The Power to kill a God final part

And Calliope fell into the Underworld, the river Styx beckoning below, a current strong enough to carry even the strongest mortal to his or her eternal resting place. But Calliope had no intention of resting yet, she intended to live, to return to earth, to her family and complete her quest.

Calliope then held on to the Ship Captain's legs as he hung on for dear life to keep himself from falling into the River Styx. "Let go, you bitch! You will drag me down to that cursed river!" He said, not knowing who he was talking to.

Calliope looked fiercely to him, as he was the 1 who locked all those innocent people in his cabin to be fed to the Hydra, as she had read the ships journal after slaughtering the monster. Calliope was disgusted that she attempted to save the captain at 1st, but was now glad that she failed. With her anger risen, she stabbed the captain and raised herself to the edge. "There is a task for me above, and a family that I love! And you are in the way, you bastard!"

As she raised herself, the Ghost of Sparta was stopped by the ship's captain, who was holding on to her leg. But when he saw who it was he was holding onto, he was shocked as he saw the Ghost of Sparta. "You?!"

Calliope then raised him up but held him tight by the throat with only 1 hand, thanks to her superhuman strength as she looked fiercely at him. "You wanted to feed all those innocent people to the Hydra?!"

The ship's captain then begged for mercy as he tried to explain. "Please... Lady Death... I only did what Ares told me to do! He said... that he would bring back... my wife and son... from the Underworld... if i did it-"

"And you believed that lying bastard?!" Calliope asked, knowing Ares was a liar who would say and do anything for his own evil plans.

"Pl..please, lady Calliope. I just wanted to see my beloved wife and son again." He begged.

"THEN THEY CAN WATCH YOU SUFFER FOR ALL YOUR SINS!" Calliope yelled before she threw him down into the river Styx. Calliope scowled after getting rid of the heartless captain, as even though he did it for family, it wasn't an excuse for endangering innocent people. "Good riddance." She said before going to find her way out of the Underworld.

The first obstacle for Calliope was a series of narrow platforms that branched off in different paths, so she did some exploring and found some chests that she opened while defeating some undead soldiers before moving forward to 2 larger platforms where she fought and killed some more soldiers before getting to the next obstacle was a maze of blood-red rotating logs that were lined with blades. Calliope did some exploring around the logs, being really careful to avoid the blades and to stay on the rolling logs, until she found some chests that she opened while fighting of more soldiers and some harpies before she got to the next platform and used Zeus' Fury kill several archers from afar before moving closer to the next ledge and jumping on it. She then killed some minotaurs and more archers before jumping up on the plateaus taking out more soldiers and minotaurs before reaching the next obstacle, which was a rotating column that was covered with blades. Calliope very carefully moved up the column while avoiding the blade until she got to the top of the ledge and climbed up on a 2nd column using the same strategy as before until she got to the top and headed forward a bit to find another set of narrow platforms that she jumped across to a larger platform where she fought and killed a bunch of syters, making floating platforms appear. Calliope jumped across them to reach another large clearing with a few archers that she killed before a rope dropped down from the sky. The Ghost of Sparta jumped to grab the rope and climbed it up to the surface, returning to the Temple of the Oracle.

When Calliope managed to get out to the top and out of the Underworld, she was surprised to see that the Grave Digger was the one that dropped the robe for her to climb back up. "Ah, Calliope, and not a moment too soon, I only finished digging just a moment ago."

Calliope was thankful for him to bring her a robe to climb out of the Underworld, but was still puzzled of who this man was. "Who... are you?"

The Grave Digger only smirked. "Ah, now that is an interesting question." But just as the old man was about to answer who he really was, a loud destructive sound was heard near the destroyed Temple of the Oracle. "But for now, you must hurry, Athens needs you."

"But how did you know I-?" Calliope asked.

"Athena isn't the only God keeping watch over you, Lady Death." The Gravedigger answered.

As Calliope was distracted again by the loud destructive sound she then saw that the Grave Digger was gone, but heard him say. "Complete your task, Calliope, and the Gods will forgive your sins!"

As Calliope heads inside the destroyed Temple of the Oracle and killed all the monsters in her way, she finds in the courtyard many survivors. All are shocked and their eyes wide, to see the Ghost of Sparta, alive. "It's... the Ghost of Sparta... she lives!" An Athens citizen said with joy.

"Praise Zeus! The Gods have let our heroine live!" a few Athene citizens said with the same joy.

Alecto and Sylvia, who were in the courtyard too, heard the citizens before they turned around and were overjoyed to see Calliope alive. Sylvia ran to her mother while tears flowed from her eyes. "Mommy!"

"Sylvia!" Calliope said with the same tears of joy, happy to see her daughter.

As both daughter and mother hugged each other tightly, Alecto ran to her lover and hugged her, giving her a passionate kiss while she cried. "I thought you were dead, baby."

Calliope shook her head while smiling. "Nothing will keep me from either you or Sylvia, not even death, babe." The whole family then embraced as the Oracle came to Calliope, who was happy to see her alive too. "Oracle! You're alive."

The Oracle smiled at Lady Death saying. "All thanks to you and your family, Calliope." But then the Oracle became sad. "But... I'm afraid you're too late. Ares and his minions have taken Athens and now has the Box of Chaos."

Then Calliope frowned, saying with determination. "But not for long. I will go and challenge him!"

Alecto held her lover's hand, determined as her lover was. "I'll be at your side, baby."

Calliope smiled at her lover, but she knew they couldn't take Sylvia with them, so she asked the Oracle. "Oracle, would you look after Sylvia?"

The Oracle smiled and nodded. "It will be my honor."

Calliope then knelt down to Sylvia and put her hands on her shoulders. "Sweetheart listen closely, me and your mommy are going to fight Ares. If something bad happens, we want you to run away, okay? Just run, and try anything possible to stay out of Ares's hands, do you understand?"

Sylvia nodded to her mother, as she had been told over a thousand times of what to do if something terrible would happen to her parents and the little girl was all alone. "I will, mommy. Please be careful."

Calliope gave her a hug and a kiss on her forehead. "I will, my little warrior princess." She said before Alecto gave their daughter a hug and kiss on the forehead too and both lovers went to challenge the God of War, as the Oracle gently put her hands on Sylvia's shoulders to comfort the little girl.

Calliope had conquered the desert of Lost Souls and the deadly traps of the Temple of Chaos, even escaped the depths of Hades itself. But there was but 1 task left for her and Alecto to complete before they would receive their promised rewards.

The reunited lovers made their way to the cliffs where Ares was while battling a few of his monsters and Calliope opening a few more chests along the way until the saw their most hated enemy.

The gigantic God of War, Ares was mocking his father, Zeus in the skies as he held the box in his right hand. "Zeus! Do you see now what your son can do?! You cast your favor on Athena, but her city lies in ruins before me! And now, even the Box of Chaos is mine! Would you have me use it against Olympus itself?!"

"Not as long as we are here, flame hair!" Calliope yelled to the God of War.

Ares turned his head and saw Calliope and Alecto on the cliff behind him. "Calliope? Returned even from the Underworld. And Alecto... how nice to see you again."

Alecto looked at Ares with a disgusted face as she spoke with hate for the God of war. "The only thing that will satisfy me, is to see you dead, Ares!"

Ares just laughed and faced the skies again, calling out to his father. "Is this the best you can do, father? You send a broken mortal and a fallen Fury to defeat me? The God of War!?"

But with Ares distracted, Calliope used her power to break the chain on Ares's right hand and the box fell to the seas below. Calliope looked to her lover quickly, who said. "Get the Box, my love!"

"But what about you-?!"

"Just get the Box! I have something that will help." She told her lover, making Calliope nod before she jumped down to get the box before Ares noticed it was out of his hand.

Alecto closed her eyes and mentally said to herself. 'I promised myself a long time ago that I would never use this power again, but now... I make an exception!' Before her eyes opened as her body began to twitch and tentacles were forming! She jumped down into the sea at the same moment that Calliope opened the box, releasing the forbidden powers!

After thousands of years, the Box of Chaos was finally opened. The power of the Gods unleashed. At the same time, Alecto would show Ares the true power of the Queen of the Furies.

Calliope turned into a gigantic form of herself as she felt the amazing powers of the Box flowing through her body. Now she was equally the same size as Ares. And then from the sea, came the gigantic Kraken-form of Alecto. Now that the 2 lovers were ready, they prepared for the fight of their lives.

Ares looked at Calliope first. "You are still just a mortal, every bit as weak as the day you killed your father."

"I am not the same little girl you found that day! The monster you've created has returned, with your former lover, to kill you!" Calliope countered as she got out her blades.

Ares only laughed at that. "You truly think that Alecto's pathetic monster form is a match for me?" He asked with overconfidence.

Alecto, in her Kraken voice, yelled. "We are not the monsters here, Ares! YOU ARE!"

This made Ares even more angry. "You both have no idea what a true monster is!" Then many spikes came from his back like many long swords, along with his own sword in his right hand. "Your final lessons are at hand, Calliope and Alecto!"

The battle started out even evenly matched on both sides as Calliope was using her blades to attack from afar to avoid Ares' back spikes and his hammer attacks. Alecto also used her Kraken form to deal a great amount of damage to the God of War, while Calliope used Poseidon's Rage and the Souls of the dead to deal equal amounts of damage. The people of Athens cheered as they saw how Calliope and Alecto were about to defeat the God of War. And with the Oracle watching over her, Sylvia watched how her mothers fought Ares and was astounded at what they truly were capable of while working together as a united team.

When Calliope impaled Ares with some of his own back spikes and he pulled them out, he roared out in rage, having had enough and used his power to suck the Ghost of Sparta into a portal, despite her trying to hold on with her blades, trying to break the Ghost of Sparta's spirit. "You have known many ways to kill your enemies, Calliope. Flesh that burns, bones that break, but to brake a warrior's spirit, is to truly destroy him!" Ares yelled in Calliope's mind as she fell to the place where all her suffering began: The old temple of Athena, where her mother died and where she had killed her father in a justifiable rage. "Do you recognize this place, Spartan? The location of where you unleashed your true self. Perhaps there is a chance you can undo the deeds of the past." He said, taunting Calliope.

Meanwhile with Alecto

At the moment when Calliope was being sucked into wherever Ares had sent her to, Alecto gave all she had against Ares, but the God of War was too strong. Sylvia watched with horror as her mother was being beaten, making her yell out. "STOP IT! STOP IT, YOU MONSTER!"

The Oracle covered the little girl's mouth to keep her quiet, but the God of War had already heard her. Ares turned around himself, wondering who dared to tell him to stop. He smirked as he saw that it was the daughter of his former would be servant. "Well, well, well. If it isn't little Sylvia. Too bad your mothers are not here to save you this time, little girl."

Sylvia looked frightened while the Oracle held her close in a vain attempt to protect her as the God of War approached them to take Sylvia with him to become his future servant, but was stopped by Alecto, who grabbed Ares tightly. "LEAVE MY DAUGHTER ALONE!" She yelled at the top of her lungs, wanting to protect her daughter. She tried all she could to kill Ares, but without Calliope to help her, she was no match for Ares as he grabbed her before stabbing her with all six of his bone spikes!

"MOMMY NO!" Sylvia screamed with shock and fear for her mother as Ares stabbed her and threw her away before she was slowly turning back to her normal form, badly wounded while lying on the rocks.

Meanwhile with Calliope

The ghost of Sparta entered the temple, seeing her mother in it. "Calliope, what's happening?! Where are we!?"

Calliope blinked as she saw her mother, making her think that it was actually real and forgetting where her mother truly was. "By the Gods! Can this be real?!"

Then from the walls and floor, appeared a lot of zombie-Kratos, making Calliope think of that dreadful night when her father killed her mother in a blind rage. But she was not going to let that happen. Not this time! "Ares! There is nothing you can put in my way to stop me! I will save my mother!"

Then with all her might, Calliope fought and was able to kill all the fake Kratos' before they could kill her mother again, using all of her powers and blades to keep her mother safe.

"Calliope, please take me home!" Lysandra begged, wanting to go home.

Calliope then called to the sky. "Do you see God of War? You took her once, but you'll never have her again!"

But then there was some kind of an earthquake and she heard Ares' voice in her head again. "You cannot save her, Calliope. Your father gave both you and your mother up in his quest for ultimate power. Even though it was not you that swore allegiance to me, there was a price to pay for everything that you gained in the end."

Calliope then shook her head in sadness as she remembered killing her father that night. "Not that price. I didn't want to kill my father, even after all he did."

"NO PRICE IS TOO HIGH FOR WHAT I GAVE YOU! And you rejected me, a God!" Ares yelled before the Blades came from Calliope's hands on their own, as the chains pulled themselves hard from her arms, making her yell in pain. As the chains finally were released from her flesh, Lady Death fell on her knees, with her arms bleeding a lot from the loss of the chains. "Now, you will have no power, no magic! All that is left for you... is death!" Ares called as the Blades of Chaos flew into the air and killed Lysandra again, just as Kratos did with the same blades all those years ago.

Calliope's heart froze as she was unable to save her mother again, just as she couldn't do that terrible night her life was ruined. "No. Not... not again." She said as she cried before returning to the normal world at the moment that Ares was about to take Sylvia.

Sylvia held the Oracle tightly and closed her eyes as Ares was walking up to her. But the God of War then saw his former would be servant on her knees, being too shocked to do anything. He evilly smirked and said to Sylvia. "I'll let you watch your other mommy die 1st, little one."

The God of War walked to Calliope, as tears came from Sylvia's eyes at the thought of losing her birth mother. "NO! PLEASE! DON'T HURT MY MOMMY!"

Calliope could hear her daughter scream, but was still in shock of being unable to save her own mother again. Ares then spoke in anger. "You should have joined me, Calliope! But now, you will share the same fate as your father!" But then he smirked as he looked at Sylvia 1st and then said to Calliope again. "Your daughter truly has some potential, Lady Death. Perhaps I was wrong about you and your father's strength." Calliope then looked and saw the giant blade of Athens nearby, but was still unable to move. Then Ares said what brought the Ghost of Sparta back to her senses. "If you will not finish what your father started by serving at my side, Calliope, then perhaps you're little girl will!"

That was when Calliope's Spartan Rage exploded as she dodged Ares' blow and took the Blade of Athens into her hands. "NEVER!" the Ghost of Sparta screamed at the top of her lungs as she attacked the God of War with all her might.

This caught Ares completely off guard, as Calliope cut away nearly all his bone swords and slashed the God of War dozens of times, until he fell on his knees, bleeding badly. "Remember Calliope, it was I who let you live that night, to carry on the powers that I gave your father."

Calliope didn't show any change in her emotion and said to him. "Powers that I never wanted, a life that I never deserved!"

Ares coughed a lot of blood as she explained. "That night... I was trying to make you a great warrior... even greater than your father!"

"You succeeded." Calliope said before she delivered the final blow, killing the God of War by stabbing him with the giant blade. Ares yelled to the sky as he died from the fetal wound before he fell into the water. And with a blinding explosion, what remained of Ares was vaporized, making all of his minions turn into dust.

All the surviving citizens cheered as they witnessed The Ghost of Sparta do the impossible: killing a God. All cheered Calliope's name. "CALLIOPE! CALLIOPE! CALLIOPE!"

But Sylvia was worried about her other mother, Alecto, for she was terribly wounded on the cliffs. Calliope returned to her normal size and went straight to Alecto, who was nearly unconscious. Calliope used the amulet immediately on her and healed her wounds, making Alecto open her eyes before she smiled, seeing her lover okay.

Alecto stood up and looked around. "Ares is-?"

Calliope nodded. "Yes my love, Ares is dead."

Both women were happy as they passionately kissed at that point. But then they were interrupted when Sylvia jumped on them, hugging them in happiness. "Mommies!" She said with joy before her parents hugged their little warrior princess.

The family laughed with happiness and joy as they finally realized that they had performed the impossible. Before their departure, Calliope used the Amulet to repair the city of Athens until it was fully rebuilt, as if it was never touched by war. All the surviving people and the Oracle cheered as they were all in great dept to the two heroines and their little warrior princess.

Calliope had done the impossible, a mortal defeating a God. Ares was no more. Athens had been saved, and would thrive again. However, the same could not be said for Calliope, for as she sought to rebuild her soul with the help of the Gods, the truth was revealed to her.

When the family returned to their ship, Calliope and Alecto had called to Athena at her statue. Calliope spoke to her as the statue glowed. "Athena, our task is complete, Ares is no more. Now... please, forgive my lover of what she's done in the past and rid me of the memories of my father that haunt me still."

Athena then spoke to both women. "You have both done well, Calliope and Alecto. Though we mourn the death of our brother, the Gods are indepted to both of you, once more. We promised Alecto's sins and those of your father would be forgiven, and so they are, but we never promised to take away your father's memories." This shocked both Calliope and Alecto that The Gods had broken their promise to Calliope. "No man, no God could ever forget the terrible deeds your father, Kratos had done when he was alive."

Calliope was nonplussed and mad. "Athena! You gave me your word when we agreed to serve you and the other Gods! You promised! You promised me 10 years ago that these memories would be erased from my head!" But Athena did not answer and the statue didn't glow anymore.

Alecto became angry that the Gods had done this to her lover after they had promised to take away her father's memories. Calliope fell to her knees, knowing that the visions of her father would never leave her.

In the end, knowing that the visions of her father's past would never leave her, Calliope remained in her hut the whole day, being more depressed then she had ever been in her whole life. As their ship was in the middle of the Aegean Sea, Calliope had been thinking of ending her life, for death was the only escape from madness.

Calliope sat on her bed, holding one of her old swords that she got from her father, before she killed him after he killed her mother. A tear came from her eye as she sighed deeply. "The Gods of Olympus have abandoned me."

Then the door of her hut was opened, revealing that it was her daughter, Sylvia who was coming inside. "Mommy?"

Calliope turned herself, still sad. "Oh... Hi sweetheart."

Sylvia came in and sat next to her mother. "Why are you so sad, mommy?"

Calliope sighed as she put away her old sword and stroked her arms, where once the chains of the Blades of Chaos were once attached. "The Gods have broken their promise. I will never be free from my father's nightmares."

Sylvia felt sorry for her mother. Then she took something from her pocket and showed it to Calliope. It was a necklace, with a small white gem hanging on it, making Calliope form a smile at seeing the necklace. "That's beautiful" She said.

Sylvia nodded and said. "I got this from the Oracle. She says that once you wear it, it would help to give you a good night sleep. I don't know if it will help, but." Sylvia said as she then put the necklace around her mother's neck "Maybe it will give you some peace in the night, mommy."

Calliope smiled, grateful for the necklace. She started to cry as she hugged her daughter tightly. "Thank you, my little warrior princess. Now that Calliope knew that her family would always be there for her, the thoughts of ending her life were out of the picture for the Ghost of Sparta, for she had her lover and daughter to think about.

Then all of a sudden, a shining light came from the upper deck. Calliope and Sylvia went to the deck to check it out, with Alecto coming, too. The whole crew was shocked to see who it was that shined its light so bright: It was the messenger of the Gods, Hermes.

Calliope came to him, wanting to know what he wanted. "Hermes? What are you doing here?"

Harmes chuckled as he gave a piece of paper to Lady Death. "Delivering a message of the Gods to you. Very important they say. Ta-ta" He said as he left in a flash of light.

Calliope was not in the mood of whatever the Gods were asking of her again, but read the message anyway. The message was somehow unclear, just saying that Calliope should come to meet Athena again in Athens at one of the portals high above the city. For Alecto, it didn't make any sense as well. But both decided to go anyway. Calliope ordered the captain to turn back to Athens and he obeyed.

Once they returned, Calliope climbed the mountain together with Alecto and Sylvia, until they were in front of the portal with a statue of Athena next to it. As they approached, it glowed and said. "Welcome, Ghost of Sparta. Though you are no longer in service to the Gods, we have something special to offer to you. The Gods cannot allow 1 who has performed such service to be ignored. Ares' tactics were brutal. His path of destruction had to be stopped." Then the portal opened, revealing Athena in person. "But now there is an empty throne in Olympus. Calliope, the Gods of Olympus want to give you the ultimate honor, to walk among us on Olympus. We want to offer you the title... to become the new Goddess of War."

This caught Calliope completely by surprise, same as Alecto. This was something neither of them expected. "M... me? A Goddess? A-Athena, I... I don't know what to say."

"Come Calliope, your new place on Olympus awaits." Athena said kindly.

But after taking a few steps, Calliope looked at Alecto and her daughter and then said to Athena. "Athena... I know that this is overwhelming, but... I'm not going anywhere without my family!"

Athena only smiled and said. "We had already expected that you would say that, Calliope, and we are willing to allow your lover and your child... to join you on Olympus."

Alecto was touched by this and walked together with Sylvia to Athena "Athena... You are truly willing to allow me and-?"

Athena nodded. "Yes, Alecto. The Gods had already forgiven you of your sins and your heroic deed will forever be remembered. You are allowed to stay on Olympus, to be among the Gods...with your lover and daughter."

Alecto smiled at that point while Sylvia asked her mother, amazed at what she was hearing. "Mommy? Are we really going to Olympus?"

Alecto nodded to her daughter and raised her up, holding her with one hand while taking Calliope's hand with the other. "Yes sweetheart, we are. We are going to our new home."

And so Calliope, Alecto and their daughter entered the portal, while Athena escorted them inside, rewarding the Ghost of Sparta with the Blades of Athena and new chains to hold them in battle that attached to her flesh, but less painfully. And after they completely entered, Sylvia wrote down a note and gave it to Athena to give to the captain and crew of their ship, telling them of where she and her parents were going and thanking them all for everything that they had done for her and her mothers over the years and wishing them luck on their futures.

And so, on that day, the Ghost of Sparta and her family would finally have a home, free from Ares forever. And from that day forward, Calliope vowed to use her new position as the Goddess of War to protect the innocent people of the world, with her lover, Alecto at her side Whenever innocent people would be in danger, they would have 2 champions to protect and watch over them. As for Sylvia, the little warrior princess of the new Goddess of War and former Fury Queen: This was only the beginning of the destiny that would intertwine with Pandora and the beginning of their new lives.

There you go, my friends, the Power to kill a God is finally complete. Next is the start of the Sylvia and Pandora chapters. And trust me, they'll be very entertaining. Rate and review. See you soon, my friends.