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Remigio cursed loudly as he was almost hit by a car, as much of a hassle it was to walk to the park he dared not to use up his energy. He was getting nervous and looked back behind him for any signs of Aira back there only to sigh and shake his head as he kept walking. It took some time but he had it to the park and soon to the doors to the underworld which appeared as a simple hill with a single dead tree on top if it. He sighed a bit as he looked at the doors trying to remember how they were to open. "Uh music I can't believe I forgot music." he muttered as he hit his fore head hard and sighed as he went to sit in front of them. Aira would be back right? She knew more about Hyperion's plan than he did and yet he allowed her to run off.

No, Aira would not be back soon. She was on the roof of the Empire State ready to fight off something that was coming up from below her. With her sword drawn and her hair waving in the wind, she had a fighting stance and was ready to strike out at whatever came close. Then, huge black birds the size of ravens came into view. They looked normal and seemed normal. Well, at least until they started shooting feather darts at Aira. Aira screamed and deflected some of them off her sword and swiped at them. A few of them turned to dust, but the rest flew around her, shooting her with these arrow-like feathers.

Remigio sat on the ground waiting he was hoping that he would find some random God to be watching him and even poke a joke at him. But no one was around and the knot in his stomach was tightening as he stood up and tarted to pace back and forth as he was getting more and more worried. "Where are you?" he asked swallowing as he looked at the sky before he took a deep breath. He would risk it, focusing on the shadows that were growing he wanted the portal to take him to where ever Aira was at and bring her with him.

Aira kept fighting. Several of the feather arrows had pierced her, but she also deflected a majority of them. Unfortunately, no matter how many she killed, they just kept coming and coming. These birds were the guardians of Ares' temple, so why were they here now? Perhaps they had left some lowly bird there to fend it off. Anyways, she kept fighting and slicing through them. This was not good. Aira knew that she wasn't going to last much longer if she kept fighting on like this.

Remigio opened the portal and stepped through as normal he felt wind but after a while he felt more and more wind hit him in the face and for a moment he shouted and screamed when he found that there was no ground under him. The shadows started to fade but he spotted Aira and then he spotted that he was on a wall. The portal had opened on the side of a building leaving him with very space to walk around on.

"Aira!" he shouted as he clung to some shadows and prayed that he wouldn't fall out of this shadow. "Over here!" he called as he spotted her fighting something.

Aira didn't hear him. Or she ignored him. She wasn't sure which. The birds shot another volley of arrow-feathers at her. Like usual, she deflected most of them and killed some more birds. And as usual, some hit their target and more birds came. Aira's whole body was aching with pain now, but she didn't dare give up. Giving up meant her death and her death meant the Underworld. Of course she'd be going there anyways at some point, but she didn't want it to be now. That would be too soon.

Remigio frowned when he noticed he was being ignored and shouted louder at her before only to use more shadows in the area to grab at those pesky birds. "Aira!" he shouted as he managed to hit one bird but soon found himself under attacked.

Aira sighed. She wished she had a bow. She was no daughter of Apollo, but she still had pretty good aim. This she knew from archery class back at camp. She knew that if she threw her sword now and missed, then she'd be weaponless, despite the fact that it would return to her pocket soon. Now, she had to come up with something. She knew that Remigio was there and under attack. Despite her anger, she had to do something. Looking around, she looked at the scattered arrow-feathers. Arrow-feathers. That's what she'd use on them. They used them on her, Aira would use them on them. Yes, weird. Picking up armfuls of them and being careful not to prick herself, she started throwing them at the birds. She was pretty good at throwing as well and managed to hit a bunch of the birds.

Remigio was a bit iffy about having these birds attacking him but as long as he had the shadows around him he found that they were effective offensive and defensive though he had to make sure he was rooted by at least one strand of shadow. Raising some shadows to block from one attack he blinked when he noticed that he was being attacked by more than just birds. Swallowing he hoped he didn't anger Aira that much but he had to make sure that he blocked the birds feathers from both attackers and allowing the shadows to swallow these birds whole and crush them.

Aira sighed with frustration. Apparently her thick-headed friend thought she was throwing the arrows at him. No, she was throwing them at the birds. With no remaining birds left to throw them at, she looked around for a safe place to deposit them. Finding no such place, she set them on the metal roof and used a spark from her finger to light them on fire. Here, they would burn and not be noticed by the mortals. Straightening up, Aira didn't know what to do now. She wasn't sure what to think about Remigio's being here, so she just sat down on the roof again and thought. Of course she remembered the deadline, but what was she supposed to do about that now?