Chapter 155: Something To Say
Adrian and his friends stared at Zeus in disbelief,
"Just how in the buttfuck hell is that possible?" Asked Jason.
"Easy. The Blacklight Virus," answered Zeus, "as long as it flows through my veins, I am damn near unstoppable." Adrians' eye became shadowed as he and his friends slowly rose to their feet,
"Just give it a damn rest Zeus!" Shouted Damon, "Your God-Slayer cockring is busted thanks to Issei."
"A minor setback that can be corrected," Zeus scoffed. Llarya tightened her grip on her axes,
"Was my tribe, and my friends mother, a setback?"
"They were an obstacle. So I removed them." Thatan growled at Zeus, keeping Pennie behind himself to protect her,
"And what of my people, Zeus? Or the Asari? Were they an obstacle as well?!"
"What happened to the Sangheili and Asari was the Resurgences' doing, not mine," Zeus defended.
"So I guess my fathers murderer getting super strength wasn't you either, was it sparkplug?" Asked Jason, jumping into the fray.
"Do each of you have something to say?" Asked Zeus, growing impatient.
"Not all of us," said James, lifting his revolver and aiming at Zeus' head.
BLAM!
TINK!
Zeus brought a hand to his mouth, pulling out the bullet he caught in his teeth.
"Nice shot," complimented Zeus. He then sent another shockwave at the group, knocking them all back down. As they picked themselves up, it was now Pennie who spoke up,
"You used to be a good man Calvin!" She called to the devil god, "There is no possible way losing Katrina and Elsa could have made you like this!" Zeus glared at Pennie, and sent a red and violet bolt of lightning down from the sky and straight down upon her, causing her armor to smoke, crack and break apart, leaving her in a torn black body suit as she fell to the ground. Thatan rushed to her, craddling her as Damon stepped forward,
"Oh sure, strike the only blue girl in the group with lightning, you racist motherfucker!" Zeus closed his eyes with a sigh,
"Damon, if it had been you who mentioned my love and my daughter, I would have struck you with lightning twice as hard."
"Favoritism then!" Shouted the white haired devil.
"Damon, stop making things worse," pleaded Issei under his breath. Zeus then brought three times the lightning down on Damon, leaving him a smoking mess as he fell to the ground, leaving one of his middle fingers up towards Zeus.
"Annoying prick," muttered the devil god, "Anyone else have something to say?"
"Yeah...I got something..." said Adrian, stepping forward, his eye still shadowed with rage, "...I just have to know...why? Why go through all of this? The death of Kessler should have been enough, but then you killed Calvin, one of my best friends, and excused it for 'no more Kesslers.' Then you went and turned my NOT father, Richard-."
"Richard isn't your father?" Asked Damon in shock.
"My mom hooked up with the priest that married them on their wedding night, try to keep up," Adrian said to the white haired devil, returning his focus to Zeus right after, "anyway, you allowed him to destroy my home, exterminate my hive and murder my mother, then went on and caused all sorts of chaos across the multiverse, and finally you brought this stupid God-Slayer here, ready to wipe out every diety we know, and possibly all other life with it, so I have to ask...WHY?!" Zeus smiled, using his hand to gesture in the friends general direction,
"Because...I did it all for her." All eyes then looked in the direction of Zeus' hand, and saw he was gesturing to Katrina, and the Goddess of War stared at Zeus in incredulous disbelief.
"For me?"
"Yes...for you," said Zeus. He then swished his fingers into the air, and all but Katrina were encased in red and violet electricity, sending them up and keeping them suspended in the air while sending shocks through them. Katrina then summoned Sektors Gauntlets and was ready to fire at Zeus, but with a wave of his hand all of her weapons were sent skidding across the ground, and Zeus started to approach her with an unsettling smile. With a wave of blacklight tendrils, Zeus shapshifted himself into someone familiar, the same age as Katrina, dressed in a white tee shirt with a black outlined lightning bolt on the front, black cargo pants, blue and white DC shoes, and finally, electric blue eyes with a shaved down head. Zeus, perfectly impersonating his former self, approached the Goddess of War and gingerly cupper her face with his hands, his voice changing as well, "I did it all for you." Katrina closed her eyes and looked away, tears rolling down her cheeks,
"Don't...don't even try..."
"Kat...I'm still me," said Zeus, "before I ever turned my electric powers red and let loose, I was Calvin too, with my own Katrina, carrying our daughter Elsa, and we were going to get married and have a family of our own. Hell, Adrian was going to be the best man!" The one eyed devil cringed at those words, and Damon gave him a raised eyebrow,
"Well this just got a little awkward," Damon mumbled.
"Damon was going to be the DJ," Zeus continued, now causing Damon to cringe while Adrian gave him a smug eyebrow. Damon caught it and scowled at the one eyed devil,
"Shut up."
"Rias had the dress she used for her wedding and was going to give it to you, and Issei was going to willingly stay ten thousand feet away from all the festivities, should he decide to go on a Dress Break spree."
"Oh c'mon!" Shouted Issei, "I wouldn't do that...at a wedding...unless there was a fight...with big boobed babes..." Issei snapped out of his daydream, and shook off the drool forming at the side of his mouth, "...okay I can see why I wouldn't be there."
"My point made," said Zeus with a raised eyebrow, refocusing on Katrina, "it was going to be perfect, and then Kessler arrived and took you away..." Zeus closed his eyes, a single tear rolling down, "...telling me of a beast, and it never came. So I killed that old bastard, but no one would help me bring you back to life. Not Sirzechs, not Azazel, nor Michael, not even your sensei Raiden. I even prayed. I prayed through the pain and no one would help me. No one..." Zeus sighed, and released Katrina, reverting to his true, pale skinned, black veined, red clad form, "...I made myself more powerful, and when I finally saw my chance to have you again, I knew there was only one way to truly get you back...Descendant of Kratos." Katrina gave Zeus a confused glare, but then her eyes widened in realization,
"'God-Slayer'...you modified this ring..."
"So you can end the gods and goddesses that wronged us, like Kratos' ended the gods who wronged him, with just one blow..." finished Zeus with a pleased smile, holding his hand out to the grey skinned devil goddess, "...now...shall we repair this ring, end those who wronged us and start our family anew?" Katrina hesitated,
"But you had Vaas slice one of my fingers off, and sent me to a world full of killer clowns all for being bedded by Jason." Zeus scoffed,
"I was acting out of a broken heart, and I apologize," he said, "and I intend to make up for that in full. Now what do you say?" Damon blew a raspberry towards Zeus from here he floated,
"C'mon! She's not fucking stupid enough to fall for that bullshit!" Damon wound up eating his words when Katrina actually accepted Zeus' hand,
"Okay Zeus...I will give this God-Slayer a shot..." Issei turned to Damon with a glare,
"Will you stop making shit worse everytime you open your mouth?!" What took the others by surprise was when Katrina actually drew herself closer to Zeus, and with both of their eyes closed the Goddess of War pressed her lips to his, causing him to wrap his arms around her and drop the others from their electrical binds. Adrian and most of his friends looked on in both dismay and disgust at the two, while Jason actually spit on the ground,
"Get a room you two," he hissed. The two finally broke the kiss, with Zeus breathing heavily, keeping her close to himself as his cheeks flushed, making him look more lively, all while Katrinas' eyes were shadowed, despite her lack of hair,
"There is just one thing I want to say though, before we get this God-Slayer thing back up and running..."
"Yes?" Said Zeus, only half curious as he held Katrina close, focusing on the feel of her pressed to him, relishing the moment,
"...There is only one god I wish to kill..."
STICK!
Zeus' eyes went wide, his pupils dilated, and he threw his head back with an animalistic roar as she shoved Katrina back and swung his arm behind himself, slamming into an invisible figure and slamming them into the ground, causing the grass to flatten. As soon as the figure stopped, they faded into view, revealing a young Egyptian assassin, looking up at the now frothing devil good with a bloody lipped grin,
"Gotcha Zeusy," said Cleo. She then held up her arm, revealing her hidden needle in place of her hidden blade; her hidden empty needle. Zeus then felt the cold rushing through his veins, and his body began to swell, making him bigger around than a small whale, and taller than Thatan even; Zeus wasn't cured, but the Blacklight was fighting against the Whitelight.
"Stick him with the second dose!" Shouted Adrian. Zeus, not wanting that to happen, dug his hands into the ground, tearing out a large chunck of solid earth, but before he could throw it, Thatan leapt into his back just in time, causing the swelling devil god to throw the earth chunk into the air, and Cleo dashed for him, leaping into the air, her second needle reared back, ready to strike, but Zeus grabbed Thatan and threw the Sangheili at the assassin, causing both of them to slam and slide across the grass, the second needle breaking off of Cleos' gauntlet, and what happened next could only be described as a last ditch effort; all available persons bounded for Zeus, either attacking him or trying to hold him as Issei ran for the needle, grabbing it off the ground with his gear hand and running back to Zeus. The swelling devil god threw off everyone that was holding him, trying to swipe at Issei, but the Red Dragon Emperor slid down to his knees through on the grass, under Zeus' grip, and between his legs, jabbing the needle upward as he went, emptying the contents and smoothly standing up on the other side as Zeus let out a loud screech, falling to his knees while clutching his groin, pulling out the now bloody needle as he reverted to his normal form.
"You...stabbed my nutsack!" Gasped Zeus...
