but Ezekiel only stopped when the ground started to shake. He felt the vibrations up his legs and turned around to see the giant bull before it slammed into him and Leda. He cried out as he was flung and hit the ground, getting pretty banged up. His arm was definitely broken and judging by his labored breathing, Ezekiel guessed a few ribs were broken as well. He hissed his pain as he stood, tears pricking his eyes as he tried to hold his arm in a position that wouldn't be jostled. That didn't last long.
Leda came over, saving him and Kristin from the bull but his broken ribs were compacted and his arm jostled. He howled in pain once they stopped but Ezekiel, nor the others would get much of time for recovery. The bull was right on their heels. Ezekiel had a broken arm so using his bow was out of the question and traditionally, his sword required two hands but he would have to try and manage with just one.
He pushed the center of his pendant and it opened up to his angled sword. He had a decent grip on it but he could feel his entire body shaking from the pain but he was at least managing through it. "I'll keep it distracted, you guys look for an opening. Take my bow if you need it Kristin," he offered.
Ezekiel shifted and waved his sword at the bull, trying to get its attention while he cradled his broken arm to his chest. Ezekiel had never had a broken bone before but he could tell he didn't want to get another one anytime soon.

[Nallore]

Kristin Reynolds

Location: Outside of Houston, Texas
Skills: Telumkinesis (Archery)

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Kristin felt Leda grabbing onto her and Zeke and then being whisked off by the speedster, still seeing that the bull was still very much on their heels right now. Once Leda dropped them, she dug into her pocket and handed Zeke an ambrosia cube, usually keeping them on hand for any kind of injuries that they had as well as some nectar. "Here that should patch you up Zeke." Kristin said as she nodded and picked up Zeke's bow and quiver of arrows, inspecting it slightly knowing how to use it right away. Being a daughter of Athena or a child of Ares they could learn how to use a weapon with ease right away.

She notched an arrow, and let it fly, seeing the arrow managing to imbed itself into it's celestial bronze plating, but it didn't hurt it really. She launched another arrow, it bounced off of it's plating this time as the bull focused on her now it charged after her managing to hit her with it's horn. Kristin cried out in pain as she was flung into the air, and landing onto the ground as some blood started to stain her shirt.

[Morose]

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🌈 Leda Storm 🌈

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Location: Houston, Texas
Skills: Sword-Fighting, Agility

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Both her fellow demigods had already gotten seriously injured - Zeke had some broken bones, whereas blood was staining Kristin's shirt. Leda's legs felt like molten lead from running with two people so fast, but she couldn't afford to stop. She pulled on her necklace and it transformed into her Celestial Bronze sword, Ultraviolet - the blade was glowing a fierce protective red. She wasn't about to let Kristin and Zeke die, no matter how annoying they were. She wasn't going to ditch them to die here and claim all of the glory for herself. That was something the children of Ares might have done.

"Hey, bull, you fucking suck!!" Leda shouted. It was an unconventional battle cry. She ran straight at the bull, her sword in front of her like a spear. At the last second, she dodged to the side and swung her blade. Either luck or the gods guided her blade as Leda's sword slid through a chink in the bull's armor, allowing the Celestial Bronze blade to skewer the monster. The bull burst into monster dust, raining down like confetti and covered Leda. She looked like she had been sprayed by a woodchipper. "Are you two idiots okay?" she asked, breathing heavily.

[KazAlkemi]

Ezekiel Kel

Location: Houston, Texas ---> RUNNING WITH THE BULLS
Skills: Enhanced Healing; Stamina;

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Ezekiel groaned as he took the cube from Kristin and ate it quickly. The pain was something Ezekiel hadn't experienced before, it was dull but intense. He felt as if rolling on the ground would help but it probably wouldn't. He heard a cry and looked over, seeing Kristin had gotten impaled by one of the bull's horn. He managed to push himself to his feet, leaving the fighting to Leda and managed to make it to Kristin's side before he laid hands over her wound and shut his eyes. His hands started to glow, giving off some heat as well as he attempted to heal her. It took some time for Ezekiel to get the bleeding to slow and the skin to knit together but he managed to get her stable and that's all he cared about.
Ezekiel collapsed back on his butt and pulled out nectar from his bag and handed it to Kristin to drink. "That should help you the rest of the way," he said faintly. He was slightly out of breath from his pain and exerting himself with helping Kristin. The ambrosia was helping to dull his pain now though and for that he was grateful.
He didn't know the bull was dead until he head Leda's voice. He rolled his eyes. "Oh ya, just doing swimmingly. Did you kill the bull yet or did you fall asleep?" Ezekiel countered lamely. Clearly pain did not enhance his comeback skills.

[Nallore]

Kristin Reynolds

Location: Outside of Houston, Texas
Skills: N/A

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Kristin groaned slightly as she felt Zeke starting to heal her and slowly got back up onto her feet looking down at her bloodied shirt she'd have to make a change now she hated it but she was glad Zeke was there to heal her. "Thank you Zeke." Kristin said, even though Zeke was a complete asshole a lot of the time actually he did come through whenever it was needed. She then watched as Leda came over towards them covered in monster dust.

[color=yellow["Oh yeah i'm just peachy."[/color] Kristin said shaking her head slightly as she looked around, they should be close now anyway as she cracked her neck slightly and took a sip from the nectar that Zeke had given her. The soreness was completely gone now as well she cracked her neck slightly feeling a lot better, she handed it back towards Zeke. "You still owe me money though." She told Zeke giving him a slight playful nudge. "Lets keep going."

[Morose]

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🌈 Leda Storm 🌈

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Location: Houston, Texas
Skills: Rainbow Manipulation

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Leda rolled her eyes at Zeke. "If that's all the fire you've got left in you, Marysas is going to kill you," she told him pointedly. He was an incredibly irritating demigod, but still, Zeke's insults usually had a bit more effort to them. Maybe the son of Apollo was slipping. "Perhaps you ought to pray to your dear old dad for some divine inspiration - especially if you're going to challenge Marysas." Leda privately at this point figured Calliope would be best rescued if she just charged in and took care of things herself. She let her sword go back into pendant form, brushing monster dust off of herself.

They weren't that far from the comedy club. She smiled as they reached it, standing outside of the building. There wasn't anything noticeably weird about it and she tried the door, finding that it was locked. Leda felt like kicking the door down, but that meant they couldn't enter silently. Instead she tried to do a concentrated blast of rainbow light at the doorknob, but it didn't work - the door was still locked. "Oi, Wise Girl, it's locked." Maybe Kristin could figure it out - she was the daughter of Athena after all.

[KazAlkemi]

Ezekiel Kel

Location: Streets ---> Outside Comedy Club - Houston, Texas
Skills:

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"I'll have plenty of fight for my father's old play mate. Excuse me while I catch my breath from healing little miss sunshine and my own body trying to heal itself," he said in annoyance. Ezekiel was also a little annoyed at how Leda seemed to keep saving the day and now he felt pressure to do well with Marsyas so they could get Calliope out. If he screwed up and Leda had to save his ass, he would never hear the end of it.
He looked at Kristin and gave her a nod when she thanked him. Healing was the one thing he truly enjoyed and always felt rewarded and better for it. As Kristin started to feel better, so did Ezekiel. The break in his arm and ribs had healed well, that much Ezekiel could tell as he took in a full breath with no pain and sighed in relief. Broken bones were not a favourite thing of his now.
They started walking the rest of the way to the comedy club, making their way to the door and Ezekiel felt physically one hundred percent better. Leda attempted to open the door to no avail and Ezekiel was half tempted to just knock and be let in. He glanced at the building in front of them, looking for possible escape routes, like windows or fire escapes should the front door not be so readily available while he waited for Kristin to try her hand.

[Nallore]

Kristin Reynolds

Location: Outside of Houston, Texas
Skills: Craftsmanship

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Kristin followed Leda and Zeke towards the comedy club as she looked around aside from the bull that had nearly killed her, they were finally now at the comedy club that they needed to go to. She watched as Leda tried to open the door, but to no avail she looked around and started kneel down looking at the lock on the door. It was a simple padlock really, and nothing seemed to be off about it she then looked through the little window. She didn't really see anything out of the ordinary either, but you couldn't really be to careful as Kristin took out her spear from her bracelet form.

"Stand back." Kristin said as she stuck the bladed end of her spear in-between the door itself and doorframe, she unfortunately didn't have the correct tools to unlock the door quietly this was the quickest way to get into it. Kristin did it with ease as the lock to the door was broken. Luckily there wasn't any kind of surprise on the other end looking over at Leda and Zeke and smirked at the two of them. "Open sesame." Kristin said as she stepped into the room, looking like it was a basic entrance and then found the sign that led to the little auditorium of sorts. And on the stage Kristin could see Calliope there bound and gagged on the chair and Marsyays was there quietly humming to himself with about twenty cyclops sitting there as well.

[Morose]

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🌈 Leda Storm 🌈

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Location: Houston, Texas
Skills: N/A

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Kristin broke the door open with her spear. Leda wasn't really sure what she expected to see on the other side. The entrance itself was pretty tame and boring, but there was a sign pointing towards the auditorium. She followed along with Kristin into the auditorium, quickly noting about two dozen cyclops up on the stage. Calliope was bound and gagged - she looked like a young college girl with flowing dark hair. Marysas reminded her of Michael Scott from the Office. He had been humming or something, although now that they had entered the room, the enemy of Apollo looked shocked and worried. She didn't like the odds. Twenty cyclopses, two demigods? Well, three if she counted Zeke, but he seemed to be mostly a support player.

"Alright Zeke, it's your dad, your play. Try not to screw it up," Leda said. If Zeke could get Marysas to agree to some sort of challenge, it would mean they wouldn't have to fight twenty cyclopses. Maybe they could come up with some sort of signal for the Hunters of Artemis to send in a volley of arrows and take out Marysas' minions. Still, even though the plan was for Zeke to go up and handle things, Leda didn't have her guard down. She had Ultraviolet out, ready for a fight.

[KazAlkemi]

Ezekiel Kel

Location: Comedy Club - Houston, Texas
Skills:

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Ezekiel walked inside with the other two once Kristin broke the door open. It wasn't exactly subtle but as they walked into the auditorium it seemed like they had an audience already patiently waiting for them. Ezekiel looked around the room, trying to get a feel for it. He didn't see any of Artemis's hunters around but he trusted they were there, somewhere in the shadows. What Ezekiel couldn't quite wrap his head around was the fact that trained hunters were here and yet, three kids were still expected to bring home Calliope.
Ezekiel looked at the Muse tied up and gagged and was mildly surprised at how human it all looked. Seriously, wasn't this how all the James Bond movies started? He looked over at Leda and rolled his eyes. "Ye of little faith Leda." He walked down the aisle, eyes on Marysas. He didn't know where the bout of confidence came from or why the twenty Cyclops didn't seem to bother him but here he was.
"Doing alright there Calliope? Marysas, I hear you're looking for a little competition and the lovely Calliope is to judge? Now how is she supposed to adequately judge when she is all tied up like that? Hardly fair. She can't even speak to pass judgment," he said sweetly, laying on the charm. Ezekiel stopped a few rows back from the stage and looked up at Marysas. "Nice little entourage you got," he said gesturing to all the Cyclops's.

[Nallore]

Kristin Reynolds

Location: Comedy Club, Houston, Texas
Skills: N/A

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Kristin looked at Zeke wondering what his plan actually was at the moment, she looked over towards the windows high above the auditorium seeing some movement there, as they took up positions nearby, seeing that they were the Hunters. She moved over towards Leda and Zeke and whispered to them. "Artemis' hunters are nearby." She said to them before taking a few steps back looking over at Marsyays who then looked at Calliope. "Nope, not letting her go she can judge using her eyes!" Marsyays yelled back as the cyclops looked a little bit bored after waiting forever. "Can we just eat them now?" One of them called out as the satyr gave the one cyclops who said that and gave him an annoyed glare before turning his attention back to Zeke.

"I'll let her go if you can beat me in a dance off, and I challenge the son of Apollo. If you win i'll let her go, and if I win my one eyed friends get to have their feast." Marsyays said crossing his arms over his chest as Kristin looked at Zeke and couldn't help but snort slightly as far as she knew Zeke never danced at all. "We are so dead." She muttered to herself.

[Morose]

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🌈 Leda Storm 🌈

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Location: Houston, Texas
Skills: N/A

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Leda snickered slightly at the notion of Zeke having to compete in a dance off. At least it spared them from having to hear his singing skills. And it did mean they wouldn't need to handle the impossible horde of cyclopses - even with the Hunters of Artemis lying in wait, it would be a difficult fight. There wasn't much she and Kristin could do to support Zeke in this endeavor, but then she realized something. Monsters usually were a bit thick. Marysas probably wasn't any different.

"Oh Marysas, we all know it's no contest between you and this puny kid of Apollo. I mean, he couldn't even handle a baby cyclops earlier today. And at Camp Half-blood, we all pretty much just get annoyed by him and wish that he would leave. So honestly, in this dance off, I'm rooting for you mate. And once you beat Zeke, you can even challenge his disaster bi of a father. And let's be real, Apollo's been resting on his laurels for too long. He's out of shape. He's got flab," Leda said. Lord Apollo if you heard this I am so fricking sorry I do not mean it at all! "But how can we appreciate the amazing victory you're about to have in this lit af dance off if the judge can't speak? How can Calliope praise your sick moves if she can only move her eyes? I want to hear her praise you and lift you up. And more importantly, I want to hear her roast Zeke."

[KazAlkemi]

Ezekiel Kel

Location: Comedy Club - Houston, Texas
Skills:

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Ezekiel tried not to look nervous or worried when Marsyas challenged him to a dance off. How the hell was he supposed to manage a dance off? His father was a god of poetry and music, not dancing. He plastered a grin on his face, hoping to fake it until he made it. [i]Dad, seriously if you can hear this Apollo, some help would be greatly appreciated with beating this guys ass. He opened his mouth to answer when Leda spoke up, supposedly helping. He looked over at her, annoyed. "Hey!" he protested, growing annoyed with her insults and downers. He handled that baby cyclops just fine, she knows that. Oh wait. Ezekiel crossed his arms in annoyance but understood what Leda was doing now. The gods after all were vain, why wouldn't their creatures be the same and prone to praise.
"They do say a dancer is only as good as their audience cheering," he noted and looked back at Marsyas. "What harm could it do? Not even my companions think I will win." He shot Leda a look for good measure and that was not faked at all.

[Nallore]

Kristin Reynolds

Location: Comedy Club, Houston, Texas
Skills: N/A

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Marsyays stared down at both Leda and Zeke as the two of them spoke and instantly shook his head, he knew what they were actually doing and he wasn't going to fall for it at all. "Noooope, nope, I am NOT falling for that i'm not vain like all of your moms and dads are at all." He said, as he looked at Calliope who still remained calm for the most part despite her current predicament. Kristin looked at Zeke and Leda letting out a little bit of an annoyed sigh as she started to think of an idea. "At least let us speak on her behalf then, it's only fair." Kristin said, as Marsyays thought for a moment before relenting and nodded. "Fiiiine." Marsyays said, as he motioned for three of the cyclops to grab them. One of them was grabbing Zeke by the back of his shirt and plopped him down right in front of the crazed looking satyr.

The other two cyclops gently set Kristin and Leda down by the bound Muse, but they remained rather close to the three of them, just in case the two demigods did anything suspicious. "While they are dancing, and distracted then we break her free." Kristin whispered to Leda, as Marsyays stared at Zeke and smirked a bit. "Since it's my show i'll go first, and if you do anything you three are cyclops food." Marsyays said as he burst out into a breakdance as Kristin watched she was actually impressed since he had hooves and all which she assumed made moving around really hard.

[Morose]

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🌈 Leda Storm 🌈

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Location: Houston, Texas
Skills: Superspeed

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Leda didn't actually expect that Marysas would be able to beat Zeke easily, but that definitely seemed to be the case. Did Zeke even know how to breakdance? Maybe Apollo could sneakily come and possess his son or something just to make things a bit more fair and even in this match. At any rate though, that was Zeke's problem and not hers. Kristin had proposed a plan of action for them to take - while Marysas and Zeke were dancing, they'd free Calliope. There wasn't a situation that superspeed couldn't improve, especially when it came to stealth, so Leda moved as fast as she could over to the Stolen Muse and untied her.

Unfortunately, just as Leda darted back to resume her innocent pose, she realized Marysas had seen her. Not only could he bust a sick move, but he could also see people moving at superhuman speeds. Maybe he was a minor god or something at this point - or he just had really good eyesight. Maybe that was why he employed cyclopses - their eyes sucked, his were great, so it evened out. "You okay there, mate?" Leda asked Marysas, playing dumb.

[KazAlkemi]

Ezekiel Kel

Location: Comedy Club - Houston, Texas
Skills:

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Ezekiel was grabbed and hauled over to Marsyas and made to kneel in front of him. "Easy there grab hands. It won't be a fair competition if I am injured, now would it?" He looked over at Marsyas and watched him breaking and it really did look like he was about to break. How could he even bounce around like that and not damage anything? Ezekiel looked around, curious if the saytar was using magic or something to make illusions of good dancing. "Hey dad, if you could bless your son with some temporary dance moves, that would be great."
Ezekiel shrugged out of the cyclopes grip when it was his turn and stood. He watched Marsyas look over at Leda, seeming to be very curious with her. Ezekiel glanced over as well but didn't see anything around Leda. He looked at Calliope next but didn't see anything amiss with her. Still, the show must go on and he was the distraction. "Hey Mars, eyes on me while I kick your ass please," Ezekiel said.
He shut his eyes for a moment, shaking out his hands and rolled his head before he seemed to step away and then played along to the music. The beginning of his dance was a bit sarcastic, faces included but then it turned serious. At one point Ezekiel did trip, which come on, the kid didn't bloody well known how to dance but here he was. He recovered and managed to make it all the way through. It wasn't spectacular but he still did an exceptional job.
"Thanks dad." Hopefully he would get another go. Usually these things went a couple rounds, didn't they?

[Nallore]

Kristin Reynolds

Location: Comedy Club, Houston, Texas
Skills: N/A

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"I'm NOT Mars it's Marsyas, i'm not that stupid muscle head of a jock Ares or his Roman counterpart!" Marsyays said getting annoyed when Zeke called him that, completely forgetting the fact that Leda had actually untied Calliope. Though she kept her arms in the bound position so that way they didn't draw suspicions that she had been freed. Leda and Kristin would both see her giving them a thumbs up letting them know that her hands were free. Kristin nodded slightly while looking at Leda before her attention turned towards Zeke and Marsyas dance and winced seeing Zeke tripping.

Kristin then saw a chance to strike as she took off her bracelet and it turned into her spear and went to stab the cyclops in the leg, as a loud howl in pain came from the cyclops. Calliope quickly took off her gag and stood up looking over at Zeke, Leda and Kristin, grateful for their help. She started to sing, sending about six cyclops into some sort of sleep, as she focused on them Kristin now understood why Marsyas had her gagged in the first place now.

[Morose]

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🌈 Leda Storm 🌈

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Location: Houston, Texas
Skills: Superspeed, Agility, Sword-Fighting

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Leda couldn't believe at first that her bluff worked - but apparently, Zeke irritated Marysas so much he forgot about it all. Or maybe he hadn't noticed her go free Calliope in the first place. Either way, she thanked her lucky stars. The fighting started soon afterwards, with Kristin stabbing a cyclops and Calliope using her powers over music. Leda remembered with a bit of a jolt that Calliope was a goddess after all - she had a serious amount of power behind her and no doubt would make this a lot easier.

"How about Marshmallow, if Mars isn't your speed?" With Ultraviolet ready to go, Leda took off as fast as she could run. She weaved in and out of the line of monsters, skewering them with her sword and watching them turn into dust. She killed monster after monster, until eight of them were dead and taken care of. With Calliope's six and Kristin's one, that was fifteen in total that they'd taken out - not bad. And Zeke had managed to trip during dancing.

[KazAlkemi]

Ezekiel Kel

Location: Comedy Club - Houston, Texas
Skills:

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Ezekiel shook his ankle out after finishing his dance. Sure, he had tripped but Ezekiel was proud all the same and promised to give his dad some sort of genuine Texas fried something or other as a sacrifice. With Marsayas officially annoyed and distracted, the three girls went to work taking out monsters. Ezekiel stayed concentrated on Marsyas though and slipped his bow out.
Ezekiel had killed monsters but Marsays was half human and Ezekiel didn't think he would be able to do such a thing but he should be able to incapacitate him. That is, if he could get around him. "What do you say Marsyas, do you yield," Ezekiel asked, using the saytars full name. Ezekiel held his bow close to his side, ready to do what he needed to if he had to. Speaking to Marsyas in this way, Ezekiel was hoping he would then make the first move so he could counter better.