Chapter 6

We currently just left the camp after a few goodbyes and equipping all our necessary tools. Amelia had a sword along with a shield, same for George. I had a quiver with several arrows inside it, as well as a bag for other supplies. Iliana has a bag on her back with a knife strapped to her wrist.

"Journey to the east, I like when people aren't specific," I said to my crewmates, I saw George look worried.

He furrowed his brows. "That's untrue."

"Of course it, I was being sarcastic," I said, I guess Apollo's lie detector doesn't work on sarcasm. "Don't worry though, this small obstacle won't impede our journey."

"How will we even travel East," Amelia asked.

"The good old fashion way, we borrow a few automobiles, unless you guys want to use horses, which not only is slower but also has stamina problems," I suggest.

"I don't know how to drive it." She said and I waved her off.

"I have it handled," I replied. I stole my father's keys to get used to this era's vehicle a few years back, something I am really happy I did. "My father taught me a thing or two about driving," I said. George didn't even detect deceit because it was technically true in my first life.

"I will try and stop monsters from smelling us." Illiana, our witch suggested. "It won't completely remove your scent but it will lessen it. I never really needed it since my scent isn't enhanced like yours."

"Why isn't your scent enhanced like ours," George asks confused. I looked at the guy like he was an idiot. It was important to our little society, after all, it is stupid not to investigate why monsters hunt us.

"Lamia the demigod of Hecate caused the curse to appear in the first place. Do you believe Hecate couldn't easily remove something a demigod of hers cast?" I said, guessing the reason. I honestly don't know why it wasn't explored in the books. Lamia was turned into a monster by Hera but there is still no way a young woman could compete with a titan, especially one who could control magic.

"Then why do we have our scent enhanced?"

"Because we don't matter to most gods except maybe to our parents." Seeing Amelia lightly flinch, I added. "Even there it is a hit or miss, but don't worry about this, after we complete this quest we will show them we matter," I said to encourage them. I needed morale high so, I even added a light dose of charmspeak in my voice.

Seeing them nod determinedly. I continue on my trek to the first working vehicle I saw parked. "Illiana can you open this."

"Wait, we are stealing this?"

"Yes, the lives of our comrades are more important than the money the owner will lose, at least I hope you think so."

"I don't have a problem I just wanted clarification." She said before opening the doors with her magic. We get in the car and I quickly hotwire the thing. As I said, I was always envious and stealing wasn't something I was too proud to do. While I never stole a car, I practised anyway in case I could get away with it. This decade's cars were easier to hotwire than my time's.

"Good and while I like that you are disguising our scent from the monsters, I want us to fight a few monsters just to get a feel for each other's fighting style," I tell the group and we began driving along the streets of New York. I was quite tall for my age, so I didn't have any problems in that area.

I change my face to look older, in case someone looks at me. I couldn't change my body mass but I could change my appearance like all children of Aphrodite, there wasn't even a point to hide the ability.

"I want you and George in the back giving support, Amelia will attack up front and I will move between close range and medium range with my bow, we will adapt our strategy when we have more details on our monster or monsters," I suggested it wasn't a plan but just so that the group doesn't get too confused when we encounter an enemy.

"A lot of my most destructive spells do more area of effect damage since my control of them isn't the best," Iliana said.

"That's unfortunate but not something we can't handle. Use lighter spells until we encounter a situation that needs it or I give the order." I said,

I have fought monsters since my first unfortunate run-in with the cyclops, demigods could summon monsters to the camp and we usually did it to test our skill, but we weren't allowed to summon more than more monsters so we couldn't use that to train our teamwork since more than one monster is overkill for one monster.

A barely trained Percy could kill a Fury as well as a minotaur. While we weren't born with his 'Big Three' plot armour, we were still well trained. We continued our trek, I ignored the smaller groups of monsters. When we were finally out of New York, we saw a group of monsters congregating in the edges of a forest.

Seeing the opportunity, I decided to park the car in an obscure spot. There were at least 10 centaurs, some had bows and some had swords. I didn't know if they were the rowdy bunch or the demigod flesh is the best thing since hentai type, but it didn't matter they were the perfect group for us

"Surely, you don't expect us to fight centaurs, they may be related to Chiron and friendly," George said.

"Chiron is more civilised than most of his kind, plus I believe we are closer related to Chiron than them. Centaurs are famous for being lustful, drunkards and extremely wild, some are even known to have killed more than a few of our cousins." Iliana supplies.

"I agree with the girl, we should fight them. " The daughter of Ares inputs. "We should also educate the boy about monsters since he seems utterly clueless." I just shrugged at her final words, I honestly didn't expect him to know so little.

"Do we agree? We need the experience since it would be unwise to just go in the deep end and try to fight the mother of monsters and her children without being used to each other." I asked to which they all nod, George more nervous than the others. He wasn't happy when found out who we were searching for. "Good. Comrades Convene."

"Be careful they are quite fast," Iliana warns us as we depart the car, with me equipping the weapon my mother gave. Taking out an arrow, I put it in the bow before slowly creeping up to the monsters.

Before they can react, I fire the arrow directly into one of their archer's faces. As they began to react I already fired another shot, with Iliana assisting me by throwing earth spears. I practised against monsters in camp and even killed a few, so I wasn't new to the feeling of taking a life. It didn't bother me then and in a way, it was kind of cathartic. It was a psychotic thought but it was better than feeling remorse, it was I going, to be honest.

I ignored my weird thought and tried to slaughter as many satyrs as I could.

A/N: More chapter on patre.on/DickMcJones. Oh yeah, I created a discord, if you guys want to talk about either the novels or other things. https://discord.gg/wHDpXd5D