The Olympian Games 2: The Marks

NOTE: This is an AU, taking place after this reality's version of The Anomaly. As such, any spoilers she mentions of her former life are not true for mainstream continuity as the Anomaly occured differently here.

Jess had no idea why she had accepted.

She stood in her room in the Big House's cabin, pacing back and forth. She felt sick. When Hermes had aarrived, asking her to take part in the Olympian Games, why had she accepted? Why had she agreed to such an impossible task.

"You are a talented girl," Hermes had said. "How would you like to show the world that?"

She had wanted to smack this god in the face. Did he really just call her curse a gift? If she lost control, he could kill someone. She felt that familiar pang of guilt, and once again pushed it away. "What's done is done." Jess checked once again to be sure that she wasfully loaded with her ninja stars, and strapped her two sais to her back. She closed her eyes. Was she really ready for this? Could she really win this without killing everyone, everywhere?

She shut her eyes, and the sick feeling returned to her. She remembered inititally spurning this offer, and starting to stalk away, when Hermes' whispered reply hit her in the stomach. "Mr. Way would have wanted it." She spun around, and the next thing she knewher blade was at his throat. "Cadmus is dead. And I will never forgive myself. Don't you dare bring him up."

Her anger increased as he laughed.

(Not done)