The ground trembled like roiling waves as two sharp blades grazed Adam's cheek, but his smirk broadened. The same trick wouldn't work twice, and the cap was his!
With a stomp that cracked the ground beneath his feet and his hands firmly gripping the cap, he launched his body upward.
"What?!" Hades' eyes widened as his weapon pierced nothing. But, shock soon turned into horror, and Tartarus' red sky replaced its rocky floor.
Mid-air, Adam twisted. Using the cap as an anchor, he swung around with the momentum, flipping over Hades' head. The motion's centrifugal force turned the artifact into a pivot point—one that turned the tremors and Hades' forward momentum into weaknesses. With a grunt, he redirected the god's force by hurling him toward the approaching Titans as he landed.
And in his trembling fingers was the golden cap.
