Chapter 17 - Ruins

I love this bike. Unfortunately... Cloud's Fusion swords weren't in the bike so I didnt get them. Hades says he is still cooking the bike and that it isnt finished yet. He said that when he is done, this bike will make the original look like a unicycle.

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Hades says he has yet to come up with a perfect name. I asked why not keep the old name but he said "Thats disrespectful to my new bike"

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I am now driving my speed demon in the wasteland around Realm 7 towards the single Hades feels.

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In the distance there is a slow raising hill. As I got closer to the holl, Hades slams the breaks of my bike.

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Slate: Hey, what gives?

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Hades: We are here. the reaction is coming from within a mile of here. I cant be more accurate. Im actually lucky they are together or else we would have a harder time finding them.

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Slate: But there is nothing around... Are they moving?

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Hades: Not as far as I can tell...

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Slate: Then lets drive around. They cant be in the air and i doubt they are in the sand.

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After an hour of driving from each rock formation to make sure no one was behind them... Hades figured it out.

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Hades: They are underground. We just went over metal.

Slate: Underground? Well crap... We need to find the secret hatch? we dont even know how large this underground structure is... Can we summon one of my Dark Arms? Maybe we can cut a hole...

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Hades: Nope. They are locked up under the same seal as those forms in your arm. Cloud has a better chance of getting me to apologize for taking his bike then we have of summoning those on purpose.

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Slate: Well crap. All I have on me is my new carving knife.

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I pull out my knife and and show it to Hades. Hades stares at the knife for a full minute before telling me to stab it into the key socket of the bike.

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Slate: Wait... what? This Carving Knife is kind of girly and dumb looking but I dont want to break it before I replaced it.

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Hades: Ahahahaaa. Your funny.

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Hades: Your not kidding?! Child, you will NEVER get rid of that knife. Out of all your Dark King Arm's, that knife is King. I am the king of death and ruler of the underworld and I can say without a doubt that your knife is the finest knife in existence. I want to slap the crafter for giving it away as a wood carving knife and then kiss them for giving it to you. Does it have a name?

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Slate: Not as far as I know...

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Hades: Then name it. Give it a name no one will forget.

Slate: Well... When I was picking my Gifts... I wanted the bloodline. Guess Ill name my knife after it. I will call it Pluto.

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Hades: Well then, use Pluto to cut into the metal but go slowly.

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Slate: Yea yea. We need to find them

I slash fast and stupid. Pluto goes through the metal like it wasnt even there.

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Slate: Woh. Did I miss? I didn't feel a thing.

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Hades: Hah, thats what she said.

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Slate: ... damn. Nice one, Screw you

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Hades: Get going.

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I cut a square and jump in blind.

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Big Mistake.

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I fall through the air and flop into a pool of icy water.

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Slate: Ouch. I didnt think this through... lucky for me there is this water...? Man... this is some filthy water. It feels oily. I cant see a thingin this dark.

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Hades: I doubt this is water... it seems to be flowing up hill... Is it cold?

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Slate: Icy as all hell. Why?

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Hades: Then it might be coolant. Follow the current. For there to be a river this massive and this smell... Go. And HURRY. We dont have much time left.

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Slate: Smell? I dont smell anything.

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Hades: GO NOW!

Ive never heard Hades so frantic. I start swimming.

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After about 10 minutes of swimming, the river got smaller but wider. There is some sort of drain up front so I went to the edge and got out. My eyes have somewhat gotten use to the lack of light.

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Hades: I can see just fine. Follow right behind me. Stop when I say to. Do not ask questions why.

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... Im now scared. Hades has been like a perverted grandpa Since the moment I met him but now he sounds exactly like his title describes him... The God of Death.

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His skull floats infront of me and moves within the ruins as if he knows where he is going.

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Slate: Do you know where we are going? It seems like you know your way around...

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Hades: No but I can tell where I need to go. Remember I mentioned a smell? The smell was agony and death. More to the point... Agony and Death of children. This place... it shouldn't exist in today's society. No god would allow this. The second we leave here... this place will be Annihilated. With EXTREME force.

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Slate: Annihilated? By who? By what?

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Hades: Every single higher being within Zero. This is a slap to our faces.

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We end up in a hallway with many rooms but only one had dim light within. I start walking but was told to stop.

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Hades: I will go in first. DO NOT enter until I call for you. Do you understand me?

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I nod and he blinks out of sight. after 3 minutes i hear from him.

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Hades: Come but be warned... it is not pretty.

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I walk into the room and hurl on the floor.

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Slate: Who? What is this?

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Hades: No time, get the two on the left out. they are your other 2. The rest are already gone. The body is aline but they have no soul within. Grab that bag and put the papers within it. I grabbed the items you cant touch and put them in the Materium storage. When the bag is full, put it away too.

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I get the two down after putting the papers and notebooks away in my storage.

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Hades: Call on the god that you met before coming here. Say the words on top of those tanks to them. They will help us leave.

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Slate: Just say them outload like we are talking now?

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He nods.

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Slate: Ok then... Hey Bahamut and Leviathan, Does " Chaos Anthem" Mean anything to you?

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Fire and Water filled the world. Both Gods looked at me with with fear. Untold fear and rage.

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Bahamut: Slate!!! Where did...

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Hades: No time for that. Return us to 15. These girls will not survive much longer. Asura will be needed too

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Leviathan: Hades? What are you doing with Slate?

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Hades: We are in a Chaos Anthem stronghold that is about to be Eviscerated. We need to be gone.

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We were in Noctis's throne room before Hades could finish saying gone. Asura was there too.