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"Hey, guys Slim Prime here back with another chapter for HOTT, as well as introduce our Discord server. It is called Slim's Starship Lounge! (Go to my profile and you will find the link in Bold).
"Anyways let's get into that story… after the reviews."
Lancelot-07: You compare just about anything their just stronger. That's like saying you can only kill a god with a sword. It's all about what you use. Rasputin did not force the Traveler to do anything, he just pointed all his space guns at the Traveler just in case it ran. If he couldn't stop the darkness, then he thought he could have stopped the Traveler.
I think you're worried about the guardians stomping the gods. If they do fight, it's going to be a slug fight, two very powerful being going at.
"What do you mean we have a problem?" Poseidon asked the lord of the underworld. In truth, he was worried about the news Hades brought as he was not one to bring news to Olympus directly.
"The Fates had informed me that three beings have "Appeared" that are, for lack of better words, infecting the strings of fate," Hades answered walking into the center of the council. He spared a look at Apollo who was still clutching his head. "That could explain why that is happening to him. He must be seeing flashes of possible futures of these… People."
"People?" Aphrodite asked, confused, for the gods of Olympus only knew of fate. A predetermined future set by the Fates. No one, not even the gods themselves, were outside its control. To think that beings existed that were outside its control, and moreover infecting the rest of fate itself was mind-boggling to the gods.
"What's not possible!" Ares called not believing Hades for a moment. "You must be lying, no one is outside the Fates control!"
"Except these three," Hades replied, turning to face the god of war, his expression dead serious. "You seem to forget that the Fates themselves told me of their existence. Three beings are walking this planet who possess the ability to change fate, and they're doing it. Right now, as we speak."
"Well… what does that mean for us?" Demeanor asked worryingly, every thought of these creatures' existence scaring the goddess stiff. "What if they prove to be evil? What if they are coming after us!"
"Claim down Demeanor we do not know for sure that these people are doing anything against us," Hephaestus spoke in a claiming manner, though he too was put off by these beings. "All we know is that they are outside the control of fate. That doesn't make them good or evil."
"I agree with Hephaestus," Athena spoke up, moving away from Apollo. "We should not jump to any conclusions without proper facts." She stopped in front of Hades. "So, what do we know?"
Hades stared into her eyes for a moment before speaking. "First, we know that there are only three of these beings. Second, we know that these three are powerful. How powerful in comparison to us is still unknown but knowing that they can defy fate makes them very powerful. Third, we know they are actively changing things."
"Meaning?" Ares asked from his throne.
"Meaning that the future is no longer certain-" Hates replied but before he could continue Apollo started to yell out a prophecy.
THREE SHALL RISE TO FIGHT THE COMING DARKNESS
ONE MADE FROM IRON
ONE MADE FROM KNOWLEDGE
AND ONE FROM THE WILD
He paused as if the prophecy had ended. But he was still in the trance of receiving a prophecy. A few moments passed, and he began again.
THOUSANDS SHALL RISE FROM DEATH TO FIGHT THE COMING DARKNESS
He paused again this time remaining silent for a full minute. When he began again, he started speaking so fast that none of the gods could understand him. He would be rambling about some prophecy before stopping and starting a new one, all the while shaking violently in this throne. He went on like this for minutes scaring the lesser strong willed gods.
Aphrodite was holding on to Ares like her life depended on it, her head pushing into his shoulder. Athena was slowly backing away from Apollo as he was spasming on the floor. Demeanor had fled the room to seek comfort in her current mortal lover. Poseidon held his trident close to him as if any unseen enemy was about to attack. Hephaestus sat still unmoving with his face stuck in a shocked expression. Ares held his lover tightly, not knowing what to do. Hermes was doing his best to keep Apollo still, but he was not in the right mind to keep the rambling god still.
The only one who managed to keep a straight face was Hades. He continued to look at the crazed god neutrally as if waiting for some fool to quit talking.
"What, in the name of Chaos is going on?" Poseidon mumbled.
"What we are seeing now is the byproduct of the Fates trying to regain control over well... fate, I would imagine oracles all over the world are experiencing similar… feelings." Hades explained to the scared gods in the room. "But as it would seem the harder they try to regain control, the harder fate pushes back against them. At this point, I would say they will lose total control in a few weeks."
"But… but what about the great prophecy?" Athena managed to ask not taking her eyes off of Apollo.
To everyone's surprise, Hades started to laugh. "What great prophecy?" He then gestured to Apollo. "Don't you see? There is no more fate, no more certainty, nothing is set in stone now. Forget everything you know about fate because it doesn't matter now. The great prophecy is now a thing of the past, gone poof it never existed!"
"The only thing that is for certain is that things are never going to be the same again." Hades began to walk towards the exit. "Those three beings are changing things, and I don't know about you, but I am going to go retrieve my demigod children."
"Wait, you can't do that," Athena called after him. "That's direct intervention the fates-"
"Can't do jack at all now!" Hades called back, turning his head to look back at the goddess of wisdom. He sounded like he was getting tired of repeating himself. "Forget everything you know, the rules are not the same anymore, soon they will have little to no power over fate, meaning they have no power over me or any of my children. I, for one, am going to prepare them for this coming "Darkness" that seems to be coming our way. And if you are as smart as you claim to be, then I suggest you start doing to same. Because we have no idea when it gets here."
Poseidon's head came up as he thought about what Hades was saying. In a flash of motion, he was up out of his throne and running past Hades. Athena called after him demanding to know where he was running off too, but he did not reply. The goddess looked at Hades silently asking for an explanation.
"He is taking my words to heart and probably going to a mortal woman who has his demigod child." Hades shrugged before disappearing in a cloud of darkness.
It was around this time Apollo stopped spasming violently on the ground. He looked up to the assembled gods who turned to look at him when he stopped his "fit" of madness. He managed to breathe a final sentence to them before fainting.
"They come, they come… by Chaos, the god killers come."
'Tired.' The word that repeated over and over in Olivia's mind.
'Tired.'
'Tired.'
'Tired.'
She wished she could stop. Take a minute to let her legs rest, but she couldn't. To stop now meant death for her. She did not want to die, she wanted to keep living. There was still so much she wanted to see, to do… to learn. She wanted to go to college, to graduate top of her class, faster than anyone else in history. Maybe pick up a boyfriend along the way.
But all that was taken away from her when her father woke her one night telling her that they, she had to run. That something had found her and was coming to kill her. She wanted to ask who was after her, but she did not have much time before her father picked her up out of her bed and ran to the car. They drove for miles without stopping.
Always on the move, only stopping absolutely necessary. But that didn't help, because it caught up with them. It killed her father while she ran. It chased her across three states. It was right on her tail, and she was tired.
With little energy left in her legs, she was unable to raise one foot above a root causing the young girl to trip and fall. Olivia hit the ground hard breathing heavily as exhaustion took over her body. She managed to turn herself over to see the thing that was chasing her come out of a bush.
A massive black spider with the upper body of a woman with a mouth of a spider. It creaked towards her drool dripping from its fangs as it looked at her hungrily. It hissed at her as it drew closer and closer, knowing that its prey had no more energy left to run.
Olivia always hated spiders. More than anything in the word she hated spiders the most. She used to be deathly afraid of the damn things, but her father helped overcome her fear and turn it into hate.
But now.
She could not put on a brave face. She just couldn't.
She wanted to go back home. To her two dogs, her warm bed, her library. She just wanted all these damn things to go away and leave her alone. Tears started to well up in her eyes as the spider got closer. It seemed to smile as it saw her cower in fear.
Raising up one of its legs, aiming the sharp end towards the girl's small body. Seeing the attack coming, Olivia closed her eyes, not wanting to see the end coming.
A moment passes.
Then another.
No pain.
She cracks open her eyes. A shadow was over her, blocking out the sun with its bulk. Opening her eyes further, she saw someone standing in-between her and the spider. It was a man, a big man easily over six feet tall. Her mouth dropped when she saw what the man was holding in his hand.
The spider's leg.
Slowly crawling back, she got a better look at her savior.
He wore black military boots with black camo pants with the lower part of the pants tucked underneath the shaft of the boot. He wore a gray belt with a plain white t-shirt tucked into his pants. He was also very muscular with little to no fat visible on him. His hair was a dark brown, and when he turned to give her a comforting smile, she saw his eye, as one was covered by an eyepatch, to be hazel.
He turned back towards the spider who was trying to pull her leg away from the man's hand.
"Hey," He said the spider. "bug off."
In one quick motion, he pulled the spider towards him before sending his other fist into her face sending the spider flying into a tree. The spider was dazed by the hit, trying to get back up but falling back down every time. The man walked towards the monster cracking his knuckles as he went. Seeing the man get close to her, the spider tried to attack him, but her attacks were poorly aimed, making it easy to dodge them.
Pulling his fist back, the man punched the spider's head again, but this time his fist went right through her skull. The spider went limp before exploding into golden dust. The man bought his still closed fist up to his mouth and blew off some of the golden dust that had collected on his fist.
"Hey kid," He said, turning to face Olivia. "Whatcha' doing out here all alone?"
She was scared, it was like she was standing before a god. Her father said something about meeting a god. Talking to her, getting to know her, falling in love with her and getting Olivia from that love. Did this god know the god who her father knew? She was so scared that she couldn't get her mouth to move.
The blond-haired girl continued to look up at me with a blank expression on her face. If I had to guess, she was probably trying to figure out how some random dude just punched a monster to death. Traveler, I would probably be wondering the same thing right about now.
"So…" I said, trying to break her out of her trance. "We just going to stare at each other all day or what?"
She blinked at me.
I rolled my eyes, remembering back to the times I would walk the city and get a bunch of kids gawking at me. Now don't get me wrong I love kids, but would it kill them just to come up and talk to me instead of just staring. It wasn't like I was going to hurt them or anything, well I guess I could be scary. After all, being a titan, I could tear down buildings easily. I guess approaching someone like that would be difficult. So, it fell to me to get her out of her trance.
I walked over to the gray-eyed girl and kneeled beside her.
"Hey, I don't know why that thing was chasing you, but if there are more like it, then we need to get out of here," I said putting my hand on her shoulder.
She twitched slightly at my touch, but she did not pull back. She did give an ever so slight nod and allowed me to help her to her feet. As she was coming up, her legs gave out under her own weight, but I caught her before she hit the ground.
"Whoa there," I said, easing her down. "How long were you running from that thing?"
She started to mumble something, but I couldn't make it out. If it came down to it, I could carry her out of here.
'Sid do we have any strange readings in the area?' I asked my ghost.
'Well the closest is this girl believe it or not,' Sid replied after a moment. 'but yea I got a few blips heading our way.' He paused for a moment. 'I think we should get on our sparrow and get out of here.'
'But what about her?'
'Even if we drop her off somewhere, I doubt anyone will believe her about a man with a speeder.' Sid replied. 'By the way, those blips are getting closer.'
"Hope you've had a good rest because we moving now," I said to her humorously; after all, my sparrow could only hold one person.
Before she could say anything, I scooped her up in my arms and jumped into the air some seventy feet. I used my lift ability to slow my descent as I wanted to avoid hurting the girl I was carrying. As soon as I landed, I jumped into the air again around the same height as the first time, using my lift ability as I came down again. I repeated the action for a few miles before we came to the suburbs forcing me to go into a mad sprint.
I changed my light forces to Arc to allow me to run faster. Sparks of Arclight started to appear around my feet as I ran towards the city. However, I came to a skidding halt when I saw a light fly into the sky and explode in a fiery color. My eyes widened as I remembered the meaning behind the specific light flare. A wide smile appeared on my face.
I took off towards the flare going much faster than before. Arclight was dance all over my body as I ran towards the flare. I had to keep reminding myself that I needed to keep my Arclight under control as I did not want to fry the girl I was carrying. I also had to remind myself to avoid going through trees for that exact same reason.
We were leaving the city and heading in the direction of the more isolated housing areas, mainly this area had large houses with a lot of lands to them. What Orion was doing out here was up for debate, but hey he found loot, so I really don't care why he's out there. Maybe if I turned on my IFF, I would know what he was doing.
But hell, that doesn't matter, WEAPONS!
It took about thirty minutes to get to the area where the flare was fired. When we arrived, I found Orion and, Traveler preserve me, Osiris sitting across from him on a porch to a large house. Seeing my old fireteam member, I completely forgot about the loot. Orion looked over to me when he saw me enter the clearing, he waved me over.
"Hey, Slim," Orion greeted me as I approached the porch. "What with the kid?"
"Found her being attacked by some spider woman thing," I said, setting her down in a chair. "Brought her with me as there were a bunch more of those things heading towards us. Also," I walked up to Osiris, who was busy drinking tea. I loomed over the warlock. "Where have you been? You never return my messages, but you have time to hang out with the Hive bane?"
"If you remember correctly the Hive Bane came to me," Osiris said, setting his cup down. "You have never bothered to come see me."
"Oh no, you are not flipping this around on me!" I declared. "I wasn't the one who left the fireteam just so you could get stronger. We were a flipping team!"
Osiris rolled his eyes. "You're still angry about that?"
I grabbed him by his collar and held him up to my face. "If you wouldn't have left then Asha would still be alive."
That got a response out of him. He grabbed my wrist as Sol light began to burn from his hand. It wasn't nearly enough to hurt me, but the threat was there. However, I wasn't in the mood to be backing down. Asha was more than the team's hunter; truth be told I had feelings for her, but it did not help her when a Fallen Snipper took her ghost in an ambush. The ensuing fight took her life when a cloaked fallen captain impaled her through the back.
She died in my arms, with one simple request. Protect humanity.
Damn warlock didn't even show up to her funeral.
Orion appeared beside me, putting his hand on my and Osiris' shoulder.
"Alright, you two knock it off." Orion said looking between Osiris and I. "Your scaring our quest."
I looked over to the girl I brought with me, fear written all over her face. Both Osiris and I were raising our light levels; if she could detect our light levels, then seeing something grow in power so quickly would be scary. Especially to a kid who looked to be just entering her teens, it was for those exact reasons that guardians were not allowed to raise their light level in the city.
I dropped Osiris and lowered my light level; Osiris did the same.
"Good now let's sit down like civil crazy undying warrior and talk this out… maybe exchange gifts of loot while we're at it." Orion said, sitting back down in his chair. "I will start, Slim I have been doing a ton of jobs for these guys… well, a gal that is a part of a weapons smithing… group. So, I had them make a new set of weapons for you. Dewi."
As soon as Orion said his ghost's name two black and red weapons were transmitted onto the table. One of them caught my eye immediately. A weapon I thought lost to me forever. Sure, it looked different, but I recognized that shotgun anywhere. A weapon I won from Ikora in a bet, a weapon that has since then help me kill god-like beings.
"Invective." I breathed looking at the weapon in shock. It was beautiful, I could feel the tears coming to my eyes.
"Reborn, and better than ever," Orion added. "The EXO over at the Black Armory Upgraded its range, impact, and stability also increased the mag size from four to six. It also has a catalyst installed, increasing the firepower and effectively doubling the damage."
"Am I truly worthy?" I asked, looking at the weapon dazed by the upgrades Orion spoke of.
He chuckled. "I wouldn't be giving you these if you weren't." He then pointed to the machine gun on the table. "That's Hammerhead it's a sixty round LMG, it has a slow fire rate for a machine gun but hits hard. We also got Ringing Nail here too, it fires Sol infused rounds, so it's going to hit harder than your average auto rifle, its rounds are also slightly bigger."
Orion then looked at Osiris, waiting for him to continue.
"I have started working on an organization that will be slowly raising humanity's technology," Osiris said, tossing a holo-projector on the table. The projector started to project a scrolling list of people. "I have already made a list of people that will assist me in this."
"Why not a company?" I asked while cuddling my Invective Reborn.
"Because then said company would be disbanded as soon as the Traveler arrived. Let the pre-existing companies to take in the technologies the Traveler will give, while my organization will steady the light like the first warlocks have been doing since the fall."
"Making a Cult of Osiris already?" Orion asked, almost amused.
"I never founded that cult," Osiris respond quickly. "And this organization will not be anything like them, I will learn from their mistakes. I will make this organization greater than even my pupil's Hidden."
"How many of these people on your list will become guardians?" Orion asked, looking at the list more closely.
"If my observations are correct all of them," Sagira said, appearing beside her guardians.
We all took notice of this. Osiris already finding guardians, most likely warlocks, and he has only been here for little less than a day.
"That leads me to my question. What is she doing here?" Osiris said, jerking his head towards the girl I brought. Who was staring at us like we were the coolest thing since revives?
"Like I said-" I started before he cut me off.
"I know why she is with you, I asked why she is here now. You should have dropped her off at some orphanage as soon as you saved her. We don't have time to be babysitting a normal human girl. We have more important tasks that require our full attention."
Before I could reply, Sid appeared beside me. "My sensors detected multiple of those monsters configuring on our location while he held the girl. I believe that these monsters are being attracted for some reason, meaning this she is no normal human. There is a reason these monsters are after her, and I think we should find out why."
"If what you say is true, then how come he doesn't have more of those monster things arriving here?" Orion asked, scanning the tree line.
"I can only guess that either they are afraid of us or whatever is attracting them is overshadowed by your presence," Sid started opening his shell to get a better scan of the area. "Compared you three is it's a spec on the radar, no offense to you." Sid finished nodding at the girl.
"None taken." She replied sheepishly.
"If that's the case then we can't just drop her off somewhere." I jumped in. "If she is attracting monsters, then we can't leave her alone, those things are out for blood, and I, for one, am not going to leave to leave her to fend for herself."
"Fine, while we are on the subject of the creatures of this time, I will report that I discovered multiple places giving out strange readings, some stronger than others. The closest reading I'm getting is coming from the empire state building, another is coming from Mount Tamalpais, and the last one, which I will investigate, is coming from somewhere in Los Angeles."
"What are you hoping to find?" I asked, crossing my arms.
"Traveler willing, I will find nothing of great importance," Osiris replied. "However, if there is something that needs to be dealt with, then I will deal with it."
"Don't go getting into something over your head now warlock. Your class tends to be fragile." Orion jeered at the warlock.
"I am more than capable of dealing with powerful beings Orion," Osiris answered, sending the hunter a glare.
"Then it's settled then," I interjected before Orion could counter. "Osiris will check out these people of odd power readings. Orion, you keep doing… your hunter things, and I will see why these monsters are targeting the kid I picked up."
The other two nodded. Guess it's time to make our presence felt.
"They radiate the same power of the Great Light. They are connected to it, yet… it has not made them."
"They are different. Something that should not be. Warriors of today, brought back tomorrow, then sent back to now."
"Perhaps we should appear to them. They have many wishes that could be granted."
"The time is not yet right, oh, sister of mine. There is still so much that must happen."
"I do grow weary of this waiting, oh brother of mine. These three have changed the plan, humanity may not be willing to act on their wishes if we wait too long."
"Then we shall appear before the Great Light arrives."
"WO that's that. Well, onto the next one!"
Special thanks to my Crew: ZoDiAcKiLlEr315 and Rouge-eL
God Bless and "Damnit who let the monsters out of their cages!"
"I WAS LOOKING FOR THE BATHROOM THIS SHIP HAS NO LABELS!"
"How this ship manages to function with such incompetent crew members I will never know."