Chapter 12.5

"She took him... Someone stole my child from me again, this time right in front of my eyes. I do not care what I must do I will get him back and I will bring him home." Scathach thought mind still frozen from loss.

Hestia sighed "Scathach what I don't understand is why didn't you just tell me or one of the Olympians about him we would have happily had Lugh owe us a favor for finding your son and leading him back to you."

Artemis's face was twitching before she snapped "A number of campers and my huntresses have died tonight to this foolishness! And most importantly it's going to take several decades for Dionysus to reform now tell me why shouldn't Olympus crush the Celts!"

Scathach walked back to the center of camp ignoring the virgin goddesses it's not like they knew what it was like to hold a child knowing the weight of the shared blood in there arms.

"I did not give you the right to leave Scathach!" Artemis snarled at seeing her enemy just walking away while she was surrounded by the dead and wounded members of her Hunt. Hestia sighed but raised her a hand and a wall of flames blocked Scathach from leaving.

"We cannot just allow you too leave after invading our second largest powerbase I am sure you most understand. Now you may surrender and Lugh or another god can redeem you or we will have to slay you here to redeem the loss of one of our Olympian's." Hestia said steeling for further battle.

Scathach roared with laughter turning on them she stomped her right foot summoning a forest of crimson spears all aimed at the two goddesses "Fine lets see who kills the other first, the Huntress or the God-Killer." Scathach whispered walking towards the goddess menacingly while thinking "All though Hestia is dangerous her flame can't touch get past all the runes I've been placing" Scathach thought.

"ENOUGH!!!" A male voice tore through the night. Boom! A massive lightning bolt crashed on the ground dissipating to leave a handsome, muscular, middle aged man. Who stomped between the parties "I have seen enough! The camp is fucking burning down and the abyss of Dún Scáith is starting to tether itself to this land and letting ghost's, monster's, and other abominations freely onto my kingdom!" He turned to the goddesses" And why aren't you two aren't killing Balor and forcing the Witch to close the damn gate to Celtic Hell!!"

They both looked chastised and held there silence, Zeus huffed in irritation "Fine I will deal with you two later. He looked out to where Balor was and Zeus's body grew to ten meters tall and he summoned a lightning bolt into his hand and pointed it at Balor "Balor go through the abyss and return home or I will strike you down where you stand." His voice was like the thunder shaking the Earth with its fury.

"Screw off Zeus I was promised Demigods to eat and beautiful slaves to keep I wont leave without them hahaha." Balor laughed fearlessly.

Scathach watched Zeus nod knowing the pride gods had he wouldn't have respected Balor if he just fled. "Balor son of Neit the Celtic god of war I the king of the Greek God's sentence you to death for invading my land." Zeus gently lowered his arm holding the bolt and the sky exploded in action, lightning coursing through it like a pile of eastern dragons intertwining and just as fierce. "Ah what did my new favorite grandson say, ah yes it was, KIRIN" He roared with a smile as all the lightning congregating into a huge eagle that cried its birth and looked around locking onto the target its birth demanded of it.

"Well shit." Balor groaned and Scathach could agree, as proud of her son as she was his talent with lightning at his age was going to draw too much attention.

Unlike the lightning dragon her son created Zeus's eagle didn't explode when Balor tried to tear it apart as he held it's claws at bay, it was as solid as any divine metal and when he tried he was rewarded with the Eagle cawing fiercely and pecking into his eye and blinding the giant's divine eye and making the giant slowly turn to ash.

Zeus turned and looked down upon Scathach at his great height "So will you come peacefully I owe Lugh a favor for not killing one of my sons when he went on adventure and made great trouble. So I swear my throne you will receive guest rights and not be held prisoner till he comes for you."

Defeated Scathach nodded. "I cant defeat them all not to mention I can feel Hades holding Dún Scáith back actively and if even he is here, Poseidon probably is at the shores waiting for any reinforcement's. So it's impossible to win here." "Fine I surrender" Scathach declared and made all the spears disappear.

Zeus turned to Hestia "Hestia lead her to the gate to close it and bring her to one of your temples I don't trust our siblings not to... make an example of her." Artemis snorted and we all knew who he meant especially with the cooling corpses of her huntresses around them.

"My lord!" A handsome blond ran into the clearing leading many children of assorted features fresh from battle. He took in the surrounding's before ordering "Children of Apollo stabilize the huntresses now!" A handful of blond teenagers bowed to Artemis in unison announcing "Excuse us" It was probably a good thing they showed respect to her first who knows with how angry and stressed Artemis looked, what she would do.

For the next hour they did the best they could saving the huntresses and cleaning up the camp as Scathach worked to reverse the encroachment of the Celtic Underworld and lock it away.

After much of the damage was repaired with magic from the arriving minor gods Zeus walked towards Scathach, and before he could say anything "Where is my son" Scathach said quietly making him deflate.

He sighed "I don't know. My daughter took him to a land governed by Dryad's and protected by the Shinto and Devil part of the Abrahamic Faction. But when questioned She said another goddess stole him and she lost the connection as he was taken to a dead dimension buried deeply away."

Scathach smashed her fist into the ground cratering it "How do you even know she was telling the truth."

He just looked tired "I took her to Lugh in person and he held his sword to her neck and you especially would know that his sword compels the truth out of people." He snorted "Not even I could escape that magic it's so potent he has ruined more than one drinking game with that toy."

She nodded feeling despair on where to go before determination came back "You said he was taken into a dead dimension so that mean's it it a faded Pantheons home or underworld I will find him it doesn't matter how many I must tear apart."

She staggered off and no one bothered her after Zeus waved her off and after a moment she seemed to fall within shadows and was gone.