<div align="center"><em>Gold Dust</em></div><br/><hr/><br/>The creatures attacking the two demi-gods started to fall. One being taken out by the daughter of Athena. All of them getting a shot or two on the half-bloods. Even though their own poison affected them, it wasn't nearly as potent. They kept coming. Only two having been successfully taken down by the demi-gods. They were beasts in almost the purest sense of the word. They barely felt the pain at all as their own barbs struck them and Athena's child swung her sword at them.<br/><br/>Then it happened. As Libby and Zac went down, Terry was in the middle of his own fight. The alpha charged and made a rookie mistake. He was too cocky and had killed too many demi-gods. It had been much too long since his last<em>death</em>. When monsters lived for a long time, they tended to get stupid with their attacks. Their egos were too big and they made fatal mistakes. The alpha did just this. Instead of keeping his distance from the child of lightening, he got as close as he possibly could. He swung his barb down to strike the boy and was hit with a trillion watts of electricity through the side of his chest. It went through his body within milliseconds. It fried everything in the beast's body. Blood dripped from it's ears and leaked down through it's mane. Seconds later the beast exploded in a cloud of golden dust. Like all monsters, he'd been sent to the Tartarus. There was no telling how long it would be before he was reformed. Likely months or years.<br/><br/>Meanwhile, the others weren't fairing as well as they thought. The death of their alpha sent them into the rage Libby had been worried about before. It didn't last long though. Whether it was Poseidon or Zac's power, the ground shook and threw all the remaining creatures off balance. They roared and before they could regain footing, a crack opened in the ground and swallowed the beasts whole. As quickly as it opened, it closed back up. Golden dust shot up into the air and settled back on the ground.<br/><br/>In place of where the alpha had been, there were three, large manticore teeth. The three of them gleaming bright white. They were the alpha's three front teeth. While not as valuable as manticore poison, their teeth were very strong and could be formed into weapons. And even though the poison was primarily located in their tails, there was at least an alcohol sized shot of poison in each tooth.