“I will not let anything happen to either of you,” Cronus promised me. “Just stay back and we'll see if we can return the beast in the same way we did many millennia ago.”
Staying back was something I was especially great at, so that would be an easy request to grant, even if fear for my family had me on edge. I didn't know what happened if you “died” again while already dead, but something told me it would be bad.
“Just go and leave me to fight it,” Rhea shouted. “You don't have a coin for me. I know Maisey wouldn’t have bothered to ask for extra, so I'll hold it off.”
#Yeah #Whoops #KindaForgotSheWasHere
“No!” Hyperion snapped back. “If it eats your soul, you will be gone forever.”
#WellFuck #ThatAnsweredThatQuestion #PrettySureHyperionToldMeThat #BlockedItOut
My eyes shot to Cronus and I moved closer again, the newfound power inside of me swirling to life, ready to send some light energy out into the world. No ugly ass bull thing was taking my baby daddy.
“If we can take the Erynomus down,” Cronus said, shooting coils of power from his hands, wrapping them around the beast and slowing its attempts to stomp on Hyperion, “and return its energy, I might be able to mess with the portals enough to smuggle Rhea back with the coins we have. The Erynomus is what's fucking everything up now.”
With that, Rhea found a sudden burst of energy and shot out the largest ice block that I'd ever seen. It sailed through the air and wrapped around the beast, capturing its legs in the same way Cronus had its arms, freezing the demon’s feet in a block of ice.
At first I thought they had succeeded in trapping it, and I couldn't believe how fast they had gotten it under control. This scary, mythical, kill-the-entire-world-and-eat-it creature. But nope. It was just a baby bull with tiny horn—
An explosion of energy slammed through all of us. I went flying back through the air, heading for a very sharp and hurty looking row of rocks.
“Maisey!” Cronus shouted, his coils of energy zooming after me, preparing to stop me before I crash landed.
He wouldn't make it in time, though, and I could do nothing but cradle my stomach and hunch forward so that it would take the least impact. Weirdly, my body slowed just as I was about to slam into the ground, and instead of the pain I expected, the rock turned into a soft mattress that I squished against before bouncing back to land safely on my feet.
What in the fuck?Turning around, I placed my hand against the rock, feeling it hard and unyielding under my touch. Did one of the Titans make it soft like that? Or was that part of this baby Titan's magic as well?
And how the hell was I going to handle terrible twos if the child could do shit like this from the womb?#FutureMaiseyProblem #LaLaLaLa #DelusionLand
“Thanks for saving Mommy,” I whispered, patting the spot I imagined the tiny fetus lay. It was probably ridiculous to think my child had saved me, considering it was only ten weeks old.
Not that I knew much about baby growth—I legit had never expected to be a mother, especially not this young—but I felt like ten weeks couldn't be very developed. I mean, what did it do for the other eightish months if it was already fully formed now?
Man, I wish I had my phone with Google right about now.
“You okay, love?” Cronus asked, reaching my side. “How did you stop yourself from hitting the rocks?”
I shrugged. “To be honest, I have no idea. It wasn't me … like, at all, but it could have been…” I pointed down at my belly and mouthedthe baby.
Cronus laughed. “Why are you afraid for him to hear the word ‘baby?’”
The eye roll was involuntary … or maybe the baby did that as well? “How do you know it's a boy?”
Cronus shrugged. “He's powerful already, just like his father.”
For the love of Titans…
“You’re having a girl. Now can I get some fucking help!” Rhea roared.
“A girl,” I breathed, taking in the awed look on Cronus’ face, before I shoved him back to where his friends battled the Erynomus.
“Knew it was a girl,” Cronus said, sounding so proud it was as if he were growing the kid himself.
He held my hand tightly as we returned to the battle, and I was relieved to see that Hyperion looked whole and alive. Rhea looked whole and dead, so everything was in order. The Erynomus was bound in a new block of ice, but cracking it more by the second.
“How are you going to beat it?”
Cronus let out a huff. “We need it to shift into its other form. That one has a vulnerability that we took advantage of last time, but since I'm sure its memory is as long-reaching as its stench, there's no way it will risk that around us.”
