White Eyes and Black Blood
Chapter 19
When I awoke, I was still atop the serpent. I stretched and yawned.
"Good morning!" the serpent called.
"Good morning" I called back. Mitsuru got up and walked up the serpent's long neck.
"Shun come down and see this." She said silently.
"Why? What's up?" I asked her.
"You'll see when you get down here." She assured. We both walked down the sea serpents neck and saw Dan sleeping next to the horses butt. The other two horses were awake trotting up and down expending their energy. Susano'o exited out of Dan and stretched.
"Yo." He said. The smaller Thunderstorm appeared in a cloud of grey smoke. He stretched himself and his wings before taking off and flying into the ocean for food. Susano'o kicked Dan lightly. He wasn't moving, but he was still snoring like a sleep deprived bear. Susano'o electrifies his hand and touched Dan's forehead. He awoke with a start. The other horse did the same. Thunderstorm flew back with some fish in his mouth and some caught in his claws. He layed them all out for Susano'o to judge. Susano'o approved of them all and gave Thunderstorm a friendly rub on the head.
"Call first pick!" Dan shouted. Thunderstorm growled and electrified his claws. Dan got the message and backed off. With a spit of bright yellow fire, the fish were fried. As we were all eating our ride stopped.
"Were here!" the serpent called. Susano'o looked over at Thunderstorm and Thunderstorm nodded, showing Susano'o he knew what he wanted him to do. Thunderstorm grew in size and flapped his gray wings. He was gone into the center of the town. Asura and Shiva both exited with dragons in tow. They all took off for the town. Dan, Mitsuru, the horses and I all got off the sea serpent. The sea serpent turned and sank back into the blue water. With only one destination, we re-mounted the horses, and were off. There was more or less no point in mounting the horses. All they did was turn down a couple of streets and take a left. Soon we met up with the gods. Asura and Susano'o were forking over 500 migos each to a grinning Shiva. Who happily pocketed the money and entered the library. Asura and Susano'o re-called their dragons inside of them and entered along with Shiva. The clerk was a young human woman with black hair and blue eyes.
"Welcome to the never-ending library!" she said happily. Mitsuru waved and Dan turned red in the face and spun the other way. She looked past me and looked at Dan with a grin.
"How may I help you today?' She asked.
"OK, uhm, I was wondering if you had any books on Erebu-"she covered my mouth before I could finish my sentence.
"Never say that name here!" she shouted. Some book readers turned to the lady and told her to be quieter.
"Sorry..." she whispered. Her eyes shifted around the room.
"Follow me." she said quietly. She lifted a flap on her side of the desk and walked in. Mitsuru walked over and saw that there was a trap door which led to a torch-lit stairway. The base of the stairs led into a light orb lit room with a single book resting on a pillar.
"So if anyone asks for Erebu-"my hand was covered by Asura.
"So if anyone asks for you-know-who, you take them here?" I asked.
"Nope. I just sensed you've encountered Erebus in the past."
"You're human, how can you sense that?" Susano'o asked her.
"Well, when you've been around gods for as long as I have, you sort of develop the skill." She said with a smile. "Anyway, the book is here if you need it. I have people to attend to. The exit is the way you came. She waved goodbye and winked at Dan, which in turn, caused him to pass out. Mitsuru began to read the book.
"Erebus, the world destroyer is the only living world destroyer left in existence. Not known to have weaknesses, can use a black version of every power known to man. A legend suggests that if you can remove all of his piercings before he summons the demon of the void, you can defeat him in regular combat." Mitsuru read.
"So I'm guessing the demon is 'Fluffy'." Shiva asked.
"I guess so. It also continues to say that another legend is that his power stems from his eyes of gold." Mitsuru flipped through the pages stopping onto a bookmarked page with a piece of paper with handwritten notes on it. She read silently to herself until she screamed out. We all turned to face her and she lifted the book.
"Get ready for this guys." Mitsuru said. She handed the book over to Asura who read aloud.
"I have battled and defeated Erebus. This book is entirely false about the legends. There is only one way to beat him and it is very complicated. The celestial guardians have died in the fight but I have prevailed. I just hope I live to see my son and pass my legend onto him. The way to defeat him is to have his demon of the void which he called 'Fluffy' be killed by a god. The demons weak spot is direct contact with its eye, but be warned, it protects that eye very well. Once dead, the god that killed him will have to enter the demon and extract its mammoth heart. Be warned that the demon can come back to life at any moment if its heart is not removed in haste. All others must keep Erebus distracted so his does not revive the demon himself. Once the heart is out, you must cut the heart open and harvest the black blood in a sack of cloth or whatever is available. Once that is done, have a human carry the blood. And escort that human to Erebus. The only way for Erebus to be killed is to have that human touch Erebus's bare chest with the blood. Once that is done, EVACUATE! Erebus will use whatever strength he has till he dies to kill you and harvest your soul and switch it for his own to live again. I have told you what you need to do, now go do it. I wish you luck and kick Erebus in the sack for me. And if you're reading this Asura, know your daddy loves you. Kill him for me. Signed Asis, god of flame." Asura looked at us all and his eyes were wet.
"My father knew about me..." Asura said happily. Soulblaze stomped on the floor.
"Someone's coming." Soulblaze warned. We all got together and assumed fighting poses. As if by magic, all the lights went out.
"Hahahahah...Daddy loves you...how foolish. Love won't save you at this point." A voice called out. We heard footsteps and a pair of golden, ripple patterned eyes glowed in the darkness. Soon Asura's body marks glowed. Along with Susano'o's snake marks.
"Turn on the lights..." Asura said.
"Are you sure, if I do, you'll all be sorry." Erebus warned. Asura's body marks glowed brighter. In a flash of black fire his other arms appeared.
"Turn it on!" Shiva shouted out. Her eyes and arm tattoos glowed out in the darkness.
"Alright..." Erebus said. He clapped twice and the lights turned on. Fluffy's fist was what we were standing on.
"Now fluffy!" Erebus commanded. Fluffy's fist shot up and we crashed through the library roof. Is didn't hurt too much since the roof was thin but we kept on rising. Until we were suspended in the air. Fluffy picked the rest of itself up and stood at full height. Fluffy brought his fist close to his eye. He charged his eye with energy before letting us fall. The dragons grew to normal size, picked us up, and flew away to regroup. Fluffy shot a beam of energy at the dragons that dodged and fired back. Fluffy used his other arms to swat at us and the dragons but they kept on dodging. Erebus created a black fireball and shot it at us. Fluffy raised his lower left hand and revealed a mouth in the palm of that hand. The fireball Erebus wasn't aimed for us; it was aimed for the mouth. The giant mouth swallowed the fireball and soon, it spewed a jet of black fire right for us. Shiva's spat a torrent of icy mist that clashed with the fire. The icy mist was winning. As long as Shiva held on we would be able to make it. Asura joined in my placing a hand on Shiva's back and sending out some of his power. Soon Shiva's icy mist became extremely potent. The mouth wasn't giving up either. Fluffy raised his other lower hand with another mouth. Erebus sent a ball of static this time. The ball ate and sent a torrent of sparks. Susano'o turned Thunderstorm toward the sparks.
"Get ready thunderstorm, were about to have a feast of electricity." Susano'o patted Thunderstorms back. Susano'o brought out his other arms and the snake markings on them all lifted off and elongated their mouths. The sparks were almost at Susano'o when Erebus sent a fireball his way. Asura leapt off Soulblaze and sent a power packed punch of fire to deter the fireball. Erebus frowned. Soulblaze continued to launch jet of fire after jet of fire at Fluffy the demon. This was now an all out fight. The snakes on Susano'o's arms absorbed the electricity and sent it directly to Thunderstorm by coursing through Susano'o's body. The more electricity Susano'o sent, the larger Thunderstorm grew. Erebus face palmed for not being more careful and flew towards Susano'o. Thunderstorm was now at least half the size of Fluffy who still towered over all of us. Fluffy's other arms had mouths that were waiting to be elementalised but Erebus was in the middle of something. Erebus flew towards Susano'o who was getting higher and higher into the air thanks to Thunderstorm. Asura intercepted Erebus in mid air and punched him. Erebus went hurtling into the ground. Asura was dashing towards Erebus through the air.
"Fear your god Asura, FEAR YOUR GOD!" He shouted. Titanic hands of darkness erupted from the ground past Erebus and clasped around Asura. Erebus clapped his hands together and made a diamond shape. In the middle of that diamond, a ball of dark energy was forming and it warped the air around Erebus.
"FEAR THE DESTROYER!" he shouted. BANG! The tiny ball of energy flashed through the air like a laser, going though the shadow hands. Cracks of light shined through the hands that Erebus created and in a powerful blast, the inside of the hands exploded. The explosion was so powerful, we were all knocked over. Even Fluffy was even knocked over.
"ASURA!" I called out.