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Chapter 23
Movie night III: Even Bigger Jaws
"So, what's the second quest about?" I say as I take a long slip of my Slurpee, a combo of Coca-Cola, cherry, and a ton of blue raspberry.
"It's about a huge pain in the ass is what's its about." Adamos grumbles and I couldn't help but raise a brow at the sudden irritation he was emitting.
He lets out a sigh. "I had to scour the ocean for something that was taken from Pontus. Don't regret it, but it was still a pain."
"I don't know what's so bad about that. Seems like a simple fetch quest to me." I shrugged.
"Just watch." Adamos then grabbed the remote and pressed play. The screen lit up and began to play the contents.
A young Adamos sits on a beach putting things into a bowl and mixing them together. Various colored liquids are poured, and some forms of neon colored powders all deposited carelessly.
"What are you making Master?" An inquisitive Crow hops around the godling as he watches his creator stir the concoction together. Raven looking equally invested but instead resting on Adamos's shoulder.
"I'm making a communication potion." He explains, not even looking up from his task.
"You can communicate with a potion?" Raven asked. "Do you whisper into it and the liquid spells something out when you pour it? Because that sounds pretty stupid Master."
"Hold your tongue Raven. Do you dare call our Master a fool?" Crow chastised as his feathers ruffled in irritation.
"While I appreciate both of your helpful commentary," Adamos butted in and stopped what would have become an argument. "But this doesn't do that Raven. This instead acts as a catalyst," Adamos picks up the bowl and inside is a slightly luminescent teal liquid. "and with it I will be able to set up a visual and audio connection between here and whichever place I want."
"That is absolutely genius master!" Crow praised.
"Indeed, it is truly revolutionary." Raven cawed.
"Thanks, you two, but its not as amazing as it sounds. The stuff needed to make the damn thing as well as the preparations are pretty extensive. It's honestly a bit more trouble than its worth. Alright, moment of truth." Adamos moves to a pile of sticks and with a wave of his hand sets it ablaze. Then without hesitation he tosses the mixture into the fire.
"What if it blows up?" Raven whispered and Adamos and Crow took a rather large step back. But the blaze didn't explode and instead it turned blue and began to emit a sound that oddly enough was the same ringing you would hear when making a phone call.
"Is it supposed to make that sound Master?" Crow asks as he perches on Adamos's empty shoulder, opposite of Raven.
"I'm not sure. This is actually the first time I've attempted this. Everything else has just been theory." Adamos watched as the blue fire then roared to life, scaring the three present. In the middle of the inferno a rather large screen appeared, showing someone's stomach.
"Hello? Is any one there?" A feminine voice called out as the stomach on the screen shifted.
"Hestia?" Adamos asked, a bit confused at what was happening.
"Adamos? Adamos where are you? I'm hearing your voice, but I can't see you." Hestia kept asking.
"Hestia I'm looking at you thro—"
"Hold on. HERA! Adamos is calling through some sort of magic. Can you try to fix it?" Hestia called over her shoulder.
"Adamos is here?" Another voice said though this time it was Hades followed by Poseidon.
"Has my son finally returned?" Poseidon asked with a bit of excitement. "He finished much faster than I thought he would."
The screen was now filled with three godly torsos shuffling around and all talking at the same time. The sheer absurdity of the situation was causing the young god to pinch the bridge of his nose in exasperation. "HERA! We need your help. We don't know how to fix this thing.?"
"Have you tried turning it off and then on again?" Another feminine voice shouted from nowhere but was getting closer.
"It's worth a—"
"DON'T!" Adamos shouted. "Just raise the flames. We can see each other just fine." Adamos instructed as patiently and clearly as possible. It took another five minutes, Hera joining the group, and more repeated instructions because Zeus tried to fix it himself once he showed up, help from Metis, and a minor headache later and both parties were able to see and converse clearly.
"Adamos! My son. How are you." Poseidon greeted with a smile on his face as he tried to push himself to the front of the group, but a swift elbow from Hera kept him in line.
"I'm doing fine father." Adamos said with a smile but whatever he wanted to say was cut off by the birds on his shoulders and a gasp from Raven.
"Crow! It's the creator!" Raven loudly whispered to her male counterpart. "What do we do?
"I don't know?" Crow whispered back loudly though he seemed a bit more nervous. "Do I look presentable Raven? Are my feathers looking good? Do I have time to preen!?"
"Guys!" Adamos's voice cuts through their conversation like a knife and the two birds quiet. "You look fine. Can I get back to my conversation?" He asks rhetorically.
"Adamos." Hestia speaks, getting the three to look at her. "Who are they?" She asks as she looks over the two birds with interest. This brings the rest of the gods attention to the two.
The two avians look at each other and have a silent conversation until they step from side to side and puff out their feathers, as if to make themselves more presentable.
"I am Crow." Crow lifts one of his wings in a sort of salute.
"And I am Raven." Raven mirrors her counterpart.
"And we serve our master." They spoke in unison.
Adamos raised a brow at the introduction while a some of the goddesses giggle at how cute they look. Poseidon and Hades had amused smirks on their faces while Demeter wasn't particularly impressed, and Zeus was even less so. "Well, aren't you two precious." Hestia gave them a warm smile that caused them to stand even more proudly than before, and Adamos could see the bird equivalent of a smirk on their faces. "How did Adamos find you two?"
"Milady, our master did not find us." Crow seemed appalled at the mere suggestion.
"Yeah!" Raven cried indignantly. "Master created us with his own power and help from motheMMFFFHHGMM" Raven didn't get to finish as Adamos clamped her beak shut.
"I created them myself. Ahaha. Yep, just me." Adamos said unsteadily, his eyes looking everywhere but at his family.
Hera raised a brow at his behavior. "Adamos? What was she going to say?"
"Nothing Hera! Have I ever told you how beautiful you look today?" Adamos says a bit too quickly
"You are such a charmer." She laughs. "But that doesn't change the subject. It almost sounded like she was going to say mother?" Adamos doesn't say anything but from the blush spreading over his face, he didn't need to. This causes Hestia to squeal with delight.
"Who is she? What's her name? Are you together right now?" Hestia shot out questions at a rapid-fire pace. All the while some of the gods have skeptical looks, but Poseidon was the one showing the most emotion.
"Are-are you crying?" Hades asked in disbelief as he looked at his brother. The tears were barely there at all, but since all of the gods were so close together, especially since Hades and Poseidon were right next to each other, it was visible.
"No," Poseidon denies heatedly. "It's just hot in here with everybody."
"It's probably just some nymph that he met along the way." Zeus casually stated, not particularly seeing the big deal.
"I sincerely hope that you didn't just leave her." Hera says as her eyes sharpen.
"What?! No!" Adamos denies and the quietly mutters, 'Not like I could leave her if I wanted to.' It was to quiet for anyone to hear.
"Master would never do that to mother!" Raven squawks angrily. "Otherwise he wouldn't have spent the last three months alone with her!" As soon as the words came out her beak, Adamos's blush tripled and all the gods and goddesses just stared wide eyed at the bird.
"Why do you keep talking!" the young god angrily whispers to his loyal servant.
"THREE MONTHS!" Zeus roars. "What have you been doing for three months!"
"I'll tell you what he hasn't been doing." A sultry voice speaks out and a pair of flawless pale arms wrap around Adamos's body. Crow and Raven leap off their master's shoulder as Nyx rests her head on their former perch. "He hasn't been disappointing."
"Lady Nyx." Zeus whispers as all the immortals go wide eyed and scrambled into kneeling positioned. Nyx however just giggled at the sight while Adamos sighed. He knew that she got a rise out of tormenting and teasing others. Then again, he did to, but only to those he felt deserved it... and maybe the occasional random person. That didn't mean he wasn't laughing internally at how quickly they all moved. "To what do we owe the pleasure of your presence." Zeus didn't meet the primordial goddess's eyes.
"Oh, nothing really. Just came to see Ada off." Nyx says casually as she kissed the young god's cheek and making him blush, which doesn't exactly go with the looks that the immortals on the other side of the transmission.
"Can some one please explain what's going on." Hades looked bewildered as his eyes moved back and forth between his nephew and the all-powerful goddess that was hanging off him. Adamos mutters something that his family can't hear. "Could you repeat that?" Hades asked.
"Oh, he's just embarrassed about the whole girlfriend meeting the family thing." Nyx gives a pleasant smile as she watches their minds short circuit for a moment. Then Poseidon apparently broke down into 'manly' tears.
"Oh, my Chaos! Will you stop crying!" Hades snaps back to reality only to snap at his brother.
"But," Poseidon cries more happy manly tears. "I'm just so proud. My son has become a true man. And with a primordial goddess no less." Hades groans and pushes the proud blubbering god out of the room with a look of annoyance. "I'm Just so PROUD!" Poseidon's cries echo through the hall until they are muffled into nonexistence.
"So um," Hera spoke out as the two gods left the room. "How did this happen?" She gestures unsure at the two.
"I may have cut her hair…without asking." Adamos speaks nervously as he looks away and not meeting their eyes.
"You're an idiot." Demeter deadpans.
"Demeter!"
"What?" She looks at turns to Hera who scolded her. "He went against a primordial. That's pretty stupid if you ask me."
"So, does this mean that you will join our side milady?" Zeus cuts into and stops their argument. This puts all attention on the night goddess who looks like she's thinking about it in her head as she taps her chin.
A coy smile spreads across her face as she gives a chipper "NOPE."
"Wha—but."
"The deal still stands Zeusy. And even if I wanted to, I couldn't change it without Gaia's or Pontus's acknowledgement. But don't you worry, if they try to slaughter you all I'll make sure Ada will be comfortable living with me."
"But—But!" Zeus sputters.
"Whoops connections slipping." Nyx shouts and immediately dispels the magic and reducing the flames to smoldering embers.
"You didn't have to do any of that." Adamos grumbles but a small smile creeps on his face.
"Oh please. You and I both know that you wanted to mess with him." Nyx rolls her eyes before giving him a squeezing embrace before letting go." So, are you finally ready to start the next quest?"
"As ready as I'll ever be." Adamos shrugs. He then turns to Nyx with a bright smile. "Thanks again for helping me prepare. Especially on the domain front."
Nyx waves him off. "Well of course. What kind of girlfriend would I be if I didn't help you, after all I can't have you dying on me so soon?"
"You're really into that whole girlfriend thing, aren't you?"
"Don't even try to deny it." Nyx pokes at his chest with her finger. "Your just too embarrassed to flaunt it. So, I have to do double the work." Adamos lets out a short laugh at her serious face before Nyx too breaks down to giggles. The two manage to compose themselves after a few moments of laughter. "Are you sure you're ready for this. You can still wait a while."
"Thanks Nyx, but I need to do this now. If I wait any longer, I feel like I'll put it off indefinitely." Adamos says and Nyx nods understandingly. Adamos turns and faces the rolling tides of the beach. Crow and Raven flutter up and perch themselves on Nyx as they too watch expectantly.
As if it knew that he was ready, the waves all stopped and calmed. Turning the entire stretch of beach into a calm mirror of water. A tanned man with a seemingly permanent scowl rises from the water, yet nothing is disturbed or even ripples as he walks onto the beach and stops a few meters from Adamos and Nyx. "Pontus." Nyx casually greets him, and Pontus just gives brief nod in her direction.
"So, you finally ready to get off your ass and do what you were supposed to boy?" Pontus asks gruffly. He folds his arms across his large chest and looks down on the young god both figuratively and literally since he easily towers over young man.
"I have a name." Adamos quietly mutters but Pontus just huffs as if to say that he didn't care. "Yes, I'm ready for this quest you want me to do." Adamos spoke with fake enthusiasm.
Pontus's scowl deepens but he doesn't say anything, partially because he needs Adamos to do this and mostly because Nyx is giving him a murderous glare that just seems to just be begging her an excuse to attack him.
"Deep in the oceans Oceanus has hidden away something that is very important to me. Your job is to find it and bring it back to there shore where you will call me, and I will pick it up. Any questions." Pontus explained.
"Uh, yeah. Where exactly is this object that I'm supposed to find." Adamos asked with a raised brow.
"The ocean."
"Can you be more specific?"
"The bottom of the ocean."
Adamos's eye twitched in irritation and he could see the amused glimmer in the primordials eyes as he screwed with him. But there was no way that he would call him out on it since a conflict wasn't exactly in everyone's best interest. That, and the fact that he didn't want to look childish in front of Nyx. He had to image to maintain as her boyfriend, a title that he feels more comfortable admitting in his head. "How will I know when I find it?"
"It radiates power. You'll know it when you get close." Pontus vaguely explains. It was at that point that Adamos's patience was wearing very thin.
"So is there a way for me to get it, because I can't exactly breath underwater." Adamos asked inquisitively and judging by the small smirk that graced Pontus's face, the answer wasn't going to be pleasant.
"There is a way…" Pontus trailed off and then faster than he could react to, Pontus moved in front of Adamos and had his hand in front of his head. His middle finger was restrained by his thumb.
In that single split second, all Adamos thought was…
'Oh shi—'
Pontus released his finger and flicked the young god in the forehead, but with his divine strength behind it the force was enough to knock him off his feet and sail in the air for a few feet. Nyx immediately rushed to his side as a large red mark appeared on Adamos's forehead. His posture wobbled as he sat up, gripping his head, a groan escaped between his lips. Nyx turned and gave a murderous glare at her fellow primordial, who just chuckled to himself. "There you go boy. You have now been blessed to traverse anywhere in my domain."
"Was that really necessary?" Nyx spat.
"No, but it was definitely enjoyable." Pontus said and then promptly disappeared into water before Adamos, or rather Nyx, could retaliate.
Nyx gave an irritated groan as she watched Pontus leave. Her attention then turned to her fallen lover who was cradling what had to be a massive headache. "You okay Ada?"
"Yeah." Adamos hissed as he unsteadily got to his feet. "Was caught off guard. Dick hits half as hard as you do." He joked
Nyx rolled her eyes but gave an amused huff. "If you have time to flirt than your fine." Nyx let go of him as he seemed perfectly capable of standing on his own, and the red mark on his forehead already seemed to be healing rather well. She looked over him as if she were imprinting his very image into her mind. "Ada…" She began but stopped.
"Hmm?"
"Nothing," Nyx waved him off, choosing not to speak. "It can wait."
"Okay?" Adamos shrugged of her hesitance. If she wanted to tell than she would eventually. He'd just have to be patient till then.
"Are you sure that your ready?" Nyx asked again.
Adamos gave her a confident smirk and held out his hand. A golden white flame appeared and shined like a star, yet the light seemed to be contained so as to not be overly bright to all that looked at it. "I think that I'll be fine."
"Just promise me you won't do anything stupidly suicidal." Nyx asked in all seriousness.
Adamos let out a laugh. "Since when have I done something like that. No don't even start." Adamos quickly cut her off as he saw the knowing look and began counting off on her fingers. "Well, I guess I'll see you soon."
"You better come back. These two are your responsibility." Nyx pointed to Crow and Raven. "And I need somebody to keep me entertained."
"It's like I'm nothing more than a piece of meat to you." Adamos said in mock hurt, making Nyx roll her eyes once more. "But don't you worry. I'll back before you know it." Adamos then ran and jumped into the ocean and disappeared beneath the waves.
Nyx let a smile grace her face. "You'd better come back. She's your responsibility." Her eyes following his form as her hand unconsciously rubs her belly. She waited a few more moments on the beach until she disappeared into a pool of shadows.
"What was that about?" I asked Adamos as the scene changed, but he chose to ignore me and just shovel more popcorn in his mouth. I let out a sigh as I went back to watching.
Months. Gods damn MONTHS! It had been many months since Adamos left that beach and dove into the oceans. It was at this point that he felt like tearing his hair out. Between the less than informative clue given by Pontus, the dimwitted and clueless guards of Oceanus he had to avoid, and the fact that no one seemed to know where this supposed treasure was, he felt like he could just explode.
"Maybe I can find something to stab. Stabbing things sounds fucking therapeutic right now." Adamos muttered to himself as he sat at the edge of a reef, his shoulders slumped and face exhausted. His gaze swept over a colony of merfolk and nymphs. Just one of many that he has seen in Oceanus's kingdom. Colony might be pushing it actually, as most denizens of the sea are nomadic, with only a few actually setting up spots of civilization close to Oceanus's capital city. The need to expand with more colonies for the people had never been one of Oceanus's concerns as far as the rumors go. It was common belief that he much rather keep what ever towns and such within his reach. Making his capital the single undisputed 'real' city beneath the waves.
That wasn't to say that the towns were less impressive as Adamos could attest to the buildings and towns being far beyond what the mortals on the surface have developed, especially the closer that you go to the capital, but it seems that Oceanus likes to make it clear that his city should never be contested against.
"Maybe that's why his castle looks like a giant peni—"
SKKRRREEEEKKKT—SKKKRREEEEKKKKT!
Adamos never finished his sentence as a large sea monster crawled from out of a cave beneath him and began to swim quickly towards the nomads. It wasn't the largest underwater beast that Adamos had ever seen, in fact it was rather on the small side. It was only around twenty feet in length with its tail making up half the length and looked like a cross between a crocodile and an eel, with only two arms on the front and just an eels tail on the back. The frills on its neck flared in aggression.
"Isn't that a sea dragon?" I asked as I looked at the creature.
Adamos gives a short laugh of amusement and I can already tell I was wrong. "That's not a dragon. It's a sea Drakon."
"What's the difference?"
"A huge difference. An average dragon is easily much larger than a Drakon. There are a few special cases of mini dragons but in the ocean, dragons are larger than Drakons. There's also the fact that dragon's contain and generate enormous amounts of raw magic in their bodies. It's be like comparing a handgun to an RPG in terms of destructive power."
I shiver at the thought as I read about Drakons in one of the camps classes on monsters, and Adamos sensing my worry just gave me a friendly smile. "Don't worry. The size is generally two to three times the size between the two. Very rarely will you ever see one grow far beyond those lengths, and the ones that do wouldn't really bother attacking a demigod since your too small to satisfy their hunger." I gave him a nod and turn back.
Its light purple skin easily denounced it's age as only a few years from a decade old. That meant that it was still quite young and had probably gotten used to being top of the food chain in this area.
"Can't have that." Adamos pulled the spear off his back, completely forgoing his sword as he learned early on how the spear was a more effective since it allowed him to throw the weapon as opposed to the sword and smirked at the prospect of a little stress relief. He didn't even hesitate as his feet lit up in a faint glowing light and he was moving through the water at his target in a blur of speed that seemed to destroy the bit of reef that he was perched on.
The sea Drakon didn't even get close before Adamos crashed into it from behind, his spear driving straight into the back of its skull, his feet driving into its body and crushing organs. The sea floor beneath erupted in upturned sand and coral debris. Adamos let out a sigh as he looked at the remains of the monster, disappointed that it was so easily caught off guard. He swims upwards a bit and spots the nomads. The two closest to him, a pair of children playing, didn't even seem to register that they were a moment away from danger.
"Wasn't even a good warm up." Adamos let out a sigh as he swam away from the unsuspecting nomads. His focus going back to his search as he looked over the mass of sea floor with perfect clarity.
This was one of the last places that he had yet too search and his emotions were high as he cleared out individual territories. On one hand this narrows down the areas that this supposed treasure might be, but on the other hand if it isn't here. Adamos inwardly groans at the prospect of having to comb over the entire ocean floor once more, or even worse, going beyond Oceanus's vast territories. Out there is nothing more than beasts that would attack anything that moves and that would be just annoying to deal with on a constant basis.
"Maybe I should have asked the nomads if they had seen anything? Nah, the less people that know who I am the better." Adamos spoke to himself as he swam around trying to sense whatever it was, he was looking for. But he shook his head at the thought.
An involuntary shiver ran through his body, causing him to turn around quickly only to see nothing but open waters. Even those nomads were far out of sight at that point. It was a strange occurrence that had been happening to him for a few weeks now. The feeling of eyes watching you, yet you don't know where from. He had tried looking around, but he never found anyone, and when he swam away as fast as he could the feeling would eventually resurface after a while, which could only mean that he was being spied on.
'Now this just won't do.' Adamos thought as he glared off into empty ocean. His mind working on a way to best find out who is spying on him.
The ocean had darkened as Adamos put the finishing touches on his plan to capture whoever it was that was spying on him. Under the guise of hunting monsters, he made multiple nets from various plants at the bottom of the ocean. Next he made a makeshift base in the middle of a boxed in trench. Inside the canyon is a small alcove that he used for his sleeping quarters. There was a bit of a canopy over it so that no one from above could look in. Thus, leaving the only available spying place to be from the frontal viewpoint, but the trench also came with another secret. A small tunnel was in the farthest part of the alcove and lead straight back around to a hidden area by the entrance.
That was where Adamos was currently as he waited in his secluded area and watched for his stalker. He made sure to leave a fake body in the darker parts of the alcove but made it so that it was still visible. Hours seemed to pass as he watched the opening. It was so boring that he nearly nodded off twice as well as tried to count the number of fish nearby.
It wasn't till much later in the day that something approached the entrance. The sun above the surface had finally begun to set, painting the ocean with streams of distorted orange and gold. It was still enough light that Adamos could see the form of someone approaching the trench entrance but straying no farther than a few feet past the entrance. But it was enough for the young god to stealthily move closer to his target. His body moved close to the ocean floor, using both hands and feet, as if to crawl forward like a stalking predator.
Closer…
Closer…
The target was in his sights. Their back was turned, and they didn't suspect a thing as Adamos prepared the net and threw it over his target. It was almost too easy to get the jump on the mysterious figure that had been tailing him, but he pushed that to the back of his mind as he initiated his trap. Although he wasn't exactly prepared for the very feminine scream that came out as the net ensnared its target.
"KKKYYYAAAHHH!"
The scream was loud enough that Adamos had to cover his ears and shut his eyes until it was over. When he removed his hands, he shook his head to get the ringing out of his ears and took a good look at the stalker that had been tailing him.
It was a woman.
A beautiful woman.
A terrified, beautiful woman.
'Chaos, now I feel like a creep.' He though as he went closer to his captured target but stopped when she flinched at his approach. Her eyes were wide and showed nothing but fear and Adamos knew that if they were on the surface, she would be crying. Her body was barely covered by any form of clothing, showing her soft lightly tanned skin. Her long hair golden brown hair had gotten tangled in the net.
"P-please don't hurt me." She managed to whimper out, only furthering the godling's internal feelings of being a complete and total ass at the moment.
Adamos, deciding to play this as peacefully as possible moved slightly, only frightening her more until he dropped the spear that he was holding onto the ground. This seemed to be the right thing to do as her trembling lessened, and she was now looking at him with a look of fear, confusion, and a hint of curiosity.
"I'm not going to hurt you." Adamos spoke softly to her. "I just have a few questions I want to ask you. If you answer them, I'll let you go. Deal?" Silence filled the water as the two stared at each other until the girl gave a hesitant nod. Adamos gave her the most comforting smile he could despite the situation.
"Can you tell me your name?" He asked softly.
The girl seemed to huddle in on herself but eventually relented as she still found no way out of the trap. Her eyes looked at the ground, refusing to meet Adamos's. "My name is Aphrodite." She spoke softly enough that it was barely above a whisper.
"Wait!?" I leaned closer to get a better look. "That's Aphrodite?"
"Yeah?" Adamos said though it was more a question of why I'm questioning it.
"But she doesn't look like Aphrodite at all. The one we saw on Olympus looks completely different." I exclaim.
"That's because this is her true form. Aphrodite changes to whatever you perceive as beautiful, but she does have an original form before all that. She's just self-conscious about it." Adamos explained.
"Why would she be self-conscious?" I ask. I mean she's the goddess of beauty and even in this she looks breathtaking.
Adamos shrugs. "Who knows. People are self-conscious for any number of reasons." He then presses play.
"Aphrodite. That's a beautiful name." Adamos gave her a soft smile, making the goddess blush, but she still refused to look him in the eyes. "Were you the one that's been following me? He asked. The question caused her to blush to deepen, though it seemed more from embarrassment than anything else.
"I was." She said meekly.
"Can you tell me why?"
Aphrodite looked hesitant at first but seemed to gather the courage to speak. "I-It's because…you're like me." She spoke and each word seemed smaller than the last.
"Like you?" Adamos asked, now more curious than ever.
Aphrodite nodded at the question. "You look like me. Not like anyone else around here."
Adamos looked over her and then realized something. She doesn't resemble any of the nymphs in the slightest. Rather she looks more like a goddess or…a Titaness. Almost immediately Adamos tenses as discreetly as possible, but not discreetly enough as Aphrodite notices and cowers. He reaches forward and mutters a few words before a small light emits from his fingers. He grabs Aphrodite by the wrist a bit forcefully but pays no mind to her distress as his expression hardens.
"Tell me Aphrodite," Adamos spoke with a slight edge, scaring the woman in front of him further. "Why are you really here? And don't bother lying to me. I'll know."
Aphrodite's eyes widen at the close proximity and her voice became mere whimpers instead of words.
"Did you have to be such an asshole." I snapped at Adamos as I watched what was happening.
He turned to face me; his expression blank. "I had to. You just can't take too many chances during war."
"Still didn't have to be such a dick." I mutter as I watch.
"Doing that was the easiest way to see if she was telling the truth. Measuring her heartrate, bodily functions and emotions. It's a primitive magical lie detector but it's incredibly effective on the shorthand notice." He passively explained. "Couldn't risk it if she wasn't alone."
I understood what he was explaining but that didn't mean that I accepted it. The way he was acting towards her was as if he already considered her the enemy without even knowing her. I didn't even want to think about what he would do if she had been.
"Answer. Now." He spoke a bit more forcefully, only making Aphrodite whimper more. Seeing that this wasn't working, along with the magic telling him that her emotions were in genuine fear and confusion he eased up. Loosening his grip and adopting a softer look like the one before. "Answer the question. Please." He asked softly.
This seemed to work as Aphrodite was able to briefly meet his eyes before looking away. "I—I don't know anyone. I was a-always a-alone. E-Everyone is scared of me and I-I don't know why." She explained and then turned, looking into Adamos's eyes fully. "But you look like me!" She managed to drop the stutter as she spoke. "That means that we have to be the same right? It means that I'm not alone!" She exclaims. The desperation in her voice was apparent as she scooted closer to Adamos.
Adamos let out a sigh as he removed his hand from her wrist, feeling slightly guilty as he saw the faint red outline where his hand was gripping. Aphrodite looked fearful and even more confused as the god took out a knife and began to cut away at the net until she was free. "Well?" Adamos asked as Aphrodite just sat in the same spot, still tangled in parts of the net, but ultimately free. Aphrodite took this as her cue and scrambled away from the nets remains but for some reason she didn't flee. Rather she stood off to the side shifting her feet anxiously.
Adamos raised a brow at her as he grabbed what he brought with him. "Was there something you wanted?"
"I—ummm…Can I ask you a question?"
"Sure, why not." Adamos shrugged.
"…Why don't you look like everyone else?" She asked hesitantly.
"You don't know?" Adamos asked but Aphrodite shook her head. "How long have you been by yourself?"
"I don't know."
"Have you tried to talk to anyone else?"
Aphrodite nodded. "I tried but every time they would run and hide or would just bow and not say anything." She says sadly.
"Makes sense." Adamos says quietly, but Aphrodite looks at him inquisitively. "You and I," He points between themselves. "We are gods and goddesses, or at least I hope we both are. Otherwise you would be a Titaness."
"Ok." Aphrodite seemed like she was struggling a bit to understand but seemed to acknowledge it overall.
Adamos let out a sigh. "This is going to be a long conversation. If you want to know more than I suggest coming with me," He swims back towards the alcove in the trench. "It'll be better if we make ourselves comfortable." Aphrodite follows after him at a slower pace since she is busy eyeing her surroundings. That night the two talk. Adamos explains the war with the gods and titans, the primordials, the last quest and some other basic information on the surface world. Of course, Adamos omitted important information but the amount that he explained seemed to be enough for the female immortal.
The sun had long since set on the surface and the ocean had been plunged into darkness, but that didn't bother them as Adamos had pulled something and placed it between them. It wasn't exactly very big or conspicuous, but it did emit a soft light that granted them total clarity of each other.
"So? What do you think?" Adamos eyed her as she was in thought.
"There's…a lot more happening than I thought." She said dejectedly.
This stoked his curiosity. "And what did you believe was happening?"
"Not this." She shook her head before meeting his gaze. "Do you think they will come after me."
"That depends on how well known you are?"
Aphrodite curled herself into herself more. The unspoken answer was quite clear. She had been alone for so long, but she's tried to make contact with the locals on multiple occasions. While fruitless for the goal she wanted, the chances are that her presence has been reported to Oceanus is quite high at this point. Adamos let out a sigh, he knew he shouldn't, but he couldn't in good conscious leave her to the titans. She was beautiful, practically on Nyx's level. Who knew what the titans would do to her if they found her? Probably add her to a harem or something "If you want," Adamos spoke a bit uncertainly. "you can come along with me while I'm searching."
Immediately her expression shifted to one of excitement. "Really!" She scooted up closely in the split second forcing Adamos back into the wall. Her wide eyes and excitement brought images of an excitable puppy to the forefront of his mind.
"Eer, yeah? I mean I could always use an extra set of eyes in my quest."
"Oh, this is going to be so much fun. I finally have a friend and we can do…friend things together!" She squeals in excitement, not really paying much attention to his statement and completely forgetting the fact that he had captured her in a net a while ago. Seeing that she wasn't going to stop he just rested on the wall as she kept talking.
One thing that Adamos had learned after traveling around with his new companion for a few weeks was that she talked. A lot.
That wasn't to mean that what she was saying was all meaningless chatter. On the contrary all that time spent alone meant Aphrodite had plenty of time to learn all about Oceanus's territories, the sea life, and where the most dangerous areas were. The only problem was that her naming sense was just as bad as Nyx's.
"And after we pass mushroom rock, we'll be at Gooby Gooby reef." Aphrodite said happily as she led Adamos in a random direction.
Are you sure you know where your going?" Adamos asked. "I'm pretty sure that we've passed this same place twice."
"I know exactly where I'm going." She huffed as she put her hands on her hips. An action that Adamos knew was a major step forward compared to the timid mess that she was before and quite telling in how familiar she was feeling in his presence. "I know every part of these areas as far as the eye can see and then some. You need to have some faith in me."
"Yeah, yeah. I'm sure you know…every…thing." Adamos drifted off as he suddenly facepalmed at his own stupidity. How had he not thought of this before. He then shakes his head dismissing the idea. He was probably just to comfortable in Aphrodite's presence and was enjoying the companionship too much. "Hey Aphy?" He calls out her nickname, an insistence that she had after the first few days since she says that they were now besties that have achieved ultra-friendship. She always insisted on calling themselves Ultra Best Friends.
"Yeah Adam?" Her nick name for him after he refused to let her call him Ada. That privilege belonged to Nyx.
"Have you ever come across… an area of the sea that has a lot of merfolk and monsters. Someplace that just feels a bit off to you." He asks. The goddess scratches her chin before she snaps her fingers and grins widely.
"You must mean the Bloop trench." She chirps happily.
"The…Bloop trench?" Aphrodite nods ecstatically. "I'm afraid to ask, but why is it named that?"
"Because it's like super dark and depressing trench but I've seen a bunch of monsters all over the place. And every now and then there's a big bloopy sound and all the monsters seem super scared of it when it happens." Aphrodite passionately acts out the explanation, making Adamos let out an amused chuckle.
"Would you mind taking me there." Adamos asks, making Aphrodite freeze in her figurative acting. Uncertainty radiates off of her as she looks away. "Aphy, look at me." Adamos asks softly, making the goddess look at him with the same timid eyes as when they first met. "What's wrong?"
"I…I don't want you to go. If you do you might not come back and I don't want to be alone again." She speaks softly, but her words were clear. "I hate being alone. I hate it more than anything."
"Aphy." The young god gives her an understanding smile as he pulls her into a hug. Her head presses into the crook of his neck as she presses tighter against him. "Nothing is going to happen. Everything is going to be fine."
"You promise?" Her words are muffled by the contact.
"Yeah. I promise." The two leave the embrace and Aphrodite looks a lot less unsure about it.
"Alright. It will take us a day to get there if we don't stop." She says with conviction though some of it still seems a bit forced.
Adamos decides to give her a bit of mercy. "Actually, there's no reason to rush over there. And I do need to gather supplies if the place is really what I hope it is." Aphrodite's smile widens more at the idea of a few more days.
"Right, and we need to maybe good meals too, so that means that I'm cooking." She cuts Adamos off as he was a bout to suggest cooking himself. "No offense Adam but you can barely cook anything past roasted meat and wild plants."
"I'll have you know that those are perfectly acceptable foods." His says defensively.
"Yeah, if your living as a forager. I don't know how you know so many cooking recipes yet somehow are able to mess up just about all of them." She shakes her head in resignation. "It's like a gift and a curse from the universe."
"Hey!" He shouts indignantly but Aphrodite is already heading off in another direction while giggling. Thus, leaving the young god to fume and plan as he catches up to her.
"So were you ever—"
"No comment." Adams cuts off my question.
"Not even a bit of roma—"
"No. Comment." He said with finality. And I took that as MY cue to back off.
The trip took them about three days to make it from their previous destination to the dubbed Bloop trench. And as it turned out Aphrodite was right in her description of the place. The entire area was in one of the deepest areas of Oceanus's territories. The only light that was present was from some of the sea monsters and some glowing stones that littered the walls. It wasn't much but with for the two gods it was like the entire area was dimly lit up. There were still countless shadows and dark places for creatures to hide in, but it was ultimately better than trying to swim into an abyss.
Aphrodite hid behind Adamos as they looked on it from above. The two of them could just feel how different the water was to the surrounding areas. "It feels… chaotic around here." Adamos analyzed the few viable entry points.
"It's why I avoid this place. It's like nothing good comes from here." Aphrodite shook her head in disapproval.
Adamos however was feeling a different emotion judging by the large grin on his face. "Are you kidding? This place just seems to scream of an adventure." He said excitedly.
"You can't be serious?" The goddess looks at her friend as if he just grew a second head. "Oh, my Chaos you are. Fine if you really want to, I need you to promise me that you'll come back alive." She said sternly.
Adamos raised a brow but just smirked at her. "Alright. I promise that I won't die, and I'll make it back to you."
"You better or else… or else I'll use you as bait for a sea monster." She says with her fiercest glare, which for the young god was as fierce as a puppy.
"I'll hold you to it then." He snorts.
"You—" Aphrodite was prepared to give him an earful when suddenly a loud pulse echoed throughout the depths. Everything seemed to stop as it happened, as if their instincts were warning them that something was down there with them. "You have to go! You need to go now!" Aphrodite said forcefully as she pushed Adamos towards the trench. "You'll only have a minute before the monsters regain their senses.
Adamos's eyes widen and he swims off as fast as he can. He didn't say goodbye as this was more important. That, and the fact that he knew he would see her again so what was the point He always hated goodbyes anyways. Also the fact that in his mind, all he could think was, 'It does sound like a Bloop.'
The young god sped down into the trench, going deeper with each passing moment. Out of the corners of his vision he see's large sea monsters all slowly coming to their senses. This pushes him even further as theses creatures were each big enough that they could bite a large piece out of him. Nothing he couldn't handle but it was the sheer numbers that worried him.
"Whatever is down her must be powerful." He mutters to himself as dives deep enough that the light begins to dim drastically to the point that he can barely see in front of his face. The pressure bears down on him like a massive weight on his everything. He lets out a sigh when he reaches some sort of bottom, as he know what he has to do. Potentially this will just make him a target for any deep-sea predators down here but at the moment vision is more important since he doesn't know where he's supposed to go. Adamos clasps his hands together in front of him and begins to blow air into them, as if he were trying to warm his hands up on a winters day. Steadily a glowing light begins to seep out from between his fingers.
After a moment he appears satisfied with what he's done and opens his hands. A small glowing orb floats a few feet away, it's golden white body emitting a bright glow and illuminating the area around him to reveal…
Skeletons.
Lots of skeletons.
"Why do I feel like this is going to be much harder than I thought." Adamos scratched the back of his head.
"Why? Why did you have to jinx yourself?" I groaned as I watched.
A slow movement out of the corner of his eye has Adamos turning quickly enough to see the tail end of…something disappear into the darkness. "Defiantly not sticking around here." He mutters and swims forward.
The whole trench seemed to stretch on in many different winding ways. He'd been down here for hours? Days? He didn't even know how long yet so far, he had been attacked by no less than ten different beasts all trying to turn him into their next meal. They never got close, but the difference between the deep-sea monsters and the ones closer to the surface were vast. For one thing, many of theses deep sea monsters were ugly as all Tartarus and a majority of them had tentacles. If he didn't know better than he would have thought that tentacles were a prerequisite for anything living down here.
Adamos scowled as he pulled his spear out of sea monster number eleven. This one was much stronger than the others, so much so that he had to use his magic and some of his godly power to kill it with ease.
"Maybe I'm finally going in the right direction." He mused aloud as he used his spear to carve a large X in the cliff face wall. He had started doing this sometime ago after he found that he was going in circles and passed the same shark skeleton three times. He then swam off, not bothering to take a trophy from his newest victory. The blood from the trophy would only attract more beasts to him, like how he was sure that the corpse was already being feasted on by the denizens of the deep.
After continuing to travel even deeper down for what felt like forever for the godling his stomach began to growl. Deciding to stop and eat he sat down against a rock spire that he found randomly close to him. Digging into his satchel he pulled out what was left of his food from Nyx. He kept the divine delicacies as rations since he didn't need to eat to much of it to feel full. That and he enjoyed hunting and cooking his own food, and despite what everyone else said, his cooking was GOOD DAMMIT! At least when ever he doesn't try anything complicated.
Adamos was so lost in his internal musings and halfway through his food that barely noticed that for some reason the spire that he was resting against began to move. Pausing halfway into delivering the ambrosia to his mouth he froze. Very slowly he turns his head behind him until he's halfway facing a giant eyeball.
He blinks.
The eyeball blinks.
They both blink.
The creature that the eyeball belongs to lets out a shriek as Adamos lets out a 'manly' scream of surprise and jumps out of the way and being forced to drop his food and bag of stuff that he brought with him. The creature rises out of the sand to reveal itself that it's a giant squid with some sort of stone armor on its body. A large portion of its body hidden underground as it emerges revealing it's size to be around the same as a giant squid if a bit bigger.
"No, my food." Adamos shouts as he realizes what he just did. "It's okay, maybe I can still salvage the rest o—" His hopes were dashed as one of the squids tentacles slapped down, crushing the bag and his food.
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"RRRRRRRRRAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!" With an enraged battle cry the young god puts power into his feet, much like he does on the surface for his star step. His spear becomes coated in celestial fire and in righteous fury he charges forth like a streaking comet, stabbing the squid against the trench wall. The force of the charge cracking its armor plating and making inky blood spill out, the trench wall is massively indented from the force of the charge and decorated in a spiderweb of cracks.
I give Adamos a deadpan look. "Really?"
My godly brother turns away, but the apparent blush is still spread throughout his face. "Just shut up." He mutters without looking me in the eyes. I give a sigh and press the play button.
Adamos roars furiously at the squid as it tries to free itself. He charges once more, burying the spear even deeper since its protective plating had been broken. However, that wasn't the only thing that was broken as the trench wall seemingly caves in on itself, causing the two of them to fall through a hole and into a dark abyss.
"—this come from?"
"How should I know?"
"You were on shift."
"Oh, suddenly it's my responsibility to know everything that goes on."
"That's literally your job description! You're on look out duty. You have to look out for shit like this!"
Adamos blinks his eyes rapidly as the voices grow louder. A dull throb pounds against the inside of his skull before he shakes most of it away. Slowly he pushes himself off the ground, feeling a bunch of weights roll off his back and thud next to him. He finally raises his head to find…
Light?
A soft blue glow encompasses the surrounding area, flickering like a flame at night. But that wasn't right. Adamos knew he was still in the ocean's depths unless it was magic, which would explain the blue color. He brings himself to move closer to the light source, wariness and sore muscles the only things that keep him from going faster.
His head peeks around a large piece of stone, watching the two mermen arguing about something as they look over the corpse of the giant squid that he killed.
"Look its just a corpse. It probably just got into a fight with a larger monster and lost. End of story." On of the merman spoke in a grumpy and tired tone. His body covered in a shiny blue armor, which would have looked good on a proper soldier. However, this merman was kinda spilling out of the openings in his armor, his blue tinted skin kinda visible.
"But this doesn't look like any—" The second one spoke as he examined the corpse. He was clearly much younger than the other along with sea green skin and seemed to have the opposite problem. The fact that his armor seemed to be two sizes too big for him.
"Just drop it kid." The fat one cut him off.
"But—"
"Listen kid. You'll learn on this job that nothing happens here. Lord Oceanus wants whatever he has here locked away from the rest of the world. For what? I don't give a damn. But you have to know that no one knows we're down here. And even if they did, it would take an army to get past all the creatures that lurk down here let alone the twisting passages." The fat one explained in agitation.
"But—"
"Nothing has happened worth notice for the last five years and I highly doubt it will start now. But if it'll make you feel better, even if some idiot manages to get down here, they'll never get past the two guardians without the keystone." The younger guard looked nervous but just gave up on arguing with his elder. It was painfully obvious just how new he was to the position.
Adamos held a blank expression as he watched the two. Apparently by sheer dumb luck he managed to find what he was looking for AND come across two totally inept guards during their way back to the holding place of whatever it was he was looking for.
Honestly, he didn't know if the fates were cutting him a brake or if they were just setting him up for a round of punishment. Shaking his head loose of those thoughts he checked and made sure he was still equipped. Luckily for him all of his weapons were still attached to his person. The only thing that was missing was his bag of supplies. But that wasn't a real loss as he only brought easily replaceable items with him in the first place.
"I don't want to stay here any longer." The fat guard spoke as they turned away from Adamos's position." The sooner we're out of here the bet—" He never finished that sentence as he was struck in the back of the head with the butt of Adamos's spear, knocking him out. The younger guard panicked and fumbled trying to pull his sword out, but he was far to slow as Adamos rushed him and buried his fist deep into his gut. His body hunching over in pain, the young guard felt the point of the spear on the back of his neck.
"So, tell me, what exactly does one need to do get into that vault of yours?" Adamos says and when the young guard looks up, a cold trickle of fear travels down his body at the sight of the predatory grin of the intruding god.
Adamos tightens the strap on the stolen armor as he swims closer to the fortified vault. He knows that he doesn't look like the other guards physically, but that wasn't the point. The lack of blue and green skin was apparent as well as the lack of pointed ears, but the armor was so that no one would look into his presence too much if they caught a brief glimpse of him. He reaches into the pouch he took and pulls out the glowing stone. According to the guard its supposed to let whoever has it pass by the vaults guardians without a problem. The only problem was that Adamos didn't know what kind of guardians they were.
"Well, he better be right." Adamos says as he sees the vault up ahead. The vault was like a fortress built into the cavern wall. Off to both sides of the fortress were two large caves that seemed empty, if not for the barely audible growls he heard.
Not wanting to wait around for whatever was inside he moved a bit faster towards the single door large that lead inside. It stood a good three feet taller than him, clearly to be used by a larger person.
Quietly opening it enough to peek inside Adamos saw that the room was empty, which meant that this was probably where those two were stationed. As quietly as he could he slipped inside and swam as stealthily as he could, sticking to the forts walls and darker corners.
Luckily for him the places layout was pretty simple. With one large room meant to lead to the vault and multiple rooms were on either side. Not wanting to spend too long since the room was empty, he swam as quickly as he could to the farthest door at the end of the hall. Only to swim towards the ceiling as a duo of guards swim into the room. Pressing himself as far against the stone surface as possible he watches with held breath as they pass below. Silently counting his blessings and then making a mental note to look up more often he moves over to the large doors, pulling them open and slips inside. Adamos lets out a breath of relief as he quietly closed the door and turns around.
To find a trio of spears all pointed at his throat.
"Who are you!?" One of the three guards demands. His armor having golden outlines indicated that he was likely the one in charge of the fort.
"I'm a new recruit?" Adamos tried to sound convincing but clearly by the way that the spears inched closer they weren't buying it. "Guess it's plan B." He muttered and broke out into a grin as he batted away their spears and lunged forward, catching one of the guards off balance he landed a devastating punch right in his face with enough force to knock him back a dozen meters. The shock of the sudden speed made the other two pause long enough for Adamos to grab the fallen spear and jab at the closest opponent, which wasn't the commander.
The guard managed to put up a half decent defense and haphazardly block the spear but was unable to retaliate to the spartan kick to the gut followed by a knee to the face.
"ALL SOLDIERS WE HAVE AN INTRUDER! I REPEAT WE HAVE AN IN—" The commander screams into a small glowing red marble but was cut off as Adamos grips his helmet with one hand and smashes him face first into the floor.
"That's enough of that." Adamos sighs as he begins to discard his armor as there was no point in wearing it more since it seemed as if he was about to have company. "Now let's see what I came for." Adamos muses as he looks to the center of the room, where the only noticeable object sits on a pedestal.
A large blue ball, roughly the size of a soccer ball, sits in the center of the room, atop a pedestal. Its blue coloring swirling and shifting like a current of water. The object, whatever it is just seems to radiate raw power in wave, making Adamos shiver in its presence. "Haven't felt this jumpy since I met the primordials. Though I must say I never suspected for this to be what the fuss was all about."
Not wanting to waste any longer than necessary Adamos scoops the ball under his arm and draws his sword, which is far more suited for one armed combat. His ears then perk as he hears the guards now all converging on his location. A smirk spreads across his face as celestial light spreads across his blade. Since stealth was out the window, flashy destruction was the way to go as Adamos swings the sword in a powerful diagonal slash, causing a crescent of celestial energy to fly from the blade and destroy the doors and injury anyone on the other side.
Immediately the young god swims past the wreckage and injured bodies and to the front entrance.
"—lease. The. Guardians." A guard groans out before succumbing to unconsciousness, but Adamos pays it no attention as he shoulder charges the front entrance and out into the cavern. He pushes himself further as the prospect of this ending is all too appealing. He was in such a rush he barely registered the feeling of his hairs standing on end and the sirens screaming out of danger in his mind. Acting on instinct he swims to the side quickly he narrowly avoids the massive set of teeth that would have bitten him in half, but that couldn't be said about the set of claws that knocked him into a wall.
With a sharp gasp in pain he opens his eyes and immediately swims out of the way as whatever is attacking him tries to take another bite.
Now with enough distance between him and his attackers, the godling is able to take in their appearance.
The two creatures in front of him are massive, with both being around 18 meters tall or roughly 60 feet. Their bodies looked similar to that terrible American Godzilla remake, with their bodies being some kinda raptor, crocodile hybrid, although it's face more closely resembled a sharks.
I lean out of my seat as I begin to shovel popcorn into my mouth.
"Holy shit." Adamos says in awe, but the smile on his face doesn't seem to fade. He tightens his grip on his sword and the blue orb. He then swims out of the way as the seconds guardian makes a lunge at him. The flow of water as the beast passes him pushes Adamos off course but not before charging the energy around his sword and slashing at the guardians side, leaving a large, albeit shallow gash in its side as it was barely able to cut through the scaly armor.
The guardian roars in pain as it's tail swings at Adamos who barely dodges it. The young god tenses and turns around to feel the massive roar from the first guardian roar directly at him. The volume so loud and the proximity so close that he screams out in pain and shuts his eyes.
This proves a mistake as it gives the second guardian the chance to come around with jaws wide and swallowing him whole with a massive audible snap.
The snap makes me jump and the popcorn spill. "Holy shit!" I shout and then look at my brother. "You got eaten by that thing."
Adamos scowls in disgust at the image but doesn't say anything.
The guardian growls as it shakes its head vigorously. It's face seems to contort into a scowl as it tenses. Then slowly its mouth begins to open, with Adamos inside of its mouth, his body covered in wounds and golden blood flowing into the water around him. His face red with strain and rage as he uses one arm to forcefully open the guardian mouth while holding the orb in his other hand. His sword being held between his teeth.
Adamos's muscles bulge under the strain as he slowly overpowers the beasts bite, but it proved for not as the guardian rams the top of its head into a cavern wall, forcefully closing its mouth and swallowing its prey.
Inside the guardians mouth the sudden force causes the jaw to snap shut and for Adamos's feet to slip on the creatures tongue. It was only due to sheer luck and instinct that he was able to avoid losing an arm in the creatures teeth, but at the moment he wasn't able think about that as he slid down the guardians throat.
Not wanting to end up a resident in a monsters stomach as he had heard the stories of being trapped in a stomach too many times from his family, he grabs his sword from his mouth and stabs it into the guardians esophagus. The blade sinking deep into the internal flesh.
Outside the guardian lets out a strangled gurgle as it began to thrash and claw at its throat. Then slowly its throat begins to glow brighter by the second until a flaring, shining light erupts out of its throat looking like a blowtorch.
A muffled roar sounds out as the light travels across the throat, cutting it halfway in off, with the only thing keeping it tethered to the body being the spinal cord.
Standing on the bloody remains of the guardian's neck stump was a physically haggard and beaten Adamos. His body covered in wounds and stained with monster blood and godly ichor. He looks as if he is about to collapse at any moment, but he firmly keeps the treasure pressed to his chest and the sword in his tight grip. The blue orb during this time seems to be faintly pulsing at a constant and steady pace, but the godling doesn't seem to notice it as he scans his surroundings for the second guardian.
A roar behind him makes Adamos turn around to find a massive rock about to crash into him. In the split second he charges his sword once more and uses it to cleave the stone into pieces. But the guardian was no mere mindless beast as it used the floating pieces as a smoke screen to claw at the godling.
With wide eyes he turns and exposes his back in order to huddle over the orb for protection as that was the direction it was coming from and he had no way to block the claw with his sword or even dodge. The guardians claws tear three large gashes of flesh on his back and the arm holding the orb.
"GGGAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!" Adamos screams in pain as he is sent careening into the seafloor and crashing through a pile of old bones.
Adamos opens his eyes and he feels his body on fire. Inwardly cursing at everything. Especially how he couldn't drop the orb since with the beast thrashing about in a rampage the odds of it crushing the treasure was high.
The godling picks himself out the pile of bones and picks up his sword, which lay at his feet. The guardian swims straight at him with claws and jaw wide to finish him off. Adamos grits his teeth and coats his sword in celestial energy. He had only one chance for this to work but he would be dead otherwise if it didn't.
As the beast got closer the young god raised his sword like a javelin and threw it with all his might. The blasphemy of a projectile flies like a shooting star and pierces the guardian through his eye and out the back of its skull, causing it to come crashing down in front of him. His sword striking the wall on the opposite side of the trench cavern, becoming nothing more than a irreparable hunk of scrap metal. as it strikes rock and causing massive amounts of destruction.
"RRRRAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!" The young god let out a roar of victory before slumping over and lazily swimming off with a tired smile on his face.
That is until the rumbling of moving rocks echo from behind him. The sound like a grenade going off to his ears as he freezes in place and looks back. The guardian slowly rises from its laying position as it fixes Adamos with it's one eye full of hate.
Adamos doesn't even wait as he immediately begins to star step away. His body coated in celestial light and making him a beacon in the darkness, but he didn't care as the guardian was already chasing after him. The beast having lost any and all forms of self-control in the sole desire to kill the godling as it destroys the surrounding walls and trampling other sea monsters in its chase.
Adamos pushes himself on as he goes through random tunnels in order to make it back up to the upper layer of the sea where hopefully the open enough space will allow him to grab a weapon of some sort that he left up there. But at the moment his body was suffering through immense pain and exhaustion.
"COMEONCOMEONCOMEONCOMEON!" He speaks through grit teeth as he pushes his star step too the limit that his exhausted body can handle. The sounds of roaring never fading from his ears as runs.
Then a brief glimmer of hope appears when he see's a faint trickle of light appear out of the corner of his vision and Adamos makes a sharp turn that almost gets him eaten, and he races towards light.
Closer!
Closer!
Adamos chants in his head as he reaches the light, which is a narrow passage and bursts through it and out into the vast open upper area of the ocean. The area even being familiar as near where he originally entered the trench from.
'Wait? Then that means…" Adamos looks and it only takes him a brief moment to realize that Aphrodite was just a ways away, watching him as he came out of the trench. The breaking of stone interrupts his thoughts as he realizes that the guardian is still after him. Its rage and determination far more than he first thought.
"Dammit why won't you just DIE!" Adamos shouts as he faces the rupturing guardian. His free hand covers itself in celestial flames and its intensity begins to increase rapidly in response to the young god's anger until it reaches a peak and elongates, turning into a long glowing lance made of fire and light. Without even thinking of what he was doing or what was happening, Adamos throws the lance with all his might. The projectile flying twice as fast as his sword and with far more force straight into the monsters face as it charged forward with jaws wide to bite him in half.
The guardian couldn't even react in time as the lance reaches it and then explodes in a mighty radiance. The explosive force upends large swaths of sea floor and above the surface a massive pillar of water reaches towards the very sky. But Adamos notices none of this as his close proximity catches him in the blast radius. He clutches the blue treasure to his person in an iron embrace as his body hits and bounces across the sea floor until breaking through a large stone. The sound of a voice calls out to him, but it is distorted and fading. And a head of blonde hair enters his view before he passes out.
"Adamos!" Aphrodite screams in terror as she watches her friend get hit by the massive blast that he caused. Her limbs moving through the water as she tries to move to her friend as fast as she can.
It didn't take much effort to find him she found him as she simply followed the massive groove carved into the sand to his unconscious form next to a broken boulder. Her mind begins to panic as she looks over all of his numerous injuries. "NONONONONONO!" She begins to hyperventilate as she sees all the godly and monster blood that covers him as well as how much he is bleeding.
"W-Wait. H-He said t-that there were healers on the surface." Aphrodite mutters in a panic as she doesn't know what to do exactly. "Please work." She pleads as she closes her eyes and begins to call on whatever godly power she has. Ever since they meet Adamos has been helping her with a bit of control of some of the godly powers she didn't even know she had.
The water around them began to morph, taking form beneath the two immortals and lifting to the surface above the waves. Aphrodite grabbing Adamos's free hand and gripping it tightly, as if she were afraid that he would vanish at any moment.
When the rising stops, Aphrodite opens her eyes to see that they are sitting on top of the waves. She looks around until she spots a mass of land nearby, and not trusting the cushion of water to last very long she uses her powers to gather sea water and sea foam into a form and transform it. The mass shifts and morphs until it morphs into a massive seashell large enough for the two of them. "Just hold on Adamos. You'll get better. I promise." Aphrodite says full of emotion to her unconscious friend, and for the first-time tears are allowed to freely be seen rolling down her beautiful face. With her will the waves and wind push the floating shell towards land.
However, neither were aware of the oddities going on with the blue orb that Adamos was still clutching to his side as the orb greedily sucks up all of the blood that freely flow out of the young god. Its pulses softening but continuing at a steady rate.
Then the screen fades to black.
As the movie ends, I lean back and rest in the comfy seat. "So, on a scale of one to ten how gross is it being swallowed by a monster?"
Adamos makes a grossed face. "Its easily a seven, maybe seven and a half."
"Really?"
"Yeah. If your lucky enough to avoid being ripped apart by teeth, then the worst part is the smell."
"Yeah…but it was cool to see you Hercules your way out of it." I said and Adamos gave me a weird look. "You know, that animated movie by Disney. The scene where the hydra eats him?"
"I know the one." Adamos scowls. "This came first so if anything, that blowhard pulled a me." He said with a serious huff. I raised a brow at his attitude at something so petty but shook it off. He can be weird about the most minuscule things.
"You know I'm still surprised that you meet Aphrodite down at the bottom of the ocean." I commented.
He shrugs. "She was born from Uranus's remains when they fell into the ocean. It's not exactly out there that she wouldn't know anything and just wandered around when you think about it."
I nodded in acknowledgement until something came to mind. "Wait. Isn't that painting of Aphrodite on the seashell supposed to represent when she first came to land?"
Adamos let out a small laugh. "Never would have thought you would make that connection,"
"Hey!"
"But yeah. The island we landed on was Cyprus. And like all mortal perceptions of godly events they are both wrong and right at the same time. We did use the winds and waves to land on Cyprus, but Aphrodite wasn't alone, and she wasn't naked. Granted the clothes she wore were barely anything at all, but she wasn't completely naked." Adamos explained.
"Okay. One last question."
"Shoot."
"During different parts…how did you know the parts that you weren't there for?"
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"I'm putting in the next movie."
"Wha—Hey answer the question!"
"NEXT MOVIE!" He shouted as he began to work on the projector.
A/N: Okay al you sexy beasts out there. This is pretty late in coming out and for that I am once again sorry. Personal issues got in the way. Things like how I'm planning on moving out of my apartment, school issues, sudden minor diagnosis of depression. Simply things. But things are getting better. I've managed to get back into a bunch of hobbies that make me feel happy.
This entire chapter has just been a bunch of rewrites for me since in some points I just find myself writing and writing and then going back to read it over but having to re do it. Sometimes I just get an idea of an entire scene that I want in the chapter and I have to find a way to shift the story around to fit it. Sometimes its worth it and sometimes its not and I have to scrap it.
Anyways I read a found a few reviews that I think I can answer.
Theyessirnosir: Yes Percy will have more powers than just earth and water however he won't have all of Adamos's powers. I plan to bring up why later.
Paramonidos: No I won't do Perzoe. Sorry that's not what I'm really going for.
Jason wu: Firsts things first. Adamos knows more than Athena but that doesn't make him smarter than Athena. I'd say they fluctuate between whose smarter since Adamos is incredibly creative and knows more. But Athena is the goddess of wisdom so if presented with a problem, she is more likely to come up with the correct answer than Adamos. They are equals in intelligence. The main difference is that Adamos is a people person and knows how to sway others. Two, any mention of powers before the banishment are how strong Adamos was at the time. In the current period Adamos's powers have not been recorded or mentioned so no one but he and I know just how powerful he actually is. Three, Nyx knows where Adamos is he still vacations at her home every other century. Also, I never said that Athena and Adamos never had sex nor did I say that they ever did. ;p