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Cronus:
I emerged in the stone courtyard, eyeing for the last man who could stop me. There was little fighting near me, the full fight was at the stairwell to the temple. I would surely find the remaning heroes there. I walked slowly in that direction, surveying my surroundings. Victory seemed certain. The olympian forces were weakening and more men were coming in by the minute. I was close now, so close to taking back what was taken from me. I walked past Athena as she fought of a minotaur, blood, sweat and tears drenching her. She withdrew her sword from the defeated corpse and looked up. I caught her attention. Those proud eyes filled with fear as she dropped her sword in the horror of my return. I smiled crookedly and snapped my fingers. A massive force field smashed her against the castle wall, rendering her out of action.
I was too easy. She was unarmed and had lost faith. I always actually liked her as a grandchild. She was bold and proud. She obviously got those qualities from me. I laid my eyes scanning for my next target. As I saw him, a rush of excitement came over me. This was going to be good.
Archie:
My joints were complaining for a while now, but that wasn't going to stop the endless hordes. I fought on, and on, and on. They had pushed us to the last defence. The marble stairs that led up to the temple. It wasn't looking good. The phalanx was breaking and the fighting was getting more personal.
I moved into a position where I was pushing the enemy back down the steps. I was faring quite well, until I noticed a shape outside the bulk of fighting. The dark, beady eyes never fooled me fore a second. It was Cronus, and he was staring right at me. The smile was as greedy and evil as they could get, but then his eyes looked to the left, or my right. The direction they looked were to the temple, then back to me. His eyes glowed with cunning and evil. It hit me, he was going to try and get my kids. The boys. No. I had to stop him. He would not get my kids. Over my dead body.
I fell back from my position, bouncing off of steps, walls and soldiers. Trying to get over there before he did. He pushed past his own men to reach the last few steps, just to find me waiting for him. But then I noticed he wasn't charging at me. With a snap of his fingers, around 20 men started to come for me. He never was a predictable man. At least for me.
It didn't matter how many men he would send at me. I kept fighting them off. Nobody was getting past this temple without me at their feet. My joints were screaming at me, telling me stop, but they were not a problem for me. I had ignored worse, and so I fought off every demon, creature that he sent my way, but as I decapitated a roaring reptilian, I turned around.
There was a piercing pain in my ankle. It crippled me and yelled in pain. Looking up, I saw Cronus reloading an ebony bow. His aim was dead perfect. The arrow struck me in the ankle. I saw an orc move in attempt a shot at me while I was down. Embracing the pain, I swung my sword in a circular motion, slicing it's ankles. Leaping onto the orc, my sword lifted high, went right through his heart.
Another pierce. This time it was in the back of the knee. I rolled off the dead orc, holding my twice shot leg. I saw the man approach me. He readied one last arrow to my heart. I prepared to embrace death. Closing my eyes, I wished only for the pain to stop. I was bleeding out now, I just wanted this to end quickly.
Herry:
I thrust out the whip, and the wicked witches eyes sprang as open as a door from a ghostly wind. Her reaction was quick and blocked the blow from the rope like metal. Rumour was that it could break through anything. It appeared that anything excluded magic weapons. She retaliated with a swipe that would have slice my chest had I not dodged it. I rolled away from my cornered position into the open. Now that I knew that the whip would not break the scythe, it went and tried to disarm her. With a bit of handiwork, I attempted to lasso the hook around the weapon in Medea's grip. Unfortunately, I missed and had to back away as a furious medea lunged at me. However, she stopped in a poition that left her vulnerable, so I smashed her with my left fist as hard as I could. I don't think I had ever committed so much force and anger into a punch before, because she went flying. The scythe flew out of her grip. I ran quickly to retrieve it, but Medea forced me back with her magic. I got up as quickly as I could to get it, but she had picked it up. I readied the whip, which I noticed was not in my grip. It lay on the ground a few metres away from me. It must have fallen out when medea pushed me.
The evil woman stared at me, smiling. She was waiting for me to make the next move. If I ran for the whip, she would get me, if I ran for her, shed get me too. We circled one another, at a stalemate. It was useless. She was too powerful for me to handle. I had no Ashlynn with me, o dad, no one. I felt helpless, but angry at the same time. I had not come all this way to lose to a witch. She was my last obstacle, but I could not defeat her one on one.
And then, I felt like all my anger and stress was cleansed by a stream. I zoned into a different medium, and I could hear fain voice. It was so distant, but I knew it by the gentle articulation. It was my mother.
"Herry, Herry. Do not give up, your destiny is awaiting. Its up to you, and only you."
"But, I can't. She's too strong mother, I can't beat her." I faintly replied.
The gentle voice whispered.
"You have a power beyond any of her imaginings, its within you. It is your Aura. Release it. You know what to do." She whispered, and slowly the medium faded into reality. I was back where I was, as if no time had passed at all. Medea saw my guard was down, and she prepared to make the killing move. She lunged forward, scythe ready to penetrate my body, but it didn't, I had stopped her blow by gripping her arm. She was taken back by surprise. I felt a fiery adrenaline in my veins. I felt strong in body and mind. The power felt like it was bursting from the seams and I felt a need to release this energy, and here was my arch enemy facing right at me. A perfect scenario.
What I did at that moment, I can't quite explain, but I recall yelling and a purple force set Medea absolutely flying across the room. I was floating now, and by eyes had a purplish vision to them. The next thing that happened, I was lifting chinks of ground from the floor and hurling them at Medea. She deflected them with her own magic and began to fire back at me with fireballs. They too, were deflected. I realized that I myself wasn't doing anything. It was my Aura. It was doing the fighting for me. It shielded me, and projected the floor at Medea, it was controlling my body. What had started as a mortal brawl many months ago was climaxing into a clash of titans.
Archie:
The arrow pointed to my fast beating heart, ready to puncture my skin. Cronus sneered. I embraced for death.
But just as the arrow released, a spinning dagger sliced it's head and sent the arrow flying in an unknown direction. Cronus looked up from his victim, dropped his bow and raised hos sword as a flash of red hair and gold armor flew into my view. Despite the pain and the blleding, I could not help but smile as Atlanta confronted Cronus and fought with unmatched fury. Cronus did his best to block, but Atlanta kept coming, and coming, and coming. I had never seen her fight so ferociously. Even back when we were just kids. She never put so much effort into anything like she was now. And it was all for me. I had been so caught up in watching the love of my life fight that I had not noticed the fact that I was bleeding to death. I was beginning to feel light headed and whoozy.
Despite my inevitable fate, I watched as Atlanta fought. I noticed that Cronus was not attacking at all. He was just waiting for Atlanta to tire. She was wearing Aegis, and a blow anywhere under the neck was pointless anyway. But Cronus's patience payed off. Atlanta thrust a blow as hard as she could with both swords, and with in a second. Cronus disarmed her and sliced her neck like a fishmonger would gut a fish. She fell right beside me, and as in her last few breaths, she looked at me and smiled.
"Didn't think you were going to walk in the underworld alone now, were you?" I smiled and held her and. Her chest stopped rising, and her eye's sparkle lost their tint. She was gone, and I followed her a few seconds later. I knew, that it was time to pass on. We had done what we could. And now it was time to walk in the fields of Elysium. It was all left to Jay, and his son. The last thing I recalled of life, was Cronus looking at our dead bodies, and moving onwards to his next target.
Herry:
I pushed Medea into the corner. I pressed towards the scythe, which lay on the ground at my feet. I knew that the second that I took it, my focus on fighting Medea would go. So I picked it up and sprinted as fast as I could to the doorway. Medea, once relieved of defending herself persistently followed.
The heart of the world was bigger than I expected. That was an understatement. It was huge. The tools and benches were still there. They were built to be the size for gods and you could feel so puny and insignificant. In the middle was a massive pool of lava. Unfortunatley it also meant that it was a hell of a lot longer distance to run to the massive cliff, which dropped into fiery magma below. The heat was unbearable. Especially as I got closer. As I approached the fiery chasm, I felt a sharp pain in my shoulder. It dropped me to the ground, and I rolled in pain. Medea had formed a dagger out of thin air and threw it at me. It hit me perfectly in the left shoulder between my spine and the shoulder blade.
She walked towards me and shouted.
"You are so weak, like the rest of you're kind." She smiled, "and did you really think you could take on the witch that neither of your ancestors could. What chance do you really think you have?"
I rolled into a kneeling position my back was turned to her. I pulled the dagger out of my should with difficulty. The wound wasn't too deep and I could still use my arm. Looked at the dagger. It was quite plain. A piece of sharp metal with a leather handle. I reflected on my adventure. How many people had died for me? How many lives are still in my hands? What chance do i really have? I had not come this far to be taken down by an egotistic witch. I gripped the scythe tightly. Medea was tightening the gap between me and her. I smiled to my self, and muttered back to her question.
"Time to find out." I turned immediately and threw the dagger back at her. Taken by surprise, she failed to block it and it penetrated into her gut. She howled in pain. I charged her, my eyes were glowing purple and I think I was luminous purple too.
"Immortal my ass." I said. I thrust the scythe into her side, retreated it and knocked her down with my elbow. As her bloody head bounced back up from the hard ground, I decapitated her with one swift blow. Blood spurted in every direction. I never felt so relieved in my life. The adrenaline was still pumping and I was breathing heavily as I watched the blonde head roll away from the body.
It was done. She was dead! There was nothing left in my way to stop me now. I took the scythe, covered in blood of a demigod, and ran towards the pool.
Jay:
The fight was brutal. We were losing and the enemy was minutes away from breaking into the temple. I hadn't seen any of the others. I could only assume the worst. It was only me and a few of the immortals left really. Where the others were, I had no idea.
I slew a demon to my ground, the sound of death all around me. That was when I saw a familiar face. At first, I couldn't believe it. It couldn't be. A second look and I knew my eyes were not fooling me. It was Cronus. He was battle Hephaestus, when he decided to go into god form, lifting the poor god with both hands and ripping him into two pieces. I dropped my shield and ran towards him. Moving into god form as I went. I picked up a fallen sword so I had one in each hand. I rolled and appeared in battle stance, helmet on tightly, staring at the enemy I once thought that I had defeated.
"Cronus!"
He looked at me and smiled, throwing the two pieces of Heph aside and drawing his longsword.
"Jay! Old friend." Sword raised, he lunged at me. I blocked his sword blow and pushed him aside. He rolled away and landed on his feet.
"It's you and me Cronus." I said, looking him in the eye. He cackled and replied.
"No Jay, it's just me." And we clashed swords, once again as if it were all those years ago.
Herry:
I was at the edge of the cliff, looking at the bright pool of magma below. I raised the scythe over the hole, ready to drop it. I was ready to end this once and for all. At long last.
But then, i heard a voice in myh head. It was sneaky and snake like.
Why drop me? You can have my power. You can rule the world from your finger tips.
I hesitated, I realized the scythe was talking to me. It's voice was sneaky, but seductive and warming. A part of me was wanting to do as it said, the rest told me to keep to my task. It spoke again.
You're such a strong man, I can make you stronger. Just, take me home with you...
Another voice appeared in my head. It was my mother's.
Jay, don't listen to it. Its trying to win you over.
Don't listen to her. Shes all in your head she doesn't exist...
Jay, you must listen to me. Dont let this thing get to you.
I collapsed to the ground, scythe only inches away from the cliffside. I gripped my head. I didn't know what was happening. It was painful. Once again the voice spoke.
You need to realize Herry, we have been together for so long, that your soul is bound to me. If I die, so do you.
Jay:
Cronus had a lot more prance in his step than I recalled. His strikes were getting harder and harder to block, until eventually, he hit me so strongly that I was knocked to the ground. He lifted his sword, ready to strike into me, until there was a sound of fighter jets, and an explosion right into Cronus's chest. It knocked him back. The military was pushing for the air. Another few fighter jets took a shot at Cronus,and he stumbled back, injured. He looked up to the temple and started to make a run for as he crossed my path, I flung my arm out and tripped him over. His massive body landed with a massive thump that shook the whole city. I got up and grabbed xiphos, as I struck, he deflected it with his and he pushed me back. We clashed swords We were at each other's throats, and with his blade, he pushed so it was edging towards my throat. It tried to push back, and then I kicked him away. Getting up, I struck again, Cronus disarmed me and kicked me right into the gut. I flew the whole way across the courtyard, landing on my stomach. Cronus lifted mt by my hair to his shoulders height as he readied his sword for the final blow.
Herry:
I was bashing my head againt the ground, trying to get the voices out of my head. They kept taking to me, and talking to me. I was going insane.
Come on Herry. Just pick me up and walk away.
Herry, do no such thing. Cast it into the fire.
Herry this and Herry that. I hardly knew what I was doing anymore. I waved my body frantically all over the place. Bashing my head against the ground. I wanted to die. I would have rather died than this. It was painful and screeching. I felt like sharp nails were scraping against the inside of my head.
Look at you Herry, youre dying. Have I wronged you?
I muttered; "Shut up. SHUT UP!"
In a few seconds you will end up just like your friends, your mother, your girlfriend.
"NOOO!" I yelled. I grabbed the scythe. Touching it felt like every bone in my body was shattering. I cried out in absolute pain, but I tried again. I tried to look past the pain, and gripped it tightly.
And with one final swing, I released it over the chasm. With a massive burst of flames, it was gone, and I blacked out.
Jay:
Right as Cronus was about to thrust into my gut, he dropped the sword, and me. When I looked up, I saw him yelling in pain. All of a sudden, a massive ray of light burst out of his chest. Then another, then another. It spread until his entie body was engulfed. His yells and screams grew louder and more intense, until there was a massive explosion. And all that was left was but ash and dust. All around me, the minions of the enemy encountered the same fate. And the sun finally broke through the grey clouds. As the minions disintegrated, Hades came into my view, about to slice at Hera. With what started as a ferocious yell then turned into a yell from fear. He backed away, dropped his sword. Hera, astonished but what happened, backed away as well. He fell to his knees and his eyes, full of confusion and horror. The only thing he muttered was;
"Wh- what have I done?"
The same thing was happening outside the castle too. After the exploding light spread and eventually disappeared, leaving only the warm sunlight, was there a long and eerie silence. I walked across the courtyard. Looking beyond into the city and the valley. The forces of Darkness were no more. Cronus was no more. Herry had done it!