The Moon's Crimson Archer

Blade 11: Struck!

After Archer's dramatic entrance and exit, they were suddenly notified of an attack on Camp Jupiter!

Everyone gasped in shock as they were most surprised at how quickly Shirou came, blasted Zeus to the Marble floor, giving them a warning, and now attacked one of the camps...

Artemis's eyes widened in shock but soon her shocked expression turns to one of endless retreat as she soon flashed to her Hunters to help Camp Jupiter.

The other Olympians were still processing current events, they were overwhelmed with Shirou's vengeful return and their emotions...

Poseidon and Hades were the first ones to snap out of their stupor as they soon told the other Olympians to help their Roman Children!

Zeus recovered from the Mini Nuke that Archer gifted him as he interrupted them by saying that they shouldn't because of the Ancient Laws.

Poseidon: "TO TARTARUS WITH THE ANCIENT LAWS! YOU ALL MIGHT AS WELL GLUE YOUR ASSES TO YOUR THRONES! BUT I'LL BE DOWN THERE, HELPING MY CHILDREN IF IT'S THE LAST THING I DO!"

The King of the Seas exclaimed as his outburst echoed through the Throne Room as everyone was dumbstruck by his sudden rant...

Poseidon then recomposed himself before uttering a sentence and flashing away to Camp Jupiter as Neptune.

Poseidon: "We might be Gods, but it doesn't mean that we're perfect..."

He said flashing away in his Roman form, with his words resonating through the other Olympians' hearts, as Hephaestus, Demeter, Athena, Apollo, Hermes, Hades, and Ares soon went camping Jupiter in their Roman Forms to assist them...

Hestia and Hera looked at each other before glaring at Zeus with disappointment before flashing away as they tried to get the other Gods to help their children, leaving Zeus alone on the ground with his crown while leaning on the side of his throne.

Zeus looked at the now empty throne room and remembered some happy memories when they were still a few millennia younger, and reflected on his past actions...

Despite many stories, Hera started to embrace the products of her husband's affairs as she treated Artemis and Apollo as if their own twins, and treated Hermes as if he were her own son, but that soon changed with the many affairs that he would have gotten throughout the years.

Ares and Hephaestus were actually her own children but he accidentally tripped Hera, thus causing her to drop Hephaestus over Mount Olympus, resulting in her own son's hideous appearance!

She couldn't look at her own son for she could not bear the guilt of accidentally dropping him, but that is just scratching the surface of her hatred towards him.

Ever since she became his trophy wife, she became more bitter as she would see him being a man-whore and sleeping with every woman that he deems pretty with fake love...

Hera became the Demigod-hating Goddess because of the fact that their marriage was now empty with no love from his side as Hera drowned herself with confrontations from the many byproducts of her husband's affairs, giving her the incentive that he never loved him, he only wanted to be with her because she was pretty.

Ever since then Hera despised Demigods, especially his offspring!

Hercules and Orion fanned the flames of hatred that she had for him, while the wretched Sea-Spawn from all those years ago merely gave her another reason to hate her Brother's Demigod children.

Though that changed...

Percy Jackson earned her respect along with Artemis and the other Olympians since he was the one who saved all their asses.

Jason Grace and Thalia Grace even came to her and apologized, a feat that no Demigod was brave enough to do...

But she soon hugged the two siblings, she soon cried tears of joy as her Husband's children acknowledged her, they didn't inherit their father's stupid pride or their father's attitude.

The two siblings were confused at first but they hugged it out and soon Hera became softer, and that feeling became more solid with her Step-Daughter's son, making her a Grandmother...

She was overjoyed but soon that feeling of joy became dread as her husband punished her step-grandson for nothing but paranoia!

This feeling of dread soon became rage and hatred toward him!

She scolded him many times and was so close to divorcing his ass, though the only reason why she didn't was that she held on hope.

She told him that she hoped that the man that she loved all those years ago would return from the sea of paranoia that he had experienced, after all, he is family...

And as the Goddess of family, she held on hope after all these years.

Unfortunately, Hestia did not share the same sentiment, she was livid!

Hestia saw a burning fire of hope in the heart of her grand-nephew, but when he came back, she couldn't feel anything from him!

She couldn't find a sliver of hope in her step-grandnephew's heart, all because of her Brother's paranoia.

The Gods soon resented Zeus due to his actions and pride that could've endangered everyone and everything that they held dear.

They all thought of abolishing the Ancient Laws when this war is done.

After all that reflecting that Zeus did in his empty Throne room, he looked to the ground in guilt as he looked at a distorted version of his face that reflected the ugliness of his heart as the light from the ceiling caused the Marble floor to be clear enough to see your own reflection.

Because of this Zeus steeled himself as he embraced shrugged off his paranoid attitude and turned into his  Roman form, Jupiter.

He took a deep breath and thought of ways to make amends to his family.

And before he flashed to Camp Jupiter, he looked towards the center of the room, where he punished Shirou as he stared at where the boy was before he punished him with a face full of guilt, sadness, and yet happiness...

Zeus didn't want to punish the boy out of pure satisfaction, but he wanted to protect his family from anything, but because he was the youngest of his siblings and was given the crown, he had developed some sort of Inferiority complex when he knew that his other siblings were more powerful than him, and yet he had more authority...

The youngest of the Kronos Siblings was given the position of King of the Gods because they felt that he deserved it by rescuing them from their father's digestive system, but they didn't stop to consider if Zeus would be able to handle it...

After all, he was the youngest...

And because of this, Zeus's motivation to protect his family along with the anxiety of not meeting expectations, his inferiority complex, and paranoia transformed his kind heart into a dictator...

Because he wanted to protect the world that he, his siblings, and his children had molded from their father and grandfather's hands...

And It took him this long to finally realize this...

He thought that he was protecting his family from another Luke Castellan, but he realized that he was slowly turning into his father due to this...

And with that realization, Zeus took and a deep breath before flashing to Camp Jupiter with a guilt-ridden face filled with sadness and determination, to atone for his family...

And he thought: 'The kid wasn't so bad after all...'

Chapter Ends...