Annie Chain and the Olympians: The Anomaly of the Sky

Chapter 14: The End of the Battle

I blinked in confusion as the world came back into focus. The other half-bloods around me looked equally as bewildered and disoriented, but the deities just looked annoyed. I felt like I was coming out of a very, very long dream.

I shook the dizziness from my mind and straightened my back. My gaze became level with the Anomaly's.

"You know what it is like, Annabella Chain, to be unsure of the love, of the want, from your parents, do you not? To feel inadequate compared to your elder siblings?" He mused.

I frowned at him. "All demigods do. But what this was, it wasn't inadequacy compared to Athena, and it wasn't being unloved by your family. It was knowingly choosing a path that would harm them all and not caring. The Olympians, despite their many flaws, did what they had to do to protect themselves and the pantheon. They made the right choice."

He scowled at me. "Perhaps."

Athena approached her brother. "She's right. If you had given up on the idea of war, you would have been welcomed on Olympus with open arms, just as I had been. You failed to see that and you paid the price."

"So that is it, Athena? You will always take their side over mine and Mother's?" The Anomaly spat.

"Yes. That is it. I will always take the side of the Olympains. They are my family. You and Metis are not." Athena answered, her expression stoic until she glanced at her family and smiled a little. "I know I've made the right decision. Maybe it's time you accept that you did not."

He scoffed but did not reply.

Zeus stepped forward once more. "I believe it is time to handle Metis and her problem child."

With a mere snap of his fingers, the world shifted and spun, and suddenly we were standing in front of the Titans. Metis and the Anomaly were both bound in the same chains they had used on Ares and Athena days ago.

Zeus led the Olympians over to the Titans while the demigods, old and young, stayed back, merely observers in the moment.

Kronos nodded to his children, glancing at the Anomaly and Metis for a moment before smiling briefly. "Good to see he's been handled without any major problems. I was almost worried he would try and do what Metis had and injure one of you to escape. "

Zeus huffed. "He attempted to guilt us into releasing him. Either way it didn't work."

Kronos smirked. "And we know why Athena inherited the domain of Wisdom once Metis lost it. Neither Metis nor her son had the brains any longer."

Three flashing lights alerted us to the arrival of Aphrodite, Apollo and the newly healed Rhea. They easily took their places among their brethren, Apollo and Aphrodite filling in the spots between the other Olympians while Rhea took her spot beside her husband.

The deities seemed to loom over their brethren yet it wasn't a scary presence to me. In fact, they seemed almost calming for us demigods to be around. I welcomed the idea of it. I had never quite felt at peace around the Olympians, whose powers rivaled my own lifeforce and whose literal presence could vaporize me if we all aren't careful. Yet in that moment, I had never felt calmer around our godly relatives.

I couldn't say the same for Metis and her son. The Anomaly seemed to cower under the tense gazes of the Titans and Gods. Metis twitched uncomfortably at the sight of her siblings.

"What do we do with you?" Zeus mused, staring down at his son and former wife. "How can we ensure that you don't harm anyone anymore?"

Kronos huffed a sharp breath. "I'd say use my scythe, but I think we've established that it won't necessarily keep them away permanently."