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Chapter 22
Movie Night II: The Infernal Boogaloo
The screen opens up to most of the gods gathered outside of the cave the reside. A very worried Hera and Poseidon, and slightly less worried Hestia, were all checking over the young Adamos. Hades was just watching with amusement from the side.
"Do you have everything you need? Extra clothes? Food? Sword? Bow? Arrows? Map?" Hera speaks quickly as she rifles through his things for the umpteenth time. Her face a mask of worry as she inspects him.
"Remember son." Poseidon says as watches Hera work. "If it's too difficult to handle you can always come back. We can find another solution."
Adamos's brow twitches with irritation. "Really feeling the votes of confidence from you all." He says with a fake smile.
Hestia pokes him hard in the forehead, earning a small 'Ow' and a mock glare from the godling. "We have every right to be worried about you." She says. "Your going out on your own to do things that none of us have ever tried." The hearth goddess frowns. "There is no way for us to help you other than this."
"We're just worried." Hera speaks.
Adamos's face shifts to a solemn frown. "I know, I'm sorry. It's just… I know that I can do this. I just need you to trust me."
"Oh, they do." Hades speaks up. "I know that I trust you. They are just horrible at reigning in their mother hen tendencies."
"Who are you calling a mother hen?" Poseidon shouts indignantly.
"You, you idiot. With how much your smothering the boy, you might have to known as the god of blankets." Hades mocks with a smirk. Poseidon grits his teeth, the sound of the two goddesses giggling shuts him up and he just turns away with a huff. Most likely to plan something to get back at his brother later.
Adamos laughs and Poseidon looks to his son with a look of betrayal before he smirks. "Well Poseidon, God of the Bedroom, does sound like an appropriate title. Seeing as I'm the only one of us with any romantic experience." He says. "And the proof is standing right in front of you."
Both Hades and Adamos end up speechless, Hera was sporting a blush, and Hestia was just breaking down in laughter.
"Father!" Adamos shouts, his face turned the same shade as a tomato from embarrassment "Don't use me as some sort of trophy!"
"But it's true isn't it? You were born because your mother and I were deeply attracted to each other." Poseidon smirks.
Somehow Adamos's face goes even redder and now all the immortals, minus him, are laughing. "Nope. Noooppppeee. I am not listening to this. Screw goodbyes! I'm leaving right now!"
Adamos turns to leave before they can embarrass him any further, but he stops when a hand grabs him by the wrist. "They are only teasing you. There is no need to take it so seriously." Hestia says softly, though her eyes still held the mirth from a moment ago.
Adamos lets out a huff and turns back to face the other gods. Poseidon walks up and gives his son a mighty hug. "Just know my son." He speaks softly. "You will succeed. I know you will."
"Thanks dad." He says quietly, but the sentiment wasn't lost as a he sports a small smile.
"Make sure you stay safe." Hera spoke kindly. She came forward and engulfed him in a tight embrace. "You'll get through this. I know you can."
As she stepped back Hades came forward. He didn't hug Adamos or say any words. Instead the two them just shook hands. A smile on both of their faces.
"Adamos," Hestia spoke softly. Her eyes filled with warmth and that same comforting smile was present. "Just know that we all have the utmost faith in you. We know you won't let us down." She holds out a hand and in it is a small necklace with a tiny flame in the center. "Something help you along the way."
Adamos gave a genuine smile as he looked over the four immortals in front of him. He stepped forward and gave them all a hug all at once, staying there for a few moments before ending the embrace. "Thank you all. I'll be back before you know it and with a few stories to tell."
"I'll hold you to that." Poseidon said bemusedly. Then without another word Adamos left the group, leaving the safety of the cave that the gods made their home for years and out into the world.
It didn't take long until Adamos walked to the shore of where he lived and found a raft awaiting him at the shore. It wasn't anything to write home about, but it did seem sturdy enough to handle the waves of the open seas. After a few days out at sea he managed to reach the shores of what would become Sparta.
"If Crete is here…" Adamos mused as he looks at the map in his hands as he sat on the beach. The raft pulled ashore as it no longer had much purpose. "Then the primordials said that their quests would be… here… here…and here." He talks as he works, marking down different places on the map. A circle was drawn towards the top of the map, near what would be Macedonia, the next was in the middle of the ocean, and the last was on the north east corner of the map near the future city of troy. "I guess I can make this a round trip." He muttered "If I really push it, I might be able to make the distance up north in a four days."
Packing up his map and shouldering his belongings, Adamos did a few stretches for his legs. He set himself into a running position and a slight haze surrounds his body and a barely visible glow emits from the bottoms of his feet. In a split second he blurs out of existence and reappears much further along the coast. About one hundred meters or so.
"What was that?" I asked with my mouth open. "There was a swish and a blur and then you just…What was that?"
Adamos looked over at me with a smirk. "I don't think I ever gave the ability a name. The best way to describe it would be like those high-speed movements you see in anime like dragon ball and bleach."
"So what? You can just move to fast for people to hit you?" I ask. The ability looked super cool and I could already see how cool it would be to upstage the Hermes campers in a foot race.
"In a way." Adamos shrugs. "The, I'm just gonna call it star step, is something that allows me to move fast enough that I am just a bit slower than Hermes. At long as it's a straight-line dash"
"That sounds overpowered."
"You'd think so but there are some drawbacks." He explained.
"Like what?" I asked curiously.
"Well, for one thing sharp turns are a bitch. Not impossible, but insanely difficult along with a huge loss of speed. And if you're not careful with your spatial awareness, you'll probably hit something face first." He explained as he pointed at the paused screen.
"Is there any way I can do it?" I asked excitedly but that was slowly stripped away at Adamos's look of apprehension.
"It's… not that I can't teach you." He spoke warily. "But I don't think that you'd be able to pull it off. Aside from motion sickness, I don't know if your body could handle the strain."
"We won't know if we don't try." I try to reason but the look on his face didn't inspire confidence and all I got was a muttered 'Maybe' in response.
The young godling was moving at incredible speeds through the forest, reappearing for a brief moment before disappearing in a faint blur of light. There was barely even a sound heard when his feet touched the ground and he took off again, and to anyone that was present they wouldn't see a thing unless they were looking really hard or had godly senses to see the blur that went past them.
This allowed Adamos to bypass quite a few threats along his way as lesser monsters didn't even know he was present until they heard a sudden shift in the wind, but by then he was already gone. He had even scared the crap out of a hell hound as he flicked its ear as he passed.
Thanks to his godly stamina it wasn't till a couple days later that Adamos was forced to stop, his body dripping with sweat and his breathing incredibly labored. As the sun had long since passed the high point of noon and was beginning to dip towards the edge of the horizon, Adamos noticed something was off. When normally the sky would turn to a series of dark purples and oranges at sunset, most of the sky was a bright blue that it had normally been all day.
"What the Tartarus is going on?" He mutters as he scratches the back of his sweaty head. He looks north at where the brightness originates from. "That can't be from the phoenix."
"Oh, but it is." A soft sultry voice whispers directly into Adamos's ear.
The sudden sound into the young god's ear sends him into a panic and acting on instinct rather than reason star steps into a random direction. "Ow." He groans as the random direction he tries to go to get away is directly into a tree.
I hold in a laugh as he hits the tree and I swear I could feel Adamos's glare next to me.
"Ahahahaha." The feminine voice laughs loudly as Adamos forces himself to get up. He looks up to find Nyx, now doubled over in fits of laughter.
A heavy blush of embarrassment spreads across his face. "You done laughing at me?" He says heatedly at the laughing goddess.
"Oh—oh yeah. I think I'm done." The primordial goddess says between gasps of air.
"Alright good. Now. Why are you here." Adamos asks with a glare.
"You know it's quite disrespectful to speak to a primordial goddess that way." Nyx speaks as she composes herself.
"Oh, my apologies." Adamos says with a bit of sarcasm. "Lady Nyx, might I ask, what the Tartarus are you doing scaring me half to death!" Adamos says and with each word his voice gets a bit louder.
Nyx stays silent as she studies the godling in front of her with a critical eye. Each second that passes by under her gaze makes Adamos shrink into himself a little more internally as his irritation fades away. Then just when the tension reaches a high point, Nyx breaks it. "I'm just here to watch you do your quests." She says with a shrug.
"W—why?" Adamos asks, confusion on his face.
"What better way to watch my entertainment than to be there in person, duh." She says like it's the most obvious answer.
"If this is just for entertainment, do you even care about the quest?" Adamos asks with a raised brow. He didn't know how quests were supposed to go, but he was pretty sure that the quest giver wasn't supposed to follow him around for 'entertainment' purposes.
"Of course, I care." Nyx says as she pouts and folds her arms under her generous chest, clearly miffed by his questioning of her. This causing scene of the beautiful goddess makes Adamos to blush and actively resist the urge to look down. Nyx looks over at the young man she's conversing with and smirks a little, the kind of smirk that a prankster would have.
"That troublesome bird has been flying around like a second sun. It's been cutting down on the night cycle of the world and in return effecting me." She says as she takes slow sultry steps towards Adamos, her arms still under her breasts and greatly emphasizing her cleavage. She stops right in front of him and looks up as the young god actually a good half head taller than her mortal size. "I need you to catch it for me." She whispers as she leans forward. Adamos caught slightly off guard tries to back away but is caught when Nyx's hands grab the cloth of his chiton.
"Do you think you can do this for me?" She asks, her voice barely above a whisper as her face inches closer to his. Adamos tries to resist but the woman seemed much stronger than she looked, and he was trapped. As soon as he looked into her eyes, which were swirling like nebulas, his eyes glaze slightly, and his hands take purchase on her narrow waist as he get lost in the moment with the perfect looking woman in front of him. "If you do. I will make it worth your while." She speaks softly as both their lips were close enough that they could feel each other's breath.
"Of course." He whispers huskily as he closes the distance between the two of them. "I won't let you down."
"See. I knew I could count on you!" Nyx chirps happily as she bursts into shadows and reforms a few feet away from Adamos. The young god still in the position of the near kiss, blinks his eyes after a brief second before he realizes what just happened.
"Wha—what was that!?" He shouts as his face turns beet red. Nyx has a hand over her mouth as she begins to laugh at the flustered and embarrassed godling. Adamos on the other hand looks like he wants nothing more than to disappear as he tries to hide his blush with his hand. "Stop laughing!" He shouts, "It's not funny!"
"Your right it isn't funny. It's hilarious!" She further breaks down into laughter.
"Girl troubles." I cheekily say to Adamos. He doesn't respond but instead just sends me a scowl and flips me the bird.
"You don't just do all of that and then just leave them hanging!" Adamos yells at Nyx who is still laughing.
"But you should have seen your face." She says between each laugh. "It's just so cute when your flustered."
"Fuck it! I'm done. You can leave." He shouts in exasperation as he begins to dig through his bag of things.
"Oh, Ada. Don't be like that." She tries to soothe him. "It's just a bit of teasing. No real harm there."
Adamos doesn't pay her any attention and just gives a 'hmph' as he works on setting camp for the night and pulling out some dried meats, cheese, bread, and other assorted foods he had for travel and munching on them vigorously.
"Ada." Nyx speaks playfully. "Come on Ada. Talk to me." When it seems like he is just going to continue to ignore her, Nyx has a look that seems as if she has an idea. "Ada. Would you talk to me if I give you some nectar and ambrosia?" Nyx says tauntingly as she summons a plate of the godly food to her hand. This gets a reaction out of Adamos as he straightens slightly. Nyx grins as she sees that she's gotten his attention.
"It's too much for me to eat all on my own. I'd be willing to share with you if you give me some company." And like a switch Adamos's will crumbles and he takes a piece of the ambrosia and stuffs it into his mouth.
"Don't even say it." He says with a glare, but the primordial goddess doesn't stop giving him a huge grin. The two of them say nothing as they fall into a decently comfortable silence as they eat.
"So, Lady Nyx," Adamos starts to speak, but is cut off when Nyx waves him off.
"Just Nyx is fine." She gives him a friendly smile. "We both know that you don't mean it when you refer to me as Lady."
"You certainly don't act like a lady." He mutters which earns him a swat to the back of the head by the offended goddess. "Ow."
"And you don't know how to treat a lady." She huffs.
"I totally know how to. You just don't seem like someone who cares so why bother." He shrugs as he takes a drink of nectar.
"Oh?" She says with a raised brow. "You have some decent observation skill Ada. And honestly? Your right. This is actually a breath of fresh air compared to all the groveling that usually goes on when I show up somewhere."
"Why'd you call me that?"
"Call you what?"
"Ada. You keep calling me Ada." Adamos points out, his gaze questioning the woman.
"It's just a nickname. There's no need to question everything I do you know." She waves off.
"Ada." Adamos tests out the name for himself, and briefly smiled. "I think I like that. Sorry I can't give you one. Nyx isn't exactly able to get any shorter."
"Don't worry about it." She says with a smile. "So, tell me," She asks, leaning closer. "How exactly are you going to deal with the phoenix?"
"I'm going to take my bow." He stated simply. "And I'm going to shoot it."
Nyx blinked twice. "That's it? That's all you have?" She asked in disbelief. "Your just gonna shoot it?"
"Unless you got another way to hunt birds." Adamos looks at her with a raised brow.
"Ok," Nyx drawls as she looks in thought. "Tell me what you know about phoenix's"
Now Adamos was looking even more confused. "Uhm, they're flaming birds and they are reborn when they die."
"Flaming birds that set everything within a five-foot radius on fire." She puts the emphasis on the word fire.
"If you know so much about them, why don't you tell me how to do this." Adamos huffed in exasperation.
"Now cutey." Nyx purrs and boops him on the nose, causing the godling to blush profusely. "I can't give you all the answers. Otherwise I'd be doing this myself."
"Then why don't you?"
"Because that'd be work and I find it more fun to watch others try and fail." She speaks with an excited tone.
"Glad to see that you have so much faith in me after YOU volunteered me for this alone." Adamos gives a deadpan look at the woman.
"Oh, don't be like that." She placates. "I've got a good feeling you'll succeed. And I'm gonna be with you the entire way to watch." She smiles at him.
"Oh? Well if you're gonna be with me the entire time than you can keep first watch. Might as well sleep if I can since you're here." He says with a smirk.
"Wh—I will do no such thing." She resists.
"Really?" Adamos challenges. "Because you just said that you'll be traveling with me so you gotta pull your own weight. Those are the rules for following me."
"Who do you think you are to order me around?" Nyx shouts back.
"I'm just the guy that you made go on a dangerous quest alone for your own amusement. And if I'm going to succeed like you want, I'm gonna need all the rest I can get." Adamos says knowingly. "I mean, unless you want me to fail and that bird to keep flying around." He gives the goddess a smug look as she turns away, making his grin widen.
"Just shut up and go to sleep." Nyx huffs.
"I think I will. Tonight's beautiful and camping is always better with good company." Adamos says as he lays down and uses his bag as a makeshift pillow.
As Adamos lays down, Nyx turns slightly and gives him a soft genuine smile. "Thank you." She whispers, and if the small smile on his face is anything to go by, Adamos heard it.
"So," I turn to Adamos. "You and she are really hitting it off." I give him a grin and wiggle my brows.
He rolls his eyes at me. "Don't worry Percy," He says with a smirk. "One day you'll be able to get a girl to like you that isn't your mom."
"Wha—People like me." I respond indignantly. "I could totally get a girl to like me. Stop giving me that look!" I shout as Adamos looks at me with a look of pity and amusement. I just sit back into my seat and DEFINITELY didn't pout.
After that first night the scene just fast forwarded as Adamos and Nyx chose to walk the rest of the way north. They talked about completely random things and every once in a while, Nyx would do something to fluster Adamos. Like one time when Adamos was talking to a few tree nymphs about the phoenix, Nyx came up behind him and held his arm close to her body and insisted that he belonged to her. His face went red as even the nymphs blushed at how possessive the primordial goddess was being of him. Even going so far as to give him a kiss on the cheek, and I swore that I saw steam coming from off his head.
That's not to say that Adamos was the only one to get teased but the majority of the time it was just him, and the reactions that Nyx gave out paled in comparison to his own, due to his inexperience.
It only took the gods two days to walk to where they needed to be and with the way that Adamos was sweating and glaring at what looked like a second sun quickly maneuvering around the sky, he wanted to get this over with.
"Oh Chaos. Its so fucking hot!" He complained as he wiped sweat from his brow.
"Well, what did you expect?" Nyx questioned as she looked absolutely normal, other than the pitch-black hand fan she was using on herself. "This place is being heated up by two heat sources. At the rate that things are going, I wouldn't be surprised if everything began to die off because of the heat."
"Then I guess that just means that I have to get this over with." Adamos said and pulled his bow out and a few arrows for use. "This heat is annoying." He muttered and looked to the sky, his eyes following a hazy outline of a bird, casually flying around the sky. Then a second later he blurs out of existence, leaving his own faint haze of light where he once was.
A smile spreads across Nyx's face. "This is going to be fun." And then she disappeared in a pool of shadows.
Adamos was quickly following behind the phoenix from a slight distance away. His eyes moving around as he took in the landscape around him, looking for any landmarks or places for an ambush. He had been following the infernal bird for the better of four hours and had noticed a slight pattern in its flight.
He stopped and changed directions and blurred away to a large tree that was growing taller than the rest of the forest. 'Ever so often it passes that tree.' He thinks to himself as he stops at the trunk. 'If I can catch it there than I can finish it before the day ends.' He smirks and then hops up and grabs a branch, beginning his ascent.
He moved quickly to the highest and most stable branches on the tree and set himself up. Already drawing an arrow in place, he sits in the cover of the leaves and watches as the haze slowly moves closer. It performs barrel rolls and loops in the sky, as if it didn't have a care in the world.
Adamos waited for almost half an hour before the bird made its way over to him.
'Finally.' He thought as he began to pull back the arrow as far as he could. The amount of force causing his body to shake before he took a deep breath to steady himself. 'Not yet.' He thinks as it gets closer.
'Not yet.'
It gets closer.
'Not yet.'
It gets close enough that the haze begins to lessen and Adamos is able to see the bright red and golden feathers of its body. The bird was far larger than any normal bird and had a wingspan of at least fifteen feet.
'Now!' He thinks and releases the arrow from his grasp. A loud snap is heard as the projectile flies at great speeds towards its target. The bird didn't even react as the arrow flew closer. Adamos looked on excitedly as it was about to hit its target, but his eyes widen in shock as the arrow passes straight through the phoenix's body and continues to sail through the sky.
The phoenix stops its flight and squawks in shock as it flaps its wings to stop itself from flying forward.
"What the—" Adamos mutters before a shrieking sound draws his attention. His eyes focus on the large avian monster that was now flying towards him at great speeds, leaving a scorching trail of fire in the sky.
"Shit!" Adamos panics and begins to climb down the tree as fast as he can. He leaps from branch to branch, trying to move as quickly as possible, but it wasn't fast enough as the infernal bird soars over the tree, barely touching the top branches, but it was close enough proximity that the entire tree burst into flames, the dry leaves and wood catching fire easily. A searing wind blew a second later, stoking the flames and causing Adamos to lose his footing and grip and fall the remaining twelve feet back to the ground.
"Gah!" Adamos gasps out as he lands on his back, but he quickly moves out of the way as a branch burns off and falls right where his head was. He stands to his feet and, uses his arm to shield his face from the scorching heat and ash now rolling off the tree he was just using.
"SKREEEE!"
Adamos's attention goes up to the shrill sound as the flaming bird was now turning around for another pass at him.
"Shit!" He growls under his breath as in a burst of dim light he's moving quickly through the trees and away from the flying beast, but it wasn't as fast as he liked as he needed to slow down occasionally to avoid colliding with trees. And much to his irritation, this slowed him enough that the phoenix was still able to keep up with him. He pushed on though as he tried to move sporadically in order to lose the bird, but it proved futile as the bird still refused to let him go.
The game of cat and mouse went on for, he didn't know how long but long enough that he had actually blurred straight to a cliff face over the ocean. The sun having set long ago, but the sky was still lit up by the raging flames that trailed behind the bird.
"Does it ever give up?" Adamos muttered to himself as the subject of his ire was speeding towards him, letting out cries that he some how figured were some kind of insults in bird language.
"Backed to the edge of a cliff and about to be killed by a giant chicken." He muttered to himself. "Zeus will never let me live this down."
Adamos took out his last few remaining arrows, as he had either lost most of them in his fall or trying to shoot the pursuing bird, and he began firing as fast as he could. Some of the projectiles burning up before they reached their target, some being outright dodged, and the ones that did hit only gave inconsequential injures that the bird just healed as soon as they were caused.
'I'm out.' He thought as he just shouldered his bow and drew his sword. 'Maybe I'll come out of this only mostly burned alive.' He thought in some morbid sense of humor as he held his sword.
The phoenix came flying at great speeds with its talons fully extended, intending to rip its elusive prey to pieces. As soon as they were within each other's reach, they struck. The mythical bird with its talons and Adamos with his sword.
But in that split second Adamos did something that could either have been considered miraculously luck or genuinely the stupidest thing possible.
He closed his eyes.
Instinctively in an act of self-preservation during that split second the godling called more upon his innate powers, as his hands exploded in a blast of celestial fire, and more importantly, blinding starlight. Starlight so blinding that it caused the phoenix to be blinded and for its burning talons to miss their mark of Adamos's throat and instead slash his right shoulder, leaving a deep wound that was surrounded by a ferocious burn. The force of the attack mixed with the speed the phoenix was flying was enough that it sent Adamos flying off the cliff and into the seas below.
"You really got your ass handed to you." I stated as I watched what happened.
Adamos huffed. "…Like you could do any better." He muttered.
"I probably couldn't, but then again I'm not a god." I snarked only to receive a punch in the arm. "OOWW!" I groaned as I clutched the appendage and silently wept at the popcorn that was now lost to the floor as the punch did move me. It was the true victim here.
"Why didn't you use any of your normal powers?" I questioned, after all I had access to many of his powers and using the earth would have definitely helped him.
"I didn't have any domains." He stated as he rested his chin in his hands. "None of us gods did."
"But you were clearly using some star power." I pointed out.
"Yup," He popped the P as he said the word. "But that was something I inherited from my mother. I was the only one with actual powers. I mean sure we gods had some to call on, but with out our domains, we didn't have something to anchor those powers to."
He must have understood the confused look on my face as he continued. "Without a domain, a gods power is simply that. Raw power. Domains are what allow us to disperse that power in a controlled way, otherwise we would just be like micro suns walking around if we were in our true forms."
"Scary thought." I muttered. "But that doesn't explain why you have star powers."
"Its because I'm a natural celebrity." He said in a mock smug fashion, but I just gave him a bland look. "Ok, my mother was a Titaness with domains, while dad was a domainless god. My theory is that it was just like a god making a child with a mortal. Only, you know, I came out as a god with powers instead of a demigod." He shrugged. "That's the theory at least. But since there are no domainless gods, I can't really prove or disprove it."
"I guess that makes sense." I say as I rub my chin in thought. I had read a bit into Adamos's mother Asteria and read that she was the Titaness of falling stars, necromancy, dream prophecies, and astrology, now I was wondering what other powers he had. I didn't voice my question and just went back to watching the quest.
It seemed as if a decent amount of time had passed as the sun was now up and the phoenix was no longer flying around in the sky, if the now solitary sun was any indication.
Adamos was laying on his side as the waves crashed in front of him and reached up to his waist before receding back into the sea.
Currently a very amused looking Nyx was looking into his Adamos's barely open eyes, but he gave no response to her presence like he normally did as they traveled together.
"Hey!" She called. "You alive." She didn't receive a response and began to nudge him in the face with her foot with a soft smile on her face. "Wake up."
Adamos's hand swatted her foot away as he groaned and rolled onto his back. "Let me sleep." He groaned. "Screw off."
"Only if you help me." Nyx said cheekily as knelt down and became closer to his face. A Cheshire grin on her face as the young god before her blushed but was forced to look at her since his body was to sore and injured to move. "So," Nyx decided to change the subject to spare him of embarrassment, or to keep him calm so he doesn't start bleeding again due to his now increased heart rate. "A better person would ask if you were alright and all that first thing. But sadly, for you I'm not that person. I told you you'd fail." She said smugly. "I told you you'd fail, and you didn't listen to me. Now look where you are."
"Yeah yeah." He rolled his eyes. "I screwed up. Can we move on, so I go back to trying to kill that stupid fucking bird?"
Nyx raised one of her perfect eyebrows. "You are in no position to do anything. You're covered in injuries and burns. You are going to recuperate until you are well enough."
"I'm fine." Adamos protested as he tried to sit up.
But Nyx put a single hand on his shoulder and gave the impatient young god before her a kind smile, but the way that the shadows seemed to frame her face, and the way the world around her seemed to become oppressive and dark indicated that she wasn't taking no for an answer and resistance would be met with excruciating pain. "You need you rest and recuperate. The phoenix isn't going anywhere." She said softly, bet it sent a shiver down the spines of all who heard it.
"Y-You may b-be r-right." Adamos said fearfully. "I-I can't-t catch it if I-I'm injured." He gave a nervous laugh as he tried to scoot out of the goddesses grip, but to no avail. And then like a switch the dark atmosphere was gone.
"Glad you see reason." Nyx chirped and then pulled out a roll of cloth. "No, I've never done this before but hold still as nurse Nyx heals you up." She says happily.
"You don't need to, I can wra—Hey watch it. Stop—I can heal my—Get your hands away from there!" Adamos vigorously protests as Nyx begins to work her medical 'expertise' on him.
It wasn't much later that the world's first mummy was made as Adamos was sulking in front of a campfire on a rock on the beach as Nyx happily began to prepare a plate of ambrosia and nectar for him.
"You know, most people wouldn't complain about having a beautiful woman treat them." Nyx comments as she brings him a full tray of godly food.
"Mmmggghhfftthhmm." Adamos spoke, but due to the tight bandages on him it only came out as muffled garble.
"What?" Nyx asked.
Adamos, clearly frustrated with the bandages, rips some of the bandages around his mouth off. "Yeah well most people aren't bound tight enough that they can't move let alone feel their legs." He gripes.
"Well I just wanted to make sure you were ok." The goddess says with actually concern in her voice. And hearing this, Adamos's scowl lightens.
He lets out a huff. "Sorry. You're just trying to help, and I didn't mean to snap. I'm just pissed at how completely I screwed up." He says as he looks over at the once forest. The flames had spread rapidly due to how dry the area had become. It didn't help that a large part of that spreading was due to Adamos moving all around the forest to allude the flaming bird and only seemed to make him feel guilty on the inside.
Nyx gave him a forgiving smile. "There's no need to beat yourself up so much. I mean you MAY have burnt down half the forest," Que the flinching from the god in question, "but no one said that any of this was going to be easy."
"No one said it was going to be so hard either." Adamos mutters, which earns him a slap on his bandaged back, causing him to stiffen and try to hold in a whimper.
"If you time to be a smart ass, then you have time to figure out how you'll get me that bird." Nyx chides.
"Fine, fine." He mutters.
After that night Adamos went to work to prepare for his next attempt. During the mornings he would look for whatever he lost as well as crafting replacement arrows for what he lost. Once he was done, he began to stalk the phoenix around as it flew. He memorized its flight paths and found that every two days it would leave the area and head to an unknown spot that he didn't try to follow while still bandaged up. Nyx had made it very clear that he wasn't doing anything strenuous unless it was hunting for food. That woman can be very persuasive when she means to, not even mentioning the fact that she wouldn't allow Adamos to change his own bandages and always made them a bit too tight for him. And if the small smirk she had while doing it was anything to go by, it was intentional.
It went on for about a month and a half as Adamos kept watch over the bird. He never tried anything out right like his first time, but once he hit the three-week mark and Nyx was satisfied enough to let him remove his bandages altogether, he began to test things. The first was that he left various piles of meats in the forest to find out what the bird eats. To his dismay however, out of the fifteen different attempts, the bird only ate two times from two different piles. This meant that the bird either didn't need to eat all that much, or it had its own consistent food source. Maybe that was where it went to.
It wouldn't be long before he would follow it to wherever it went. Maybe it led to its nest, or to a hunting ground. If so than it would be possible to kill it while it was sleeping or while it was eating. After all it would need to stop emitting flames if it wanted to eat. Right? Well the only way to find out was to follow it into unknown territory.
"So, you're finally doing it?" Nyx asked as she watched Adamos repack all of his things. "You're just going to follow it who knows where."
"It's not who knows where." Adamos said as he slung his bag on to his back. "Because I'm pretty sure you know where it's going." He said but only got a sly smirk in response. "But this is the only way for me to get answers."
"Well, I wish you good luck."
Adamos looked at her with a raised brow. "You aren't coming?"
"Not where you're going. But I'll be rooting for you Ada." She says with a smile and brandishing a small homemade flag with Adamos's name on it. "Good luck." She cheers and implodes into shadows.
Adamos chuckles at her cheeriness. They had been enjoying each other's company since the quest first began and Adamos was confident enough to say that she was an important part of his life. Well, she is his only real friend but semantics.
Adamos left in a burst of starlight and headed to a rocky hill that was just high enough for him to watch the forest. His eyes tracking the phoenix as it flew in the sky. The sun was already setting but like every night before the sky was still lit up by the avian ball of fire. But it wouldn't be for long as the bird made its way to wherever it made its home.
'Thank Chaos it lights up the sky.' Adamos thought to himself. 'I would have lost it otherwise.' It had been two hours of Adamos using his powers to keep up with the bird as it flew as fast as possible to wherever it was headed. He had to maintain a healthy distance to avoid being spotted, but that led to it escaping his sights a few times. But like he thought, he was lucky that the thing was a literal beacon of light in the sky.
"Where are you going?" Adamos muttered as he watched his target begin to slow down and lazily fly in circles. Rather than use his ability to catch up, the young god opted to sneak a closer look. His footsteps silent and his body low to the ground, hiding him in the brush as he got closer. He watched from his hiding place as the phoenix dove down and flew into a temple built into the mountain. Adamos raised a brow at the sight as a temple in the middle of the wilderness wasn't exactly common, especially since the mortals had barely managed to create their own tents.
"CAW!"
The sound of the bird crew his attention. No longer was it burning with a bright flame, but instead it was perched on the arm of a giant man, he easily towered over Adamos by a good head and a half. His body glowed, casting the entire temple in a white light. His eyes were a pure white that glowed brighter than the golden armor he was wearing.
Adamos moved closer to listen.
"…a good day Petrus?" The golden giant spoke as he stroked the bird, whom preened at the attention. "Here, I have a gift for you." The golden giant reached into a pouch at his side and pulled out a beautiful shining stone, that seemed to glow and swirl, almost like Nyx's eyes, except a bit duller, but beautiful, nonetheless.
The bird squawked in excitement as it picked the glowing stone in its beak and took off from the man's arm. It didn't travel far as it landed in some kind or golden stand that housed a nest at its peak. A smirk spread across the godlings face as he watched what was happening.
"HELIOS!" A voice roared from in the temple, making the golden man—his name was Helios—turn. An even bigger man walked out of the temple, his eyes ablaze with anger, or at least what Adamos assumed was anger since he was wearing a helmet with rams horns on it.
"What do you want now Krios?" Helios dryly responded as he barely paid the horned man a glance.
"What I WANT," He growled as he got right up into Helios's face. "Is for you to stop giving my creations to your pet!" He yelled.
Helios for his credit didn't flinch at his anger and just gave him an amused look. "Come now Krios. Those gems make Petrus happy. What's the harm in giving him a few for his nest?"
"The problem," Krios spat the last word emphasis. "Is that they already take me a long time to make and even more to process them. Kronos has already ordered for a crown to be made with them, and I know that Oceanus will be wanting something similar once Kronos has his. I don't have the time nor gems to spare just so your flying rat can feel pretty."
The bird in question squawked indignantly at the remark about being a rat with wings.
Helios rolled his eyes. "I'm sure they won't mind if there's one or two missing."
"Yeah, one or two would be fine. But not nine of them!" Krios's voice was growing with each word. The two began to argue back and forth with each other and neither noticed as Adamos slowly backed away and puts some distance between them. The entire time a grin was spread across his face in what could only be described as predatory and malicious.
The night sky was barely lit up as the phoenix, named Petrus, had taken off to fly around its usual grounds. Adamos sat on a rock with a look of concentration on his face as he began to sketch out basic drawings in the dirt and erasing them a moment later with his foot. He had been watching the comings and goings of the titan temple for three days in case something happened. He would have observed longer but boredom had been to great an enemy for him.
"The bird likes shiny things. I could use that for a trap, but the question is how to get them." Adamos muttered as he ran through ideas in his head. "The only problem is that I can't get them, and I don't think that I can fake something like that." He begins to think about the gems. "I could use an illusion, but those things gave off power and there's no way I can fake that. So, the next best thing would be to steal them. But I don't know if I can do that since Krios and Hyperion don't leave the place all that often."
Adamos was so deep in thought as he looked over the failed plans that he was drawing that he didn't even notice the figure behind him until they jabbed him in the sides with their fingers.
"AAAHHH! FUCK!" He shouted as he jumped at the sudden shock. His hand went to the sword at his sides, but he stopped and let out a groan as he watched a certain primordial goddess laughing at his expense. "Dammit Nyx. You scared me half to death!"
"B-But you s-should see the look on your face." She laughed at him as he rolled his eyes. It took a few moments for her laughter to die down.
"You done?" Adamos asked with a glare.
"Yeah, yeah." She waved off with giggles. "I'm good. So, have you figured out how to solve my problem?" She asked with amusement still on her face.
"I have an idea but no way to do it." Adamos sighs. "But maybe…" He mutters that last bit.
"Well you need to think of something." Nyx huffs. "That stupid bird is just ruining everything. It's changing sleep patterns for the mortals and animals. Even some of the monsters are getting agitated. Do you know how many hellhounds I hear…" Nyx trails on complaining over a bunch of minor things, completely missing the looks that Adamos was giving her.
"Hey Nyx." Adamos interrupted her mid rant and gaining her attention. "You have such wonderful hair." He says with a smile that makes the goddess blush at the random compliment.
"Oh, uh." Nyx wasn't able to speak properly as she was caught completely off guard by the compliment as she was often the teaser in their dynamic and Adamos's attempts to embarrass her were amateur and too few compared to her own. She looked away with colored cheeks and a genuine smile as he got closer to her, close enough that she could feel his breath on her skin. "Thank you. Despite what others think, I do take time make myself look good. We primordials might look naturally beautiful, but even we…"
SNIKT!
Nyx freezes as the sound of a blade cutting resonates in her ears. She barely registers the slight tug on the side of her head as she was talking. Her eyes look over at the only other person around and spy's him holding a knife in on hand and in the other… was a lock of pitch-black hair.
…her hair.
"You know this is exactly what I ne…" Adamos spoke but was cut off as a fist hit him in the face and launching him through a tree. The only sign that he was okay was the small ow that came from the shadows. It only takes a moment before Adamos is once again back on his feet, albeit swaying as he stands, and looking at a very pissed off goddess. In his hands are still the knife and the locks of hair.
"You know I never took you for the suicidal type." Nyx spoke with a frightening calm and a smile that seemed even more terrifying than if she was yelling. Her hands were shrouded in a dark aura that sucked in all light.
"N-Now Nyx." Adamos raises his hands in a placating gesture, which completely failed as he was still holding the two items in his hands. "I have a completely good reason for this."
"Oh? Do tell Ada." She says sweetly with underlying tones of a painful demise.
"I…have a plan?" He says unsurely as he eyes the irate goddess. His weight shifting to his back foot in a preparation to escape. "I found away to lure the phoenix away and with your hair I now have everything I need to get the bait from the titans."
The two immortals stare at each other for a few minutes. One with a look of simmering fury and the other with a look like he was trying to narrowly avoid death, which in all likelihood was probably about to happen. "Ok." Nyx spoke and the darkness receded along with the tension. Adamos let out a breath of relief that he had been holding, only to stiffen as Nyx appeared before him, faster than he could react with her fingers gripping his chin in an iron grip. "But make no mistake," She whispers as she looks him dead in the eyes. "I will be collecting on this if you succeed." Her eyes flash with a dangerous glow, and Adamos can only nod slightly as he can't get out her grip.
Nyx releases him and Adamos stumbles back, rubbing his chin. Nyx goes and sits on the rock that Adamos was sitting on with an expectant look. "Well?" She says as she rests her head on her hand. "I'm waiting."
"Ok, geez." Adamos moves over and grabs a bunch of sticks from the ground and begins to whittle them away and using the hair to tie the sticks into a shape. The process takes two hours before Adamos is done. He places two stick figures on the ground, both in the shape of an avian creature, but one was bigger than the other. "Done." He said with a satisfied grin on his face.
"So what? Your gonna put on a puppet show for them." Nyx asks dryly.
Adamos opens his mouth to let out a sarcastic response but stops when he sees the underlying anger still in her eyes. "No…they aren't puppets. I'm gonna bring them to life and they'll get the gems for me. I needed a powerful base to hold them together."
"So that's why you cut my hair."
"Yep. And there isn't any stronger base than one from a goddess." Adamos tries to pay her some kind of compliment.
"And you couldn't use your hair because…?"
"Not long enough?" Adamos tries to reason. But the sound of a hand hitting someone's head showed how well that worked. "First of all. OW! And second of all. I only have one shot at this, so I prefer to have a sure-fire bet than a half-baked chance." Adamos grumbles as he begins drawing a magic circle around the two avian puppets. "And now for the last piece." He says aloud, but more to himself than anything else. He grabs the pendant around his neck and looks at it. The necklace glows a soft orange in his hands.
'I wonder if Hestia knew that I'd need this?' Adamos thinks to himself as he places it in the middle of the circle. "Questions for later I guess." He mutters. He then begins to chant in some kind of incomprehensible language. The glowing flame in the necklace glows brighter and the flames fill the traces of the magic circle before all the fire gathers into the center of the two puppets. The wood burns black in the fire as the goddess hair fades into burns into smoky shadows and cloaks the figures.
Soon enough the flames fade away, leaving nothing but two birds. Their bodies and feathers as black as night. The two spread their wings and let out a series of caws.
'My Lord!' Two voices ring out in both immortals minds. One female and the other male respectively.
'My lord. You have blessed us with life and thus it is an honor to serve you.' The male voice says as the smaller of the two bows.
'Indeed, my lord.' The female voice says. 'We are at your command."
"Well this turned out better than I expected." Adamos grins as he looks down at the two birds.
"You know I kinda thought that they'd be bigger." Nyx states while she eyes the two new creations.
'Hold your tongue woman!' The female voice caws indignantly at Nyx. 'Our lord crafted us in his genius design. Who are you to question his construction?'
Nyx raised a brow at the bristling birds. "I am Nyx. The primordial of night." She released a bit of power and watched as the two birds seemed to shrink down and began to move from side to side on their feet. She smirked a little bit at how easily they fold under her presence.
'My Lord. If it comes to it, we shall use our bodies as a distraction so you may escape from her.' The male one whispers, but Nyx still heard it anyways and rolled her eyes.
Adamos sighs. "She isn't harming anyone. In fact, she helped me make you with her essence and parts of her body." The two birds look between their creator and the goddess, then between each other before bowing and muttering apologies. 'Wait?' Raven questioned, gaining all the attention. 'If she helped create us? Does that make her our mother?' The question brought both immortals thoughts to a grinding halt as their faces reddened equally.
"That's a—no, that doesn't mean… Nyx help me out here." Adamos pleaded, but Nyx wasn't even bothering to look at the three as her blush spread and a corner of her mouth was turned upwards…probably?
"So, what are you going to call them?" Nyx asked as she composed herself and squatted down to look at the birds. Adamos gave a grateful smile at the topic change. "I don't think I've ever seen a bird with black feathers, let alone two of them." Adamos looks in thought as he scratches his chin. "Oh, how about Bugaboo and Tromio?" She says, her smile showing how pleased she is with the names for the two birds.
"Those sound ridiculous." Adamos deadpans. He looks back at the two birds and decides on two names for the birds. "How about…" He points to the male bird. "You will be called Crow." His pointer moves to the larger female. "And you will be called Raven."
"That's really original." I deadpan.
"Their species didn't have a name yet, smart ass." Adamos retorted. "Would you prefer to call them bugaboos in public?" I stayed quiet as that would be weird to call them.
'Crow.'
'Raven.'
The two newest species brought into creation test out their names as they caw. 'We love it My Lord!' The newly dubbed Crow exclaims enthusiastically, with Raven matching his enthusiasm with just a flap of her wings. Nyx on the other hand pouts at how quickly Adamos rejected her suggestions.
Adamos gives a smile at the enthusiasm of his two birds before he turns serious. "I'm glad your happy about that but I actually need you to do something for me."
'Anything My Lord.' Raven cawed.
'We serve you faithfully.' Crow responded as well.
"Good because here's what I need you to do." Adamos then begins to tell them what he needs them to do.
Many hours later, both Nyx and Adamos were sitting on a mountain that gave them a good view of the temple but being far enough that they shouldn't be spotted easily. "You think they can pull it off? I mean its been a few hours already." Nyx asks as she kicks her dangling feet over the large flat rock she was sitting on.
"I'm confident they can do it." Adamos responded, his eyes never leaving where the temple was located.
You know I'm going to get back at you for cutting my hair." Nyx says.
"I thought you got over that?" Adamos groans.
"Oh I'm not angry, or at least not anymore." She says, and Adamos's shoulders relax slightly. "But that doesn't mean that I won't find a way for you to pay me back." Nyx purrs, making Adamos shiver at her tone.
Adamos was about to speak when the sound of loud shouting echoed from out of the temple. Not much later two dark blurs flew out of the temple, followed by a very pissed of Krios. The titan of constellations shouting swears and curses as he tried to shoot the two avian out of the sky with godly bolts of energy, but with no such luck as their small forms and swiftness allowed them to dodge if but just barely. "Get back here you fucking pests!" Krios roared with rage as they flew around. The stray shots fired and hit practically everything nearby, even a newly accounted for Hyperion that came to see what the ruckus was.
"Watch it you ass! You nearly hit me!" He yelled at his fellow titan. But Krios was in no mood as he rounded on Hyperion, grabbing him by the straps of his armor and slamming him into the walls of the temple.
"Your birds have stolen from me for the last time!" He roared and buried his fist in the golden titans gut before he could get out a response. What happened next was nothing more than a straight up slugfest as the two titans fought it out. Any attempts to talk it over were reduced to nothing more than battle cry's.
The two flying thief's however took this opportunity to fly back to their master, a pouch in each of their beaks. 'My Lord! We have returned with our prize in tow!' Crow squawked as he landed and placed the small pouch on the ground. Raven followed her counterparts motion an placed a larger pouch next to crow. The male bird in questioned huffed. 'I told you that you didn't need to grab that.'
'I couldn't help it.' She tried to defend. 'Milord said to grab the shiny stones. This had shiny stones and it was shiny. It was meant to be!'
"Well let's look at what you brought." Adamos interjects what could become an argument as he takes both pouches and dumps the contents onto the rock that Nyx was sitting on, after the goddess was asked to move. The four looked at the new treasures in front of them. Crow was perched on Adamos's shoulder while Raven, oddly enough, was perched on Nyx's.
On top of the stone were seven diamonds cut perfectly, and in their centers seemed to be a brilliant glitter of multicolored lights. However, they were only pieces and didn't seem to compare to the partially completed project next to them.
A gorgeous golden crown sat unfinished. Its metal was like the sun and emitted a soft light that seemed to resonate with the diamonds that it did have. The crown itself was engraved with the day and night cycle on its golden surface and when looked at really closely, you could see that the sun and moon were actually moving across the surface. Four of the gems were spread out evenly on its surface. "Holy shit this is amazing." Adamos breathed as he looked at the newly acquired loot.
Nyx picked up one of the diamonds and inspected it closer. A grin spread across her face as the moments passed. "Adamos? Do you know what we have her?" She asked to which the god shook his head. "What we have are starlight diamonds." She exclaimed but the younger god still looked like he didn't know what they were which only caused Nyx to grin more. "Starlight diamonds are rare gems that house tremendous amounts of power within its core, even more so since these are pure cuts with no taint in them." She says as she looks at the gem appreciatively.
"So, these things are containers of tremendous power." Adamos repeated and Nyx nods at his question. "Can they be used in like magical rituals?"
Nyx nods. "And they can be used to create weapons of great power, a gods symbol of power."
Adamos's brow twitches in irritation and a scowl mars his face. "Then why the fuck are they being used for decorations!" Adamos shouts and points at the crown. "Something that great is just being wasted.
"Hmm, Starlight diamonds can only be created by a deity with powerful connections to the celestial bodies in my domain. The only one able to make them other than myself is Krios down there." Nyx waves down to the temple, where the sounds of fighting were still taking place. "My thought is that Kronos is showing off by having this crown made. No better way to show your authority than by having an accessory made with one of the rarest substances in the universe."
"Is it really that hard to get them?" Adamos asked.
"Oh, most definitely. It's why I don't do it myself, to much hassle. First you have to find a star that's not connected to any constellation and is at the very least ten millennia old. Then you need to extract its essence with delicacy and precision. That process is numerous and intricate, and if there's even the slightest misstep, the quality greatly drops.
"Great." Adamos said sarcastically. "Now the titan's can just pump out weapons of mass destruction."
Nyx shakes her head. "I wouldn't count on it. Starlight diamonds take years to create just one. I think that Krios has been cultivating these for decades, not to mention that out of all of these, only about four of them are perfect cuts. The rest are so well done that the power drop isn't to much, but there is a bit of a difference. Honestly with how small the gap is in power between them, I have to hand it to Krios. He is good at his craft."
Adamos stares at the gems and crown for a moment. "Nyx?" He speaks after a few moments of silence. "Are the gems in the crown perfect ones?"
Nyx looks at the crown for a moment. Her features squinting to get a better look. "No. They are imperfect ones. Why?"
"I think I just came up with a plan for how to deal with that bird." Adamos says and Nyx raises a brow at him.
'Is there anything for us to do my lord?' Crow asks.
"Not at the moment no." Adamos says as he at the crown with an intense look.
A week has passed since the gems were stolen and Adamos and Nyx made their way back to the forest where they first spotted the phoenix Petrus. In that time Adamos was meticulously working on the crown while occasionally speaking with Nyx. Crow and Raven were flying above and scouting the area around the two immortals so that their lord could finish whatever he was working on. Now though, the two birds were watching from a tree as their creator placed the crown on a stone in a barren clearing. Nyx was watching from under said tree as the shadows concealed her from all those that she didn't want to be seen by.
The sound of the Petrus's squawks signaled that it was close by and with that Adamos finally put whatever plan he had into action. Taking out his sword he angled the flat of the blade into the sun and began reflecting the light in flashes. After a few moments he star stepped as fast as he could next to Nyx, using the tree she's leaning on as a cover and inadvertently, using a part of her shadow cloaking to hide.
The primordial goddess smirks as her friend hides behind the tree. "So, are you going explain what this little plan of yours is?"
"I cursed the crown." Adamos spoke as he watched the crown with intensity. "The crown is cursed. If some one picks it up the curse activates and strangles the victim."
"That sounds like a decent way…wait? Did you say strangle?" Nyx asked but Adamos didn't answer as a loud caw sounded out and the temperature began to rise. The heat was enough to dry the sweat off the gods faces if it weren't for Nyx's darkness canceling out the heat completely.
Petrus landed on the rock and eyed the crown expectantly. Its gaze looked over it all the way around, until it noticed a shimmer on the opposite side. It the bird hopped to the other side of the rock and cawed excitedly as it viewed its prize. The four Starlight diamonds in the crown glowed in their metal holdings. Petrus, having only slightly better intelligence than other birds, began to peck at the gems, as if to test their authenticity. After a few pecks the bird looked satisfied and grabbed the crown in its beak.
"Here it comes." Adamos whispered excitedly. His face held a grin of anxious excitement while his eyes held another emotion that Nyx couldn't place.
With the crown in its beak Petrus opened its wings to take off. It leapt into the air but before it could flap its wings even once, the crown glowed a dark red color and in the next moment it was around the birds neck.
Petrus fell to the ground in a head as it wildly thrashed about. Flames erupted from its body, setting the surrounding area on fire.
"That… is a very dark way to hunt." Nyx spoke as she watched the infernal bird flail around with slightly wide eyes.
"You say dark, I say its ingenious. I mean I did have to convert one of the diamonds to a power source in order to make the thing unmeltable." Adamos shrugged.
"You did that with one of the gems?" Nyx asked, a little wide eyed.
"Yeah? Why, is that bad?"
"No, no," Nyx waved off his question. "Just that only those like Krios, with a strong connection to stars would be able to do that." Her expression turned into a knowing grin. "That clears up one of your domains." she mutters giddily.
"What? Stars?" Adamos asked, not entirely sure what to make of the information. In the end though he just shrugged. Thoughts that were best done later.
The two of them fell into a silence as the continued to watch as Petrus was being strangled. "Seriously how long does it take to strangle something into unconsciousness." Adamos whined.
"You are oddly okay with this." Nyx eyed him. "Most beings would be at least a little against the idea of this."
"Well I guess I'm not most people—Hey look it think it's finally worked." Adamos pointed excitedly as the flames died. The heat dissipating enough that the two immortals could finally see the barely twitching phoenix laying on the ground. Its eyes glazed over as it lay there.
"Did you kill it?" Nyx asked as she kicked the large bird with her foot. This causing an involuntary twitch to go through the beast. "Huh, I guess not." Nyx then snapped her fingers and the bird vanished in a pool of shadows. The only thing that even showed it existed were a few stray feathers on the ground.
"So, is that it?" Adamos looked at Nyx expectantly as he picked up a bunch of the feathers and looked at them before putting them in the ouch with the diamonds. Not really sure what to do as this was his first time, he had ever done a quest.
"Yes Ada, its over." Nyx informed the godling, who then slumped to the ground in a form of exhaustion. "Oh, stop being such a baby." She mock chided him.
"I will have you know that this has to be one of the most stressful points in my life." Adamos said pointedly.
"Considering that you lived in a cave for most of your life, that's a given."
"I'll have you know that that cave is super comfortable to live in." Adamos huffs. "But I think I need a break before I even attempt the next quest."
Nyx taps her chin and a smile spreads across her face. "You know," She speaks, drawing Adamos's attention to her. "I might know of a way to relax before you take off your next quest."
"Oh really? Do tell?" Adamos spoke, though he didn't seem to know what that smile that the primordial goddess had meant.
"Well, I do seem to remember promising you a reward if you managed to do complete the quest." She sauntered over elegantly to the sitting god. Unconsciously Adamos straightened himself from his seated position as she got really close. "And I personally believe that this has been put off for long enough." She purred the sentence.
"Uh, Nyx?" Adamos blushed a bit at the close proximity. "This wouldn't happen to be one of your teases, would it? I mean I don't really need a reward for the quest since you already offered one."
The goddess smirked. "Not this time, but don't worry. If you don't want a reward. Then just think of this as paying me back for my hair. After all, you won't be leaving until I'm satisfied." She smiled sweetly and before Adamos could protest she leaned forward and shut him up with a hand over his mouth and the two immortals dissolved into shadows.
"So, what did you think?" Adamos asked me with an expectant look.
"I feel like some parts just came out of nowhere or where too easily done." I criticized.
"Would you rather watch the month and a half that it took me to complete the quest or would you rather have the shorter version?" He challenged.
"Shorter version." I huffed. "But what was going on with you and Nyx. She seemed to be present far more than necessary."
"I'm a god, not a demigod. Different rules for me. So long as she doesn't do the quest herself, she can do what she wants. That and she just likes messing with me."
"Ok, one more question?" I asked. "What was with the whole flirting thing?"
"We were…more than friends but I don't know if we would get married. Maybe mutual backup significant others."
"And Athena's okay with this."
"I wouldn't know. Its something that only we are privy too." Adamos then looked at me with a glare that could freeze a volcano over. "And if you speak of that to anyone, no one will remember that you existed."
I gulped. "Noted. Why don't we—uh, just pop in the next quest." I suggested and Adamos got up and switched the discs.
A/N: Hey everyone I'm not dead. I've actually been dealing with personally issues lately as well as trying to stay safe in this epidemic we've been facing. I hope that all of you are staying safe out there. Anyways I've also been busying myself and by reading more stories. Honestly this is just publicity for these stories. I branched out to the RWBY fanfiction and found a few stories that I like and recommend. The first is Grimm Heir by DeadRich18, which is pretty dark and a bit gory, but that's what sets it apart in my opinion. The second is A Reaper in Red by 0neWhoWanders. It deals with monsters and such. The third is the story The Seventh Circle by Obsequium Minaris. It deals with trauma, abuse and is pretty centered around character development but there are sprinkles of fights here and there. This one is personally my favorite of the three.
Last time I was going over bleach stories and one stood out. It was a crossover between One Piece and Bleach, and I have to say that shit hits the fan in the best ways.
Anyways, stay healthy all you sexy beasts.
Momentei, over and out
