The Crown of Kronos: Chapter 9

Victoria’s P.O.V

I looked into the weird circular thing, not believing what I saw. There, lying down unconscious, was the goddess of beauty. Hephaestus stared into the image of his wife, completely shocked.

“No.. My wife..” His voice shook as tears gathered in his eyes.

“Don’t worry, we’ll rescue her.” Poseidon patted his back.

I looked at Hephaestus in pity. It must’ve been painful, loving someone who doesn’t love you back.

A big, bulky man covered in scars ran out of the building.

“Where is she?” He asked, panic-stricken. Then I recognized him. He had the same look, the same pride of several demigods that I knew. Ares, the god of warfare and bloodlust. I gulped. Ares looked into the image of his lover, and became horrified. “NO! How could this happen?! You must have poisoned her!” He yelled at Hephaestus.

Hephaestus, still saddened and hurt, took it offensively. “DO YOU THINK I WANTED THIS?” He roared. “I LOVE HER, IDIOT!”

Ares pulled out a sword out of thin air, and started swinging it at Hephaestus. Hephaestus yelled in anger. An enormous hammer, covered with sparks of electricity, appeared in his hands. Ares slashed his sword at Hephaestus, who swung his hammer onto Ares’ head. They froze all of a sudden, literally.

Standing behind them was Nyx, the night goddess herself. I somehow knew that she was the goddess herself from her strong aura and cold, flat expression.

“Nyx.” Zeus’ eyes bulged out.

“I heard of Aphrodite’s disappearance. We must get someone to rescue her, a god.” She said in her cold tone.

“Let me do it.” Eros volunteered.

“Then you shall rescue her. Until then, keep these..” She looked at the two frozen gods in disgust, “err.. Lovers of her from fighting. And to you, heroes, good luck.” She disappeared with the wind, leaving nothing but a cold, piercing breeze.

“Eros, come with me. I’ll help you.” Zeus said, patting his back. They disappeared in a flash of blinding light.

“I’ll get these two err.. Fixed up.” Poseidon forced a smile, and disappeared with them within the blink of an eye.

We all looked at Hades, who looked completely annoyed.

“I guess that leaves only me.” He rolled his eyes. “Come on.”

We walked into the golden limo. It had leather seats, completed with buttons behind them.

“Whoa.” Alex’s eyes widened.

“Awesome!” Zarana added.

“Now, let me show you how this works. Sit.” Hades said, annoyed. He obviously loathed doing this tour guide sort of work. I quietly giggled behind him.

We each took a seat, and looked at the buttons in front of us. There were around 5 of them, with words written underneath.

“Now, you look at them yourselves while I fix the whole autopilot thing.” He shrugged, and walked up front. I looked closely into the tiny words.

“Err.. Wasonep.. Dofo.. Sasmage.. Refe Srii Sesmagning.. Fesende..What are these?” I sighed, cursing my dyslexia.

“I don’t know.. I guess we’ll just have to try.” Alex said. She pressed the button on the right corner, just as Hades turned around.

“NO!” He yelled.

He was too late. Out of the seats appeared cameras.

“Detecting threat.” The computer announced. “Threat found.”

The cameras turned around to Hades’ directions. Machine guns appeared from the seats and started firing bullets at the god of the underworld, who yelled and groaned. Then came a second row of weapons, fire arrows, fired from the ceiling.

“Whoops!” Alex pressed the button again. The weapons stopped. Hades coughed, his black robe covered with smoke, and shot an angry look at Alex.

Oh gods.