UnTamed [Book 3]

Daddy Issues

PLOT TWIST TIME WOOOO

Chapter Quote:
"There's nothing you could say that would shock me."~Laura Prepon

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Chapter 28: Daddy Issues

Bryn

Although she hated herself for telling Luke, Silena, and Derek why she'd really left them, it also felt good to get it off her chest. It'd felt good having them prove her wrong after Bryn thought if she told them, they'd all hate her. Gods she'd been wrong.

Currently Bryn and Luke were walking to the briefing room, hand in hand. They'd been sleeping for the past twelve hours, trying to catch up on some much needed rest before the next battle. When they entered the room, the twins, Hallie, Silena, and Derek were standing around a map, debating on what battle strategies should be used this time.

"The troops are already mobilizing to their designated positions. They're just waiting for our word on what to do," Silena informed. She looked up at Bryn and Luke. "I'm assuming everything's okay?"

"Couldn't be better," Bryn replied with a smile. "So where are we at?"

"Like I said, the troops are heading to their positions. They just need our word about what battle strategy to use. Any ideas?"

"Hannah knows all of mine, I know all of hers. We have the ability to counteract all of each other's strategies... what about-" Bryn was cut off by the entire Empire State Building shaking violently. The seven demigods fell down into a heap on the ground. When the shaking stopped, Derek demanded, "What the hell was that?!"

Bryn was already running out of the room to the stairs. Luke scrambled after her with the others hot on his tail. She came out onto the observation deck and looked up. The clouds holding up Olympus were darkening to black. Something, or someone, was up there, and it was no friend to the gods.

"Hannah," Luke breathed.

"She lied to us. That whole white flag was a distraction so she could get up to the top without any of us expecting it," Hallie said.

"Not possible. We had people on patrol. They would've seen her," Silena remarked.

"Unless Hannah's been watching us this whole time," Bradley pointed out.

"And waited until the patrols were gone to make her move," Brady finished.

"We need to get up there," Bryn said. "Now. Derek, Hallie, you two ready to do joint shadow-travelling?"

"I've never been to Olympus!" they said simultaneously.

"Here, imagine this," Bryn told them, handing a picture of the main building.

"Holy Hera- what is that?" Luke asked.

"The gods' throne room. You can ogle it after we defeat this wench," she replied. Luke looked at her amusedly. "What?"

"I missed your vocabulary," he answered.

She bit back a smile. "Shut up."

The group held hands and closed their eyes. Bryn was so used to shadow-travelling from helping Hallie practice that it didn't bother her. Bradley was used to it as well. Brady, Luke, and Silena, not so much.

"Now I know how Harry Potter felt after he Apparated for this first time," Silena croaked out. Derek put a steadying hand on her. Bryn looked around. The path to Olympus was still there, meaning Hannah hadn't done too much damage yet, but that made Bryn worry about what the woman was actually doing.

"How could a daughter of Demeter do something like this?" Brady inquired.

"Let's ask her the mother herself," Bradley suggested.

"And how do we do that?" Derek commented.

Bryn pulled out her cellphone. "Like this. The gods figured it was time to get with the times and got cellphones. They said only call in an emergency. I would say this is an emergency."

"Hello?" a woman answered sharply on the other end.

"Lady Demeter? This is Bryn Winchester."

"What do you want?"

"We need to know about your daughter Hannah Floyd."

"She's my daughter, but she didn't take after me. She took on after her father," Demeter replied, sounding strange.

"Who's her father?" The goddess remained silent. "Demeter, your existence and your family's relies on you telling me who Hannah's father is! It's the only way my friends and I can stop her! Tell me now!"
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Derek

The Charmspeak in Bryn's voice was so influential that Derek knew right away the goddess would have no control over her response. It scared him how strong, how great, how powerful she'd become. He'd always remembered from Greek mythology that the more powers a person had, the harder their fall was. Derek had feared his best friend would meet a bad end, but he'd never imagined it being her sacrificing her life, purposefully transferring a curse to herself to save a friend. He always thought she'd die in battle.

"Bryn?" The twins asked. She was staring at the ground, the cellphone still up at her ear.

"Bryn," Luke said, placing his hands on her shoulders. "What is it?"

With a shaking hand, she put her phone in her pocket. When Bryn looked up at her friends, her eyes were wide and something else Derek had never seen before in his best friend: fear.

"It all makes sense now, the reason why she was choosing underground places for everything and why she could teleport anywhere she wanted and-" Bryn rambled.

"Who is she?" Silena demanded.

"An immortal. Her father... he made her immortal. Demeter had no choice in having her."

"Bryn, what has you so scared though?" Hallie inquired.

The daughter of Zeus sighed. "Her father."

"Who's her father?" Luke asked. No one had any idea. It couldn't be Kronos, he'd been destroyed by Percy. Atlas was trapped holding up the world. Hyperion was a tree, Derek was pretty sure, somewhere in Central Park. None of them could have had kids and his mind was failing him at coming up with any other names about who it could be.

"You don't mean it's-" Brady began. Bryn nodded. He swore in Greek.

"Duh duh duh, we're dead," Bradley declared.

"Who's her father?!" Silena repeated.

Bryn turned to her. "Tartarus."
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PLOT TWIST NUMBER... SOMETHING DOWN ANOTHER ONE TO GO. Sorry for the short chapter but I really wanted to leave you on that cliff hanger. I'm evil, I know. New chapter is underway :) Review please!