Chapter 9 - EIGHT: Host

ERICA

One second I was riding a freaking loch Ness monster and the next I was being carried away by another strange looking monster that looks like a bird with weird features that could go up in flames. I screamed.

I have no idea where I'm at and how the hell I was seeing such strange existence of animals that shouldn't even exist. Somehow I was getting an awful lot attention, and I never liked getting attention especially to the likes of monsters.

I was furious to the point something in me pops exploding into every core of my body making my heart pound and making all my senses sharper. I wave my hands and the air particles turns solid creating ice shards that went flying up to the weird fiery bird. The bird screams dropping me off to the ocean, but I didn't let the water horse have the chance to have me. Feeling the powers surging through my veins I poured it out of me making ice landscape for me to walk through. Each time that I walked my powers will create a path as I go.

Then darkness clouds the sky and weird vortex came out of the sky slowly turning it to a face of the man looking devilish handsome, wearing a choker around his neck that making it looked like a dog, a back sweater clothing along with a black jeans. He has a black hair with a player face especially when he smirk his eyes turns into mischievous grin making him look dangerous.

"You're Erica I presume," says the boy sounds surprising light.

"First of all who are you?" I questioned. I didn't like to be questioned I prefer doing the questions.

"My name is Seth. Lord Hades has summon me to you and for you to go to his domain."

"Do tell me what are you?"

"So no wonder Lord Hades wants you. You could even sense that I wasn't a human. Oh well you deserve to know that I am one of the guardian that protects the gate to hell. We are what you humans called hellhound or in Greek Cerberus."

"Cerberus?" I was surprised, but by now I shouldn't be even surprised. A water horse just decided to greet in the water while I was drowning and second a phoenix decided to just dive in with its claws grabbing me by the shoulder and soar me into the air. Now a man just showed up out of nowhere telling me that he was some weird three headed dogs that guards the dead from escaping hell. My day is just going great!

"Yes, Cerberus as in the three headed dogs."

"Hmm.. so where is the other two head?" I questioned.

"You humans always have gotten us confused. We're triplets! I'm Seth the eldest. Berk the second. Rust the youngest. The human decided to just put our names together and altogether it sounded Cerberus!"

"But you still have three head right?"

"Yes, but only when we decide to merge together. Now come with me Lord Hades awaits you."

I shook my head I barely understand the situation that I am in. "I am not going anywhere until someone tell me what's going on here?"

His eyes glowed and so did his annoyance with me he wanted to use his powers to get me, but not while I'm still alive feeling a little bloodthirsty I snapped my finger and hundreds of ice shards appeared in the sky. With another snap of my fingers it will fire at him.

When he saw my powers his brows furrowed together. "A specific god has already claimed you. Even Zeus and Poseidon can't lay their fingers on you. I'll just relay this message back to Hades. Zeus phoenix can just scram. The water horse will guide you to the god who claimed you."

The phoenix flew away and Seth disappeared before he'd answer any of my questions. I could only sit at the back of the water horse and just wait for him or her to give me a lift to the god that claimed me. Though, I don't understand what that means.

By the way I am an atheist. I don't believe in the gods or even god.

I sighed but the things I've experienced today was abnormal I can't say I don't believe in them anymore. Especially with the desire to use more of my power which science can't explained why I suddenly possessed them.

I hopped onto the water horse back. It shook it's body a little before continuing it's journey. I listened to the sound of the ocean crashing and moving as the water horse breathes. I touched its back feeling its thought coming into my mind, and I spoke back surprising the waterhorse.

I nod my head and the water horse dove into the water. I felt the water crashed my skin and I submerge into the sea. I breathe the water into my lungs. For a second everything hurt and started taste like sea salt, but for a few moments later. I got used to it and somehow I was breathing in the water like I was breathing for air.

We dove in and the water horse swam deeper and deeper until we see an old wooden stone gate where there were encrypted words carved into the stone. It was in a foreign language but somehow I could interpret it.

Poseidon Lair the god of the sea. 

Once we entered through the gate we were in a whole different other place. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. To me they looked like a human but with a fish tail swimming away.

Then all kind of weird creatures started to show up surrounding the water horse. The water horse swam graciously for a moment its body shimmered underneath the bright sun for a minute before swimming upward to the shore. 

I gasp for air. There was a palace that rises up above the ocean. I couldn't believe my sight. I swear that I hope that I am just dreaming because this world was just getting ridiculous. The water horse swam to the nearest dock and I walked on it following the path that leads me inside the palace.

As I entered into the white palace I was greeted by a very beautiful woman. "Oh! Paul she's here,"  she yelled.

"For the last millionth and trillion times. My name is not Paul it's Poseidon."  A man yelled back. She held out her hand to meet mine, and I held hers and she was surprisingly cold. But somehow I liked it. They felt comforting.

"My name is Chione. I am daughter of Boreas the goddess of ice and snow. Pleasure to meet you my young host." 

"Host?" I quickly took back my hand.

"Oh haven't you heard. You are from a long bloodline of strong mafias, and you seem to have an affinity to ice that is you are made perfectly to be my host Erica Von Lumia." 

Lumia! No... they can't be true or else that means-

"Yes, Erica that means murder runs in your family."