"Nyx, what are you doing here?" he asked distastefully.
"You know, you're real snarky for somebody who's been having sex on the constant for fifty years. That's supposed to make you more calm not more irritable" she said, walking around his room aimlessly.
"It's hard to be calm while fucking your disgusting ass daughters" he snarled.
"My my, somebody's in a bad mood today" she said stroking his face. He wanted to pull away or bite her hand, but he couldn't. That same feeling that made him powerless during sex was present now, and he was entirely at her whim.
"Did you not enjoy making love to me spawn, my love?" she asked.
"NO" he answered immediately.
"Really? None of them? Not even say... Hemera?" Nyx asked with a callous smile.
"What did you do to her?" he growled.
"Oh nothing! I just wanted to confirm your feelings for her. I wonder how Artemis will take this. She's stayed loyal to you since you ran away. You on the other hand... you've been far from it" Nyx teased.
"You made me! You forced me into this! Tried to make me believe this was my- Wait. Did you say that I loved Artemis?" he asked.
"Indeed you did. Then you ran into me, and begged me to take you away from her abusive, man hating ways. So I brought you into my home and allowed you to breed with my daughters. I have been a gracious host, and yet still you disrespect me and my family" Nyx scolded him.
Fifty years of conditioning kicked in immediately. "I'm sorry my lady. Please forgive me. Allow me to give you another child, I'll make it worth your while" he begged, dropping down onto his knees.
"Mmmm. That's a good boy. But no, no more breeding for you" she said.
"W-what do you mean? What am I supposed to do now? Sex is all that I know?"
"You are free. I'll have some monsters accompany you to the exit of Tartarus. You've done well as my pet project. You broke far less than I had expected, but enough nonetheless. Gather any of the things you want to take with you and follow me" she said, moving over to the door.
William shot up off the floor and ran to the door. There was nothing here he wished to remember. If he could forget the whole experience he would.
"Very well, let's go then. Your freedom awaits" she said, leaving the room. As William made to follow the goddess of night like an obedient puppy, a book on the table beside the door caught his eye. He quickly snatched it up and hurried to catch up to the goddess who held his freedom in her hands.
They reached the front door in no time. A feeling of dread filled him. The exit had beenright herethe whole time.
"Be free my pet, explore the world, and impregnate more women. It gets me so hot knowing that there are going to be so many of your kids running around in the mortal world soon" Nyx said with a shiver.
With that, she pushed him out the door and slammed it in his face.
"Come with usss my lord. We will sssshow you the way to the sssurfacce" a Dracaenae said from behind him. He turned around to find a whole squadron of snake women armed to the teeth and ready to escort him away. There was something odd about these Dracaenae, they looked different from the ones he had seen in his room. More... human maybe?
He shook it off and followed them closely. Tartarus did not look like a place he wanted to get lost in.
William found out quickly that Tartarus was not as nice as his view had made him think. From his window, the hellish landscape just looked like he had a room in the wall of a volcano, which was pretty cool. But being out here now, was not so nice.
The air made his throat and chest burn slightly. His skin itched everywhere. At one point he had to stop the marching party to get a Dracaenae to suck his dick to try and relieve some of the itch on at least that part of his body. It had worked pleasantly well, and once she had expertly swallowed his load he got another to strip completely. He lifted this snake woman up by her hips and lowered her onto his cock. She wrapped her twin snake trunk around his waist to hold herself up.
As they walked their bodies rubbed together which helped gently soothe the itching of his skin in the places they were touching. The pleasure was also distracting, which was nice as well.
Eventually, they came upon a river of milky white fluid. This was the place where Nyx had first found him. The site of his first memories and where he became a god.
"This is it my lord. You step into the river and you will be transported away from this place" the Dracaenae said.
William dropped the cum filled snake off of his cock and moved to the edge of the river. Something about this didn't feel right. The whole way here they hadn't seen a single monster. What was the purpose of the squadron if there was nothing for them to do. The only other option was that they had only come to make sure that he came here.
"Don't do it. It's a trick. Run as fast as you can to your left. Follow the river as far as you can. You'll see a big black palace in the distance. Head there. You will be welcomed with open arms" aface in the river said. He trusted a stranger more than he trusted the servants of Nyx, so he did as he was told.
Without warning he took off sprinting to his left. Not looking back to see the Dracaenae's expressions or anything. Just straight sprinting along the bank of the river.
He wasn't sure if they were following him, but he didn't risk looking back. The ground turned to glass shards as he made it further up the river. His feet burned with the dirt that got into the many, many cuts in his feet. There were shards sticking up through his foot that he had landed on the wrong way and embedded deeply into himself.
But he didn't let this stop him or slow him down. He knew if hesitated, he would end up back in that prison cell. It was just a feeling he had. So didn't stop sprinting. No matter how much his feet were killing him and begging him to stop, no matter how much his chest burned, how much his skin itched, he kept going. He was determined to get out of this hell.
Just as the face in the river had said, he came upon the end of the river, where it mixed with another. This one was full of garbage. Things from the mortal world that had been ruined. Upon reaching this point, he collapsed to the ground. The tears were flowing down his face freely.So much pain.
His break was short lived. A terrible screech rang out somewhere in the darkness above him. He knew who it belonged to. The Furies.
Fear gripped his heart again. Both at the prospect of having to return to Nyx's prison, but also at being forced to have sex with those demons again.
Without an active thought, his legs picked him up and he started running again. He didn't realize it, but he ran right over the Styx, his unknown heritage saving him from the same disastrous fate that he feared. Had he stepped into the water, his lover would have swept him away into the Lethe and he would have forgotten everything.
He ran through hordes of ghosts, all just mingling around, doing nothing much at all other than standing around. They freaked him out as they tried to talk to him in their ghost language.
As he neared the black fortress, he heard the screams of the damned. And he felt... oddly comforted. Which scared him even more than the talking ghosts. He didn't want to feel comfortable with the sound of torture. He wanted to be comfortable in the presence of the sun, the sounds of nature. Not the screams of men.
Finally he finds himself at the giant doors of the castle. He banged his fists on the door rapidly. He wasn't concerned with annoying the occupants, he just wanted to be free from the sound of the Furies chasing him.
"Come on! Please! Some one let me in! Help me! Please!" he begged. Tears were still streaming down his face. Blood was all over his body from where he had itched too much and from rubbing his pained feet and then itching his skin spreading the blood around. He wouldn't be surprised if he wasn't allowed inside, being a bloody naked homeless guy didn't sound like someone he'd want in his home either. But he had to try, otherwise the Furies would take him back to her.
He continues banging on the door and begging to be let in. Finally, the door opens and the beating of wings behind him ceases immediately.
"Please help me! They're going to get me! Please!" William begged, looking fearfully behind him.
The young man that opened the door had a face covered completely in surprise. "William? How did you get here?" he asked.
"H-how do you know my name? You're with her aren't you? No no no no no no no..."
"Hey, hey, hold on. You don't remember me? I'm Nico, Percy's friend" Nico said.
"Who- who's Nico, or Percy? Are they more servants of Nyx?" William asked, slowly stepping away from the front door.
"Nyx? No, this is the palace of Hades in the Underworld. Nyx lives in Tartarus. Your brother Percy was there. Where have you been William?"
"How do you know my name?" he repeated, stopping his backing up. Hades was not part of Nyx's family, that much he did know.
"Everyone knows your name, we've been looking for you everywhere" Nico said, "come inside and we can talk."
The prospect of being grabbed by the Furies was more frightening than this boy was, so he willingly entered the unknown palace.
"Why are you looking for me? How do you know me? Are we safe from the Furies in here?" William asked, looking around for any signs that this was a trap.
"The Furies won't enter the palace unless my father summons them. Why were they trying to get you?" Nico asked.
"They want to take me back to their mother" William whispered.
"Back? You've been with Nyx? W-"
"Don't say her name!" William hissed.
"Sorry. What did she want with you? No offense" Nico asked innocently. But the question brought forth William's tears again. He sobbed in the corner, sinking to the floor between the wall and a column.
"Nico, what the Zeus is going on out here?" a grumbly voice asked, sounding quite annoyed as a man joined the two of them in the front entrance.
"I- I found him dad. William is here" Nico said, still surprised himself.
"What are you talking abou-" Hades cut himself off as his eyes laid on the sobbing, bloody, naked boy sitting in the corner. "I'll go call Artemis immediately" Hades said, quickly turning to return the way he had come from.
William shot up from the ground. "You know Artemis?" he questioned desperately. The only thing he knew about himself was that he had loved her at one point. He'd begged to be taken away from her, but surely she'd be able to fill him in on the rest of his life.
"Of course I do, she is my niece. She has been very worried about you" Hades answered.
"Why? I thought we hated each other?" William asked. The look that the two men shared made him question whether Nyx had told the truth or not. Maybe he still loved her, or at least was supposed to.
"Oh boy this is going to be fun" Hades muttered before returning to his path back down the hallway.
"So how much do you remember from before you ended up down here?" Nico asked.
"Nothing. I know the name Artemis and that I beggedherto take me away because Artemis was abusive despite the fact that I loved her" William explained.
"That's all your remember? What's the next thing after that?"
"I was in Tartarus. N-Nyx was there, she saved me from drowning in a river, then she made me a god and told me that my express purpose was to- to-"
"What did she make you do?" Nico asked curiously. But William wouldn't answer. He shook his head furiously.
"No. Please no. Can't talk about it. Please don't ask" he said, starting to cry again.
"Okay. Okay. That's fine. You'll have to tell somebody at some point. If you tell me I might be able to help you feel better" Nico offered.
"No! No, it can't be fixed. It's already been done. There are so many. Everybody is going to die because of me" William bawled.
Nico didn't know what to say to that. William was clearly not mentally stable. Anything that he said should be taken with a grain of salt. But seeing the man that the man hating goddess had fallen in love with bawling his eyes out and not remembering anything... it was deeply concerning.
"Follow me William. I might have something that will help you feel better" Nico said. William slowly followed Nico deeper into the castle, his feet still killing him.
Nico leads William to Persephone's study. The one room in the underworld that feels and looks like the overworld. "Wow. Is this what everything looks like up there?" William asked, amazed.
"Some things. Take a seat. Artemis will be here soon I'm sure" Nico said.
"So what did she make you the god of?" Nico asked after a while. He could see the tension relieving itself from his body the longer they were in here.
"Hyperfertility, conception, breeding, endurance and sexual prowess" William answered absentmindedly. He was too busy looking at all the plants to focus on the words.
"And... did she rape you?" Nico asked cautiously.
"Yes" William answered simply.
"Did she get pregnant?" was Nico's next question.
"Of course she did. Three of my domains practically guarantee sex results in pregnancy" William said nonchalantly.
"How many times did you, erm, breed her?"
"Sixty eight."
"S-six eight times? If you know, how much time passed down in Tartarus?" Nico asked, expecting a bad answer. But maybe goddesses just had shorter pregnancies?
"Fifty one years. Nine months times sixty eight pregnancies is fifty one years" William answered, being particularly enthralled by a silver plant that seemed to glow at his presence.
"So you have almost seventy kids and think you've been missing for fifty one years?" Nico asked, looking for confirmation.
"Well I actually have a lot more kids than that, but that's at minimum how many I had with Nyx. There could be more if she had twins of triplets or anything. And the math doesn't lie" William confirmed.
"Well I have something to tell you then. It's only been five years for the rest of us" Nico said, expecting the news to hit him hard.
"Hmm, time must work differently in Tartarus" William answered, not really caring about what Nico was saying.
"So you said you had more than seventy kids. How many do you have?" Nico asked.
"I'm not sure honestly. From the thirty two cycling goddesses I have a minimum of 2176 kids. Not including the possibilities of twins triplets or more. Then there were the countless lesser monsters as well."
"Oh my gods. Feel free to take a nap. I need to go talk to my dad. I'll be back!" Nico said, but William didn't even seem to register his leaving. The plants were all too welcoming to him. His room had been full of books before, but he was thinking he liked the plants better.
He didn't last long before he took Nico's suggestion and laid down on the couch. He fell asleep almost immediately. It had been an exhausting day. But now he was free, and hopefully tomorrow he could leave the Underworld all together and make it to the surface.