It was the day before I planned to leave for Tartarus alone, I was twenty three years old now and I was ready to live my normal life that I had always wanted. I was determined to get it, I'd do anything to protect my family no matter what. I was leaving tomorrow because Emma said she had some important things to tell me tonight, I had just about finished up my training when the sky began to darken.
"Guess now is as good a time as any to go home" I thought to myself, I cleaned up and walked to my cabin, when I arrived I found Emma sitting inside with something in her hands. I walked in and cleaned myself up, Emma looked shocked.
"Whats up?" I asked.
"I don't know how to tell you this but-" My mind blanked, I could hear a second heartbeat.
I fell to my knees,
"You're pregnant aren't you?" I said,
She looked shocked and nodded. Then she began to cry,
"I know this isn't the best time to tell you but-" I cut her off with a kiss.
"It's a great time." I said.
"Now i want you to protect that baby til i get back, once i do well think of a name." I said with a smile.
I tilted my head back and closed my eyes, I heard her cry as I vanished into tartarus via shadow traveling. Once I opened my eyes I saw the whole levels of tartarus, I saw a dark, gloomy pit, surrounded by a wall of bronze and beyond that a three-fold layer of night. I began to plummet into the deepest layers, I knew that was where thanatos was. I could feel my rage bubble at the thought of his name. I could barely see around me but what I did catch was empty, I knew all the monsters of the underworld were in the overworld now and it was all my fault. No one was down here besides me and Thanatos, and that was a good thing. I kept passing infinite levels of unadulterated hell, unknowing where I'd see thanatos. I plumited for what felt like forever but I finally saw him, right below me. I could feel the rage inside me finally explode,
"Ahhhhhh!" I screamed as I flew at him. He looked up at me, and that's when I realized he was massive, he had pure black wings and a massive sword at his side, the rest of him was shrouded in shadow. His eerie laugh echoed through the depths of hell,
"Ha…..Hahahahahahah!" He bellowed.
"Hello little brother." He said, his voice cruel and deceptive.
I didnt even process what he said, I just drew my blades and attacked. I kept attacking him but he didn't even try and attack back, he was purely playing defensive.
"He's got some kind of plan" I thought.
"You know brother, I, the embodiment of nonviolent deaths can be quite cruel. I can manipulate the minds of weak men and even demigods." He said cruelty.
That caused me to snap, I began to scream,
"You bastard! I'll kill you!" I screamed,
I morphed into my four armed giant made of darkness, the symbol for my seal was displayed all over the massive body.
"Yes brother, waste your power." He said, That caught my attention,
"Waste?" I noted. He finally started attacking me, slashing his massive two handed sword in my direction.
"Come brother let's have a battle for the ages!" He screamed.
I was starting to see red, my mind overflowing with rage. I could barely control myself, I knew I could die here but I pushed that out of my mind, I will get back home. I pressed him, causing a moment of opening, but before I could capitalize my mind gave out and I gave into rage.
When I finally regained control my body was in tears, I could feel each of my injuries. I had two broken ribs, a fractured wrist, a sprained ankle and three broken fingers, plus I had massive cuts and gashes all over my body. But Thanatos was far worse off, he collapsed in a nearby heap covered in open cuts and blood. He tried to speak but just coughed up heaps of blood,
"Well then brother, it seems you have won this battle, but i am the immortal god of death, Hades's right hand man, I will win this war! I will haunt you and your FAMILY" He spat,
"I'll kill your children and their kids and that cycle will go one FOREVER!" He screamed.
I jumped at him, plunging my bare fists into his chest, and I crapped his heart in my already bloody hands. I could hear him gasping for air and it made me happy, I slowly squeezed his heart, watching his blood pour from him, watching him squirm in pure agony but unable to speak and unable to stop it. I placed my head on his, and whispered softly into his ear,
"Now you know the feeling of losing someone you love you sick son of a bitch!" I clenched my fist, causing his heart to explode inside it.
I watched the life drain from his coild black eyes brought me joy.
I walked away and collapsed nearby, admiring his dead corpse like an artist admiring a painting. I was broken and battered but I was finally free, I began to laugh. I was laughing in tartarus, and it echoed in the silence of the deaths of this hell. I was about to collapse, my body dripping blood and sweat. I slipped into unconsciousness with a smile on my face.
It felt like I woke up instantly, but when I opened my eyes I was standing in front of the gods. I could see all the olympians and all the minor gods, every god known to the greek mythological world. I stood there in awe, my mouth gaping. I even saw my father, his face plainly visible. I saw his eyes and I was in pure shock, they were the same as my future son's.
"You have a monumental crossroads ahead of you my dear son." My father said, I was too shocked to speak.
"We, the Gods, have thought this over and we'd like you to become a god. Or you can go home to your family, and live like a normal person, well as normal as a demigod can get." My father finished.
I took a deep breath, gathered my thoughts and spoke, "As much as I appreciate the offer, I have a family waiting for me."
Those words were met by dead silence,
"She's-" My father asked but I cut him off.
"Yes, Emma is Pregnant. And the two of us are going to have a family together. WHo knows maybe we'll have another kid someday." I said,
The gods met those words with more silence, I looked my father dead in his eyes, silently telling him I was my own man and I was ready to live my own life. I saw his face go from concern to a massive smile,
"Good luck my boy!" He barked and snapped his fingers,
I blinked and I was back home at Camp DemiGod. I looked around, seeing no one as I walked into my cabin. Emma was still sitting there in the same spot I left her in. I knocked on the door and that's when I realized my injuries were completely healed. I smiled as she looked at me, from the fact that I was healed and the fact that she had pure joy in her eyes when she locked eyes with me.
"Oh thank the gods!" She screamed.
She hugged me with tears streaming down her face, I just looked at her. I just stared at her as she cried, then I collapsed and began to bawl, I was releasing all the pain and suffering that had been building up inside me for years all at once. Through my tears I said,
"I have the perfect name for our son, Killian." I smirked at that name.
Then we just held each other, crying tears of joy. We had made it, all those years of pure hell were finally over and we were still alive. Now as I began to shed tears of sadness, my mistakes were now thrust on my son to fix. But I planned to make sure he can, no matter what. Now was the time of peace that this world needed, not just the world but the peace that I needed. So
I leave this tape record of my monster hunting life to my son, Killian, in the hopes that you'll forgive me for leaving you this mess to clean up.