Chapter 14: Cat Fight, Cuddles, Impure Goddess
LAST TIME:
"Hestia." I said as I stood up as the guard helped steady me but before I could take a step I nearly face planted again as my head grew fuzzy. Thankfully one of the guards caught me as he helped me to the ground.
"Get a stretcher!" He yelled as Hestia noticed me but then she slowly looked around as her eyes landed on the sea of clouds we were passing over.
"He did it." She whispered as she stood up and walked over to me as they were placing me on a stretcher. They let her do as she pleased as the guards picked me up and began quickly walking to the hospital. Hestia in tow as the guards looked her over for injuries as she had her gaze set on the sea of clouds. It was then I saw a new flame in her eyes as she seemed to take on a new mission for herself.
If I had to guess it was then when the fates decided to give her the domain of hope as she made it a mission to become like Perseus a beacon of hope. But even then if I had known of the events to come I would have gotten up and pushed her off this horrid island to save her from that pain. A pain so great that it would crush her to a point of near death, but that story is for another time.
NOW:
YEAR: 3000AD
PERCY POV:
"Well I think that is enough for now." I said with a stretch as Artemis just stared at me but snapped out of her stupor.
"What! You can't end on that note!" She yelled at me but then suddenly gripped her head in pain as she was forced to sit down as I raised an eyebrow.
"Yeah!" Said a new voice as I turned around to see basically the whole hunt excluding one daughter of Zeus. All of them sitting and or laying on the ground as I was surprised to see them all looking at me in interest.
"When did you guys get here?" I asked as they all looked around at one another.
"Right about when you found baby Hestia." Said a voice as I turned to look at Hera as she sipped on her drink.
"Oh my god can you imagine Hestia as a baby, I bet she was adorable." Said one hunter as I saw Hestia blush.
"Seriously though you were a giant metal dude?" Asked one as I shrugged.
"Sort of." I said as they all rolled their eyes.
"Wait if you were made of metal does that mean you still are?" One question as I sighed.
"Does it look like I am made of metal?" I asked with an eyebrow raised.
"Well you kind of a hard ass sometimes." One said as I heard some snickers as I let out a exasperated sigh.
"Question." Ones said as I turned to see Phoebe raising her hand.
"Surrre." I said as she cleared her throat.
"From the point of views you mentioned does that mean that you met Rhea after you left her on the floating island?" She said as I nodded.
"Of course I did, but actually I met her a few more times over the last millennia when I went to go get groceries. Can't be eating penguin all the time now can we." I said as some girls shivered as Hera's and Hestia's eyes widened.
"You have seen mother?" Hera asked in a very serious voice.
"Yeah well did you guys know she was alive? You are her children so I thought you would know this." I said as they both looked at me like I was crazy.
"But she passed in the war." Hestia said.
"No she didn't she simply escaped and found a place to stay, over the years she has kept her identity hidden and stayed in the human world." I said with a shrug as Hera looked ready to cry but held a straight face.
"Why have you never once mentioned this to us?" She asked me.
"Because she told me that she wanted to continue living in the human world peacefully, she wanted a break from the immortal war stuff. Though she did say if I ever told you guys to tell you that she was doing fine and to not worry about her. Also she told me that if I told you where she was she would castrate me." I added as I heard snickers from the hunters.
"Well...as long as she is happy." Hestia said with a sad face as Hera looked at her sisters like she just grew another head.
"You're just going to let this slide?" She asked in a serious voice as Hestia gave her sister a glare.
"She is happy sister you should allow her to stay happy for as long as she wishes. She is our mother not someone person that we have to keep watch over 24 hours a day." Hestia defended as Hera got angry.
"I understand that she is happy but shouldn't she be happy with her children?" Hera said in a voice full of venom.
"Hera...you're starting to act like father." Hestia said in a dangerous tone as Hera stood up and suddenly flung her drink in Hestia's face as everyone went silent as Hera stood there steaming in anger. She simply waited for Hestia to react as the hearth goddess slowly raised her hand and wiped her face.
"Guys-." Artemis tried but was shut down by a glare from Hera that promised pain as the goddess shrunk back seeing the situation getting dangerous.
"You were always the most immature daughter, well I guess that is what happens when you hand around Zeus for so long." Hestia finally said with a straight face but her tone was dripping with mockery as she didn't sound like the sweet Hestia façade she had built up. No this was the war hardened and dead honest Hestia that I had come to know with multiple wars. But with that one sentence everyone gulped as they say Hera snap.
"You BITCH!" Hera screamed as she lunged at Hestia instantly both goddess were toppling over the chair Hestia sat in. Hera going for Hestia's hair and the Hestia for Hera's both rolling on the ground as everyone watched in mixed emotions. I however was not surprised that this happened, I knew I shouldn't have brought up their mother.
"GET OFF ME YOU SKANK!" Hestia screamed as Hera pulled on her hair as she sat on the hearth goddess stomach. However soon a fist found the marriage goddess's cheek as she was shoved off but soon found Hestia on top of her. A fire burned in Hestia's eyes as she threw another punch at Hera but surprisingly the goddess blocked it. She then returned the punch that found Hestia's gut that made the goddess lose her breath.
With that the fight was on as they both began to role and role and throw punches as both threw very hurtful sentences at one another. It was very entertaining to watch as both threw constant punches as both blocked and returned them. However soon my entertainment was cut short as suddenly I felt a tap on my shoulder. I just turned to see an Artemis with a questioning gaze as I rolled my eyes.
"Fine." I said as I got up and walked over to the two. I simply reached down and pulled them apart with little to no effort on my part as both kept throwing punches that only hit air. However now that I looked at the two I noticed they had somehow returned to their 15 year old forms. Both faces full of anger and hate as I kept the two off the ground as they both looked at me in their angry forms.
"What!" They both yelled at me as I gave them a straight face. Hestia breathing heavy as she blew some hair out of her face as Hera did the same. Both very similar in looks, the only difference at the age was that Hestia had red hair eyes and Hera had brown. Other than that the two looked like twins.
"You two are getting out of hand." I said setting them on the ground as they both shot each other a glare. It was kind of funny seeing the normally calm goddess completely out of composure.
"She started it!" Yelled Hera as she threw a finger in Hestia's direction as Hestia swatted it away. Hear just growled but I stopped her approach with a hand on the head as I squeezed it harder and harder until Hera was begging me to let go as she cried in pain.
"Enough." I said as Hestia smirked but I then did the same to her as I did to Hera as she was reduced to a cringing goddess of the hearth. Both begging for me to stop as I looked between the two of them.
"Percy please stop." Hestia begged as she gripped my forearm with her hands but it didn't stop me from squeezing a little harder as she was forced to bed down a little.
"I don't know if I should you two are acting like children." I said with a extra squeeze.
"OW, OW, OW, OW,OW!" Hera and Hestia yelled.
"We promise to stop!" Hera cried out as Hestia nodded as she looked up at me with one eyes closed as she was threating to cry from pain.
"Really?" I asked lighting up a little.
"Yeah what she said." Hestia said as Hera gave her a glance and nodded.
"Do you mean it?" I asked as everyone gaped at how I was handling two of the 6 original gods with little to no effort.
"Y-Yeah." Said Hestia as I starred at her as her eyes didn't meet mine.
"Well if you two understand..." I said as I let go as both rubbed their head as they both glared at me as tears of pain filled their glaring eyes.
"You're a jerk you know that." Hera said as I shot her a quick glance as if I didn't catch what she said as she instantly looked away.
"Now both of you take a seat or do I have to do the thing?" I asked as they both looked at me like I was joking.
"Perseus we are well over 10,000 years old that will not work on us." Hestia said as I raised an eyebrow.
"Really?" I asked as I turned to everyone in the room who was still at a loss of words.
"Chapter 5 Section 12 Paragraph 3 Dear Diary-." But I was cut off by Hestia clamping her hand over my mouth, she was on her tippy toes right now as she gave me pleading eyes.
"You have read her diary?" Asked Artemis as I laughed.
"No I haven't but I do she does have a bad habit of reading what she is writing down out loud, you kind of pick up on a few things when you live in the same tent for a few century's." I said as Hestia glared at me as I walked to my chair/love seat and melted into the soft cushions.
"Wait I get Hestia's part in the thing but what is Hera's?" Asked Artemis as Hera blushed and gave me a threatening 15 year old glare.
"Well let's say she has a few...hobbies...yeah let's call them hobbies she really likes to do." I said as Hera's blushed reached the roots of her hair.
"Like?" Artemis asked with interest.
"Can't say...well unless she misbehaves again." I added on as she just glared at me and crossed her arms and gave a huff.
"Anyways...can we get back to the story?" Zoe asked as she sat Indian style on the floor.
"I don't know, as long as Hestia is okay with it." I said looking at Hestia as she walked over to me and suddenly sat down on my right. The love seat giving her barely any room as I raised an eyebrow as she laid her hand on her lap and sup up straight so her back wouldn't touch my arms I had laying across the back of the whole chair. This also got a look from everyone else in the room as Artemis bit her lip in frustration, though she hid it well so other didn't notice.
"I don't mind, I am surprised none of you know anyways." She said as she closed her eyes and gave off a high class female aura. As if nothing in the past 20 minutes just happened. However that soon fell apart as Hera suddenly took a seat on the ground in front of me. She however leaned back and laid her body in-between my legs that I had parted. Hestia however took this with aggression, I caught her hand though before she could slap her sister.
By this time everyone was receiving the message that Hestia and Hera were currently fighting over the man they once loved like lovesick teenagers. But they all seemed to not point that out in front of the two goddess who seemed to be denying their actions with simple explanatory sentences.
"What this is the best seat in the house don't you think?" Hera asked as she snuggled between my legs as Hestia glared at her.
"Well I was feeling cold anyways." Hestia said leaning back and bringing her legs up and laying them sideways as she leaned up against me. Her head sitting comfortably on my chest as she gave a sigh of happiness. Hera just glared at her as well as the two held an angry gaze, I swore I saw lighting spark between them but didn't go after it.
'Are they...always like this?' Questioned Artemis in my mind so the others wouldn't hear.
'Whenever their emotions get the better of them and they fight, I have learned to let them just do as they wish unless it is unreasonable. However this is one of the few ways they can actually cool down from a fight like that.' I thought back as Artemis frowned but nodded.
"Back to the story." Atlanta said as I sighed.
"Fine, where was it?" I asked.
"You just finished up with Rhea's point of view when you left them on Mount Othrys." One said as I nodded.
"Where to begin..." I said as I rubbed my chin as I felt Hestia's small hands clench t my shirt as her memories of the time returned. Even Hera seemed to cuddle deeper into the space my legs provided as the memories resurfaced.
"Well it was about 250 years later-."
TIME: 14500 BC
I sat quietly in my home as I finished up the last touches on some tools to use to work on my body. For the past 250 years not much has happened I sit around and work on my body's attachments. Lately I have noticed I have begun to shrink and now I stand about half my original height. However during the whole time I have noticed my attachments have shrunk with my body. That is because I have deducted that the metal shrinks after prolonged exposure to extreme heat.
Thus it is compressing my body and hardening it at the same time, what would have normally cut off a limb now barely goes halfway through. But with the past years I had made a chest piece and part of leg parts as well. The design came to me in a sight while I slept but it allows for fluid movement while still maintaining my bodies shape. However right now I am having trouble making a helmet to complete my full set.
Each time I make it just doesn't feel right and I have to reset for the past 100 darkest night cycles I have yet to make one. But I hope that this darkest night cycle I can achieve finishing it, but as of the late I have grown accustomed to eating like Hestia did. I don't know why but I find comfort in copying the young child and acting as she did. It was like I belonged somewhere for the first time however it has been many years since I have seen her and her mother.
However every few months I do find myself sitting just beyond the sight of the floating island and watch its darkness pass over. Each time I think of the day I returned Hestia and her mother back home. However I have noticed a dark aura from the island as it floats silently above me, a aura so dark even the seas of black water cannot match it.
But I still do not chase after the island as it is not my home and I must leave it alone. My home is in the darkness and with the creatures of the dark. Also the mysterious shadow that never leaves me alone. I have figured out that if I try and locate the shadow it disappears so I let it watch me in my silence. My mouth wordless since the day Hestia left, as if it was waiting for her to return. Unfortunately I keep my silence to myself as I hammered away at the new tool.
"You know you're smaller than I remember." A voice suddenly said as I stopped mid hammer as I slowly turned to see a familiar women standing in the doorway of my house. At the time with the light given off from my head I could barely make out her small form. It was only when she walked forward did I truly get a look at her.
She looked different from what I remembered, her black hair no longer as shiny as it was. Her face full of an emotion I didn't know the name of. Black circles around her now dull brown eyes as she looked up at my glowing head. Her body thinner than normal but her belly nearly 3 times the size of normal. I was familiar with the event as it was called pregnancy and she was in the middle of it.
However her whole aura seemed off in total, a darkness cast over her as it slowly ate away at her and her. It was like when one of the mothers of the many animals around me lost a child, that same darkness hung over her like the black cloak she wore.
"Rhea." I said in a thick and grumbly voice. She slowly looked up at me with a small look of surprise as she blinked a few times.
"You remembered my name?" She asked as I nodded.
"Hestia called you Rhea once so I presumed that was your name." I said as she blinked in surprised again.
"Your actually said words without dragging them out." She said as I laughed well tried at least.
"I guess it comes with my mind growing so much, so Rhea what brings you to my home?" I asked out of concern as I saw her fists clench at her cloak as water fell from her eyes.
"I-I need your help." She with in a voice full of emotion.
"Hestia she is in trouble, I need you to save her and take her to a place far away from both my home and yours." She said as I starred at her.
"What dangers is she in?" I asked her as she bit her lip as I heard a strange sound come out of her mouth.
"A danger that I did not see coming, one that I cannot deal with in my present condition. If I try and save her I fear that I will die and so will the child inside me." She said motioned to her belly as I nodded.
"I see..." I said as I set my hammer down and grabbed my pole and slowly stood up. I then put the pole on my back of my suit that had a small hole that I could slide it into to keep it in place.
"Hestia has shown me many things and for that I will do as you ask Rhea. I have realized many things in my life and one of them is that I am not equal to your titans." I said as she looked at me surprised.
"How do you know about titans?" She asked.
"The same I know about Kronos and many others, in fathers scriptures I gave back to him it had many words I did not understand. However as time passed I started to understand them so as of now I understand many things about your people. If I am right titans are the most powerful beings in this world so if I guess right you are sending me to my death." I said as Rhea looked amazed as she tried to speak but I stopped her.
"But even then I will help, I am indebted to your daughter for her brightness in natures has shown me not all is black and white. For that I will do as you say Queen of the titans." I said as she was thrown for a loop.
"B-But you could be facing your death." She said.
"I know but I do not wish to see Hestia facing a danger so great it could kill a titan." I said as Rhea made a funny face (biting her lip).
"When will you go?" She asked me as I looked up at my ceiling.
"The island should be passing overhead when the night is at its darkest, I will go then." I said as Rhea looked confused.
"What do you mean?" she asked.
"I have long since memorized the islands pathways when I go above the clouds." I said.
"Above the clouds?" She asked me as she did I reached behind me and pulled out my staff as it extended until it was to both ends of the building.
"With this I have traveled above the clouds many times, I find the sun very familiar in a way and like to watch it while it travels the vast blueness." I said as she nodded slowly.
"I see...so you have been watching the island for how long?" She asked.
"For the past 95 darkest nights." I said as she looked confused.
"Oh you must mean the winter solstices." She said as I shrugged.
"I assume so, but when the darkness thickens I will go up and save Hestia." I said as she nodded.
"Wait!" Rhea called as I looked towards her.
"Your father has a few things for you before you save Hestia." She said as I nodded.
"I assume he wishes for me to save Hestia as well." I said as she nodded.
"Yes he does as doe a few others, they all know of you and will try and aid you on your escape. However I must tell you where to find her first." She said as I nodded.
"Indeed I do need a location, I fear I will be chased away if I search blindly for too long." I said as she nodded.
"She will be in my home it isn't hard to miss it is the largest building on the island. However the room you will find her in is...t-the k-kings bedroom."
LINEBREAK: (cue multiple gasps from the everyone Percy is telling the story to)
I quietly waited in the light of the pale sun in the sky. Millions of tiny other dots of light in the sky. In one hand I held Rhea and in the other I gripped the pole that I had perfectly balanced, my feet pressed up against pole to keep my in place as I looked over the sea of clouds. A quickly approaching floating island in sight as Rhea's breath hitched.
"Perseus your helmet." She said as I nodded and wrapped my legs around the pole so I would stay put as I let go with my other hand and grabbed the roughly made helmet to hide my shining head. As I put it on it felt all wrong but at the time it was needed for the mission as I grabbed the pole again and turned my eyesight back to the island.
"Your helmet looks like a thimble." She said as I looked down at my hand as she looked up at me.
"What is a thimble?" I asked as she shook her head
"Don't worry about it, also how is this not breaking?" She asked as I shrugged.
"I do not know but in all my days of using it not even once has it even been scratched by anything so I doubt breaking it is possible. My guess is it was made from things that the beings before the titans used. However that is just a guess." I said as she nodded. By this time the island was right upon us as the edge passed a few feet from the pole.
"Now." She said as I gently stepped onto the island as my pole instantly shrunk until it was its normal size for my forms size. As I looked around all I could see was buildings that were greatly crafted, however these designs were things I had seen before on the scriptures so it didn't appear as amazing as it should have.
"Follow me." She said as hopped off my hand with a newfound strength as she lightly landed on the ground and began to run with the edge of the island. I followed her as my feet left small indents in the ground as we passed by many buildings.
"Your home is crowded." I said to her as she sighed.
"I know now shush." She said as I nodded and followed in silence. The only sounds were my heavy footsteps but still they seemed silent in the darkness. Soon however we came upon a larger than normal structure with a man leaning up against a door. His hair was white as snow and his eyes were brown. However Rhea made me stop at the corner before I entered his sight.
"Prometheus." She whispered yelled as he noticed her and nodded after he took a look around.
"Come." She said as I nodded and followed her into a massive door that was open to a large space on the building Prometheus was leaning up against.
"Hurry." He hissed as I went inside after Rhea as he pulled a leaver and the door began to close as suddenly glowing stones on the side started to glow as it lit up the room. As I did I looked around and saw many things I remembered on the stone tables and scriptures long ago but in solid form.
"So this is Perseus." Said a male's voice as I turned to see Prometheus looking me over as I slowly sat down on my butt. As I did I took off my helmet revealing my glowing head as the black skin reached just to my chin but stopped.
"My son." He said as water began to fall from his eyes as he hugged my leg as well as he could as I smiled.
"Father, I presume you got my gift." I said as he nodded as water flowed from his eyes.
"Yes I did, millennia's of hard work saved thanks to you. For that I am forever grateful." He said as I nodded.
"It was the right thing to do." I said as he nodded.
"You two enough chitchat, Prometheus we don't have much time." She said as his face straightened and nodded.
"Your right, Perseus my son it is time for me to give you some return gifts." He said as he pulled a leaver as suddenly the ground in front of me opened up and slowly from the ground rose 4 items. The first of them that I noticed was what looked to be a face made of dull platinum, but as I looked closer the face had hollow eyes and mouth.
"These are a few things I made with some metals that I didn't want falling-." But he stopped as I slowly reached forwarded and picked up the helmet as examined it. As I looked in the helmet it appeared to be carved to perfectly form a face. Slowly I slid on the helmet as it fit perfectly as I felt my molten face form to the grooves in the helmet. It felt so right in a sense.
"I see you like your helmet, I predicted your body would shrink with this metal and its properties. But when Rhea told me of the pole you were using I didn't know what she was talking about. But then I got to thinking about it what you are using isn't even a pole it is a measuring stick. It was made by the last metal with magical properties that can be manipulated by the user's wishes. So I went around and found a few more that you might be able to use." He said.
As I looked at what he was pointing at I notice my helmet allowed me to see as if I didn't even have it one as I smiled under the helmet at the feature. But as my gaze fell upon what he was showing I saw three more poles just like my own. However these were all different colors and felt different.
"These three are made of exactly the same materials as your current pole, these are the other three measuring sticks. You have one for the skies, one for the oceans, and lastly the chasms of the earth." He said as I looked at the white, blue, and brown poles as my hummed a little as it was close to its brothers. Indeed their magic was strong I could feel it now.
"Thank you." I said as I put all three on slots I have on my back as I added mine to the collection as four poles hummed together. With my new compete set of armor and weapons I nodded happily.
"Now make haste my son, you will find another friend when you have got Hestia." He said as I nodded and stood up.
"I must stay here with Prometheus but I wish you luck Perseus, you will find my home heavily guarded and fortified but I believe that you can make I through it." She said as I nodded as I walked towards the door as it began to go up.
"Will I ever see you again?" I asked them as they both glanced at one another.
"Maybe..." My father said as I nodded as I stepped out of the door as I proceeded with my task at hand.
The streets were empty and dark but this darkness was nothing compared to my home, traversing this maze of buildings was easy as I avoided guards patrolling the grounds. However one thing I did noticed was how small they were but I knew better. I knew that they took those forms to conserve room on the island. In reality they were nearly twice my size now so I avoided them as best I could.
However as I neared the castle which was very easy to find I found the front of it was guarded by dozens of guards as I frowned. But suddenly a massive explosion ripped through the city as I looked in the direction of where I came to see a mushroom cloud. My mind instantly fell on Rhea and father but I knew the two were giving me a chance.
As if in que the guards all left their positions to go and figured out what that was as I slipped up to the building with ease. However due to my size I had to scan the outside off the building but in doing so I couldn't find Hestia as I grew frustrated. It was now or nothing as I didn't have much time. So with the thought of saving Hestia in mind I hit the master bolt on my armor as suddenly it all began to open up.
Each piece holding onto the next but folding in on itself to form a piece of armor that seemed to be cut in half from the side. But as the armor parted around me it revealed a completely black me as I stepped out of my armor as it held itself up with the magic from the metal. It took me a while to figure out it out but I finally managed to reach the point to make magical armor from the knowledge that father had.
"Here I come." I said as I reached out in front of me and suddenly brought my fist to my chest as cracks began to spread across my whole body as I began to walk forward. As the first chunk of black half inch skin fell off suddenly the castle stone in front of me began to melt. With that I smacked my chest again and again until I was one smack from it all falling off. With that I did the last smack as my skin seemed to burst off me.
With that suddenly the whole side off the building caught fire as I began to walk through the building as everything in front of me melted or burned before I could reach it. Though since the building was so big it took me a little before I found the room I was looking for. It was a massive room that I could fit my whole body standing up. However on a normal size bed lay a young women.
However as I came close I noticed the fire wouldn't burn an area around the bed as the young women seemed to have mass amounts of water flowing from her eyes. However I soon noticed the women was Hestia but only in an older form (18 years old) but then she seemed to finally notice me as she looked up.
"H-Hope?" She questioned as she pulled the sheet close to her chest as she wiped her eyes.
"I am here to help you." I said as I extended my hand to her, she seemed relatively unaffected by the heat as well as anything she was touching.
"No! Don't touch me! I am dirty..." She said pulling back her hand as I frowned.
"Now is not the time to argue Hestia, your mother sent me to save you." I said as she started to laugh.
"You are to late Perseus, all I am is a husk of what I used to be. There is nothing left to save, I am...impure." She said as water flowed from her eyes as I starred at her.
"I don't care if you are impure or the purest you are Hestia the little girl who showed me what happiness looks like. Now come with me." I said as she starred at me then my hand as she slowly extended her hand and crawled on it brining the sheet with her to covered her body as I began to run through the burning building.
"Oh looks like a rat made it in." Said a voice as I made it outside to see a person nearly twice my size in golden armor. A massive scythe on his shoulder and a mad look in his eyes, this was the Kronos that father wrote about. I eyed him and his guards surrounding him that numbered in at least 20 all equal in size.
"I am no rat." I said as I edged towards my armor but then I was stopped by the edge of a scythe blade at my throat as I looked up at Kronos.
"Drop the girl." He said as he pushed his weapon closer as I felt Hestia moving in my cupped hands. Slowly I uncapped them as Hestia revealed herself as she stood up, the sheet covering her body as she glared at her father.
"Perseus don't listen to him." She said as Kronos growled.
"Hestia get down from there." He said as she glared at him.
"I will not do what you say anymore Kronos I will not be the queen you want me to be, I would rather burn in Tartarus than be in your presence longer than I have to." She said in a powerful voice as Kronos growled again.
"Hestia if you do not listen to me right now I will cut the head off this little puppet your mother hired to save you. If you don't do as I say right now you and your mother will join me in bed like the queens should." He said as nobody protested against the idea as Hestia seemed to shake in fear. However I tightened my grip around her as she looked back at me.
"Hestia don't move." I said as I began to perform an act that I had learned to be very dangerous with my current form. However though it was dangerous for me just as much as it was to my surroundings. I had learned from father's scripts that this actions was called breathing. However with no lungs to hold the air all of it came out of pours all over my body. When the air came out of the pours it fed the heat on me and increased it a hundred fold.
Let's just say the first time I preformed this I half of a mountain into a bubbling lava lake. But right now seemed like it was the right conditions. So with little effort I sunk in my chest as I began to breath. The effects were immediate as I began to take in air as the air suddenly grew red as Kronos flinched backwards. Soon the heat began to melt his very armor as Hestia looked at me in a worried expression.
"Hope stop you're going to kill yourself!" She yelled as my body began to droop from the increased heat. But I shook my head as I finally stopped taking in air, but then with one large push all the air I gathered in my lungs exploded out from me. The effects were immediate as it blew back Kronos and his goons along with the ground.
"Now I am done." I said as I began walking through the inferno of heat as I held Hestia in one droopy hand.
"Stop there!" Yelled a voice as I turned to see one titan standing up against the heat as I turned to him. His armor perfect as it depicted the sun on it as he stood ready with a bow.
"Helios the titan of the sun." I said as I stepped into my armor as I switched hands so Hestia would be fine. In the matter of a few seconds my overheated boy was in the perfect container again. However Hestia sat in my palm of my hand now as she starred at Helios as the other titan's had to retreat from the heat. By this time houses were reduced to piles of lava, I then noticed something above us as I looked up.
As I looked up suddenly something dropped down as I easily caught it with my free hand as Helios seemed intrigued. As I opened my free hand I found a backpack in it as I recognized it as Rhea's as I slipped it into the same hand with Hestia. She recognized the backpack as she put it on as I curled my hand and pulled my original pole arm off my back.
"Sorry to run Helios but I have a mission to finish." I said as I began to dash away from Helios as he gave chase. However suddenly his feet got stuck in lava as he fell face first into the substance, but gave no hints of it burning him. But it was enough for me as a distraction as I began to run with Hestia in tow.
"Turn left here!" Hestia yelled as I obeyed. With the help of the small goddess I ran for it as I dodged 100 foot guards and non-melting buildings. However the heat radiating in the heat into the air was still enough to drive them away from me. However as I approached the edge of the island I was met with a scene I did not want to see.
In front of us was a bruised and beat Rhea and Prometheus both in true size as guards circled them. I could almost feel Hestia tense as at the sight as I came to a halt, but as I did both noticed me as Prometheus gave me a frown.
"Keep running Perseus!" He yelled but I looked down at Hestia as she looked up at me with a scarred face.
"What are you doing!? Keep running you fool!" Yelled Rhea only to silence by a slap by a guard as I felt my hand tighten around my weapon.
"Keep going." I heard as I looked down at Hestia as I saw her...crying yes that was the word.
"Okay." I said as I began to run off to the side as I left as I felt some emotion cling at me like a cold hand. It was nearly unbearable as I kept going, whatever this feeling was it was tremendous and I hated it. But for some reason I had another feeling like what I had just seen something fake.
"I love you mom." I heard Hestia say I pulled her closer to my chest as I turned back to see a surprising sight of the scene suddenly turning to mist. But as it disappeared I a horde of confused looking guards appear where the scene was. As that happened I saw a women off to the side with a two torches as she gave me a nod as I grew confused but then realized that was Rhea's friend.
"Now let us go to a place where we can be safe." I said as I reached the edge of the island and jumped into the abyss of darkness. With that I completed half my task given to me by Rhea.
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