"You know who I am." Jakob said calmly. "You know my heritage. Who my father is. My father is often spoke about with disgust, hatred, anger, rage... and fear. You don't show any of them because he's not here of course. But I was raised by him, by the biggest butchering bastard in all Nine Realms. If he can drive the Giants to near extinction... can you imagine what I can do to you?"
For the first time, a flicker of uncertainty and even fear passed through Echnida's eyes.
The Chimera roared and charged at the Son of Thor, who's expression darkened as he waited. When the Chimera was close enough, Jakob rolled out the way, swung the Axe and sliced off the snake tail. With a roar, Jakob rammed his knee into the beast's side, slammed the Axe into it's side before he grabbed the Chimera by it's mouth and began pulling hard, yanking as well to cause pain so it didn't try shooting fire out of his mouth.
Easily, with his superhuman strength, Jakob pulled hard and ripped the Chimera's jaws open. "Sonny!" Echidna exclaimed in worry, but it was too late.
The Chimera let out a roar of pain as it fell to dust, leaving behind a white horn with a tuft of blood and crimson fur.
Jakob picked up the Leviathan Axe, hooked it to his back, and turned to Echidna. "You're next." He said.
Echidna hissed furiously, her snake bottom bent, almost coiled.
"How dare you!" she shouted at him, her fangs and claws gleaming.
Jakob rolled his shoulders, one hand reaching into his backpack for something while the other made the come-here motion.
Howling, Echidna lunged, ready to kill the demigod before her.
Scooping up his spoil of war from the Chimera, he rolled, rebounding back after Echidna landed, and drew the fang he got from Lamia. With both the horn and fang, he roared, stabbing both into her chest deep enough to leave a fatal wound.
She screeched, then, like her son, disappeared in gold dust, leaving no previous presence of her.
Jakob sighed and relaxed, putting his two spoils of war into his backpack as Mimir commented. "Well, that was something. Taking on Lamia, then the Chimera and then the mother of monsters herself. So that's the Furies, Medusa, Lamia, the Chimera and Echidna you've faced on this quest. Not bad."
"Indeed." Jakob said, approaching the hole Andromeda made and looked down at the water below. "This quest has barely even begun and we've already faced several of Greek mythology's known monsters..."
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With lightning sparking around him, Jakob flew to where he could see Andromeda and landed not too far away from her, causing the Daughter of Poseidon to spot him and quickly run over.
"Jakob!" Andromeda called, causing him to look over and relief passed through him when he saw Andromeda healed and no longer harmed.
"Are you all alright?" He asked her quickly, his eyes scanning Andromeda from head to toe for any injury.
"I'm fine." Andromeda nodded, though smiled at his concern.
"So what happened?" Jakob asked, wondering what happened after Andromeda fell into the water.
Andromeda was about to explain, but she was interrupted by a little girl. "Mommy, look! That girl walked out of the water and that boy flew!"
"That's nice, dear," the mother told her child.
But they're not even wet or harmed!"
"That's nice dear, dear."
A news lady was talking to the camera: "Probably not a terrorist attack, we're told, but it's still very early in the investigation. The damage, as you can see, is very serious, especially since an underwater bomb went off, making the water reach as high as the Arch, dousing out most of the flames. We're trying to get to some of the survivors, to question them about eyewitness reports of one person falling from the Arch and another person in league with the terrorist."
At the word survivor, Andromeda sighed out in relief, but wondered what they meant by underwater bomb. Jakob thought it was probably due to the Mist, making the mortals think differently to what actually happened.
"… two adolescents, a boy and a girl." another reporter was saying. "Channel Five has learned that surveillance cameras show them actually going wild on the observation deck, somehow setting off this freak explosion. Hard to believe, John, but that's what we're hearing. Again, no confirmed fatalities…"
Jakob then turned to the Daughter of Poseidon. "We should get going."
Andromeda nodded in agreement. "Yeah."
The two walked along, keeping their heads down.
They had almost lost hope of finding their friends until they heard Grover bleat out, "Andromeda! Jakob!" Andromeda got tackled by the goat boy while Annabeth came up behind him, looking angry, but failing.
She yelled, "We can't leave you two alone for five minutes! What happened?"
"I sort of fell," Andromeda said, shrugging nervously.
"Andie! Six hundred and thirty feet?" she said, exasperated. "And what about you, Jakob?"
"Oh, you know. Just killed Lamia, Chimera and the Echidna." He said, shrugging. He brought out the fang of Lamia and the horn from the Chimera. "See, I got prizes!" Jakob smiled while Andromeda gawked at him, along with the others.
Behind them, a cop shouted, "Gangway!" The crowd parted, and a couple of paramedics hustled out, rolling a woman on a stretcher. Andromeda and Jakob recognized her as the mother of the little boy who'd been on the observation deck. She was saying, "And then this huge dog, this fire-breathing Chihuahua-"
"Okay, ma'am," the paramedic said. "Just calm down. Your family is fine. The medication is starting to kick."
"I'm not crazy! This girl jumped out of the hole while the boy flew!" Then she saw the group. "There they are! It's those two!"
The two demigods quickly dragged Annabeth and Grover, not wanting to be the centre of attention.
"What's going on?" Annabeth demanded. "Was she talking about the Chihuahua on the elevator?"
"So... news flash: the Chihuahua was actually the Chimera, who bit Andie and poisoned him. But he was healed by water. The fat lady and the rattlesnake were Echidna and Lamia. I killed Lamia, while killing the other two after Andie fell," Jakob explained in one breath. Annabeth and Grover looked at him, one in disbelief, the other in awe.
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