Chapter 191

–A week later–

[Layla of the Fallen: Angel of Hope, Death's Favored]

[Level: 56]

[Sacred Gears: Purger of Darkness, Orb of Anywhere]

[HP: 13000]

[MP: 10000]

[Faith Energy: 23]

[Vigor: 800]

[Strength: 170]

[Intelligence: 1000]

[Luck: 150]

[Skills: Observe 4, Angelic Mastery 4, Acting 4, Light Manipulation 7, HP to MP Conversion, Mana Burst, Senjutsu 2, Six Paths, Susanoo 1]

[Perks: Never Tell Me the Odds, Lucky Shot, Mana Replenisher, ]

[Drawbacks: Sin of Lust]

[Available Free Stat Points: 0]

[Skill Up Point: 0]

I was looking over my stats as we rode the elevator down. It had been a while since I'd made any gains, but I was sure I would be making quite a bit later today.

The elevator reached the lowest level and our group stepped out.

"Right this way. This is where we've been keeping Artemis. She's been a lot more docile compared to Ares. He's now at over 40 escape attempts. Artemis gave up after only three." Agent Coulson said as he led Hela and I through the halls of SHIELDs current HQ. We were currently in the deepest level where they kept their most dangerous prisoners. The only ones that they currently even had down here were Ares and Artemis though. 

We arrived in front of a clear cell that was very similar to the one that SHIELD held Loki in during the first Avengers movie. Except this one wasn't thousands of feet in the air. Artemis was inside the cage.

[She looks like she's seen better days…]

Artemis was sitting on the floor clutching her knees to her chest. Her formerly beautiful silver hair looked disheveled and was full of split ends. Her eyes were rapidly darting in every direction as she muttered to herself while rocking back and forth. She looked utterly deranged…

"We're not sure why she turned out like this. We haven't even tried to interrogate her yet and we've been giving her plenty of food and water." Agent Coulson said. "Frankly, we're at a loss."

Artemis finally noticed there were people outside of her cell. She sat up rapidly and stared at us! "It's you! The one who placed this collar on me! Please, I can't feel my Moon! Let me feel my Moon!" She begged while staring directly at me. "I'll do anything! You wanted to collar me? Make me your woman!? I'll be your woman! Let me feel my Moon again!" Artemis begged before she slumped back down and started sobbing to herself.

[Wow…I think you broke her.]

"Did I do that to her?" I asked out loud. All I did was seal away her powers. I didn't think she would end up going crazy because of that.

Hela scoffed. She stepped forward to get a better look at Artemis in her cell. "She's only been cut off from her divinity for a mere week and she's already fallen to such a pathetic state? And she thinks she's worthy of being with Layla on top of that? Ridiculous!" Hela spat out. "She is not worthy. I was cut off from Asgard for hundreds of years and never turned out like this sad excuse for a goddess." 

"Gods can turn out like this when they are cut off from their domains?" I asked Hela. I wondered what Ares currently looked like then?

"Weak Gods can." Hela explained, "This Olympian Goddess has clearly never struggled with anything in her entire existence. She has never known hardship and anything she has ever wanted has been handed to her by her father."

"That would make sense. She's supposed to be one of Zeus's favorites isn't she?" Coulson asked. "At least, according to mythology."

"She's supposed to be. From what I know about Artemis, she spends most of her time playing with her immortal followers. They spend all day and night hunting animals over and over again."

[You would think that would get boring after hundreds of years…]

"That's more than I know about her. I never paid much attention to any other Pantheons that Asgard wasn't at war with." Hela responded. She then turned to me. "You're not going to get any information out of her in this state. Don't even bother. We will send her to Asgard and have the mind healers there fix her first. You can remove her collar as well. She shouldn't have much power on Asgard, so far away from Midgard's moon." 

Coulson seemed a bit hesitant to allow Hela to take away Artemis. In the end, he relented because an insane Goddess wasn't useful to anybody. He opened the cell and Hela and I stepped inside. I removed the black chakra sealing collar around her neck. Artemis immediately had a look of relief on her face. 

"Thank you! So mu–gah!" Artemis was cut off instantly. 

Hela smacked Artemis on the back of her head and she dropped to the ground unconscious. Hela then nonchalantly reached down and picked Artemis up with one hand. I opened a portal to Asgard and Hela nonchalantly tossed Artemis's body through it.

On the other side of the portal, Heimdall was staring at us incredulously. "Uh…2hat would you like me to do with this foreign Goddess, my Queen?" 

Hela waved her hand dismissively. "This woman dared to claim that she was worthy of being with my beloved. Hand her over to my stepmother and see if we can make a proper Lady out of her. A woman who plays around in the woods all day with a bunch of her servants isn't worthy."

"Ok…?" Heimdall said again and bowed. I could tell that he was very confused but dared not go against his new Queen's orders. I closed the portal between our realms and turned back to Coulson.

"Well, that was a bit of a bust. Looks like we couldn't get any last minute information about Olympus." I said. That was the whole reason we were currently down in this prison in the first place. Luke had decided to flip on Kronos and started telling SHIELD about Camp Half Blood, but he didn't really know anything about Olympus itself. He only snuck in one time and that was with Ares helping him.

Coulson shrugged. "It is what it is. In this job, you find more failure than success. Are you two ready to start your part of the plan?" He asked. "And is it just going to be the two of you?"

"Hmph! Just us will be more than enough!" Hela said proudly. "I have no doubt in my mind that I can suppress Zeus on my own. Especially considering he has lost his divine weapon to Layla's niece."

Coulson nodded. "Alright then. It'll be all hands on deck in a few hours. Ten minutes after you two enter Olympus, Captain Rogers, Agent Romanoff and Agent Barton will lead our forces to storm Camp Half Blood and rescue all of the kids trapped there." 

We had been over this plan multiple times now. All of the Agents were pretty nervous. SHIELD was created to combat the Alien and Supernatural. This was the first time they were ever doing it so openly though. Fury was also using this as an opportunity to build back SHIELD's lost reputation after being so heavily infiltrated by Hydra.