Saddle Up!

**Saddle Up!** is a case featured in *Criminal Case*. It takes place in *The Kidnapping Of Persephone* chapter of Graecita.

## Plot

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

Marionette opens her eyes and she finds herself in a strange room, yet the décor was familiar to her and she was sure she’s been here before. She looks up and she sees a little knob belonging to a naked man sitting above her: Kaleb. Kaleb was crying and he started talking about how failed her, how he failed KJ and failed the city of Graecita. Suddenly, the scene seemed familiar to Marionette and upon realizing where she is and what’s about to happen, she tried to push Kaleb away but her body won’t move. Kaleb then leaned to kiss her and Marionette tried to scream, but her mouth was stuck and voice box wasn’t working. Kaleb then reached down her crotch and right as he was about to penetrate her, Marionette finally manages to scream. Suddenly, she finds herself awake in her room with Shirley trying to calm her down: It was just a bad dream. Confused by her surroundings, Marionette asked Shirley how did she get here, where Shirley explained that Norah brought her to the palace after she nearly drowned in the sea. After giving the explanation, Shirley revealed that KJ has passed away, but Marionette did not react because her mind was somewhere else. She was still thinking about Madelina and feeling sombre, she went to open the window to get a breathe of fresh air. She suddenly gets a chill and when she looks out the window, she notices certain areas covered with snow- That was strange, it is still early in November so why was it snowing already? While she was asking herself that question, Shirley suddenly announces that someone sent her a package and she gave it to her. Marionette takes a look at the package and realizes it is from her estranged mother, Athena Parthenos. Marionette frowns, why does her mother suddenly care about her? But she opens the package anyway and finds a voice recorder. Confused, Marionette plays the recording and the first voice that came up belongs to some goddess called Eos. She suddenly hears Zachary’s voice and he starts introducing himself and everyone present in the interview, one of which was Madelina. When Marionette hears Madelina’s name, a weight of relief drops on her and she tells Shirley that Madelina was alive. She then turned to the window and announced with a loud voice that “THEY’RE ALIVE!”.

Meanwhile at the Mediterranean Sea, *The Hamilton Laurent’s Revenge* has been sailing for nearly five days. Madelina was standing on a crow’s nest, clutching onto a glamour tube and Mehtab by her side. Zachary was controlling the sails while being approached by Mia and when he notices her, he sucks up his stomach from impulse, giving his abdominal muscles more definition. Mia notices this sudden action and asks Zachary was he is doing, and nervously he tells her that he’s just controlling the sails and that’s all. Mia decides not to push further and asks him how long it’ll take for them to finally land, and he just shrugs and tells her they’ll stop when Madelina tells them. Mia rolls her eyes and she questions Zachary on why they are even relying on her. The two argue for a bit, before Zachary finally looks up at Madelina and asks them if they were close, which she responds with a nod. Mia was getting impatient though and she asks where they were even going, but instead of answering her, Madelina goes back to observing the sea and finds land just a couple of miles away from them. She turns to look at Zachary and tells him to take them there, revealing that this was their destination.

As they are getting close to land, Mia goes inside the wreck room to tell everyone to get ready for landing. Suddenly Mary announces that they’re onboard and everyone heads to the deck, where they see that they’ve landed on a lush valley filled with ruins of Greek architecture. Confused, Hasuro asks if they are on the right track, since Madelina said that Circe was in Northeast Africa but everything here looks Greek. Zachary then starts giving a lecture about how the Greeks used to own many colonies in Africa and that if he had to give a guess, they were probably in Cyrene, a city that’s now in modern-day Libya. Madelina finally shows up on the deck, wearing an Arabian and a face veil, and asked the others about their opinions on the look. One of the crew members asks her if they’ll find Circe here, but she shakes her head and tells them that Circe is in the Libyan Desert. This pisses off Mia, who tells everyone to go back inside the ship, which escalates to an argument between her and the rest of the crew. Eventually, they agree in continuing the search, however Yoyo asked the others how they will be moving across the desert and Madelina assures her that she’s already got this part planned out. Madelina turns looking at the hills and the crew do the same and they see three people approaching them: An adult man, a teenage girl and a preteen boy. Madelina starts waving to the three people and starts running toward them, hugging the adult male. After she hugs him, the man takes a good look at her and jokes about her getting taller than him. The rest of the crew catch up to her and she introduces the man as her uncle, Miguel Huizar and the young girl and boy as her siblings, Jazmin and Buddy Alonzo. She then opens her arms for her siblings to hug her but they both roll their eyes and reject the hug. After the awkward reunion, the crew followed the family as they are walking through the city and while leading the way, Miguel was quizzing his teenage niblings on the artifacts in the city. When neither Jazmin and Buddy knew the answers, Zachary would give them instead and Mia was getting irritated seeing Zachary get along with Madelina’s family. At one point during the walk, Buddy separated from the group to kick a random spot of snow he found and when the crew notice it, the crew became concerned, knowing the early snow is a sign of Demeter’s anger. Eventually, Mia grew sick of walking and she asks Miguel what method of transport will they be using to move across the Libyan Desert and he points at six camels he’s rented for the journey.

The crew and Madelina’s family have been lurking the Libyan Desert for almost an hour and were starting to grow tired of the journey. Every couple of minutes, the crew would ask Madelina if they were close to Circe’s whereabouts, and she keeps responding with “not yet”. During the journey, Madelina would try to make small talk with her siblings, but they either gave her short answers or asked questions that made her feel humiliated with herself. Not enjoying the passive-aggressiveness, from her sister especially, Madelina tells them that she won’t be staying for long and would appreciate if they’d least have a friendly conversation with her before she and the crew agree. This request pisses off Jazmin, who calls out Madelina for not seeing their family for almost a year and that she and Buddy see no point on playing nice with her if she’s just going to do it again once she gets what she wants. This makes Madelina feel heartbroken, but she does not try and defend herself against her siblings and simply carries on. Eventually, they reach a plateaued area and Madelina spots a Bedouin village which she points at and tells the crew that she senses Circe there. Her uncle laughs and tells her that this is a coincidence because that’s where they got the camels from, and so they entered the village which belonged to a tribe that called themselves the Najwa.

The tribe welcomed the group with open arms and they entertained the crew with their activities. The belly dancers were teaching Madelina how to dance like them, the others were having their hands painted with henna and the men of the tribe were showing off their falcons to the boys. Meanwhile, Mia was having trouble with traders trying to sell stuff to her. Eventually, she decided to ask a random tribal woman about Circe by giving her a brief description of her appearance and the woman responded by telling her that the description she gave fits their leader’s fiancée, “Shaheen”. Wondering if “Shaheen” was actually Circe under a different name, Mia was about to ask the woman where they could find their leader, but was interrupted by Miguel Huizar, who shouted that there is a dead body at the stables. This made the Bedouins panic so Mia rushed to the stables with Zachary where they found a dead man on the ground with his skull smashed.

**You are now playing as Mia Loukas.**

When Zachary and Mia saw the victim, the first thing they noticed is that he was neither Arab nor does he seem to be from their generation judging by his Greco-clothes. The crime scene was soon crowded by Bedouins and among them was their tribal leader, Anir Aznag. Anir was shocked when he saw the body, identifying the man as Bellerophon, a name which Zachary recognized as that of a Greek hero who slayed the Chimera. After seeing the body, Anir immediately demanded the arrest of Miguel Huizar and so the tribal men tied him up and began escorting him to one of their tents. Madelina tried to fight for her uncle, arguing that he’s been with them the whole time, but with no avail and as he was dragged away, her siblings began blaming her for what happened. Fearing what the Bedouins would do to Mr Huizar, Zachary and Mia decided to look for Bellerophon’s real killer and talked to Anir into giving them until sunset to solve the murder. Anir agreed to spare Miguel and from him, they found out that the Chimera apparently regenerated in Cyrene and Bellerophon was on a mission to find her and kill her again. Additionally, they found reasons to suspect a belly dancer called Af’aa Althueban for the murder, as well as Circe herself who they confronted about Persephone’s kidnapping, but she denied any involvement in the scheme, claiming she was a “changed woman”, who found love with Anir and that she even ditched sorcery altogether. While they were riding back to the village from Cyrene, the duo came across a beautiful garden that had many apple trees. One of the apples was golden which intrigued Zachary’s attention but when he reached to take a close look at them, someone threw a rock at him. He turned to see who did that and it was an angry woman, threatening him from picking any of the apples.

The lady was called Arethus and she was one of the three Hesperides of the garden. Zachary calms her down, assuring her that they aren’t here to pick the apple and were just wandering by. Arethus glares at him and asks him what they are doing at Cyrene then and he explains that they came to meet someone and now they are investigating the murder of Bellerophon. The news of Bellerophon shock her, and she begins crying and tells him and Mia that Bellerophon was her boyfriend. Once they were done talking with the Hesperis, they went back to the investigation where they ran into a familiar face: Rolland Overton, who the crew earlier found guilty as an accomplice to Orion’s killings. When Rolland saw the duo, he tried to run away, but they managed to catch and took him into custody at their ship. Furthermore, they discovered that Anir tried to challenge Bellerophon’s beliefs that there was more than one god and found him narcissistic for wishing to become one, and that he had also tried to expose Circe for being a witch. While Zachary and Mia were recapping a case, they hear a high-pitched scream that belonged to Madelina and ran to see what was it all about.

Zachary and Mia found Madelina on the ground screaming, and next to her they saw a winged horse who was just as afraid as her. Zachary guessed the winged horse must be THE Pegasus, Bellerophon’s own winged horse and began calming him down. After successfully taming him, Zachary noticed a branding mark on his behind and reached to touch, but that scared Pegasus again and he flew away. But eventually, this made him and Mia realize that the killer must’ve used Pegasus as the murder weapon and a branding iron was utilized to scare him into kicking his owner’s head. The duo returned their focus on the murder and they found out that the victim saved Af’aa from being sexually assaulted by tribal men and that Rolland was helping him with locating the Chimera, but when they asked him why he was doing that, Rolland refused to share any more details. Moreover, the duo also discovered that Bellerophon wasn’t truly in love with Arethus and that he tried to take advantage of her trust to steal the golden apple, but she caught him on the act before he could do that. In the end, Bellerophon’s killer turned out to be Af’aa Althueban.

Zachary and Mia head to the village to arrest Af’aa but she was nowhere to be found. They decide to ask one of the other belly dancers where she is and were told that she went Cyrene. Assuming she was trying to run away from punishment, the duo quickly go there and began yelling her name. Suddenly they hear a hiss, and it was coming from the ruins of the Temple of Demeter. Curious, the duo head there and they find Af’aa waiting for them there with a smirk on her face. To their surprise, Af’aa throws away her jacket and begins dancing. She stares at them as she hides behind a column before turning her back on them and she takes off her top. She turns to face them again, using her arms to cover her breasts and she smirks again. She turns her back on them again and she continues dancing, eventually posing and she completes the look by pulling down her skirt. But she did not have the lower body of a woman- Instead of being fleshy, her behind was scaly. Zachary feels something tickling his legs and when he looks down- He sees a dragon’s tail. Realizing what Af’aa actually was, he mutters “Echidna”. “Af’aa” stares at them again but this time with yellows eyes and begins breathing fire at them. Zachary and Mia dodge the attack and they start to run.

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

Zachary and Mia successfully escaped from Echidna and made it to the village. Their crew were waiting for them near the campfire and when they arrived, they asked them what they were running away from. The duo explained what happened to Cyrene and the crew became worried, but especially Madelina who wondered how they’d set her uncle free if they can’t hand over Bellerophon’s real killer. This pisses off Mia who accuses Madelina of being “selfish” for worrying about her uncle while she and Zachary could have died back there, but Maverick stands up for her, telling Mia that Madelina’s uncle is still captured while she and Zachary are safe and sound, so obviously she’d worry more about him than them. Before Mia could respond to that clapback, Zachary steps in and assures Madelina that her uncle will be safe and that they will try talking to the Najwa tribe leader into setting her uncle free. Suddenly, Ophelia spots a lady running toward the village and points at her for Mia to notice her. Mia recognizes the woman as Arethus and wonders what she’s doing at the desert, so she and Ophelia decide to go talk to her.

**You are now playing as Mia Loukas.**

Wondering what she was doing in the middle of the Libyan Desert, Ophelia and Mia go to check on Arethus. When Arethus sees Mia, she becomes relieved and says that she’s been following her and Zachary. She then goes on to tell the girls that someone have harvested the golden apple from the Garden of the Hesperides and that she needs their help to find the culprit. Ophelia had no idea what that apple was, but after hearing what it can do, she and Mia quickly went to the garden and began looking for any traces the culprit left behind. Under a pile of normal apples, they find a broken goat horn and they wondered how it ended up there. So they decided to send the horn to April, who was unable to get answers from it but told them that Zachary had something to tell them. Zachary explains that the horn they found is not a goat horn’s and that it actually came from a satyr. After giving it a thought, Ophelia and Mia remembered that Rolland had a bandage wrapped around one of his horns and realized that this belonged to him. How ever, that did not make sense to them since Rolland had both his horns when they locked him up in the ship, so how did his horn ended up in the garden? The duo quickly went back to the ship where Mary led them to Rolland’s cell, only to find that it was empty and Rolland had escaped. They were in shock- How did Rolland manage to escape so easily? But instead of standing there for too long and asking questions, they decided to go back to the garden to tell the Hesperides of the bad news. Ophelia apologized that they were unable to retrieve the apple, but the Hesperides assure her that the tree will grow another one, and their main concern is whether or not it got to the wrong hands. When the duo told them about Rolland, they ended up laughing it off, saying that there is no point worrying about some “harmless” satyr.

Zachary and Mia enter Chief Aznag’s tent where they find him there with Circe, grinning ear to ear. Anir asks them if they found out who killed Bellerophon and they tell him that it was Af’aa Althueban. He then asks where is she, but the duo simply tell him that she made a run for it. They then ask if he’s going to set Miguel Huizar free now, but Anir refused, saying unless he hears a confession from Af’aa, Miguel will be trailed. Zachary tries to talk sense into the leader but he was acting stubborn, but eventually Circe speaks up and proposes a deal. She tells them that Bellerophon had a quest to slay a monster who was terrorizing the Bedouins whenever they tried to collect food from Cyrene, which is why his death was a great loss to the tribe, despite them not liking him very much. She tells them that if they slayed Chimera by sunset and came to the tent with proof, they shall set Miguel free. Zachary asked what do they need to bring to prove it, and she tells them she wants a vial of her blood. Zachary and Mia agreed to the quest, but they tell her that they expect another favor too: Persephone’s whereabouts. Circe smirks and accepts the deal, so Zachary and Mia leave the tent and tell the others about the quest she gave them. Madelina frowned when she hears about the deal, saying that she does not trust Circe would return her part of the bargain, but Mia shuts her up by asking if she wants to save her uncle or not. Eventually, the crew agree on completing the quest, but they still have one question: How are they going to kill the Chimera? To look for the answer, they decided to approach Pegasus (who they’ve eventually managed to tame) and as the son of Poseidon, Zachary had the ability to interact with horses, so he asked Pegasus about Chimera’s weaknesses. Pegasus tells the crew that the only way to kill Chimera is by pouring molten lead into one of its mouths so the best way to attack is from above. Once they heard this information, Zachary and Mia decided to go to Cyrene and see if there were any lead items in the city. Inside the city, they found broken metal pieces and after fixing them together, it was revealed to be a statuette. Zachary recalled a detail from Ancient Greece on how some of their statues were made using lead. Wondering if this was the case with the statues in Cyrene, they had April examine the statuette they had found and she confirmed that it was indeed made by lead. After this confirmation, Maverick comes out with a pickaxe, asking if they are ready to break some statues and they went to Cyrene to start collecting lead to kill the Chimera with.

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

The sky was turning purple and the crew are sitting around the campfire, waiting for the lead to melt. The crew was growing impatient and this is when Hasuro got an idea. He asks Zachary if Echidna might be there to protect her daughter (Chimera) and Zachary replies with “probably”. Hasuro then explains that since Echidna is a fire-breathing monster, they could utilize her attacks to melt the lead quickly. The crew liked the idea and began deciding who will go fight the chimera and who will stay behind: Ophelia and April will be staying behind to take care of Madelina’s siblings, the rest will all go to battle the Chimera with Yoyo coming so that if things go south, she will run back to the village to call for reinforcement. As they started moving to Cyrene, Pegasus suddenly approaches, offering to help them in the battle. The crew appreciated Pegasus’ offer and Zachary mounted Pegasus. He then asks Madelina to sit behind him, but she was nervous still having trauma over what happened back at Graecita when she first tried riding a winged horse. Maverick who was there when that happened, joked that she won’t have to worry about kicking Pegasus’ balls, as the Greek gods are famous for having little dongs. This comment offended Pegasus, who responded by spitting on Maverick’s head. Madelina eventually hops on Pegasus’ back and the crew began heading to Cyrene.

Mia, Hasuro, Maverick and Yoyo wandered the city on foot while Zachary and Madelina flew over them using Pegasus. None of them knew where to find Chimera, but they knew wherever Echidna is, her daughter Chimera must be close. Mia decided they should check the temple of Demeter, where Echidna had shown her and Zachary her true form. Mia, Hasuro and Maverick entered the ruins of the temple, while Yoyo waited outside. As the three were lurking the area, they kept hearing hissing sounds but could not see her. Eventually, from above, Madelina spots Echidna approach the three from behind and she yells for them to watch out. This grabs Echidna’s attention, who starts blowing fire towards her, Zachary and Pegasus but Zachary shields the attack using the pot they’ve put the lead inside and the temperature was enough to melt the lead pieces. While Echidna was the distracted, she gets attacked by the guys below but she manages to push Mia and Maverick away, while Hasuro’s arrows seem to barely hurt her. Madelina tries to help by yelling spells at her, but none of the spells seem to be doing any great damage and Zachary eventually advises her to stop to not accidently hurt their friends. Eventually, Echidna manages to corner Mia, Hasuro and Maverick, and she was about to burn them alive but Yoyo hops into the battlefield and yells “DON’T”. To everyone’s surprise, the Echidna stops. Yoyo realizes she must’ve managed to unlock a hidden charm-speaking ability and she tries to use it against Echidna. It seemed like it was about to work, but suddenly Echidna snaps out of it and was ready to attack Yoyo. Mia notices something shining- A blue gemstone attacked to Echidna’s naval. She turns to Hasuro and tells him to shoot that gem. Hasuro does what he’s told and suddenly Echidna starts screaming in egony before she disintegrates. Echidna was defeated, but now they had another monster to deal with- Chimera. Mia notices there was a forest next to the temple and she Zachary to fly above it. Pegasus takes Zachary and Madelina over the forest but then returns them to the temple immediately, where they told the others they couldn’t see anything due to the trees. Mia tells Yoyo to stay at the temple while she, Hasuro and Maverick went into the woods, looking for Chimera. After a couple of minutes searching, they find her sleeping, but Hasuro steps on a branch that wakes her up. The Chimera’s dragon head starts blowing wire at them but they manage to dodge, and she ends up setting one of the trees on fire instead. This alerts Zachary and Zachary on where she is and Pegasus takes them above her where shouts a spell that makes them grab her attention. The attention was to make the dragon head to open its mouth so they could pour lead inside it, but to their surprise the Chimera suddenly spreads open a pair of wings and flies towards them. The goat head charged at them, but they manage to dodge the attack. The lioness head then tried to bite them but they manage to dodge this too. The creature then decided to use range attacks, using the dragon head to blow flames at Pegasus so he wouldn’t bring them closer to her. The crew below observe the fight and Mia finds a vine on one of the trees. She grabs the vine, turning it into a lasso and she throws it at Chimera, catching it by the snake head. With Hasuro and Maverick’s help, they managed to bring Chimera down. Maverick grabs the goat head by the horns and the jaw and opens his mouth wide open. From above, Zachary pours the molten lead into the goat’s mouth, causing the Chimera to joke then died. After Chimera was killed, Madelina gives Mia the vial where Circe used to store her glamor and Mia takes out a sword to stab Chimera’s corpse and fill the vial with her blood.

The crew arrive back to the village by dusk. Ophelia, April and Madelina’s siblings were waiting for them at the campfire. Mia and Zachary tell the crew members who’ve come with them to wait over there while they talk to Anir and Circe, but Madelina protests, saying that she needs to see if her uncle is okay. After a bit of arguing, she gives up and watches as they entered Anir’s tent. Inside the tent, Circe was waiting for them with Anir and Miguel was tied up with two guards holding onto him. Circe asks for the Chimera’s blood, so they give her the vial. She smells the content of the vial and smiles, but then turns to Anir with a frown and tells him that they’re getting ripped off. Mia and Zachary were shocked and they insisted that what’s in the vial was Chimera’s blood, but Circe kept calling them liars. Eventually they realize they’ve been duped- Circe was never planning to honor her part of the deal, she knew what’s in the vial was Chimera’s blood but she was not going to admit it. Anir, being a simp, believed his lying fiancée and ordered the guards to arrest them for scam. Madelina, who was eavesdropping from outside the tent, suddenly barges in and stuns the guards. Her siblings were also outside and witnessed her using magic. Madelina uses a spell to unbind her uncle and she tells him to take her siblings and escape the village on camelback. She then turns to Circe and challenged her for a duel, which the witch agreed to. The fights goes on for a good minute before Madelina shouts a spell which cause the ropes of the tent to grab each of Circe’s limps and tie her up. Circe tries to fight the binds, but with no success so she decides to use her words by telling Madelina that she’s nothing without her wand, and dared her to do magic with her body instead. But Madelina was not falling for these belittling tactics and instead she demanded Circe to tell them Persephone’s whereabouts. When Circe refused to say anything, Madelina used the ropes to stretch Circe’s limbs, putting the sorceress in extreme pain. Eventually, Circe could not tolerate it any longer and spills the beans: She reveals that Persephone was kidnapped by a Greek hero called Theseus and that she’s currently in Athens. One Circe spat this out, Madelina stops torturing her but leaves the tent without unbinding her. Once she, Mia and Zachary left, Anir finally leaves his hiding place. Circe calls him a coward and asks him to untie her binds, but he simply stares at her and yells “WITCH”. Suddenly, the tribal people all flock to the tent and start throwing stones at Circe.

The crew went back to the ship where Hasuro and Maverick immediately hopped on the couch to play video games. Madelina quickly pulled out her phone to call her uncle and see how he and her siblings are doing and to her relief, they safely made it to Bengazhi and have booked airplane tickets to leave Libya as soon as possible. Once she was done with the phone call, Mia approached her and confronted her about her reckless behavior back at Anir Aznag’s tent but Madelina was not in the mood to deal with her and tried to ignore her. But Mia wasn’t willing to let it go so Madelina snapped and yelled “We have Persephone’s whereabouts! What else do you want?!”. However, Mia insisted that she didn’t have to “play hero” as they had plan but this comment simply Madelina laugh and she responded with “I’m sorry, but last I check that ‘plan’ of yours was NOT working”. She then glared and Mia and asked her if she seriously thought Circe would return her part of the deal. She then brought up what happened with Anne Bonny and pointed out that it was obvious Circe was duping them, but instead Mia chose to waste everyone’s time by going to fight Chimera to satisfy her savior complex and it’s ironic she’s accusing of “playing hero” for wanting to save her uncle, when the only one with that complex around here is Mia herself. Mia was about to come up with a comeback, but suddenly Hasuro calls everyone to gather at the wreck room. At the wreck room, the crew see that Hasuro and Maverick were not playing video games anymore and instead the TV had a Breaking News channel on air with Hyale presenting. Hyale then announces that Persephone’s bull, Cerus was spotted terrorizing the locals of Barcelona, a city in Spain, before the channel switched back to the video game Hasuro and Maverick were playing. After hearing the announcement, the team panic- They have totally forgotten about the bull! Madelina was especially freaking out as her parents and youngest two siblings are residing at Barcelona, right now. Zachary calms everyone down and tells them that he has a plan. He announces that he’s going to Barcelona to handle the bull and tells the rest to go to Athens without him. Mia volunteers to join him and at first he protested, but Mia insisted that she come since he can’t do this alone. Madelina also volunteers, but Zachary convinces her not to, saying her parents would probably not appreciate it if she got into harm’s way. Zachary and Mia then go to talk to Pegasus where they thanked him for helping them fight the Chimera before asking if he could help them a second time by flying them to Barcelona. He agreed and they mounted his back, ready to face Cerus.

Meanwhile at Nova Roma, the emperor is hiding in an underground bunker with Audenzia, Claudilla and her ladies-in-waiting. They’ve been there for nearly half an hour, until the sounds of swords clashing and arrows stopped. Reluctantly, they climb back to the palace and suddenly, its doors open. Several Roman soldiers who Livius fails to recognize enter the palace and he sees Carolus among them. He notices that the guards were accompanying a man, who had ginger hair and was wearing an armor made of gold. He takes a good look at the man’s face and oh god- He had his face! The man notices Livius and grins, telling him that he’s been looking forward to meet him. But Livius draws his sword at the man, staring at him and then at Carolus, asking who that man is. The man grins again and reveals his name- *Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus*, the first emperor of Rome.

## Summary

### Victim

* **Bellerophon** (Skull smashed by a horse)

## Suspects

Anir AznagAf’aa AlthuebanCirceRolland OvertonArethusa
## Quasi-suspects

PegasusEchidnaChimeraMiguel HuizarMadelina AlonzoHyaleAugustus
## Killer’s Profile

* The killer rides horses.
* The killer eats dates.
* The killer knows ancient Arabic.
* The killer has henna hands.
* The killer has A- blood type.