Sonic and the Olympians
Chapter 7:
"Ugh, who did that?" He thought as he was waking up. He look up to see Hecate and Artemis floating in front of him. But Sonic had to take another look at Artemis because she look a lot like Rouge, another friend of his back at home. They had the matching white fur, shaped ears, and the same eye color. The only difference was that she was a goddess, a goddess that's cursed by Hecate.
"Hahaha! You're such a foolish hedgehog! Thinking that you can take down me?!"
Sonic got up on one knee, he was slow to stand.
"Well, I'm full of surprises." He replied.
"And I am too." Hecate turned to Artemis and spoke a Greek spell as she levitated backwards to give Artemis room to finish Sonic. Artemis look at Sonic evilly and coldly, while preparing a bow and arrow made of the same energy from the powered spheres. Sonic, like always, had a little extra of energy in him, he just had to look tired right now so that he can do something unexpected. Artemis had just a few seconds to end of Sonic, when suddenly:
"Enough!"
Corinna stood in front of Sonic and formed a shield that when Artemis released her bow, it shattered into dust.
Sonic was amazed, he didn't knew Corinna could form a shield that quick and strong.
"Oh my, my, my, isn't it Corinna, the one who's helping Sonic to stop me. You're wasting your time, I'm too powerful that even Zeus can't stop me!"
"Well, you're wrong! You don't know Sonic's full potential, you shouldn't judge a book by its cover Hecate!" Corinna still had her shield up, and was forming it to be more stronger as she spoke to Hecate.
"If it was so. Artemis, destroy these two."
When Sonic was fully standing, he was ready to attack both Artemis and Hecate. However, Corinna stopped him.
"Sonic, go after Artemis, I can handle Hecate on my own."
Sonic wasn't too sure about it.
"You sure?" He asked.
"Positive. I know there's not a lot you know about me and I don't know a lot about you too, but trust me, I got a few tricks up my sleeve. Don't worry." Sonic was skeptical, but he nodded because he knew he had to trust her. He dashed to recollect his bow and his quiver of arrows and got Artemis' attention away from Corinna and spin dashed all around to confuse her. When she shot her arrows, each one missed, and it got her even more angry because before she was cursed, Artemis was known to never ever miss a shot at anyone or anything.
Sonic took one quick look to check on Corinna. She was using her shield still in one hand, with a large sword in the other. The sword itself look like Corinna formed it like she did with the shield.
"I am not one to judge, but I could've sworn Greek maidens to the Olympians don't have god like powers." He thought to himself.
His attention focused back on Artemis who was doing everything she could to do what her master commanded her. By now Artemis is getting more furious and her curse was becoming more powerful. Sonic spin dash in a dirt enough that dust formed and made it impossible for Artemis to see or shoot at him. This was his chance to hide in a tree to come up with a plan quick or it would be to too late for the game in the forest. He checked to see how much arrows he had left and there wasn't much, only four were left. This was a crazy idea, but Sonic thought that if he shot them all at once at Artemis, it might cause her to be confused and hopefully, luck will be at his side and one of them will hit her. It had to work, it was very risky, but it had to.
The dust by now was settling and the evening sky was getting darker ready to bring in another night. With his last four arrows in hand, he prepared his bow and spin dash high in the sky until he was over Artemis. Before she could realize where he was, Sonic released all the arrows and each one rapidly was heading to her. Surprisingly, Artemis got hit with two arrows, one at her upper arm and the other at her chest. She fell down and went into a death like sleep.
He landed to the ground and hurried to get the round cup that Zeus gave him to capture the curses. The curse was starting to leave Artemis, ready to join back with Hecate because it knew she was very close by. But before it could go anywhere, Sonic commanded:
"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!" He said, and the curse was sucked it and sealed, now it won't go anywhere to cause other devastation.
"Now I got to aid Corinna." He thought. However, Corinna and Hecate was no where to be seen. He knows he didn't travel anywhere and had to stay at this spot to that Artemis couldn't travel far too, so maybe their fight took them somewhere else in the forest without them noticing. Just a mile ahead, there was an explosion, and Sonic knew it didn't mean anything good. He manage to pick one arrow up and darted through the woods in the direction of where the explosion was.
"I'm coming Corinna!" He called out. That's when he found them, with Corinna slow to get up and Hecate ready to hit her with one of her power orbs. She gotten more powerful because her power orb was two times larger then from before.
Sonic shot his arrow at the orb and it caused the orb to hit a tree instead. When seeing Sonic, Hecate got mad.
"Corinna, you alright?" He asked when he came to her side.
"I'm fine. Thanks." She replied.
"It can't be, it can't be! How did you get here so quickly?!" Hecate was in dismay.
"Well, it might be two reasons. One, I'm the fastest thing alive, and two, it's a walk in the park to save the Greek gods."
"OH! Why you little good for nothing-" She yelled and sweared in Greek.
"You both are ruining my plans! Can't anyone see what I'm trying to achieve?! Especially you sis!"
"Wait, sis?!" Sonic look at Corinna, but she couldn't look at him, so she turned her head the opposite way.
"She didn't told you that we're sisters? Oh the irony! It makes things more interesting for you doesn't it Sonic?"
Now he understands why he felt he should've been careful when trusting Corinna. She's a sister to Hecate, and she better have good reason why she didn't told him.
It all makes sense now. It all make sense why Corinna was so worried beside fearing that her country would be destroyed and why she feared Hecate so much. It's her sister that's causing so much havoc, and she didn't even wanted to say anything about it. It could've help us if she told earlier because then we might've had a chance to stopping her early.
Suddenly, Hecate reached into her bag. It was small, but by the looks of Hecate that something in it meant a lot more.
"Now that you pests are in my reach, it's now time that I destroy both of you!" She took out a lighting bolt. It was big, bigger than Hecate, but she manage to have a hold on to it. It was powerful, it was filled with too much energy. Sonic knew right away it was one of Zeus' lighting bolts, and now Hecate was going to use it on them.
"Look out!" Sonic cried and grab hold of Corinna. They went in a tree and Hecate threw the lighting bolts at them, but it missed. It instead hit the branch they were on and it crack, causing the two to fall down and the lighting bolt hitting Hecate. She screamed in pain and was paralyzed for a minute. Suddenly, she turned into smoke, and was going in the ground. The lighting bolt meanwhile turned into a powder and disappeared in the air.
"It hurt me! I ruined my chance at destroying you two!" Her voice became more deep and evil sounding.
"Don't think that this is the end, I will have my last laugh!" And she faded into the ground as the first star appeared in the night sky.
When they arrived back at Mount Olympus, Corinna stayed away from Sonic as much as she can. Sonic wondered if she thought that he was mad at her for not telling him right away that she's related to Hecate, but he wasn't, instead he ain't too sure what's going to happen now since things are getting more tough between the both of them to save Greece.
"Maybe for now it is best that she's to herself a little, it might help her think and figure out what to do." Sonic thought.
The end the day on a good note though, Artemis is back. When she woken up she saw what she done and brought all the game to life. She couldn't find Sonic, Hecate, or Corinna, but she had a feeling she was needed back home and she was right. Zeus was filled with joy to see his daughter returned safe. When Sonic and Corinna came moments later, Zeus had to thank them both.
"Thank you Sonic and Corinna, because of you both we're almost there of stopping Hecate once and for all, and then Greece and her people can live in harmony once more." He said. Sonic gave a thumbs up, but he could tell that Zeus' was looking troubled when he mentioned that Hecate wanted to use his lighting bolts on him and Corinna.
Artemis' siblings are also glad to see her. Even her twin brother Apollo, who was the first to greet Artemis and embraced her telling how happy he is to see her as the goddess of the hunt once again. Heracles later privately mentioned to Sonic that when Apollo arrived back after healing the people in Athens that he'd been worried sick and feared that his sister would never return.
Once the greetings were done, Artemis went to make more arrows. They were made from the finest gold and silver that can only be found at Mount Olympus. She crafted them perfectly knowing that these arrows have to be even more perfect at a time like now. She gave all twenty of them to Sonic when she finished.
"Artemis, these are yours, I only have them because Zeus told me so." Sonic said.
"No, I want you to have them, you're a much better archer then I ever will." Hearing a goddess comment someone that's better then them was kinda flattering.
That night, Sonic was in the garden accompanied by Pegasus who was happily munching on an apple Sonic had for the winged horse. There a lot going on that it felt good to just sit and relax for a while. He admired the night sky with the moon shining brightly on Mount Olympus and down below, which illuminated the garden with its soft yellowish white glow. The great waterfall that gives the world access to water fell down strongly then ever because it was commanded to rain down on the southern part of Greece so that a drought can be prevented in time for the planting season.
This was when Sonic starting thinking of home again. He wondered how long was he been gone in his timeline and do they even know where he is. He doubt they do know because Corinna rushed him that he didn't had a chance to tell Tails where he'll be going and for what reason. He can only hope that he's not gone long enough that they'll start to worry about him.
Then he started thinking about Corinna and he realized that maybe she had good intentions, and he shouldn't judge her right away. She has shown that does care about Greece and had shown many times that like Sonic, she's also willing to protect it no matter what the cost is.
"Sonic?" The voice of Corinna from behind him interrupted his thoughts. He turned and saw Corinna, who look less worried, but more nervous.
"May we speak?" She asked. Sonic didn't said nothing but gave a small smile and nodded. Corinna asked Pegasus to leave and he did. She sat next to Sonic.
"I'm... I'm really sorry that I didn't told you. I was afraid that you wouldn't trust me and wouldn't go to Mount Olympus. I thought it was more important that I didn't told, but now I realized it was wrong."
"You don't have to apologize, I realize now that you had to do what you thought was best, you took a risk and I'm glad you did."
"But still, I shouldn't've. As a maiden to the gods I did something terrible. *sighs* I'm glad I'm not a goddess anymore because the burden would be more heavy for me to carry and the people would hate me for sure."
"You were a goddess?" Sonic asked surprisingly.
"Yes. Hecate and I are the children of Titan Perses and Asteria, who you know are also Greek gods, but they prefer to not live on Mount Olympus. While I am younger than Hecate, I was always like a big sister to her, and was always there for her no matter what. When we were adults, Zeus found us and figured he could make Olympian goddesses out of us. So, he invited Hecate and me to Mount Olympus and we stayed here since then. He gave us roles that we were assigned and thought what suited us. That's how Hecate became the goddess of magic, witchcraft, and spiritual talking of ghosts. And my role was the goddess of peace, harmony, and spiritual talking of lost souls who try to travel to the underworld Hades. We were then considered Olympians, and we did our roles well and the Greeks loved us. And while over time I was the one that loved all my people, Hecate wasn't like that and instead liked a certain few, and those were the mediums."
She paused.
"To her, if you weren't a medium or someone that has experience of talking to souls, then you're a waste and someone she won't look after. But that time when a man came to a medium to see if his wife will be healed by Apollo, Hecate knew she would die, so she lied in spite and was filled with laughter when she heard word of his wife's death. But... when she heard the guy cursed her, she cause his life to be filled with misery and loneliness, and she laughed even more at his suffering."
"Did you knew about this?" Sonic asked.
"I didn't, but I heard there was a lost woman who needed to be guided to the right way of Hades, and little did I realized it was the man's wife. She told me everything and that Apollo didn't saved her. So after I guided her to Hades, I told all of this to Zeus, who became very angry and his anger was well known to all of Greece. Hecate told right out what she'd done and she would do it again if she had to, and it angered Zeus even more. He removed her Olympian role and commanded to Heracles and Athena to cast her out of Mount Olympus and into the hands of Hades, where he kept her locked up all those years." Corinna look up at the moon, and there was a tear that Sonic noticed streamed on Corinna's cheek.
"And to keep this problem being known to the Greeks, I also had my Olympian role removed because he didn't wanted them to fear me, and he didn't wanted them know what Hecate done. And I became a maiden, but I was allowed to keep my goddess powers, while Zeus erased any memory and worship of me and Hecate."
"I'm sorry to hear that, that had to been very hard on you." Sonic said, and that was pretty much what he could say.
"It's... alright. I'm very much used to being a maiden. I always think that at lease I'm still here and that Zeus and the other Olympians still accept me, otherwise I would have no where to turn to and no place to call home."
She looked around her, and smiled.
"Mount Olympus is my home and it will always be my home, I wouldn't go anywhere but here forever. And hey, even though I'm not a goddess anymore I still love my people."
Sonic had to smile with Corinna.
"That's the way to think! They're still your people no matter what Corinna!" He said.
She smiled and they became silent once more, looking up at the moon, its almost hiding behind the earth, ready to give the sun its chance to be out.
Their silence and admiration to the night sky was interrupted by Heracles, Artemis, Apollo, Aphrodite, and Hermes running into the garden calling for Sonic and Corinna. Their facial expressions told Sonic that something was wrong.
"We'll talk later." He quickly said to her.
"Hecate has really done it this time! She sent out both Athena and Ares right here to Mount Olympus! She created her own army by using her evil powers, and it's going to cause us to have a major war between her and us!" Hermes cried out.
"No, no, this can't be happening!" Corinna said, sounding a lot more worried.
"Boy, when I get my hands on Hecate, I'm going to snap her neck so hard that her head will fly off!" Heracles said.
"We're not doing anything like that." Said Apollo. "Such violence like that would make our people fear us."
"Well, what can we do then?" Said Aphrodite. "We're talking about Athena, the goddess of wisdom, knowledge and warfare, and Ares, the god of war and violence. And the people know their roles, but they don't fear them, they instead love them because they use their roles for good. So I think I agree with Heracles on this. Be violent as they are. The people will understand."
"I still don't like it." He said.
"I don't either, but I guess we don't have a choice."
They were silent, heavy in thought, even Sonic. He can tell that the Greek gods are out of options.
"If only father would have his lighting bolts, we and him would win by a big landslide." Said Hermes.
"While Zeus may not have his lighting bolts." Corinna said. "We do have one thing, Sonic."
They look at her and then him.
"But he's not a god! He's just a... a... blue talking hedgehog with strange shoes!" Cried Apollo.
"That may be true, but who was the one that saved all of you, and who's the one that is will to risk his life just to save Greece?"
They were silent, knowing that she was right.
"Many of us started out low, but we shown that with hard work and determination, we can become greater! Sonic is our example to our people that they have to keep trying, and that's what we should still do!"
This made Sonic happy and he agreed with her a hundred percent. The gods agreed too.
"You know, you were always the positive and the thinker around here." Said Hermes.
And they all cheered and praised Corinna, including Sonic.
"Alright now," Sonic clapped his hands and step forward. "We got to work out a plan before she comes. Hermes, when will Hecate arrived with Athena, Ares, and her evil controlled army?"
"It seems like sunrise Sonic." Sonic look at the moon again, it got lower and he turned to the other side of the world, the sky there was getting to become a light blue with the stars going dim.
"Alright, we don't have much time, but we can do this."
Author's notes:
I thank you for reading my seventh chapter of "Sonic and the Olympians!" If you haven't read any of the previous chapters yet, then please do or give this a like, a review or follow me because I'll be making more Fanfics in the future! From now on, I'll be publishing future chapters whenever I can. It would be easier for me if I work on a chapter when I can then trying to rush them out because I don't want to rush this story, but work on it on my own pace. Also, if you didn't know, this story was inspired by two Sonic games named 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!