Page 83 of Harbinger
The Black Fate was staring at her glowing hands.
“Yes,” Atropos said with a shaky smile.
“MOTHER!”
Tenebra stiffened. “Temir?!”
Atropos followed her shocked gaze. Morgan and the Reaper God were soaring toward them, Eden floating alongside them within a scarlet sphere.
“Mother,” the Reaper God repeated solemnly as he slowed to a hover in front of Tenebra.
He’d regained his human appearance.
“My child,” Tenebra whispered. Silver tears tumbled from her eyes. She touched his face with trembling fingers. “I am so sorry for what I did.”She looked over at Morgan. “You too, Ivmir.”
Morgan shrugged. “Yeah, well, I’ve been told you all used to kick my ass regularly when I was a kid.”
Atropos bit back a smile when she spotted his flushed ears.
“You were not yourself, Mother,” the Reaper God said adamantly. “Bear with me a moment.”
He wielded his scythe and destroyed the remnant of Elios’s dark seed where it sat within Tenebra’s chest. The Black Fate gasped, her pupils brightening as the last of the God of Darkness’s corruption disappeared from her body.
He did the same to Alecto and Megaera.
Tisiphone, Orena, and Kes returned from where they’d disposed of the remaining war demons and Nephilim in the sky. Orena and Kes kissed and hugged Tenebra while Tisiphone took the sniveling Alecto and Megaera in her arms, her own face crumpling as she sobbed and wailed.
Clotho sniffed. “I forgot how ugly a crier she could be.”
Atropos chuckled and wiped the tears dripping down her face. She stiffened in the next instant.
Shadows swamped the Seventh Purgatory as Elios unleashed his full powers of darkness.
“Cassius!” Morgan barked.
Theo, Victor, and Loki went flying as Elios charged through them.
Cassius grunted and blocked the God of Darkness’s attack with his blade, white wings bracing. Their figures blurred.
“Shit!” Morgan closed his wings and dove inside a tempest of black wind and Dryad magic.
Atropos followed, her heart racing with dread.
Elios was driving Cassius toward the crater.
A violent boom shook the Seventh Purgatory when they smashed into it. Debris and ash clouded the air. The crevasses splitting the ground widened, lava spurting violently from the fresh fissures.
Morgan and Atropos darted around the rising jets of liquid fire and closed in on where Elios held Cassius down by his throat.
“DIE!” Elios roared.
Fear turned Atropos’s blood to ice when she saw the orb of darkness solidifying in his hand.
“NO!” she screamed as Elios aimed it straight at Cassius’s soul core.
Theo dropped down from the sky, his weapon blazing in his hands. “SUSPEND!”
Elios faltered for an infinitesimal moment.
