Chapter 12 - The Devastation

As soon as the Gigantes got close, herogirl produced that shockwave again that distorted things around her and froze them in time. As soon as all of the Gigantes froze, heroboy ran in and began hacking at them. He managed to destroy two of four of them before those unfroze. Herogirl began to quickly shoot at one of them and by the time he reached her, she dealt with him. Heroboy then walked up to the last one and produced a single lethal strike that demolished that Gigantes so bad that parts of his armor flew back in Keuthonymus’ direction.
- “Looks like if you want the job done right you have to do it yourself.” Keuthonymus said.
- “It’s about time you stopped hiding behind others.” Heroboy said to Keuthonymus.
- “Me? Hiding?”
At that moment Keuthonymus squeezed a powerful laugh, however in reality he was getting scared.
- “You can’t take us both.” Herogirl said.
- “Ha, like that makes much difference.” Keuthonymus mocked and then clenched his fists.
A dramatic music started to play in the midst of all this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJoUeAj4nbo
Heroboy prepared both of his blades. Herogirl tightened an arrow on her bow. Keuthonymus suddenly released lots of energy. The energy wave knocked both heroes back. When they turned back to see, Keuthonymus was towering above them about 10 times his usual height. He took a massive spear out and grinned in the most evil of ways, revealing his sharp teeth.

- “Looks like he at least brushed his teeth properly.” Heroboy commented.
- “Thanks to this little baby.” Keuthonymus said and showed them the ethereal toothbrush.
- “I want me one of those.” Heroboy said.
- “When we kill him, we’ll take his.” Herogirl said.
- “First manage to land a hit on me and then talk of killing me.” Keuthonymus said to them and then thrust his huge spear downwards at herogirl.
She saw that in good time and jumped out of the way. When the spear hit the ground it cracked some of it.
Heroboy quickly ran up to Keuthonymus’ feet and began slashing them with his swords. Keuthonymus laughed at his attempt and a second later kicked the heroboy into the wall of the throne room.
Herogirl then equipped a scatter arrow and shot at Keuthonymus’ groin. The arrow hit it and burst into many pieces, all of which hit Keuthonymus on the legs. Keuthonymus found the groin shot to be slightly painful as well as cheeky.
The heroboy quickly set up a flag to help boost their morale, but here Keuthonymus was swinging with his spear again. Heroboy moved out of the way, but his battle flag was smashed apart. Again, the blow from that stab was so strong that it cracked some of the ground on the impact.
- “He is right. We can’t possibly kill him.” Herogirl lost hope.
- “Don’t give up!” heroboy cheered her up and then produced a lethal strike at Keuthonymus’ little toe.
Keuthonymus screamed from pain and withdrew his foot. From all this anger he created a big fireball in the palm of his other hand that wasn’t holding the spear and then launched that fireball at them. The fireball smashed against the throne room floor, creating a puddle fire. Gladly the heroes both stuck right up against the walls, so the fire didn’t get them.
- “Hey! Heroes!” the voice came from above.
Heroboy and herogirl looked up and on one of the ledges saw Callicrates. He threw something down into the throne room. When the objects fell down they turned out to be a Stymphalian Talon sword and Artemis’ silver bow. Heroboy took the talon and Herogirl took the bow.
- “Thanks!” they saluted him from below.
- “Another traitor!!!” Keuthonymus shouted and then thrust his spear at the ledge Callicrates stood on.
The ledge broke, so Callicrates quickly jumped at Keuthonymus. In the air he got his Phorkos trident out and stabbed Keuthonymus in the right eye just before falling down into the abyss.
- “Why you little!!!” Keuthonymus got enraged from the sharp pain in his eye.
Heroboy and herogirl liked the new toys that Callicrates gave them, so after a smart look at each other charged at Keuthonymus and began attacking him.
The Stymphalian Talon pierced into Keuthonymus’ feet really well and every wound from it caused lots of bleeding.
The silver bow of Artemis just made herogirl’s shots very powerful and when she tried a scatter arrow it really hurt Keuthonymus.
He got infuriated and stabbed his spear downwards at them again. Once again he missed, but cracked the floor. The cracks followed in heroboy’s direction and a bit of floor beneath him fell through. Heroboy quickly grabbed onto the edge and pulled himself up.
Keuthonymus kept on stabbing the spear, but the heroes were so small compared to him that he couldn’t get them at all. Herogirl then shot at Keuthonymus’ nose with a scatter arrow, which then released the shards which smacked him all over the face. Heroboy then stabbed the Stymphalian Talon into Keuthonymus’ little toe again. That was so painful that Keuthonymus fell down. Heroboy and herogirl took this chance to get to his face. Heroboy began stabbing the talon into Keuthonymus’ head, while herogirl was shooting her arrows at it.
Keuthonymus swung with the spear horizontally, knocking both heroes off their feet and then quickly got up. He then aimed his spear precisely at them as both of them got up (they were next to each other) and with a huge grunt proceeded to stab his spear at both of them at once.
The heroes saw that and quickly jumped out of the spear’s path. The spear smacked deep into the floor, producing cracks all over it.
- “Uh oh! I think this place is going to be several hundred miles below in a few seconds.” Herogirl said.
- “You think?!” heroboy answered and both of them proceeded to run for the exit out of the throne room.
The floor wobbled for a bit and then began breaking. Keuthonymus didn’t realise that and began wondering where he can escape. However by the time he realised to shrink back, both of his feet sunk down and he began falling.
- “This cannot be happening! I’m the ruler of the underworld!” Keuthonymus shouted.
Heroboy and herogirl here reached the doorway of the room and turned around to stare at Keuthonymus.
Keuthonymus sunk even more down and more of the floor fell through. He grabbed onto one of the edges but that broke off and Keuthonymus began falling all the way down into Tartarus with the floor debris, screaming:
- “I am the mightiest ruler of the underworld! I’m one of the GODS! I hate you human heroes and I hate you Pylades! May this world buuuuuuuuuuuurn…”
Keuthonymus fell both: off his rule of power and down into his death.
- “Someone is angry.” Heroboy commented.
- “I wonder who will be the ruler of the underworld now.” Herogirl said.
Here Persephone came from behind them and began saying which sort of made them jump:
- “The underworld doesn’t need a ruler yet. The shades are free. And that freedom will last until the next ruler can keep it going.”
- “We’re glad we took this greedy daemon down.” Heroboy said.
- “Can we go back home now? I miss my daddy.” Herogirl said.
- “Of course. Here.” Persephone said and created a portal, “this will take you home.”
- “Just one last thing.” Heroboy said, “Could you get me one of those ethereal toothbrushes? I really want one.”
- “I’ll ask the other Gods to mail it to you.” Persephone promised.
- “Thanks very much.” Heroboy said and then him and the herogirl entered through the portal.
Here Hermes came from behind Persephone and began:
- “So, you’re gonna look for a new husband to rule this place?”
- “Yeah. I cannot wait to find the one who is worthy.” Persephone replied.
- “You need to go out more.” Hermes said to her.

THE END of Keuthonymus' rule.