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Aphrodite and Yuki manage to carry Dynamis to a taxi stuffing the lavender-haired teen in the back seat cramming themselves next to Dynamis as Yuki picks up a pocket sized Greek to English to Japanese dictionary buying it in the airport while Aphrodite did her best to pull Dynamis along the floor grabbing him by the back of hs shirt while pinching Yuki's ear and forcing him to come with her.
The air outside is hot and humid despite the time of year. Cars scatter through roads passing by on a rather slow day for traffic. The sun beams down on the ground with intense light and heat, and Yuki can feel himself sweat. Aphrodite took a deep breath, "Ah, Greece, I do miss it here. Now we go!"
Yuki chuckled as Aphrodite argued with the taxi driver in Greek. Yuki couldn't understand what the two verbally attacked each other about, and he didn't have any plans to find out. Besides, looking up the words in his dictionary would take to long. A strange sweet smell wafted around the car although Yuki couldn't quite pinpoint the smell. Anubis must have rested because Yuki knew he had that word on his tongue, he just couldn't pronounce it, most likey because Anubis tried to force a Greek word on Yuki.
As if the word had been in the back of his mind despite the foreign term in his head. Anubis probably attempted to make Yuki say the word out loud, but Yuki wouldn't want a god taking over his body again like when Anubis had that chat with Aphrodite. Yuki shuttered at the memory of seeing himself talk with the weird glowing eyes.
Dynamis loosely lay there sprawled in a groaning exhausted heap making Yuki worry. Why did Dynamis have to get in such bad condition? Yuki watched as Dynamis shivered, just like the why he shook for the past few hours. With limited time, Yuki didn't know if Dynamis could keep his mind before then got to the Hall of Judgment. The Yuki remembered the conversation with Anubis.
Anubis has told Yuki about how the Hall of Judgment needed to the Feather of Truth, they needed the feather as well. Yuki highly doubted that Dynamis would make it without his wings. He had been missing then for nine years. But all the dead souls that come into the Hall of Judgment, they get lost if the Feather and Truth didn't power the hall.
This thought really did its part in tearing Yuki with the decisions, and Yuki stroked Dynamis' shoulder feeling the coldness on Dynamis' skin even though the air felt like a volcano ready to explode. Dynamis should've been sweating rivers, having two gods inside at one time can really make you temperature sensitive.
In time, the taxi halted in speed stopping at a temple tour guide agency where tourists flocked in from all over. Aphrodite swung open the door with a swish and jumped out the taxi, and she pushed her way through the crowd, "Watch it! Goddess coming through!"
She left Dynamis and Yuki in the taxi with the gaping open door swaying back and forth on the hinges squeaking. Aphrodite stepped on several people's feet and tripped some others causing them to yell at her pumping their fists in the air grumbling while Aphrodite ignored the complaining people. "Hold on, hold on, I have someone's sanity to save here!"
"Wait up Aphrodite!" Yuki supported Dynamis on his shoulder guiding him through the masses of people who swarmed around trying in his maximum efforts to block out the angry people who screamed at him to wait in line like everyone else. Dynamis tripped over someone,
Suddenly, Dynamis snapped open his eyes finding himself on the floor eye level to people's shoes with blue orbs blinking moaning rubbing his head. For some reason, that nap in the car he had made him feel more energized yawning. Maybe Hades and Zeus had stopped their babbled and decided to rest, maybe. Dynamis could hear snoring echo in his head.
"You're awake!" Yuki exclaimed. Dynamis nodded deciding to conserve his energy and walk, not talk. He didn't want to expend valuable energy. Dynamis climbed up on his feet with Yuki's help. Aphrodite already paid for tickets with left over money from when Yuki bought the dictionary strolling over to the two boys.
"Oh good, you're awake!" Aphrodite yanked up Dynamis and Yuki. "Dynamis, please do not go through a mental break again. It's to worrying!" Aphrodite fanned the tickets towards her face to increase the effect rolling her eye. "You had me worry for hours! Now come!" She took Dynamis and Yuki by the hand entering a tour group heading towards a temple.
The tour group hopped on a bus as Aphrodite slid a magazine written in Greek out the basket nearby her seat and started reading while listening to music on the radio that played in the bus faintly whistling in the background of noise along with beeping, rumbling, clanging, and other sounds that blended together. Dynamis stuck his head partially outside the window enjoying the warm air giving Yuki a weak smile every time Yuki gave his a weary look.
Although Yuki didn't buy the forced grin on Dynamis face. Dynamis' expressions look strained and meant to serve as a signal that Yuki didn't have to concern over him. Typical, Dynamis would always hide his true emotion behind either a poker or calm and cheerful face, although Dynamis didn't exactly make the act to fool anyone with Yuki totally aware of Dynamis' pain.
The bus approached a temple with cracking and crumbling stone barely supporting itself. Aphrodite out down the magazine, "Not a major temple but it will do. Do you see how historically inaccurate this tour guide-book thingy is?! And there is no mention of a temple for me! I'm not invisible you know! And I don't even need a host despite my power!"
Yuki anime sweat-dropped. Dynamis stared at the massive but in bad condition temple. Tourists lined up to take pictures asking one another to take family pictures or something. Flashes on the cameras blinded Dynamis, Yuki, and Aphrodite for a second before the regained their sight nauseous already from the bright flickers with multi-colored dots in their vision for a minute or two afterwards.
"Now what do we do?" Yuki sat down on a rock.
Aphrodite plopped down on another boulder next to Yuki, "We wait for..." Aphrodite directed her eyes to look at the sundial on the outskirts of the temple. "We will have to wait for six hours, until tonight."
"Uh..." Yuki mumbled tilting his head back in obvious annoyance with his glasses nearly clinking off his face. Dynamis leaned against a large column of stone looking as if he wanted to vomit like he did when Aphrodite drove. Dynamis' placed his head between his straight out arm that pressed against the column. Yuki laughed nervously, "D-Dynamis... you don't look so good... Maybe you should sit down..."
"It hurts when I sit..." Dynamis paned out with a low and delicate voice. "Do not worry..."
"We should be worried at this point," Aphrodite pointed out. "You have two gods living inside your head. I can sense it. It's hard enough to argue around with in God of minor power. You my friend, have two major and very powerful gods in your head at the moment. So I suggest you lay down and sleep. You will most likely need it for our trip through Duat."
"W-what do you mean by that?" Yuki fiddled with his fingers and the hem of his dirty and torn jacket.
Aphrodite gasped in shock, "You have never learned about Duat?! What are people putting into kid's mind these days?! How foolish carbon dating is?! Carbon dating is not to be trusted! The magical aurora of stull interferes with telling the age! Scientists don't even know that dinosaurs are wingless dragons! Is that right Dynamis?!"
"Y-yes..." Dynamis trembled falling to his knees and to the ground struggling to even breathe. "Now can I rest for a while."
"Yes, sleep my dear. You'll need it," Aphrodite managed to say after she overcame her shock and shaking Yuki for a little while. "Now then, we will need a way through Duat. Does anyone have some ink and papyrus?"
"Um... no..." Yuki blinked.
"This is terrible I tell you! Terrible!" Aphrodite plunged on her knees. "Kids these days are so underprepared!"
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