The God's Reign: Book one, The Knowing

Chapter 17- mechanical spiders are the solution for almost every problem

Wow, the end of that last chapter was so cheesy you could practically smell it. My mistake everyone, I will never make perfection like that again! ( like I could if I wanted to)

Now back to the crisis at hand. Yay, dangerous and homicidal situations!! (No, not yay, never yay- kids don't take any of my words too literally.)

I charged the Athena Parthenos. Even though the statue was petrified by Aegis, my human instincts were still irked and slightly mortified by the idea of attacking this thing. My godly instincts however, won control over my body, forcing me to lift my blade and bash it against the statue's leg. Here's the funny part- it did nothing. Nothing, except for shaking my arms from the vibration of impact.

The Parthenos looked away from Aegis and focused on me. It stared at me blankly, as if saying itself Well that thing isn't scary. Maybe I'll kill it... Yeah.. It tried to squash me as if I was a fly, though the analogy was pretty accurate in size. As I dodged her attempts of smashing, I slashed my sword against her chest. Just as before, no damage, just collision sparks. No matter how many times I lashed out at the stone, the monumental goddess never seemed to weaken nor tire.

During all of the bobbing and weaving, I thought up a different strategy. To defeat this thing, I would need another weapon other than swords. Then I thought, I wouldn't be able to use just any weapon, but one that can be used against Athena herself. So my mental mission was to find out the weakness of a battle strategy goddess who held no sense of emotion whatsoever- easy.

It hit me. I dodged another swat when I reached into my jean pocket. In my hand were three mechanical spiders I had scored from the House of Hermes. (Why I brought them with me, I didn't know... instinct?) Hephaestus had made them for the defense system at the mansion, so I was about to use his own technology against him.

So here's the history between the goddess and spiders- Athena had created the first spider, but ironically, she didn't like them too much. It seemed that the woman who was turned into the first spider, hence her name being Arachnae, was still really peeved that she now wasn't able to kiss her boyfriend with clamping spider jaws (Or some reason around that line). She had sought revenge. 

Though, Athena was a freaking Greek goddess. Couldn't she have just picked up the spider in a napkin and flushed it down the godly toilet while chanting Begone, demonic spawn of Hades! (You know, it would have been way easier just to yell Begone, Sierra!)?

I activated the decoy spiders by tapping an oval shaped disk on their abdomens. As they sprung to life in my hands, I let them crawl to the ground and slipped away. The three spiders scuttled toward the Parthenos, who was intently looking for something to smash with her size-45 foot.

As they scurried across the floor, ten feet away from the Parthenos, the statue caught them in its sight. It froze. The makeshift Athena squealed and vigorously backed away from the mechanical spiders, throwing artifacts into their path. But even when priceless pottery was thrown upon them, the clay shattered against the spiders' minuscule bodies. The spiders were indestructible: go figure.

As the Parthenos was backed into the wall, the metal arachnid trio opened their tiny but powerful pincers. Before they would have a chance to bite her, golden silky strands of webbing emitted out from their mouths. (I thought it was supposed to come the other end, but hey, i dont judge mechanics.)

The sticky residue flung across the air and attached itself to the Parthenos, trapping the statue against the wall. The Parthenos had to duck because it was to big for the ceiling, but other than that, the fear-written expression on its face made it seem as petite as an ant. And ants were easy prey for spiders.