Well readers, here it is, the chapter where Nigel meets his brother, and based on the results of the poll this brother shall be known as...*drum roll*...Lazarus! That's his name now please enjoy, cuz we're nearing this arc's climax!
Chapter 16: I meet-and fight-my brother
It took all of my restraint to not let my jaw drop down to the ground cartoon style when this kid called me his brother. I shook my head to try and get myself to focus as I looked at him again.
He definitely did look like me, had the same eyes and everything. Honestly if he wasn't shorter than me you'd probably think we were twins or something.
"Sorry, what?" Jason said to the kid. "Who are you?"
The kid looked at him in a demeaning, 'I'm better than you, so watch your tone' kinda way before sneering. "Not that it's any of your business, Son of Jupiter, but my name is Lazarus, Lazarus Jager." He then looked back at me. "And I am a Son of Tartarus, just like you, Nigel, dear brother."
I couldn't believe my ears at this point, Jager? His last name was Jager? That made no sense, my mom died when I was little, and this guy looked to be at least two years younger than me. How could this have happened?
Lazarus evidently saw how confused I was, because he started monologuing again. "If you're wondering how I came into being and why you didn't know, it was because I was born two years after you were born, and when the gods found out that there wasn't just two sons of Tartarus but two from the same family, they ordered our mother to give me to the Roman Camp in exchange for letting me live, and I was to be sealed with a similar seal to yours." He turned and showed us that he had a seal too, but was in the shape of the Alpha symbol.
"An alpha seal…" Reyna gasped. "Now I understand...why didn't I recognize it sooner?"
"Huh?" I asked, not sure what she meant.
"It's a type of seal put any being, Demigod, Demititan, or Demi primordial that either may have powers that are too dangerous to run rampant, or on someone who can't easily control them. It suppresses and dampens their power." She explained. "It's opposite the omega seal does the same, but with outside influences."
"Seems we have a sharp one here." Lazarus sneered. "While that is true, you left out one crucial detail."
"And that is?" I growled as Suppressor started to get heavy again, weighing down my arm.
"The only way to break either seal is to allow someone with the opposite seal make contact with them." He said, fiddling with the nails in between his fingers, which I had just noticed were made of Tartarus silver.
"That explains why the gods separated you two." Jason said, looking at me. "So you wouldn't break each other's seals."
Leo meanwhile was keeping close to Calypso and Festus, a giant hammer in hand as he was completely lost at this point. "This is so heavy!" He said.
Lazarus then called back his three nails on the ground and tossed them up and down in his hand. "Our father has told me that he wishes you dead, since you will not cooperate, so he can take your body by force." He then stopped tossing the nails and got one in between each finger. "And to do that…" He then threw the nails at us and made them grow, separating him and me from the others. "I need to break our seals."
I growled as I brought out Suppressor, not caring about how heavy it was right now. "I'll tell you the same thing I told that bastard. You'll get my body when I'm dead."
The little twerp smirked and tossed some more nails. "That's the point isn't it?" He said as he threw two at me. I deflected one but the second grazed my shoulder.
"Gah!" I hissed as I held my shoulder, celestial bronze only stung when it hurt me, this however burned.
"Painful isn't it?" Lazarus taunted as he made the nail that missed me grow and go into my leg, which made me cry in agony at the pain. "Good, now you shall know, pain."
I could barely react as the nail that grazed my shoulder extended from behind me and grazed my side as I barely managed to dodge. The nails extended back to Lazarus as he made them small again and just smuggly grinned as I tried to stand up.
"How the hell are you doing that?" I growled.
"Our father granted me to bend the metal he created to my will, and instead of giving me countering and suppression powers like you, he granted me absorption powers." He said smuggly.
I growled but what he said gave me an idea, as I made Suppressor disappear, I brought out Rebellion and held it in a reverse grip. I had a plan up my sleeve now, and he wouldn't see it coming.
Out of the corner of my eye I could see Reyna, Jason, Leo and Calypso looking at my in worry, especially Reyna.
"What are you doing you idiot? Why don't you run?!" She said.
I wiped the blood from my mouth as I straightened myself up. "I would if I could, but I can't." I told her, looking at her as I gave her a thumbs up. "But don't worry, I will win this fight if it's the last thing I do. I promise."
Then Lazarus cuts in as he charged at me with a nail he extended into a spear. "How poetic, brother!" He said as he slammed the stick into the side of my head, making me fly up against the bars that were holding us in. "But I'm afraid you won't be seeing her after this fight."
I stumbled up as I held Rebellion tightly. "That's What you think." I then let all the power I'd been building up go into Rebellion as I raised it. "Revenge Slash!" I yelled as a wave of dark energy collided with Lazarus as he was sent flying, colliding with the bars as well with a sizable wound on his chest.
The kid stumbled to his feet as he coughed up blood. "What, What was that?" He gasped.
I returned Rebellion and got out Suppressor again. "That was revenge slash, if I take damage while using Rebellion I can store it and release it in a large attack later."
Lazarus stumbled up as his wound kept bleeding. "You still won't win." He said as he picked up the nails he dropped.
I then twisted my grip on Suppressor as it glowed red. "Says who?" I said as the energy went through me as my power soared and my wounds healed. "Critical Overload!"
I gripped my staff as I swung its ax end around, slicing through a pile of cars as it sent Lazarus flying back into the side of a large volkswagen and for my second strike with the spearhead I slashed again as he was sent through the Volkswagen and out the other side.
He got up slowly but I could tell he was in pain that's when I rushed forward and punched him in the gut. "Take this you smug little twerp!" I yelled.
"Nigel no! Don't touch him!" Reyna yelled.
I was about to pull away before Lazarus grabbed my arm and our backs glowed, mine glowed orange and his purple as our seals suddenly broke. He then pushed me away as his wounds suddenly started healing.
"Finally. At long last, I can use my full power." He said, he then punched me in the face as I staggered back and swung the same spear at me again, I blocked most of the blows but my power was slowly starting to decrease, he must be absorbing it.
'Damn it.' I thought. 'I played right into his hands.'
I tried to attack him but he forced me back and threw a nail at me which landed behind me and he extended it to where it went into my shoulder. I screamed in pain as he did it again to my other arm. Then called them back and kicked me up against a concrete wall. The back of my head hit the wall hard and everything went fuzzy I couldn't tell what happened after that before I felt terrible pain in my hands and feet before I felt something go into my chest and everything went black.
'Guys...I'm sorry.'
(Right before the blackout, 3rd person POV)
Lazarus grinned as he held up three more nails. "Now to finish this!" He threw one at each of Nigel's outstretched hands, then one at his feet, causing him to be crucified on the wall.
The others looked on in horror, Jason's eyes were starting to spark with lightning and Reyna's eyes slowly started to cloud in a mixture of rage and sadness.
Lazarus made one more spear to throw at his chest, he brought his arm back and aimed. "Goodbye brother." He said as he threw the spear into Nigel's heart.
"No!" Reyna yelled as she fell to her knees.
Jason was the first to snap as he brought up a wave of upheaval and tore up all the rods separating them and used his lightning powers to hit Lazarus dead on. The Demi Primordial absorbed the initial blast, but it didn't matter, as Leo and Festus were next, setting him on fire while Reyna charged at him and stabbed him in the stomach with her sword.
"You're gonna regret that." Jason said as Lazarus writhed in pain, only to be zapped again.
"And we're going to make you pay for What you've done!" Reyna growled.
Little did they know however that the Now lifeless body of Nigel was starting to get a black smoke into it, and this black smoke was slowly starting to cause it to change shape.