Lost Treasure part 2: Gambling to knight

(OOC: same order)

The three stood outside Lotus Casino. It was about a block away. The flight was good, Richter personally enjoyed it greatly. If he had to decide on how the other took it he would say Kanji did the worse, heck him and everyone else freaked out when they hit the mile of turbulence. During that time he was enjoying a sprite and it didn't bug him. He thought Rin looked a bit worried, but you can barely tell what she is feeling by looking at her. He then brought his mind back to quest. "The lotus casino..." said Richter. "Once you enter you will never want to leave...." He hid the fact that he was a bit nervous. A good leader doesn't show he is nervous, He kept telling himself. Apprently from past reports on people who made it out said just being in there made you want to stay. There were still demigods in there, trapped. They were told to ignore them, to focus on the mission at hand. It would be tough to but they would have to. "Any comments before we go, heck any ideas?" asked Richter.

Kanji was glad to be off that damned airplane and back on the ground where his movements were his own. "Never wanna leave huh. Well, I dunno about you but, I wanna go inside this place now. Maybe they have bets on fights in there... Better yet... Maybe you can sign up for fights in there!" He turned to Richter and Rin and waved. "I'm gonna go on ahead inside to uh... Gather intel." He turned back towards the casino and started fast-walking to the entrance.

Rin shrugged lightly, silently resisting beforehand. She's heard of Lotus Casino, sure - and the fact that there's any game you could ask for. Including Resident Evil and Project Diva - trust me, it sounds like a girly game, but it's Rin's favorite.
"Good luck?" She called after Kanji, walking towards the casino slowly masking her interest in the place. Here goes nothing...

"Gather intel, no one is going to know about it!" yelled Richter. "Just look for it and don't accept anything, resist the temptation to do anything that doesn't have to do with our quest." Richter paused. You get trapped in time here from what it seems. He worried if kanji would be able to resist. He wondered if he even should of brought him. "Ok we should split up, if one of us manage not to get trapped we can get out of it." said Richter to Rin as they walked towards the entrance. "Good luck." said Richter taking the left entrance. The place was incredible. It seemed more like a large amusement park with everything you want and more. He shook his head to break out of the trance of the place. A man dressed like a bellhop walked up to him. "Hello sir! You must be Richter Neiro! Your room has been paid for and you get a complementary Lotus card, good for anything in the casino." said The man. Richter began to raise his arm to take the card. He then realized what he was doing and with alot of will forced his hand back down. "No sorry, I'm just here to look around." said Richter. He continued deeper into the casino which was alot bigger on the inside. A waitress with a platter for lotus flower cookies offered him one. With a lot of will power he rejected it. He continued walking, the further he got the more his will got weaker. His memory was trying to slip away from him.

Kanji walked into the casino, behind Richter, and looked around the whole place. A short girl in a skimpy gladiator outfit with a greatsword on her back walked up to him and handed him a paper. "Hey buddy, hundred bucks says you can't beat the goblin king in less than five minutes." Kanji threw the paper to the side and was tempted to hit the girl for even suggesting the challenge. "Don't make me laugh. It wouldn't even take me thiry seconds to wipe out something so pathetic." The girl smiled and pointed to a rather out of place wooden door. "Well, you could come to the advanced fighter's area and fight something more interesting like, say a dragon?"Kanji simply snorted and waved the girl away. "Maybe another time babe. I got a job to do right now." That seemed to be the only thing he could remember. The specifics of this job had left him but, he knew he had something to do and figured he might as well go do it. "Maybe I'll come back when I'm older."

Rin nodded, putting on her best I-won't-give-in face... well, it wasn't that convincing. Let's do this. She thought, walking into the casino - it was amazing. Like a gigantic amusement park with everything you could have ever wanted --
Mentally slapping herself, Rin decided to examine the floor when she nearly bumped into a girl. "Uh... sorry--"
"Welcome to Lotus Casino! May I interest you in a lotus flower?" She spoke in a waaay too cheery voice, Rin's eyes rising to lock at the pink lotus-flower, her mouth watering in response. She nearly grabbed one when she shook her head, not bothering to hide the fact that she wanted one badly. "Sorry, but no."
"I insist."
Take a hint, I don't want your food foo! Rin thought irritably, crossing her arms across her chest to restrain herself from taking one. "Dude, do you know how bad it is to have bowel problems, and go to a place with amazing looking food and not be able to eat it? Unless if you want to get the ambulance here later, no." Rin lied fluently, her tone feigning annoyance.
Luckily, the girl bought it.
Nice.. Rin smirked as she turned away, noting that for a moment she forgot why she was here. Am I here to go play video games? That's stupid... who would give somebody a mission like that... After a moment, she remembered, feigning the look that other people have in the place she began making her way towards where the item might be.

The casino the huge. The crystallize flame pendent was in here, somewhere. "Would you like a Lotus flower, it's the casino's specialty." said a waitress wearing a very skimpy outfit. "N-no thanks." said Richter, he pushed her aside and walked forward. He stumbled across the floor. His mind felt like it was being pulled in to different directions. Half wanting to stay and have fun, the other to remain on duty. He continued to walk. Then he ran into someone. "Oh sor..." said Richter, then he looked at the girl. She had brilliantly bright fire red hair and was really attractive. Richter's mind blank then he forced it back. He remembered he was looking for something. He remembered it had to do something with fire. The girl had fire red hair, maybe they were looking for it. It made sense to him. "No, i'm sorry it was my fault." said The girl. "My name is Ashley, umm... do you want to hang out for a bit?" Richter blinked, hanging out for a bit couldn't hurt. "Um... sure." said Richter. They walked over to the amusement park area of the casino. His mind was at ease and didn't feel like it was being forced in to different directions. The only important thing was to have fun. Someone offered the two of them some Lotus flower cookies and they ate them and commented on how good they tasted. The thing Richter didn't notice about Ashley was what she had on. A crystallized flame pendent.

Kanji walked through the crowds, shoving people out of the way as he looked around for the... Well whatever it was he would not dishonor... He couldn't remember who it was but, he knew that completing this mission was important to him. A waitress walked next to him and offered some lotus flower cookies. "Don't waste my time! You're impeading on my mission!" Mission, mission... keep that thought in mind. He continued through the casino, keeping his mission in mind through sheer will and the desire to honor someone important to him, whoever that was. However, his search was proving pointless. He was focusing too much on remembering the mission that he couldn't really take in the enviroment and search for the flame pendent."Ugh, this sucks... I hope the others are doing better."

Rin found herself in the amusement park, looking up at the best haunted house she has ever seen. What's even better? The vampires inside probably didn't glitter.
Forcing herself to turn away, Rin saw Ritcher - eating one of the lotus flowers with some other girl. Aren't you supposed to sta away from that or something? She thought, beginning to walk towards him and pulled on the back of his shirt, having to lean upwards in order to do so. Unfortunately, Rin wasn't exactly... tall. "We're on a mission, stay on task." she spoke, attempting to drag him away.
Suddenly, she stopped... seeing a neon sign haalfway across the casino. With having ADHD and all, neon colours catch your eyesight. Cosplay... contest? I'm in!! She let go, pratically speed walking towards the area. "Good luck!!"

Rin pulled his shirt and said something about a mission then sped off to a cosplay area. He shook it off and continued with Ashely to a roller coaster. They went on ride after ride. It was only until they got to the end of the amusement park did something happen. Wake up said a voice in his head, however it wasn't his. Wake up boy! Dammit you know better then this. Richter looked around to see were the voice came from. "What's wrong?" asked Ashely. "I don't know, i think i'm hearing things." said Richter. Then the voice spoke again. Wake up! This time the voice was angry. Richter don't know what made him do it but he asked Ashely what the day was. "August 13, 1993." she replied. "Why?" This didn't make sense. The dates didn't add up. Then it hit him. "The pendent!" said Richter snapping out of the trace. He looked around quickly to see were he was. The lotus casino... damn how long were we here. thought Richter. Then something else happened. We... holy shit... were the others! He looked around to see if they were in sight. Then he saw it. The crystallized flame pendent, and Ashely was wearing it. He had no time to say anything to her. He grabbed the pendent and yanked it off her neck. The chain was broken but that could be replaced later. "Thief!" yelled Ashely. Now the chase was on. The lotus eaters realized he was awake and he was being cause by security for being called a thief. So he had all the staff at the casino on his tail. He remembered that Rin was close by. He looked around then caught The ADHD attracting neon sign. He couldn't read the words but he guessed the neon costume next to the sign it had to do with cosplay. It was likely Rin was there. He forced his way though the crowd. "Rin!" he yelled as he noticed her. He had no response so he tried again. "Rin come on we need to get out of here!" yelled Richter. Still no response. He climbed up on stage. The judges of contest walked in front of him and tried to stop him. He simply pushed then aside, sending two of the judges off the stage. He walked up to in. A small amount of electricity danced along his hand. He put his hand on Rin's shoulder, hopefully waking her up from the trance. "Come on!" He yelled at her. "We got what we came for, lets find Kanji and get out of here! I've got the casino's staff and there security on my ass so lets go!"

Kanji barely noticed some commotion going on and after a few seconds of seeing what was going on, he saw two poeple running away from security. "Hmm, I feel like I should help them." He kicked his feet into a nearby machine to make sure he was up to it and started charging at the guards. With a strong jump, he kicked one the guards in the back. Upon landing on his hands, he started spinning himself around to kick the other guards. After a few seconds, he switched back to walking on his feet and drew his scythe and swung it through the air a few times. "It's time for the real fun to begin. I hope you poor excuses for security still have some fight left in you!" Are you really about to kill these people?! A part of his mind asked him. He simply smiled and nodded and began whispering. "Let the bodies hit the floor, let the bodies hit the floor..."

After raiding the cosplay outfits behind the contest stage, Rin had finally found what she was looking for: a Black Rock Shooter outfit. Unfortunately it was a little too breezy, so Rin tried a Rin Kagamine outfit instead. Well... she looked like Rin Kagamine's evil twin, with the black hair and all.
Was somebody calling my name? She silently wondered as she looked through the crowd, beginning to snap out of it when she spotted a Kaito cosplayer. Normally Rin isn't much of a fangirl, but for Vocaloid characters that's another story...
Rin jumped suddenly when she felt electicity on her shoulder, snapping out of it completely. "Say wha... wait!" She broke free of his grasp as she ran backstage, soon coming out with a large plastic leek. "Let's go!" She spoke, running towards the entrance to the casino when she spotted Kanji. She had nothing against death, hell it was inevitable, but the guards most likely were brainwashed... so yeah, Rin didn't agree with killing people who might be brainwashed.
Rin began fighting her way through the crowd with her leek, getting a few lucky shots and knocking some guards out. "Twenty points!!" She yelled after knocking out her fourth guard, a smile breaking across her lips as the white bow on her head bounced with her agile movement.
Suddenly she stopped, noticing a car in the center of the casino. Next to the car, was a roadroller - even when Rin isn't in a trance, she's a hardcore cosplayer. "Guys! Over here!" She called loudly, bursting into a run towards the roadroller.

He made sure Kanji was with them before he ran for the the road roller. However he headed towards the car. "Rin clear us a path to the entrance with the road roller, I'll get the car started." yelled Richter. "However I'll give us some cover." He rasied his hand towards the ceiling. The was a low rumbling noise. Then after a few seconds Light bulbs began to explode, sending the casino into darkness. He ran to the car. "Kanji get in!" said Richter mentioning the car. Richter jumped into the drivers seat. He put his hand to the ignition and the car burst into life. "Thats how a demigod hot wires a car." joked Richter putting the car in drive.

Kanji looked over at Richter and then at the guards that were still alive. "Gimme a second." He dashed at the guards and began "dancing" with his scythe through the remaining security guards. "How invigorating. I've been wanting to blow off some steam for a while." He finally ran back towards the car and hopped into the back seat. Kinda wish I could drive... Might cause a little more mayhem before getting outta here.

Rin plopped into the seat of the roadroller, realizing she had no idea how to drive it. Well, she'd better learn - soon.
"Move it!!" She called over the voices from the casino, searching for the keys. Once retrieving them, Rin turned the road roller to life, driving it towards the door clearing a path for her teammates.
Once outside, she sort of 'parked' the road roller (if you call it being halfway on the street and sidewalk) she willed herself to appear in the shotgun of the car, only a moment later practically materializing out of the shadows in the passenger seat.

"What did I say about killing!" said Richter angerly at Kanji. Rin shadow traveled into the car on the seat next to him. "Ok we are all here lets hit the road." He slammed his foot on to the accelerator and They shot forward. "Ok so we have enough money to make it back to new york on air plane. After that any ideas how we are going to get back to camp, it's far away from the camp."

"Well first of all, I do not recall you saying anything about killing. As for transportation... We could always just run. Should we need money, we could always rob, kill, or rip off somebody for the cash and then just keep going. Or we could just steal somebody's car. We've already stolen one, might as well keep the trend going." He rolled down the window and kicked up his feet and let them hang out the window. He started quietly singing "Ain't No Rest for the Wicked" to himself and stared at the sky, waiting for something to happen.

Rin leaned back in her chair, feeling silently accomplished that in the process of the mission, she got a new cosplay outfit.
"Uh... yeah I'm with Ritcher on this one." She replied, not feeling up to stealing. It just feels like cheating when she breaks into a bank using shadow travel, or rob somebody for money when you already have money.

"You are aware your scythe can't hurt mortals." said Richter. It sounded like Kanji wanted to go on a bloody massacre. Ares children atleast had the control not to go crazy but had his doubts with Kanji. Richter rolled up Kanji's window using the front control. He then looked the windows so they couldn't be scrolled down. "As long as we keep your feet outside it should repel the monsters, your feet smell. Richter unlocked the windows so Kanji could scroll his window down. The got to the air port just in time. They ran out of gas when the got there. "Be right back need to send this off to Olympus." said Richter pointing to the pocket the pendent was in. He walked around the side of the airport and surprisingly found a hose. He turned the water on and put his thumb on the end of the hose so it made a mist. With his free hand he fished out a gold drachma then threw it into the mist were it disappear. The goddess iris appeared as an image. "How may i help you today?" she asked. Richter fished the pendent out his pocket. "I need to send this to Hestia can you contact Hermes for me and tell him to pick it up." asked Richter. There was a pause. "Of course." said Iris and the image of her disappeared. Richter turned the water off and waited. Hermes arrived a few minutes later. Richter handed him some drachmas and the pendent then hermes disappeared with a nod. Richter walked back to the others who were a few feet away. "Ok now lets go buy some plane tickets."

"Maybe it can't hurt them but, it can sure scare the hell outta them!" He was mostly joking. His adrenaline had more or less stopped and his mind was returning to his usual level-headedness. "Well, I guess getting on the plane IS the quickest way." He didn't like the idea of traveling in the air but, he doubted he could convince them staying on the ground was a way better idea.