Epilogue

[𝐀/𝐍 𝐮𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐦𝐲 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫, 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤 𝐠𝐨𝐝, 𝐬𝐨 𝐢𝐦 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐰, 𝐢 𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐢𝐭.]

Third person POV

Persephone, also called Kore or Kora, is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter. She became the queen of the underworld through her abduction by Hades, the god of the underworld, with the approval of her father, Zeus.

The myth of her abduction represents her function as the personification of vegetation, which shoots forth in spring and withdraws into the earth after harvest; hence, she is also associated with spring as well as the fertility of vegetation.

Similar myths appear in the cults of male gods like Attis, Adonis, and Osiris, and in Minoan Crete.

Persephone as a vegetation goddess and her mother Demeter were the central figures of the Eleusinian mysteries, which promised the initiated a more enjoyable prospect after death. The origins of her cult are uncertain, but it was based on ancient agrarian cults of agricultural communities.

Persephone was commonly worshipped along with Demeter and with the same mysteries. To her alone were dedicated the mysteries celebrated at Athens in the month of Anthesterion.

In Classical Greek art, Persephone is invariably portrayed robed, often carrying a sheaf of grain. She may appear as a mystical divinity with a sceptre and a little box, but she was mostly represented in the process of being carried off by Hades.

According to mythology, Hades, god of the Underworld, fell in love with beautiful Persephone when he saw her picking flowers one day in a meadow. The god then carried her off in his chariot to live with him in the dark Underworld.

In some accounts, Zeus had given his consent to the abduction, the location of the crime being traditionally placed in either Sicily (famed for its fertility) or Asia.

Meanwhile, Demeter searched the earth for her lost daughter and though Helios (or Hermes) told her of her daughter's fate, she, nevertheless, continued her wanderings until she finally arrived at Eleusis.

It was here, disguised as an old woman, that the goddess cared for Demophon (or Triptolemos, who would later give the gift of grain to humanity and teach farming), the only son of Metaneira, the wife of Keleos, king of Eleusis.

To reward the family for their kindness, Demeter set about making Demophon immortal by placing him on a fire every night. However, when Metaneira saw this, she raised an alarm.

In response Demeter revealed her true identity and demanded a temple be built in her honour. This was the beginning of the celebrated sanctuary of Eleusis.

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After euryale and priamos were done they went back to priamoss cage (euryale teleported them up there) and tried to figure out what to do from there, even though what they were going to do was obvious, painfully obvious.

Euryale looked at priamos expectantly, but that's when she FINALLY noticed his appearance. She squinted her eyes to make sure she wasn't seeing things. "Did your hair get longer?" Priamos looked over at her has she spoke.

"And are you eyes red?" She asked surprised.

He chuckled a little bit as he played with his hair. "Yea, freaky right" he laughed. "Yes very freaky" she answered back with a laugh of her own. They quickly snapped out of it and got back to the convo at hand.

"So how are we gonna get in touch with hades" she asked. To answer her question he pulled out a rusty big pocket watch that looked like it existed in the 1700s. He opened it up and after a few seconds stheno came into view.

She smiled when she saw him but it faltered a little bit when she noticed a certain someone beside him. She slapped her hand over her mouth as tears threatened to fall out of her eyes.

Priamos smiled at the lovely reunion but quickly remembered why he called her in the first place. "Reunions when we are back home but for now we need to talk" he spoke to her. She sniffled a little bit before nodding and getting back to the task on hand.

"We're ready" he simply stated. Stheno nodded all she needed to hear before cutting the line. Euryale looked at him confused. "ready for what" she asked. He looked at her and smiled.

"ready for him to break the gate to Tartarus of course"

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He was currently standing in front of hades with an annoyed look on their face. Behind him was the now broken rubble of the gate of Tartarus, without warning he broke the gate and through dirt on both euryale and stheno.

While he was cursing him out in his head, euryale and Stheno were having a touching reunion. They already explained to the monsters in Tartarus their plan and what they were doing and they agreed to it.

Then suddenly without a moment to spare they were at Olympus, standing right outside the throne room where the gods were having their little meeting, it was pathetic honestly.

Hades (with his dramatic self) kicked opened the door causing all the gods to flinch instinctively. With warning all of the monsters from Tartarus barged in and then it was chaos, just what they wanted.

Priamos eyes met zeuss and poof, he turned to stone. He didn't deserve to rot in Tartarus, he deserved to die. He kicked him and zeuss body went falling backwards toward the ground before it made impact and he broke into a million pieces.

The chaos didn't last for much longer, without Zeus the gods were basically powerless against them. It was a losing battle. In the end all of them got banished to Tartarus, including the monsters who were released in the first place.

Of course they were going to get better treatment in Tartarus than the gods, they just couldn't let Tartarus monsters roam around Olympus, it was to risky.

The place was a mess in the end. Broken pillars, glass everywhere, the thrones weren't even thrones anymore. But priamos was happy with this accomplishment, I mean of course the gods won't get stuck in Olympus forever, they'll eventually find their way back, and Zeus will just resurrect.

But they'll deal with that when the time comes.