Unbreathe Me

**Unbreathe Me** is a case featured in *Criminal Case*. It takes place in *The Kidnapping Of Persephone* chapter of Graecita.

## Plot

**You are experiencing the story in third-person view.**

After a long night of partying, Shirley returns to the palace with a completely drunk Marionette. The ladies try to be sneaky to not awaken anyone in the palace, but as they are walking through the halls they are met by the queen herself. Leonora looks at them sternly and asks them where have they been, and just as Shirley was trying to come up with a lie, Marionette in her drunken state reveals that they’ve been clubbing. This answer pisses off Leonora who could not believe that Marionette had the audacity to go to a nightclub while everyone else in the palace is grieving for KJ and organizing his funeral and she tells Marionette that as a member of the family, she could at least pretend she’s grieving his death. Confused, Marionette asks her what she meant by calling her “a member of the family” and when she realized that Leonora was suggesting that she and Kaleb Sr. would one day marry, she begins laughing. This angers the queen even more and she tells Marionette to show some respect, to which Marionette responded by asking Leonora why does she care so much when she isn’t part of the family herself. This strikes a nerve in Leonora, who smacks Marionette and tells her to go to her chamber. As Marionette walks away, Shirley tries to sneak into her quarters but the queen notices her and asks if she’s wearing her dress. Shirley becomes nervous but Leonora ends up excusing her as she wasn’t in the mood of yelling at anyone else. Relieved, Shirley goes into her quarters, she sits on her bed and begins taking out the high heels that she’s squeezed her feet into. Once she lets the first show out, she starts pulling out the second and she hears a voice asking her if she’s had fun. She turns to see the source of the voice and finds her husband, Vicci, who’s been waiting for her to return. Shirley was shocked to see her husband and she immediately looks away from him, he notices this and crosses his arm, pointing out that she’s been avoiding him for months. Shirley responds to this by telling him she doesn’t recall him making an effort to contact her, hoping to change the subject. But Vicci doesn’t and tries to press her into telling him what was wrong, but she refuses to answer his questions and asks him what he came here for. Vicci gives her a letter which was signed by someone with the initials “G.N” who was inviting Vicci back to Nova Roma, free of all his charges. Shirley gives the letter back to Vicci, who asks her about her thoughts and she tells him that she wants to stay here. Her response surprises Vicci, who asks her why she doesn’t want to go with him and she looks at him, telling him they already have all they want in Graecita, and asks him why he wants to leave. Vicci frowns and tells Shirley that she might be satisfied with this life, but he is not and he reminds her that they have plenty of friends and family back in Nova Roma and it would be selfish of them to refuse this offer. He brings up Shirley’s brother, who is a gladiator in Nova Roma and he tells her that if they move back as legal citizens, they might have a chance to get him liberated. Hearing this, Shirley starts to consider but she doesn’t make a choice right away and she starts taking off her stockings. Shirley had shaven her legs before the party, so her legs were shiny and hairless and when Vicci seems them, he becomes aroused. He sits next to her and squeezes her thigh which makes her jump out of the bed and walk away him. Frustrated, he asks if she’s going to keep blowing him off like this and Shirley responds that she’s just not ready to sleep with him. Vicci points out that they’ve been married for almost two years and he asks when are they going to be “ready” but Shirley simply stays quite. He approaches her from behind and embraces her waist, and he talks into her ear and tries to convince her into sleeping with him, promising her that he’ll be gentle with her. Feeling his touch, Shirley becomes aroused too but she thinks back at her prophecy and how if she got pregnant, Vicci may “leave her”. But eventually she decides not to let the prophecy stop her from meeting her sexual needs and she looks Vicci in the eye and asks him to promise that he’ll pull out immediately once he starts to cum. Vicci smiles and he promises he’d do that before he starts kissing her.

Meanwhile in the *Hamilton Laurent’s Revenge*, the crew are standing outside Madelina’s cabin anxiously, waiting for April and Hasuro to come out and tell them what’s wrong with her. The two get out of the room and Hasuro announces that Madelina has caught hypothermia and that she will eventually recover by letting her rest and warm her up. Worried, Zachary asks if her condition is severe and Hasuro assures him that its not and from what April described it seems like she fainted because she either saw or heard news that have shocked her. When Hasuro says, Ophelia panics and she tells Yoyo and Mia that Madelina must’ve heard what they were talking about. The rest of the team become curious and Mia urges Ophelia not to speak, but she snaps and tells everyone about Yoyo and Zachary’s kiss. Hasuro and April look at Mia judgingly and Zachary glares at her, not happy that she’s told Yoyo and Ophelia about what they’ve done. And Maverick decides to stay out of the situation, but kept his ears open, interested to see the drama unfold. Ophelia and Mia start arguing which ends with Ophelia telling her that her behavior is indefensible and that she’s done putting up with her bullshit before walking away. Mia turns to Yoyo, hoping that she’d take her side, but Yoyo chose not to pick any and walked away, making Mia pissed and she told her “If you’re gonna be two-faced, at least make one of em’ pretty!”. After yelling at Yoyo, she turns to Zachary and she swears to him that she didn’t mean to let Madelina hear her, but Zachary didn’t want to listen to her. While Mia was desperately trying to get the crew to forgive her, April asks Hasuro how they’ll warm up Madelina when they are out of coal. Suddenly, Mary calls everyone to the deck, announcing that they’ve landed at the Athens.

When they arrived to Athens, the city was covered with snow in a way unusual to Greece. Mia turns to April and tells her to go out and collect firewood to warm up the ship so Madelina could heal up as quick as possible. She then turns to Zachary and was about to ask him to join her in looking for Persephone, but decides against it and instead turns to ask Ophelia instead. Just as she was about to answer, Maverick volunteers to go with them so the three of them began wandering Athens. Walking side by side, Mia decides to apologize to Ophelia over what she’s done but Ophelia glares at her and tells her to save it for Madelina. She tells Mia that she should not just apologize for kissing Zachary but also for how horribly she’s treated her all those months. This is when Mia decides to be snarky and she tells Ophelia that she shouldn’t act like a saint when she’s treated Madelina horribly as well. At this, Ophelia stays silent and they simply carry on walking. While walking, Maverick decides that they need a map, so he asks a random gay couple on the street for their leaflet. The couple give it to him and he shows the map on it to Mia, asking if Circe mentioned where Theseus’ hideout is located. Unfortunately, Circe did not and Mia stands there trying to figure out where they could possibly find him. Ophelia points at somewhere and asks if he could be here. Mia and Maverick look at the direction but they can’t find anything and Ophelia questions them on how they cannot see the palace. This confuses the two even more but soon they realized what was going on- The thing Ophelia is pointing at must be hidden by the mist and as a mist seeker, Ophelia could see past it better than they do. They tell her to lead them to what she’s pointing at and so she starts running toward the palace she saw and they followed her. The cross past the woods and suddenly Ophelia disappears from sight. Dumbfounded, they try to look for her, but eventually they simply carry on walking and all of a sudden, they find a palace in front of them, protected by walls. They then spot Ophelia, who was being arrested by guards and they immediately run to stop them. The guards point their spears at them and ask what they were doing here and they respond by telling them that they’ve come to meet Theseus. The guards escort all three to the great hall and tell them to wait while they go alert Theseus about their presence. Once the guards go away, the group sit and wait, looking around the hall to see if there was anything they could do to pass the time. Maverick spells something and he asks the girls if they smell it too. The girls sense the smell too- It was the scent of flames and they decide to follow it. The scent leads them to a door which had black smoke coming out of it and feeling concerned, they open the door. Luckily, the only fire they found was in the fireplace which was filled with lots of coal, causing a high amount of smoke coming out of it and all the windows have been closed. They open the windows to see more clearly and they find an unconscious woman with her hand handcuffed to a console table.

*You are now playing as Mia Loukas.*

Taking a closer look at the woman, Mia and Ophelia were able to recognize her as Hyale, a reporter from Mount Olympus who Mia and Zachary had crossed paths with again back at Spain. They tried to wake her up, however she turned out to be dead. Looking at how she was handcuffed and how there was not a single opening to let the smoke out when they first entered the room, it was clear that they were dealing with a murder. Ophelia and Mia instruct Maverick to take Hyale’s body to the ship for Hasuro to autopsy while they are investigating the murder, but while they were talking a man suddenly enters the room. The man demands t know what they’re doing here and what “they’ve done” and he was shocked to see Hyale dead. Ophelia and Mia decide to interrogate the man and when they learn he is Theseus, they demand he tells them where he is hiding Persephone. But Theseus played innocent and claims he has no idea what they were talking about. So instead they ask about Hyale and what she is doing here and he tells them that she’s filming a segment for Olympus TV where she visits gods and heroes’ houses and that they met in a ferry where she asked to see his palace. The duo decided to check the ferry out where they found reasons to suspect a traveler by the name of Tristan Erickson, who was one half of the couple who had given them the leaflet, and the goddess Artemis who left Mount Olympus and joined her huntresses early to help them survive through Demeter’s wrath. Ophelia and Mia returned to the crime scene where they discussed their progress and Ophelia ends up accidently steps on a tile which opens a secret passage that is below the fireplace.

Hesitant, Ophelia and Mia go down the passage which leads them into a secret dungeon. There were a few cells in the dungeon but only one them had a prisoner- Persephone. Persephone was shocked to see them and asks who they are and Ophelia tells her that they’ve been sent to rescue her. Ophelia tries to unlock the cell door using a knife, but Persephone tells her that this would be no use as a sacred metal was used to make the cell. Persephone starts coughing and the duo realize how pale she is and ask her if she’s okay. Persephone tells them she’s not and reveals that because she ate half of an enchanted pomegranate from the underworld, she has to spend at least half a year there and she’s already overstayed her visit in the mortal realm and needs to go back to the underworld immediately. This worries Ophelia and Mia who promise Persephone they’d eventually break her out before returning to their investigation and finding reasons to suspect Theseus’ friend, Pirithous who the Athenian king had kidnapped Persephone to marry her to him. Additionally, the duo find a footage of Hyale ordering an “angel shot” from the bar which ended up with both Tristan and his boyfriend getting beat up, and they learn that the two of them are actually secret agents who Artemis employed to keep tabs on Hyale. Ophelia and Mia confront Artemis for this and she reveals that the reason why she wanted to keep an eye on Hyale is because some nymphs told her that she was hanging out with Minthe and Clytie a lot, which made Artemis suspect that Hyale may have been in for Persephone’s abduction. During the investigation, the duo find Rolland Overton wandering Athens and they chase after him.

Rolland tries to run away from them, but Ophelia and Mia catch up to him and capture him. Ophelia yells at his face and asks him how he managed to escape last time which causes the satyr to stutter before telling her than he simply used his broken horn to pick the lock. She then asks him about the golden apple, to which Rolland lied and said he knows nothing about it. Ophelia and Mia take him to their ship and lock him in a cell, telling Mary to keep an eye on him so he wouldn’t escape. Afterwards they carry on Hyale’s murder investigation where they discovered she was in a sexual relationship with Pirithous and that she angered Theseus by telling Pirithous that he had no intention of offering Persephone to him and that Theseus planned to marry her himself. Furthermore, they found out that Persephone, unaware that Hyale was involved in her abduction, spoke to her through her cell’s window and asked her to tell the Olympians that Theseus had kidnapped her, but Hyale ended up going to Theseus instead who ended up barricading her window so she couldn’t speak to anyone else. Ultimately, Hyale’s killer turned out to be ”Pirithous”.

When Ophelia and Mia came to arrest “Pirithous”, he started clapping and told them that he’s impressed and they’ve really lived up to his mistress’s words. Confused, Ophelia asked what he meant and how he knows about them and “Pirithous” responds by removing his contact lenses, showing his heterochromatic eyes. He then reveals that he is not “Pirithous” but simply a descendant of his, and his real name is Sidney Fairclough. The duo instantly recognize the name- It was the name of the man who acted as Brandi Irwin’s accomplice in Bellanca’s kidnapping. Right then, Ophelia asks him why he killed Hyale and what was the purpose of kidnapping Persephone and Sidney starts giving an explanation. He tells them that his motive for abducting Persephone is clear- She is a fertility goddess and his mistress wanted to use her as a catalyst to take over the world, and he gives them a history lessons on how fertility goddesses helped many gods gain power. He tells them that he never wanted to marry her and all he wanted to do was absorb her life source and give it over to his mistress. Sidney then explains Hyale’s role in all of this, revealing that she was keeping tabs on the operation and knew about Minthe’s death before everyone and she was the one who gave him the idea to have Cerus released to the open. He tells them that when she saw them in Demeter’s realm, she immediately informed him and he instructed her to spread the news about Persephone’s disappearance to cause a panic. He reveals that Rolland was also in on this whole thing and he was the one who tipped him about them getting information from Circe and when he learned about this, Sidney told Hyale to locate Cerus and give a dramatic report on where he is, hoping the team would pay attention to that instead, giving him time to figure out a way to kill Theseus and take Persephone from him. However, what he did not to know was that the team befriended Pegasus so only two of them went to capture Cerus and they ended up wasting no time with sailing to Athens. Sidney then reveals the reason he killed Hyale was because she was having second thoughts about the operation and feared she’d eventually betray him. So he took her to the salon for sex and Hyale consented to getting handcuffed to the table. However instead of going down on her, Sidney started shutting down all the windows and then went to the fireplace, filling it up with coal causing a high amount of smoke to form. He then left the room and shut the door, leaving her to scream until the smoke caused her to suffocate and die. After hearing motive, Ophelia and Mia were about to go to Theseus and warn him about Sidney planning to kill him, but two guards suddenly restrained them. The sun then goes down and sunset light passes through the window, hitting a hand of one of the guards and underneath life his hand was nothing but bones. Ophelia notices this and she starts screaming but Sidney hushes her and assures her everything will be fine. He then addresses the guards to throw them into the dungeon before turning to Mia and smirks as he tells her that his mistress will be thrilled to see her.

***You are now experiencing the story in third-person view.***

Sidney’s guards drag Ophelia and Mia to the dungeon and they put them inside separate cells. Mia’s cell is facing Persephone’s, and Ophelia’s is the one to the left of Mia’s. Once the guards go away, Persephone glares at them and sarcastically asks them how their plan to break her out is going. The two girls brush off the goddess’ comment and Mia tells her that we’ll find a way out. Ophelia however wasn’t as confident and was freaking out about being locked up. Mia sits down and things and she mutters about how she should’ve listened to Madelina. Ophelia hears her and sarcastically responds with “You don’t say”. Frustrated, Persephone talks about how she wished they hadn’t barricaded her window so she could talk to someone from outside. Suddenly something came to Ophelia and Mia’s minds- The guards may have barricaded Persephone’s window but they wouldn’t have had time to do the same to theirs and they look behind to see if they’d got windows in their cells too. When Mia turns her head, she immediately is met with a flow of piss to her face and screams. Ophelia asks if she’s okay, and Mia angrily responds that someone peed on her face. This relieves Ophelia who shouts out to the person outside but the person wasn’t a human, it was a stag- Bambi! When Mia discovered who it is, she groans, doubting that the stag would help them out, but Ophelia tries to talk to the stag (even though she understood nothing of what he said) and tells him to go to the ship and call for help. The stag then runs off, and the girls hope that he understood their request.

Meanwhile at the *Hamilton Laurent’s Revenge*, April and Hasuro are still taking care of Madelina. Zachary goes to her cabin to check on her condition and Hasuro assures him that her temperature is rising and that she’ll eventually live. They see that it’s getting dark and April gets up to start preparing dinner and tells Zachary to get Mary to the dining room. Zachary obeys her and he goes to the ship’s prison deck to get Mary only to find her on the ground, dazed and Rolland’s cell’s door wide open. Zachary calls everyone to come to the prison deck. They all check on Mary and she explains what happened- Rolland somehow broke out of his cell and before she could warn anyone, he knocked her out and escaped the ship. The crew were displeased, but suddenly April shouts for everyone to come up, announcing that Madelina woke up. The rest of the crew clearly head to the cabin, glad to see that she’s okay now. Yoyo tries to approach her, but when she got close, Madelina gave her a slap and Yoyo backs away, both surprise but also aware that she deserved that. Madelina gets up and furiously asks where Mia is. Zachary tries to restrain her, but she pushes him away and warms him not to touch her before searching the wreck room for any signs of her. Eventually, the crew tell her that Mia and Ophelia are busy performing an arrest and she starts calming down, but the crew then start hearing barking noises from the main deck. They all rush there and they find Bambi trying to get their attention. When Bambi sees Madelina, his demeanor changes and he goes to give her a lick. Madelina ruffles his fur and asks him what he is doing in the ship and he begins pulling her nightdress to get her to follow him. Madelina and the crew follow Bambi who takes them to the coast where he draws two ladies on the sand- One with a sherrif hat and another with short curly hair, who the crew guess are supposed to be Mia and Ophelia, respectively. He then draws bars over them and the crew understand the message- Mia and Ophelia are captured! Yoyo becomes worried and she acts the rest of the team what would they do and Zachary responds by saying that they’ll break them out. However, they would need backup and Madelina suggests that they go talk to Artemis to help them out.

Artemis, who was informed that Madelina was in poor health, was happy to see that she was now okay. She sees that Bambi is with them and she scolds him, apologizing if he caused any nuisance. The crew assure her that he didn’t inconvenient them and they tell her about Mia and Ophelia’s capture which surprised her. They then ask her if she could them break her out along Persephone and she agrees, telling them that she’s going to gather her huntresses at once. She reaches to her belt for a horn to call her huntresses by and realizes that its gone. This frustrates her as now she has to go look for her huntresses one by one, but the crew ask her where she last had her horn. Artemis thinks and she tells them she might have dropped it while she was enjoying a ferry ride, so they go there and start investigating the area where they found broken pieces of ivory. They piece the pieces back together and it forms a hunting horn, which they gave back to Artemis. Artemis thanks the crew before blowing out the horn and they wait for the huntresses to gather.

After around half an hour, the huntresses finally gather in the forest. They chat up with Madelina and they reveal that they’ve heard she’s lost her virginity and giggle as they ask about the details. Madelina glares at Artemis, who swears she told the huntresses nothing except that she turned down her request to rejoin the pack and that they figured the rest by themselves. After catching up, the crew and the pack followed Maverick (who earlier went with Mia and Ophelia to the palace), and he took them to the spot where Theseus’ palace is located. At first, the rest of the crew couldn’t see anything but after a few seconds the palace suddenly starts appearing. They were suddenly joined by two other guys- Brad Harrington and Tristan Erickson, who ask if they were late to the party. The crew are surprised at seeing the two guys, but Artemis assures them that they know about what’s going and that they are here to help them. Once that was out of the way, they observe the palace- It was protected by walls and the gate to enter it was shut, so they had to look for a way to get inside. Zachary gets an idea and he tells the huntresses to shoot arrows at the wall one on top of the other. Although confused, the huntresses do as they are told and Zachary uses the arrows to pull himself up and starts climbing the wall. The huntresses eventually understand what he is doing and they help him by shooting arrows for him to climb with. Eventually, when he reaches on top of the wall, Zachary he finds a rope and he throws it out for someone else to climb with. The others discuss who should enter after Zachary and they agree that the huntresses should stay in the forest until the gate is opened whereas Artemis, Madelina and Maverick should go. Artemis and Maverick climb up the rope, but because she hasn’t recovered her full health yet, Madelina tied the rope around her waist and held onto it as the others pulled her up. When she finally got up here, they started discussing what to do next, but were interrupted by a zombie-looking guard. When Madelina and Maverick see the undead guard they scream and go behind Zachary so he could shield them. However, Artemis pulls out her bow and shoots the guard in the head. More guards start to come because they were attracted to Madelina and Maverick’s screams, and Artemis turns to her three companions and tells them to go down while she deals with the guards. Reluctantly, they obey her and they get down from the wall through the stairs and head to the palace but the front door was being guarded. Just as they were thinking about a way to get in, Maverick notices that one of the windows were open and he points at it and so they all jump in it to break into the palace. The window leads them into the salon where they rest and Madelina and Maverick start teasing each other on who was more scared when they saw the “zombie”. Zachary tells them to be quiet as he observes the coast outside, so Madelina simply approaches the fireplace to warm herself up. But she accidently steps on a tile that opened the secret passage below the fireplace. Stunned, the trio gather around the fireplace and discuss whether it’s a good idea to enter the passage or not. Eventually, they made the choice and they started climbing down the passage.

The passage led them to the palace’s dungeon and all the cells were open except three cells which kept their friends Mia and Ophelia, and the goddess Persephone. Ophelia notices them and feeling relieved, she calls them over to hers and Mia’s cells. Zachary, Madelina and Maverick rush to them and Madelina pulls out her wand Holly and was about to chant a spell to blast the cell bars. But Maverick grabs her hand and covers her mouth, reminding her they are in a stealth mission and they won’t want to cause noise that’ll attract the guards. Zachary also observes the cell bars and points out that they were made using celestial bronze (and enchanted metal) and that whatever magic they’ll use won’t work and they actually need a key. They investigate the dungeon but they couldn’t find the keys, and instead they hear footprints approaching them. The three quickly enter the cell next to Persephone’s, and they pray that the guards won’t walk by their cell. The guards finally arrive and they approach Persephone’s cell, one guard opens it and the other drags her out of the cell and begins escorting her out of the dungeon. The guard with the keys stays behind and he starts messing with Mia and Ophelia. Zachary approaches the guard from behind, taps him to get his attention and when he turns to see him, Zachary punches him hard, causing the helmet to fly out from his head and his head snaps from his body and falls to the ground. This surprises Zachary for a bit, but he snaps out of it and takes the key from the guard, but suddenly the guard’s body gets up and starts fighting Zachary, getting instructions from the head. Zachary throws the key to Maverick, who unlocks Mia and Ophelia’s cells so they could get it. Zachary meanwhile is still struggling with the headless guard while the others are watching, helplessly. Madelina remembers how Artemis killed the guard from the wall and she asks one of her friends for their weapons. Maverick gives her his sword and she runs toward the guards decapitated, yet living head and she impales its brain, causing the body to stop fighting Zachary and fall. Once the guard was dealt with, the crew begin walking out of the dungeon to save Persephone and Mia asks Madelina if they can talk. Madelina glares at her and asks her what’s there to talk about, reminding Mia that she told her (Madelina) they were never friends so she (Madelina) has no reason to feel betrayed. Still feeling remorseful, Mia clarifies that Zachary never kissed her back, so she asks Madelina that whatever anger she has toward her (Mia), she shouldn’t take it out on Zachary because he’s innocent.

While Mia and Ophelia were being broken out, Artemis is still fighting out the guards above the wall. She suddenly hears Madelina calling out on her, who tells her to aim at the head. Artemis nods and she starts aiming at the guards’ heads, finally able to wipe them out. The rest of the team run to the gate from below and they find a lever to open it but also come face to face to two guards. Zachary and Maverick fight the guards, while Mia turns the lever, opening the gates for Hasuro, Brad, Tristan and the huntresses to flock inside. Meanwhile in the Great Hall, a wedding ceremony was being performed for Theseus and Persephone where Sidney and his zombie guards are among the guests. Theseus and Sidney share a toast and after that Theseus asks “Pirithous” if he was still mad at him for taking Persephone for himself. “Pirithous” assures Theseus that he forgave him, relieving the hero who promises that after the wedding he’ll search for a beautiful bride for him. The wedding is then officiated but before Persephone could say “I do”, Theseus starts coughing and he suddenly collapses and dies- He was poisoned! Persephone starts screaming and Sidney tries calming her down, assuring her that she doesn’t need to marry the “withered corpse” anymore. In response, Persephone knees him to the balls and tells him that she’s rather die than be with him. After recovering from the nutshot, Sidney starts laughing and he tells her it is not marriage than he wants and that he needs her for another purpose- Power. He then starts chanting a spell and begins absorbing her life source, but before he could complete the ritual, several huntresses barge into the hall with the crew, disturbing the process. Mia reminds everyone to aim at the heads but Hasuro points out that’s easier said than done as all the soldiers were wearing helmets. However, Artemis said that they can still take them down and gives the huntresses a signal to attack. While the huntresses are fighting off his zombie soldiers, Sidney holds onto Persephone to prevent her from escaping but Madelina charges at him with her wand, challenging him to a duel. Sidney smirks and accepts the challenge and two of them start shouting spells at each other- Madelina with her wand and Sidney with his hand like Circe did. Unfortunately for Madelina, Sidney was more powerful than Circe and he managed to disarm her. And he made her fall to the ground and watch as he steps on Holly and snaps her in half. He then returns to Persephone (who was bounded), leaving Madelina crying as she holds her broken wand. Sadness turned to rage and what was once Holly gets absorbed by Madelina’s hands. Suddenly, Madelina transforms into a demon-like creature and she flies at Sidney, catching him by surprise by his robe and crashing into the window. The rest of the crew watch with surprise at what just happened and begin running after them. Still holding into Sidney, Madelina flies over the woods and screeches at him, making him feel terrified. To escape from her, Sidney slides out of the robe, dropping to the ground and begins running away. Madelina, who was still enraged, goes after him and she leads him to a cliff. At first, Sidney believes this was a dead end but then he hears the sound of an eagle and he smirks at Madelina as he jumps off the cliff. Shocked, Madelina looks down at the cliff where she sees Rolland riding a griffin and he caught Sidney before he could fall on the rocks. Sidney salutes Madelina as he makes his escape and Madelina was about to chase after them, but her crewmates caught up to her and Zachary grabs her before she could fly. She tries to fight the restraint but after a minute, she chills out and transforms back to her real form and faints. The crew quickly gather around them and Hasuro assures everyone that Madelina’s heart is beating regularly so she’ll be fine. While everyone is checking on Madelina, Persephone starts losing consciousness too and she was now the center of attention. Her skin was become too greyish and they knew they had to take her to the Underworld as quick as possible. Artemis tells the crew to get in on this, while she will go to Demeter and tell her Persephone was rescued to put her wrath to an end. The crew quickly run back into the ship where Yoyo, April and Mary just finished having dinner and Zachary tells Mary that they have to start moving immediately. Mia notices the sink is filled with water and there was silverware instead and she asks Hasuro if he can use his powers to shine light into the sink. Hasuro does that and it forms a rainbow that allows Mia to Iris-message Elvira, telling her that they found Persephone and need her help to get into the Underworld. Yoyo looks out from one of the portholes and she tells everyone to come and take a look at what’s going on. The crew look outside and see that the snow is starting to melt- Demeter’s wrath is over! Hasuro brings his butterfly’s tank and opens it, allowing Memphis to fly away before a whirlpool eats up the ship.

The *Hamilton Laurent’s Revenge* landed on the River Styx which everyone in the Underworld surrounded to welcome back their queen. The color returned to Persephone’s face, who opens her eyes and family says “home”. In celebration of his first wife’s rescue, Hades threw a feast which he invited the crew to attend. Persephone notices there’s meat on her dish and displeased, she gets up from the table to feed the meat to Cerberus, Hades’ three-headed dog. At this point, Madelina had also returned to consciousness but ate nothing from her dish and instead looked at Zachary and told him that they need to talk privately. Nervous, Zachary follows her all the way near the river and reluctantly asks what she had to say and she responds by telling him that she knows he kissed Mia. This is followed by a short silence where Zachary looked guiltily at the ground before facing Madelina and he tells her everything what happened, including the ultimatum Mia gave him. He waits for Madelina to respond and she asks him who did he chose. To this, Zachary begged her not to force him to do this to and she responds with “So you’re saying there is a choice?”. Again, Zachary becomes silent but Madelina speaks up and tells him if he had to chose between her and Mia, he should choose Mia. She tells her not choose her because he feels bad for her or because he’s afraid things with Mia won’t work out or because he’s afraid of breaking her heart, because if he really loved her there would be no other choice. Madelina waits for him to respond but he simply thanks her and goes back to the table. However, instead of returning to his seat, he approaches Mia and tells her that he and Madelina broke up. Mia sighs and tries to apologize, but Zachary stops her and he asks her if she’s willing to go on a date with him after they return home. Mia hesitates, on one hand she’s glad that she finally has Zachary for herself but on the other hand, she feels guilty that she was responsible for him and Madelina breaking up. But she agrees anyway, causing the other girls in the crew to glare at her. Suddenly, the feast was interrupted by Persephone’s scream.

Meanwhile in Graecita, KJ Willoughby’s funeral is being held. The city is wearing all black during the occasion and while his obituaries are being read, Marionette moves away from the crowd and goes to a fountain where a rainbow was already formed. Marionette uses this opportunity to try and Iris-message Madelina but like what happened in the past couple of days, she failed. Suddenly she hears someone tell her that this won’t work and when she turns, she was facing Alex. Alex explains that to Iris-message someone, you must know where they are at the moment and since they have no idea where Madelina and her crewmates are, it is impossible for them to Iris-message her. This disappoints Marionette but then Alex told her that Sveta Rasputina asked to see them at her temple and she became curious on what the oracle wanted from them. After the funeral, Leonora held a repast, inviting only close friends of her and Kaleb. There they all grieved together and Leonora mentions how she wishes she never listened to Madelina and because of her, KJ has passed. At this comment, Marionette gets up from her chair and storms out of the gathering. The others go after her and asks what’s wrong, where Marionette glares at the queen and tells everyone that she’s sick of them blaming what happened on Madelina. She tells them that the only person to blame for KJ’s death is Kaleb and they all know it and they should stop pretending that Madelina had any fault on this and actually hold Kaleb accountable for this. Leonora holds her composure and she reminds Marionette that Kaleb is currently locked up but Marionette tells her that this isn’t enough because no one in the city except the people in this room knows about his necrophiliac desires or that he was the cause of KJ’s death. She then looks at Maylin and tells everyone that she bets this is the first time Maylin is even hearing about all this and Maylin just stands there silently, disturbed by all what she was learning. Suddenly, Shirley appears and she announces that Sveta Rasputina was murdered!

## Summary

### Victim

* **Hyale** (Handcuffed and left to die by smoke inhalation)

## Suspects

TheseusArtemisTristan EricksonPersephonePirithous
## Quasi-suspects

BambiMary ReadMadelina AlonzoZachary RileyOphelia LincolnHollyElvira MiltonHadesAlex StamosMarionette Patrick
## Killer’s Profile

* The killer knows chemistry.
* The killer eats beef and stout pie.
* The killer uses chalk.
* The killer has eyebags.
* The killer wears bronze jewelry.

## Trivia

* Tristan Erickson is a character that belongs to my friend and fanfic writer, Taha.