Woop da woop!!!

Time. For. FIGHTING!!!

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.: Mono's P.o.V. :.
.: Third Person :.

"What?!" Six said. Mono looked around to see there was a horde of monsters coming up to them and are killing off the children. He sighed while pulling out his ladle and turned to Shadow Six, "Explain later, right now we have to fight them off," he said.

Shadow Six nodded, "Of course, right. Let me help," she said, Mono nodded and saw the horde of monsters now making a huge mess. Mono ran and made a cricle motion with his ladle, turning it to a bow. He pulled out two arrows and looked around, there was about two harpies lunging for him and he dodged. Aiming the two monsters and he killed them both in one go.

Shadow Six called out Tiberius with a taxi whistle, and she hopped on. Six tied the Medusa's head in a sack around her waist and followed behind, but a harpy screeched and blocked her way. A shadow child tried to sneak up behind Seven but he jumped to the side, and he used his sword to make the shadow child dazed, then killed it off with light.

"WHAT is HAPPENING," Two shouted from the mess while kicking off a shadow child to it's feet and killing it off. Mono turned to her, "What do you think? We're being attacked!" He said while shooting another empousa on the leg, the empousa shrieked and was about to slash Mono's face, but he dodged and stabbed the empousa with the sharp side of his bow.

"Where is One? Three? The others?" Mono asked as he shot a Cyclops in the eye, he let go fo the child he was holding and held on his eye. The child landed safely and ran away.

Two huffed, "One is protecting Una and Thirteen, Three is somewhere fighting off the monsters - wait who is that?" Two said while looking over Shadow Six riding Tiberius.

"Shadow Six, Six's sister, shadow child but she's friendly, so is the hellhound," Mono explained breifly before a shadow child tried to grip on him but he quickly turned his bow to a ladle and slammed the child over to a small campfire, burning them instantly.

"There is too many monsters, we have to make a run for it!" Two said as a child ran past, being chased by an empousai. Two pulled out one of the throwing knives she stole and threw the knife to the bronze-donkey-legged monster's chest.

Mono checked his pockets and saw he was running low on arrows, he clicked his tongue. He had plenty of them in his tent but he would have to run past tons of monsters to reach his tent. He turned to Two, "Let's just keep them busy, enough to make the children escape," he said before running to the place where the other resting tents were.

"Of course," she said before running off to fend off the other monsters. Mono saw Six and Shadow Six teaming up to kill more monsters - and there was some piglets are well? - Whatever, they had a satisfied look while looking at the piglets squirm.

Seven, on the other hand, was trying to fight off three shadow children at once. They were about to bring down the forge, so Four went out with a flashlight, killing the shadow children and shouting at them to not destroy his forge.

Mono continued to run for his tent, a harpy tried to attack him but he cut her in half. He went inside his tent and looked around, quickly grabbing a filled quiver before slinging it over his shoulder. When he went out, he urged his ladle to a bow and shot two empousai making their way to him.

He looked around and saw Scarf being chased by about five harpies, Scarf was also shouting tons of curses that would make the Janitor proud. He sighed and ran to the son of Hermes, quickly shooting a harpy with an arrow with a bomb, so it exploded and decimated the surrounding harpies as well.

Scarf brushed the monster dust off of his jacket, "Thanks Mono," he said and Mono nodded, "Get yourself out of here," he ordered, Scarf nodded before quickly running away, avoiding monsters and getting himself tripped from his scarf.

Mono turned back to see a shadow child standing behind him. It was a boy, and he looked quite familiar. Mono rose his bow but the shadow child ran and swiped his feet, making him fall to the ground. The shadow child rose his hand with dark magic swirling around it and shot to Mono, luckily Mono rolled to the side, stood up, and quickly turned his bow to a sword, taking a stance ready to fight.

The shadow child sighed, "Man, you kids just don't know when to quit huh?" He said.

"We won't, until we escape," Mono said pointedly and lunged for the shadow child. The shadow child dodged and a loud metal clatter was heard. Mono saw that the shadow child had a Stygian Iron sword. From what he heard from the staff of the Maw, a shadow child with weapons - especially a Stygian Iron sword - were more important than the others, like a captain of some sort.

"Well, you'll be lucky to be killed by me, and not some other monster," the shadow kid smiled while backing up. Mono scrunched up his eyebrows in focus and rose his sword, "Let's see, shadow kid," he said.

The shadow child lunged first, aiming for Mono's head. Mono dodged and stepped back, then swung to his lower abdomen. The shadow child hopped back, then aimed for Mono's arm. Mono blocked, he knew the shadow child was trying to disarm his sword, so he quickly made a circle motion with his hand and the sword left the shadow child's grasp.

Mono quickly grabbed the sword and aimed his sword behind the shadow child's neck, and the other one pointing his neck.

The shadow child smiled, "Not bad," he said. Mono frowned, he didn't have time to be complimented by an enemy, "Who are you, and how did you find this place?"

The shadow child shrugged, "Let's say we had a friend here," he said.

"What?"

"That's all I mean to say," he said while looking around,"I should make my leave. See you next time, Child of the Moon," the shadow child said before shadow travelling away. Mono was about to stab him but he was long gone. Mono stepped back and looked around, waiting the shadow child to come out but he didn't.

What did he meant about having a friend in the Hideout?... Well, just before the monsters attacked they faced the fact someone could betray them... But who was the traitor?

There was a shrill scream and Mono snapped back to reality, chiding himself that he made him turn to a pondering state when he was in battleground. He let go of the Stygian Iron sword and turned to see Six was caught by a Cyclops as Shadow Six was been tossed to the side, the hellhound was no where to be seen.

Mono quickly ran for their aid. As Shadow Six was pushing herself up Mono ran up to the Cyclops and quickly turned his sword to a bow, aiming to the Cyclops' one eye and he shot the arrow. The Cyclops bellowed, letting go of Six so he could hold onto his eye in pain. Six fell, luckily Mono caught her before she met the low ground.

"You okay?" Mono asked as he dashed away from the now-blind Cyclops lumbering about. Six nodded, "Yeah, thanks."

Once they were far enough Mono placed Six down, the Cyclops still tried to hit anyone, but most of the times he would hit open air or a harpy. Shadow Six had dark magic swirling in her hands and she pointed to the Cyclops, soon the Cyclops withered until he was nothing but monster dust. She turned to where Mono and Six were and caught up with them.

"Six! You okay?" Shadow Six asked and Six nodded, "I'm fine."

Mono looked around, "Quickly, we have to get out of here, we can't fight them all," he said. Shadow Six and Six looked at each other before nodding, Mono nodded as well as he took the lead, heading to a single vent which Two kept hidden for emergency reasons. All the kids knew this vent and how to access it, so if there was an attack the children could escape through there. Of course, you don't need to be a child of Athena to be prepared for the worst.

"Where is Seven?" Mono asked, Six looked around as they ran past the monsters trying to attack them, or other children dying to their deaths, "Four and him ran somewhere, I don't know where they are though," she said.

Mono huffed, he hoped that Four brought him to the secret vent. Mono quickly evaded another attack from a harpy and killed it with one swift shot before reaching the other end of the Hideout. He felt the wall before pressing a loose one and a chute shot open on the ground.

"Get in, hurry," Mono said, Six and Shadow Six didn't havs to be told twice as they slipped into the secret vent. Mono made one last check on the Hideout which the monsters were burning. Children were screaming as the monsters either caught or killed them, some tried to save the other. Mono just hoped they could be able to escape. But for those who died, hopefully they have reached Elysium and experience paradise - one thing they never had.

Mono sighed heavily before slipping into the chute before it closed by itself. He heard Six and Shadow Six screaming as they all fell to vent the below. There was cloth on the other side and they fell onto it, having less sore spots than falling to cold metal.

Six and Shadow Six stumbled to the ground as they fell, Mono expected his fall and quickly landed on his feet. He looked around and saw Five (with Apples on his shoulder), Three, Scarf, Two, Seven, One, Una, and Four.

"The other children that managed to escape made a run for it already, but we waited for you three," Two said and Mono nodded, "Thanks."

"What now?" Una asked. Mono sighed, "We'll run away from here, although," he said while looking over to Shadow Six, "How did you know that those monsters would ambush us?"

"Well, I'm not really a lone shadow child," Shadow Six said while shuffling sideways, "I was in one of the shadow children groups and they told me about it. But I didn't want to be part of it."

Two squinted her eyes on Shadow Six, "So you betrayed them?"

"Well yes," Shadow Six shrugged, "I didn't really like them and they never really made me feel like one of them."

"Hold on," One said as he looked at her, "Who are you?"

"Shadow Six," she said, Six smiled softly at her, "She's my sister."

The others looked shocked to find out that fact. There was a stunned silence in the air before Four looked at them, then he shrugged, "Well you two almost look the same, I wouldn't have guessed."

Una smiled, "Nice to meet you Shadow Six, I'm Una, this is my brother One, that's Two, Four, Five, Three, and Scarf," she said while introducing each of the children.

"I already met her," Five smiled sheepishly as Apples agreed, Shadow Six nodded to the rest of the children, "Nice meeting you all."

Six looked at the children greeting Shadow Six and blinked, suddenly realizing there was one kid missing, "Una where is Thirteen?"

Una looked at her and she slowly frowned, One placed his hand on her shoulder comfortingly as he looked at Six, "Thirteen got caught, she created a diversion from the monsters even if we both knew that we had to bring her along safely," he explained.

Una only nodded, she was still sad about the loss of what she considered was a best friend. Thirteen wasn't really a demi-god, but she could see through the Mist so it wasn't safe for her to roam around. Mono knew, since he was the one who brought her to the Hideout to be safe. Even with her talking difficulties, she and Una became fast friends.

No one spoke, until Two cleared her throat, "I think we should get going, before something bad happens," she said.

All of them nodded, Two took a deep breath, "Well, we head to the closest place this vent can lead to..." she said and frowned before walking on, they quickly caught up with her. Two moved through the vents like she knew how it would look, which she did.

It was still silent the whole way, but all their worries was the same and they hoped that the the other children escaped. There was also sadness, knowing their only safe place was attacked, and they could never come back.

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.: Third Person :.

The children walked on, following Two. There was one though that stayed at the far end of the group, looking up to the chute before walking on from a far distance to the children. The child remembered their talk with one of the shadow children, who called himself Shadow Seven.

The child took a deep breath, they felt uneasy - but with what they were aiming for in the end - it was worth it. They carefully trudged on, the cold metal floor peircing their soles. They remembered the conversation the child had with the shadow child, right before the monsters attacked.

"You have done the right thing," Shadow Seven said, "This children doesn't know that the outside world is not safe. With your loyalties to us, I promise you that we will set you and one child you want to bring with to the surface - that is if you really want to. If not, we can take away your imprisonment and you can live in the Maw freely."

"You swear it to the River Styx?"

Swearing to the River Styx was one of the most serious oath there is, as the child remembered. Breaking it would cause a horrible punishment even after death.

"I swear to the River Styx that I shall let you and one more child free," Shadow Seven promised, there was rumbles nearby. Meaning the oath has been made.

But why, even with such assurance. The child felt something heavy on their chest? Where did their loyalties truely lied to? Who was the right and who was the wrong?

"The outside world is not safe," Shadow Seven's voice resonated again.

The child stayed silent, before taking a deep breath and finally keeping up to the group. They didn't want to stay close to them, but they walked near One and Five. Their heart was heavy but they pushed it away, they chose right. If they helped them, they could be free. Even before the new demigods showed up, the child was preparing this. The gods never noticed them, so now they were helping someone who was aiming for something a bit more.

All the child had to do now was put up an act.

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I gave NO clues on who the traitor is. I think...

But you'll know soon.

But since I gave no clues, what is your hunch? What does your gut feeling says? Who is the traitor for you?

*troll face* have fuuuuun~

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