The Gatekeeper's Promise: Gatekeeper's Saga, Book Six (The Gatekeeper's Saga 6) by Eva Pohler

Author:Eva Pohler
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Green Press/Eva Pohler
Published: 2014-10-01T00:00:00+00:00

Hunched over Melinoe, Hypnos watched as the Furies carried Atlas up from the pit to the main hall of Tartarus and bound the Titan to one of their tables of torture. Melinoe’s soul had not been severed from her body, but she, nevertheless, seemed lifeless. She’d been paralyzed by the trident.

Hades removed his helm and joined him near the Malevolent.

“How long will she be like this?” Hip asked his father.

Hades bowed his head. “One never knows. In some cases, a direct hit from the trident has caused permanent damage.”

“Poor Melinoe.” Hip reached out and touched her hair, but of course, his transparent hand fell through her.

Hades lifted her up and carried her to a table in the main hall, next to the angry Titan.

“It’s too late, Hades,” Atlas said. “My plan is already in motion. I don’t need the trident or your silly helm.”

“It wasn’t so silly when you went to great measures to steal it,” Hades said, as he arranged Melinoe’s arms at her side and turned his attention to Atlas.

Hip stood over Melinoe, still in awe of what she had done. He wondered why she had done it, when she had nothing to gain. Was it possible that his sister had feelings for her family after all?

Tizzie and Meg were in their full state as avengers—hair turned to snakes, blood seeping from their eyes and mouths. Meg knelt on the Titan’s chest with her falcon perched on her shoulder, ready to peck out his eyes at a moment’s notice. Tizzie stood alongside him with her wolf on her left, baring his sharp teeth. She had her whip wrapped tightly around her right hand. She lashed the end of it against the Titan’s legs. When he laughed, she did it more fiercely, repeatedly, until blood and skin hung from his shins and his laughter turned to pleading.

“Where is your brother, Menoetius?” Hades insisted.

“How should I know?”

Meg’s falcon swooped in and took out the Titan’s left eye. He groaned.

“How’s your memory now?” Meg hissed, her blood dripping onto his face and mixing with his.

“Stop!” Atlas pleaded. “I don’t know! I swear on the River Styx, I don’t know where my brother is.”

“You better tell us what you do know!” Meg growled. “Or you’ll lose your other eye!”

“Of course, it will grow back,” Hades said rather calmly.

Meg smiled at her father. “That’s right. So my falcon can do it again!”

When Atlas said nothing, Tizzie struck him again with her whip.

Hypnos had never watched his sisters at work for any length of time. Now he remembered why.

“It won’t do you any good to know,” Atlas growled. “The plan is already underway.”

“Then you may as well tell us,” Hades said in that eerily calm voice that Hip recalled from when he was a child and his father scolded him.

The falcon dipped its beak, ready to strike.

“Okay! Okay!” Atlas cried, panting. “This is what I know!”

Hypnos moved closer to his father and the Titan.

“We’re listening,” Tizzie said.

Her wolf howled.

“When Ares freed me, I went to Circe.

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