[IC] Ω Heroes of Olympus: the Hidden Gem (Nallore, Morose, Kirah) Ω

[Nallore]

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Madalyne Crane

Location: Medford, Oregon, Amtrak Station -> Jack in the Box
Skills: N/A

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Madalyne watched as Nancy got off of the train as well and looked towards the biker dudes again, getting that same eerily feeling from them as well, shortly as Niah had gotten off as well. She quickly followed and catching up to Niah and Nancy, figuring that they would have a better chance fighting together then separated as well. "The bikers, I think are some kind of monster." Madalyne said to both of them, as she walked off of the platform. The Jack in the Box wasn't to far from them at all either which was good, just grab their food and then just leave and get back onto the train.

Once they were inside of the fast food restaurant Madalyne got into line and looked over her shoulder again seeing the men had entered as well and took a seat somewhere in the dining room. Yep, they were there stalking them as she thought about messing around with the mist, but right now she was pretty hungry. "So how much did you get?" Madalyne whispered to Nancy she didn't see how much she snagged from the guys wallet either but knew she had taken some money off of it.

[Morose]

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☀️ Nancy Parker ☀️

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Location: Medford, Oregon - Amtrak -> Jack in the Box
Skills: N/A

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Nancy relaxed ever so slightly as her friends rejoined her. She wasn't going to admit that the prospect of fighting off a group of monsters disguised as burly monsters had terrified her slightly. "Any idea which kind?" she asked her friends softly. Her stomach growled. She really wanted to just get some food and head back onto the train. At least her worst fear was far less likely to happen with Niah and Mads around. "I got $26, I'll order us three combo meals," she told them. Maybe they'd be lucky and the bikers would ignore them. They had made it into the Jack in the Box without getting hurt.

She walked up to the counter, placing an order. "Three large 10 piece chicken nugget combos, please," she said. She handed over the money, tapping her foot nervously. The cashier gave her back her change and three soda fountain cups. She took out a cup, handing one to Niah and one to Madalyne. "Hopefully our order is out soon..." Nancy murmured, moving off to the side. She kept one eye on the bikers, ready for them to jump into action, as she went over and filled up her cup with Dr. Pepper, Coke, and Root Beer - a Nancy special.

[Kirah]

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Niah Bautista

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Location: Amtrak platform (Medford, Oregon) -> Jack-in-the-box
Skills: Roman Mythology & Odikinesis

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"Thanks for getting food." Niah said after Nancy ordered. There was a lot more in the thanks than just the appreciation for Nancy ordering the food. It was clear Niah was thanking her for all the unsaid things. That led to getting the food too.

Anger rolled off the bikers and Niah had a pretty good idea of what they might be. "You wouldn't happen to have a silvered weapon on you by chance?" She glanced at Nancy, it was mostly her answer for what the monsters were without saying their name. Her stomach growled. Niah was hungry. Waiting for the food would probably take too long.

Niah took a cup and filled it with just Dr. Pepper. She turned to face the werewolves and tried to focus on them and make them as calm as possible. Maybe there was something about her hunger that made it flip on her. She could feel the anger in the bikers rise. "Oh, oops. I'm sorry." She glanced at her friends, her hand tightening around her sword hilt. Things were about to get interesting.

[Nallore]

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Madalyne Crane

Location: Medford, Oregon, Amtrak Station -> Jack in the Box
Skills: N/A

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Madalyne looked at Niah for a moment when she mentioned something about silver weapons made her gulp slightly, werewolves were pretty special since neither celestial bronze or imperial gold weapons killed werewolves. "That's going to make things a little bit interesting.." Madalyne said softly back to the two of them, she wants sure if she could conjure up any kind of silver weapons for them either. She hadn't tried anything like that at all. Madalyne went over to grab herself a coke from the fountain machine, and then a little bit of sprite added in as well. Seeing their gaze on them they looked really pissed off right now, though one of them looked to be their leader who still looked mad but also calm or something as well.

"Just grab our food and leave." Madalyne told her friends, when their order was called up Madalyne quickly grabbed their food, and started to make her way towards the door, and just barely got out of the building when the five stopped her. Madalyne quickly drew out her sword, and swung it at the closest one, while the other grabbed onto her and Madalyne started to struggle to break free. "Hold still girlie, we just want a little snack." One of them said as Madalyne kicked one of them between the legs causing the one holding her to let go.

[Morose]

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☀️ Nancy Parker ☀️

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Location: Jack in the Box
Skills: Strategy, Singing, Audiokinesis

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Nancy grimaced, shaking her head. "Standard issue imperial gold," she said reluctantly. Maybe this was a sign from the universe that she ought to start carrying silver weapons, especially if she was going to be praying to Diana on the regular. She made a mental note to check the armory when they got back. As Niah apologized, Nancy's face paled. Earlier on the train, they had been talking about their powers. Niah had mentioned the entire Oath thing... and also being able to mess with people's emotions. Her eyes darted over towards the werewolves.

Sweet Niah had just royally pissed them off. "Pedit," Nancy cursed in Latin. She quickly followed Madalyne outside of the Jack in the Box, a not too small part of her very relieved to see that they had gotten their food. She didn't want to have to wait until after the next Amtrak stop to eat. Focus! she scolded herself. The werewolves were a lot more threatening than whether or not they'd get their daily recommended 2000 Calories.

Her heart clenched as the werewolves grabbed Madalyne. Her imperial gold wasn't going to do the trick. She didn't know if Mads would be able to pull off the same Mist trick, but there wasn't time to spare. Her best friend was in peril and Nancy did the only thing she could think of - she made a scene. On the train, they had talked about her maybe being able to use sound to kill. It was time to test that.

She sipped a bit of her drink, before clearing her throat. She whispered a silent prayer to Apollo to bless this deadly performance. In her mind, the song began to play, and she began her musical onslaught on the werewolves, aiming to kill them with music -

🎶Can't stay at home, can't stay at school.
Old folks say 'You poor little fool'.
Down the streets I'm the girl next door.
I'm the fox you've been waiting for.
Hello, daddy. Hello, mom.
I'm your ch-ch-ch-cherry bomb!

POP! POP! POP!

Hello world! I'm your wild girl.
I'm your ch-ch-ch-cherry bomb!🎶

POP! POP!

The five werewolves were no more as Nancy finished her last note, covered in monster dust. Her voice felt incredibly hoarse after such a performance. "Thanks, Dad," she whispered, figuring he must have answered her prayers - that or Joan Jett was actually an immortal goddess.

[Kirah]

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Niah Bautista

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Location: Jack-in-the-box -> Amtrak platform (Medford, Oregon)
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With their food in hand, the trio tried to make a quick exit. The werewolves turned bikers didn't give them a chance though. Niah felt awful for flipping the switch the wrong way. Why did her power sometimes just not work? She sent a silent prayer to her mother apologizing if she had done anything wrong. Maybe she hadn't appreciated Niah calming the wet stranger on the train down. Or she had been just too close to the dishonest action that got them dinner? Niah hoped it was the former, that at least she could change her behavior for. The other led to starvation.

Nancy had it under control though. She gave the idea Niah had given her a spin, Niah just plugged her ears hoping it would keep her head from exploding. Just in case. Then there five headless monsters that turned to dust. She gapped. "Damn. That was impressive."

Niah looked at where the werewolves had been and saw a collection of teeth left over. Taking a word from Nancy Niah said "Grody." She picked it all up quickly though, "Let's go, get back on the train and you can keep all these nice teeth." She shuddered.

[Nallore]

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Madalyne Crane

Location: Medford, Oregon, Jack in the Box -> Amtrak Station
Skills: Mystiokinesis

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Madalyne closed her eyes half expecting the werewolves to either tear her apart or bite her to turn her into a werewolf or something along those lines. When she heard Nancy singing loudly, her ears started to ring slightly but heard some gruesome popping sounds and opened her eyes again, seeing the last werewolf head bursting into dust and shortly after that along with their body. She looked at Nancy and quickly gave her friend a hug. "That was so rad thank you! I really didn't want to become werewolf food or become one that would really suck to." She said, and thought about buying something later for her she looked down at the floor seeing a bunch of werewolf teeth and looked at the two of them.

"That would make some cool jewelry, we really should go now though." Madalyne pointed out they probably wasted enough time now at this point. They were just about to get onto the trains platform seeing that the train was starting to move now and the doors were closing now as well, the train was about to leave them behind which would be really bad. She quickly held out her hand forming an invisible barrier preventing the train from moving further using her magic to hold the train back. "Hurry up and get onto the train." She said, as one of the doors opened up and a confused conductor was stepping off of the train now.

[Morose]

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☀️ Nancy Parker ☀️

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Location: Outside Jack in the Box -> Amtrak
Skills: N/A

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Nancy's throat felt hoarse, like she had been gargling lava outside in the dead of winter. She hoped that drinking some fluids would help, as it wasn't quite severe enough an injury to make her want to dip into her flask of nectar. It looked a bit too much like day drinking anyways for her to want to try it in a public mortal space - with their luck, she'd be arrested for alcohol abuse. Nancy returned Madalyne's hug, coughing a little bit. "I did it for the food," she told them, her voice strained and weak. Niah had picked up the werewolf teeth and as Madalyne suggested making them into jewelry, Nancy decided something. Of course, the train was a bit more pressing. She could tell the other two once they were safely making their way towards Mount Rushmore again.

She took off at a run towards the train, noticing how it seemed to stop all of the sudden. Nancy gave the poor, confused mortal conductor a high five as she galloped onboard, her hair blowing behind her as she giggled. Figuring that Madalyne and Niah had to be right behind her, she did her job and secured them some seats again, flopping down into a window seat. "You two good?" she asked, her voice sounding a bit better but not much. "Feast time?"

[Kirah]

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Niah Bautista

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Location: Amtrak platform (Medford, Oregon) -> On the train
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Niah positively giggled. She ran after Nancy onto the train. Giving the conductor a little curtsy. She didn't say anything though just climbed up the stairs to find Nancy. "I'm good. That was amazing. I've never seen anything like it." It was easily the coolest thing she had ever seen.

She took a bag from Mads and a nice long drink from her soda. "I am sorry for making them angrier." Then under her breath at Mads she asked, "Is that Mist control that you used to stop the train?" The adrenaline was a wild ride, nothing like what it was for the war games. She started eating her food.

[Nallore]

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Madalyne Crane

Location: Medford, Oregon, Amtrak Station
Skills: Mystiokinesis

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Madalyne quickly followed shortly behind Nancy and Niah and bound onto the train again, dropping the little shield that she had created she gave the conductor a slight smile and wave as she got on finding themselves a seat again and sat down. "You did great with the food thanks, once we get back to Camp Jupiter i'll treat you to some more coffee." Madalyne said, even though she did pay for their coffee earlier in the day before they went out on this quest.

She quickly started to dig into her lunch and took a sip from her drink, leaning back slightly as the train finally started to move again. Madalyne looked towards Niah and shook her head. "Nope, it was magic or if you want to get all technical you can call it Mystiokinesis as well." She said, another one of the abilities that she inherited from her mother, which did always come in handy whenever they started any kind of War Games back at camp.

[Morose]

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☀️ Nancy Parker ☀️

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Location: Amtrak
Skills: N/A

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Nancy shook her head at Niah's apologies. "Don't sweat it, hun." Demigods messed up all the time. Abilities were weird and unpredictable at times, even with years of practice. Nancy gave Niah a smile, before unceremoniously shoving french fries into her face. "And don't worry about paying me back," she said to Madalyne. She had stolen the money anyways. It wasn't like she was being put out because of it. The food tasted amazing, better than the relatively healthy meals they had to eat at Camp Jupiter. Of course, the coffee shop in New Rome was always a good stop for a sugar rush.

"Mystiokinesis? That sounds like a drug. Ask your doctor if mystiokinesis is right for you. Side effects include spontaneous combustion, yodeling, and frolicking in the midnight." The commercials hadn't really changed over the years. Even in the Lotus Hotel and Casino, where they had been constantly entertained, the occasional advertisement would come on the televisions. Of course, even details about the casino were a little bit fuzzy. Her time there was a blur, feeling more like a couple of weeks or months she had spent there - not over thirty years.

[Kirah]

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Niah Bautista

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Location: Amtrak train
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Niah felt a sense of relief when Nancy said not to sweat it. She seemed to genuinely not care. It was a nice feeling. Not having the weight of every action being judged. There would come a day when she could retire from the Legion and move on with her life. Sure, it was likely she'd stay in New Rome, but Niah really wanted to leave and study the real world. Being out and about in it made it feel like that was even more possible. The normalcy of people on the train was a nice breather.

She smiled and happily shoved food into her mouth. Laughing at Nancy's joke about Mystiokinesis. "Is that teachable? I know a lot of gifts aren't. Like I wouldn't even know how to teach what I feel with the Oath thing, I might be able to teach Odikinesis. There are a few of the Mars kids who can do it." She used the proper name this time, sticking with Roman. Really though she knew the Romans had stolen most of it from the Greeks anyway.

She put the pile of teeth on a napkin on the table. "What what your idea?" She asked Nancy, pushing the teeth her direction before taking a long drink from her soda. One thing Niah wasn't was squeamish.

[Nallore]

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Madalyne Crane

Location: Medford, Oregon, Amtrak Station
Skills: N/A

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Madalyne looked at Nancy and laughed a little bit, and shook her head slightly as she took a few nuggets from her bag and started to eat it while looking at Niah and shook her head slightly. "No I don't think that one is, I've mostly seen my other half siblings use it." Madalyne said, she forgot which other gods could use magic but she knew that her mother primarily practiced it a lot. "Though it's also really useful whenever we are playing War Games." Madalyne said smiling a bit.

She watched Niah pulling out all of the teeth that were there from when Nancy had killed all of the werewolves not to long ago. "I think we should turn them into jewelry or something it'd look so rad with a bunch of werewolf fangs attached to them." Madalyne suggested giving a slight smile towards Nancy wondering what her friend had in mind for them.

[Morose]

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☀️ Nancy Parker ☀️

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Location: Amtrak
Skills: N/A

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Nancy finished swallowing a large gulp of her soda, before she picked up the teeth Niah had slid over to her. They were pretty gnarly to look at, reminding her of shark teeth. She turned one over, feeling it against her skin slightly. It was probably deadly or cursed. The smart thing would have been to put them in a pouch and bring them back to Camp Jupiter, where the Senate could decide on an appropriate way to either store them or dispose of them. Yet Nancy had never really been much for what was the appropriate thing to do. She gasped in annoyance, before gently punching Madalyne on the shoulder. "Ugh, rude! That was my idea!" Nancy complained.

"I was thinking, like, it'd be really rad to make them into bracelets. We could get, like, purple and gold beads - for Rome. And then spell our names and stuff... Maybe even put like a little river pendant on Niah's, something witchy on yours, and then the sun symbol or something on mine? With the werewolf tooth as the wicked centerpiece." She figured no one would really say anything if they overheard the conversation. The mortals would probably figure they were just really into some new young adult fantasy movie with werewolves in it.

[Kirah]

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Niah Bautista

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Location: Amtrak train
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"I think that's brilliant." Niah was excited at the idea of bracelets that matched Nancy and Madalyne's. It would be a nice memento from the trip. "Though I think it'll have to wait till we get back to camp. I'm sure the crafts area has something we can work with." Not that Niah went to the crafts area much. It wasn't something she was interested in, and she rarely had the time.

Not knowing exactly where they were going to end up after Fargo worried Niah. She wished they had access to a computer or something so they could look up Mount Rushmore. She was also glad no random annoying adult had stepped up to them and said something like they should be a school. A lot of this quest was going to be just making decisions on the fly.

Niah chewed on a nugget thinking. She spent a moment in silence before finally saying. "Do we have any longer stops? Places where we can go to a library and look up stuff about Mount Rushmore?" She didn't want to go into a fight with a dragon blind. Oh, and they'd have to figure out how to get into the park, it probably cost money too.

[Nallore]

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Madalyne Crane

Location: Medford, Oregon, Amtrak Train
Skills: N/A

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Madalyne looked towards Nancy and laughed a little bit and rubbed her shoulder slightly and stuck her tongue out at her friend. "I'm a mind reader to." She said jokingly, though that wasn't at all one of her powers, it was a pretty cool one in her mind. Which reminded her of some comic books that she managed to read one of her. She took another sip from her drink and started to eat some of her fries as well closing her eyes and enjoying the tasty fast food was always really good while she listened to Nancy's idea.

"I love it! All of the beads could maybe have our names on them as well?" Madalyne suggested looking at them, it would be a really nice memento together on this quest. She turned towards Niah and gave a slight shrug she didn't really ride trains so she wasn't really sure about it and shook her head slightly. "Probably not I don't think, maybe we can snag someones phone and figure something out on there?" She asked, though she knew that phones were kind of a bad thing to use as well for any demigod really.

[Morose]

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☀️ Nancy Parker ☀️

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Location: Amtrak
Skills: N/A

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"If the crafts area doesn't have anything, Minerva's temple might," Nancy reasoned. She knew that back in the day in actual Rome, crafts guilds would use the temple of Minerva as a meeting destination. Minerva didn't have any demigod children, so she figured that arts and crafts might be the biggest pull for people to go visit her temple at Camp Jupiter too. Of course, it helped that in Roman mythology, the three most important gods - the Capitoline Triad - were Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva. "Yeah, putting the names would be rad! We could do it in, like, Latin or English or whatever you guys think is neat." She wasn't sure what her name would be in Latin.

Nancy finished off her food, putting all of her trash into one bag to consolidate things. "The screens on phones these days are so tiny... I don't understand how you use them, much less press those little buttons and text things," she complained. She was used to landlines - ones with cords. She hadn't even used a blackberry before. "But if you want Niah, I can swipe one and then you can use it? Do they have Internet or Google or whatever it's called?"

[Kirah]

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Niah Bautista

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Location: Amtrak train
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"I'm pretty certain my name is made up, I don't think there is a Latin version." Niah laughed. Her father had named her after a family friend. She had no idea what it meant. If anything.

"I'm going to pretend you didn't tell me how you were going to acquire the phone. But yeah I can use one. Though remember they do attract monsters for some reason. Maybe it will be fine if I don't make any calls. However, if I do make a call I could call my dad and see if he would wire me money." That made her feel better about their future on this quest. At least they'd have food and a hotel room when the time came for them to sleep places other than the train.

Niah felt comfortable with technology she was a child of the new millennium, unlike the two before her. Even with the inability to make proper phone calls with cell phones, she had used them a fair amount. She smiled at them.

[Nallore]

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Madalyne Crane

Location: Olympia, Washington, Near the, Centennial Train Station
Skills: N/A

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"Sounds good to me then we can make our bracelets at the Temple to Minerva once we get back home." Madalyne said looking at Nancy for a moment she didn't know how to really use one of the fancy new looking phones nowadays either. "You can play games on them to or something right? I remember we had arcades a lot back in the day." Madalyne said, she didn't really care if people stared at her wondering what they were talking about. Madalyne finished eating her food stuffing them into the same bag as well, to make things a little bit easier as well.

Madalyne looked out the window as the scenery changed and the sun was starting to set as well, she stretched out slightly she ended up taking a little power nap as well. When she heard an announcement over the intercom that they were going to be stopping at the Centennial station. Madalyne stretched out again letting out a slight yawn as she watched the conductor getting changed out with a woman, and another woman was coming down with a tray of refreshments as well. Madalyne instantly was on alert and reaching for her sword which was in her pack gesturing towards the two new people on the train. "The refreshment lady and the new conductor are monsters." Madalyne said, getting a slight glimpse of a snake in the refreshment lady's hair.

[Morose]

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☀️ Nancy Parker ☀️

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Location: Amtrak - Centennial Train Station
Skills: N/A

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Nancy had been biding her time, keeping an eye out for someone with a decent phone to swipe. She figured it would be easiest to handle once they got to their next destination, as people would be getting up off the train, they'd be pushing and shoving, and it'd be easy to just grab a phone out of someone's hands by knocking into them. They made their next real stop in Washington State, in its capital - Olympia. "Y'know, I still can't believe that Seattle isn't the capital here," Nancy mentioned to her companions. She hadn't heard of Olympia really before that day.

However, she sat upright, noticing the two monsters that had come onto the train. The blood drained from her face, seeing that they were two gorgons. Of all the monsters in mythology, they had to be some of the most fearsome. You couldn't look at them in the eye and their heads - with snakes - always gave her the creeps. She shuddered. "Gorgons," she whispered. "You can't look at them or they'll kill you... And I don't think you can be un-killed from being turned into stone, so it's a fast pass to Hades."