A/N Chapter two of the game and Pit meets a human, up close, for the first time. How will this all go, found out now in

Working with Humans

At the start of this mission Pit was told that a human army was working towards the Dark Lord Gaol's castle. When he first approached the ground, he was amazed at how the humans managed to traverse the mountains surrounding the castle. Seeing just how force the humans were able to amass for this fight amazed him, but he was brought straight into the castle due to his time limit.

The outside of the castle was foreboding with it's sturdy stone walls and towers illuminated with piercing red light, but the inside was a whole other story. Each room was built high ceilings, and switches that one had to hit to activate the doors nearby.

After commenting on the impressive structure, Palutena says that it was actually built in a hurry to be used as a stronghold. She also goes into saying how all the monsters there are meant to bring darkness and sew sadness into the world. After that down note the goddess turns upbeat. "Are you excited?"

Pit answers as he fires at one of the monsters. "Sure, It's like a party where everyone wants to kill me. What's not to be excited about that?"

As he says that, what could only be the great hall comes into view. Pit thinks it's the great hall at least given the stair cases on either side of the room and the spacious area at the bottom of them. A spacious area that of course had monsters patrolling. In the middle of two pillars between the stairs was an obviously placed chest.

The monsters are easily disposed of with a quick dash and fire. The chest, when opened spat out an Insight staff, which Palutena whisked away for his small collection back in his room. With that out of the way Pit rushes upstairs to begin the process of unlocking the door, only to be blocked by a big skull looking thing.

Palutena provides an explanation. "The Ganewmede guarding the door shouldn't be too much of a problem as long as you don't shoot at it."

Pit heard the explanation. He knows he shouldn't do it. He just stares at the big floating skull that seems to acknowledge him, levels his bow, and fires off an arrow of light. The moment it hits, a large spiked ball comes flying out of his mouth, and Pit quick dodges to the right, just barely avoiding a full on collision and just ends up with a small scrape on his arm.

"Pit! I just told you not to shoot at it." Palutena exclaims over their connection.

Pit scratches at the back of his head once the Ganewmede is taken care of, with close melee attacks. "Sorry, guess I wanted to see what would happen."

"Hold on a minute Pit, I'm sensing treasure to you left." Is heard and Pit looks to the left of the large upper portion of a courtyard. A head of him is a short hallway that has a single door...

"How were you able to sense that?" Pit says entering the room to find four statues of Skuttlers.

"I'm able to sense your surroundings through the Laurel Crown, and through it I can also see what's in your heart." She says as Pit approaches the chest in the center of the room, only to trigger a trap and the four Skuttler statues than come to life and begin closing rank around him.

"Well, that's something." Pit laments as he disposes of the Skuttlers.

Palutena goes on to saying "So you'd better not be thinking of anything... Naughty." in an ominous manner.

"What do you mean?" Pit's almost afraid of the answer he'll receive. Was she aware of all of his mental dilemmas?

She begins to laugh. "I'm only kidding, There's no god or goddess that can read hearts through laurel crowns."

"..." Pit remains silent as he goes through the arch after disposing of the Skuttlers. In the very last room are two chest, these ones actually containing treasure. The first containing a set of large gloves with three claws instead of fingers, and a blade that was gold with red accents, and appeared to be based off the scepter of a king.

With that out of the way he back tracks and begins heading down the correct path to Gaol. But halfway down to the interior garden the flutter of a tapestry catches his eyes, and when Pit goes to investigate, he finds a large ornate chest with the zodiac sign for Sagittarius. With a blessing from Palutena it opens to reveal a gorgeous bow with the symbol carved into the metal. Once again it's whisked away by the goddess.

Leaving the chamber and once again heading down to the interior garden, he's met with an odd sight. Fighting off three monsters at once was a human male. One that was built like a brick wall had scraggly black hair and wielded a huge buster sword like a club. On the exposed skin of his arms with red tattoos one may find associated to a tribe. The human hefts his huge sword over his shoulder and turns to address the angel in the area.

But Pit can hear none of his words.

All he can focus on is something like phantom pains encircling his wrists like lead weights that pull his hands down... Or perhaps his body is pulling on his wrists. He subconsciously places a hand over one of his wrists to try and alleviate the pain he feels.

"Pit is everything ok?"

The sudden question has him straightening up. "Huh? Oh yeah, Just got lost in my own head for a second there." he says focusing on the enemy and begins fighting along side the human named Magnus.

Now, after so many years of serving the Goddess of Light you begin to warm up to the concept of humans. After his first battle, he was able to hear their cheers, but all of them had remained in their homes to avoid confronting the Underworld Army. All Pit could feel were countless eyes peering out at him as he struggled. Now though he's fighting alongside a human and it's making him nervous and unsure of himself.

Magnus said that he'd follow his lead, but what would he know about leading anybody into battle. The centurions only follow him because Palutena has dubbed him worthy of being a captain after about 13 years of training. It's not like they actually enjoy following his lead, and having the human behind him has Pit on edge.

And Magnus is quick to prove that he's a jerk but in a helpful way. He accuses Palutena of slacking on the job, but provides an brief explanation on why. Pit goes to open a treasure box left out in the open, and Magnus says that he should let the small prize and the appearance of monsters be a lesson that not all treasure boxes are ok to open.

So yeah, Helpful Jerk.

But once they actually reach Gaol's throne room Pit begins to think he was right to suspect the human when they address each other in what could be considered a friendly manner.

At first Pit doesn't suspect anything rushing in and takes in the large spacious room, where The Dark Lord stands at the head of it wreathed in dark violet flames. "Prepare to be defeated Gaol!"

"Aw, If it isn't Palutena's little messenger Boy. And Magnus, it's always a pleasure." Gaol says the first part in a mocking tone, but the second part involving Magnus is said in completely honesty.

The implications of what Gaol said overshadow Magnus' next words and than the fight is on.

Magnus rushes in to tackle Gaol head on, and Gaol tries to keep his distance as he fires blasts of energy at Pit. During the fight Palutena shares a pit of Magnus' history with him. Revealing how the two used to be friends and how Magnus lost a child to the Underworld Army.

The most shocking fact to be revealed is when Gaol is defeated and the army breaks away to reveal a woman behind the name. Magnus approaches his defeated friend and falls to his knees. "I'm sorry it had to come to this."

When Pt is recalled to Skyworld He forgoes dinner to practice with his no weapons. The Insight Bow, The Raptor Claws, The Royal Blade and finally the Sagittarius Bow. All the while he contemplates where his wariness of humans came from. He's never encountered them before, but it feels as though the distrust towards the male was well deserved.

The night his dreams take a darker turn. Where he's but a young boy again with newly formed wings. In front of him is a woman he doesn't recognize but behind him, holding his wrists up is none other than Magnus. The woman seems to be pleading for him, but no words come out, instead she seems to dissolve away as a large hand is rested upon one of his wings and begins to pull away.

He wakes with a gasp, and clutches his shoulder in pain. The shoulder under his hand spasms, and Pit tries to massage the area to loosen muscles. Being all too familiar with the pain he grabs his first bow and goes out to the garden.

A/N whoo. What a dozy of a chapter, and I hope you guys could find some references to prior chapters as well as something else in the chapter. Up next is the Hewdraw. Oh the plans I have for that.