Go back for Cassia

As tempting as these two beauties are, you don't trust either of them, or their leggy companion either. Pulling out of the intimate grip of the two you leap back into the water ignoring their pleas. The other woman has already disappeared under the water and you kick fiercely to catch up to her before she reaches Cassia. The further you get from the two temptresses the more implausible their story seems and the more worried you are about your companion.

It takes almost a minute to swim through the tangle of roots and reach the side of the water where you left Cassia. When your head breaks the water it takes a few seconds to shake the water from your eyes, and when you do it takes another few seconds to comprehend what you are seeing.

Cassia is there, in the embrace of a man who looks vaguely familiar. The two are kissing passionately, and the young man is skillfully loosening the leather straps that hold her armor in place. You must have gasped in shock, because the young man lifts his mouth from Cassia's and you look in horror at your own face staring back at you. With a feral grin his hands take Cassia's head in his and he claims her mouth again kissing her passionately and resuming his attempts to strip her armor from her body.

"No!" you cry out in anger as you stumble through the water closing the gap between you as quickly as possible. You see Cassia try to turn in 'your' arms but she is held firmly as the man continues to forcefully explore her lips with his tongue as his eyes gauge how long it will take you to get to him. You can see one of his hands frantically pulling the lower half of her armor from her body exposing her white thighs but now Cassia is struggling in his arms and you have reached the edge of the water.

"Cassia!" You cry out again "It's a trick!"

"Get back Demon!" The words spring to your mind "In the name of Apollo I banish you!" As you speak, you lift the bluelight in your hand hoping the cold light might make him shy away but instead a beam of light as bright as the noon day sun flashes from the stone and the face that you had seen many times before in still pools of water and polished silver trays melted into a fierce grimace of anger and pain.

The face of the beast now looks nothing like you, in fact it no longer looks even human. Its eyes are yellow and has catlike irises that narrow into thin strips under the light. When it snarls at you it reveals the hundreds of thin teeth that fill its mouth and the hands that it raises to protect its face from the light have talons like a lion's erupting from the fingertips.

As soon as she is released Cassia lifts her bluestone and chants the same words only in a language no longer spoken by common men. Despite the strangness of the language you have no trouble understanding her and can see the power of Apollo in the beam of light that blasts the demon. Staggering away from Cassia the demon stumbles by you and falls into the black water; steam erupting as the water covers his burning skin and the demon twists and writhes in the shallow water heading away from you towards where you first met them.

Looking in the direction that the demon is struggling you see the faces of the two sirens that had come so close to distracting you with their soft bodies. After seeing the true form of this one, you shudder in horror as you think of what you almost did.

"How did you do that?" Demanded Cassia as she turns back to you her eyes flashing with emotion as her hands tighten the straps on her armor. "How does a simple farm **** use the power of the bluestone?" Cassia steps closer to you but not in a friendly way. "Who are you really? And why have you been lying to me?"