Page 88 of Poseidon's Trident
“I can’t help it if the fuckers don’t stay dead after I kill them. It’s bullshit.” I turn to the side to squeeze through the cavern.
Stalagmites rise in the large cavern and there are several other statues way more than what has been reported. “How long has she been here and why hasn’t anyone reported more disappearances?” I ask as I step up to a statue.
“I don’t think these are all recent.” Raven glances at the sandals on one statue’s feet and they appear to be the sandals worn by warriors in ancient Greece.
“Her entire cavern was transported here like the fountain of Apollo at Delphi. Shit.” I scan the ground, not trusting the crazy gorgon not to pop out of nowhere and turn me to stone.
“Um, Beth?” Jayden asks. “Do you remember what happened when we broke the rhyming curse?”
I rack my brain trying to remember and my eyes widen. “The whole thing crumbled to dust.”
“How the fuck are we going to get out of here before that happens?” Jayden asks.
“Maybe it won’t,” I say, turning to Adrian hopefully.
The seer grimaces. “The original cavern will still be here, but all of this will be sucked into oblivion.”
“How do we get out?” I ask again.
“I can’t say. It will change the future.”
“Fuck,” I say and a screech fills the cavern again.
“Spread out,” Raven yells and rushes to a stalagmite.
The water did recede some when we got into this cavern but it’s still up to my knees and running through rushing water proves difficult. Jayden dives behind a huge rock formation next to me as a splash sounds from the other end of the cave.
“Zeusss, come out. It won’t hurt being turned to stone,” Medusa cackles.
“Fuck off. I’ll have your head before you turn my bestie to stone,” Raven roars.
“Raven, don’t antagonize the gorgon,” Greyson growls.
“I antagonize everyone in battle, babe,” Raven says.
“We need a better plan than playing hide-and-seek with a gorgon,” I groan.
The water rises higher and I glance around at my friends but don’t find Thad. Was he the one who caused the splash before?
“Where’s Thad?” I ask.
“I think he went in the water to see if he could figure out a way to kill Medusa from below,” Jayden says and points to something just below the surface of the water.
His dark outline underwater is swimming toward Medusa. What is he doing? He’s going to get himself killed.
“Wait, Beth.” Jayden plants a hand on my arm as I lunge to get out from behind the rock formation.
“What?” I snarl.
“I think I have an idea, but we need Thad to distract her.” Jayden peers around the rocks.
“Thad. Water,” I yell.
Thad jumps from the water like a dolphin on steroids and blasts Medusa in the face with a stream of water. While her eyes are closed and she’s distracted, Jayden nudges me around the rock formation and we wade as quietly as possible through the water.
“Take that, you trout-faced gorgon scum,” Thad whoops as he continues to spray her in the face.
Medusa gurgles a scream, but Thad never relents.
