[Hello everybody, this is the last chapter of the story. I'm kind of sad to let go of these characters and their stories, but don't worry. A three part epilogue entitled Destroyed will be up soon on my profile. Keep an eye out for an AU that I'm in the process of writing, it'll be good. Anyway thank you for sticking along with Cahira and her story, let me know what you thought of the story, who your fav characters were, and what you think I can do to improve for next time in the reviews. Much love, Enjoy]
One week later: Olympus
Three new goddesses stood before the Olympians, Zeus stared at each of them with cold eyes. The girls were finally how they would be for the rest of eternity.
Caligo was young again, with wide eyes and a dress that only reached her knees, a dark Hestia is what some had whispered.
Cahira was dressed in a white dress and armor covered her chest and wrists. A crown of gold and rubies sat upon her brow.
Malum had wrinkles around her eyes and on her hands, she reeked of doom and despair. She was in a stone colored robes that seemed to swallow her whole.
"Do you understand that you are not allowed to give bear any children or monsters? For we know nothing of the great power and terror that can be created." He asked.
All girls nodded but Cahira. Zeus stared at her.
"Is that understood?" He asked again, the air crackling around him.
Cahira sighed and then opened her mouth.
"I am afraid that I am not the only one who can agree on that." She spoke sadly.
Zeus raised a dark eyebrow.
"What do you mean?" He asked.
Thanatos materialized and gave a smile to each of the gods.
"Hello, I am very sorry to have disrupted your meeting. But before you make any rash decisions, I would like to invite each of you to my wedding to my dear Cahira. A week from now, it'll be grand. A very peaceful event." He winked.
A murmur ran through the rooms.
"Two forms of Death marrying? Does that sound safe?" Hera asked skeptically.
"Well, Your Majesty." He addressed the Queen "I have consulted the Fates, and they have said this is how it has to be."
Another murmur.
Thanatos smiled and then stood by his soon to be bride, who looked tired.
"Fine, but only the children you two bear, not the others." Hera compromised.
Thanatos smiled and then bowed, which led to the girls to bow and then they returned to their home in the Underworld.
Present Day: Camp Half-Blood
"Married?" Leo exclaimed.
The cabin counselors were back at the ping pong table, all shocked and quite frankly disgusted at he fact that Cahira was marrying an old god.
"You seem to forget that she is a goddess now..." Chiron said.
"Still... gross, she's only our age." Percy shivered.
"Actually, Alyssa told me that all of the girls are almost forty." Annabeth interjected.
The rest of the counselors groaned and were still grossed out.
"It is not for us to judge the gods actions." Chiron sighed.
"But we still know right from wrong." Leo muttered under his breath.
How could Cahira be marrying a god? Leo thought that she wanted to be free, and she couldn't do that unless she was just a person, not even a demigod. He remained silent for the rest of the meeting. The meeting ended with agreeing on an offering to the new goddesses, a wedding gift, and an organization of camp events.
Two Days Later: The Underworld
Cahira sat in her room with her sisters, knowing that in five days she would no longer be their sister.
"Are you excited?" Malum asked, her wrinkled hands braiding Cahira's head.
Cahira looked out the window into Elysium, then frowned. That was where she should be. Not in the manor.
"What'cha thinking about?" Caligo asked, swinging her legs back and forth from her bed.
"Why aren't we dead? We were dead but now we're not. Why?" She asked.
Malum smiled as she pulled the braid around Cahira's head, weaving in a cord of dark leather. She was wearing her battle armor, and her symbol of fire was pressed into the chest plate and gauntlets.
"Where exactly are you going that you need to be dressed in all of this hoopla? Five days before your wedding?" Caligo asked as she played with her darkness.
"To do something that should have been done long ago." She said and rose.
Malum smiled a cruel smile, something she had gained in her transition. Cruelness, even though she was kind before. Cahira hated herself for killing her, she hated herself for letting them be influenced once again.
Three Hours Later: The New OMS HQ
"It has been MONTHS since any sighting! That is too long!" Dr. Nicholas Chermovsky cried out.
The new office was nothing compared to the old laboratory, but it would have to do until they found The Big Three, tabs had been kept on the girls since the fall of the Organization, except for Third, he knew that she had yo be dead because there was absolutely no trace of her anywhere, Second had set some fires to towns and been a suspect for Arson, and First had been living in caves and killing people which was good, but they recently went underground.
"I don't want anybody to disturb me until we at least get security footage of one of these damned girls." He groaned.
"I can get you something much better than that." He heard an all too familiar voice call out.
Dr. Chermovsky turned and saw Second, her golden skin was covered in black armor with a golden flame pressed over her heart, leaning nonchalantly leaning against the wide door frame. Her face looked older, like she was thirty or thirty-five. A sword hung from her hips and her finger pressed against her lips in a hush motion.
His eyes widened and heart rate sped up. He went to press a button on his desk to let his soldiers in to protect him, but when he spun around Cahira was in his face.
"Hello, Chermovsky." She said.
He looked at her up and down, and he recognized her skin and her eyes. She was no longer human, if she ever was.
"No." Nicholas gasped.
"Oh yes, and by the way. I was human, for a short time. A very short time. Then you made me a monster, a weapon. I was very alone for a very long time, and that was on you. Then I was made into a goddess, just so you know... All the powers and everything." She spoke and put a wall of fire where the door should be.
Soldiers of fire surrounded the room and began moving in toward Cahira and Chermovsky. The doctor began sweating. He panicked.
"Second, what are you doing?" He pleaded.
"It's Cahira, Firebringer, Destroyer of Warriors, and I'm here to kill you." Cahira smiled and then pressed her hand on his chest.
Cahira summoned a knife of fire and pressed it into his skin, as it sliced it cauterized the wound he screamed.
"I've never killed anyone slowly," She whispered into his ear "I like it."
Then she reached his navel and dissolved the knife. Dr. Chermovsky screamed and fell to his knees. Cahira smiled, and then set her hand ablaze, she smiled cruelly and reached toward him.
"I've met the devil, and quite frankly I like him better." She smiled and then set him on fire.
As she heard his dying scream and walked down the hall, she felt no heat. Cahira set the whole damned building ablaze and let it burn down to ashes.
As she walked away from her past, she sighed and finally let it go. But on her way back to the underworld, she stopped by a cave filled with almost all forms of monsters, and stopped by her saving grace.
The Lernaean Hydra.
Five Days Later: Hades Palace
Cahira stood in a long white gown, it reached back fifty feet and clung to her body, it made her look clean and pure. Something she longed to be.
It had golden flowers painted around the neckline and the sleeves went to all the way to her wrists. On her delicate wrists were her golden gauntlets. Her sisters were dressed in gold. She wasn't fully ready to be married, but she was ready to forget her past life and start a new one.
"You look so beautiful." Malum said as she went to hug her sister.
"I can't do this." Cahira whispered into her ear.
Malum grabbed Cahira's shoulders firmly and gave her a cold glare.
"You can and you will. This is what the Fates foretold." Malum explained firmly.
"But what if it's not? Thanatos and Hades aren't exactly the gods of truth, which means they lie. What if they're lying to us?" She asked, but mainly to herself.
"Do not question Death, I am your mother, and by questioning him you question me."
"But you're not. You are not my mother. We don't have a mother. All we had was each other... I see now that we don't have anyone."
Malum gave Cahira a look that could flatten armies and destroy cities. But Cahira gave Malum a fiery stare, a challenge, to let her know that she would not back down.
Then Caligo stepped forward between the warrior and the crone and let out a calming darkness, something she could do since becoming a goddess.
"It's time to go, let's not fight." Caligo told them and then started pushing. Cahira toward the door.
Cahira sighed, and she knew that while she loved her sisters... They were not her sisters anymore, Thanatos had planned it so. Malum was her mother and Caligo was her child, it would be so after the wedding. She knew that if she were to change her fate. She would have to do it on her own.
Two Weeks Before: Elysium
Cahira knew she was dead. Because she had been killed and then put into Elysium until Thanatos could find them. But around her was nothing she had ever seen before.
She was standing in a kitchen, with tile and cabinets and a window the overlooked a backyard. On the table was a meal, breakfast. It was all so normal.
"What is happening?" She had asked.
Then a woman appeared and looked at her. The woman was beautiful, with smooth brown skin, a proud nose, and long dark hair. Cahira stared at her, her face seemed familiar, but buried deep deep down into her memories.
"Prisha, unload the dishwasher before you eat, please." The woman said in a lilting voice.
Cahira stared, and then looked down at her own hands. They were not golden, but the same brown as the woman in the doorway. She stared in bewilderment.
"Okay, but uh I have to use the restroom." Then she bolted from the kitchen.
"Stop running in the house!"
Cahira stopped at the first bathroom she could find, which was down the hall and the second door on the left. She raised her hand to use as a light, but it wouldn't catch fire. Cahira was confused, so she flipped on the light switch and looked in the mirror.
"Holy shit." She muttered.
In the mirror she was a girl who was not herself. The girl in the mirror was perfect, she had soft brown skin and deep brown eyes, her hair too was brown but with a single streak of blonde, not gold, in it. Her nose was long and had a tiny hook at the end, and on it was a piercing.
She knew where she was. For a year after the OMS collapsed, she stayed with the Laghari family, a perfect family. All she ever wanted was to truly be one of them, but she burned down their house on accident. But this was paradise, so that had never happened, and this was her life. And if Prisha was what they called her, then that was her name now.
"Prisha, hurry up." A male voice called out.
Cahira, no, Prisha... Ran out to give her parents, that were truly going to be hers huge hugs. It happened, with her eyes closed she hugged them and never wanted to let go.
"Cahira, there you are." A voice said.
When she opened her eyes, her parents were no longer there and she was hugging Thanatos, no kitchen or house. Just Thanatos, she threw herself back and he smiled at her.
"Now all you have to do is accept godhood, and my darling eternity is waiting." He purred.
Cahira looked around, she knew that she had to accept, even if that meant losing this paradise because she and her sisters could be together.
"I accept."
Then the paradise around her disappeared and she was golden again.
Present Day: Hades Palace
Cahira had begun her long and damning walk to Death. All eyes were on her, every singly godly and monsterly eye. She kept a neutral face, but only because she knew what she was about to do. As soon as she reached the altar she met Thanatos' eyes and gave him a wicked smile.
He smiled back, but for a completely different reason. And as the priestess began to speak, Cahira moved faster than the eye could see... She pulled a knife out from her gauntlet. A knife that would turn her mortal, even if the pain was unbearable.
The knife was made of Stygian Iron, Celestial Bronze, Imperial Gold, and just plain old steel, and it was dipped in the venom of the Lernaean Hydra, if this couldn't kill her nothing could.
Thantos reached out to stop her, but she moved too quickly, plunging the knife into her stomach, and removing it, watching the golden ichor run down, and she struck again, this time in her heart.
The crowd stared at her in disbelief, she dropped the knife, and began to feel the pain, like someone had replaced her blood with acid and lava. She was burning, she was dying. Cahira let loose a bloodcurdling scream as the pain drowned her.
Her sisters stared at her in disbelief, too shocked to move. Cahira could hardly stand the pain, but she looked down and saw the ichor turn to regular blood, and she knew she could do it.
Her heart began to slow, and she knew it was over, but dying couldn't be so bad. She was still in immeasurable pain, but she knew that it was over so she accepted it.
She accepted the pain as her punishment for the lives she had taken, for the wars she had ended, and for the wars she had started. She accepted it because the only way for someone who was Made to die...
Was to be destroyed.