Heroes of Olympus: After Gaea

Calypso

"Father."

"Calypso! You and your friends came just in time!" He smiled.

Calypso hated that titan with a passion. He was so evil.

"You brought your friends and your boyfriend! A mini party!" He smiled.

His muscles looked like they were about to pop. Calypso grabbed Leo's hand and squeezed it.

"Let's get this over with." Leo grumbled. He walked next to the huge titan and placed ten different plates of metal carefully under certain spots.

"Don't move." Leo told him. He took out a button from his tool belt and pressed something. In a flash, The metal plates shot up and turned to thick poles. In about a minute, they reached the height of the Titan. They were carrying the sky alongside the Titan.

"Now, remove yourself carefully." Piper commanded. The Titan grumbled, but obeyed. Slowly, he removed one hand. Nothing happened. He removed the other. Still, nothing happened. It was kept up perfectly by the metal poles.

"You had a good break, dad?" Calypso asked, crossing her arms.

"Yes. Leo, you're very intelligent." The titan said, stretching his arms.

"Oh, I know." Leo assured him.

"Not intelligent to know that this is a trap!" The titan laughed.

Calypso and Leo looked at each other in panic. She had such a strong feeling about this as well.

"The sky will crash you guys at the top of this mountain, but I will quickly pick it up before it crushes me."

"Not cool to do to your daughter." Hazel growled. She drew her knife.

Atlas was already away from the sky. Before anyone could touch him, he kicked away one of the poles.

"We need to get him under the sky and put him in shackles before he removes all the poles." Piper told the group. She drew her dagger and ran towards the Titan.

The titan ignored her as she couldn't even touch him.

"He's too strong." She muttered, tired of trying to dig her knife into him.

He kicked over three other poles. 7 left.

Calypso cursed. How could she defeat him?

She ran up to him next and grabbed his leg. He shruggled to move but still could.

"Get off me, nuisance!" He grumbled, trying to kick her off. She stayed put.

Leo ran towards one pole and created a wall of fire.

"Try and reach this pole, then." Leo challenged.

The titan bellowed in fustration and turned to find a different structure to knock down.

"Shackles," Piper began, speaking to the metal broken chains on the ground, "I know you're alive. You would love to do the job you're supposed to do, correct?"

Calypso thought she was absolutely mental. Why was she speaking to clumps of metal? But, the chains started to pulse, as if they had a beating heart.

"I know you're not just a clump of metal. You can get what you need to get. Extend yourself, capture the bad guy."

Calypso felt like her limbs could extend, but she quickly snapped out of it. Was she hallucinating, or were the chains slowly expanding towards her dad?

He reached another pole and knocked it down. But it quickly appeared again.

"What?" He muttered to himself.

Calypso looked at Hazel, who was standing a considerable distance away. She was about to shout to Hazel to do something
, but she saw Hazel was deeply concentrating.

Is that what Leo meant about manipulating the Mist?

Calypso smiled. They could actually get him to carry the sky again. Hazel was placing fake structures around, Calypso was preventing him from moving, Leo was placing walls of fire around the structure and Piper was getting the chains to chase her father's feet. However, she heard a pain sulking snap.

"7 isn't enough to hold the sky!" Leo gulped.

The structures started to crack. Everyone got distracted and looked up, causing Atlas to have an opportunity to move.

Quickly, he went to kick off another pole. 6 couldn't keep the sky up. All of them broke, and the sky went down in a tremendous speed.

"Goodbye, demigods!" Atlas laughed. He quickly ran down the hill so he could grab it lower down, so it would only crush the demigods.

They all ran to chase Atlas, but Calypso stayed, knowing they wouldn't be able to make it. Someone needed to hold it up.

"Calypso! Run!" Leo shouted, looking back to see Calypso at the top of the mountain.

"Someone needs to hold it!" She shouted back. She looked up. The sky was rapidly approaching down.

Leo quickly ran towards her.

"Leo! Go! It'll crush you!"

She knew Leo wasn't strong enough to hold up a sky. If anyone could possibly do it, the daughter of Atlas could've.

Leo ignored her. He put his arms up and closed his eyes. The sky was going to be at them at a millisecond. Quickly, she put one arm up and used the other one to push Leo out of the way. He flew away at a tremendous speed. The sky landed on her one arm and she was sure she would've crushed it if she didn't quickly put her other arm up to support her. Calypso, the girl who was just known as that pretty face who was dumb enough to be at her father's side in war, was holding up the sky.

And for a few seconds, it wasn't too hard.

Then the pain sunk in. She became exhausted. Her arms began to shake. But, if she let it go, who knows what would've happened?

"Grab him!" She heard a scream from the near bottom of the hill. Calypso had to fight to not move from her position. The chains shot out, grabbed the titan and pulled him back to the sky.

The titan got up, and carried the sky with him.

"Why am I doing this?"

"Swear on the River Styx you'll carry the sky." A voice commanded. She looked at Piper, who was glowing a slight pink.

Her hair was shining, plaited into an braid like Calypso did. Her kaidoscope eyes were changing colours more frequently than before. She was so beautiful, but reminded her of Annabeth, her beauty so intimidating that it drew you in but not to close that she might bite your head off.

"I... swear... on the River Styx I'll carry this sky until I am allowed to not anymore." He said, defeated.

Piper stopped glowing a bright pink and collapsed. Hazel ran up to Piper and took out ambrosia.

Calypso looked up at her father, who was frowning as he carried the sky.

She felt for the guy. She knew how it meant to feel trapped, alone. Death was something she attempted many times in her prison of paradise.

"When you become good, I'll try to free you." She whispered to her dad. He glared at her but she ignored it. She walked to Hazel, with her last remaining strength, and looked around.

"Where's Leo?"

Hazel looked down. "As he was thrown, your dad grabbed him and squeezed him, but Piper quickly ordered him to release Leo before Leo popped. We don't know what condition he's in. He's on Festus."

Calypso's blood started to boil. She turned to her father and cursed to him in ancient Greek.

"I take that back, you monster!"