I own nothing.
Alfred stormed into the throne room. He marched straight up to the King of the gods, who was calm despite raging god heading towards him.
"God of war. What brings you here?"
The damn fool had the nerve to smile.
"You know exactly why! Now give her back!" He roared.
The other gods were frozen in fear. The god of war was usually peaceful so much so that he rarely raised his voice.
Now that it was being raised, they knew better than to interfere with the two brothers.
"I don't think I will, brother."
The two brothers locked eyes in an icy stare.
"I believe that you don't mean that. I know that you will give me my wife back or there will be consequences." Alfred threatened.
"Your empty threats amuse me, but you will not get her back."
The war god laughed. It was not his normal, cheerful laugh but then again, this was not the normal, cheerful god. This was a cruel and grieving and unforgiving side of the god that was rarely seen.
"Then you will feel what I feel."
"What do you mean Alfred?" Matthew grew more and more fearful of the unstable god.
"You took away my love, now you will lose yours a thousand fold."
Alfred raised his hand and at that moment, the queen of the gods started to choke.
Matthew pleaded with his brother to release his hold on his wife. But the god of war smiled and turned his back on the king holding his choking wife.
1 down, 999 loses to go.
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"Alfred."
"Gilbert."
The two gods greeted each other. You might say that they were businessmen in a way, as war and death coincide, but they were more often friends then colleagues.
"Please give her back to me. I'll do anything, give you anything, just please give her back!" the god pleaded.
"Alfred you are my friend and you knows the laws of death, especially for us. She can only be revived if the god that killed her revives her. If she were a mortal, then I would have sent her to be reborn but she's not."
"What about Monika? She died and she was brought back."
"My sister fought against Francis and since she was only half god, she died. When Francis saw how in love Feliciano was with her, he brought her back as the goddess of dawn. Francis bringing my sister back to life only happened because he was the one that killed her. Matthew is the only one that can bring Hadassah back. I'm sorry."
The god of war fell to his knees and let out the cry of anguish he had held in for so long. All of his pain, all of his fear, all of his anger, it was all in that cry that left his lips.
Gilbert wished multiple times in his life that he could bring back the dead so he would not have to witness the grief and the anguish of the living. This was one of those times.
...
"I'm going to ask you again, bring her back."
"My answer is still no."
Alfred's face was stone cold. So void of emotion.
"Then you better find Francis because he's with your wife."
687 down, 313 to go.
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Ivan knew why Alfred was here and what he wanted. However, he could not do what Alfred wanted.
"You're the god of Black Magic, surely there is something that you can do to bring Hadassah back."
"Comrade, if there was a way, then I would have done it by now and made her my own. There are laws as to what I can and cannot do with magic. Alice must have told you before you came to me."
"Alice's magic only goes so far. What little magic she can perform is making people fall in love and making marriages binding. Though that worked brilliantly with Francis."
"Francis is still going after other women?"
"You didn't hear? He had an affair with the Queen."
Ivan, who was drinking his vodka, spit it out. "You can't be serious."
"You need to get out more. Next time there is a war, you should be on my side."
...
"Give her back to me Matthew. You know how serious I am about this. I thought that you would be more understanding with Maja an all."
"Maja had nothing to do with this. You could have left her out of it but instead you drug her into a fight that she had no part in!"
"No. You brought her into the fight when you murdered my Hadassah. You have no one to blame but yourself."
"You don't understand. Hadassah needed to die!"
"SHE NEVER HURT ANYONE!"
"THE FATES SAID THAT IT WOULD BE HER SON THAT WOULD BRING ABOUT THE NEXT WAR!"
"SO YOU WOULD JUST KILL HER IN ORDER TO PREVENT A WAR THAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN EITHER WAY? WHETHER SHE LIVED OR DIED? YOU COULD HAVE JUST CURSED HER TO BARREN FOR ETERNITY!"
"WELL, WHEN YOU PUT IT THAT WAY, YES!"
Alfred looked at his brother with a blank expression. "Then Maja will suffer until you bring her back."
As Matthew arrived in his chambers, he saw his wife on the floor with a slit throat.
1000.
The note on her cold body said that if he wanted her alive, he had to resurrect Hadassah.
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Alfred was sharpening his weapons when Matthew came to visit him.
"You are here to gloat?"
"I am here to apologize. I'll resurrect Hadassah if you resurrect Maja."
"Well, well, well. It looks like you can understand my point of view now that your own wife was taken from you."
"Do you want me to bring her back or not? Give me Maja and I'll give you Hadassah."
"No Matthew. We do this together. I don't want to give Maja back if I don't get my wife in return, and vice versa. We do this together with no funny business."
Matthew's plan was not going well. He wanted to trick Alfred and get Maja back but he didn't want to lose her forever.
"Let's go pay Gilbert a visit."
...
As Alfred and Matthew prepared for the sacrifice needed to bring back the soul of a god, Gilbert went to the very depths of the Underworld where only the souls of the dead gods reside.
Matthew waited for the right moment for Alfred to look away before he filled the cup meant to hold some of his blood with water from the River Lithe. Matthew then proceeded to cut his forearm and held the cup under the stream of blood.
Alfred wonder why Matthew took so long. He had finished with the sacrifice five minutes ago. Alfred would have questioned more on it but he was a glowing figure of white in the darkness.
It was Gilbert and he had two souls with him.
Maja was on his left and Hadassah was on his right.
"Since Maja was the most recent to die, she goes first."
Alfred gave her the blood to drink and said the spell to bring her to life. Slowly, but gradually increasing in speed, she began to solidify and more life like.
When she finally breathed again, she ran to Matthew who hugged her like she was the only one in the world.
"A deals a deal Matthew." Alfred impatiently stated.
Matthew repeated the process Alfred had done with Hadassah. Once she began to solidify, Matthew felt some regret for what he had done. He and Maja sneaked away while the other two waited for Hadassah to come back to life.
Alfred had eyes only for his wife.
He thought his heart would burst from joy when she breathed again. He could feel the happiness trying to escape when Hadassah looked at time.
Then his heart shattered when he heard the words that no one should ever hear from their loved one.
"Who are you?"
Maja-Greenland. Pronounced My-ah
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