Sonic and the Olympians
Chapter 3:
After Zeus told Sonic all about Hecate and what can be expected from her, he was excited to start this new adventure.
"Ok then, let's get this party started!" Sonic said.
"Even though this is new and probably fun for you, I think it's best that you keep your guard up, because you'll be dealing with a goddess." Corinna said.
"Corinna is right hedgehog," Zeus said. "We gods and goddesses are very powerful in our own special way. One wrong move and it could be the end of you."
"Ha, don't worry, I've done this before years back, when I had to stop a genie from destroying the world's Arabian Nights stories." Sonic said. This Impressed Zeus, even Corinna.
"Since you have knowledge of us gods and goddesses, I can trust you more." Said Zeus. This made Sonic more proud.
Suddenly, a fox came in the room looking afraid.
"Zeus! I got bad news about Aphrodite!" He cried. When Sonic saw him, he looked a lot like Tails. How Tails got here, he wasn't sure, but he was glad to see him.
"Tails! I'm so glad to see you." Sonic said walking to Tails.
"What? Who are you talking to? Me?" The fox asked.
"Oh come one Tails, quit joking. I'm sorry I had to leave without telling you, I really couldn't. I hope you'll forgive me." Sonic said, but the fox was very confused.
"Sonic, you're mistaking him for someone else again. He is not who you think he is." Corinna said. Sonic remembered that everyone here would look the same as his friends, it disappointed him knowing this fox was not Tails.
"That's right." Said the fox. "My name is Hermes, and I'm the god of travel and communication." He turned to Zeus.
"I regret to inform you that Hecate has sent Aphrodite to make all the young girls and women ugly and unattractive to the men, she's currently in Athens causing her havoc now as we speak. This is Hecate's first stage of destroying Greece, to ruin families."
When Hermes said this, Sonic noticed that Zeus was sadden to know one of his daughters is making the young girls and women unattractive when her role is suppose to make them beautiful, and he can't do nothing because he's powerless without his lightning bolts.
"You must go down there now so that Aphrodite won't make things worse to our people." Zeus said. "And when you do save Aphrodite and my other children, you must tell them that they have to come home immediately so that I can forgive their sins that they couldn't control." Sonic didn't knew what that meant, but he figured it was a god thing that he shouldn't have questions about.
So he nodded and was going to run down to Athens when Zeus stopped him.
"Wait a minute hedgehog." Zeus started.
"Yes? And by the way, the names Sonic!" Sonic asked turning to him.
"I want to give you these." Suddenly, a bow with a quiver full of arrows made of silver and gold appeared. It floated to Sonic.
"You must use these and to shoot my children. I know that sounds bizarre, but these bows were once owned by Artemis, the goddess of the hunt and archery before all of this happened. When you shoot them, the arrows will put them into a death like sleep as if they are dead. This will make the curse in them think that they're dead so they'll leave them to find either another host or returned to Hecate. When that happens, you'll use this." And then a small round cup with a lid, made out of gold and decorated with red and white jewels appeared and also came to Sonic.
"You'll capture and seal the curses so they won't have a chance to harm anyone or escape. But you must say these words for this cup to work to seal them, these words are: "Be sealed in this cup made by the mighty of all creation and life. You're creator can't save you now you cursed curse of devastation!"".
Sonic put on the bow and arrows and carefully put away the cup.
"Alright then, I'm off. I won't fail you your majesty." Sonic said.
"Corinna, I want you to accompany Sonic to make sure he won't be in any harm." Corinna bowed.
"Yes, Zeus, I will do as you said."
"Alright, enough of this chatting!" Sonic thought. He grab Corinna by her hand and sped out of the royal Patheon and headed for Athens.
On their way to Athens, Sonic asked Corinna how come Hermes didn't get captured by Hecate, she said that he hid in a large jar and stayed there until she left. He never liked Hecate and feared her at times because her witchcraft powers got powerful then they were before she was an Olympian. He did not dare to fight her or otherwise, he would be like the other Olympians.
"That's a pretty good move, I don't like it when people runs from the enemy, but maybe it's best that he did it just this time." Sonic said. Corinna agreed.
By the time they arrived at Athens, it was too late. They heard the cries of young girls and women that they became unattractive. The cries were saddening to the point that Corinna shed a tear.
"These poor women!" Corinna cried out.
No one in Athens could see Sonic or Corinna because they were invisible, so they walked more into the city without being seen.
"Oh Aphrodite, please make me and my girls beautiful again! My husband and my only son wants to leave us! Please don't let that happen!" A woman was pleading to Aphrodite, but little does she knows Aphrodite was the one that made her ugly and her girls ugly.
"No! No! Please don't leave me! I'm still beautiful!" Another woman was running to her husband, who was packed up to leave her.
"Get away from me you old hag! I can't stand to be with you. If you want me to be with you then start praying to Aphrodite!" And he continued to walk away as his wife cried in despair on the ground.
"This is just awful. How can anyone be this cruel?" Sonic questioned while shaking his head in disbelief.
"That would be Hecate." Corinna replied. The first phase of destroying Greece is working, the more people leaves their families and can't stand them, the more it's making the social life weak. Sonic is not gonna stand this and won't let it happen.
"Aphrodite, I know you're here! You're going to be stopped and so is your master. I wanna face you so come out now!" Sonic ordered. "Corinna, if you have god powers, use them to our will. I have a feeling we both need to work together." Corinna nodded.
"I do Sonic, and I will. Anything to help you." She said. Just then, a large electric power sphere was heading to Sonic's way. He jumped in the air in time and Corinna, with similar powers, made a power sphere and threw it at someone.
"She's here Sonic!" Corinna cried. Sonic looked up and saw Aphrodite with a purple aura surrounding here. She had evil looking eyes, her hair was standing up and was the same height as Sonic. To Sonic, he looked a lot like Amy, he just couldn't believe that Amy would be under Hecate's control. But he shook his head to stop thinking of that.
"This is not Amy, this is not Amy! This is Aphrodite, she's a goddess and not Amy!" He kept thinking to himself. Aphrodite threw another power sphere at Sonic and Corinna and they doge it in them as Corinna threw a power sphere, it hit Aphrodite because she didn't move and expected Corinna to have such powers.
"Why didn't you shot her? You had a chance to stop and save her!" Corinna said.
"I, I, can't do it. She reminds me so much of Amy back at home. I can't shot her!" Sonic said. Corinna sighed.
"I'm going to say this for the last time." She said as she threw another power sphere at Aphrodite before she can get up. She turned and look at Sonic.
"All the gods and goddesses might look like the people of your home, but they are not them, they are themselves, so remember to understand that they aren't going to be the ones you know." She said trying to reassure him before moving away from Aphrodite's next attack. Sonic knew she was right, but he really couldn't help thinking that. As he attacked Aphrodite, he realized that he should keep his friend's off his mind, because if he didn't he would cause problems and make things worse then they already were.
"She's right! You're going down Aphrodite!" Sonic said as he shot an arrow at her, but he missed.
"You're not going to stop me hedgehog! I will make my master proud by killing you!" She threw another power sphere, but Corinna caught it and threw it at her, Aphrodite went down. Since they are all invisible, both them and their attacks won't be noticed by the people, but around them families were being torn rapidly, Sonic had to act fast if he was to make sure family life won't be gone forever. Aphrodite was slow to get up, so Sonic quickly spin dashed her that she lied on the ground, but she looked up and got a hand ready to throw another power sphere.
"Now Sonic! Now's your chance!" Corinna cried. And that's what Sonic did. He quickly grad an arrow and shot Aphrodite through her back. She was stunned by the shot and slowly, her eyes closed and went to sleep. Sonic sighed as he look at Aphrodite, proud but concerned.
"Again, Corinna is right. Amy is not here and she is not Aphrodite. I did not kill her, Amy is at home. And I did not killed Aphrodite, she is in a dead like sleep. I did not shot and killed Amy." He thought to himself.
Suddenly, Sonic and Corinna noticed that a purple fog emerged from Aphrodite and was swirling around her. It was the curse that Hecate placed in her.
"That's the curse!" Corinna said. "Hurry Sonic, use the cup Zeus gave you and to seal it and say the verse." Sonic came close to Aphrodite, opened the cup and once he shown the cup to the curse and said the verse that will force it in the cup. It screamed and got sucked in like dust being sucked in a vacuum. He quickly sealed it with the lid.
"Alright! We got it!" Sonic said.
"Well done Sonic!" Corinna said. She was happy that Aphrodite is now saved. But she is not responsive.
"Did the arrow actually killed her?!" Sonic thought to himself, feeling confused and starting to worry that maybe she is dead. But suddenly, the arrow disintegrated into a dust and disappeared. Her wound also healed on its own. After it did that, Aphrodite woke up, and when she saw Sonic and Corinna, she went to Sonic and bowed down to him.
"I have been saved by the being from another timeline. I saw and knew what I was doing, but I had no control over myself nor what I was doing." She look up.
"I thank you, I must have your name so I won't ever forget you." Aphrodite said.
"The name's Sonic, and you're welcome." Sonic said. When Aphrodite rose, she noticed all around her that the women were ugly and their families were forcing them out of their homes or they were leaving them behind.
"What have I done? I feel so guilty that I caused this, when they rely on me to make them beautiful, but I had no control. I must fix what Hecate made me do." Aphrodite said. Suddenly, Sonic remembered that Zeus told him and Corinna that when they save his children, they must come home so he can have their sins forgiven.
"But wait, Zeus said that you have to come home first so he can do something to make sure your sins are forgiven." He said. Aphrodite looked at him.
"I must fix this first before I do anything else, so he has to wait." She looked at Corinna. "You make sure that Zeus knows I won't be home in time and why. This is important to me to fix as quick as possible before it's too late." Corinna nodded.
"Yes, your highness. I'm sure your father would understand." She said. And after that, Aphrodite left to tend to her people. Corinna walked to Sonic.
"I must give the message to Zeus, I will be back before you know it." She said as Sonic gave her a thumbs up.
"Okay then, and take your time. I'll be heading back to" He said. And Corinna called for Pegasus from the sky, mounted him, and they flew on their way to Mount Olympus. Just as Sonic was running into the back roads that will lead him back to Mount Olympus, he heard Hermes calling for him.
"Sonic! Sonic! Zeus has told me another dire news to give you!" He said.
"Uh oh, this can't good." He thought to himself.
"What is it Hermes?" He asked when Hermes came to him.
"Hecate found a way to watch everything that happen in Athens. She now sent Hercales, the god of strength down to Sparta to weaken the Spartan army. Apparently she found out they were training for a battle against their enemies the Assyrians and he made the Spartans weak so they will lose that battle!" He said.
When Sonic heard this, he knew he couldn't go to Mount Olympus just yet, he must go down to Sparta to stop and save Hercales, give the Spartans their strength back, and get one step closer to stop Hecate.
"Go back to Mount Olympus and tell Corinna to meet me in Sparta, I have to go now to save the Spartan army and also save Hercales." He said. But he didn't give Hermes a chance to say anything because Sonic took over in a flash. He knew the faster he arrives at Sparta, the better.
Author's notes:
I am back after I got my own computer as a graduation gift, so it took me a while to make this chapter since it was a little difficult, but I like how it came out! I would also like to say thanks for reading chapter three of my fanfic: "Sonic and the Olympians"! If you haven't read my other chapters yet, then please do and also give this story a like or give your feedback! I'll be publishing Chapter 4 on July 14, 2018.
If you didn't know, this story was inspired by two Sonic games names Sonic and the Secret Rings and Sonic and the Black Knight, but I do not own anything from those games, and they rightfully belong to SEGA.
I do not own Sonic or any of the Sonic the Hedgehog characters, they rightfully are owned by SEGA. However, I do own credit to Corinna, who is my Greek Original Character maiden in this story that is helping Sonic to defeat Hecate. With that being said, I'll see you in the next chapter!