🌈 Leda Storm 🌈
Location: Camp Half-blood: the Shrines
Skills: N/A
Leda gagged.
"I'd rather not ask the praetor, she has a blood stick so far up her ass it's a miracle she can walk!" Leda complained. All of the Romans were so uptight it was downright nauseating. She didn't understand how anyone got along with them - except for maybe Kristin, but that was largely since Kristin was also a bossy know-it-all. She wouldn't have been shocked to find out Kristin was secretly Roman all along. She shook her head at Kiera's next question.
"I haven't heard shit from her. If I had to guess, she's enjoying her little magic academy experience, not caring at all that the world is on fire and may end." Perhaps it was a bit harsh of Leda, but she believed it. She had seen the darkness in Rebecca and she didn't think that her ex actually cared about anyone besides herself. It was always about Rebecca's dream of becoming an immortal sorceress, remembered alongside Medea and Circe. Leda picked up the rest of the cleaning supplies and trudged on over to the Hades shrine. It was basically a completely different vibe from the Poseidon one.
"You think you'll go or nah?" Leda asked, dusting the little tributes and whatnot that were in the shrine.
☀️ Nancy Parker ☀️
Location: Camp Half-blood: Dining Pavilion -> Sun Chariot
Skills: N/A
Nancy didn't really even fully know what she was going to say to her father, as she nodded at her friends and left the dining pavilion, following him to his chariot. She swallowed slightly. She'd never been in the chariot before. She tried not to look too interested in the flashy car, even though it was very much
exactly her style. She got into the shotgun seat, before turning and looking at her father, taking a slight breath.
"What the fucking hell is your problem?!" she then blurted.
"We were dying, we lost New Rome, and now you show up with the most ominous gifts in the history of everything, acting like we're all good? Is this a bribe to make me like you? Is one of my friends going to die?" Apollo went and sat down in the driver's side seat as he turned to face his daughter as she suddenly laid into him, he didnt show any sign of pain as she yelled at him. "I may be the Sun God but I cannot be everywhere at once. I was in Tartarus looking for my shrine that ended up somehow falling down in there. It's not a place that isnt exactly easy to get out of. And the gift isnt a bribe it'll become very useful, and I am not sure it could possibly happen if events change."
Nancy's left eye twitched slightly. She wished he would have had something more of a reaction, rather than this peaceful and passive nothingness. It was so grody she couldn't believe it.
"Oh I'm sure you couldn't do without one of your shrines, that definitely sounds like an emergency," she said sarcastically, even though she knew that the shrine was relevant to the prophecy and all she had seen.
"Hey it's one of my favorite shrines to visit!" Apollo protested and stared at Nancy knowing that it would probably get a rise out of her as he leaned back slightly in the car seat and faced her. "But seriously there is something big going on down in the Pit, why do you think the Big Three are even fighting right now?"
"Oh wow, your favorite shrine! This must be so fucking hard for you! It's not like you have a THOUSAND OTHER FUCKING SHRINES TO VISIT! BUT NOOOOO! THIS ONE MOTHERFUCKING SHRINE IS IN THE PIT, EVERYONE STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING, APOLLO WANTS YOUR SYMPATHY!" Nancy shouted. She was angry about Mads - angry that Mads was cursed to spend her life as a werewolf. She was angry that her father didn't actually care about her or any of her siblings. She was practically daring her father to yell back at her, to smite her, show her some of the anger she had inherited from him.
Apollo looked a bit hurt as Nancy started to hurl more abuse towards him, but knew that he most likely did push one of her buttons as he glared at her. "I am here to help you in what I could you are my daughter, you need to understand giving you the Physician's Cure Zeus or Jupiter whatever you wanna name my pops would have my head for even finding out that I asked Asclepius to make a new one."
Nancy hesitated, completely confused and bewildered - her father actually looked
hurt. Was it some sort of ploy for her to go easy on him, so that way instead of shouting at him she'd just sing his praises? She knew he wasn't lying about Jupiter's wrath - the Physician's Cure was forbidden after all. She stared at him, counting to ten in her mind as she tried to not scream at him some more.
"But why are you here now? You've literally never been there for me. You.... You gave me this fucked up power of prophecy, this curse," she then said, her eyes watering slightly.
Apollo thought about just putting a comforting hand on Nancy but thought that she might end up blowing up on him again, maybe it was because when he was mortal last he didnt want to become more like how his father was. "I want to be a better father for all my kids, I know that I can't be there for you all the time and trying to make up for that. I know that the power of prophecy is a curse for some but it is something that is needed for the months ahead."
Nancy clenched her jaw. She knew that there were horrible things on the horizon. The fall of New Rome had just been the start of something bigger. The vision she had seen, with Mads falling into the Pit... It was horrifying. She knew that they'd end up chained in the shrine of her father, the one that was in the Pit. She didn't know if they'd get out of it all alive. They'd already lost so much, they couldn't bear to lose anything more. She clenched her fist.
"Did you give me the Physician's Cure because I'm going to die?" she then asked quietly, looking straight ahead.
Apollo looked down for a moment he really couldn't see what was going to happen or who was actually going to live or die this time as he turned to look at Nancy. "I honestly don't know I can't see what will happen, I gave the Physician's Cure in case something did happen to you use it on yourself or someone else or don't use it the decision is completely yours."
Nancy nodded slightly, turning and looking at her father. She was scared for her friends. She really wanted to be angry with him, but instead of rage, she just felt tired and weary.
"Can I ask you for another favor then? Since you want to be a good dad and all, and don't worry, this one won't risk Jupiter gagging you with a spoon." It had been something she thought about from time to time, a question she hadn't been willing to ask Diana, but one she was willing to ask Apollo. Maybe he had changed.
Apollo looked towards Nancy for a moment as she asked for a favor, if it was something that was in his power to he would do it. "What do you need?"
"If I die, turn me into a tree," Nancy requested.
"I-I can't go to the Underworld. The Isles of the Blest, Elysium... It'd be too much like... like the Casino." Her voice was shaking and her knuckles were bright white. She of course was assuming that she'd be judged as a hero if she died, that she wouldn't be instead be sent to eternal punishment - but to her, the rewards for heroes were really the same.
"And I'm not going to go for reincarnation, since I-I already know what it's like to feel like I've lost myself," she then admitted quietly, referring to the horrific night of her sexual assault.
Apollo nodded towards Nancy knowing what she had been through and wished that he could have helped her back then and then pulled her into a hug, feeling like she needed one before letting go. "Of course, i'll make sure that it'll happen for when the time does come." Apollo said to her and smiled for a moment. "Don't tell anyone that I was being super nice." Apollo said trying to get her to smile some.
She flinched slightly at first, hesitating, before hugging her father back.
"I'm sure no one would believe that," she said sarcastically. She wiped her eyes on the sleeve of her sweater.
"But fine, as long as you don't tell anyone that I hugged you. I want to join the Hunt, it'd seriously damage my rep." "My lips are sealed, it won't leave the Sun Chariot. If Pops found it he'll probably never stop bothering me about it either." Apollo said with a laugh. "Is there anything else that you need?"
"Do you know if there's a cure for Mads?" Nancy asked, figuring that if one existed, Apollo would likely know about it.
Apollo thought for a moment, he knew that the curse was originally something his father created to punish Lycaon way back then, as far as he knew there wasn't any known cure. But maybe his son Asclepius would be able to he was the one to create the Physician's Cure that could reverse death. "It's a curse made by Pops there isn't a known cure sadly but If you get me a blood sample of hers I could get it to Asclepius to look into it."
"You'd really do that?" Nancy asked, surprised. She had always figured that her father only cared about himself and his own image. It was easier to be angry with him that way.
"Um, yeah, I can definitely get you some of her blood." "As long as you can keep it a secret he can't find out about it. I also can't guarantee that Asclepius will be able to make a cure either." Apollo told her it would be a long shot to get a cure for the werewolf curse.
She nodded again.
"I can keep it a secret - I swear on the River Styx," she promised earnestly.
Apollo smiled and nodded back, he tended to break the whole swearing on the River Styx thing though. "Also don't tell Zekey either. Just gather that sample for me and i'll be on my way."
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