Kid Icarus Uprising : King of the Gods
Chapter 1 : Ascension
It had been only just a year since the king of the underworld Hades, had been defeated by the Goddess of Light and her allies. Humanity has struggled to survive ever since the Armageddon of the Forces of Nature had put a devastating dent in the human population; but while there is only about a thousand humans left in this world they have been able to scrape by. Although the king of the underworld had been defeated, his troops remained. Now without a leader to guide them all they knew was their hunger for human blood, and although the people were surviving; they are on constant attack by the underworld forces. Because of this the small faction of humans who remained had created a small army to defend against the hungry underworld forces out for their blood.
"Recruits! Attention!" The commander screamed at the newly recruited soldiers. They scrambled to their feet and saluted the general "We have located a small school of underworld monsters outside of the city! It is you're job to advance toward the faction of monsters and eliminate them! This is you're chance to prove that you're worth a damn!" he screamed at the troops "However, this is just a scouting trip. You greenhorns are still to inexperienced to fight Underworld forces. This is why I and General Achilles will be accompanying you today." A man who the trainees assumed to be General Achilles walked next to the commander clad head to toe in silver armor holding some sort of rifle. The Commander continued to brief the details of the mission while General Achilles glared at a young man with bright white hair who looked no older than fifteen.
The general slowly walked over toward the young man "Excuse me, young man. What is your name?"
The teenager looked up at the older general and gulped "My n-name is C-Cinnos sir!" The general frowned at this
"Cinnos? Just Cinnos; no surname?" Cinnos got nervous at this and nodded. "Well Cinnos, why have you joined the military?"
Cinnos looked down at his bow and frowned "Sir, I joined the Military so I could serve my people stop the monsters from eating anyone else!" he answered confidently. the General then frowned deeply at his reply.
* SMACK *
The General backhanded Cinnos, knocking him to the floor causing everyone around them turn and stare at what just unfolded "You are ignorant my child. The monsters of the underworld will never stop devouring us. Even if we succeeded in wiping out all of the underworld monsters, more would appear as if from nowhere. this is the way that it has always happened and the way it will always happen my child." Cinnos could feel the blood rushing to his cheek as he clutched it. Cinnos looked up at Achilles as he walked away from the group. The commander continued his briefing of the mission once everyone's attention was on him again. Cinnos slowly got back on his feet and went back into position with his hand firmly on his cheek.
"We leave at Sunset troops! Be ready, for anything could go wrong at any moment. Prepare for the worst!" The commander yelled. All the troops began to prepare for the scouting mission except for Cinnos who walked over to the wall where he setup his little camp that he setup.
Cinnos then poked the spot where his General had hit him but immediately pulled away because of the pain "Dammit..."
"Hey kid, you shouldn't swear. You're like in third grade." Cinnos'es ears got hot with embarrassment at this as he looked up at a very muscular man with red tattoos running up and down his arm. "Uh-oh! Someone is getting embarrassed! Didn't you're mother ever tell you that you should stay in school kid?"
Cinnos glared at the man "Didn't you're mother ever tell you that steroids will make you're penis shrink?" The muscular man grabbed Cinnos by the collar of his tunic and held him in the air
"Apparently you don't know who I am brat! My name is Magnus, and I'm you're squad captain." He then threw Cinnos to the ground, causing his head to smack against the hard pavement. Blood streamed down the side of his face as he looked back up at his squad captain. "Look kid I don't know why they let in some fifteen year old in the military but I don't care. I'm you're captain and you will show me respect." Magnus then kicked Cinnos in the gut and proceeded to spit on the floor next to him and walked away.
Cinnos slowly sat up clutching his stomach as blood ran down his face from the earlier fall. 'Goddammit! Why wont anyone show me any respect!?' he thought as the Commander rang the bell signaling that it was time to move out.
"Come on Troops! Grab you're weapons and move out!" Cinnos grabbed his wooden bow and ran over to the city gates where everyone was gathering "Alright Greenhorns! The underworld monsters are residing near the lake so stay low in the greenery and do not get spotted!" all the troops shouted 'YES SIR' and the gates of the city opened as Cinnos ran over to the small group that he assumed was Magnus'es squad as the Military marched for the lake.
"Hey, try not to get the hell beaten out of you again kid!" another solider in the group whispered to Cinnos.
Once the army arrived at the lake, the cry of Reapers began to emanate as if from nowhere "What the hell are reapers doing here?" Magnus whispered to himself
Cinnos looked around the lake and saw nothing but Underworld forces with Reapers acting like watchdogs all around the water. "Oh Goddess..." Cinnos whispered to himself
"Wow, you really are a little kid arnt you? What are you gonna cry?" the same solider said loudly at Cinnos.
"Keep you're voice down Greenhorn!" Magnus whispered to the solider
"No, this kid is a disgrace to us. He shoulder even be here! Goddess damned fucking child!" the Solider shouted
*CREEEEAAAAKKKKK*
The solider slowly turned just in time to see a reaper pounce on him "OH GOD GET IT OFF ME!" the poor soul screamed as the Reaper began devouring him. All the while it kept screeching alerting all the monsters in the lake to their presence.
"KID, RUN!" Magnus yelled as he sliced the reaper in half with his colossal blade. Cinnos panicked at he ran out to an open clearing, away from all the greenery that they were hiding in.
Cinnos looked around him in horror as he saw every single monster in the immediate area devouring every single solider that they had brought with them "Oh Goddess..." Cinnos could feel vomit coming up from the back of his throat as he saw reapers tearing apart the Commander limb from limb.
"HELP ME!" Cinnos turned to see General Achilles getting attacked by a Monoeye. Cinnos without hesitation pulled an arrow out of his quiver and shot the Monoeye in its colossal eyeball. After the Monoeye fell to the floor dead, the general turned to Cinnos and smiled "Thanks child..." Cinnos just nodded as he looked down at the Generals Drill arm; he could have easily taken out that Monoeye with no effort whatsoever.
The ground began to rumble and the lake began to rise. "HELLO WORLD! I'M BACK!" Cinnos looked at the lake to see a colossal figure standing in the water. It was a woman in a purple garb holding some sort of scepter, but what really surprised Cinnos was that this 'woman' had serpents atop of her head instead of hair "Now Achilles, would you kindly deal with these... pests?" Cinnos was confused on how this woman knew Achilles. Cinnos was about to turn to Achilles and ask him, until he felt a blinding pain in his back along with ringing in his ears.
Cinnos looked down to see the generals Drill arm poking out from his center covered in blood... his own blood.
*RRRRRRRRRRRRRRR*
The Drill arm spun rapidly as the general pulled out from him. Cinnos fell to his knees and breathed raggedly as blood began to fill his throat. Cinnos turned to General Achilles and slowly looked up at the man who impaled him with the massive drill. "W-why..?"
Achilles just smirked and put the drill up to his forehead "Because you arnt good enough to be left alive." Achilles then turned on the drill and everything went black.
