Mother Gaea

At last, Leviathan got his revenge or at least partially before something took him out of the house. As he was digging into Tom's skin he said with a hiss, "This is for Merope!" With a swift cut against the face Tom screamed in agony. Just when he was about to more damage he felt something pulling him back. No, he thought, not again! Before he could even voice his protest he was out of the Riddle house to Eden.

He looked around him feeling beyond angry. Leviathan knew who took him out of the house. "Eros! If this is your doing your going to wish you hadn't, Cupid!" he shouted into the garden uprooting a tree in the process which was a big mistake. Once he uprooted one of the trees vines took hold of him from all directions holding him down on the ground. Try as he might he couldn't unleash the strong grip from the vines. Whoever was doing this to him had more knowledge in power then he did. He trembled in fear as the garden spoke his name, "Leviathan" she said her voice gentle and firm.

Leviathan knew the voice; this was the mother of creation with the garden being her first. He saw the plants begin to move making a form of a woman. This form was Mother Gaea. There was a reason why Leviathan was afraid of her if she wanted to she had the power to wipe out his existence on the face of the earth. He knew from watching her destroy her own husband with just a wave of her hand. "Leviathan," she said again coming closer. When she knelt by his side he flinched as he touched his face.

"Why do you have to have such a temper?" she asked calmly as if she was talking to a child. To Leviathan's surprise the vines ceased holding him down. As he was getting up she said, "You don't have to take you anger out on my trees, dear. They did no harm to you."

"Why am I here, Mother?" he asked, controlling his temper. The last thing he wanted was to face her wrath. She didn't answer his right away, only repaired the damage Leviathan did to the tree. Once the tree was back in it's place vines took hold of it were flowers of exotic beauty began to grow. "Riddle can't die by your hand."

"And why not?" he said with a low anger. Mother Gaea didn't look at him, she was tending to a flower with blue petals as big as a hand. "I had vision, Leviathan. It hadn't right after you made love to Lilith."

"You saw us?"

"Of course I saw you, dear. This is my garden, I see everything that goes on around here. As I was saying, I had a vision. Riddle won't die by your hand but, by your son." Leviathan was silent, no that can't be true, he thought I can't have children. Mother Gaea laughed at his thoughts she turned away from the flower and looked at him, her eyes like liquid gold. "And why would you think you can't have children, Leviathan?"

"They….cursed me Mother. They cursed my face and my loins. I know because I've tried so many times." This was true, he tried to get a woman pregnant back in the earlier times when humanity was still young. On many occasions he tried to get Pandora pregnant before she betrayed him.

"True, they cursed your body but not in the way you think. You see Lilith was meant to be your mate which means she was meant to bear your child. If your wondering why she left she didn't mean to. In fact you should ask your aunt Hera why she suddenly disappeared."

Before he could go any further, Gaea held up her hand to silence him. She put her hand on his shoulder. "You need to be with her now," was all she said when she teleported him in the middle of a London street. It was night time and unusually warm. Leviathan wasn't surprised by the weather, being around Mother Gaea for five minutes time can go by really fast.

Leviathan looked down on himself, Gaea made him look human just in case anyone was passing by. "I need to find her," he said to himself. Something inside him told him where to find her and ran down to the slums of London where he found his Merope standing on the street.