Chains of Olympus part 2
In the darkness, Morpheus, the God of Dreams awakened to a world where he and only he wielded power. The land was slowly overrun by a black fog that engulfed everything it touched.
Calliope and Alecto got to where the light crashed down and saw that they were in the City of Marathon. The 2 lovers watched as a black fog was slowly engulfing the land. But while they were trying to figure out what made this happen, Calliope was still trying to think of a way to tell her lover that they were going to be parents. "How can I tell her? I can't just say: 'Babe, I'm pregnant 'cause our love bond and our pleasure book created a child that we didn't know would be conceived after we fucked more than once using it' and then just expect us to just do our normal thing. Especially if that bastard Ares finds out."
"I wonder what's going on with Calliope? Surely she can't be feeling bad if she and I ran all the way here." Alecto thought with worry, noticing her lover was thinking hard about something.
But they both knew that now wasn't the time to be thinking about their personal thoughts. Calliope opened a chest and they climbed down the ledge where Calliope opened another chest before the 2 lovers heard the cries of a woman calling for help. They quickly got inside the building but we're too late, as the undead soldier had already killed her, making Calliope angry before she quickly killed it, making the barrier it created dissolve.
Calliope and Alecto advanced forward and the Ghost of Sparta broke down a wooden door and opened 2 more chests in the other room before she and her lover got outside of the building and ran through the city streets while killing many undead soldiers and opening more chests inside the other buildings.
The power of Morpheus was beginning to effect even Calliope as well as the mortals exposed to it, as she was haunted by a strange melody.
Calliope suddenly stopped when she heard a strange melody in the distance. And from the sound of it, it came from a flute, the very same instrument that she had made herself as a child for playing music as a hobby, something she hadn't done since the night her life was ruined.
Alecto quickly took notice of this and held her lover's hands. "Calliope, are you alright, baby?" She asked with concern.
"Y-yeah, I'm ok, baby." Calliope answered before kissing her lover softly. "Let's keep moving."
Alecto knew they couldn't go in the fog as it was harmful to everyone who touched it so she pushed the fire forward to get to the gate, which Calliope opened before they walked through it. Calliope opened another chest before a Siren appeared but Calliope used her Efreet attack to greatly damage it before Alecto finished it off by decapitating it with her swords.
Calliope them fried the nearby archers with the same attack while Alecto grabbed fire from a nearby statue and used it to light the hay from a cart on fire before she pushed it forward, creating a path through the black fog for the both of them as Calliope dealt with the nearby soldiers and opened more chests until they got to an area the fog hadn't engulfed.
Suddenly, a Sabre beast appeared and tried to attack the 2 lovers, but they swiftly dodged the monster's attacks while counterattacking every chance they got until Lady Death used her blades to slice the creature in half, killing it and making the barrier dissolve before Calliope smashed through the big rock with her inhumane strength, clearing their path. After killing 2 more archers and opening 2 more chests, the 2 lovers climbed up the ledge and saw that they were close to the Temple of Helios and began to run towards it, with Calliope still hearing that strange melody.
And as Calliope and Alecto approached the temple, it became clear to them that the task ahead was more than they could have ever imagined. And once again, the strange, lingering melody could be heard through the black fog of Morpheus, haunting Calliope.
After the 2 lovers killed a few more undead soldiers, they ran to the head and climbed up on it with their swords until they got to the top and saw that they were on the Chariot of Helios himself.
The temple on which the soon to be parents stood was the Sun Chariot of Helios, the very Chariot that the Fire Steeds pulled through the sky every day, allowing the brilliance of Helios to shine upon Mankind.
As the 2 lovers walked, a statue of Athena glowed and spoke to them. "Calliope. Alecto."
"Athena, what madness is this?" Alecto asked while holding her pregnant lover's hand, wanting to know what was happening to the world.
"There is not much time. Olympus needs the 2 of you." The statue told them, knowing that there wasn't much time left.
"I'm tired of these damn requests, Athena! We've already given enough to you and the others. Not get these fucking memories out of my head!" Calliope demanded, wanting the memories of her father out of her head as she was tired of remembering all the horrible things he did while he was alive.
"Indeed, Athena, haven't we done enough for the Gods to at least have the memories of Kratos being removed from my Calliope's head?!" Alecto added, thinking that they'd done enough for the Gods to at least get the memories of Calliope's father out of her head.
"It is not your place to say when your servitude ends, you 2. You will earn your forgiveness and freedom, in time." Athena told them strictly. "But for now, Olympus needs your unquestionable obedience. The God of the Sun has been torn from the sky. This temple on which the 2 of you stand is the Chariot of Helios. Without their master to reign them, the Fire Steeds have driven the Sun Chariot into the Earth. And without Helios, there is no one to keep Morpheus from seizing permanent power. Many of the Gods have fallen into a deep slumber. Soon, all will succumb to the black grip of Morpheus.
While the 2 lovers were tired of serving the Gods, they knew that the lives of mankind were more important than their needs and if Calliope allowed them all to die, she'd be breaking her personal vow that she'd swore years ago to be better than her father. "What would you have us do?" She asked reluctantly.
"The 2 of you must find Helios and return him to the sky, lest the world of Gods and mankind be lost forever." The statue said before it's good began to die out. "Only his light can release the grasp of Morpheus."
"Athena. Athena!" Calliope said as the statue's glow died out.
"She must have succumbed to the slumber, baby. Let's hurry, we don't have much time." Alecto told her lover gently.
After opening 2 chests around the area, the Ghost of Sparta and former Fury Queen went inside a room with an elevator and used it to get to the 2nd floor where they encountered 2 of Morpheus' soldiers but Calliope used her Efreet attack to fry them before she opened another chest and they went to the left area and killed a few more soldiers before Alecto found a lever and pulled it, making the gate near it open. The 2 lovers went back the way they came and got back to where the gate was when a red barrier blocked their way a more soldiers appeared. Alecto quickly killed them with her swords, making the barrier dissolve and they went through the opened gate where Calliope opened another chest and Alecto quickly killed another soldier before opening another gate. They went through it and Calliope used her blades to get the big doors open before they went through them and made their way through the balls of the temple. They got to a room and several flying creatures appeared, which the 2 lovers easily killed before they pulled the statues from the walls and pulled the levers behind them, making the doors open. They went through the right 1 where they encountered 3 more soldiers that were easily dealt with before Calliope pulled another lever, making the big doors behind the gate open.
The 2 lovers went back to the room they came from and went through the left door and made their way into another big room with a big platform. After opening the chests in the room, they got on the platform and used their swords to break the things holding it up, making the platform to down. They battled more of Morpheus' soldiers while the platform went down, including a Hyperion guard until they were on the lower level. After opening the chests in the area, they went upstairs and through the door before it shut behind them. They followed the walkway to the left to find a pair of chests, which Calliope opened before they saw glimmering pillar that the former Fury Queen pushed down, making it form a bridge that they crossed to the platform at the center of the room.
When they got on the platform, a statue of Eos, sister of Helios glowed and addressed the 2 lovers. "I am grateful you both have come. Ghost of Sparta and Ex Fury Queen. The Titan Atlas has been freed from the Pits of Tartarus, and has taken my brother from his rightful place in the sky."
"Who would be mad enough to free a Titan from Tartarus?" Alecto asked with shock, not believing that anyone in Greece would be insane enough to free a Titan from eternal imprisonment.
"And what would Atlas want with the Sun God?" Calliope asked with concern, as she knew that whatever Atlas wanted with Helios, it wasn't anything good.
"I do not know who freed him, but I do know that Atlas needs Helios for his power. He holds within him the power of the sun, a power so great it can destroy the world. It cannot be trusted in the hands of a Titan. Please, take the Sun Shield from his throne, walk through the Gates of Olympus and you both will find me." The statue explained while opening the doors to the throne room before saying 1 last thing. "Hurry, Calliope and Alecto. Even now, my brother suffers at the hands of Atlas."
The 2 lovers quickly pushed another pillar down to get to the other part of the room before they headed inside the throne room. Calliope destroyed the throne and gave the Sun Shield to her lover, as she wanted her to have it for their journey. Several more soldiers appeared and tried to kill the 2 lovers but they easily killed them without much difficulty before Calliope opened the chests in the room on the upper and lower levels. Alecto then opened the door with the Sun Shield and they went inside the next room where Calliope opened more chests before they went up the stairs that led back outside of the temple where they had 1st entered it.
As Calliope and Alecto stepped back into the night, much had changed outside the temple. Morpheus grew ever stronger, as his harbingers of darkness continued their march.
The 2 lovers ran up the stairs nearby and quickly killed the archers before another Sabre Beast appeared. They quickly killed the creature with with quick combos and parry counters before a 2nd beast appeared along with more archers, which they worked together to kill until they were all dead. Alecto went at the center of the arena and used the Sun Shield to create another set of spiral stairs, which they went down and opened the door at the base of the stairway and entered a large room as the door closed behind them. After Calliope opened another chest, she and her lover pushed 2 statue's in the room to the wall, putting them in place for a handle in the middle of the wall to come out. Alecto pulled the handle to make the wall into a set of platforms that she and Calliope went up and got to the upper level of the room and saw 1 of 3 of Helios' steeds. Alecto opened the upper level door with the Sun Shield and they went inside the room where Calliope opened 2 more chests before they went back to the lower level and pulled the platforms out again. But instead of climbing them to the upper level of the room again, they walked around to the left side of the platforms to find a large groove carved into the side of the platform. The stood inside of it and waited for the platforms to move back into the wall, putting Calliope and Alecto inside another room. When Calliope opened another chest, she and her Alecto pulled the statues in place and the ex-Fury Queen used the Sun Shield to redirect the beam into the wall of sliding platforms at the opposite end of the room, making the platforms open again.
The 2 lovers headed back to the previous room and back to the upper level she Alecto used the Sun Shield on the Steed statue, sending a beam of light all the way to the outside of the temple where the 3 levers were and making a set of large stairs forms in the floor of the large room, which they went down and entered a large room, turned right and followed the path to the left and stepped into a shifting wall portrait that warped them to the Caves of Olympus.
Calliope swam to the platforms in the cave and opened the chests on them before Alecto quickly came up to her lover and handed her the Lance of Triton, an item that allowed whoever possessed it to breath underwater. While Alecto had no problem with breathing underwater, Calliope still needed to resurface despite the fact that she could hold her breath for a while when underwater. They dived into the water, went under and Calliope broke down the bars and they swam through the ruined building. Calliope opened more chests along the way and until they found a lever that Alecto pulled, making the arms of the statue above the room lift up to make a path for them to advance forward and the cage door in front of the lever to open. The 2 lovers went through it, swam back up and went to the platform with a wall that they could climb on. The claimed the wall and got to the upper level door, opened it and went inside, where a Monitor appeared. The 2 lovers jumped over the beast's attacks and countered with a relentless air attacks, greatly injuring it and allowing Calliope to cut its head off. Alecto then rotated the crank in the other room counter-clockwise to extend a bridge that they crossed before Calliope opened the door, revealing Eos on a platform above them.
As Calliope and Alecto entered the cave, Eos, Goddess of Dawn and sister of Helios sat above them, visablly weakened by the absence of the sun.
"All glory be to Lord Zeus granting you both safe passage to me." Eos said with a smile, thinking that the King of the Gods was aiding the Ghost of Sparta and former Fury Queen.
"Zeus isn't aiding us, Eos, he's more than likely slumbering with the other Gods." Calliope informed the Dawn Goddess.
"But still, the Gods treat us like their personal weapons. But the only reason we do their bidding is for mankind, me being forgiven for my sins and my Calliope having the memories of her father being removed from her head." Calliope added after her lover, hating being treated like a weapon but knew that it was just because they wanted their sins forgiven.
"Save my brother, Calliope and Alecto, and he will convince Zeus to forgive your sins and remove the memories of your father Kratos from your head." Eos said, hoping they'd do this for the chance for their wishes to finally be granted.
"Why don't I believe you? The Gods have broken their word to us many times already." Alecto told the weakened goddess.
"Be that as it may, former Fury Queen. The Primordial Fire is almost out. Without Helios, the life giving light of the world cannot be sustained. If you 2 do not find him, death and darkness awaits all of us." Eos said firmly.
While Calliope and Alecto had no reason to trust the Gods, due to them breaking their word too many times already, they knew that they cared about the innocent people of the world and there was also the new life that Calliope was carrying inside of her to consider. "Where has Atlas taken him?" Calliope asked.
"I do not know. Follow the passage out of the Cave, retrieve the Fire and it will light your way to the remaining Steeds. They will guide you to their master. May you both go with the speed of Hermes, Ghost of Sparta and former Fury Queen." Eos said before her eyes closed.
The 2 lovers followed the passage and swam through the water where Calliope opened another chest until they walked out of the water and killed a few more soldiers before they got to the room that held the Primordial Fire and Calliope took it, making the floor go down. The statues tried to throw fireballs at them from their shields but the Ghost of Sparta deflected them back at Guardians, destroying them and getting the Light of Dawn. Calliope killed a few soldiers with the new power until the floors came back up. They went down to the walkway and Calliope opened 3 chests before going to the door in the other room where Alecto used the Sun Shield to open it. They went through the door and got to a ledge where they killed a few more soldiers before they jumped off the ledge into the water below, swam back to the platform with the shifting wall portrait and stepped back through it, returning to the Temple of Helios.
When they returned, Alecto used the Sun Shield near the glowing spot on the floor to generate a semi-invisible bridge that connected to the walkway to the circle platform down below. Lady Death and her lover crossed the bridge to the center platform, and then turned left to cross another invisible bridge before Alecto opened the door at the end of the bridge with her shield and then they went downstairs. The stairs led them to another circle platform and Alecto used the Sun Shield near the glowing spot to start moving the platform upward. As it went up, harpies appeared, which the 2 lovers easily killed until the platform reached the top. Calliope opened a few more chests before she and her Alecto before ran up the stairs and into the next room where the former Fury Queen used her Sun Shield to open the door and went through it and entered the Temple Courtyard, where Calliope heard the flute melody again, only she was almost beginning to recognize it.
And again the melody returned, and it almost seemed familiar to Calliope.
Suddenly, a Hyperion guard appeared as sentinels in the background threw flames at the 2 lovers, which they avoided and the guard's attacks before Calliope successfully killed it while Alecto killed the sentinels. When they were dead, Calliope opened 2 more chests in the area and Alecto used the Sun Shield on a glowing spot on the floor in the middle of the arena to bring a mechanism that had a yellow beam that Calliope guided to point at the four doors that dot the perimeter of the courtyard, revealing 4 statues. After they worked together to put the statues in the right floor switches in the courtyard, a 5th statue rose up in the middle of the courtyard. Calliope moved the beam to the statue's light, making the beam hit all the statues. Alecto then directed the beam at the 2nd Fire Steed, making it rise up all the way before Alecto used the Sun Shield to activate it, engulfing it in a good light and making a beam of light shoot all the way to the 2nd of 3 levers. With that puzzle solved, the 2 lovers went south and activated the lift platform to ride it down back into the temple.
Calliope used the 2 invisible bridges to get to the chests and opened them before she rejoined her lover at the 3rd bridge and the former Fury Queen opened the door with her Sun Shield. They went through and entered another room just like the previous 1 with the 1st Fire Steeds and Calliope opened another chest before breaking half of the right statue and pushed it to the wall, allowing Alecto to use her Sun Shield to send the light to the Fire Steed statue before they jumped on the ledge and the former Fury Queen used the Sun Shield again to send a 3rd beam of light into the sky and at the 3rd lever where they 1st arrived at the temple. A door behind the statue opened and they went through it to find that they were back at the ruined statue they used to gain access to the temple and climbed back down when Calliope heard the flute melody again but this time, Calliope recognized the melody now.
"Could it be? Mother?" Calliope thought to herself, not believing that she was hearing the same melody her mother had taught her all those years ago.
As the soon to be parents left the temple, they were assaulted by Morpheus' army. And again Calliope heard the haunting melody. But this time she recognized it as the song she was taught years ago by her mother, Lysandra.
But before the Ghost of Sparta and former Fury Queen could do anything else, they were attacked by Morpheus' soldiers, which they easily killed before crossing the way to the Chariot of Helios. But before they got onto the Chariot, several more of Morpheus' minions appeared. The 2 lovers killed all of them with their blades and combo moves until they were all dead, making the red barrier dissolve before they got on the Chariot and used the 3 crank handles to make the 3 beams touch the Fire Steeds by turning them clockwise before Alecto used her Sun Shield to operate the platform on the floor, releasing the Fire Steeds and making them fly to where they knew their master was...with the 2 soon to be parents holding on tightly as the horses flew with amazing speed.
With the release of the Fire Steeds, Calliope and Alecto were now in the hands of the beasts, and where they would take them, they did not know.
There you go, my friends, part 2 of Chains of Olympus is complete. Next, the 2 lovers and soon to be parents will journey through the Underworld, where they will encounter many things along the way. Rate and review. See you soon, my friends.