Olympus
It was noisier than ever in the supreme hall where all the higher powers gather today. Lightning flew here and there in addition to the firestorm. "What he has done!?" A tall gray-haired man sitting on a golden throne loudly addressed a girl in a white dress. "He tried to take me by force" Without stopping shedding tears, she pointed a trembling finger at the beaten man in chains. The black-haired man, not tall, had a very unusual appearance, not typical for this world.
Even his clothes were very different in brighter tones. Everything betrayed in him a guest from another world. Blood flowed down his broken eyebrows, Olympians clearly did not hold back while showing best reception. "Lord Zeus, I beg you to listen my words, honestly I'm not guilty of anything, it's all her fault! The lying witch charmed me and tricked to go with her into chambers!" The furiously resisting man began to twitch trying to escape from the chains.
"Watch your tongue!" Hera commanded, sitting next to husband, then with a wave of hand, she summoned a huge bird which immediately fell on prisoner with its whole carcass. "As you command, but I repeat that I am innocent, since being in my right mind I would never have touched the girl with whom half of Olympus slept!" Outlander grinned as bird squeezed his body harder. "Ha-ha I like him, can we keep him alive at least until the next feast?" Dionysus laughed wildly and waved his hands in a joyful smile, spilling expensive wine. "Brother, how can you say such a thing!? After what he did" Aphrodite, with pain in her voice turned to her colleague, pouting her lips at the same time.
"Well, you know some people say truth is not evil," Artemis commented, playing with an arrow in her hands, she was clearly amused by how her sister was furious. "His death will not restore your innocence darling" Athena replied affectionately looking at her sister with a smile. "Maybe we'll finish deciding his fate and move on to more important matters?" Apollo asked while yawning and at the same time tossing a golden ball into the air. Zeus only thoughtfully watched how his children joked and squabbled among themselves.
"We are still waiting for the intermission of this performance," Demeter added without much enthusiasm while peering at apple. "There is nothing to discuss here, a sentence is officially declared and it's death!" Ares yelled as he cut off captive's head with a red sword. "Hmm, blood is just red? To be honest, I'm disappointed cause I expected something more exotic!" With a shrug, Ares tossed the guest's corpse to his hounds, so that they could taste the meat of a higher dimension. "Was it worth it?" Poseidon asked, striking his trident on the floor, his cold eyes full of disdain staring at his nephew.
"Oh, I hope you didn't make all of that, just a purpose to make angry your dad? Sometimes it seems to me that my father's upbringing methods were correct" Blue sparks appeared in eyes of king, flash, and then in an instant, he appeared near to his son. "Ha-ha, maybe it's true, but the last time you resorted to them, Athena was born" Leaning on the sword, the Spartan pointed his thumb at his sister. "Your truth, I'll deal with your punishment personally, but later. Now we need to decide whether we will launch a full-fledged invasion of the Dao world or simply plunder the emperor's lands. In case of failure, I propose to give them Ares as a slave!" Crossing both arms behind his back, the all-father grinned at his son.
"I agree on the option of a complete capture, also I don't mind about my brother, I'm even ready to put him in chains myself," Apollo said, placing his hand on butcher's shoulder. "I in another turn, propose to select and take only a small part of their world. Cause in that case we will make it clear that better not make us angry. We also will probably even reduce likelihood of other families coming together" Athena analyzed while giving her father a scroll with a ready plan of action in such a scenario. As taking the scroll, king nodded satisfactorily and then with a wave of his hand disappeared.
"Hephaestus could you make something special for me?" Artemis said politely as she touched her brother's hand. "Of course, anything for your beloved sister" Smiling, giant stroked his sister on head, his kind voice did not fit into the image of a stern blacksmith.
"I need arrows that can create impenetrable smoke, as well as something with the element of earth similar to the abilities of Persephone" The hunter explained, showing with her hands how long the arrows should be. "Hmm, impenetrable smoke is not a problem, but the earth element we will have to ask Demeter to enchant the arrows. Are you targeting someone in particular?" Thinking over all that was said, the lord of fire asked. "Let's just say we need to follow one very annoying peach lover" Kissing her brother on the cheek, Artemis ran to others in purpose discuss the plan of actions.
While the kings were engaged in political affairs, one distraught barbarian had been busy cleaning up the underworld all these years. Haemon was not able to control himself very soon, his fury, like a meteor shower, crushed everything in its path without knowing peace. Only occasionally did he stop his genocide in the name of the flesh that the monsters so graciously bestowed upon him. By devouring various creatures over many centuries, he acquired quite a few features in the form of stronger skin, poison, night vision, an incredibly powerful scream, and an improved sense of smell with hearing. The abyss really tried to forge its perfect child.
"Hmm, don't you think her nose is a little crooked?" Shadow asked his master, showing a carved figure of a woman made from elephant bone. Lying on the branches of a tall tree, the shadow enthusiastically engaged in carving figures. Haemon did not answer, he only growled as he continued to devour the insides of the python. Unable to withstand such a boorish attitude towards himself, shadow threw a bone figurine at the Olympian face. "I'm showing you real art and you preferred it to the intestines of this, this brat dragon!" Haemon instantly caught the figurine on instinct, then looked at it as if trying to remember something.
"You know, of course, I understand being a beast is cool, you stop thinking about whether this monster had a family or not. There are no more thoughts that make you hate yourself and so on blah, blah" Pretending that he rolled his eyes, shadow also depicted with his hand a snake that opens and closes its mouth to the beat of his words. "In general, I don't want to seem like a bore, but our performance dragged on in the prologue, and I'm damn bored, which means it's time to have fun! Hey, are you even listening to me?" Shadow shouted angrily, appearing in front of the owner's face. "I remember her," Haemon whispered as he touched the figure with trembling fingers.
"Do you like it?" The shadow grinned, lying in the air as if on a bed. "Then, a long time ago, on that damned evening, she was there, just like the other one, only kinder, she promised to heal if we wait!" With sadness in his voice, warrior whispered as he broke figurine with little effort. " Ah, women they can become both a source of love and hate," Shadow said using the monster's intestines as a skipping rope. "The name of this one, if you forgot Aphrodite, she is our paternal sister, but the second Hestia and she is our aunt" Continuing to jump on the guts, shadow pointed with his finger at the fragmented figure. "As soon as the beast saw a beautiful girl, he immediately became civilized"
"How long was I in a state of madness?" Haemon asked without emotion, ignoring his brother's jokes. "Oh, so long that our young prince had enough time to grow up, then become an apprentice to one of the greatest warriors in Greece. In addition to this, they had an affair with the head of Gorgon, but nothing came of it, because girl turned out to be very greedy. He managed to visit the chambers of each of the fury sisters, although, in the end, his choice fell on the oldest of sisters. They played for some time in a family, but in the end, Zagreus realized that Meg was cheating on him and who would have thought with Cerberus, they even had such a dialogue: Zagreus, please don't leave, I love you, we will soon have a child. No, Meg, I know the truth about you, sleeping with our gardener" In both hands of the greedy shadow appeared dolls similar in appearance to the prince and the fury. Both dolls quickly opened and closed their mouths imitating the voices of lovers.
"You were talking about a dog," the Barbarian hissed, looking coolly at the theatrical performance. "What?" Surprised, shadow and his puppets turned their heads simultaneously toward the warrior. "Cerberus, you said that she slept with him, not with the gardener," Haemon said pointing his spear at Meg
"Of course, thanks for reminding me" Shadow nodded in agreement with a snap of his fingers. "How dare you cheat on me with my friend a dirty girl!" Prince's doll slapped his soul mate, and then with a wild cry, attacked her and began to choke. "Zagreus no please, I love you!" The jailer touched prince cheek before taking her last breath. The shadow of weeping began to wipe his tears with a rag: "Oh, their love was so beautiful, but female lust ruined everything as usual"
Haemon was about to leave when all of a sudden he sensed danger with all his instincts. "You need just mention women as here she is" Smiling, shadow with a wave of his hand erased dolls from reality. A strange woman with black hair and ashy skin appeared in front of Haemon's face. Her face shone with joy and she did not even try to hide it.
Haemon was about to attack, but the instinct of self-preservation suppressed this idea, forcing the Olympian not to make sudden movements. In turn, the girl only smiled even more joyfully, her skin was incredibly white like wax, and an aura of cold spread to the whole area just from her presence. Strange as it may sound, Haemon felt both safe and dangerous at the same time. Something warm emanated from her coldness. Olympian carefully examined the woman from head to toe, marveling at her unusual appearance with clothes. There was something on her legs that he had never seen before, it looked like someone had killed two huge snakes and pulled them on their legs.
"Oh, I'm sorry if I scared you, I just couldn't wait anymore to meet you" Woman without any hesitation, approached tightly to warrior. "Who…." No sooner had Haemon finished his question than the woman immediately answered. "Just don't freak out but I'm death, and I came to look at the one who will in future become the beginning of... ah sorry but I can't tell, otherwise my brother will kill me ha-ha, no matter how funny it sounds" She spoke incredibly quickly like a child what received the long-awaited puppy after many requests. "Are you death?" Haemon asked in surprise, trying to understand the girl's words, he tilted his head to the side. The scene looked quite funny considering that he was eight and a half feet tall and the girl was only six.
Shadow somehow restrained himself so as not to laugh and thereby ruin a very strange scene. "Yes that's right, I'm death, however of course not the same as your brother but still it is. Ha-ha, you know, I just realized how much you and I have in common!" She take out something small from her pocket and at looked that with shock. "Oh I'm late sorry but I have to go, hope to see you soon!" She smiled as goodbye and blowing a kiss to the Olympian while turned into a flock of crows. "Someone is a lucky bastard with a woman's" With sarcasm whistled shadow leaning on his brother. "I've never seen such creatures like her before" The bloody eyes of the barbarian were fixedly looking at the sky, or rather at the place where she disappeared.
"Oh, I see someone has a fetish for a goth girl" Shadow jabbed Haemon a couple of times with his elbow, but Haemon, as usual, just ignored the sadist's jokes. "Let's do something more fun!" Offered shadow clapping his hands. A stone staircase appeared in the middle of forest leading to clouds. After crunching his neck, Haemon silently went to the stairs with his faithful friend. "So the fury is pregnant by Cerberus?" With a slight interest in his voice, olympian asked as he climbed stairs. "Ah it's not, but the love between her and our prince is very strong, which is good for us he-he" She shadow replied biting off the apple.