Finis | Roman Kraken Attack

[MONSTER! RAWR!]

It had been a long time since the Kraken had been awaken from the deep. Oh sure, his cousin on the east coast had been awake for a few years, but this was the time he could really shine.

He heard the calling and it sounded like sweet, sweet music to his ears. So he followed it from the depths of the Pacific to the coast of California. And not any place in California, but along the coast where the demigods resided.

Once he was close enough, he emerged from the sea as he gave a mighty roar. The Kraken was here and it was going to have fun with his food.

[Cheyenne Achilles]

Cheyenne was up early that morning to get her workout in before the day started with her long list of Praetor duties. She walked out of the training grounds as she wiped the back of her neck with a towel before a sound made her freeze. That wasn't normal and that didn't sound human at all.

She turned to face it as she saw a giant Kraken approach the shore. Her eyes widened. The augur was right, despite he was usually delusional most of the time. She turned on her heels as she ran into New Rome. “SOUND THE ALARM!” she screamed to the people. “WE'RE UNDER ATTACK! SEA-BASED!”

[Cameron James]

Cam had made his way over to Vega’s this morning hoping to surprise her with a little distraction from all the rigors of Legion life. She probably wasn’t expecting it but the first time they had talked he had promised the girl that he would take her to a football game. It wasn’t much but it wasn’t training and since there was no drill today he figured what better time to catch a little R&R? He hoped the girl would be up for it since he was doing this as a little surprise but if not it would just be good to see her again.

The young centurion made his way inside the café waving to Vega’s mom as he did so. “Hey there Ms. S. Is Vega in?” was the question on his tongue as he entered but even had he been able to get it out it would have been drowned out by the ear splitting roar that ripped through the air before he could speak. “What the Styx was that?” He mumbled to himself as he glanced around at the nervous patrons. One thing was obvious though whatever it was, it wasn’t good. That being the case he decided to throw caution to the wind and called back into the shop. “Hey Vega you back there? I think we’ve got a problem.”

[Jennifer Kail]

The roar split the air and Jen groaned and rolled over in her bunk making sure that her pillow was placed firmly over her head. “If this is a good night’s sleep Hypnos can kiss my ass…” She jammed her eyes shut and tried to sleep. “I swear on Juno’s crusty teet if some Bacchus kid is trying out their latest playlist I’m going to cut off his balls and offer them at the temple of Diana. What is that sound?!” She was mad now. The sound had managed to wake her up just enough and now it was going to be impossible to go back to sleep. She could just lay here and try to ignore it but now there were other sounds as well and it sounded like the barracks was getting ready for battle.

“Curse Mars for a treehumpin hippie can he not give me one gods’ blasted day to sleep in?!” Jen roared but this time something else besides the noise made it through. “WE'RE UNDER ATTACK!” Came the cry and it sounded serious. It had been so long since they had some action around here, too long if you asked Jen, and if Rome really was under attack…Vulcan’s firey sphincter if this was some gods forsaken drill someone was going to be paying the ferryman for a trip across the Styx before the day was through. Groaning again Jen set up in bed and reached for her gear as legionnaires rushed around her. At least if she was getting up early there would be blood to shed.

[Vega Starling]

It was the typical morning for Vega, working in the shop making baked goods. Hair covered in flour, grease and sugar stuck in her elbows. Everything was normal. That was till it sounded like the earth split in two. About two seconds later Vega saw the back shop curtains fly open and Cameron showed on the other side. She hadn't expected him today so she was slightly shocked to see him. "A Problem?" She said questioningly. "That sounded like Pluto himself just split the camp in two." she said before standing up and running to the back of the room, retrieving a bag that held her armor for drills and her imperial gold mace. Vega knew war stories, they were all she had known her entire life. "We've got to see what is going on." she said simply before dragging him out the door towards what was going on.

[Cameron James]

Vega was working today. That was good. If they were under attack he was going to need all the help he could get without his soldiers at his back. He was just thankful that he always remembered to pack his imperial gold sword so he at least had a way to defend himself. Judging by the bag that Vega grabbed before pulling him outside he figured she had her armor and weapons too.

Cam nodded to her as she grabbed him. There was no time to explain or really even say hi. This was serious but they didn't know how serious until they got outside. Even here in New Rome they could see the massive beast and it looked vicious. "Gods, what is that thing?" He asked the girl beside her not really expecting an answer. "It must be attacking the camp. You got your mace in there?" The legion was probably already organizing but they were going to have to find a way to fight from this front by themselves. "We need to get back to camp. Maybe we can figure out a way to attack that thing from behind as we go but it's going to be tough. Are you with me?"

[Vega Starling]

Vega had never left New Rome. Only once when her mother took her to the coast to see the ocean, a trip that ended abruptly. She had never been out of camp and Rome other than that. She had only ever seen monsters in books and battles in practice. Now, Seeing that thing in front of her. Seeing it tear its way closer to camp and New Rome. Her Home. She was scared shitless. And had never been more full of rage. She heard Cam talk, only to nod as she let her bag slip and pulled out her light amour. It was only a little bit but it was something, her mace handle slipping into her holder on her waist. By the time they made it through New Rome though the creature would already be at Camp, if not at the gates at New Romes should the legion fail.

Cam was a child of Zeus though. "How is your wind control?" she stated very quickly before shooting herself up in the air. This was her natural habitat. "If we run we won't make it in time." Vega was rarely serious, and hell it was known she didn't like New Rome but this was her Home. Her mothers home. Like hell would she left it fall before she did.

[Cameron James]

The monster seemed to be going for Camp Jupiter first. New Rome had its defenses yes, but the Legion was the main threat. Still, that was bad news for him and Vega. They would have to get back to camp before it was too late and join up with the rest of the army. He was just about to turn to Vega and ask if she had any ideas but when he did it was just in time to see the girl lifting off from the ground.

It took him an instant to realize what she was getting at. She wanted to fly to the battle and Cam thought that was an excellent idea. It had been a while since he had flown and his air control perhaps wasn't the best but now wasn't really the time to worry about that. "Good idea. I'll manage but I might need some help along the way." He said and summoned the winds to lift him slowly off the ground. It wasn't as smoothly as Vega had done but he was flying. "Come on. With any luck we'll be able to sneak up on it from behind. Maybe even do some damage while it's distracted with the front line." He gave Vega a smile and held out his hand so that they could fly together. It might not help much but with her being a daughter of Favonius she might be able to spare him a little wind control to speed them along.

[Cheyenne Achilles]

The alarm was well sounded around New Rome and the camp and everyone was getting ready to fight. New Rome rarely had monster attacks, especially sea-based ones, so it was throwing everyone for a loop. Cheyenne barely grabbed her armor and her sword and shield before she ran out towards where the front lines were forming. Cheyenne made it there in relatively quick time, since people moved out of the way. She was one of the Praetors and she had a duty to protect her people.

Once she was at the front, she glanced around as people stared at her waiting for her orders. "WE NEED A DISTRACTION!" she yelled out at the group. "FIFTH AND FOURTH COHORT! BE THAT DISTRACTION! SECOND FLANK IT FROM THE LEFT! FIRST FROM THE RIGHT! THIRD MAKE YOURSELF USEFUL! GO PEOPLE GO!"

[Jennifer Kail]

“Make myself useful?” Jen grumbled to herself as she formed ranks with the third. She spat on the ground at the Praetor’s orders. What did they expect her to do? Run around flailing her arms about like some gods forsaken fawn that had been dropping too much acid? “She can take those orders and fuck them right in the ass I’m getting in on the action.” Jen glanced left and then glanced right. Everyone was so focused on the giant tentacle monster that looked like it was fresh out of some bad hentai comic that they wouldn’t notice her slipping away so that was precisely what she did breaking from her spot in the rank and file troops and making her way to join the only cohort that seemed to know where the fun was at, the first. She probably wouldn’t stay with them long but they would get her into the midst of the battle and that was all she really wanted.

[MONSTER! RAWR!]

Well look at this feast just running up to him! This was a marvelous day and he was going to take full advantage of it. The sweet, sweet music he had heard led him to some sweet, sweet treats. And look! They had brought pointy sticks as well! The Kraken loved a good shish kabob! Oh boy, this was going to be a wonderful buffet of noms.

He let out a might roar as he hoisted himself up onto the beach further. He glared down at the demigods before he reached out with a tentacle and swept across their front lines with more than enough intention to knock them over. Once they were knocked over, he would pick them up one by one and eat them. Oh this was going to be a good treat!

[Jennifer Kail]

It was a good thing Jen had stepped away from the line of the third cohort when she did because not a moment after she had gotten away the beastie let our a roar and proceeded to demolish a whole flank of troops. Lucky her. That's what they got for making themselves easy targets and something told her this wasn't going to be a fight that was won by their outstanding battle formations. That being the case it made Jen's plan to go a little rogue seem all the more appealing.

It didn't really matter at the moment however. Jen had found her way to the action and she wasn't going to waste it because a few legionnaires got themselves eaten. "But gods you are ugly." She said as she bumped a soldier out of her way grabbing one of his pilum as she passed. "It's like Neptune got freaky with Medusa and had a baby. It wasn't even one of those drunken nights of passion that is kinda a mistake and you never talk about it again. This was like a straight up 'I'm desperate to stick my trident all up in that messy monster hole' with the Hydra coming in to give the snake bitch sloppy seconds afterwards. Just shameful. Someone needs to remind that fool that before you hump you gotta cover your stump."

Jen was talking to herself more than anything at this point as she took careful aim at one of tentacle monster's eyes. At least she thought it was an eye. It looked pretty squishy in any case and with monsters like these squishy places were usually good ones. "Course I can't really judge. Some folks like a monster on the street and a snake in the bed. It's a free country after all." With that she hurled her spear and turned to walk on without even seeing if it landed or not.

[Cheyenne Achilles]

As soon as Cheyenne barked out her orders, she headed over to join her cohort over on the right. And she did it not a moment too soon. The beast had flung a tentacle around and knocked over a few legionnaires. Cheyenne's eyes widened as she realized what the monster was trying to do. "ON YOUR FEET!" she barked at them. "ON YOUR FEET IF YOU DON'T WANT TO MEET DEATH!" She knew that they had a chance of surviving if they could run away from the monster, but that chance was slim if they were knocked over.

She turned back to her cohort as she started barking out more orders about formations, but it was hard to concentrate when she heard her camp screaming from the monster attacks. But she noticed one of the legionnaires had thrown a spear at the Kraken and it landed in a squishy part of the skin and it seemed to hurt the monster quite a bit. "Yes... yes..." she muttered to herself before she turned back to her troops. "ATTACK THE SOFT SPOTS! IT'S VULNERABLE THERE! GO GO GO!"

[Jennifer Kail]

By Jupiter’s lightning rod cock their Praetor could yell. Jen didn’t know which was worse, listening to yon one eyed beastie wailing over there or having Cheyenne bark orders at the top of her lungs like a little yappy dog that had suddenly found a megaphone. At least the one eyed beast something she was accustomed to slaying. Miss Praetor over there hardly ever stopped with the orders. “Hey!” Jen called over the chaos of the battle. “Praetor Barbie! We’re the fucking Legion of Rome! Why isn’t someone firing our damn ballistae right up Mr. Calamari’s monster ass?!”

It was a legit question. The ballista was perhaps one of the most powerful weapons that the Roman Legions were known for and it would do far more damage than a few pointy sticks. For that matter they had a big ass war elephant that they could be lighting on fire and sending crashing into the thing. Why was she the only one who had the good ideas? Granted the Legion might not like its pet elephant being set aflame so that probably meant they needed to go with the ballista idea but it still would have been hella funny.

“Mars almighty…” She said to the god almost as if he had been standing beside her and was a close personal friend. “…I apologize for being the only one with half a brain...” Jen paused long enough to chop off the end of a tentacle that had wrapped itself around some poor smuck’s leg letting him scramble back to safety. “…When we kill this thing though. You definitely owe me one fucked to shit flaming ass elephant.” With that Jen turned and strode towards the siege platforms. If no one was going to help her she would just take care of this thing by herself.

[Cheyenne Achilles]

Praetor Barbie? Somebody really called her that in the middle of a battle? Cheyenne couldn't help but feel a little pride over the fact that someone compared her to a Barbie doll, but they had much bigger problems to face. She whirled around to face the girl who had speared the Kraken's eye. The ballistae? Was she really questioning her plan at the moment? She wasn't a daughter of Bellona for nothing.

Cheyenne rolled her eyes before she pointed back at the city. "They're readying the thing," she said sternly making sure she could be heard over the noise of the battle. "But that thing can't be readied at a moment's notice. We have to distract the thing before we can strike it down." She turned back to the troops before she called out, "ATTACK THE WEAK SPOTS! MAKE THE LEGION PROUD!"