12th Chapter
"Now as long as each women are in love with you equally, the chances of the them agreeing to share you, is highly possible."
BZZT BZZT
Inside Zeru's brain, electric sparks began to emit, due to the new subject he was being taught by the Greek Goddess of Love.
"Also don't worry about one-sided forced sex, because eventually either you or your partner well both develop become consensual with it as you keep going at it."
"B B But…"
"Ze-chan, I'll put this bluntly as a Deity of Love, but Love doesn't just happen instantly and it's like 'Aaaw Love at First Sight and there can be no other person you love like her.'' is nothing but a stupid sugar coated bullshit of 'Aww look at that! Two lonely dorks finally found someone that's lonely as they are' Please that crap is getting really old already. I should know, I've been watching everyone's romance life in the entire world."
Zeru couldn't believe what he was hearing from the always Peppy Love Deity and what's worse she was making sense.
"Love, is an emotion that is cultivated when two people are attracted to one another. So you gotta spend time with that person and make some love."
"..."
"Sorry that I sounded somewhat blunt, but since you're the type of person that likes to be a dick and rebuke on childish things. I decided to make it simple."
"Okay. (Geez she's blunt.)"
"Now on to the other positives on Polygamy."
"Wait wait! What do you mean by polygamy again?!"
"Well polygamy is a term used when one male has multiple spouses and..."
"I get that part! But why is this related to me?!"
"Isn't it obvious, you're slowly building a harem~"
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHH?!"
"So on to the pros of polygamy."
"How am I capable of dealing with a polygamy?! I'm not even that attractive! I have zero experience with dates! I even failed at a practice date which was with a Senpai that wanted a practice date! And during that practice date, I ended up being treated like an Otouto "
"Please, it was too soon for you to handle older women. But you are able to socialize with girls right?"
"Yeah! But only in a normal atomosphere where we just hang out as friends."
"Really? Then why did you kiss Rukia-chan and Rossweisse-chan?"
"They weren't even on the mouth. I only did it on Rossweiseee's forehead and Rukia's cheek. It didn't meant anything, as for Rukia's I sort did that as to add in my apology for making her suffer through my troubles I inadvertently started with Rossweisse!"
"Hm so you kiss Rukia-chan on the cheek hm? Looks like she ranks up."
"IN WHAT?!"
"For ranking how much a girl seems close to you in a love-like relationship."
"But we only just met after freaking 6 years!"
"Yeah, but what would've helped decreased that possibility of romance if you two didn't act like tsunderes."
"Tsudenres?! How the fuck did that go there?! Sure we had total agitation with one another, but now that we've somewhat grown past that."
"But you do know that tsudnere also gives the highest possibility that if a boy and girl will loose that stubborn attitude and then blossoms to moe~"
"B But…"
"As for Rossweisse, you sorta did add an impact to her life such as having her socialize with a male her age for the first time, so chances are there will be a lot chances of spending time with her."
"B B But I I uh…"
"Also you don't worry about Yasaka-chan either, chances like that are really low now. I mean the way you are now, you ain't able to handle older women."
"Phew." He sighed in relief, but couldn't help feel that he was now ranked low and need to level up.
"But since her husband was younger, she might have a thing towards you. Also if you spend time with her daughter that's extra points, to show some husbando material.
Again his brain was overheating at the nonsensical knowledge he was currently taking in.
"As for the progress with Mayumi-chan, it's unknown so don't worry. You two only just met,"
"Can I g…"
"As I said before. Now on to the more positives of a polygamy."
Zeru then sank back on to the cushion chair.
"First, positive aspect is the more the merrier. Who the fuck said that love has limits? Nobody that's what. So if you have any more love share it with more girls."
"…"
"Second is income. Having multiple spouse that are working can really help with income. Add your salary with theirs then you're set for life and your children will have a good life~"
And with that moment is what made Zeru decide to possibly do surgery on his dick to make sure he shoots a limited amount of his jizz to have only one child and that's it.
"Third, is emotional support. With many girls around you, you'll be able to have plenty of help with your life struggles."
"Wow, that's actually sounds okay…Wait what the fuck am I saying?!"
"You were saying the right thing before, you questioned yourself."
"Not funny!" he then began to rub his temple at the headache he was completely starting to have beginning erode his entire body, thereby causing more stress.
"So, this Mari. Seems you know her."
Hearing that name he immediately blushed.
"It's just the name sounds familiar is all…"
"Awww you blushy~ Don't worry I won't dig into that yet."
"Good…So Aphrodite-san, do you know a devil named Sera?"
"You mean the new Leviathan? Serafall Leviathan?"
"Wait wha?"
"Yeah she's currently the new Leviathan of the 4 Maous. She's in charge of Foreign Affairs."
Hearing the position that the new cosplayer actually held as a devil, was utter utter ridiculous and wondered what and how did they even voted. Because if she is working in Foreign Affairs, then the possibility that negotiations for peace between their race and Yokai will start to form. In others it'll just be another way for Devils to easily have any yokai for their peerages.
"So don't worry about her, a women that hasn't been in a relationship for a couple centuries and has blinded themselves with childish stuff, ain't worth it. If you want to have go out with a an older being of supernatural go for the ones that haven't been in a relationship around like any 2digits in the decades."
"Wow…." He was amazed again at the bluntness from the Love deity.
Meanwhile back on Earth: Hyoudo Residence
"Well there is one thing that Zeru won't have with Rossweisse." Hisana huffed smugly.
"Oh, and what can that be?" Glared the elder asgardian.
"A ship name." Hisana smirked.
Gondur had an mind fuck- expression realizing one of the most important thing making an arranged OTP is having a ship name. But as she tried to think one right now, it was difficult since it was hard to combine the name since Rossweisse was pretty much a not so common name.
She could easily combine his name with Rose and it would end up being called Zerose. Which kind of sounded iffy okayish, but and if one of the S's in her name were replaced with an E then it would be perfect plus it would sound like The Rose or Zeros…Unfortunately Zeros sounded like a loser shipping name…
"Got nothing huh, Hag?" Hisana taunted.
"Weeell, brat what's your so called shipping name?"
"Zeruki."
"Hmph, ain't got nothing… (DAMMIT IT SOUNDS SO FUCKING OKAY AND SIMPLE!)" she said not caring while suppressing her internal angst.
"Kfufu." Hisana laughed in triumph.
Rukia was covering her face with shame with utter embarrassment. Rossweisse was still crying while being comforted by the Mother of the Hyoudou home. Issei was in shock to see an actual shipping war that was actually based on nonfictional people,and his brother was included, the downside was the war consisted of a angsty granny and a young women in her twenties.
"Where the fuck is that brat?!" Gondur yelled with anger.
"Rukia call him!" Hisana ordered.
"Rose take her down and then call him!" Gondur ordered.
Seeing this as chance for them to escape the hellhole they were currently in, Rossweisse and Rukia both ran in a flash along with taking Issei and headed to Zeru's room.
"Wow, to think Zeru has already progressed this far before he reached his high school youth." His father commented.
"Indeed, now we can let that concern out of the way." The mother sighed in relief.
"He's growing up so fast." Natalia said in a proud tone, while sipping from a beer can.
Zeru's room.
"Alright Issei-kun, can you tell us how we can eviscerate that asshole?" Rossweisse asks, innocently while emanating an evil aura.
"EEEH?!" Issei was surprised at how far she was willing to go to get back at his brother for the reason this hell had started in their home.
"Whoa whoa, that's a little too far. I mean I'm okay with giving him pain, including having some bones broken. But only the leg and arm is okay." Rukia said, making Issei more surprised at the brutality from his brother's childhood friend
"Is this too far?!" Rossweisse opened the door letting in the loud commotion of the Ship War to flow through.
"Oh yeah?! Well at least their babies will look hella cuter when they either inherit Rose's eye color and hair! What your sister and his babies willth get is just black hair with varying eye shades violet between dark or light colored!" Gondur yelled.
Yes, the grandmother indeed said hella.
"At least they won't have to deal with some grandmother that has way too much expectations, leading them to her current mental state of feeling pressured!"
"Hey! That's called being a good grandmother that cares a lot for their grandchildren."
"Riiiight. I'm suppose that bring your granddaughter her all the way to Japan just to forcefully arrange a date shows care."
"Oh really? What about you? You haven't been in contact with the kid for six years and now you decide to go through your ship. Hah Amateur. Look who's also doing a forced arrangement!"
"Ugh." Hisana griped her chest feeling the shot making contact wit her heart.
"Weeelll, at least they won't inherit someone's bitchyness." Hisana retored, chuckling darkly.
"What did you say brat?" Gondur grinded her teeth.
"Won't inherit someone's bitchyness gene of ruining children's lives." Hisana smirked.
A shot hit Gondur but she wasn't fazed by it, due to centuries of dealing with that sort mental damage before.
And with that the battle ships then readied their weapons for battle, but it'll soon escalate to war.
Rossweisse then closed the door.
"…Yeah…So Issei-kun, know anyway to eviscerate him." Rukia asked now agreeing with Rossweisse previous statement of evisceration.
"Can we not involve murder or the disappearance of my brothers remains if the police are searching?
"Fiiiiine." Rukia groaned.
"How far do you want to go, Rossweisse-san?" Issei asked reluctantly, fearing interrogation from them if he refused to assist in the destruction of his brother
"Eh? Well I uh…" Rosssweisse began to hesitate, having never done this before.
"Rossweisse-san it's okay, take your time. I'll ask Rukia-san first."
"Don't worry, I'm going to use his fear of girls with red eyes."
"Oh, so Rukia-san knows that then."
"Yep I have a friend with red eyes, that can give him some nightmares and some shitty pants later on." Rukia chuckled evilly.
"Okay, but I will warn you, don't go to far with the yandere. Last time he experienced the yandere-genre for the first time, he developed gynophobia."
"For real?" Rukia said in dumbfoundment, that his fear of yanderes and girls with red eyes will result into that sate
"How long did it last and how bad was it?"
"It was really bad, it lasted about fives months during each of the last two years of middle school…Every time he would see any female wield a knife, and he would instantly faint for 4 hours and constantly stay in his room until his gynophobia dies down. That was dark day for him…"
"Hm, that can work. What do you think Rossweisse?" Rukia asked with a mischievous smirk.
"Well…It's not like he deserves that drastic of a punishment."
"Really?" Rukia, opened the door again.
"Hah, as if he'll get a hard on from that petite thing! He's already seen Rose's goodies underneath! And I can assure you he's already gotten hard from her!" Her grandmother yelled, thinking she won this battle.
"Please! Rukia has way more moeness than Rossweisse! Also she has a good ass, that'll make him want to ride her for a long time! Plus Tsundere sex is way more romantic! Since at the end the two will ended up ranking high in their relationship to the highest level of just being friends with benefits which is just hiding there urge to spend time with each other more often and after that they'll reach the confession stage and the two would have their first time having sex with each other as a couple and they'll both freely express their feelings with one another and enjoy each others company. Lastly after that, the two's tsundereness will only just be for fun and jokes and not out of so-called agitation and by then they'll become a sweet couple. So beat that bitch and suck it! "
Hisana smirked in victory, knowing that tsundere couples bring out more development then an arranged couple made by some worrisome hag that just wants her granddaughter to have a boyfriend. Such as that would bring a one sided relationship, which will end up Zeru being the dense one. Besides since Rukia and Zeru have known each other longer and more acquainted, her ship had more advantage, despite them not seeing each other for 6 years.
And with that a barrage of shots fired at Gondur and a bead of sweat began to drip on her forehead.
Door closed again.
"…On second thought…instead of evisceration, how about scarring him for life for a day when he gets back?" Rossweisse suggested, giving off a dark aura.
"Hmm, that'll be hard to do. After all you do know how he varies his overreactions…" Issei said while he slightly shivered at the two girls's murderous intent for his brother.
"True…" The two girls said in agreement, knowing how random and annoying Zeru can be with his overreactions.
"But…I can think of something. So just leave it to me." Issei did a thumbs up, of assurance.
"Thank you, Issei-kun." Rossweisse kissed Issei's cheek out of gratitude, causing him to blush.
Issei was sort of jealous that his brother for seemingly having formed a harem of two girls already. But he is glad that he isn't him right now and not dealing with this sort of problems involving shipping wars from the girls's family members.
Back to Aphrodite's room.
"Okay once again." Aphrodite sighed, at Zeru who was hyperventilating in a paper bag.
"Aphrodite-san…This is way too much for me to do and..."
"Oh come on, this is the 20th time, if you can't be assertive as well as your possible girlfriend during the first kiss phase. Then you'll end up being a total wuss."
"But..."
"No buts! And not even Butts, since you won't able to get to that phase yet."
"Ugh…"
"Okay now let's try it again. Don't make me manipulate your pheromones, cause if I do…Ufufu, you're going to have a lot of fun~"
Zeru then took a deep breath and tried to remember his first kiss scene from a visual novel…but unfortunately he skipped the scene since he was mainly interested with just reading the story. So yeah…
As he held her shoulders and closed his eyes and tried to lean his head forward to hers…
"…I can't do it…." He stopped, not being able to do such a thing.
"Well, I'll admit training you in this, is kinda rushed. Put at least you have some imitative in you. Like I said just go as much close when you reach my breathing space."
Zeru sighed in relief that he wasn't going to deal with that lesson anymore."
"Will, just work on sex positions then~"
"EEEEEEEH?!"
"Don't worry, it's not like real sex. We're just gonna practice the positions, so no nude…Unless you want to~"
"No…"
"You sure? It's already summer and you must be…Hot?*Touches his leg and give him a seductive stare.*"
Immediately his face was blushing pink.
Aphrodite then pushed him down on the bed.
"Ufufu~ This position is an easy one." Aprhodite smiled seductively as then got on top of him, crawling until she was above his lower region.
"A A Aphrodi…."
"Shhh….You'll ruin the moment~"
"Uwah wah wah wah wah…" he panicked in a situation where an innocent bishouen such as himself was about be sexual harassed by an older women.
Zeru began to furiously sweat drop at the close proximity he was now with the Goddess of Love
"This one's the cow girl positon~"
With that Aphrodite then sat on his lap with her sitting directly at his crotch area.
"Oh my~ it's so shy~ Don'y worry I'll make it pop out~"
"P P Please d d don' can…"
Ignoring his pleads to stop or at least teach him a more easier position that doesn't involve the women being the dominant, she began to move her butt back and forth on his crotch.
"Ufufu~ This'll be my first time with a younger man." She said with more seductiveness in her tone.
Unfortunately due to the overpowering of her presence and pheromones disrupting his brain function of retorting, all he could do was just let it happen.
"Ooo~ I felt it poke~" she said with excitement.
Looking at him, her moe flowers bloomed seeing his very weakened state now. His cheeks were flushed with bright pink, he was breathing soft moans out the new pleasurable sensation he was experiencing.
"Aaaawww! So cute!~" Aprodite squealed.
With that, it hyped her more as she began to grind furiously against his crotch.
"MMPH." he bit onto his mouth tightly, holding back his moan.
"Uwah! It's growing now~ I can feel the heat emanating from it!~ Aaahh I'm so hot!" Aphrodite moaned, as she brought the top of her toga down, revealing her breasts as she began to fondle them.
Originally her plan was just to show him the position and teasing for a bit. But as Love Goddess with pheromone manipulation, who oesn't pay attention of her own powers activating on their own ends up being affected by her own powers, ends up being used against her. So that that plan fucked up.
Aphrodite began to pant in heat, as she then brought her hands to his pants and was about to unzip them until…
"Kyah!" the Goddess yelped, now with a drowsy look and ended up falling ontop of him.
Opening his eyes to see if it was over, he saw Aprodite on his chest.
"(OH GOD! DID MY INSTINCTS KICKED IN?!...Wait…Okay...No wetness coming from ma dick tip, so I didn't let it out…Huh? She's lying down on me…HOLY SHIT DID I SHOT MY JIZZ VIA TELEPORTAITON THEREBY RELEAISNG A HUGE LOAD INTO HER CAUSING HER TO BE EXHAUSTED ALREADY?!...Nah that's sound too dumb…Or is it?...Nah that's dumb.)"
"Looks like I made it on time."
He then looked to see a young women in her twenties with long brown hair reaching to her neck, a sleeveless vest over a white top, jeans, boots, and was holding a blow pipe for shooting darts.
"Artemis-san, thanks." He pushed the unconscious Love Goddess off of the bed.
"That's not how you treat a lady, especially when she's topless" Artemis teased.
"Well she wasn't acting lady-like and *Notices she was topless.* Oh she was…Meh." He shrugged his shoulders.
"Fair enough." Chuckled the Goddess of the Hunt.
"How long will she be like this?"
"3 hours. Luckily her powers weren't fully active, otherwise she would be able to easily resist the tranquilizing effects."
"So what were you doing here?"
"Came to get some of my repaired weapons from my brother. As for my impeccable time of saving your purity from my Aunt, let's just say I sensed some rabid animals in heat."
"…Ew. Oh well, thanks again Artemis-san."
"No problem, make sure to bring some mace with you the next time you come here."
"Kay."
Hephaestus's Forge
As Zeru arrived at the forge, no one was there.
He looked around and saw something that intrigued him. It was in a display glass,
Contained a set of spiked silver chains with two hooks attached at both ends of the chain .
The weapons looked interesting so out of curiosity Zeru decided to open the case and have fun with them.
As he opened the case, the hooks began to emanate a purple aura as it felt the presence of the human.
"Gah."
Zeru suddenly felt exhausted as he began to lose color as a purple aura engulfed his body as it began to take a shape of him. The spectral energy from his body then began to be attracted to the chained weapon as he started to close his eyes as if death was embracing him or he was exhausted from dealing with Aphrodite.
Suddenly a green vine, pulling him away from the weapon, wrapped around his body and it was then closed with force.
"Geez, I told him to get his weapon and this is what happens." Sighed women with brown hair, blue eyes, wearing a white short jacket over her white sun dress, black heels, and she had a flower bracelet attached to a vine coiled around her arm.
Zeru then woke up as the green rope retraced back into the women's flower braclet.
"Guh."
"Thank goodness, I was here."
Zeru then looked at the woman.
"Oh, hi Persephone-san." He greeted the Goddess of Spring Time and of the Underworld/Realm of the Dead.
"Didn't you know that you shouldn't touch dangerous looking objects?" she teased.
"Uh no, I learned that anything awesome and evil-looking should catch my interest. So with that logic, I should take the risk."
"Well you're lucky that I came by before you got your soul taken."
"So that's why I was going through a not so good out of body experience."
"That weapon is called the Claws of Hades, it's the very weapon that Hades used during the Great War against the Titans."
"Really? Thought it was two-pronged staff?"
"Well since these days now there aren't any worthwhile battles since the Titans and our rivalries with other Deity's religions. So he ended up using that, out of laziness."
"So what properties do the claws have?"
" It's imbued with necromancy and soul magic that are both my husband's preferred magic. So if any regular living thing got near this weapon, it'll drain your soul. Except for those that have high magical resistance or in other words having strong power enough to overpower it's aura. But if anyone that is blessed by Hades they can freely wield it."
"Wow, what are my chances that another beautiful Greek Goddess has saved me from the troubles of another Greek Deity."
"What would happen, if you were to get your soul extracted?"
"Then I'm sure that you or Hades-san would gladly put my soul back in my body."
"I guess that's true."
"What do you mean you guess?" he sweat dropped.
"Just playing. So you were with Aphrodite huh?~" she asks with mischievous look on her face.
"Ugh, I don't want to remember that right now." he said with discomfort.
"She went over the top didn't she?"
"Oh yeah."
"Don't worry, she doesn't mean any harm. She just can't help it."
"Yeeaaah, that still doesn't help much. Luckily Artemis-san was here."
"Yep, sensing two beasts in heat would get her attention. " she giggled.
"…Please stop…"
Suddenly a magic circle was created and out appeared a man in his late forties with short black hair, goatee, wearing a black-hooded robe with purple linings and jewels around the collar and cuffs.
"Oh, its you kid."
SLAP
"Ouch! What was that for Persephone?" Hades rubbed the back of his head.
"That was for almost killing Zeru-kun."
"Oh? Really?...Did the reapers came here, cause I told them that they can do bat hunting later.?"
"Your toy." She pointed at case containing his personal weapon.
"Oh, Hephaestus already repaired them. Sorry about that." He rubbed the back of his head sheepishly.
"Well, I'll be taking my leave then you two. Also make sure to have some romance for your summer Zeru-kun." She teleported away.
"Sigh."
"So got a girl eh?"
"Not really. "
"Oh I see, you managed to get some from Aprodite huh?" Hades playfully jabbed his elbow, after seeing the excess pheromones from him.
"NO! She almost fcking raped me!"
"Yeah, she does that to other guys back in the day."
"So not going with your usual skeleton form?"
"Heh, I only wear that as a way to manifest my power when I'm in my Domain. Mostly I wear that to scare those bats and crows. So I heard you got Loki'd."
"Yep, having my first taste of being in the realm of Sutr and getting beaten up by a Rock Troll is sooo good. Also I got this" he then made the helmet of the Trickster God appeared.
"Is that his helmet?"
"Yep freshly stolen."
"How'd you got it?"
"Gondur-san trapped him in a god-class barrier and I got my payback and stole it from him."
"Heh, did you brag?"
"Hell no, if I did that some other fighters would challenge me and I'll be destroyed."
"True. So I heard the Red Bat's sister will be in your area."
"Way to kill the mood. But yeah it's true. Sigh, I am so going to get sick of breathing their smell."
"Started reacting to miasma huh?"
"It's nauseating, I just met with the so-called Leviathan."
"Oh, boy. What was the reason she was there?"
"She just joined in my Cosplay Agency."
"Does she know that you're a magician?"
"Doubt it, she too childish to thoroughly think or sense anything from me."
"That's good."
"Besides with her always seemingly rainbows mind, I doubt she would care for that because of this so called peace."
"Yeah, it's gonna get bumpy soon."
"What do you mean?"
"Lately, Indra has been visiting me."
"Eh, why would the leader of the Devas visit you?"
"He wants me to watch over some brat he's been keeping an eye on."
"Really babysitting. I thought it would involve war, like shouldn't he visit the War Deities here?"
"Let's just say that his reasons are what benefits my dislike of those shit wings. Also he did visit Ares and things didn't go so well. Let's just say that Indra feels that Ares needs to get his life back together and also recommended a therapist for him to go see."
"Hm what about Enyo-sama?" he asks referring to the other War deity of Greek Mythology, who was also known as the Goddess of Destruction
"Ohohoho, as if Indra can persuade her. Out of all the deities she ranks higher than him and even Ares in the War Deitiy department, since she loves to mix in more destruction of towns and cities. But she might change her tune once Ares helps me…but I don't think my niece will be in our little circle for long, since I'll have sort out some plans that will involve a lot of destruction, before she gets bored…"
"…"
"Okay. That planning a lot of destruction part sounds way too far. I'll think of something else. But I might not need her for long, since I don't want her to get carried away, and have her cause pandemonium."
What's so interesting about this person, that Indra-sama is interested with?"
"Well he is descended from a famous historical person but he has something that's a little too over powering for someone with his age to obtain already."
"Which is?"
"One of them so called Longinus ranked Sacred Gear."
"Geez another Longinus wielder, great besides the two with Azazel now there's another human that has one. So which one does he have?"
"You'll find out soon enough."
"Not interested." He said, easily losing interest.
"So when are you going to quit associating with the Crows?"
"I don't think it's best to call them crows, it kinda makes me think about the Tengu now."
"Well what should I call them now?"
"Reject wings?" he suggested.
"Meh, it's a start."
"As for my continuation of associating with them, if I can gain enough data from his artificial Sacred Gear to sell then I'm done."
"Really think that selling them is a good idea?"
"Somebody needs to add some evil to make this world balanced. Besides despite my Ancestor being good friends with Azazel, I don't hold that much of him in regard. Besides why would anybody trust the leader of an organization whose goal is to research God-made weapons and then try to create something like them."
"Heh. Luckily you weren't given into the sugarcoating."
"Hey, after the death of my parents, my paranoia of the supernatural grew already to a high rank. Besides, at least I know I can fully trust deitlies like you, that don't sugarcoat their actions. Also do you wanna know the reason why he's collecting Sacred Gear users it's to just research. Seriously it is nothing but a good sugar coating of gaining more power. There can be no justice for when one seeks power, they just want it end of story. Since he's making those so called artificial knockoffs, he's basically getting ready for battle."
"So are they any strong?"
"Not sure, I rarely participate in their training, but I do know that one named Tobio has a Longinus called Slash Dog and I was informed that my friend fought against the Hakuryuukou and it belongs to a Half-Devil."
"Sigh, that's annoying. Oh that reminds me back when the Angels were against those Bullshit Wings Duo, Ares betted on the Crows." He chuckled.
"Why?"
"Oh you know in wars whenever theirs a third army intervenes in a battle they are bound to create a disarray in the battle which would give them the advantage. But they easily lost their numbers easily, even before those two Heavenly Dragons interfered."
"Ares-san sure was foolish."
"Yep and he lost a lot of his treasury to the other war deities, that were all apart of that bet." He laughed remembering how pissed his nephew was.
"Wow…"
"So then what are you going to do when those bats arrive?"
"Dunno, but I do know that I'll end up dealing with some of their shit. Plus I'm going to get sick with their miasma floating in the air."
"Yep your air is gonna be polluted with that crap, when those bats are around. They're so stuck up that they think their farts smell like flowers"
"Really?" Zeru questioned about that last part.
"How the fuck should I know. But I do have some good delicious dirt you can use on them."
"Really? Like what?"
"I think, you're too young to use this info yet, but lets just say that when those Bats first made those pieces whatever wasn't so perfect at first." He said with a smirk.
"Oooh, so there's a lot of dark stuff involved in the making of that Evil-whatever crap. I'm guessing?" he said with an intrigued tone.
"Yep, but that's all I'm gonna give you for now. Once you're mind has matured, then I'll give it to you. Also I'm not the only one that knows this, other Death Deities knows this and some others people do too."
"Geez, way to knowledge-block me of getting some new knowledge." He pouted at Hades
"Sorry, I don't want you to start doing things too early and later you'll put yourself into tougher situations even you can't think of to get out of."
"I get it. So how's Ares-san doing?"
"Well…"
Meanwhile in the living room of Mount Olympus.
On the large couch was a young man in his thirties who looked worn out he was wearing a white T-shirt that had some tears and pj pants all covered in stains from food. He had a white Xbox 360 on and was playing Modern Warfare 2.
"Alright men, this is it we shall achieve victory, let no man be left standing!" Ares ordered his team
As the game went on.
"Aw crap." One player guy got shot and this one was a noob.
As the guy respawned.
"Ah, crap!" said the the noob.
" Who's the douchebag who keeps dying?!"
"I'm not a douchebag! I'm new!" said the voice of the noob that sounded whiney and man-childish.
"Look, if you're no good, why don't you just go hide till the end?"
"All right, I'll go crouch behind the, uh...is this the crouch button?"
The Noob throws a grenade into a car, instead of crouching.
"Aww, who dropped a grenade?!"
With that the grenade exploded, destroying the other players and himself, thereby running the right flank and the pincer manuver.
"Idiot!"
"Learn how to play!"
" Moron!"
"You suck!"
"NOOO!" Ares cried in agony that his plan was sabotaged by a fcking noob, who did not bother even to try a tutorial or anything to gain experience.
There was no time to mourn for that, it was up to him and whatever was left of his team to bring this battle to an end.
"AH!"
"SHIT"
The rest of his team was instantly killed with headshots from a sniper, leaving Ares alone.
"Guess I won this round?" giggled a female voice from his headset.
"SHUT IT ATHENA!" he yelled at his sister.
"Well then I'm done, bye." She signed out.
"No wait one more round, just one more without that noob I could've…Fuck!" he threw his controller on the floor.
"WOOOOH YEAH! TIME TO RASIE THE ROOF UP THIS JOINT!" yelled the voice of a frat.
A person came in who had neck length brown hair, a beard, and blue eyes wearing a toga came in holding a keg.
"Yo Ares, lets get wasted!"
Ares who was fuming with an aura of anger causing the entire room to shake.
"Oi oi, Ares. Broman, take a chill pill man and just get a drink and lets *Keg bursts!*…Party?"
Dioyonsus looked at his right side to see that the keg he was carry was now shattered and purple liquid was spreading on the floor.
As he knelt on the floor with both knees and held the remants of his special grape wine, which flowed out of his hands.
"*Sob*" Tears started to stream from his eyes.
Ares then took a deep breath and then looked to his horror at what he just did.
"AW SHIT!" he yelled seeing that he had brought out the Harbinger of Madness
Meanwhile.
"Wow he's a gamer huh."
"Yep and he's gone NEET, which is not pretty for a War Deity. Also he's been starting to show of his bitchy traits from his mother Hera. Man, she's such bitch…"
"How long has this been?
"Meh, after the Three Wings War and your two World Wars, he got bored. Lost motication. Only war he's been apart of is your…What was it called… something about a whiny argument of which couple is better and which should be paired"
"Fandoms?"
"Yeah that's the one. There was this one time he wore a new shirt and it had the words ' TEAM JACOB.' "
"Oh poor Ares-san…."
"Was that bad?"
"Don't even try to touch that with a 10000 meter pole."
"Don't worry I got something for him to do that'll bring him back to normal."
"So is there going to be a lot of civil wars among those two factions?"
"Meh, too easy. Besides there's already the old faction bats still on the rag. So it might lead to a civil war soon. As for the Reject wings, don't know. But they're the weakest in numbers of those Three Factions, will see what happens."
"Then how is he going to help you?"
"You'll find out soon."
"Is that supposed to be a cliffhanger? Cause if it is, seems too early to do that at this point. Geez, guess I have to have been alive during ancient times, where Gods were celebrities and your worshippers would all fanboy/fangirl over ya'll."
The vein on the Greek God of the Dead's forehead began to bulge, in annoyance.
"Okay, I'm done with the smart alecking. So how has the collection of souls been doing?"
"It's a pain in the ass now, since those devils started to mark territories, they placed many runes deep within our earths, thereby disrupting the flow of the soul. Whenever a person dies the soul immediately is attracted to our energy imbedded from the territory of our earths, acting like a magnet for them to transfer to our respective realms of the dead. But those accursed runes, those bats embedded on the earth. The soul is able to remain in their body. Not like it's a big deal, since souls are able to stay in the earth by converting into spectral beings with unfinished business, such as you humans call them as ghosts and there's method that other sorcerers uses that require the use of souls that's fine too unless they take too much of them. But there is a problem that we Deities of The Dead are annoyed lately, which is the amount of souls we have collected now since those bats created their mockery of reincarnation or whatever shit it is. The more souls that still remain in their bodies and being taken by bats , the less work we can even do our jobs and that'll make all our realms be like a snooze fest and a mockery at the cycle of life and death. Plus having more angered souls is a major problem for you surface dwellers."
"So are souls a source of power of every other religon's Underworlds?"
"Sort of but, it's more of a way for us to store them and then we can start the process of judging them if they are redeemable for reincarnation or dumb into the void aka Purgatory. I'm sure we don't want the earth to be overpopulated and the chances of souls going rogue do we?"
"What about the Onryo?"
"You mean your Yokai-type vengeful sprits? Those types are sometimes dangerous for us Gods of Death to take in, cause their rage is like a plague to other souls. Once a powerful vengeful spirit is collected, its wrath will spread to the other souls. Which triggers their suppressed wrath of their hatred such as how they lived, their reason for vengeance has returned, and their unfinished business. If all souls have become vengeful then they will enter depravity allowing them to take in the darkness energy to shape in and merge into a monstrosity that can very threaten a Death Deity's realm."
"Like a Gashadokoro?" he asks referring to how the giant skeleton yokai was created from the very anger of souls that are left to die without any proper burials."
"No that only works on souls that have not been passed on, but left to die. What happens is that they'll embedded themselves into a Death Deities's realm, like a virus corrupting it, not allowing even us Death Deities to control anymore."
I see. Do you know how many heroes have been in Vahalla now."
"Heh, you mean Odin's little special army for when the End of The World comes? Seriously those Norse, should take more priority over in Midgard, since they're all powerful with there oh so alternate dimension they live in. I heard they're about greater than the numbers those…Ah hah, got it Tarred Feathers!" he exclaimed as a light ball glowed on top of his head, after finally thinking of a way to substitute the original word he had for Fallen Angels."
"Hm, I give it a seven out ten."
"Good enough for me, based on what Hel, told me their numbers are greater than what the Grigori had during the Great War. "
"I see, at least there are some precautions."
"Yeah, also Dionysus is banned from Vahalla."
"Lemme guess over partying?"
"And he brought back the Viking with in them. I swear that guy's Madness inducement needs to be sealed off."
"Oh boy."
"Yep a lot of pillaging, partying and orgies."
"For real?"
"You do forget that he's also a Deity of Madness."
"Oh yeah, I'm surprised that he isn't deemed a war deity, since I though being a deity of madness has a side affect of agitation resulting in conflicts."
"He has the potential and he is good at gathering people in the shape of an army with his parties, but let's just say that compared to other war deities he's like the fun one with major benefits."
"Hm I see."
"So, have you met your own Deities yet?" Hades asks.
"Not really."
"Really, thought for sure that Izanami would meet you."
"Eh why would Izanami-sama meet me?"
"It's just thought, seeing that you're already acquainted with me now, I thought she would have an interest in you. (Hm so he doesn't remember.)"
"Anyway, so how are the three judges?" Zeru asks about the Three Greek Judges of the Underworld.
"Hmph, because of how things are slow here, those nephews of mine have taken a fucking extended vacation!" he said with a comical red face.
"Eh?"
"Those brats think that I don't what they went through! I've been judging souls way before that stupid womanizing little brother of mine was finished with his little fuckmania. Those souls are so fucking annoying, always whining saying oh I should go to heaven and then there's the souls of the victim and the murderer arguing which should go to hell…And just because those bats are making things here slow with their little 'Oh we don't have enough drive to go mate our brains out to repopulate! but instead lets' thrust chess pieces up peoples asses and start a sugar coated slave labor whatever crap!' Please back in the day, I've seen a lot fucked up shit they did in the human world! Also do you know how much percent of you humans except their stupid shitty pamphlets so they can make a fucking contract with you? 80% freaking percent! Geez, is you race that into the devils and supernatural genre? No offense."
"(Shit, he's going through a rant. Guess the other questions I have for him, will be on hold.) It's okay, due to media and other stuff, but there are some people that end up joining demon worshipping cults and the sex appeal of devil/devil-like character look like in films and TV shows." Zeru sweat dropped.
"Figures. Well I guess it's also the fact that they used their freaking sluttiness to easily hand out pamphlets to unsuspecting suckers."
"Wow…" he was amazed at the bluntness from the Greek God of the Dead.
"That little Morning Star blonde daddy issues kid… Fucking taking my territory along with his other 72 wittle friends! GUH! I should've released the Titans to kill them all! Heck, I would've begged on my freaking knees to that geezer Thanatos, to kill them all as well! Or maybe I should've had made Hecate the new Ruler of the Underworld, so I don't have to deal with this crap! GAAHHHH! WHAT HAPPPENED TO THE REGULAR ORDER OF LIFE HUH?! AND THEN THERES THIS FUCKING BULL SHIT OF MAKING DIVIDING TERRITORIES AND MAKING BIG ASS ESTATES AND TOWNS! WTF?! ARE THEY TRYING HAVE SOME CLASS LIKE THE VAMPIRES?! ALSO YOU KNOW THAT CAPITAL THAT USED BE FOR THE BATTY HONCHOS NAMED? FCKING LUCIFAAD! THE FUCK IS THAT KIND OF A NAME HUH?! DID THAT LITTLE BITCH STARTED A FAD?! I'LL TELL YOU WHAT IT IS, BEING FCKING KNOCK OFF VAMPIRES BUT ONLY MORE SNOTTIER! he yelled causing a quake in the room.
"…" Zeru was speechless at seeing the state of how the former lord of the Underworld was. Also he couldn't help but imagine viewing him as his Disney adaptation seeing him all red as his hair of flames ignited in red and then his two cronies Paine and Panic would come in and he would beat the shit out of them, for comical entertainment for the audience.
Zeru chuckled at his imagination.
"AND THERES THAT LITTLE PIECE OF SHIT AZAZEL! WHAT HE SUDDENLY DECIDES TO GO FUCK A BITCH AND THEN GET'S HIS FUCKING WINGS BLACK! THE HELL IS THAT BULLSHIT?! AND THEN AFTER THAT COMES MORE TARRED WINGS OR SHOULD I SAY MORE LIKE IN HEAT CROWS! GAWD CAN'T THEY HAVE JUST A NORMAL RELATIONSHIP AND JUST ASK OUT THE PERSON THEY HAVE A BONER FOR?! ALSO WHY OF ALL DEATH DEITIES THAT MY UNDERWORLD WAS TAKEN?! I GET THAT LATELY I'M USED AS SORT OF THE ANTAGONIST IN YOUR HUMAN MEDIA AND STUFF BUT THIS FEELS LIKE I'M A FREAKING STEREOTYPE! WHEN YOU THINK OF A DEATH GOD WHAT DO YOU GET…OH RIGHT….ME OF COURSE!"
"Says the guy who daughter shanghai'd his own brother's…" He muttered while chuckling as he was still seeing the Disney adpatation of Hades.
Suddenly a lingering force appeared in front of him as he was lifted up by the collar of his shirt.
"LISTEN HERE YOU LITTLE SMART ASS VIRGIN! I WAS HAVING PROBLEMS WITH DATING SINCE I GOT THE LOW END OF THE PICKING OF DOMAINS ! WHEN I ENDED UP BEING HERE IN THE UNDERWORLD! BY THEN I WAS LITERALLY FREAKING ALONE! CAUSE MY SIBLINGS FIND IT "CREEPY" IT'S THE FREAKING UNDERWORLD!"
Zeru was amazed that even a God such as him who had social problems regarding in dating.
"BESIDES IT WAS MY LITTLE BROTHER'S FAULT OF BEING A FREAKING SATYRIASIS THAT HAD TO FUCK ANYTHING IN HIS SIGHT AND OUT OF ALL THE PEOPLE HE HAD TO FUCK HE HAD TO FUCK ANOTHER OF OUR SIBLINGS! DEMETER! SHE FUCKING HATES ME! ALL BECAUSE OF WHEN I FIRST BECAME A DEATH DEITY, I HAD TROUBLE CONTROLING MY POWER CAUSING HER PLANTS TO DECAY! FYI I JUST GOT THOSE POWERS SO SORRY I DON'T KNOW HOW TO FUCKING CONTROL THEM! BESIDES IT WAS ZEUS WHO DECIDED TO OFFER ME OF MARRYING HER! AIN'T MY FAULT! OUR SISTER WAS SUCH A BITCH!"
While still seeing the God of the Underworld in the form of his Disney adaptation, he couldn't help but hold in his laugh.
"Okay I get it, grabbing her while on my chariot was a little too much, but come on who the hell can stand looking at me for a couple of seconds?! I'm the freaking King of the freaking Dead here! Meaning I'm stereotypically a FUCKING SCARY ASS VILLAN-TYPE! DO YOU SEE WHAT I WEAR WHENEVER I TAKE COMMAND OF THE REALM OF THE DEAD?! A SKELELTON! I'M A FREKAING WALKING STRAIGHT UP VILLAN STEREPTYPE!" he said in a loud indoor voice that didn't strain Zeru's ears.
"O Okay."
"I know that tricking her into eating that underworld-grown pomegranate was a little too much also, my bad on my seemingly desperateness. But eventually after dealing with a fight and then a good talk everything went well." He said back to his indoor voice.
"Okay…" he said unsure what the heck was going on now; cause all he can see is Disney Hades, seeing that his red skin and flaming hair turned back to their normal blue.
"So that's what differentiates me from those fucking tarred wings, ya get it?" he said tightening his grip on the cuff of Zeru's shirt.
"Crystal…But don't they also go through the same situation too? I mean they also view themselves as rejects because of how they are deemed fallen because of their black wings and losing their place in Heaven and all that crap." he said in a choked voice, but then realized he just raised his flag all the way up.
Upon hearing that counter.
Disney Hade's skin began to turn more red as ihis flaming hair radiated more intense aura.
Suddenly spectral-like beings began to surface from the floor as they began to wrap around Zeru's legs.
"What the hell?!" Zeru screamed in panic.
He suddenly felt his body began to feel dumb as if the life was instantly taken away from them.
Disney Hades let go of the human, as he watched with glee as the human was being sinking as the souls pulled him.
Disney Hades did a thumbs down, initiating the end of the young human as he lit a cigars from his ignited thumb in satisfaction.
As both Zeru's feet now reached the ground and was still sinking.
"H Hey I wasn't trying to defend those tarred wings! I was just trying to point that there are a lot people that went through that kind of experience in dating. So please. STOP THESE GUYS!"
As his midsection was about to be consumed by the ground and he tried to hoplessly dig his hands into the earth, trying to maintain a good grip of not being sinked into the depths of the River of Styx.
BOOM
Suddenly a loud explosion was heard, causing the souls to disperse and Zeru was shot of the ground and landed on his face.
"FUCK!"
Zeru then looked to see Disney Hades paused for a bit as the image of him was then replaced with the normal looking Hades.
"Heh, looks like that kid is at it again." Said Hades in his usual normal calm tone.
"(WHAT A 180!)" Zeru was amazed at his instant turn around and it seems that whenever he turns angry Disney Hades appears.
"Ah, I also forgot that Hephaestus has interesting guest with him now. Come on, I'll show you to him."
"Okay…"
As they went deep in the forge.
"YOU BASTARD! DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG IT TAKES RECREATE THAT METAL!"
"SHUT UP MECHANIC GEEZER! I'M FREAKING TIRED OF DEALING WITH THESE ROBOTS!"
As the two arrived, they saw the God of Blacksmithing and what seemed to be a teen with a gruff appearance which made Zeru thought that he was a 2nd year highschool student or possibly a 3rd year or either a delinquent that's been held back two or three years. He had black eyes, brown hair, wearing tank top camo pants and boots.
Also what surprised Zeru was the amount of pile of metal was there. Looking closely he could see an arm was sticking out.
"Whoa looks like he beat forty of his automatons." Hades whistled.
"When the hell are you going to stop relying on that piece of shit and start using a weapon." The Blacksmith God sighed as he starred at the sate his automatons were in now."
"Tch, who the hell needs weapons when I have my fists."
"Your ancestor may have relied on his physical strength, but he isnt' some brainless idiot that wrecks shit up! Beside his main weapon of choice was a club."
"Pfft. Whatever, so you going to get my ancestor or not. I'm getting bored of playing with those."
As Zeru got some of the pieces of who this person was, he seemed to be greek, had super physical strength and his decendant was a hero.
"You've gotta be kidding me." Zeru sweat dropped realizing who he is.
"Yep you're looking at a the Descendant of Heracles.
He then wondered was it even necessary for descendants of historic heroes to be named after their extact name? Either way that was just dumb and idiotic and sounded like someone was lazy to give them a unique name
Hephaestus then noticed Zeru and his eyes widened as a light bulb glowed above his head.
Seeing that look he was getting from the blacksmith, Zeru knew he was going to get involved with the ruffian.
"Fine. I'll try to get him to fight you…Unless you can beat him." Hephaestus pointed at Zeru, as the muscular teen looked at his current opponent.
"Him? Seriously, I've beaten guys like him a bunch of times. Not gonna do it, so go get him!"
"That guy over there happens to be my errand boy."
A tick mark appeared on Zeru's forehead, hearing the title he was given in such a bland fashion to appease a person like Heracles.
"So? What's your point?"
"He's also a magician."
"So? I already beat those guys before, not much challenging at all."
"You think so huh? Well this boy is different compared to those other magicians you've fought."
"Hm, I guess he doesn't give off a know it all vibe."
"That's not the point…."
Hephaestus was then cut off as bullet was fired.
"The hell?" Heracles felt something on his right cheek. He then touched his cheek where the bullet went past him.
He then stared back to see it came from the Errand Boy.
"Yo, Heracles. My name is Hyoudou Zeru aka Errand Boy. Pleasure to meet you." He smiled.
"The hell…" Heracles glared at him
"Well the Hephaestus-san, I'll take up the offer. It'll be good to see how I fare against the descendant of a Demi-God."
"Good. Well then I'll be leaving. Also Uncle, can you watch over them?"
"Sure, don't worry if your Errand boy's soul starts leaking out of his body, I'll put it back in." he thumbs up his nephew.
"Alright then."
Hades then grabbed his nephew's shoulder to stop him for a bit.
"Did you really have to send that kid to the beast?" Hades chuckled.
"What other kind of excuse, can I use? Besides this is a good test to see if that thing inside of him will fully awaken." His nephew replied
"Heh, Ares will be glad to know for the good result." Hade chuckled.
"Oi, Hephaestus-san. About those weapons of mine…"
"They're already done, you can have them after you survive."
"Okay, kinda saw that one coming."
"Really, think you can win?" Hephaestus mocked
"Who knows, since I'm the underdog my luck increases." He grinned.
"Well whatever. Later than." Hephaestus left.
As he projected his magic circle nothing came out.
"Fuck, left some of my shinobi tools at home."
"I have a knife you could use…Oh wait it has some of my magic. Sorry you're on your own."
"Really, just gonna be like that to me? Well whatever, I already a weapon and it's my body."
"If you say so, also remember his strength. With one punch you're dead or in a coma."
"Okaay then, I'll just have to enhance my body then."
"Also make sure you add enough enhancement when you get pwned, or your soul starts flowing out."
"I get it. Geez." He rolled his eyes.
He then headed to the sparring area and began to do some stretches.
"The sooner I'm done with you, I'm dealing with my Ancestor." Said the demi-god with arrogance in his tone.
"First off, if you want to face a someone stronger than you, then you must have a taste of failure to move on to the next level."
"What the fuck is that supposed to mean?"
"It means you need a good mind fuck about how vast the world still is."
"I already know the world is freaking big.
Zeru sighed at how the Demi-god doesn't get his meaning, while the Greek God of the Dead chuckled.
"I'm saying that there are other beings besides Gods that are strong."
"Hah, are you saying that you're strong?"
"Perhaps or perhaps not. That depends what the outcome is. But heck, I know that I might easily get rekt by you. So I'm just testing my luck."
Hercules and an irate look at the human's somewhat cryptic tone.
"Enough talk, you're going down."
"Oooo, already declaring that you're going to be on top of the bed, my I bet girls like a dominant man like you or maybe dude since the Deity your descended from a God that symbol of masculinity and warriorship, he did have some male lovers. So being bi is cool." He did a thumbs up in support of the Descendants's possible bisexual preferences.
"SHUT UP! I'M FREAKING STRAIGHT!"
Suddenly the Greek teen disappeared.
"Huh?" Zeru was surprised at what just happened.
Heracless was right in front of him about to punch him fueled by the killing intent of destroying the annoyance in front of him.
Using his Acceleration magic he narrowly managed to dodge the punch and used the Body Flicker technique to back away.
"Phew that was close." Zeru was surprised that the Greek Teen was able to move with in that kind of speed, it was almost as if he just took one step and was already there. Guess his theory about him being not much of a speed type but rather Power- Type.
Heracles was surprised to see that he was able dodge his punch, since this was one of his moves he uses to one- shot end his fights on his opponents since they are easily overwhelmed by his intimidating aura and prescience . Seeing that speed he wasn't just a mere a magician that relies on using spells that take time to cast.
"Not bad, but you won't be able to dodge my attack, again." The descendant of the Demi-God cracked his knuckles.
"Like I said the world is vast, so don't take things too lightly."
Zeru then immediately appeared in front of the Demi-God as he punched at his chest.
"Hado #1: Sho!" As his fist narrowly made contact with his body, the small force of energy released.
Heracles was caught off guard by this kind of attack as he was pushed back, but was able to maintain his stance while pressing both his feet in the ground to gain traction.
Seeing the next opening, Zeru then appeared to his left side and did a kick that aimed towards his side. Heracles with his reflexes he brought his arm to cover where he was about to kick. As his leg was about to hit his arm, he suddenly ceased his attack and backed away.
Zeru was concerned at what just happened right now, the moment when he was about to make contact with his arm, he felt an ominous feeling.
Starring at him now he saw some faint energy leaving from his left arm. Either he was able to manipulate mana as a way to reinforce his arm, that would seem uncharacteristic of a demi-god of his stature seeing that only even with someone with superhuman strength he could've easily blocked it and his leg would still get fucked up.
"(Dammit, is there some kind of new trick he has besides the super strength? No it couldn't be so far he doesn't seem to be the type to rely on enhancement magic.)"
Heracles was surprised at the Errand Boy magician; he was actually using magic in hand to hand combat. Also he was surprised that he had to activate that ability of his in a defensive manner, since he would use it more for offense. He smirked seeing that this fight wasn't going to end in a one shot after all.
Zeru's eyes widened to see that Heracles appeared in front, already.
He then launched a straight punch at him, while Zeru immediately crossed his arms.
"Guh."
Feeling the super human strength of the Demi-God, his arms started to shake from the vibrations created fwhen his fist hisdefensive enhancements."
"Hm not bad you're able to endure my fist…Bu that's not all, ya have to endure." Heracles smirked.
Zeru then saw that a glowing light emanated from his fist. Before he could even react, an explosion was made.
"FUCK!"
The explosion caused him to be pushed away, hitting his body against the wall.
"Guh." Zeru struggled to stand up as his upper body sprained and both his arms were covered in small burns.
That explosive attack from the Demi-God was a surprise, but what was more surprising was how he was able to use it. It didn't seem like he was the magician type, but looks can be deceiving.
Either way, using explosive magic in that sort of manner in the way he uses it is impossible, since that magic requires more precision when using that, because it'll require practice in learning how to adjust the power output to detonate, otherwise by not carefully adding the right amount of power to perform an explosive blow the user's arm would be destroyed in the process from the recoil.
For now he would resort to go long distance combat, though his arms are sore it won't be enough to stop.
Hades knowing what Zeru was going to do now, he could tell that whatever tactic he can think of in dealing with the muscle minded youth it won't be enough. Because Heracles has in his possession was a Sacred Gear, a weapon created by the God of the Bible himself. That gear was called: Variant Detonation.
Variant Detonation is a Sacred Gears that does not have a physical form like most Sacred gears that take up the form of objects like weapons and accessories. It was nothing more than mere power, as in whenever he makes contact with anything it will detonate on impact. For Heracles it was just something he can use for adding extra power to his attacks.
Right now Zeru thought that it was a spell that would take time for Heracles to adjust the amount of power to release once he makes contact, but he would soon found out, more to that so-called spell.
"Hey, you done?" Heracles asks.
Zeru then managed to stand back up.
"Not even close." He grinned, not having thought of wanting to give up
Zeru then began to run with his currently numbed arms flailing behind him.
Heracles, had a surprised look that he was still willing to continue with his condition and even after seeing the explosive power displayed from his Sacred Gear.
Using a combination of both speed enhancement spell and the Body Flicker technique he was able to instantly appear behind him.
But unfortunately Heracles instincts didn't keep him off guard, so he then rotated his body to attack with a back fist.
"BAKUDO #8: SEKI!" Zeru yelled as the small blue ball of kinetic energy formed between his face and the incoming fist fist. Upon making contact with the small energy ball it was immediately dispersed and his fist managed to hit Zeru knocking him away as Variant Detonation activated already because of his previous contact with the blue sphere.
Surprisingly he wasn't thrown that far, as he managed to still kept a firm stance.
"*Pant* Damn what the fuck? Are Demi-God's freaking OP?...Oh yeah they sometimes inherit the ability of the God they are descended from…FUCK!" Zeru was surprised that he was still able to use that explosive magic again. Did he have a high casting speed since he seemed to be well adept at using that spell without suffering any drawbacks.
His fingers began to move slightly thanks to the healing magic, he already applied, and after that he began to move both his shoulders and only the right one seemed to be more moveable.
"Alright, this'll do."
Zeru the moved placed his right arm onto his leg, coating it with strength magic.
With a kick he fired a wave of black energy at the Demi-God, pushing him back, as he blocked it.
Zeru then jumped in the air as he did a vertical kick firing off another vertical wave of strength magic at Heracles.
The Demigod countered with the palm of his hand as the attack was destroyed with Variant Detonation.
"How about this." Zeru then created a magic circle firing off a barrage of bullets.
"Hah!" Heracles then hit the magic circle he created in front of him, firing an explosive blast destroying the bullets and circle.
"Geez, you aren't such a typical brawler after all." Zeru commented, seeing how he was able to use his supposed explosive magic in other ways besides close combat offense.
"Heh, I usually don't like using magic circles. But since I have this annoying power I might as well make it a more effective as a weapon instead of me getting the recoil whenever I hit something." Heracles smirked.
"So you do have a brain."
"Shut up. After this Heracles #1 is next."
"Really? So far I've been standing my ground against you so it looks like I'm capable." He said moving his arms slightly, as he was able to freely move them.
"Please, I've been sparring against Spartans since I was a kid. I dealt tougher."
"Really, well I'm a resilient person. So will see which wins."
Using his speed magic he began to strafe around in a circle him as each magic circle was formed surrounding the Demigod descendant.
After the circles were formed, they began to glow.
"Not gonna happen!" He slammed his fist on a magic circle he created, creating a dome of explosion destroying the circles around him.
Heracles looked to see that the Errand Boy was gone.
Heracle began to feel the stress of creating magic circles and using his Scared Gear since they rely on his own mana. For now he'll stop using magic circles, since using them from time to time is getting annoying, since he doesn't want to keep relying things like that.
Zeru then pointed out with his palm aiming it him.
"Ye lord! Mask of flesh and bone, flutter of wings, ye who bears the name of Man! Truth and temperance, upon this sinless wall of dreams unleash but slightly the wrath of your claws. Hado #33: Sokatsui!"
Blue flames then engulfed Heracles.
"That it!" he yelled as he charged through the flames.
Zeru was amazed at the extent of his magical resistance against the intensity of the flames.
Heracles movements began to falter slightly, due to him trying to suppress his annoying explosive scared gear. If that were to activate it would cause an explosion that could disperse the flames away, but it can also do the reverse to him as well by damaging him in the process.
Zeru who was pointing his hand was still releasing the flames.
As he was focused on trying to push him back, Heracles ran through the flames like a mad man and his body was glowing as well.
"He's not gonna…"
As the rushing aura of energy was heading towards him.
"Shit!" Zeru then dispersed the flames from his hands, fearing a chain reaction of how the explosion's mana would trail back to his kido, thereby damaging him severely in the process.
"TAKE THIS!"
Heracles then landed a punch to his gut, while suppressing his Variant Detonation's power. He then lifted him up by the cuff of his shirt.
"Oh you sneaky bastard." Zeru smirked at being tricked by the brawler, thinking that he would use his explosive magic as a shield but instead he used his own magical energy as the aura.
"Heh, I'll admit you managed to last longer than most magicans…But this…"
Lifts him up and then …
"OVER!"
He slams him onto the ground creating a small creator, causing him to cough blood. But upon doing that his hand that was still gripping on to him began to glow.
"…Aw shit…" Heracles sighed..
BOOM
An explosion was made engulfing the now defeated errand boy.
Meanwhile…
"GAH!"
Ares was thrown against the wall.
One thing that Ares should've always remembered was never ever mess with Dionysus's booze.
"RROOOOAAAAR! ME SQUASH PUNY LITTLE MAN!" yelled the voice of someone brutish loud and was still trying to learn his sentences.
What threw him was a large purple grape colored muscular figure who was wearing a toga, thank god for the toga being made of such strong expandable fabric. Cause other wise no one wants to see a naked hulk-like man at all.
Also never ever mess with a Deity of Madness, cause you'll end up fighting an Incredible Hulk reference.
Ares sweat dropped at seeing his brother in his berserk mode, because even as a god of war he was intimidated by the overwhelming presence and madness his brother was giving off.
"H Hey Bro, how about we go out and drink? My treat…" Ares offered.
The Greek God of Madness brought his brother close to his face and roared into face as his brother was covered in spit and was then dropped to the ground.
A magic circle was made and a young women with brown hair, wearing a white toga with chest armor underneath, wrist bands, brown greek sandals, and a owl resting on her shoulder.
"Hey what's going on here? ... Heh serves you right for your temper dear brother." giggled the Goddess of Wisdom, seeing what was now happening.
"Athena…help…" Ares pleaded weakly.
"Will you promise to stop being a total bitch when playing games?"
"WHO ARE YOU CALLING A BITCH!" he yelled with his face red.
"Well then never mind, have fun with your bro time." She waved with a smile, as she left.
"Wait wait Athena!"
Dioyonsus-Hulk picked him up again.
"Now we play. crush stupid man." Grunted the Purple Hulk as he carried him by the legs with one hand, making him look like he was wielding a human club.
"Heeeelllp!" he pleaded as he was soon going to experience the wrath of the God of Madness.
But then suddenly, the God of Madness stopped with his attack.
"Now now, Brother you don't want to break him." Athena said, with her hand placed on his back.
The palm of her hand glowed as she used her own magical power to overpower the Madness Enhancement he had placed himself. The power enveloping the aura of Madness, then died out as her brother's physique shrunk back to normal dropping Ares in the process.
"Oh boy, thanks Sis. If I went any further Dad would've grounded me." Dioyonsus sighed in relief of not having to suffer a punishment from his father.
Athena sighed in relief that she was able to cease her brother's madness enchantment, luckily it's power was only at its minimum strength. If he were at full power, then it would take almost all of Olympus to deal with him.
As Dionysus looked at his now badly injured brother.
"Well then you got lucky, that sis decided to help you. Hm…" A light bulb appeared above his head, as he thought of the perfect punishment for destroying his booze.
While Ares was still unconscious, he casted a magic circle above his head as it showed his body with light, causing the spell to be in effect.
"What did you do?"
"Casted a Hippy Circle Party Illusion on him."
"Nice." She giggled, knowing of Ares's intense hatred of hippies.
In the dream.
"I FUCKING HATE HIPPIES! FUCK YO PEACE SIGNS!" he yelled as he in the middle of a circle of hippies holding hands a rainbow was hanging over the sky and apparently there was a unicorn flying along the rainbow and it was shitting out piece signs literally.
"Woo! Peace rule! So long war!" yelled a random hippie.
"AAAAAAH!" He then projected many magic circles generating various weapons to envelop in the sky, to let rain on the hippies and the peace sign shitting unicorns, and all other unholy peaceful things.
Back to the fight.
"Shit. Hey Hades check on him!" Heracles yelled in panic.
"Alright." Hades's eyes glowed activating his death sense, allowing him to see the souls of the dead. As he looked to see the condition of the young human…
From his vision he could see a weak source of energy began to rise from Zeru's body. He then brought out his hand as he prepared to revitalize the soul to stay dormant in the body but…
An abnormal of energy then began to rise from his body as it pushed the soul back into his body.
Suddenly in a flash Heracles was pushed back and he had a bruise on his face.
"The fuck?!" Heracles yelled irate at what the hell just suddenly happened.
"Oi, Herc Jr-kun." Said a voice that sounded hollow.
From the crater stood Zeru standing up with the left side of his shirt scored and was covered in burns from the explosion. His body was glowing from the circuit-veins streaming though through his upper body.
"Wow, this is rare to see a magician use internal enhancement. But it looks like it was activated from that near death experience he had now." commented a women with black hair, wearing dark blue dress, wearing a hooded cape.
"Hecate, what are you doing here?" Hades asked the Goddess of Magic.
"Just wanting to get front row seats for the fight. So that's suppose to be his Sacred Gear?"
"Yep. So what do you think of him, Hecate?" Hades asks, referring to Zeru. Wondering how the Goddess of Magic viewed his skills as a fellow magic user.
"Well based on on his skills, he's okay as an average magician. He's somewhat past the novice in terms of executing spells now. But if he wants to further his skills, then he better realize that magic is endless there is no limit to what you can do, rather then limiting on how much power he has to use."
The energy-like circuits then dyed out as the amulet's jewel then began to glow red as it began to excrete a black liquid covering his injuries.
Heracles was surprised that a human was able to endure his superhuman strength enhanced Sacred Gear. Usually it would've KO'd others, but he was still standing and also he didn't even added any defense magic at the last minute.
Suddenly a large presence of killer intent was coming towards him and before Heracles could even react. He got hit by uppercut which then followed up with a kicked straight to the chest, sending him against the wall.
"Guh."
Zeru smirked, seeing the damage he was able to do against Heracles.
"Hey, Herc Jr-kun~ Ya not done yet riiight?~ Cause ya said you were gonna fight your ancestor after thiiiss~ But too bad, ur gonna get ur ass whupped by a human~ Sucks to be you~"
CRACK
He cracked his knuckles and kneck, giving off a sadistic look, as the black liquid began to retract back to the amulet, revealing his physical injuries were fully healed.
"Well if ur not gonna get up yet, then I'll do this." He then brought out his hand and snapped.
Heracles's arm then began to glow as he saw magical energy that didn't belong to him. Upon being in physical contact of that energy, Variant Detonation began to glow in response. After that that the magic energy pulsed, dispersing in the process, causing Variant Detonation to response.
"FUCK!" Hercales yelled in anger at his scared gear's annoying ability.
With that he was engulfed in the explosion from his Sacred Gear.
"So it can work this way, how convenient~ It's like I have a little bomb I can detonate up as much as I want~" he formed a twisted smile of enjoyment.
Hecate had a look of amusement seeing the tactic Zeru used.
By releasing a bit of his magic power embedded on Heracles's body and by activating it. It will then cause a reaction to his Sacred Gear since the excess mana was now mixed with Variant Detonation's energy. The Sacred Gear will then activate as well thereby damaging the user in the process. Basically Zeru was able to use Heracles's power against him.
"Heh, well I will say this. He does have good ingenuity" Hecate commented.
Zeru then walked to the damaged hero, as the smoke cleared.
"Oi~ Herc Jr-kun~ Ya ain't down yet aren't ya ?~ Man this is pathetic, is this how a descendant of a hero is? Well in actuality at first, the Original Heracles was a douchebag like you, always stubborn and easy to anger. But he did got okay character development after doing those 12 Labors. So guess you need to do the 12 labors and by doing that maybe your great-great-great however- great granddaddy would bless you with an immortal body like him. But I think going through some training with your ancestor is good…But too late for that cause I'm gonna beat you up ~" Zeru smiled, not wanting the fight to end just yet.
"GRAAH!" With a roar, the descendant of the Demi-God lunged at him.
"Bakudo #81: Danku." Zeru swung his finger down.
Before Heracles could even make contact an invisible force blocks him, causing Varaint Detonation's abilty to knock him back.
What blocked it was a translucent rectangular shaped barrier, which seemed to be very strong defense spell, seeing that there was no damage, as it was still maintain its structure.
Zeru than began kneel down on his knee, panting at using the high ranked Bakudo, which seem took more power to use than it's perfected form.
"Heh, even if he tries to support a spell with the excess magic energy around him, he will still need to learn know the full workings of the spell to use it effectively. Even if he knows the incantation." Hecate commented.
"Well then looks like I'm gonna win soon~ Score one for humans and nada for the Hero Descendants."
Suddenly a pillar of energy of light engulfed Heracles.
"Balance Break!" The Descendant of Heracles roared as the light shined enveloping him.
In the next chapter, I might give Heracles a sub-species balance breaker, so he can have a slight improvement to improve combat capabilities compared to how he was in canon. Seriously giving him a balance breaker that shoots out missiles doesn't seem suit him based on his background as a descendant of Heracles.
What do you guys think, should I have Heracles develop one during the next chapter when Zeru eventually starts to overpower him? Or give him one during canon?
If anyones wondering, yes Zeru will meet some of the Hero-Faction members before they joined Khaos Brigade.
Well, it looks like the beginning of the ship wars have started and I fear that Zeru will face worse once he deals with a slowly made future harem lol
Also I made a poll if anyones interested, since it will determine a certain character's fate for future chapters.
Hope everyone enjoyed the chapter and make sure to review :)