Siren Rivers's Story

Zero walked into the school with his mother. Nyx, goddess of the night, had finally gotten hin enrolled.

"Mom...um...you can probably go now..." he said, a little embarrasses to be seen entering the building with his mother, goddess or not.

"okay, sweetpea. Just be good, alright? And don't get in trouble. Okay? Just have fun. Oh! And Persephone is worried about your sister. Well, Sapphira. She's technically not you sister, but--"

"I know mom! Just stop worrying! I'll be nice to her, I promise. When was I ever not?"

"alright. Just as long as you have fun. I love you!" she kissed him and left. Zero sighed. He then walked into the school. Out in a secluded hall, he saw Sapphira dancing with some invisible person. That was pathetic. He snuck up behind her and twirled her around.

"What is this? A wedding gown?" he asked.

Sapphira screamed. "Zero! What are you doing here?"

"Ma wanted me to be enrolled in the school. I thought I'd keep you company. Hey know of any good girls for your old pal?"

Sapphira smiled. And led him to the dance hall. She looked around at all the girls. "Well, Calliope there is a sweet girl, but she's a pretty outgoing performer sometimes and her sister I know you'd be afraid of. The there's Aphrodite's daughter. She's stunning and glamorous like her mother. You'd be adorable together, but you know what? I think you'd really like Apollo's girl. She right over there with her cousin," she pointed them out, "She seems like a bright girl and I've heard she lovely little singer. And, obviously, she looks beautiful tonight."

Zero looked between the two. "Do you think she'd reject me?" he asked looking at Ashe. She was lovely. Stunning, in fact.

"I donno. Maybe, maybe not. You'll never know unless you try. Go on now! I'll be in this little side hallway of you need me,"

Zero nodded and slowly made his way over to Ashe and her cousin.

"Hello," he said, "I'm Zero, son of Nyx. I'm new here."

Cali finished her song and quickly rushed off the stage. She blushed but was told that she did well by the muses.

Siren looked up to see Victoria dressed so beautifully in her southern-style dress. "Aren't you just the sweetest thing in the world!" she purred, "Oh and this old thing?" she said looking at her dress, "Oh it's just something I put on when I don't scare how it look!" she laughed, "wait, what movie is that from? Oh well, would you like to dance? Drink the booze in the punch? Both?" she laughed. "By the way, if I get drunk, you'll help me out, right?" she winked.

Victoria did look beautiful. Siren was caught up in the thought that she belonged to her and none of the guys would ever touch her sweet southern belle. This would be a great night! She knew it would be!

"I am the son of Iris," he said with a slight bow and a smile. "You seem to be quite alone over here. Would you like to dance avec moi?" Erik asked offering her his arm.
Was it possible the daughter of Aphrodite was all alone?
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Sitting alone, Cali looked around the dance floor. Happy people everywhere, but she didn't really have any friends to make her happy with them. She had finally persuaded her sister to have fun with her date. She gazed around, but she kept staring at Alex. She should go talk to him. It would be what her sister would do, but she wasn't quiet sure that she would. She eventually stood up, but immediately froze. Why couldn't she be like her sister?

The dance went on. Everyone seemed to actually be having a good time. But suddenly, a bloodcurtling cry ripped through and school, echoing off the walls, and filling every room. The music immediately stopped. Everyone froze where they were and looked around. A second cry, a little louder than the last one, came and everyone now knew where it came from.
Those who got to the hallway first saw the huge hellhound on top of Sapphira. The girl, staring up at it, was unresponsive. A part of her white dress was stained red with blood. She was pinned to the ground and the hellhound droolled over the bank face that stared up. She was obviously in shock.
But the hellhound that was prepared to devour the girl was the least of the other students' worries. Nine more hounds were now growling, their red eyes glowing as the stalked the students. They moved in closer on them, one slashing at a girl who quickly jumped back.
Hestia knew she couldn't protect all of them.

Sapphira lay motionless. Her eyes staring out at nothing. The five gashes created by the hound ran from her left hip to her right shoulder and were bleeding more than should have been safe. The front of her white gown was both torn open and stained a dark red. The girl was completely useless.

"Ashe!" Hestia yelled and quickly knelt by the girl's side, "She's in shock. I need you and your brother, though. Wait here!" she ran and was back in three seconds with two quivers of pale white arrows. "These things are hard to kill. Take these. Once a student immobilizes one," she looked to the one Seth had injured and shot an arrow through it's eye with her own bow. It helped and then disappeared into a cloud of black mist that settled and was gone. "These will send them back once they are injured. They can't die. They're already dead. You all need to work together. Distract, attack,and then shoot at them. Understand? You're a team here!"

Siren pulled Victoria to the hall with her. Meanwhile, Cali sprinted out with the others. They both saw the hounds and were terrified. Cali summoned her trident. She looked around and saw a hound lunging towards her. She stabbed at it and grazed it as it slashed her leg. The cut, although not as bad as Sapphira's injuries, bled down her leg. The dress, now slashed open and difficult to walk in, tripped her.
The hound growled and lunged for her. She gasped and tried to duck away.

"Cali" her sister yelled, but was preoccupied with the hound now circling her and Victoria. She summoned her own weapon. "Together?" she asked her date.
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Erik quickly straightened up and pulled Rose close to him in preparation to protect her. He led her out to the hall with the others. The sight was horrible. "stay close to me," he said holding his weapon. He was prepared to protect her.

In no time flat, Hestia arrived, disappeared and came back with a pair of quivers, demonstrating how they worked on the beast Seth nearly incapacitated. Strapping one to her back alongside her original and thanking Hestia for the arrows, Ashley tossed the other to Alex, who surprisingly wasn't too busy hanging onto the demon dog like a bullrider, and caught it in one hand before sliding it over his back. Almost immediately, he ripped an arrow out of the sack and started stabbing into the horrendous hellhound's spine.

After a few seconds of jabbing the beast, which was responded to with howls and even stronger bucks, it exploded in a cloud of smoke before dissipating completely. Alex, left floating in mid-air for just a moment, hit the ground on all fours.

"Awesome." Getting back to Ashe's side, another bow materialized into his grasp. "You ready?" The pair readied their arrows; one swift and fluid movement from the quiver to the bow as they took their aim at the hound Archer skirmished with.

"As I'll ever be." And they released, Hades' little minion getting back up from the beating Archer delivered. Alex's hit first, nailing the leg the monster was primarily supporting itself with. Ashe's went higher and landed almost instantly afterwards, clean in the neck. Breaking the beast in pieces, it fell apart yelping and disappeared in the same black mist as the other two.

"Nice shot," he added. "I'm gonna go behind 'em." Rushing through the cloud they caused, Alex stopped at the first corner he hit, turning around and getting another arrow ready for the first one he saw knocked about. Ashe prepped herself as well, looking around to find Cali occupied with a dog of her own. Sadly, it was still too strong at the moment. Siren and Victoria were on a two-on-one with another remaining beast, just a staredown. For now, the archer pair had to wait.

After being rescued, she noticed her savior was in trouble. As he distacted the dog, she ran to it's side and stabbed it with the trident. I yelped in pain. She pulled it out and stabbed again. Having observed Ashe and Alex killing the things with the arrows, she called to them, "Ashe! Shoot it!"
She then pulled Roy to the side in order to talk to him. "Thanks for that," she said. She then looked around and saw Sapphira still on the ground, her eyes now closed as she was unconscious. "Someone should help her."

Meanwhile, Siren was slashing at the beast that slashed at her. She leapt back and said to Victoria, "I'll distract it if you can attack it!"

Victoria’s Perspective

"Together?" Siren said, staring down a Hellhound.

“Hell yeah!” Victoria said, drawing her six-shooter and cocking back the trigger. She was able to shoot a few Hellhounds, crippling them enough to ease the tension, and got a Hellhound, creeping up on Zero, square in the eye.

Preoccupied with a hellhound in closest proximity to Victoria and Siren, her beautifully stunning date yelled, "I'll distract it if you can attack it!"

Shifting her six-shooter to her date’s preoccupation, she shot down the damn behemoth of a dog like pulling the wings off a fly.

“Shoot, ya’ll,” Victoria calmy said, “all’s we gotta do is show ‘em whose got the balls har’.”

With a two more shots in the barrel, Victoria exclaimed, “Bang! Bang!” downing the hellhound closest to Cali.

Cali quickly looked down at her leg. How strange, she had almost forgotten about it. It still bled and it hurt, but it could have been worse. "It'll be fine." she replied, "And you were brave, don't forget that. But as for now, we're sticking together. I'll watch your back if you watch mine."

"C'mon!" Siren yelled to Victoria, "Have you ever ridden in a rodeo before, cowgirl?" she asked giving a look that said 'I have an idea,' as another hound cut them off. She smiled a look of confidence and almost like this would be fun. Just a few left. That was all. And this would be fun. At least for a girl like her and probably for her date, too. As for Cali, she had no idea.