The Goddessy: Hestia's Revenge

Chapter Twenty-Two

So... Hestia had set up security or something, because they all were flung back onto the ledge.

"Oof," Persephone rubbed her elbows. "I hope the antidote's ready soon."

Persephone looked a lot like her mother, with the same blooming golden eyes and flowing long hair. Only her mother looked like a daisy; Persephone seemed to resemble a rose. They both had light green faces, only their hair depended on their flowers, like how her mother had pure white locks and she had a vivid red.

With personalities... they could beg to differ.

"So, how do we get in now?" Persephone asked, watching the sky and wishing for the antidote to be done. From what she heard (given she and Rainbow Dash were close, not as close as her and Athena, but close enough), Twilight seemed like a sweetheart that didn't deserve to die. Nor did that other girl, Butterfly or Fluttershy or something, who apparently shared a similar personality as Persephone herself.

"We break in," Apollo dismounted on Ember as the rest of the group Athena had assigned landed beside him, Apollo holding up a crystal vial filled with a clear liquid.

"Ugh, finally!" Athena snatched it from him. "We just gotta get this inside."

"I should stay behind, though," Rainbow said, hopping off Blitz. "Considering I'm supposed to be dead and all that."

"What do you mean, dead?" Helios asked, her sunny locks flaring around her face.

"Well, I may have made and enchanted a fake version of myself to make Hestia think I was dead and I heard that she destroyed my 'body' in flames, so yeah," Rainbow explained.

"I think it was smart, though," Apollo said. "So I have an idea."

"Better hurry," Artemis turned to her moon tattoo, which was dimming, the moon behind them sinking into the horizon. "Time's running out."

"Well, technically we still have today and tomorrow before the sun sets," Athena pointed out.

"Then I guess it'll be today."

The entire group slowly turned to find Hestia.

"I'm afraid it's your plans that have pushed up the wedding," Hestia said, her flaming red eyes darting to Rainbow. "And I thought you were supposed to be dead..."

That's when Rainbow hurled an orb of lightning at Hesia, singing her leg.

"How in the," Hestia thrust back a fireball.

"Now, Sunset!" Athena ordered, and a girl-Persephone assumed to be Sunset-jumped from under the ledge, arrow tip poised to fracture the crystal on Hestia's diadem. Persephone ducked under to find a hole in the rock where many of them were hiding.

"The sun's coming," Nyx pointed to Eos, who was gliding across the darkened sky. "We're losing time. The girl's going to die today."

"And you get to watch."

Hestia's voice vibrated as the hiders found themselves moving against their will.

Sunset wasn't really expecting to sneakily be along with Athena, but Athena had insisted.

So here she was, against a crazy woman holding her dying friend hostage, the woman armed with her metal shards and fireballs.

"I'm afraid I can't let you win," Hestia said as the arrow nearly punctured the crystal.

"OH, COME ON!" Ares huffed, tackling Hestia. "We're ending this once and for all!"