Chapter 38: Gift Of A God

The feeling of warmth going down and up my face awakened me from sleep that next morning. This time, I slowly opened my eyes to keep from exploding my pupils. Then sitting at my side in a white fitted night gown was Morrigan, rubbing my face with the back of her soft hand. She had a beautiful smile on her face.

"Goodmorning" she said softly.

I groaned and returned the greeting.

"'Morning"

"C'mon get ready, I'm restless for some excitement" she said happily.

"What time is it?" I asked before I rose to sit up.

"Eleven-seventeen" she replied.

"Ugh..Alright, let me shower and eat" I replied.

"I think you mean us"

I looked at Morrigan to see her lick her lips with a lascivious wink.

^V^

I locked the backdoor after Morrigan exited the house.

"My, it's such a nice day out" I heard Morrigan say behind me.

I turned around to see the sun shining bright in a sky without a single cloud. The breeze was warm and relaxing. It was around somewhere in the seventies, had to be.

I sighed as I looked at the seagulls fly across Malibu's blue sky.
"A shame we won't be here to enjoy it"

Morrigan looked back at me, noticing my quibble. "Oh Jay, we're only in the birth of summer. We'll be here for the nice days, I promise"

"I don't mean to complain, I know the Makai needs me"

Morrigan smiled. "So do I"
She then opened a pink portal and took my hand before walking into it.

Just like that, from a bright and sunny morning, Morrigan & I now just landed into the Makai's dark realm that from the looks, wouldnt surprise me if it was judgement day.

"I hope you don't want any uninvited guests tracking you" Morrigan said to me as she looked across the rocky plains.

"Of course not", I released her hand, "Activate Maka-Vell"

Then at command, the morphonite spread from limb to limb in a volcanic red tone. The S emblem formed in a shade of a glossy navy blue. My new triangular eye covers were of the same color. No more visor. Thanks to me being able to overrun everything with my souls energy, the red stone was now blue and broken into diamond shapes that were embedded on each outer forearm and beneath both knees.

"Hmm, you never seize to amaze do you?" Morrigan said, fascinated.

"Never", I replied. I leaped into the sky and turned back down to Morrigan who was standing below, "I know we aren't going to stay here right?"

She looked up at me with a smile as she placed her hands on her hips. "Of course not"

I watched as her wings fluttered and lifted her into the air as she shot past me.

"Keep up!" she said back to me.

I smirked and sonic boomed into the gray clouds towards her.

I caught up to her and flew upside down beneath her. "Hi"

She looked down below at me in surprise.

"Well hello there you" she replied with a smirk.

I pretended to yawn. "You're an easy person to keep up with ya'know"

She looked back down at me. "Don't be so sure of yourself"

Then, she boosted off further ahead leaving me staring at the atmosphere.

Fuck

I spun around and trailed after her. In the corner of my screen, my suit showed my speed increasing. I had just hit 120 mph. Morrigan was a lot of yards ahead so she had to be at at least going 190.

I used more of my suits power and reached 175 mph. Then I did a sonic boom towards Morrigan.

"About time" Morrigan chuckled.

"I know right?" I said as I flew at her side. "Now you, catch up to me" I then sped ahead.

"Jay! No wait!"

I slowed down & spinned around, waiting for an explanation.

She caught up to me, as we hovered above the clouds.

"We're here" she said. She then descended.

Down below, I noticed where we arrived to.

"Raced to get here huh?" I asked the succubus. I looked below me to see an ancient stone castle.

Morrigan delivered me a wink.
"Right to Romania"

We landed on a window ledge. Morrigan kicked in the glass and leaped in. I followed after her.

"Demitri's old castle?" I asked as I looked around.

"Before my father beat and banished him to Earth"

I observed the place as we snuck across the castles perimeter. So this is what she was saying when she said Belial had ruined Demitri, he ruined his house also. The gray walls were centuries old, made of eroded bricks. The floors were filled with holes and puddles of Makai water. I looked up to see openings in the roof above. Must have been raining earlier. Continuing down the halls, suddenly I came upon a portrait. It was dusty and faded, I walked up to it and wiped the glass with my hand. As I uncovered more of the picture, a mans hostile face appeared. He had a weird hair-do and red eyes.

So this is you

Morrigan walked up to the side of me. "Thats him, is this accurate to what you imagined him to be?"

I couldnt help but to be puzzled at the image in front of me.

"Not at all"

Demitri looked super young, and was muscular from what I saw of his shoulders and chest. He didn't look anything like vampires I see on tv and in books. He wore some blue and red outfit with a white napkin looking thing over his chest. I knew vampires to have on black and white with a skinny frame. Demitri was no where near that.

I turned away from the picture and we continued heading down the hall. The amount of light decreased the deeper we roamed through the castle. Morrigan and I quietly walked down an eroded stairwell that led to a large dim room. Suddenly, Morrigan gripped my wrist. I turned and looked at her, puzzled. She stared ahead.
I looked into the distance. Seconds into adjusting to the light, I see a dark figure standing motionless a few feet ahead. From what I could see, it resembled the grim reaper, only without a scythe. On its head were two horns poking out from the sides, the left one was broken off halfway. The thing had its face tilted low to the floor.

The being then lifted its head.
"Your presence is not so subtle"

Morrigan and I exchanged glances and focused back on the creature.

"Who are you?" I asked.

After my question, the figure floated towards us. I had my guard fully on, this being gave me a weird feeling. He was too inscrutable.

"Fear not, I am in no condition to do you harm" it said. It came to a standstill a few feet before us.

No condition? Something told me this person wasn't to be taken as good.

Morrigan placed a hand at her waist as she studied the being.
"You look quite familiar"

It looked towards her.

"Does 'living deity' ring a bell, demon?", the figure looked back at me. "This old vessel before you is the legendary Pyron"
Slowly, he tilted up his head and revealed his face to me. His skin color was a muddy brown. His face was scarecrow like and his eyes as black as space.

Morrigan grew a smirk on her face.
"Ohh, it's you"

I looked at this Pyron up and down.
"Quite legendary looking for sure"

Pyrons face was deadpan.
"I have no time to spare. My days have been sucked short by the Vampire you seek to kill. I have much vengeance in my soul, but in no state possible to act on it. Though, you are superior, I know you will put an end to him. I make it your decision now, to take my offer or to decline"

I peered at him for a bit.

"What could you offer me?" I asked.

"The last of my power" he said orotundly.

I was taken back by his answer. I'm always hungry for energy.

"Okay...I accept"

"I expected you to" Pyron replied.

Then, by slightly raising his hand, an orange orb manifested in his palm, illuminating the room. It started at the size of a penny to that of a baseball. As it expanded, I noticed from the glow that Pyrons face started to grow faint. Thats when I noticed the orange glow fade from his face when the sphere began floating to me. I summoned a capsule from the substance of the morphonite and deposited the ball into it. I latched it on my waist and focused back on Pyron.

"Do as you will with it, other than destroying Demitri. This is my only business with you all...Become a god, human. You have the potential within you. Farewell"

Just like that, Pyron dispersed into brown dust that floated to the ground like dead leaves in autumn.

"Well" I heard Morrigan say. "That was unexpected"

"Very" I replied.

"I wonder why he gave you his energy and not me" Morrigan said puzzled.

"He gave it to both of us kind of, you know your way of getting it"

"Oh, hush" Morrigan said with a smile.

I laughed a bit. "Come on, I want to go analyze this asap"

We headed back up the stairs to the hall we came in. We leaped out the window and took to the sky. In my peripheral view, I saw Morrigan slow down and turn facing the castle.

"What's the matter?" I asked.

"I can't leave without doing what we came here for" she replied.

Morrigan then changed her wings into some type of weapon. She floated in the air and bursts missiles at the vampire's old home.
There was loud explosions following her attack. The brick castle crumbled into smithereens as it went up in smoke and flames.

"Take that" Morrigan muttered.

Morrigan then shifted back to her wings.

"You done?" I asked.

"Yep" she said happily.

I then opened the cartridge from atop my knuckles and shot off three micro missles of my own which let off an even bigger explosion.

"Just for a finishing touch" I said to her.

Morrigan smirked. I chuckled.

We hit a one-eighty degree turn & blasted off into the atmosphere.