Chapter 116: Calypso
Katrina breathed heavily, feeling nothing but rage at Zeus after he had attacked Jason.
"You know, I knew I would never be able to regain your love, Katrina, but when I saw you letting this lowlife-excuse me, lowlife human...defile you...in the ass no less-!" Zeus paused letting himself calm down, and spoke in a slightly more calm tone, "I loved you, and you betray me..."
"I'm not your Katrina, Zeus!" Shouted the Devil Goddess, "I never was." Zeus clenched his fists, electricity pulsing as his arms morphed into their Muscle Mass form,
"I didn't want to hurt you Katrina..." He took a sharp breath in, and slowly exhaled, letting his arms power down and revert to normal, "...I still don't..." Katrina raised an eyebrow as Zeus walked over to the large windows overlooking the city, "...so next time I let you jump dimensions, I'll send you to a world that can." Zeus raised his hand, vanishing into a flash of red and violet, and Katrina dropped her sword, rushing to Jason who was still dazed from the attack,
"Damn..." he croaked, "...so that was Zeus huh?"
"I'm afraid so," said Katrina, helping Jason to his feet, "you still want to come with me to fight him?" Jason gave her an incredulous look,
"Are you crazy? I just got sent across the fucking room feeling like I just got smacked with a powerline!" Katrina blinked,
"You're still coming, aren't you?"
"Of course I am!" Said Jason with a smile, "Especially now, since he decided to suckerpunch a guy after he got done fucking a hot girl...in her tight ass might I add," he said with a wink. Katrina blushed, and had no words for Jason at that moment.
Two hours later...
Katrina and Jason, now dressed, were packing up the purple Dodge Challenger, and had just fastened their seatbelts,
"So how are we going to find Zeus?" Asked Jason, who shifted the car into drive and exitied the underground parking lot of the penthouse building,
"First things first," said Katrina, "We need to find my friend Adrian. He's the one acting like a loose cannon before I talked some sense into him."
"Got it. So what, should we try to find a magician who knows how to open dimensional portals?" Before Katrina could answer, a massive portal opened up in the middle of the three way intersection in front of them, making Jason slam on the breaks and making the car screech to a halt.
"...Or we could drive through the portal that opened up right in front of us," said Katrina, shrugging her shoulders.
"Well shit, that's convenient," said Jason. He then revved the engine of the Challenger, "Hang on! We have no clue what's going to be on the other side, so brace yourself!" He then stomped the gas, released the brake, sped forward, lurched the car forward while balancing on two wheels. Katrina held on tight just as the car landed back on four wheels, and drove straight through the portal...
The car landed roughly on the other side, and Jason looked around, seeing he was simply in the three way intersection
"Dammit! We'de still in Steelport!" Shouted the Saint, "Well, at least we aren't lost in some other..." his sentence trailed off as he looked to the passenger seat, seeing a fastened seatbelt and a purple bra with fleur-de-lis print, "...Katrina?"
HONK!! CRASH!!
The Challenger was sent to the side as metal was crushed and glass was shattered, with the car rolling out of control down the street, barely stopping when it came into contact with a cruising Hummer, landing on its hood. All the pedestrians looked to what had demolished the Challenger, and saw a lightly damaged cement mixer, and out of the drivers seat hopped a familiar mohawked man in a red muscle shirt,
"Whoo!! I have got to lay off the whiskey before driving!!" He laughed. Above him, standing on the rooftops was Zeus, glaring down at the scene,
"That's what happens when you fuck my goddess...and piss off a god!" He growled to the wreckage. He then turned and walked away, his coat flapping in the wind as he teleported with his red and violet lightning...
Back to Katrina and Damon, present time...
"...Next thing I know, we were speeding to the portal, and when I landed on the other side, I wasn't in Jasons' car anymore."
"So let me get this straight," said Damon, pieceing together everything Katrina had said, "while me and Adrian were duking it out in my home dimension, you were having an anal adventure with a gangster?"
"I'm already regretting telling you that detail," said Katrina, pinching the bridge of her nose in irritation.
"Sorry. But I wonder why the Johnny Gat inspired OC wasn't able to come with."
"Zeus made the portal right? He must have made sure Jason couldn't come with..." Katrina then came to an awful realization, "...Damon...where exactly are we?" Both of them looked around, seeing nothing but dystopian desert highway.
"Looks like some post armageddon shit-WATCH OUT!!" Damon grabbed Katrina and hauled both her and himself to the side of the road, just barely avoiding getting run down by something fast, metal, and white with large pink polka dots. "What the hell was that?!"
"It looked like...an ice cream truck..." Said Katrina, clearly unnerved, for as it sped past, she could have sworn she saw a giant flaming clown head on the roof.
"Well...whatever it was, it's gone now," said Damon. "So...what do we do now?" Katrina shook her head,
"I don't know," said Katrina, "my plan earlier was to go through the portal with Jason to find Adrian and then kill Zeus, but instead I lost Jason, and found out you hitched a ride with Adrian." Damon nodded his head, and suddenly drew out Black Dahlia and Blue Rose, with Katrina summoning Sektors gauntlets and following his glare; not ten feet behind Katrina stood a man with long dark hair and red eyes, dressed in an all black suit with a red tie, giving the two devils a twisted grin,
"Well isn't this a surprise," he said to the two, "you must be Katrina Lagos...and Damon Sparda!"
"And you must be some richboy douche relative of Ozzy Osbourne, am I right?" Damon asked sarcastically. The man chuckled,
"No, but he and I do like the same hairstyle as you've noticed," his chuckle ceased, and his expression changed to one of business measures, "My name is Calypso, and you can say I'm simply a drinking buddy of Zeus."
"That's all I needed to hear!" Said Katrina, drawing back Soul Reaver and charging for the man, only to be sent soaring back by an unseen force, smashing the windshield of Weskers car from the sheer force. She rolled off, unconscious, covered in cuts and glass, while Damon opened fire, but the bullets simply froze in the air in front of Calypso, and the bullets dropped to the ground. He reached into his suit jacket, procurring a small glass bottle with a cork, and as soon as he removed the cork, Damons' guns, swords, coat, and even his Devil Bringer arm turned to smoke, steering into the bottle, followed by more smoke, and he saw Weskers car turn to smoke as well, followed by Katrinas weapons, and to Damons' shock, the gray in Katrinas' skin followed with it, leaving lightly tanned skin, giving Damon a good look at what Katrina could have looked like had she never been cursed. All the smoke entered the bottle, and Calypso topped it off with the cork,
"That's much better!" He said with a smile, pocketing the bottle into his suit jacket, leaving Damon to look at his arm, the Devil Bringer gone and replaced by a normal looking arm, practically human.
"What are you? What have you done?" Damon breathed, in complete and utter shock.
"To put it in easy terms, let's just say I'm God," said Calypso, "and I simply took everything from you two kids. Your special talents, your toys, and your friends Hot Wheels...I can't have overpowered devils going against my human competitors after all." Damon gave Calypso a confused glare, "Zeus has told me everything about you and your comrades...everything. But you see..." Calypso raised a finger, thinking of the right words, "...this is just too easy. So I want to make you a deal." Damon hesitated, but glanced at the unconscious Katrina, whom he knew would panic at the sight of her restored flesh, and sighed in defeat,
"I'm listening..."
"Follow the highway east, and you'll find Diesel City. Play my game, and I will return everything back that was taken from you...if that's what you wish." Damon frowned,
"You'll return everything? My arm? My friends powers? Everything?"
"I could even bring your Umbra Witch friend back to life if you wish..." Damons' eyes widened at Calypso as he mentioned Blair, "...but I can only grant one wish, to either you or Katrina. Not both." Damon looked down at the ground, glanced back at Katrina, and sighed,
"Calypso, right?" The man nodded, "It sounds like a good deal...too good. So you sir, can take your deal and shove it." Calypso laughed loudly,
"I like your bravado! Let's see how long it will last in the game." Damon heard Katrina groan, breifly turned to see her rubbing her head, but once he turned to look back at Calypso, the man was gone without a trace. With Calypso gone, Damon rushed to Katrina, helping her to het feet,
"Katrina! Are you alright?" She blinked several times, waking herself back up, and saw Damons' arm,
"Damon! What happened to your...!" She stopped when she saw her own hands, seeing the gray was gone, then pulled her shirt away from herself to look down and in, and her shock turned to horror, "Damon...I haven't felt like this since before I killed my stepdad...!"
"Meaning...?" She turned to Damon, telling him a sentence he never thought he'd hear,
"We're human!!"
A/N: So now we have a new crisis for Katrina and Damon, after a while we will catch back up with Adrian, but for now, feel free to read and review!
