A/N: Hey everyone! I'm really sorry for not updating sooner but school has been busy but don't worry I'm now on Christmas holidays for 6 weeks so I'm likely to get probably another 2-3 chapters up maybe more if I'm really lucky. Anyway, this chapter is really action packed with impromptu plans and unexpected helpers from gods you might not have thought would help. There is a cliff hanger to this chapter involving Perseus and Athena's reunion. How will Perseus react to seeing Athena again and vice versa? Guess away and enjoy this chapter!
Chapter Eleven: Fight in the Underworld Throne Room
"You'll pay for what you did to Athena, Hades." Perseus roared. Io and Hermes grabbed his arms to stop him from lunging at Hades.
"Perseus," hissed Hades. "I thought you were dead!" he turned his head to look at Echidna angrily.
"He just won't die, my lord!" Echidna exclaimed.
A growl escaped the god's throat and his anger sent the monstrous woman flying into the depths of Tartarus.
Perseus drew his sword from his belt, hence challenging the god.
Hades laughed menacingly. "You? A mortal son of Zeus defeating me? Hades, god of the Underworld?"
Breaking free from the grips of Hermes and Io, Perseus lunged forward only to have his move blocked by Hades. Using all his might, Perseus pushed all of his might forward and repelled his evil uncle's invisible shield.
Hades' eyes grew wide. "Impossible," he said his voice a hoarse whisper.
"Ha! That's what you get when you're brother has affairs with mortal women. Powerful demigods!" exclaimed Hermes.
Hades roared angrily and summoned a sword and lunged at Perseus. Ares too summoned a sword and helped Perseus to fight off Hades.
Summoning a sword and throwing a sword to Io, Hermes smiled as Io sprung into action. She and Perseus fought Hades from side on while Hermes fought Hades from the front.
As the Messenger of the Gods and his demigod companions fought the bastard son of Kronos Athena watched in horror from Olympus.
The distressed goddess ran to the Throne Room to plead with her father.
"Father!" she screamed as the images of Hermes, Perseus and Io fighting Hades swam through her head.
The doors of the Throne Room burst opened as Athena ran through them with tears running down her face.
"Athena!" Apollo yelled jumping out of his throne to comfort his half-sister. "What happened?" he asked as Athena through her arms around her half-brother.
"Perseus, Io and Hermes are fighting Hades," she said out of breath.
The Olympians in the room fell silent at the mention of Hades.
"What about Hades?" asked Artemis.
Athena's jaw dropped. Hadn't Artemis been listening to a single thing she'd been saying?
"We need to go down there and help them!" Athena said. As she spoke her voice trembled.
"What is going on here?" asked Zeus.
"Father," Athena said straightening up and bowing toward her father.
"Athena, my dear child. What seems to be the problem?" Zeus asked drawing closer to his daughter.
"Io, Perseus and Perseus are fighting Hades! There's no way they'll get out alive!" Athena shrieked.
"Child, you want to go down there and fight. You know I won't allow it," Zeus said sternly just as Athena was about to protest.
"Zeus, we just can't stand by and do nothing," Poseidon said speaking up for the first time.
The Olympians nodded and murmured in agreement. There was no way Zeus could argue with that.
"Artemis, Apollo, go with Ares and aid them, Demeter, Hera and Aphrodite guard Athena," Zeus instructed.
"WHAT? You want me to defend the bastard you want to replace me? Over my immortal dead body!" Retorted Ares.
"Ares, please!" yelled Hera at her son. "Do this for your father!"
"What about you, father?" asked Athena from the grasps of Aphrodite and Demeter.
"I've wanted to give Hades a piece of my mind since Perseus sealed him away in the Underworld. I look forward to whooping his ass," Zeus said proudly.
Ares was taken aback by his father's comment. Like all the other Olympians, Ares hated and feared Hades but never had he heard his father say something like that about his evil brother.
"Wait, what about me?" Athena asked.
Zeus turned to his daughter, "You are to remain here with the others. We will aid Perseus and his companions the best we can. Don't bother defying me," With that Zeus snapped his fingers and descended toward the Underworld with Artemis, Ares and Apollo at his heels.
Perseus was surrounded. He had spirits and Hades blocking his every move. He looked over at Hermes and Io who had been easily defeated in the first round. He was about to slash at Hades again when an arrow went whizzing past his head. The demigod turned to see the arrow lodged in the shackles around Io's wrists. Perseus then turned back to see Artemis with her bow raised.
"Artemis! What are you doing here?" Hermes cried in glee.
"Athena was watching your exchange from Olympus and wanted to do something about-" Artemis never got to finish her sentence because at that moment Zeus stormed into the room letting fly with Greek curses aimed at Hades.
Zeus' head whipped around so that his eyes were on Perseus.
"Perseus!" he yelled.
"Fa—Zeus!" he yelled throwing Hermes' sword to his father.
As brother and brother fought, Ares fought off the spirits while Apollo and Artemis undid Io and Hermes' shackles.
"For as long as I have watched you on your two quests to learn who you really are, I never would have thought that we would get to fight side by side," Zeus said to Perseus as they both dodged a killing strike from Hades.
Perseus chuckled half heartedly. He still didn't like his father for abandoning him at birth but he had learned from Hermes and Athena that even the king of the gods has a heart as big as the mortal hearts of Perseus' deceased mortal family.
On Olympus, the remaining gods watched in horror as the gods and the two demigods fought Hades.
"We have to do something!" Athena said still struggling in Hera and Aphrodite's grasps.
"Athena! You heard what your father has said! Stay on Olympus!" Hera said straining to keep her stepdaughter in her grip.
"I cannot simply stand here and do nothing!" the distressed goddess said.
Hera and Aphrodite looked at each other knowing that Athena was right so they released her arms slightly.
"Ok here's the deal: We'll release you but you are not to disobey father's orders. Deal?" Aphrodite said.
"Deal," Athena said and her stepmother and half-sister released her.
"So what's your plan?" Hera asked her wise stepdaughter.
"Simple. We send one of the other gods down to the Underworld and have them reason with Hades," Athena said giving her stepmother and half-sister a wise smile.
A light bulb went off in Aphrodite's head. "I know just the god." Aphrodite said with a smile.
Hera and Athena exchanged bewildered expressions.
"Persephone!" the beautiful goddess called.
"You called for me, Aphrodite?" Persephone said a moment later.
"You're the queen of the Underworld, right?" Aphrodite inquired.
"Uh, yeah? Why do you ask?"
"Athena here is worried about Perseus, Io and Hermes and thinks we need some to reason with Hades. So we were wondering if you would do it," Hera said to her other stepdaughter.
"But of course I'll do it! I hate that sorry excuse for a god as much as everybody else. I only married him because I was forced to," Persephone said aiming an enraged look at Hera who calmly shook it off.
"Well now that that's settled let's get a plan enforced," Athena said.
The three immortal women headed for the Mount Olympus viewing room where they looked through the floor to oversee the events currently occurring in the Underworld Throne Room.
Before them they could see Hades, Zeus and Perseus fighting viciously. Perseus and Zeus seemed to have the upper hand while Ares, Apollo, Artemis, Io and Hermes jumped in from time to time to have their share of fighting time.
"Ok. We'll have to get Hermes to stall for us. It'll give the others time to get back Olympus," Athena stated. Hera, Aphrodite and Persephone all nodded in agreement.
"I'll get Hermes attention," Hera said before snapping her fingers and disappearing to the Underworld leaving her female companions to watch her conduct her plan of the plan.
Hera remained invisible as she attempted to get Hermes' attention.
"Psst! Hermes!" the queen of the gods whispered.
"Huh? Hera is that you?" Hermes whispered.
"Yes. It's me." The goddess confirmed.
"What's going on?"
"Myself, Athena, Persephone and Aphrodite are slowly devising a plan to help stop Hades," Hera quickly explained.
"How can I help?" Hermes asked quietly as he watched Apollo and Perseus side step one of Hades' death strikes.
"You can distract Hades so that Persephone can get down here," Hera said just as quietly.
Hermes nodded knowing that Hera could see his notion.
"Hey Hades!" he called. "Take this!" he yelled as he aimed a quickly summoned spear at the god's head.
"Now Persephone!" Hermes and Hera cried in unison.
Persephone disappeared as quickly as she had appeared.
"Hades!" she yelled getting her husband's attention almost immediately.
"Persephone my dear what brings you back here?" Hades said abandoning his fight with brother, nephews and niece.
Persephone made a face that indicated disgust. "First off eww, and secondly I'm helping my fellow gods," Persephone said feeling rather pleased with herself.
Hades' face turned red with pure anger.
"You-" the king of the Underworld didn't even come close to finishing his sentence. He watched in anger as Persephone disappeared with her brothers, sister, father and Io following her lead.
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