we're all goin' mad

asher. 20. son of dionysus

[asherlace]

witchbcrn :

     “as soon as this damn concussion goes away. i’ll be your protector, sure.” she almost laughed at the idea of it, only being able to smile. “as long as you take the blame when i fuck up.”

    “ If you fuck up, I’ll probably be dead, so... deal. How does it feel to be my newly appointed body guard? Honored? Nervous? ” He gasped. “ Responsible? ” 

[asherlace]

itsbettybiotch :

“only thing i’m tryna fortify is my vag. this shit is fucking pointless. like, ‘oooh i’m chiron and i’m gonna pretend that some big wooden spikes are gonna keep the monsters out then be all sad when more kids die’. gimme a fuckin break.” betty gave a small sigh, hindsight taking hold and keeping her from bashing chiron any more than she already had. “wanna just go smoke or something? this is blowing my shit.”

       “ Yes. ” An immediate, absolute answer spoken like a true deviant. Even his feet had turned towards a different path, already dead set on shirking his responsibilities. “ I got some stuff a kid of Demeter grew me. Should be pretty good. Unless you got something? ” He never knew, figured different strokes for different folks and all that.

[asherlace]

boyrioted :

@boyrioted

                           as soon as he’d noted campers running towards him , he’d sprinted towards whatever perceived danger they’d noted. it was an automatic reaction, born from the heart, honed from riots. still, he’d paced well enough that paired with his stamina, jakub would arrive to see the demigod fall to the ground and yell out. there was no hesitation. he, as fluid as the throw of his daggers  —-  both shot with perfect precision to lodge within minotaur’s eyes. his running does not stop until he reached the beast’s legs and made set to climb. thigh, forearm, shoulder, back. 

                           the beast in all its fury did little to quell jakub’s actions. sword unsheathed, blade dives into the side of its neck, pushing outwards to leave the head half-swinging, the beast dead.     “if you’re hurt, run. if not, take your pick.”   called down as body leaves that of falling corpse   —   jakub, quickly, turns sight to asher, hand reaching with means for him to take it,   “need a quick decision, bud.”

      With a sense of awe, Asher watched Jakub swoop in and take the beast out, scrambling backwards as blood splattered onto the ground. He was shaking from exertion and fear, the beast felled so easily by the son of Ares whereas his own solution was to run. His lip had split and his chin was bruised and bleeding but he looked up at his savior, immediately going to grasp the offered hand. 

       “ Jakub! ” 

        He was on his feet and his jaw ached, fear and adrenaline still running its course through him, but overall he felt gratitude. 

       “ There’s no where to run. There are so many of them. ” The place he had just come from was overrun, he didn’t even know if the attacks were concentrated or spread out, the scope of the damage not easily calculated. “ Where are you going? ”

[asherlace]

thedreamingsun :

She’d had her nose in a book full of arias, humming the melodies under her breath, when she’d heard the distant call of her name– and then she’d turned just in time to see Asher fall into the lake, sinking like a stone. “Ash!”

Bubbles surfaced, but not him: a beat, and she’d abandoned her sheet music, Eve running straight for him. She ripped off her T-shirt as she ran, then slipped out of her skirt, Eve thankfully already barefoot.

A second crash, and she was beneath the surface of the water too, Eve diving down, down, down..

She could make out the faint shape of him tumbling towards the bottom, and while it wasn’t the deepest of waters, she couldn’t see the tell-tale signs of him trying to swim. Eve glanced at the darkness surrounding them, and then she glanced up – where the sun was waiting.

A column of light struck the surface of the water, piercing through, spiraling down towards them as Eve took hold of Asher, and began to drag him up.

Eve’s breath was ragged as she gasped for air, her arms around Asher’s chest as her legs propelled them towards land. “Ash– use your legs, c’mon!”

       Ash’s cheeks were comically puffed as he held his breath, sinking like an anchor in water down to the bottom. The adrenaline coursing through him did little in the way of helping him to hold his breath and soon bubbles escaped his mouth as necessity forced him to exhale so that he could take in new air. Only, the reflex didn’t understand the whole under water issue. The demigod thrashed as best he could but no amount pushed him upward, until he felt something tug him up, his eyes opened and he saw someone. Someone had come for him! His hair floated around him like dark wisps of seaweed and then he was breaking the surface, gasping for air and coughing when a bit of water came with it. “ I’m tryin’ ” He wheezed, thrashing his legs this way and that like he was climbing stairs. 

       The minute they hit dry land, the moment he could feel the ground beneath him, he dropped down to lay on it. “ Thanks. ” He coughed some more, then groaned, head still spinning as his hangover ignored his near death experience. “ I was lookin’ for you. ”

[asherlace]

witchbcrn :

     jo snorted, a laugh she wasn’t proud of. maybe it was the delirium of it all, maybe she thought she was still in a dream. still, it didn’t make the situation seem any less comical in her head… until it began to hurt again, causing her smirk to turn into a grimace. “yeah, well, speak for yourself. i’ll just learn some more spells, and hopefully not be as fucked up next time around.”

        “ Hey, hey...yeah, ” Asher would nod had it not been too painful, but his expression turned to one of discovery, “ you’ll learn those spells... and come protect me, right? ” 

[asherlace]

      “ Don’t go that way! Don’t go that way! ” With a burst of speed that none of his trainers or instructors had ever seen from him, Asher slammed through the greenery of the forest, dirt and twigs being kicked up beneath his sneaker clad feet. His chest was heaving with every gust of air he took into his lungs but he didn’t dare stop or look back as he heard the monsters behind him roar. He was yelling at demigods around him who were also running in various directions in their confusion-- lucky for them Asher was there to shed some light on where they shouldn’t be running. That was until his foot hooked on a tree root sending him slamming chin first into the ground. The taste of iron filled his mouth and he groaned, rolling over onto his back to find that the three monsters that had been chasing after him, had caught up.

                                               “ Somebody help! ” 

@boyrioted

[asherlace]

       Another long exhale from the demigod and then he was dragging his feet towards the duties that awaited him and the one who’d been assigned to help him. “ This is lame. ” He sidled up to the blonde, shoving his hands into his pockets as he took up a lax pace beside her. “ Fortification is not my strong suit. ”

@itsbettybiotch

[asherlace]

xxjuni :

“I helped Eve, at first.” The son of Erebus had been in terrible shape. Blood poured out of his side at a far faster rate than normal. The stain spreading at the side of his shirt was the first thing she’d taken notice of. After that she’d helped others as much as she could before being rushed from the cabin. “She needed help getting someone to a safe place so he could be healed. After that I just did what I could to help in the cabin. At some point someone rushed me out when things were getting really bad. You?”

      “ Well, that doesn’t sound completely terrifying. ” Sarcasm, of course, the entire ordeal had been something of nightmares. He hated monsters and he hated parties being ruined, the fact that those two most hated things had crossed had made it the ultimate worst experience. “ I got my ass kicked then passed out and woke up mangled. ” He laughed, then got lost in the memory of it. “ It sucked. ”

[asherlace]

“hell no.” she added, their similar reactions causing a painful smile, quickly disappearing. “we are alive. cheers to that. maybe next time, alive but not as scratched up?”

      “ Yeah, I’ll keep that in mind. ” Asher exhaled and turned his face into his pillow for a second, letting darkness fill his vision. He wished he had wine, or some other numbing agent. If they hadn’t have thrown that party... The demigod turned his face to the side, opening his eyes to focus on Jo, abruptly enough that it jostled his cot and had him hissing as he rediscovered his injuries. “ Actually, I’ll make it a priority. This sucks. ”

[asherlace]

top three partners in crime?

       “ Jo. And Nova, but technically she’s my half-sister in crime so, I don’t know if she counts. Auditions are being held for a third, bring me Poseidon’s trident-- or something as interesting, then we’ll talk. ”

[asherlace]

xxjuni :

Her stomach twisted at the thought of doing even more training. Anything outside of what she considered her forte made her a bit nervous. The suggestion that they should engage in even more training was a bit daunting. “It does,” she sighed. “I have a feeling we’ll get the barrier back up and everything will be okay.”

     “ That’s the hope. ” Though Asher had a bit of a difficult time trying to maintain his usual attitude with danger looming. “ What happened to you... during the attack? ”

[asherlace]

jo snorted, the vibrations only causing her headache to increase. “i think i got a concussion or something. it hurts to think.” she adjusted her position on the bed, moving to rub her temples. “leave it to our asses to end up here.”

        “ I think I’d be better at dealing with head injuries. Fuck...maybe we should take training more seriously. ” He paused, then expecting her to say it in unison with him, “ naw. I don’t know, we did alright... I mean, we’re still alive. ”

[asherlace]

“i don’t know why people automatically associate me with hermoine from harry potter but i guess i’ll take it. she was always my favorite in the book series anyway. but, really, magic isn’t what jk rowling made it out to be. its far different from what you’d expect.” sophie stated in her soft voice as she looked up at the curious eyes watching her.

      “ I could totally see that. I wanna be like Sirius Black... only, like, I don’t die in a lame way. ” Asher kicked his feet up onto the table, lounging back as he made himself comfortable as if he was invited to. “ But I only watched the movies. I guess if magic was like that, I don’t think it’d be as neat. They got a bunch of weird spells. ”

[asherlace]

[ Event 01 ] -- The Breach

tw: injury, violence, explicit language

       His breathing sounded too loud to his own ears, his head swimming with the alcohol he had consumed, but Asher had never wished to be more sober than now as he hid from monsters. He sucked in a deep breath and held it, the log he had pressed himself against digging into his back. In the chaos he had run into the forest, not exactly the first place he should have gone, but he hadn’t been thinking about much but trying to stay alive.

        Asher scrambled away from his hiding place as he felt claws scrap into the fallen tree to dig into his shoulder. He wrenched away with a loud yelp and then he was up and sprinting again. He cleared the tree line and then claws scraped again at his back, huge talons wrapping around him and dragging him up. 

          “ Put me down! Put me down! ” Asher desperately wriggled, trying to get free of the cage of sharp nails and bird feet and then he looked down just as arrows flew and hit the large bird-monster causing it to open its feet. “ Hey! Woah! Don’t-- ahhh! ” He plummeted to the ground, landing on a rooftop and sliding down the slanted surface. “Ooof. Gods shit fu--  !! ” His back and shoulder were scraped and he had finally stopped screaming right as the edge of the roof slipped from his fingers and he fell feet first, ankle making a loud popping noise before he blacked out, his body hitting the ground with a dull thud. 

[asherlace]

her head pounded. she was practically seeing double. “me?” she groaned. “i remember too much, up until my head hit the damn concrete.” she grumbled, reaching up and feeling a bandage wrapped around part of her head. luckily, it seemed like the only thing keeping her confined to this place. slowly, she opened her eyes again, glancing over to asher’s bed. “good god. you look awful.”

      “ Oh, thank you, Jo, you don’t look too hot yourself. ” Asher quipped back, amusement lacing his tone but he couldn’t laugh for fear of agitating his wounds again. He had already learned his lesson while trying to fight off the other medics. “ Let me tell you, the worst thing I thought I’d face the day after that little party was a hangover, but I’ve really outdone myself this time around. ”

[asherlace]

xxjuni :

 She hoped Asher would give her some sort of indication that he’d actually follow the curfew and stay as safe as possible, but she didn’t want to push the envelope and flat out ask. “We did survive,” she said with a smile. “And now we have an idea that something might happen, so it’s easier to prepare.”

       Asher scrunched his nose up and though he had been healed completely by the infirmary medics, he felt like his back and ankle still ached at the memory of how ill-prepared he had been. Still, he had been stuck in his aversion to anything to do with physical grueling thus far and his initial disdain was hard to keep clear of his expression. “ It’d be better if we just focused on re-establishing the magical barrier... ” Guilt punctured through him like a lance but he swallowed around it, used to ignoring these types of emotions. “ Training sucks. ”

[ruinedchildhood]