Remus folded his arms and leaned against the wall of the control room, glancing out of the windows to check the ship's landing location. They were flying right above Quebec and the city looked magnificient with its multicolored lights shining in the dark.

"Heroes, we are flying above Quebec. It is currently 22:00 and the temperature is 18°C," the monotonous female voice boomed through the Sotíras.

Remus sat on the controller's seat and did a safe landing at Saint Lawrence River, right next to the Mackenzie Forest (because of course Marlene's summer house was literally isolated from the rest of the city, her father was Miachel McKinnon after all!).

"This place," Sirius murmured, his hands clenching as he closed his eyes. "Bad vibes..pain, death, horror...."

"Please don't," Emmeline said, shivering.

Marlene and Dorcas led the way, with Dorcas opening her hand as a torch and Marlene leading them inside. Frank, Lily, Remus and Alice were right behind them, and Sirius and James at the end, their hands on their swords. Zeus must have been angry with the place, because the winds were harsh and cold and the sky was dark and moody.

"Some help your Dad's doing us," Dorcas grumbled, pointing at James.

"What can I say? He's a moody one." James shrugged his shoulders. "I mean, his temper makes Hera's temper look cute."

Emmeline wrinkled her nose in disgust at the mention of her least favourite goddess. Seeing as how the immortal queen had treated her father, she probably does not think of Hera as a perfect grandmother. I certainly do not expect her to make tea and cookies and chat with Her Most Annoying Highness, but excuse me, that is my opinion.

An owl hooted somewhere, and both Remus and Lily froze.

"Did you hear that?"

"I did!"

"It was horrible, oh my god."

"I can't believe this!"

"Holy Hades."

"Christ!"

"Oi!" Sirius barked at them. "What the fuck are you guys talking about in Owlish?"

"It said--" Remus was very rudely interuppted by Lily.

"The owl said The blood of my mate, spilled in the water, and those cursed nymphs laughing! May Athena curse them!"

"Nymphs," echoed Alice. "Nypmhs. As in water nypmhs."

A particulary fierce wind extinguished Dorcas's hand and they were in complete darkness. In confusion, the daughter of Hephaestus shook her hand, frowning. In the process, she accidently hit Marlene's arm, who stepped back a step to rub her arm, and collided straight into Sirius who took exactly three steps back.

"SIRIUS!" Lily and Remus, being the owlish people they were (they could see in the dark), screamed at the same time, but too late, Sirius and Marlene both fell into the well.

A laugh, cold and harsh, rang through the forest and the waves rised, pulling the remaining demigods inside. James, being the son of Zeus he was, tried to grab his friends and fly, but, to his horror, he found that he could not fly. The well radiated despair and sadness.

They thrashed about in the water, trying to grab onto something, but the walls were slimy and smooth, with not a single crack or crater. The small vines were thin and weak, and easily broke when someone tugged on them.

Above them, two twins nymphs appeared. They had hair as dark as midnight, and pure white eyes. Their thin blue lips were drawn in smirks amd their arms were crossed.

"Hello demigods."

Marlene realised that this one was Aqua.

"How does it feel to thrash about in water like that? Hopeless mortals." The twins laughed maniacally. "We are Aqua and Aquila, daughters of the primordial god Pontus and the Titan goddess Oizys."

"Sea and misery, no wonder you two are so nasty," Sirius said, a malevolent glean in his moon grey eyes. Even in the ice-cold water, he managed a dangerous sneer on his face.

"Ha! We take pride in that." Aquila's smirk widened, if that was possible.

"You guys will stay here and drown and die, no chance of escape," Aqua chirped happily, as though she had just announced that Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson were dating. "We--Aqua and I--will go and check out your ship. See ya honey cakes!"

"Honey cakes?" hissed Lily, practically spitting with rage.

Most of them were paying attention to staying above the water, to be honest, so the only person who heard her was Remus, because his hearing was sharp, but he gave little attention to that statement apart from a snort.

"Ali, light please," Marlene gasped, gesturing to the dark sky with her one free hand.

Alice closed her eyes tightly and willed a rainbow in the sky and the multicolored lights spread through the forest clearing. Frank carefully and gently willed a vine to fall in his hands and hardened it.

"Em," the son of Demeter grabbed an arrow from Emmeline's quiver and tied the vine tightly around it. "Just please shoot this far from this well, far enough so we can get out."

Emmeline was already afraid of water, and she was gasping and cursing, but she held her bow tightly and shooted. Frank tugged on the vine, just to make sure it was not going to give out, and then grabbed it and started climbing up the well.

Coming out, he pulled out Emmeline first, as she was scared of water. Then he pulled out Alice, and then all of the others. They collapsed on the ground, taking deep breaths and shivering. Eventually, Dorcas burst into flames and provided them to enough heat to return color to their complexion and stop their teeth from chattering like crazy.

"Fucking hell," Sirius swore. "We gotta run. The ship's fucked."

"Nope," quipped Dorcas. "Nope. I added a security charm to all of our cabins, the control room and the supplies room. All they'll find is an Atlas, a globe, sofas, peanut butter jars and foody stuff. I'm pretty sure evil sea-misery nymphs don't like that stuff."

"You, madam, are a ray of sunshine," Marlene praised.

"I know, right?" Dorcas said smugly.

They finally managed to climb up on trees, not that they slept, but kept on lookout for Aqua and Aquila (in retrospect, Sirius mused, those were pretty boring names). 

Another happy ending, wow.

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A/N: Right, I'd've written a nice author's note if my teacher hadn't been shouting in my ear. But anyway, yes I added a small Larry reference because I can, HA. Take care and stay safe.

Love,
~Aurora♡