Camp Half-Blood discussion

Fields of Torture for those who deserve it...

Helyna trudged through the Fields of Punishment with Maxx, trying hard to curl up in a ball from the horrible smell, sights, and sounds of the place. People screamed in pain and loud classical music rang through the air.

((not to*))

Maxx shivered. Everything was just terrible.
'Macy, please don't be in here...' He pleaded in his mind

Helyna almost screamed when she saw Macy. She was crying and was bruosed and bleeding. Standibg over her was that cursed Fury.

"What is wrong with you!" the Fury shrieked. "I have beaten, shown terrifying images and more and you still will not tell me who your brother is!" the Fury shrieked at her.

Maxx's eyes widened as anger flew through his body. He yelled and tackled the Fury. "How dare you! You will die for this!" He shouted, strangling the Fury

Helyna ran to Macy and checked her wounds. She was still sobbing and was trying to tell Maxx to stop.

Maxx punched and kicked the Fury

The Fury hissed at Maxx who was on top of her. She raked his shoulder with her nails and puahed him off.

Helyna snapped out hwr whip and ran to Maxx to help him.

Maxx winced. "Can't you just leave her alone?!" He shouted

"I can now! It's obvious that you're her brother, so now i can kill you!" the Fury said in an evil, raspy tone while getting up.

Helyna helped Maxx get off the floor.

Maxx stood. "Why? I mean what's the point?" He asked, pulling out his daggers

"I was sent my Hades to kill Macy. Somehow she had gotten her hand on an item from his palace. You were there at the time and you stopped me. Hades was very upset that i didn't kill her and he punished me. So i made a plan; I would kill you first and then take care of the girl after." the Fury said while snapping out a flaming whip and bearing her sharp and pointy teeth at them.

"Sorry, but that's not going to happen anytime soon." He said. He through some daggers at her

The Fury dodged most of the daggers but one or two cut her. She chraged at them woth her flaming whip.

Helyna charged as well.

Macy watched in awe, amzed by seeing this conflict.

Maxx grew a vine, though it wasn't as strong as it would be if it was above ground. He whipped the vine at her

The Fury tripped over the vine. Helyna slashed the Fury over the back with ger whip. The bat woman hisses and lassos Helyna's ankles with the flaming whip. Helyna screams in pain as the burning sensation trickled all around her skin.

Maxx took one of his daggers and stabbed the Fury in the stomach. "Stop it!"

At the same time that Maxx stabbed the Fury, Helyna whipped the Fury in the face with extraordinary force from the adrenaline. The monster turned to yellow dust leaving only the flaming whip still around Helyna's ankles.

Maxx rushed over to Helyna and unwrapped the fiery whip from her ankle, burning his hands. "Are you alright?" He asked her, standing up to see if Macy was alright as well.

"Yes I'm fine... go check on Macy..." Helyna said letting a few tear loose accidentally

Macy was still bruised and bleeding. She wanted to go check that the kids were ok but she couldn't will herself to move.

Maxx nodded. Instead he picked Helyna up and brought her over to where Macy was at.
"Macy...are you ok?" He asked

"I'am alright, wounded but alright. We need to get out of here." Macy said looking to Maxx with sad eyes. Heylna was still being held by Maxx and she tried to get down so she could maybe stand.

Maxx nodded. "Helyna? Do you think you could get us out of here?" He asked, setting her down carefully

Helyna almost fell on her face but she saved herslef from the fall. She then looked at both Maxx and Macy and said "yes, grab hands, don't let go and close your eyes."
Macy obediently did as she said.

Maxx nodded and held onto her hand

Helyna, Macy and Maxx were sucked into a deep darkness. After a second or two they were gone.
***
((where should they land?))

((Idk...I would say infirmary but Macy can't go there...maybe a dr?))

Rain walked into the field of punishment.

Wow. Alright.

A figure in scythian armor (picture a Santa elf if it was going to war) was gathering souls from the fields of punishment and leading them toward Asphodel, using a gladiator's Scissor to cut down any skeletons that stood in its path. Occasionally the figure would have the souls it was saving from Punishment make a defensive line as it tactically cleaved its way through the army of Hades.

(Wow...um.)

Rain looked at her father's place.

(Blank mind)

((Maybe have Rain try to stop the figure.))

Pir continued to drive her growing forces of escaped, tortured souls onward. Ve and six others of the prisoners went over to Sisyphus and the eight together pushed the rock up the hill... then back down again to crush a few Hellhounds.
Pir led a charge of the dead against Death.

(You mean them?)

((...Yes.))

((...Hello?))

((Sorry))
Rain saw them and walked closer and closer to see what their doing. When she saw them . "Hey!" She called out. What are you doing?"

Pir stopped in vir tracks and lifted vir right hand in a fist. The gaggle of souls halted and turned toward Rain, hate glowing in their eyes as they guessed her parentage.
"Prison break," Pir explained as though it were obvious.
"So what are you up to?" the tactician asked, almost jokingly.

She got confused. And walked closer.
"Hey. How did you do it? You can't do that!" She shouted.
"If you really to know what am I doing, I am just walking around and saw you!" She said, matter-a-factly.

"Well, I would like to give you a choice, Daughter of Hades," Pir's Metis mind said as vir intelligent eyes stared at the other half-blood.
"Join us, stand aside, or die alongside your villain of a father."

She got frustrated and started to get mad.
"Never!" She cried. "I'll never move, joined you, or die!" She said loudly.

"Alright. Have fun," Pir shrugged and led the army further toward the throne room.
"I'm going to go defeat Hades if that's alright with you."

No matter how much Aphrodite had tried to lessen the punishment on her son, the Judges of Death could not allow Brad to live in anything better than the Fields of Punishment. He had forced a god to possess him. He had fiddled with magic beyond his control, and he had killed Boreas's child Kaleb. The punishment? To spend eternity almost drowning in water cold enough to suffocate him. The beautiful child of Aphrodite heard the commotion, and held his head above the freezing water just enough to hear Pir's plan. "I can hel-" He was dragged under again, water filling his lungs.

Pir's gaze was pulled to the poor soul drowning beneath vir feet. Immediately, Pir's "Metis Personality" was swelled with pity as the mind concocted a plan.
In this form, I lack any powers to get you out of there. However, I have witnessed children of Aphrodite generating heat before in moments of intense confidence and rage. I will filter both to you now.

Suddenly Brad felt an anger, an arrogant anger at the gods for daring try to imprison him. Him! Anger at the very concept of the Fields of Punishment filled him, as they dealt out infinite punishments for finite crimes, thereby being incapable of fairness. The idea of Minos, one of the most evil kings of all time, being among the judges of his fate to condemn him for actions the ghost himself would have committed in a heartbeat- the anger filled him, along with the knowledge that HE was supreme, that HE could conquer them if he just got another whack at them.

Brad had never acquired such powers as a demigod in the camp, but the water certainly did warm. Anger empowered him. He treaded water, gasping for air. The water steamed and bubbled. Exhaustion almost stopped him from swimming to the girl. His blonde hair drooped over his blue eyes as he made it to the surface, his legs shaking. "Who in Hades are you?" He asked, half pissed and half curious.

"I am Esimine Pirmas, spawn of Protogonus Metis," the demigod answered in a voice too high to belong to a male, but too low to belong to a female.
"My long-term goals involve placing my parent, Protogonus, back in control of the world, as ve was before the Titans and Protogenoi. Right now, that means overthrowing the lord of the underworld. This field is a barbaric location dedicated to causing suffering to those who have offended the gods. It must be overturned."

"Honey, I don't have an idea what the you just said but if it involves me getting out of here, than I pledge my loyalty to you. I have nothing else to lose anyways." He sniffed. His dignity was certainly gone. "Sure. Let's overthrow Hades. Whatever." Brad pushed his hair out of his face. "How do you plan on doing that?"

"Now would be an excellent time to discuss tactics," Pir decided, gathering around the souls of the condemned and tracing a rough sketch of the Throne Room with vir scissor.
"The largest threat is Hades revealing his True Form and vaporizing all of us instantly. Especially since there is no known way to block or heal this. Therefore, we must defeat Hades without directly facing him. The only way to do this is to clear the Fields of Punishment and Asphodel, gather all the troops we can from there, storm Elysium, and kill Thanatos, effectively taking every soul out of the Underworld."

"You can't kill Death." Brad scoffed. "You can make him indisposed, however while the souls leave through the Doors of Death. Not everyone will make it. And wait, did you want to take all of the souls out of the Underworld? I thought it was just us." He motioned to the dead around him.

"These were the souls most likely to join me against Hades and the gods in general, and so the first place I came to. And of course you can kill a god. The great god Pan is dead because no one honors him anymore. There are just as few left who honor death as there are who honor nature. Several strikes against the god, enough force wearing him down until he stops being able to collect souls, and then we do the same to the other three Reapers," Pir moved on.
"Going back to Hades's tactical advantage we have his ability to teleport as long as he knows where he's going. For this reason, we have to kill his furies before they let him know where we are, because then he could kill us all in an instant."

"Oh girl," He paused, then looked Pir up and down. "Orrr guy... you want to kill death and release the dead? That would make everyone and everything on earth immortal." Brad was evil (why else would he be in the Fields of Punishment?), but he was not in favor of literally hell breaking lose. "Death balances the scales. Don't kill him, just trap him somewhere. It's been done before." He sniffed, then shivered. He scanned the crowd around him. Murderers, thieves, offenders of the gods... he would be traveling with them all. Fab, he should fit in perfectly. "Still not sure about letting everyone out..."