Claiming:Quests/The Quest to Find Persephone's Lover

◾Name of Character: Katherine Rose Winters ◾God Parent: Persephone ◾Who is sending them on the Quest? This is a personal matter for Kitty but hopefully, she'll be going with Alexander's approval ◾Dream if there was one: Hoping to use a completely empty dream template that will contain the following scene, or something along these lines (as in no "Dear [..], from [...]" and will basically only have the heading "The following message took place during a dream" and nothing else) “Katherine ...” The voice of a woman echoed in the darkness. Kitty was confused as she turned on her heel, her head whipping to face all directions, looking for her addresser. Her hand flew to the clip hanging from her belt loop. It was empty. She was unarmed, unprepared and unsure of what was to happen next. But Kitty, for reasons unbeknownst to her, was unafraid. “Katherine, my dear girl ...” “M-mother?” Kitty asked the emptiness. “Where are you? Please show yourself!” “I am afraid I made a terrible mistake.” Persephone continued. Her voice was a bleak and melancholy as a lonely winter night. The darkness lifted before Kitty, flashes of imagery almost blinding her with their vividness and disjointedness. They were images of her home in Dutchess County. The large chateau that grew to be Kitty’s playground as a child seemed so distant to her. As the images became clearer, she noticed the interior was ransacked. There were deep scratches carved into the masonry of the wall, made by frightful claws of some sort of monster. Their belongings were scattered, shattered and ruined, fragments of glass, marble and porcelain glittering dangerously in the flickering light. The windows were no more; even the wooden panes were reduced to splinters. The images made her dizzy and as they materialised before her and immaterialised just a quickly, each picture faster than the last. But one caught her attention more than anything else. A sleek, black, electric wheelchair was overturned against the wall and marred with scratches and burns but more importantly, it was empty. “Where is he?” Kitty’s voice was grave. ''“My lord husband wanted to keep him away from me. I should never have visited him. Katherine, I-”'' “Where. Is. He?!” The darkness reverberated with Kitty’s distraught rage. “I do not know,” was the solemn reply. ''“Anywhere. Hades is keeping me prison in the Underworld. I cannot leave and he will not let you in if you try to come and free me.” “I need to find him.”'' “That is why I need you.” Persephone tried to keep her voice level but it was cracking under the pressure of her emotional agony. Kitty did not need to see her mother to know that they shared a mutual sorrow. ''“I would not ask if I could do it myself. But I fear for his life.”'' “Where do I begin?” ''“Even if I could leave, I cannot sense him. He is nowhere near the living. But perhaps ...”'' The following images formed a cacophonous mix of confusing tricks of light, pictures of cities she did not recognise and landmarks that she had never seen before. Light-headedness washed over Kitty as her brain failed to process what she was seeing quickly enough. ''“Find him, flower. And tell him that ...”'' The images disappeared. Kitty tried to regain her composure, breathing deeply as she stared into nothingness once more. “He made a mistake, loving one such as me.”  

◾General idea behind the details of the quest: Since Kitty enrolled in Camp Half Blood, Persephone has watched over her and smiled proudly at how her daughter had started to grow in the sanctuary of the Camp. A yearning began to tug at her heart as she looked down on her child. The girl may have her eyes, her hair, but she had his smile, his big heart and his determination. After 18 years, she mustered up enough courage to go and see him. Brandon, confined to a wheelchair and in a large estate all on his own, never expected to see her again. Persephone told him everything: who she was, why she left, where she had been and in the midst of it all, she recited a litany of apologies which contained every synonym for 'sorry' under the sun. Brandon cared not. He didn't realize how much he loved her still, after so long and wanted only to keep seeing her. Persephone kept making furtive trips out of the Underworld to see him, her visits growing more and more frequent.

Hades, of course, noticed her disappearances which had escalated until she was gone from his side for days at a time. He learned that she had been meeting with one of her mortal lovers. She had never returned to one of them before, much less stayed with one of them after bearing them a child. In a blind fit of rage and jealousy, Hades arranged for his Furies (monster subject to change) to take Brandon away to a place where no green grows, where no flowers bloom and where she can't reach him ever again. Persephone found herself confined in the Underworld, wallowing in her guilt and sorrow for condemning Brandon to whatever fate Hades has decided for him.

[It doesn't need to escalate to this point but it can for the added drama.

As her misery grows, the skies grow darker and winters grow colder. Plants begin to slowly wither and crops begin to sicken. The agony of the world echoed that of when she was kidnapped from her mother to be with the God of the Underworld, aeons ago. The world's vegetation could fall into the precipice of annihilation]

There is little joy left in the goddess's heart and it is dwindling with every fleeting minute. With one final burst of hope, Persephone reaches out to her daughter to right what she has done.

This quest will more or less be a nationwide trek through three highly polluted cities in the search for Brandon Winters. Each one will feature a different kind of pollution from it's predecessor and each one with worse monsters. Kitty will probably grow weaker with each location which could be linked to either the lack of greenery and cleanliness in the locations or her mother's growing sorrow. ◾General idea of monsters they may encounter: Dutchess County, New York - Flesh-eating sheep; Rockport, Indiana - Karkinos; Las Vegas, Nevada - Lamiai; Mexico City - Keres

◾End game: It is no secret that Hades was the one who stole Brandon away and put him in some faraway city but unbeknownst to Kitty and Persephone, Hades asked his lackeys to prepare a draught of water from the River Lethe to wipe away Brandon's memories of Persephone and their daughter, thus removing all connections he had to Hades' queen.

◾General idea of locations planned: The questers' first stop will be Kitty's home, The Winters Chateau in Dutchess County, to see the damage done to her home because of Brandon's kidnapping. There they will search for clues about his location as well as decipher one of the images of the cities that featured in Kitty's dream. They secure some of Kitty's family wealth to be able to pay for travel and food. As they are leaving to go to Indiana, they are met with a hoard of flesh-eating sheep that had been feasting on the Winters' family horses. Their second location is the vicinity surrounding the AK Steel Factory in Rockport, Indiana. For years, its waste removal scheme involved dumping chemical and metal sewage into the Ohio River. This location will feature a battle with a Karkinos residing in the river. After the battle, this location will prove fruitless. They can rest for a night in a hotel, deciphering a second image and revealing a second location: Las Vegas. It is a heavily commercialized city that will inevitably be rife with domestic pollution. The questers will battle Lamiai that disguised themselves as maids working in the hotel that they stay in before leaving for their final destination: Mexico City. A thick blanket of smog hangs over the area and is the location of Brandon Winters. There, their final battle will be against Keres. I intend for Kitty to be dangerously wounded in this battle and will go to a hospital where they will find Brandon hospitalized with amnesia, unable to recognize Kitty in the slightest.

◾Number of questers desired: Three 1. Kitty Winters - Daughter of Persephone (Owned by User:BeyondTheStars) 2. Christopher Winchester - Son of Morpheus (will help Kitty decipher the locations from her dreams) (Owned by User:AliasKit) 3. Astrid Faye - Daughter of Melinoe (Owned by User:theawesomeperson202)