Wings and Tails

Chapter Twenty-Six

The reason this chapter is late is because of one simple word ✨procrastination✨ (also school and mental struggles but anyway- onto the chapter)

Trigger warning: blood, violence

There they were.

On Olympus.

Waiting.

Waiting for the perfect moment to strike.

It wouldn't be long now.

All they had to do was wait.

Wait as the seconds ticked by.

Wait as the gods on Olympus relaxed.

Wait until the cover of darkness came, unexpected on the sunny day.

The eclipse.

They would strike as soon as the moon covered the midday sun.

A perfect plan that not even Athena would dare to make. It was risky and unexpected and entirely foolish, which was exactly why it was perfect.

They would never see it coming.

Triton had trouble understanding the many layers of the plan and he had heard it from the source.

So there they were.

They had flashed in through Poseidon, Artemis, Apollo and Hermes' temples. Each temple held a team.

The Poseidon temple was first, once Artemis' moon chariot covered the sun and the world was cast into darkness they would strike.

The shadows stretched, slinking across the ground.

Triton looked to the side to Kymopoleia, who nodded at him. Triton peaked his head around the corner before raising one hand and gesturing for the rest of the gods to move out of the temple.

They stepped out as the sunlight faded away, treading carefully to the centre of Olympus.

Triton looked around. The coast was clear.

He spun back to the group and motioned for them to spread out.

It was simple, cause a distraction. Cause chaos. Luckly thats exactly what his group was perfect for. Him, Kym, Hermes, Eris and Hecate.

Hecate stomped her foot and pushed one hand out towards a street. Her lights flew out in a flurry of purple, changing the colour of everything they touched. Her eyes glowed the same light. Her veins glowed with power as she sent a new wave of lights down a different street. After that street had been changed, she faced the crossroads where they had spread out and drew a finger in a circle that was mirrored on the ground. The circle faded from luminous blue once it was completed and the Magic goddess went to work on the next street.

Hermes was darting all over the place, placing traps everywhere, sometimes pausing to consider what way the gods on Olympus would be coming. The wings upon his shoes fluttering a million miles a second, mirroring his hair that was being pushed around by wind that affected no-one else. Occasionally the two snake tattoos on his arms would move around, hissing directions that the gods would come from.

Eris was helping Hermes but hers was a lot more discrete, a rock on the road out of place. A net of flowers and wheat that would fall once a tripwire was pulled. Thin strings, tied across the street that would break as soon as they were touched. Small little things. At points she would pause and consider, seeing the possibilities of the future with onyx eyes.

Once they were all done and satisfied that they would be able to piss off the gods enough to get their attention they nodded to Kym and Triton.

Kym gave him a mocking smile, "See who can get the biggest storm?"