Hey guys! Hows it going? Thanks for all the reviews last chapter. Next chapter is the last chapter, not this one. This one will (hopefully) wrap everything up. We'll see how things all end up. Then the last one will be a bit of Perzoë to send you on your way. :) I'll also announce my next story there, which I hope everyone will check out! :) Also, based on the reviews from last chapter, a lot of people weren't too pleased with the results. Don't worry, the Olymoians will still get punished! By "spared", Percy meant that they wouldn't be killed. He said nothing about them not living in pain for all eternity, am I right? (I am, cause I wrote the chapter. That was a rhetorical question right there.) Also, some more review stuff. Annabeth and Bianca tried for rebirth at different times, so it didn't work for Bianca but it did for Annabeth. I believe Annabeth was still alive when Bianca tried for rebirth. Yes, Percy is still a bit of a wimp, but I'm more of a lover, not a fighter myself. But I will verbally fight people, just not physically. I have no strong muscles, especially in my upper body. Especially muscles trained for fighting. Anyways, I own nothing but please enjoy this chapter! :)
Percy's POV
I smiled at Zoë. "We did it."
She slipped off her hood, smiling back, her eyes twinkling. "We sure did."
Things progressed after that. Chaos assisted my team and I with the dishing out of punishments to the losing Olympians, and we reviewed the current Olympians. Hades took the place of Zeus as king of Olympus, and Persephone became his queen. She took over most of her mother's domains as well. Demeter couldn't perform her duties from the barren wasteland she was cast off to in the middle of the sea of monsters.
The other Olympians remained with the titles and jobs they had previously had. Hestia became an Olympian, replacing her brother Poseidon on the Olympian power-spectrum.
Hecate was granted the privilege of becoming an Olympian as well, as long as she didn't try to start another rebellion and overthrow her fellow gods.
Leo Valdez took up the throne as well, joining his father on the council. Calypso was overjoyed when Leo took his oath to become an Olympian, and Leo mirrored her excitement when she revealed herself to him. (At least, I'm assuming their make-out session was because they were so excited to see each other again.)
Will Solace also joined the council, replacing his father as the new sun god. Nico seemed thrilled when Will was sworn in. Will seemed thrilled too, but because of the fact that Nico wasn't killed during our battle against the damned Olympians.
Of of those rejected gods, Demeter was not the only one to receive punishment. They all got their consequences for being terrible rulers and siding with Zeus, no more so than Zeus himself and Poseidon.
Poseidon's punishment was one I came up with myself. During the second giant war, Polybotes threatened to take me underwater and torture me to the brink of death, only to have the water keep me alive. That was Poseidon's eternal suffering. He was locked in a prison cell that every day filled with poison. At the end of the day, it would seep out and be replaced by water, resurrecting the sea God. Occasionally, I was granted permission to visit with him. I made it a point of keeping things... Interesting for the old God.
The new Olympian council and my friends from Chaos's army helped come up with the punishments of the other banished criminals.
Zoë invented the one for Zeus. Every day, as soon as the sun rose, Zeus would start in the sky, practically touching the stars. Then he would fall for what seems like ages before smashing into Death Valley in the United States. All the damned Olympians had their godly powers and abilities stripped from them, except their immortality, so Zeus couldn't move after the fall, being so weak. An eagle would fly over and claw out his intestines, causing the Lightning God to suffer just as Prometheus did before Heracles saved him. Except this time there would be no one to save him. This cycle repeated itself every day, ending only if Zeus was saved, or eternity finally ended.
Athena's torture was thought up by Nico (the sometimes-terrifying kid). He devised a giant hole in the ground that Athena would be trapped in, hundreds of feet below the surface. He also asked his boyfriend, the new sun god, to bless thousands upon millions of spiders to never die. These spiders were dumped into the hole in the ground, along with the horrified wisdom goddess.
Calypso thought up a punishment for Ares. Between the girl that invented it and the punishment itself, Calypso suddenly became a whole lot scarier. She found a dark cave, or maybe she created it. With her boyfriend's help, she lined the walls with gasoline that was cursed to always keep burning. The war God was sealed inside the dripping cave before Leo Valdez set the place alight. Sometimes I happen to be walking by and I can still hear his tortured screams.
Hephestus says that it serves his brother right for stealing his wife.
Hera had a more... Standard type of torture, I suppose. Being the goddess of marriage, she didn't really have many oppositions or fears. Therefore, Bianca decided that the best torture for this goddess would be to lock her in a prison cell where her jailer could come abuse her. As with all the others, I sat in occasionally for her torture sessions, if only just to make sure her jailer hadn't gone soft.
Luke thought up Apollo's torture, one that I must admit impressed me. The sun god would be trapped in a cave, but unlike his brother's, it was not doused in gasoline. It was, however, pitch black. It was designed so that every once in a while, the time varying, a light would go off in the cave. Instead of stone walls, the cave had walls are of mirrors. Each one would reflect a person that Apollo somehow wronged in his life, someone he felt guilty over. It wasn't a physical torture, unlike the others. But it was an extreme mental one.
That was a year ago. Since then, Olympus and the world have both flourished without the rule of that tyrant, Zeus, and his leage of Olympian lackies. I was back to living on Chaos's planet with my friends, but we remained in close contact with Earth and its new rulers. Especially Calypso and Nico, if you get what I'm saying.
But for me, Zoë Nightshade was the only woman on my mind.
Hey guys! I really am sorry for such the long wait for this chapter! I'm telling the truth with the sudden moving and stuff. There was also a mix up with the dates, so my house went on the market about four days before we were ready, and people wanted to tour it the next day. It's all (mostly) under control now. I still have a lot of cleaning and other fun (not) stuff to do for it, but nothing too crazy. However, I am finishing this story before my spring break if it kills me! Last chapter is the next one! Wow. If there's any Perzoë fluff ideas you have, LET ME KNOW! Ok. Last chapter will be posted Monday (hopefully). I need a little bit to work out the chapter exactly (since it's the finale) and I also have stuff to do. Thanks guys! You're awesome. :)
