Poor child? Was she for real? I mean, I knew parents looked at their children with rose tinted glasses, but that was taking it too far.
“Your child is a psychopath and a mass murderer. At some point you might have to let him pay for his actions.”
She squinted at me, like she wasn’t sure what I was talking about.
My blood sprinkled across her cuffs, and then she carefully selected some strands of my hair that were blond, slicing them off. They wrapped over the blood and cuffs, emitting a white light; the scent of copper hit my nose, a crack rang out and the cuffs fell off.
“Hyperion.” Rhea waved him over. “Hurry or I’ll have to slice her again.”
He’d been keeping watch, but he got to our side in seconds. Rhea repeated the same process on his cuffs, only faster, because she had full use of her powers. When the shiny blue manacles, different to a police-issued cuff, fell to the ground, I knelt down to examine them closer.
“Who made these?” I asked. “How are they powerful enough to stop gods and Titans?”
Hyperion scooped them up and I followed on shaky legs. “They’re from the crone, by the looks of it. She’s the only one I know strong enough to infuse this sort of magic into an object. She uses the blood she collects from powerful beings.”
Ah, right. That explained her little blood fetish. Narida, that bitch.
#ThoughtSheWasIntoBloodPlay #ThisIsWayWorse
“I need to get you out of here, Maisey,” Hyperion said, reaching for me.
I shied away from his touch. “What about Cronus?”
He was more than holding his own from what I had seen, almost like he was toying with Zeus, but we needed to get this moving, because I had no idea how long Okeanos could detain War, and we were wasting valuable time.
“Maybe we should help him get Zeus locked down so we can move on to War together?” I suggested.
Hyperion looked torn—this wasn’t the plan.
“Good idea. We better get these cuffs on Zeus before Cronus kills him.” Rhea turned to me. “You can’t bring a god or demigod back from the dead. Only Titans have that ability.”
So if Zeus died, it would be forever. Sounded good to me.
“Alright, but if things go south, I’m zapping Maisey out of here,” Hyperion stated.
With that, Rhea bent and grabbed the two pairs of cuffs, handing one to Hyperion. “Do you remember the word he muttered when he slapped them on you?” she asked.
Hyperion just nodded.
“Maybe I should know the word too. In case I am the one to cuff Zeus,” I suggested.
They both looked at each other and seemed to be holding in laughter.
I tapped my chest. “Hey, four sins locked in here. Just saved Rhea’s life…”
Rhea rolled her eyes. “Fine. It’s requiem.”
Was that so hard? #Bitch
Just then, a blur passed before our eyes and Cronus came flying down from the sky, standing on Zeus like he was a surfboard. When he slammed down on Zeus’ body, the ground shook.
“Had enough, you little shit?” Cronus snapped. He looked like he was enjoying kicking the god’s ass.
The fury and rage in Zeus’ bloodshot eyes was palatable.
“NOW!” Zeus shouted, and three … creatures … leapt from the sky and landed before us.
“Maisey close your eyes!” Cronus screamed just as I was trying to assess the situation, trying to figure out what the fuck these things possibly were.
I pinched my eyes shut, but I’d already gotten a split-second glimpse of what looked like fucking Medusa. Even I knew about her, that woman with snakes for hair who could turn a being to stone. I’d seen both the snakes and the grayish skin, and the fact that there were three of them before my eyes pinched shut. I started to walk backwards slowly, hoping I could get to a car or something so I could open them. Nothing made me feel more vulnerable than being surrounded by our enemies and I couldn’t even see them coming.
“Hyperion! Get her out of here!” Cronus shouted; these words were immediately followed by a pounding sound.
“Don’t kill him!” Rhea screamed.
I heard a bark, which sounded like Hound…
Where the fuck had he come from?
A shadow passed before me and I almost opened my eyes, because that was fucking terrifying.
“You think you can freeze me, bitch? I’ll turn you into an ice cube and drop you in Antarctica for eternity!” Rhea wailed as a waft of cold air passed before me.
#Fuck #BeingBlindInAFightSucks #OneTenWouldNotRecommend
I was just wondering if maybe I should take a tiny peek, when the shadow drew closer and a … finger stroked my neck stopping at the necklace.
“Don't. Open. Your. Eyes. Maisey,” Cronus warned. “Fuck you, Ares, you traitor,” he added as I heard more sounds of scrabbling. Ares? Jesus, Zeus had planned this attack well.
The fact that some creepy Medusa chick was possibly standing in front of me, stroking my neck, freaked me the fuck out. It took me a full sixty seconds before the terror unlocked my limbs. I reeled my right fist back and punched where I thought her nose would be. It was a reflex, one that would probably get me killed.
Something slimy, kinda rough, and cold touched my hand.
Snake! I screamed bloody murder and stumbled backwards, falling on my ass.
I punched a fucking snake.
Icy hands wrapped around my arms and I squeezed my eyes tighter. Oh God. I was going to be bitten by hundreds of snakes. I just knew it. My heart pounded against my chest as I tried to work out a good plan of what to do … and failed.
#ThinkYouFuckingUselessBrain
The sins didn’t seem to give two shits that I was pinned down by fucking Medusa; they didn’t come to the surface like they had before. I think I’d used up what energy I had on Athena, and now they were taking an afternoon nap.
When the slither of a snake brushed against my neck, I screamed so loud there was a hope I might have made
