Reborn As Hades In Olympus

Ch. 181: The End Of The War

The sky cracked open with thunder as bolts of gold light crackles around Zeus. I turned my eyes away and paid no attention to it, I approached Poseidon who knelt on the floor clutching to his severed arm, he dared not look up. His pride was shattered, the humiliation of having his grand plan torn apart clearly paralyzing him.

His severed arm lay on the floor feets away a small puddle of blood under it. The blood shimmered with sparkling white light, the blood of the gods were always like this.

I looked at my cuts, they sever ones had been healed by my curse. I walked away from Poseidon, my feet crunching on the seabed I reached his trident thrust in the ground and summoned my scythe once again.

In one swift motion I ignited the nether flame and cut through his trident. It hissed out as if crying in pain, a shockwave sent a light breeze brushing my face. When it was done the trident of the god of the seas was severed in two cementing my victory even more.

I looked over to where Poseidon was, his eyes looking at me with a blank expression then back at his trident and lingered there for a long while before turning back to me with a disfigured look on his face.

"You--" whatever he was about to say got drowned in his sorrow.

I turned and approached him. "Poseidon for crimes of treachery and trying to take over Olympus while also endangering the civilians I hereby strip you of your status within the twelve gods of Olympus."

His body trembled, his eyes were faced down. "Keeping you alive is not mercy, it's a rather cruel punishment I have given to you."

I heard him grit hit teeth and then hiss but he said nothing.

I raised my head to the sky to see Zeus still floating there, strangely he did not bother to interrupt. I did not know if he would attack me, if he did things would be more complicated. In terms of overall power Zeus was truly at the peak, would I stand a chance against him?

I sprouted my wings, I had to go meet the others and defeat Pandora. Leaving Poseidon was not the smart choice but he was already defeated and Zeus was here.

I was takin off I fell back on my feet and held my chest, there was a cold feeling deep down causing me to hiss out. My body shook violently, a moment later my body hissed out black smoke and I could feel a weight being lifted from me. I quickly understood this change.

"My curse is gone, someone beat Pandora?" My words caused Poseidon's body to fidget. "Someone actually beat that damned monster?"

A small smile of accomplishment flew on my face, we had averted the future events. Though losing the ability not to die was a loss but it was much better this way.

The curses of Talos, Aphrodite and Hephestus have been broken. No more curses in this world, no more Pandora or the circle, and soon no more black amber. The clamities were now fully averted.

I kicked off the ground, my main priority was to return to my team. I stopped mid air a few feet away from Zeus, his eyes looked at mine with a strange calmness that seemed hollow. Fortunately he was not hostile.

"Don't let him leave." I said but it sounded more like a command.

He gave me a slight nod then turned his gaze back to Poseidon.

I nodded back and then shot into the air, aiming for the realm of gods that existed beyond the heavens at a fast speed, ignoring the slight fatigue I felt in my body. The flight up was much longer than I expected, we had fought all the way down making the plummet much faster.

I cut through the rings of cloud and soon emerged high above the city on Olympus. The magnificent city now sending strings of smoke flying.

I cut through the air for the grand hall where I had left my team. I shot down and landed on the roof that had been shattered and exploded in different areas. The storm clouds were gone but the deed had already been done. The poison it had rained down would harm a number of people but it would be much less than expected.

Not seeing my team through the smoke, my composure slipped for a moment and I screamed. "Talos! Hecate!"

There was no reply, a second later I heard a mocking laughter. "Dear Hades worrying about others, it's just too cute." Hera walked out of the smoke, a friendly smile on her face. "Your acquaintances are all fine."

Behind her walked another figure, one I was more accustomed to. The smoke could not hide her unmistakable figure, she walked forward in slow steps. Dragging her feet clearly out of exhaustion.

I stood there and waited for her to reach me, Talos had a huge stain of black ash on her cheek and other little ones all over her face. She stopped before me and said nothing, her body tilted slightly as she fell into me, her arms wrapping round me.

The words escaped her lips, "Thank you. It's all over now."

I raised one hand and brought it down on her head giving her a soft gentle pat. "No, we all did this together."

She stayed there a while longer, Hera broke the silence and said. "Hades babysitting, now that's one of your perks. You beat Poseidon?"

I looked at her and nodded.

Her reply was short and brief. "Good."

Talos pulled away and acted normal or close to it at least. "The others are over there, Hera healed us to an extent. We managed to extract and defeat Pandora with her help and a few others."

I looked over at Ares and Eris. I nodded to them and they acknowledged me. Hera turned and started to leave with a few parting words. "A hands down to you, the war is over."

I smiled inwardly and said in a low whisper. "Yes, yes it is."n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om