Chapter 3. Enjoy the action and entertainment, my friends.
After a week of sailing, the ship finally reached Delos and the Statue of Apollo, which was destroyed. While Calliope had kept to herself the whole trip, she enjoyed the food and wine below deck but there wasn't any women to screw for her to help pass the time. But now that she had finally arrived, she'd finally get rid of the boredom and finally find the key to breaking her oath to Ares and finally start the path to kill the bastard.
And also get away from the complaining crew members since they talked about nothing but a curse about this place. "It's too bad we can't sail away from this cursed place. But the sooner she gets off the ship, the sooner we leave." A crew member said with distaste for Calliope, getting a broken nose from the Ghost of Sparta.
"Serves you right, asshole." Calliope said with a smirk before she jumped on the docks. and began walking away from the ship. When she got halfway to the island, a dying man who was stabbed drew his final breath as he died. A Satyr General appeared along with several Satyr soldiers, which Calliope killed until they were dead. She went over to the other dead body and examined it when she saw large tentacles pull the departing ship down before one of them threw a big piece of it and destroyed the elevator that would take her up to the next level.
"Humh. Would've worked if I didn't have my Amulet." The Ghost of Sparta said with humor in her voice as she partly repaired the elevator and used its pieces to get to the other side before completely repairing it and using it to get to the next level.
When she got off of it, 3 Satyrs had just killed 3 men before going for Calliope but she killed all of them before trying to operate the other machine before the tentacles tried to attack Calliope but she used her blades to stop them before stabbing into one and it got Calliope across before they went back into the sea. Suddenly 2 lightning Talks came to life and began to attack Lady Death but she avoided their attacks and sliced through them when she found an opening before using their own weapons to kill them. After climbing to the 3rd level while opening chests along the way, she got to the final level and dealt with an Elephantaur by slicing open its head with her right blade. Sbe went through a wooden bridge and after a few jumps and climbing through a scaffold and then a stone wall, she found a latch, which she used to swing right through the metal wheel and inside the statue.
Once inside, she went left and grabbed a wheel under the cellar with her blade. When it turned, she jumped quickly onto a metal fragment hanging down and held it. It took her to the other side of the abyss before jumping to a wall and sticking to get to a small room with few mechanisms. an Empusa and few small dragons appeared but Calliope kept the Empusa at bay while killing the smaller ones. After they were all dead, she sliced through the Empusa's neck with her blades. Calliope then dragged a platform to the right wall and jumped to the top of it to break the giant chain, making the gears operate a little before she pulled the lever to the left the bring the broken part of it to the left before using her Amulet to repair it and use the platform to stop the gears, allowing her to get to the left edge and open 4 chests before repeating the same thing to allow her to get to the upper level and open a chest before killing a few parasites. Lady Death climbed up the wall and stuck to it before going left and pushing a part of the wall out, leading her outside the Foot of Apollo.
Calliope climbed up on the wall on the left and climbed up the foot until she got on a ledge and moved left to traverse an abyss by walking on the wall, where she saw a blue warrior woman on a platform. The Ghost of Sparta got to where the woman was as Harpies appeared, which she quickly killed before going after the woman, avoiding her spars and using one of them to kill her. She then sliced wooden columns with her blades and when the platform fell down, she jumped onto a scaffold on the right before going onto a wall and climbing before used her left blade to grab a green point and jumped left to slide down on a line until she jumped onto a cart. After pulling the lever to move it, she dealt with Harpies before the sea creature used its tentacles to break the cart but she quickly grabbed the big part of it with her blades before climbing up and sliding on another line and got inside the statue again.
Once she got inside, 2 witches tried attacking Calliope but she avoided their attacks and used the Souls of Hades to kill them. After they were dead, Calliope went to the right and used a chain to lift a platform and got to the upper level. After opening a chest, she turned a wheel, operating a mechanism to bring down a platform before pushing it to the upper level and using it to get onto a podium before moving forward and approaching the edge before moving the gear wheels, jumping onto the first of them and carefully got to its other edge before jumping on the next one before jumping to a smaller one and into a corridor, opening the chests and sliding down a rope onto a wooden scaffold. After moving forward and jumping off of it, Lady Death was attacked by another blue warrior woman and two centaurs. Calliope avoided the Centaurs attacks while going after the woman first. Once she was dealt with, she showed her body to the half horse creatures, making them stop and look at her with lust before walking up to them seductively using their lust against them to fatally stab them in the necks and slice them open, killing them from blood loss.
After she used her blades to pull the part of the broken chain down, she jumped onto the part that was not broken and jumped on the wooden scaffold and went into an oval room with two flaps and flames going from the walls. Calliope got on a left flap and waited until the rotating platform liftec a bit, placing her under the hole in the wall. She jumped through it and used her blades to swing to the other side and break inside the statue again, where she climbed up on parts of the statue that broke apart but she used her blades to stop herself from falling and broke through another wall where she killed several Parasites and destroyed their hive before swinging her way to the Gauntlet of Apollo.
Suddenly, Calliope was seeing a vision of Sparta and a soldier who spoke to her. "You leave the Spartan army in disarray, Calliope. Return to Sparta and take your rightful place as the General of the Spartan army, as your father did before you."
"Save it, asshole. You think I'm gonna fall for an obvious trick like this?" Calliope asked as she fought the illusion, making it dissolve and turn into her old home. "Cut the illusion shit out, whoever the fuck you Furies are! This place ain't my home anymore!" She yelled, making the illusion dissolve completely.
Suddenly the Fury Megaera appeared. "My, my, Ghost of Sparta, you sure have a foul month on you and you obviously have a very strong mind to not fall for illusions like these. But these won't be fake. Sister, show Lady Death what Sparta dose to a betrayer!"
The Fury Tisiphone cast an illusion of Spartan soldiers that were advancing on the Ghost of Sparta. Calliope shook her head before focusing on dissolving the fake soldiers, which she easily did before seeing the 2 Furys and realizing that Tisiphone wasn't real either and easily dissolved it as well before turning to face Megaera, who was real.
"Nice try, insect bitch, but I'm not fallin' for these fucking illusions. You're gonna have to have me yourself!" Calliope told the insect-legged Fury with a smirk, showing her mental strength far surpassed illusions.
"Gggggrrrrrrraaaaaahhhhhhhh! I'll kill you!" Megaera yelled in complete anger as she rushed to the Ghost of Sparta in a blind date, which Calliope used to her advantage to easily evade her attacks and counterattack with her blades by using the lightning of Zeus to electrify her until she grabbed her right arm and back it with her right blade twice before pulling it completely off, making her scream in pain. "YOU WHITE-SKINNED BASTARD!"
"Time to say your prayers to the gods, bitch." Calliope said as she advanced on Megaera and prepared to kill the Fury and be one step closer to achieving her ultimate goal.
Suddenly the Queen of the Furies Alecto flew up and blasted Calliope with her black goo, restraining her before walking up to her and spoke gently and softly to her. "You really are something else, Calliope. I've enjoyed watching you fight so much. You'd make your father so proud of you. But it's time to end it and serve Ares, Calliope. Perhaps if you serve well, I'll see to it that you end up on Olympus one day."
"I appreciate the offer, Fury queen, but I'm not serving flame hair now or ever. He's gonna die for what he did to my parents and making me what I am!" Calliope said, appreciating the offer but vowing to kill Ares for ruining her life.
Suddenly the real Tisiphone appeared while laughing as Megaera recovered and prepared to kill Lady Death for taking her arm but Alecto stopped her. "Enough! Your methods obviously will never work on her. Let me handle this."
"You can save your breath, your highness, metal and physical torture won't work on me." Calliope said with a strong will to kill Ares before Orkos put a hand on her shoulder.
"Listen to her, mother. You know she's right."
"Orkus? So he's the one who is helping you, Calliope?" Alecto asked with bit of disappointment.
"Temporarily." Calliope said before Orkos teleported them both away, leaving behind a shade clone of himself.
Alecto turned to her sisters. "Find them and do not hurt Calliope unless you absolutely have to." She ordered, making them do just that, leaving the Fury queen alone to think. "Calliope really is a great warrior and has a surprisingly strong will." She thought with a small smile.
Meanwhile with Calliope and Orkos
The Fury had teleported them to the Forearm of Apollo and had gotten Calliope out of the black goo. "You will never be able to reach the eyes now that my mothers know that you are after them." He told his ally as he procented his Oath stone and gave it to her. "This power helped me escape Hecatonchires."
"And what's gonna happen to you."
"If you do not succeed, my fate is sealed regardless. Alecto had destroyed the only path that leads to the Lantern. Before I could have told you how to get to it, but now you'll have to find another way." He said regretfully before teleporting away and leaving Calliope alone.
The Ghost of Sparta saw a lever and operated it, making the platform come down and to keep it from going back up without her, she created a shadow copy of herself with the stone Orkos gave her and jumped on the platform and deactivated her new power to take her to the upper level. Once she opened all the chests, she stepped on a pressure pad and left another clone there to get through the door and she swung to an arena when Satyrs appeared. Calliope used her new power to kill them all and when they were all dead, she climbed up on the wall and got to a ledge and used her left blade to bring another platform close and used her clone power to keep it there to allow her to jump on it and get to the other side. After using her clone power to get through the other obstacles, she broke out of the statue again and swung back to the giant broken chain she saw before. Another Cerberus appeared, along with another blue woman and several hounds. She quickly and easily killed the woman and hounds with her blade before using the Fires of Ares to kill the Cerberus. Once that was done, Calliope brought the chain back together, using her clone power to help keep it in position until she used her Amulet to repair the chain partly and get back up to the oval room and using her clone power to keep the pressure pad down to bring her to the upper door that was too far to reach while killing several armored Satyrs and fire Talos. Once the elevator got to the top, she finished off her enemies before going through the door to see that she was at the ribs of Apollo.
After opening the chests, Calliope moved to the left to the edge of the scaffold, swung onto the next hook and move forward onto the statue and slid down before grabbing a chain with her left blade before jumping left onto a debris and climbed up through them until she got to the chains and swung right through a wall and grabbed a statue. She climbed until she got to another wooden scaffold and used a ladder to get on its upper level and continued climbing until she got to a hanged elevator and jumped through the hooks onto a bigger wooden scaffold. Calliope climbed the ladder and opened 2 chests before going right and jumped through platforms, with 1 of them collapsing but The Ghost of Sparta quickly grabbed the edge of the last platform as Satyrs appeared. Calliope quickly killed the one with the shield and then used her clone to kill the 2 big ones, making the barrier dissolve. Calliope went into the cave and pushed 2 big gears out of her way, getting into the Furnace part of the statue.
When Calliope entered the Furnace, she was attacked by a Cyclops but Calliope easily killed it by slicing it in half before more flying enemies appeared but Calliope easily killed them, too. The gate on her right side dropped so she went into it to found what looked like a big pile of wood, which she thought would be useful so she dragged it out and pushed it to the middle of the room for now and went to the gear wheel and turned it, making a platform come to her. She jumped on it and let it take her across the room and followed the path up to a room that had the corpse of Archimedes himself. "Poor man." She thought with sadnessat the thought of all the suffering he must have gone through to build this damn statue.
The Ghost of Sparta used her left blade to operate the grapple chain on the ground and open up a flap in front of her. Once it was at the furthest point back, she created a clone of herself to hold the chain so she could jump down the flap before dropping down and cranking the gearwheel right next to her to open the big gate to her right. After opening the chests, she found another gear to turn, opening the big gate that led back to the other room. She grabbed the stack of wood and moved it into the slot next to the gearwheel before turning the gearwheel again to send a shower of sparks down onto the wood pile, burning it out immediately. She then took the smoldering pile back to where she found it and used her Amulet to heal it until flames were back, causing container above the fire to ignite, melting some oil before it poured into the top of the filler next to it. Calliope took the wood pile out again and brought it to the wooden door right next to her before smashing it down and sticking the pile of wood in the slot before turning the same gearwheel in the room to drop the oil into the wood pile before bringing it to the other room and stuck it in another slot right in the middle of the room. She used her Amulet to bring the fire back and ignite the oil and causing the coals above the flames to catch on fire and in turn turning the furnace on. Once that was done, a Gorgon and several other enemies appeared but Calliope fought them with the Lightning of Zues and quickly killed them all. Once they were all dead, she took the same path that brought her to the upper room and used the three flaps as stepping stones to get to a into a chamber above them and was brought to another upper level. The Ghost of Sparta jumped to the platform in front of her and moved forward through the walkway while watching out for the fire falling from the ceiling. She kept going until she got to a grapple point, taking it up before making your way along the wooden beam before jumping up on the conveyor belt and opening the chests on it before getting to the gearwheel and turning it, getting the two sets of platforms next to the belt moving. The Ghost of Sparta went back down the conveyor belt and got surrounded by fire and enemies, which he easily killed while using the fire to her advantage until they were all dead. Calliope jumped forward onto the platforms and made her way along them, jumping at appropriate times to get to the next one, including jumping on a big turning cylinder to get to the last platform. After that, she used her left blade to get to the Shoulder of Apollo
3 Elephantors appeared, along with several Satyrs with shields but Calliope used the Souls of Hades and the lightning of Zues, along with her cloning stone to kill them all before opening the chests and using her Amulet to heal both massive arms of the statue until they were fully repaired along with the Lantern. After that was done, Calliope got to the upper level and opened the chests before jumping down and sliding all the way back down to the Furnace again.
Calliope went to the gearwheel and opened the gate in front of her and ran to the other gearwheel and turned it to her, making the chain holding the Lantern to slowly rise up to where the eyes would target it. This also caused the whole clearing to lift off with a fire in the middle. Several enemies appeared but Calliope fought and killed them all with her blades and also using the fire to her advantage until the platform stopped. Lady Death used her right blade to pull the grapple chain and pull open a door. When it was at the furthest point back, Calliope made a clone of herself to keep it there as she turned the nearby gearwheel, activating the massive purple light and making the platform go up as more enemies appeared but Calliope killed them all with her blade and the fires that now turn on in the corners of it until the platform finally got to the top. After Calliope opened all of the chests, she rode the elevator all the way to the Eyes of Apollo and used her Amulet to heal it, fully repairing the statue as the Lantern finally got in front of the Eyes.
Once that was done, several enemies appeared, consisting of Minotaurs, Warlocks and witches. Calliope avoided their attacks while slicing through all of them with her blades and using the Fire of Ares and the Lightning of Zues to kill them all until they were all dead. She then jumped onto the white stone in the middle of the room and pushed the smaller stone off of it before pushing it to left side before using it to get to the ledge and pull the lever to make the light come down to the Eyes. She then pushed the stone to the right side and got to the highest upper level while opening the chests there before she got on another conveyor belt and made another clone of herself to ride it until it was on the white block and quickly jumped back down. She got over to the left side and find the chain to a cradle to hold the block in place and began to pull it until the cradle and block were in the right position for the light to go out of the Eyes and light up the Lantern.
"It's about damn time. I was getting tired of fixing this fucking statue." She said with annoyance as went to the nearby ladder and climbed it all the way to the Head of Apollo. Once she was on it, she saw a Manticore fly near her and jumped on its back before stabbing it with her left blade, making it turn to the Lantern while tearing its left wing completely off on a sharp point on the statue until they both fell inside the Lantern.
Calliope quickly finished the monster off before it could attack again, making the gold spikes drop down before Orkos showed up again. "Not much further now, Calliope. Inside there, are the Eyes of Truth, the same eyes that my mothers ruthlessly torn from Alethia." He said before he told her more of what happened before these events started. "When I learned of the plot of my parents to overthrow Zeus and Olympus, I could not believe Alethia's words. Then she showed me the truth that the God of War would bring down the very walls of Olympus. I knew I had to stop them. Alethia and I tried to warn Zeus but when Ares learned of our attempt, he sent my mother's after us and they ripped my beloved's eyes out and made her a prisoner in her own temple. They knew that if her eyes were hidden, their wicked plot would not be revealed and with us out of the way and the statue destroyed, they'd rule over the Gods themselves. But to keep their plan in motion they need you, Calliope. They will not stop until you return to Ares."
"Like I'd ever serve the bastard who ruined my life. I'm gonna enjoy givin' him and those cocksuckin' Furies an agonizing death while I make 'em suffer." Calliope said with hate, vowing to make Ares and the Furies suffer before killing them.
"I know you will set things right, Calliope." Orkos said, believing in Calliope before disappearing and leaving Calliope alone again.
After opening all the chests in the room, Calliope went to the door and cracked it open a little, causing a purple light to shine on the thing above the cage and a lever to drop down at the edge of it. She ran over to it backwards, causing the cage around the blue portal to open. The Ghost of Sparta created a clone of herself to keep it in place until she went through the portal to the Trials of Archimedes.
After opening the chests first, Lady Death cracked open the huge doors on the other side, opening the cage and giving access to the Eyes of Truth. She quickly took them and when she did, the platform descended to the bottom of the room. "Trials. Should have fucking known." She said with annoyance as she used the Eyes of Truth to break the Fury barrier and grappled it to the 1st trial. Gorgons appeared, along with witches and carefully avoided their attacks and countered with her own while using the Amulet and Stone to her advantage before she killed them all with the Souls of Hades. Calliope grappled the platform to the 2nd trial and Amazons appeared and were giving Lady Death quite the challenge but they were all killed with the Fires of Ares before an An electricity knight took their place. Calliope used her Amulet to freeze it and land several attacks on it before killing it with its own weapon. Lady Death then brought the platform to the final trial where a centaur appeared. The Ghost of Sparta dodged its attacks and countered with her Cyclone of Fury and Falling Helios attacks until she brought the creature to the floor and sliced it in half before quickly killing the beast before took its place but Calliope managed to kill it as well using the Lightning of Zeus. 3 three Wraiths appeared but Calliope used her 2 most useful attacks to deal with them. After they were dead, she grappled the platform to the top of the room where it was before the trials began.
The seemingly unstoppable Anti-Heroine then went over to the big double doors and closed them before walking to the center cage and used the Eyes of Truth to clear out the Fury barrier before pulling the lever all the way to the right, using a clone of herself to hold the dome in place. Calliope then ran through the Fury portal again while using the Eyes of Truth to clear the way. Once she was through the portal, the platform lowered into the ground before Calliope walked forward and to the right to find the Antikythera Mechanism. After that, she went to the door and opened it to reveal a bright purple light that brightened up the Lantern.
When she turned around, The Ghost of Sparta saw Orkos, captured by his Fury mothers. "Hello Alecto, nice to see ya." She said with a smirk.
"It's...good to see you, too, Calliope. I have to give you credit for all the effort you put into finding these." The Queen Fury said with a smirk of her own as she showed her the Eyes of Truth.
"Think you fooled me with an obvious trick? I fucking knew that the eyes I was carrying weren't the real thing. Fact I would say you knew someone was gonna come for 'em and swiped them out with them damn fakes before this damn statue was destroyed, right?"
"Hmmm. She's a very smart warrior to see through the illusions without almost any effort at all. Perhaps... I've been wrong this whole time." Alecto thought to herself, beginning to believe that she may have been wrong about going along with Ares and beginning to see something in Calliope that she thought she saw in the God of War himself.
Tisiphone's bird suddenly appeared and quickly grabbed the Stone that Orkos gave her and before could think any further, she quickly used her black goo to restrain the Ghost of Sparta, allowing Megaera to run up to the warrior and repeatedly punch her hard with her remaining arm. "I'M GOING TO ENJOY KILLING YOU, YOU WORTHLESS SPARTAN BITCH!"
"MEGAERA, STOP RIGHT NOW!" Alecto quick said as she pulled her Revenge crazed sister away from Lady Death and spoke to both of them. "We'll break her in Hecatonchires, alright? Let's just grab them both and leave this damn statue!" She ordered them, oddly feeling a desperate need to protect the Ghost of Sparta.
"Alright, we will, as long as Megaera and I get to have a whole lot of fun while we torture her almost to death until she finally learns who her master is." Tisiphone said with a sadistic smile, thinking of all the fun she and her insect-legged sister will have beating the life out of the one who's caused them and Ares so much trouble.
As the Furies left the statue with Calliope and Orkos in hand, Alecto was thinking about Calliope and briefly looking at her with remorse for everything she'd went through and how she was worried about how Calliope would feel if she actually learned the truth about how to break her bond with the God of War.
It was then that Calliope had found herself defeated and this time, no Olympian would come to her and. With only 2 Furies satisfied, they returned home with Lady Death, where they would break her completely until they enticed the Ghost of Sparta to what they thought was her rightful place as a servant of Ares.
There you go, my friends, the 3rd chapter is finally complete. Next chapter will have Calliope getting revenge on the Furies but will have a plot twist Alecto that will affect the timeline in very unexpected ways. Rate and review. See you when I see you, my friends.