The Godslingers 3: Chapter 51

Josh's P.O.V

Tampering with the fates is one of the serious offenses that anyone could make, even the protogenoi gods and goddesses. It would make things even worse.

I could sense the fates are furious of this, and because of that, they appeared again.

They now appeared with a thread of life, and Atropos is ready to cut the thread.

As I watched, Atropos snipped the thread of life, and disappeared in mist.

As I watched, there's no one dead here, which means that someone will die soon.

Well, I guess I could make some corrections here by fulfilling the destiny.

Meanwhile, Andrew had the powers of the earth goddess now, so he was close to unstoppable. But even he cannot change the ways of the fates.

We were about to fly when Annabeth tapped on Andrew's shoulders. "You shouldn't tamper with fate, Andrew. You're just making things worse."

"So? What do you suggest we do?" Andrew asked Annabeth.

"Hmm..." Annabeth began to think. I started to think too. The fates have decreed if we are to be given peace, Annabeth is to be sacrificed to holding the sky, or else Gaea will awaken again, or worse, Nyx might be offended, and plunge the world into total darkness.

I guess that we could make the fates reconnect the string again when Annabeth held the sky.

So, Annabeth stood below the stone pillars, and even in her condition, she volunteered to hold the sky. I blast the pillars and the sky dropped on Annabeth. Then the fates appeared again, reconnecting the snipped threads. No life lost, then. Only one sacrifice.