A/N: OK, I'm dropping some BIG CLUES this chapter. Anyone can tell me the true identity of the golden god after this chapter gets 75 points and a Gold Star. (The answer can be found in mythology.)
-- The Phoenix He Helped Create --
- Chapter 14: Painting the Paintings of the Alive-
White lightning.
Black lightning.
Zeus fighting Thor.
Lightning.
The horse.
LIGHTNING.
No, stay asleep.
LIGHTNING.
The golden god's voice in her dream.
LIGHTNING.
"It is already too late for that."
LIGHTNING.
Zeus fighting Thor.
"What did you dream?"
Bellatrix sighed. "Zeus fighting Thor," she answered irritably. "There was a lot of lightning, and that horse showed up again, too. You?"
"He showed me his arm," Voldemort answered. They never called Ladon by his name even though they knew it now. As if somehow they could deny the connection between her niece's child and the Red Angel that marked their visions. "On his right wrist, there is the mark of a wolf."
And on Alcyone's left wrist - and the wrist of the woman in black - there was a mark of a serpent circling the world. At first glance it could almost be mistaken for her father's Mark, the Dark Mark. But it was not. It was the brand of the Midgard serpent's avatar.
And Ladon was marked with the brand of the Fenris wolf's avatar.
And they'd been warned not to allow Sleipnir and Hel's avatars to awaken.
"It's kind of like the four horsemen of the apocolypse, only different."
The horse, coming closer.
Lightning.
"All of my children are monsters."