Chapter 7: Why?
Everyone in the cage's heads was down. No one was talking or smiling, not even Flash. They all finally had a chance to think over what they had just seen. All of them were shocked and surprised at just how wrong they had been about each other.
"One question Hades," Hippolyta turned to him. "Why bring Aresia and me down here? The leaguers, it makes sense why you'd do this to them, but why us? And who asked you to do this? There's no way this was your idea."
"You're right, Hippolyta," Hades told her. "It wasn't my idea. It was Hera's idea to do this to the league and to you and Aresia."
"Hera?" Hippolyta asked. "What was she hoping to gain from this?"
"She was hoping that you and Aresia would walk away from this realizing how wrong you are about men," Hades told her. "She also wanted the league to understand each other better so, what's the phrase, two birds, and one stone? Well anyway, she asked Mnemosyne and me to do this because she figured Tartarus would be the best place to do it, since she figure the atmosphere would fit the tone and Mnemosyne is the goddess of memories. I agreed to do as long as I get to tell them why we were doing this and whose idea it was. She agreed to my terms and I sent the Furies to capture you and knock you out and send you down here to Tartarus. And that's the whole story."
"So what are you going to do with us now?" Aresia asked. "Turn us into your pets and play toys?"
"No," Hades told her. "You all are going to go home." He then turned to his upper left. "Furies!" All three of the Furies came and none of them were happy. "Would you send they back home for me? They have done to them what needed to be done." He then turned to the cage. "Goodbye. I will see you again one day. For all met death in good time." Everyone in the cage and turned to look at the Furies. Flash was horrified at how hideous they were. Lantern, Superman, Aresia, Hippolyta, Hawkgirl and Wonder Woman had fear on their face. Batman stood up and leaded against the wall of the cage, scared he was too for they reminded him of everyone he had failed and all the things he wished he had not done.
The Furies raced around the cage and in closed it in darkness. They took the air right out of their lungs and knocked them unconscious. They then took the bodies of the leaguers and Amazons and carried them out of Tartarus. Hades and Mnemosyne watched as the Furies carried them out of Tartarus. Hippolyta was laid in her bed on Themiscyria, Aresia was laid on her bed in her hideout, and the leaguers were laid on the floor of the Javelin bay, because the Furies wanted them to see each other when they awoke. The Furies then snapped their fingers, once back in Tartarus, and the air came back it their lungs and all awoke. Aresia and Hippolyta woke up and thought it a dream but that theory was not possibly for on their right forearm was the mark of a talon a mark made by the Furies when they were carried back.
The leaguers awoke and looked at each other bewildered and they knew all that they saw and felt had really happened. One by one, starting with Batman, left the Javelin Bay and heading for a different part of the Watchtower unsure of what to do next.
By the way everyone don't worry I will finish this. I have one more chapter and then time for sequel!
