Chains of Olympus final part
As the Steeds pulled Calliope and Alecto away from the grip of Morpheus, they crossed into the Underworld. But in the land of the Dead, they could no further. For these beasts of light were not welcome in Hades.
As the Fire Steeds were flying the Ghost of Sparta and former Fury Queen to where Atlas had taken their master, Calliope began remembering the memories of her father, from his time as a general in the Spartan army, the time he returned from a campaign and brought home the necklace gift for Lysandra, to her making the flute she wanted to play as a hobby and her mother teaching her a soothing song, and the horrible things Kratos did in the name of Ares, including killing her mother and Calliope killing him in rage. After a few minutes, the Fire Steeds' light died out due to being in the Underworld, domain of Hades. The 2 lovers saw this and jumped off the floor, getting out their swords and stopping their fall before they climbed up on the ledge.
Calliope and Alecto had found themselves on the edge of Hades, the land where no mortal had set foot. Here where the souls of the Dead walk their fated path, the soon to be parents knew that for them, this was only the beginning.
"So this is the Underworld, the place where everyone goes when they die, where I sent my father when I killed him...and eventually... I'll be joining him, weather I die in a fight or when old age takes me, but either way the result's the same no matter what." Calliope said with concern, knowing that when she eventually dies, Hades would claim her soul and with everything she's done, unimaginable tortures would await her.
Alecto looked at her lover and knew that she was right about every word she just said. Calliope wasn't immortal like her and weather a warrior or monster successfully kills her or old age takes her, this place would be where she'd go, regardless of the good things she's done for the world and Hades would have unimaginable tortures waiting for her.
The former Fury Queen took her lover's hands and spoke softly to her. "Baby, I know that you're very worried about this place claiming you, just as it claimed your father all those years ago, but I'm not going to let Hades have you. When we save the world from Atlas and get Helios back where he belongs, we're going to find a way to make you immortal. I'm not going to lose the only woman I've ever truly loved to anyone, not even Hades. And if we can't make you immortal, we'll make Hades fight for your soul."
Calliope smiled at her Alecto's words. Deep down, she knew she'd eventually go to the Underworld sooner or later, but as her father always taught her: a true Spartan is never afraid of anything, even death. And if she and Alecto couldn't find a way to make her immortal, they'd make Hades fight for her soul. "You're right, babe. As my father taught me, a true Spartan warrior is never afraid of anything, even death. And if we can't find a way to make me immortal, we'll both make Hades fight for my soul." She said before kissing her Alecto in a tongue filled kiss before they separated with a trail of saliva connecting them.
"Wow. Baby, your tongue filled kisses are so very nice and sexy. If the world wasn't in danger now, I'd rip these clothes off you and fuck you senseless." Alecto said seductively as she put her hands on Calliope's ass and began rubbing and squeezing it.
"Oh fuck. As much as I'd love to have you fuck me senseless, we still have a job to do. But don't worry, baby, we'll find a good time to fuck like crazy later on. But in the meantime, let's go save the world." Calliope said while moaning as Alecto let go of her ass before they kissed again.
The 2 lovers ran up to the nearby walls and used their swords to claim it before crawling through the ceiling and using their swords to break away the rocks in their way before dropping onto a ledge to the left. They jumped over the lava to the right to hit another ledge before they saw a climbable surface on the ceiling and jumped to it, following it left to a quasi-hidden platform with 2 chests, which Calliope opened before they went back to the main path and ran forward to the left wall and began claiming through it while dealing with some of Hades' minions along the way until they got to another ledge. When they got there, Gorgons appeared but the 2 lovers killed them all while avoiding their stone base until the red barrier opened up and they went through the doorway, seeing a wall and climbing down. When they reached the ground below, the Ghost of Sparta and former Fury Queen ran right and made a big jump to another ledge that they could just barely grab and moved sideways along the wall to the right to find another chest that Calliope opened before they backtracked to the top of the last climbable surface and followed the stairway that led to a fairly tight clearing, where a legionnaire and 2 cyclopes appeared, posing a challenge to the 2 lovers but they used a strategy that Kratos taught Calliope as a child and easily killed them all while using the Efreet to hurt the cyclopes until they were all dead. Calliope then looked inside the ruined stone structure to the right and found a hidden chest, which she opened. Lady Death and Alecto jumped to the next ledge on the right and harpies began appearing around them, which they easily killed. Calliope then found a couple of hidden chests in the area and opened them before Alecto flew her lover up to the next ledge and they climbed onto the wall surface and scaled right behind the red waterfalls. After the wall climb, they dropped down and fought off a few legionnaires. When they were cleared away, Calliope attacked the base of the tall pillar to the right until the entire pillar started to shimmer before Alecto shoved it down into the next room. The Ghost of Sparta and former Fury Queen went inside and Calliope opened another chest before they got to the upper level, with Calliope finding another hidden chest and opening it before they got to the top level and ran to the Gates of Hades where Harpies and Hyperion guards appeared. While Alecto dealt with the Harpies, Calliope fought with the Hyperion guards with her Plume of Prometheus, making the door that they passed open. Calliope and Alecto went through the door and followed the long path until they got to a building, with the doors closing behind them as they got inside. Calliope opened 2 chests and they went further into the next room where more Harpies and Hyperion guards appeared. Alecto and Calliope used the same tactics to kill them as they did the last ones until they were all dead and the barrier opened. They went through the doorway and crossed the bridge until they got to the Dock of Charon.
Calliope rung the nearby bell after opening another chest and the 2 lovers waited until Charon's boat arrive and they boarded and saw Charon himself. "Who calls for the Ferryman? Charon asked before he appeared behind Lady Death and the ex-Fury Queen. "Lady Death and former Fury Queen? The slaves of the Gods?"
"We're no one's fucking slaves, Charon. We only serve those bastards to protect the innocent people of the world." Calliope said with anger in her voice, her pregnancy hormones beginning to kick in.
"And for my sins to be forgiven and the memories of my Calliope's father to be removed from her head." Alecto added after her lover.
"We share the same fate, Calliope and Alecto. The Gods will release neither of us from our torture." Charon said with no remorse, knowing that the Gods never keep their promises. "Be gone, both of you. It is not your time, Calliope and Alecto is immortal. So unless she is killed, she will never die."
"Over our dead bodies we're leaving now, Ferryman! Or better yet yours!" Calliope yelled before getting out her swords, prepared to fight with the Ferryman of Hades if necessary.
"That's right, Charon, no one gets in our way of saving the world, especially not you!" Alecto added as she got out her swords as well.
For the 2 lovers, the fight with Charon was impossible to win. Despite putting up a good fight and getting a few blows on him, the Ferryman still beat them by using his magic to completely heal himself and then unleashed a powerful burst of green energy that knocked the 2 lovers out, allowing Charon to grab them and drop them below into Tarturus.
Later
When Calliope woke up again, she saw that she was shackled to a wall, which she quickly broke free from. She then got very worried as she touched her belly, thinking that something may have happened to the baby in her. But when 1 of the souls sensed that there was life within the next Ghost of Sparta...by hearing a heartbeat inside her, Calliope felt great relief and quickly found her Alecto on a similar wall next to hers and quickly set her free. "You alright, baby?" She asked with concern.
"Yeah. Other than getting our asses kicked by Hades' bitch Ferryman, I'm alright. But now it looks like we're in Tartarus now. This place is where only the purest of evil go when they die." Alecto answered honestly, while also noticing that they were in the worst place in the Underworld.
"Well...even if we can't find a way to make me immortal and I do die, I'm not even half as evil as the bastards who get sent here, so I don't think I'll be coming to this damn place...if I die." Calliope said, knowing that she wouldn't be sent here if she did die since she wasn't as evil as everyone else who was sent to Tartarus when they died.
"Yeah. Well, I think we should find a way to get out of this damn place. We owe Charon some payback. Who knows, we may even find some weapons that could help us out with our next fight with him and anyone else who gets in our way." Alecto said with a smirk before kissing her lover shortly.
Lady Death and the ex Fury Queen moved through the prison and came across 2 directions. To the right was a pack of legionnaires with archers perched atop a platform supporting them. Calliope knew the archers had to be dealt with 1st so she jumped there quickly with the Hermes Rise and quickly killed them before she opened another chest and saw a locked gate that they couldn't go through. Alecto easily killed the legionnaires before she and her lover went to the left direction.
Here where the souls of the wicked are tortured in the Pits of Tarturus, the wailing and agony of the damned, resonated deep throughout the bowels of the Underworld.
As the 2 lovers got to the Depths of Tarturus, Harpies appeared and attacked them but they easily killed the flying creatures, making the red barrier dissolve. Calliope and Alecto went left down a long hall past more prisoners and Lady Death opened large door at the end and went through it to the next room filled with archers and legionnaires. They stood in the corner where the trio of archers appeared and attacked them with the Cyclone of Chaos technique as well as parries turned into a Helios Flash until they were all dead, with Calliope killing the last 1 on the right platform and opening the chest on it before they both crossed the long chain bridge, climbed and scaled the wall on the other side while dealing with a few enemies until they got to the top of the ledge and saw the Temple of the Gods.
When they were at the top of the ledge, a batch of harpies appeared, all with a Gorgon but the 2 lovers easily killed them before they saw statues of the 3 Gods, Zeus, Poseidon and Hades. The Ghost of Sparta and former Fury Queen glared at the statues and were tempted to destroy them but restrained themselves before they pulled the statues of Hades and Poseidon out onto the platforms, making a crank appear in the center of the arena. They rotated the crank as far as it would go and the statue of Zeus flipped around, revealing a chamber behind the statue. They stepped into the chamber and the statue automatically rotated back, letting them go back through the same passage to enter a new hall. The 2 lovers followed the hall to a room that locked shut as they entered before a pair of minotaurs appeared. While Calliope took on the minotaurs, Alecto killed the archers around the room until the minotaurs were both dead. They then went up the stairs on the left to a room with a legionnaire that Calliope easily killed before she destroyed a wall in the room and they side stepped through the walkway and open 2 more chests before Alecto destroyed a cracked part of the wall and went through it before Calliope pulled the lever, making the gate below them open. They jumped down and went through the gate to another room with 4 archers, which the 2 lovers easily killed before pulling the lever in the room to make the next gate open. The went through the open doorway to a landing with a corpse on a throne and saw the Cryptkeeper's Key that was stuck into the wall on the right. Alecto got the key while Calliope grabbed the corpse and they backtracked to the main floor of the large room before Calliope put the corpse on the pressure pad to hold in place and making a small pedestal with a keyhole rise up Alecto approached the keyhole and used the Cryptkeeper's Key to create a platform that connected to the island beyond.
They crossed the bridge and Calliope opened 2 more chests in the area before they step into the temple and fought with a pair of Hyperion guards before eventually killing them. Calliope saw the Gauntlet of Zeus on 1 of his statues and this time, she didn't restrain herself and pulled it down with her blades, destroying it before picking up the Gauntlet and giving it to Alecto, preferring to use her swords. A few of Hades' minions appeared and Alecto used her new Gauntlet to kill them before they left the temple and crossed the bridge again and went straight before Alecto destroyed the wall and they went to the hallway before a cage with spikes came down and started to move towards them, making them run through the hallway as fast as they could until they got to the end and Alecto quickly destroyed the door that led back to the 3 statues. This time, Alecto happily destroyed the statues, which made them feel a bit better before they went down the stairs that was behind the destroyed Hades statue and Calliope opened the door at the bottom of the staircase and the 2 lovers went through it and a small batch of uber-harpies appeared. Alecto smashed them with her Gauntlet, while Calliope dealt with a few Gorgons before they turned the nearby crack counter-clockwise and jumped down the ledge to the right and they dealt with a band of Hades' minions before a cyclops showed up but they quickly killed it before found a crank before turning it counter-clockwise before Alecto busted away the rock on the left to reveal a second crank that she turned, making another massive chain move and allowing them to cross back to the previous part of the cavern to hop onto the platform they just moved into place. They jumped across the platforms to a ledge to the right to continued to a door that Calliope forced open.
There were 3 archers in the room behind the door but Alecto killed them before she and her lover saw another passage to the right that led to a hall with more prisoners shackled to the walls. At the end of this hall was another door Calliope opened and saw something that surprised her greatly...and disgusted her on the inside.
For the 1st time in her life, Calliope saw before her the remnants of the old rulers of Earth: the mighty Titans. Defeated by the Gods and enchained in the Depths of Tarturus, they suffered their unjust penance. And for their torment, it was well known that these immortal beings hated the Gods with immense fury.
"I know my father told me that the Titans were evil, but being chained up like that...is just wrong and unjustifiably cruel. It's just disgusting to see a being tortured like that." Calliope said with anger and disgust, strangely feeling sympathy for the chained up Titan...and the other Titans that were chained up in Tartarus for whatever they did.
"I know your heart is telling you that being chained up so horribly like that is wrong and unjustifiably cruel, but we can't let this distract us, baby." Alecto said with sadness as she held her lover from behind and kissing her cheek twice, knowing that they couldn't let this distract them from what needed to be done.
The Ghost of Sparta and former Fury queen saw a climbable wall surface nearby and climbed up and followed the part of the wall that led left instead of straight up. The path led them to a high platform with a door that Calliope opened and opened a few chests in the area before they returned to the spot where the wall path split and followed the route that led straight up, allowing them to reach an open area with a minotaur, backed up by a quartet of archers in the background. The 2 lovers dealt with the monsters, with Calliope taking the half bull creature and Alecto killed the archers before they turned the 2 nearby cranks, making a big chain come up that led to the other side close to the chained up Titan's neck. Calliope opened another chest on a platform before they walked across the chain to the other ledge, with Calliope looking at the suffering Titan with honest sympathy before the 2 lovers got to the other side and walked through a hallway with another door that Calliope opened.
There were some legionnaires and a few archers in the large area beyond the door but the 2 lovers quickly killed them before they pulled the 2 levers in the room to move away a set of chains, revealing a passage up top. The Ghost of Sparta and former Fury Queen saw a climbable wall surface to the right and followed the surface along the ceiling and dropped onto the upper platform before going through the cave and pulling a lever that loosened the chain around the Titan's neck and freeing his head enough for him to turn it and relieving some of his pain, much to Calliope's relief but she was still disgusted by the tortured being's suffering. Calliope and Alecto backtracked through the cave room and went left, seeing that the chains of Atlas were broken.
By the hands of Zeus, the Titans had been bound and shackled in their torment for 1'000 years, with no hope of escape. But now the chains that held the Titan Atlas were now broken, and only 1 question plagued the thoughts of the soon to be parents.
"Who would release a Titan...even though no one felt any sympathy for them?" Calliope asked with a look of concern on her face.
"I have a feeling we'll find out really soon, baby." Alecto answered, knowing that the answer would be revealed soon.
The 2 lovers climbed the wall while fending off a few legionnaires before they jumped onto the cog-like platform to the left and Calliope fought off the two harpies and the ones that appeared after while Alecto turned the crank counter-clockwise to move the cog across the chain. When they reached the far end of the chain, they jumped off the cog platform to another platform on the left and they did the same strategy as they did on the last platform until it got to the far side of the massive chain and jumped to the landing on the right before jumping to the next ledge and Alecto used the Gauntlet to make a massive chain bridge, which she and her lover crossed before they climbed the huge wall surface until they were back into the upper levels of the Underworld.
Calliope and Alecto jumped to the next ledge and went to the right, where Alecto used her Gauntlet to smash in a wall that led back into the room with the 4 moving blades, where they killed a few Harpies and Hyporian guards before heading back to the Docks of Charon. Alecto smashed the gate down and the 2 lovers got back on Charon's boat.
"You 2 again." Charon said with an unsurprised voice.
"The walls of Tartarus couldn't hold Atlas and they wouldn't hold us either!" Calliope said with rage.
"The Gods have obviously taken pity on their slaves." Charon said, making them even more angry.
"Last time we we're willing to be merciful because you are a slave to Hades, but now we're not going to be as merciful! This time, we're ready for you and now... you're going to die!" Alecto yelled out with anger.
This time, the 2 lovers were prepared. Calliope attacked Charan from overhead with Rampage of the Furies while Alecto hit him hard with her Gauntlet, hurting him greatly while avoiding his attacks until the Ferryman tried to heal himself like the last time but Alecto used her Gauntlet to destroy 1 of the 3 pillars below Charon, stopping him from healing and launching the green energy burst attack. Calliope even reflected Charan's green fireballs right back at him while using the same strategy as the 1st time before Alecto destroyed the other 2 pillars and Calliope used Charan's scythe to pin him against the wall while Alecto grabbed his mask. Charan got free and tried to hit Calliope with his green fireballs but the Ghost of Sparta reflected them back at him and he fell to the floor and Alecto used the Gauntlet to finally kill the Ferryman for good.
Having defeated Charon. Calliope and Alecto journeyed deeper into Hades and closer to their goal. For in the distance, the bright light of Helios illuminated all of the Underworld. When they neared the Temple of Persephone, something caught Calliope's attention.
"Do you hear that? That song?" Calliope asked her lover.
"Yes." Alecto answered as she nodded.
"It sounds so... familiar. Like... someone has sing it for me when I was little." Calliope said as she tried to listen to where the song came from and was shocked to see the very person that was singing it: her own mother, Lysandra. "Mother? Mother!" She said with surprise as Alecto watched where Calliope looked and was surprised to see her lover's mother at shore.
And upon seeing her mother, Calliope realized that all that she had been working for, all that she wanted returned, was within her reach. Years of service to the Gods had not delivered her from her pain. Never had it eased the burdens of her past and her father's memories of his sins. And now, Lysandra was found.
"Mother, wait!" Calliope yelled as she saw her mother head inside the temple.
As soon as the ship docked, satyrs appeared but Calliope and Alecto quickly killed them all before Calliope quickly ran out fast to get after what seemed to be the spirit of her dead mother, with Alecto trying to keep up with her lover. "Calliope, wait!"
When the door closed behind them, Calliope saw her mother walk into the other room and Calliope quickly rushed to follow her, with Alecto right behind her. As the 2 lovers went through the rooms of the temple while following Lysandra, many monsters appeared but we're quickly killed by Calliope and Alecto, with the former Fury Queen noticing her lover fight even more viscous than usual because of her desire to get to her mother, despite her thinking that they were being lured into a trap.
Alecto then tried to stop Calliope by grabbing her shoulders. "Calliope, wait a second! Don't you see that... whatever that illusion was is trying to lure us into a trap?! Haven't you noticed all the monsters we've had to face? What we need to do-"
"Alecto!" Calliope said straight to her lover, still hoping that it was really her mother she was chasing. "That was no illusion, that was my mother! I know it!"
Alecto still tried to tell Calliope that they needed to rescue Helios to bring the sun back to the mortal world. "Calliope, listen to me. We cannot go and pursue your mother's spirit. We need to rescue Helios and find Atlas."
Calliope felt that her Alecto was right, but deep inside her, she wanted to see her mother again. "I'm sorry, Alecto. I can't lose her again." She said as she ran to go after Lysandra's spirit.
"Calliope, no!" Alecto yelled as she ran after her lover, knowing she needed to stop her and that they needed to save the world.
When they finally made it to The Groves of Persephone, Calliope ran to what was a large tree, desperately looking for her mother. "Mother! Mother, where are you?"
Calliope looked, but her mother was nowhere to be found. In the middle of the room, she and Alecto spotted a graceful figure, a figure they recognized all too well: Persephone, wife of Hades and Queen of the undead.
Calliope walked angrily to the Queen of the underworld and asked. "Where is my mother, witch!?"
"Choose your words carefully, Ghost of Sparta. You address the Goddess of the Underworld." She said in a threatening voice before she stood up and told Lady Death. "Your mother is well. She lives among the pure souls in the Elysium Fields."
"Lead me to her!" the Ghost of Sparta demanded, shocking Alecto.
"Calliope." The ex-Fury Queen tried to say before Persephone spoke again while grabbing a fruit from the tree.
"The Olympians need you both. They still slumber at the hand of Morpheus."
"I know me and Alecto have faithfully served the Gods... and we still do, but still they do not give me what I ask: taking these damn memories of my father out of my fucking head!" Calliope yelled, nearly losing herself in her anger at the Gods for still not giving her what she had asked of them for a long time, despite faithfully serving them with her lover. But those emotions were the result of her troubling thoughts of her being pregnant and still not having the strength to tell Alecto.
Alecto tried to tell Calliope that all would be well in the end and her lover needed to have patience, but was interrupted by Persephone before she could say any of it. "The Gods on Olympus failed me too, Calliope," she said as she made the fruit disappear with her magic. "I was betrayed by Zeus and tricked by my husband Hades. Now I am to stay in the Underworld as Queen of the dead. To serve the fallen, and care for them as my own children."
Alecto wasn't liking where Persephone was going to with this, but Calliope truly wanted to see her mother again after all these years of not having any love from a mother. "Persephone! I demand to see my mother, Lysandra!"
Persephone smiled evilly. "As you wish. If your mother, Lysandra is your true desire, I can help you. But be warned, Lady Death. The world of man will suffer because of your choice."
Calliope then looked to her lover one last time as Alecto shook her head in sadness. "Don't do it, baby."
Calliope closed her eyes and said. "Please, bring me to my mother." Alecto's eyes went wide. Calliope was going to leave everything behind... even her, making tears form in her eyes.
Persephone then told the Ghost of Sparta what to do in order to get to the Fields of Elysium. "If you are to see your mother again, you must become worthy of Elysium. Cast your weapons at the forsaken tree and let it release the evils of your past... and of your father, Kratos. Only then will you be free from the sins of your father and be granted passage through the divine gates." She instructed before she went through the gate to Elysium, leaving Calliope to make her choice.
Lady Death looked at her blades and held them tight in her hands. Alecto wanted to stop Calliope as she grabbed her, knowing what she was going to do. "No, Calliope! Don't do it!" But Calliope just pushed her away hard, having made her choice. Calliope slashed the blades into the forsaken tree, casting away all her powers."NO CALLIOPE STOP! DON'T!" Alecto tried to tell her lover, knowing she had to stop, but because of the released energy from Calliope into the tree, a strong burst of energy was coming out, making it impossible for Alecto to get any closer to her lover as she kept begging her lover to stop. "NO, PLEASE! CALLIOPE! DON'T DO IT! PLEASE! STOP!"
When the burst stopped, Calliope fell to the ground. Her tattoo that her father gave to her as a child, gone. Her skin, no longer as white as snow, but now had a normal white color. Her chains of the Blades of Chaos, gone. Calliope was now truly free from all the suffering she has endured and the memories of her father's sins, now finally out of her head.
The now normal Calliope stood up as she heard Persephone's voice. "You have done well, Calliope. Walk through the portal and find the one you seek."
As Calliope walked to the portal, Alecto ran to get to her. "No! Calliope!". But she was too late. Calliope went through the portal but Alecto was denied entrance, due to her sins. She banged on the stone portal as she called out to her lover, but to no avail. "NO! NO NO NO NO NO! CALLIOPE!" She yelled before falling to the floor, crying as she had lost the only person she'd ever truly loved. "Don't... leave me... Calliope."
In the Fields of Elysium
Calliope, now free from her bondage, walked in the beautiful grass field of Elysium. It was truly a paradise like the priests had promised a long time ago when she was a child. She then spotted her mother, who turned to her with surprise and disbelief. "Mother."
"Calliope?!" Lysandra asked as tears formed in her eyes, not believing she was seeing her daughter, fully grown up into a fine young woman.
The two women embraced tightly with tears in their eyes, showing how much they had missed each other for so very long. Lysandra broke the hug first to see her grown up daughter. "Oh, Calliope. You've become so beautiful and strong. I'm so proud of you, my daughter."
"I've missed you, Mommy." Calliope said as she wiped away her tears. "I have longed for this moment for so long."
"Me, too, Calliope." Lysandra said with a smile before they hugged each other once more. But then Lysandra looked at her daughter again and she started to say. "But...Calliope..."
"What?" The former Lady Death asked her mother, wanting to know what she wanted to say to her.
But before Lysandra could say what she sensed in her daughter, Persephone appeared. "I have watched over you pathetic mortals for a thousand years, and it's always the same. Serving yourself before the needs of others has always been yours and your father's flaw." She said while frowning. Calliope stood before her mother, protecting her as Persephone approached. "But no matter, for now you serve my purpose. It is time for all that came before to end. The Titan will fulfill his role and finish what I have started." Calliope and Lysandra weren't sure what she meant by that, but then Persephone said. "I released Atlas."
Calliope's eyes went wide, as she now knew who was responsible for everything that had been happening to the world. "You? You released Atlas?!"
"As you were pathetically disarming yourself, Atlas completed the task i set him out to do. With the power of the sun in his hands, its is only a matter of time before he destroys The Pillar that holds the world, and Olympus with it." Persephone revealed as she smirked.
Calliope then asked. "So it was you?! You kidnapped Helios, stole the power of the sun and sent the world into slumber!? But why?!"
"Do you think it was my choice to wed a man I did not love? Live a life I did not choose?!" Persephone said before she turned and said without facing Calliope. "I was betrayed by the very Gods that once saw me as their own. But no more! Once The Pillar is destroyed, the world will revert into chaos!"
Calliope couldn't believe how Persephone could have become so rogue, but she was also not sure of what will happen to Persephone if she succeeded in destroying the world. "And what about you then? What's gonna happen to you?"
Persephone closed her eyes as she signed. "I will have my peace and be free from this miserable existence. I will perish... but it is my choice."
As the surface above shook, Lysandra held her daughter tightly with worry. "Calliope."
Persephone began to walk away from the grass field to go to the Pillar. "In your selfish choice to be with your mother, you have caused her ruin."
Calliope was shocked at what she had just heard. She gave up on everything, her life, her powers...and even her lover Alecto, only to bring the world, the Gods, all of humanity, everything to destruction...even her mother. "No."
"Elysium falls too, Calliope. Even your mother..." Persephone said as she evilly smirked. "will perish."
"No! I won't let you do this!" Calliope said as she charged to attack Persephone, but was pushed back hard, for the former Ghost of Sparta gave up all of her powers just to be with her mother.
Lysandra hurried to her daughter. "Calliope!" She yelled with concern as she helped her daughter up.
The choice was clear to Calliope, but was impossible to make. To stay with her mother meant the end of the world and her mother, but to stop Persephone and Atlas...meant forsaking her mother... forever. While her anger for the Gods grew ever stronger, she knew there was but 1 thing to do...but she did not want to lose her mother again.
Lysandra then faced Calliope and knew what her daughter needed to do. "Calliope, you have to go now!"
"Mother, no." Calliope said as her voice was starting to break, not wanting to leave her mother after finally being reunited with her after so many years.
Lysandra grabbed her daughter by her forearms and said. "Listen! If you let Persephone go... everyone will die. Even I will perish!"
"No, I can't leave you..." Calliope cried stubbornly, not wanting to be apart from her mother.
That was when Lysandra gave Calliope a hard slap on the cheek to make her pull herself together. "CALLIOPE! You have a lover and a child to think about! Please, do this for your Alecto and my unborn grandchild!"
Calliope was shocked by what her mother said to her as she held her hand on her belly. "But... how did you know?"
Lysandra smiled. "Call it mother's instinct." She said before giving her daughter 1 last hug, knowing she'd probably never see her again.
Suddenly, the other spirits of Elysium appeared. They all knew the good deeds Lady Death did for them, so they raised their hands and used their magic so that Calliope would gain all of her powers back. When the pure magic hit her, Calliope felt her powers coming back to her, her skin became as white as the ashes of her parents again, her tattoo reappeared and the chains of the blades of Chaos came back and Calliope screamed as the burdens and memories of her father came back to her mind. In a few short minutes, the Ghost of Sparta was reborn!
At that moment, Calliope knew that her destiny was not with her mother. The fates were never that kind. But with Alecto and the child that she was carrying inside of her, she knew that she could still have hope.
Before Lady Death went on the stairs to face Persephone, she looked back to her mother 1 last time, a tear coming from her left eye. "Mother..."
Lysandra, though sad to see her daughter going away said. "Don't worry, my child. We will see each other again...in time."
"Goodbye... Mommy." Calliope said with sadness as she held her mother's hand before reluctantly letting go. As she ran up the stairs to face Persephone, she saw her lover, Alecto as well, on the top of the stairs, her very strong desire to be with Calliope was so strong that it let her bypass the fields of Elysium and while she was heading for Calliope, she'd listened in and found out the truth of what Persephone did.
"Calliope!" Alecto said as she was happier than ever to see her lover again.
The reborn Ghost of Sparta was feeling very sorry for what she did, she nearly forsaken the love of her life, only to be with her mother in the afterlife. "And like a cool, I willingly went along with that obvious trap when she tried to warm me. I should have fought my temptations instead of giving into them! Stupid! Fucking stupid!" She thought with anger and regret.
But now was not the time for making up yet, for The Queen of the Underworld stood between them on the stairs and said evilly. "Spartan, Fury... Witness the end!" She then transformed into her winged and armored form to fly off but Calliope used one of her blades to pull her up, with Alecto holding on to her reborn lover until they got to the top of the Pillar of the World where Atlas was using the sun to destroy it before the 2 reunited lovers landed on a platform, with Persephone following them, prepared to fight.
The 2 lovers avoided the Queen of the Underworld's rock-kicking attack using their swords to damage her, with Calliope using her Tartarus Rage technique and Alecto using her Rampage of the Furies technique, wounding Persephone greatly before she grabbed them by their throats.
"Die you bitches!" The rogue Goddess yelled while grabbing Calliope and Alecto and using her power to make both women pass out. "Go to them, be with them." Persephone said while referring to Calliope's mother and Alecto's dead son, Orkos. "Leave this world behind." She finished as she dropped them on the floor, with both of them feeling weak, wanting to be with the ones they lost. But they snapped out of it in time, making Persephone desperate. "Atlas!" Persephone called out before the Titan tried to smash both Calliope and Alecto to death, but they avoided him in time.
While the 2 lovers were on Atlas' hands as chains wrapped around his wrists, Calliope and Alecto used their swords and strength to nail them tightly in place on the world's surface, locking Atlas's hands on the world with no hope of escape whatsoever.
Persephone then flew to them and kicked them back to the platform to finish the fight and kill the 2 lovers for good. "YOU BITCHES WILL NOT STOP ME!" The rogue Goddess vowed. Persephone now stock to the air and launched 1 of 2 projectile attacks that the 2 lovers easily avoided while reflecting the 2nd attack back at the rogue Goddess, hurting her enough for them to use their combined Rampage of the Furies attack in mid-air to injure her even more, stunning her long enough for Alecto to use the Sun Shield to fire a massive power beam at Persephone, despite her attempt to get to the former Fury Queen. After Persephone was stunned, Calliope threw the Gauntlet of Zeus to her Calliope and the Ghost of Sparta used it to rip the Queen of the Underworld's heart out, putting an end to the rogue Goddess forever as she fell to the floor dead, unleashing an explosion of her power that destroyed the rest of the Pillar and causing Atlas to have to stand in its place for all eternity!
The defeated and angered Titan then knew that his fate was forever sealed as he looked at Calliope and Alecto. "Perhaps you both believe that the Oylmpians will help the 2 of you. But I ask...where are your Gods now, Calliope and Alecto? Why do they not come to your and?!"
"We don't need the aid of those fucking Gods!" Alecto counterd.
"But now our path is clear to us. We will serve those bastards, and they will keep their promise to forgive my Alecto for her sins and get the memories of my father out of my head!" Calliope added after her lover, knowing now that the only way to get what they wanted was to serve the Gods, whether they liked it or not.
"I ask you Spartan, what good is the promise of an Oylmpian?" Atlas asked, knowing that the Oylmpians would never keep their promises.
"I'm sorry, Atlas, for everything that's happened to you and your kind. I truly am, but right now, besides each other, their promises are all Alecto and I have now!" Calliope said as her voice began breaking as tears formed in her eyes with regret for what she had to do to Atlas and cursing him forever.
Altas sensed that Calliope was telling the truth about feeling sorry for him and his kind but was still angry as he said. "We will meet again, Spartan and Fury Queen. The fates have deemed it. One day, you both will regret what you have done here."
"We already do, Atlas." Alecto said honestly with remorse before they found a place to be alone.
Calliope then turned to Alecto. "Babe, I'm... I'm so sorry that I left you to go to Elysium... to see my mo-"
Alecto cut her lover off by kissing her so she would just be quiet. "It's alright, baby, you're back with me and that's all that matters."
Calliope then cried, not being able to hold her tears anymore. "Shhh, it's alright Calliope, you don't need to cry. I understand you had to do it, to see your mother again after so many years." Alecto said while comforting her lover.
But Calliope shook her head. "That's not it, baby."
"Then what?" Alecto asked with a confused look on her face.
Calliope tried to find the right words to tell her lover. "I should have told you sooner, but I was so scared that what would happen and how much danger we'd be in because of it!"
Alecto tried to understand what Calliope meant but couldn't. "Calliope, I don't understand. What's going on?"
Calliope took a deep breath, as she had to tell her lover now or risk losing her. "Do you remember when we our pleasure book... for fucking at... Salamis?"
Alecto nodded. "Yes... but what has that got to do with anything?"
Calliope looked deep into her lover's eyes, with tears flowing from her cheeks as she finally told her lover the news. "I'm pregnant."
Alecto was completely speechless and wide eyed "Wha... you... you're pregnant?"
Calliope nodded before continuing. "It's both of ours. Yours and mine."
"But i... I don't understand! How is this even possible!?"
Calliope held Alecto's hands while she spoke. "Aphrodite explained it all to me." Alecto was still confused but listened to her lover continue to explain. "The magic we used on Salamis. We used it too much and the strong love bond that we have...resulted in me... in us... blessed with a child. Oh Alecto, I was so scared! I was scared of what would happen to the baby while we serve the Gods or that Ares will... will try to get to both of us... or our baby... I didn't know what to do. I-"
All of a sudden, Alecto hugged her lover in a romantic way, with tears flowing from her eyes, not of sadness or fear…but of happiness. "Don't worry, baby. We will find a way, okay?"
"Wait, you're not mad at me?"
Alecto looked into Calliope's eyes and said with joyful tears coming from her eyes. "Mad? Calliope, this is a happy moment. This is the best thing that's ever happened... to us! We're having a baby! A child of our own! Oh Calliope, I'm so happy!" They both then shared a passionate kiss and from that moment on, Calliope knew that no matter what, her lover, the former Queen of the Furies, would always be at her side. For her and their soon to be born baby.
The mighty Atlas was left enchained, cursed to forever hold the world on his shoulders. A greater penance then even Zeus himself had placed on the Titans. The fate of Atlas had been sealed and the goddess Persephone, was no more. Calliope and Alecto had saved mankind, and while that did comfort them somewhat, they still were worried. For now, their only concern...was how they would protect each other and their soon to be born child from Ares and other dangers that were ahead while they continued to serve the Gods.
There you go, my friends, Chains of Olympus is finally complete. The next chapter will focus on Calliope's pregnancy and how Calliope and Alecto will keep themselves safe for the next year. Also, Atlas is voiced by the late great Michael Clarke Duncan in my story. May he forever rest in peace while his soul is in heaven with the Lord. Rate and review. See you soon, my friends.