So after all the drama passed we made our way through the sewers and came to a nasty shit filled it with a downed bridge. Ben flew down to lift it and Wuyi helped hold it as a tentacled monster started to come from the piss water. I blasted it's eye with my fire, channeling all my rage and pain and confusion and worry into the blast feeling the emotions fuel the fir as Rhia froze the water around the thing and the rest of the group and Rhia's herd crossed before Ben dropped the bridge. A boy opened the door but slammed it on us and Rhia and Wu seduced him into opening it for us. I have to admit I am jealous of how free they are about things like that. My love for Ben aside I don't think I could ever be like that.
Once outside Wuyi's raven went to deliver it's message only to return shortly. This caused an argument between her and Rhia about the bird telling the truth and I just blocked it out. I felt the shock wearing off of all the revelations and lept at the chance to chase off some thugs who were hassling an old woman...turns out that was Morrigan and she told up more of what was happening. My father had warriors in the city looking for me and Morrigan, Oghun, Susan-o and my father were generals in the war effort. The Greeks had signed a non-aggression treaty the day we bound the titan...but now that titan is free and the Greeks won't break their pact. The Aesir have mostly removed themselves for fear of Ragnarok. The plan is for us to get our memories out of the warehouse for they are strategically important, rescue the Captain who is a scion of Balder unvisitied of course, and then make us look like villains....and oh yeah Rhia can only have her memories if she gives her love and devotion to her...
Realing from all this somehow it was decided Rhia and Wuyi would go with Morrigan for a time and the rest of us were going for haircuts and to get cleaned up. When I was done I found they had left me there...WHAT. THE. FUCK. SERIOUSLY? My own husband leaves me alone in a strange fucking city, filled with people trying to hunt us down, while I'm pregnant? Oh his ass is gonna pay for this shit. I kept calm until I realized I had given all the money to him...double fuck. Thankfully the barber agreed to let me return with money and when I stepped outside I noticed someone watching me. After confirming he was following me I led him down and ally and turned on him to demand answers. (Remind me to shoot first next time, it's less stressful.) Turns out he is my half brother, newly visited and set to the task of bringing me to father...on pain of death. Curse him, my father knows me way to well. Now I couldn't kill him, and I couldn't let him BE killed so I got in a litter with him and off we went to daddy's shining palace.
In no mood for ritual or protacal I demanded to see my father. I was pleased to see father had causght the son of a bitch who tried to kill us during our escape and he was roasting over a cooking fire in eternal torment. Soon after being brought to the sitting room father sweapt in and slammed the doors demanding to know why I tried to kill myself. I told him I was trying to save my band, that I did not mean as much as their lives did and knew I had to go big to try to get his attention and help. He disagreed but we didn't have time to continue that argument and he moved on. We discussed what had happened since we broke out of Hades...I believe his exact word were " You broke Prometheus out of their prison. You made them look like fools by negating the biggest reason for signing the non-aggression pact in the first place. You cut a whole out of their underworld into the living realm and allowed their ghosts to escape for hours. You humiliated their trusted Cerberus with a bottle-blowing brownie. You forced you way out of the Burning Palace. You let them capture an unvisited Scion. Your memories are going to be responsable for the corruption that that Shabti. Everything you have done shows the Greeks that you are terrible people. " I protested that we didn't know any of it because the GREEKS were not vigilant enough. Had Prometheus' brother not gotten in and stolen our memories we would still be guarding the Shabti in their underworld, as was our duty. Then he dropped another bomb " Your friends are perfect for the job we have in mind. Convince the Greeks that you have sided with the Titans. That your time in the underworld with the Shabti has corrupted you. Commit tragedy upon the Greeks until they are forced to break the treaty and side with us in the war against the Titans. At this point it may be the only way to keep you safe because they are coming for you. Pretending to side with the titans will at least give them pause. " I asked then what of us should it all succeed. He said he would do his best to defend us and hope cooler heads like Athena's would prevail and get them to back off.
I asked for a favor then. I asked him to do whatever it took, even giving me over to the Greeks, if it meant saving my child. At that the god before me melted into that of my father and he fell to his knee, wrapped me in his arms and hugged me and said this time everything would turn out alright, even if he has to demand it of the fates. Then I made two more requests: one to not sleep with Rhia again as I didn't think I could handle that again, and one for her memories he had purchased. Looking back I should have asked why he had hers and not mine, but I wasn't thinking about me at that point. Then he took Johnathan's memories of our talk and said " You will take him when you leave, and when you do you shall destroy as much of my beloved palace as you can and 'escape' my terrible clutches a second time upon the golden litter that was left outside. I'm going to chase you to the ends of the earth and punish you for your terrible transgression. Please try to avoid destroying the picture of your mother in the hallway. " And I was off dragging Johnathan with me. I threw him on my back and we made it to the litter and I must say it was some fun setting the palace on fir and especially firing off a lance of fire at numbnuts on the spit. With a lot of effort and bumbling we got the litter going and to NY where I followed a thread of Fate to Ben. I sent cal in to find him and asked Johnathan what he remembered. I watched cal circle the building and find a vent to get into and he mind whispered that the room had four Keeper's in it but they had heard his claws on the metal...SHIT!
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