Hermes looked utterly petrified. "Y-Your dagger does that, right?"
"I-It doesn't have sound..." Piper answered him softly. There shouldn't have been any sound, but the sound that did come out scared us all. The voice was so eerie and it was clear that this god, no matter how much I wanted to stab him, was possibly out of our league. We stared at the dagger in fear, as if he would leap out and kill us in an instant.
"What am I doing? I am an Olympian." Hermes got into a boxing stance, prepared to fight. He put on a fake mask of bravery, which lightened the mood a bit when we laughed slightly, "Come at me, brah!"
"Boo." Well, the lightheartedness was nice while it lasted. Hermes paled and whimpered like a dog at the terrifying voice. It echoed with insanity and madness. I stared on in fear. This was not the god we met back at Mount Othrys. However, there stood the god looking down directly behind Hermes. "Hello... children." He looked up, and his bangs fell over his eyes so that we could barely see one. They were orbs that held nothing but mental sanity that seemed to have snapped. He looked crazy and it looked like he enjoyed it. His grin twisted into a sadistic smile that made us all step back. Hermes managed to snap out of it and grab a few drachmas from his pockets.
"Take my money!" he threw the gold at the god, but the drachmas seemed to shatter like glass before they made within a foot of the crazed god.
"I have waited oh so long for this moment." He stepped closer. Hermes didn't seem like a divine god anymore. He seemed like a baby. "Stupid of you to glint your reflection in Katropis... How do you think that dagger gained its powers of perception?" He giggled madly, eventually cackling towards the sky and staggering around. "Now, Hermes," he stepped closer. We seemed rooted to the spot, staring into his eye with fear and terror written across our faces. "Time to die. Judgment day has come," he sang eerily.
"N-Now, I am an Olympian, and you will leave at once!" Hermes shouted, his voice wavering.
"Oh, I am so scared of the Olympian..." the god teetered around in a circle before stumbling over to Katropis and picking it up. "Hello, dear."
"Hermes," I managed to whisper, "Get us out of here..."
"I peed myself," Hermes squealed.
The god sniggered as he started to sing again, "Stain, stain, go away, come again another day, Hermes's soul will not want to stay," he cackled like a psycho, "Time to die, immortal!" He charged, but we all scrambled out of his path. He looked up and his eyes glinted with amusement. "Ooh, a moving target, how variable. I do love a good mental workout... not that my mind is very stable." He grinned even wider. "Say hello to Rhoda in the underworld for me!" he lunged again before being dodged. Hermes finally managed to get his legs working.
"Goawaygoawaygoawaygoawaygoawaygoawaygoawaygoaway!" Hermes screamed running, but he found the god suddenly in front of him. Katropis primed, and in a flourish, it plunged into his stomach.
Hermes stared at his stomach in shock as gold ichor started to flow out. His mouth contracted into an 'o' shape as he let out a yelp, then a scream, as the god twisted the dagger. "Painful, no?" he grinned as he jerked the knife around. Hermes screamed again as he rested on the god's shoulder. "Yes... scream. I love hearing you in pain. Louder, a little louder, oh yes..." A small chuckle rumbled from the mad god's throat. He rubbed Hermes's back. "I hear they say some muscles are as hard a steel. That doesn't seem to be your case."
"Gods..." the dagger was finally pulled out and the god was covered in Hermes's blood.
"Oh, sweet retribution," he smirked. "How fitting... hurt by a mirror. Whilst it may not be the same... a mirror nonetheless."
The god kneeled down. "P-Please, leave me be," Hermes begged.
"Oh yes, beg... Logic-," he cut himself off and stood up before shaking his head. His arms grew a bit bulkier and suddenly he grabbed Hermes's neck and lifted the god up. "BEG FOR MERCY!"
"M-Mercy!" Hermes cried.
"WHAT IS MY NAME?" the god bellowed. He was taller now and his eyes burning with rage. "WHAT. IS. MY. NAME?" He threw Hermes into a wall, and the messenger god cried out in pain.
Suddenly, another few a gods flashed in. "Hermes, I heard you screa-. IN THE NAME OF THE STYX! HOLY FUCK!" Apollo ran over to Hermes's mutilated body.
"STAY OUT OF THIS, APOLLON!" An unseen force threw Apollo back into a wall. Another god came in. It was Artemis, and she was backed up by her hunters. "BE GONE, NIECE!" A flourish with his wrist and Artemis flew backwards like a rag doll.
"Gods," I whispered. This guy... his match was unparalleled. He seemed to be full of radiated anger that even Zeus didn't seem capable of. I didn't even want to be in the same country, scratch that, planet as him!
"Mi'lady!" the hunter turned to the god and fired. However, this god was quick. With insane agility, he dodged the arrows.
"ENOUGH!" he slammed his foot into the ground and threw back all the hunters. He growled at Hermes, "NOW MERCURY, BEG FOR MERCY!"
"M-Mercy," Hermes whined.
"SAY HELLO TO-," he froze. He shrank a few inches before stumbling around. "Rhoda for me on your next trip to the underworld. You'll find her and Zeth in Elysium." The god raised Katropis, but an arrow shot the dagger away from him and he spun around to see Artemis and Apollo with bows in hand. The god stared oddly at the pair. His eyes shined brightly for a moment, "You look just like father. I'm so proud of you two." Artemis and Apollo looked at him strangely and then fired arrows after shaking their heads. However, the instant they hit this god, he shattered into glass.
Not sure what to call this, but this is a brief break in my hiatus. I felt really bad, the guilt killed me, about ending off the last chapter like that with the cliffe. So here's the clincher! Also, in terms of school, turned in an essay today, felt really bad about it...
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