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I felt an immense pain inside my head as I started to regain my consciousness. Napakap*tang ina talaga ni Hades. How dare he dart me as if I was just one of the wandering pigs he used to hunt in his dark forest.
I can never tolerate his dart filled with venom. God damn those f*cking darts.
Medyo nahihilo pa ako habang pinilit kong makabangon. Unti-unti ay bumalik rin ang aking paningin.
I sensed the familiar burnt essence in the air. Damn, is this even real. I took a deep breathe and I still could not believe I'm back in the underworld. Judging by the familiar get up of this place where I woke up in, I realized i'm inside my own room.
Damn I miss this room. I took my time looking at my framed collection littered on my wall. The one thing I used to f*cking love when I was living in the underworld was collecting skeleton of the mortem butterflies.
Their skeleton is so hard to find and also the most fragile thing ever. It made me practice my sense of self control, patience and creativity. It used to be a good thing to do for leisure. To be able to find enough skeletons to be individually framed inside gold paneled glass frames which filled up an entire wall is out of the underworld.
Haha... Get it? The under-World. You know im in a good mood when I make terrible jokes. I managed to stand up and admire them closer.
" You loved those when you were a little kid. "
A familiar soft voice appeared from behind me. I turned back and saw my biological mother sitting on the edge of my bed. I haven't seen her for a millennium. I fixed my posture and stood firmer in front of her.
" Why are you here Selene? I thought you were banned from the underworld. "
"I come and go whenever I please."
"Guess it never pleased you to see me when I used to live here."
She was going to come towards me when I frowned and she halted.
"I don't need your motherf*ckingly affection selene."
Her sadness exhausted out of her as she tried to soften the anger and tension I was starting to radiate. My relationship with both of my parents are pretty rough as you can tell so far. I grew up almost hating both of them for being not by my side. I've always felt like I was just a toy they would pass to each other just for fun, shit and gigles.
Well I never liked being tossed back and forth, it was the most thing I hated even until now. Hades and Selene are just fated to met but never meant for each other. It would've been just fine but then they went too much with each other, created me when for the love of lust and broke up when things too hard for the both of them. In the midst of this whole f*cking ordeal the curses and bad shit they would spit on each other when they fight is definitely the worst thing ever...
Still my annoyance fought the petty effort of the Moon Goddess. She frowned as her surrender.
"Fine, I'll let you be right now. I just came to see you. And warn you. "
"When did you ever give a f*ck about me anyway Selene? "
"Gray, even if you don't believe me, trust me. I adore you more than you think."
I scoffed. Oh really Selene? don't get me strted with this Bullsh*t.
"Ironic hearing that from the goddess of manipulation."
She softly sighed.
"ego amare et curare ut vos filius meus. Gray, before I go please keep in mind. She is coming. Your .... amor exitiale."
And she vanished. That woman haven't change a bit. She still speaks in riddle. I have always despised her old latin tongue. Her words replayed in my mind.
"Amor Exitiale . . ."
["Fatal Love"]
She must be kidding.
I thrashed all my thoughts as one of Hade's servant knocked on my door.
"Sire Gray? Dominus Inferi is waiting for you in his study."
Now, what does "Lord Hades" want from me? I transported my self inside his study.
I found him sitting on his enormous dark gold panelled rustic wooden desk where some sort of pieces of a black weapon was orderly laid . I looked closely to each pieces and realized it was my black crossbow. As my skin started to smoke out of my boiling anger as he took a piece and laid it to his right palm.
"Don't you f*cking set that to flames Hades!"
I roared.
" Do you still remember what your crossbow was for Gray?"
"To eliminate all the impurities of the earth."
"THEN WHY DID YOU PIERCED YOUR BROTHER'S NECK WITH YOUR ARROW!!??!"
The ground shook as the God of hell spurted out his anger towards me. I smirked.
"Isn't he an impurity you made?"
His palm started to smoke.
Oh f*ck.
"Can you favor me even just this once Hades?"
The smoking stopped as he turned his eyes on me.
"All your favor was always provided to your favorite son. All your riches, this f*cking home, eventually. . . your throne, and even a mother was made available only for Ash. You gave him everything. All I had on my possession is that crossbow. And now you are going to take it away from me?."
He laid the piece back to his desk and sighed. He slumped on his black furred rigid chair and massaged his forehead.
" I'd give you everything Gray. I would if only the universe is perfect. But the odds are not in our favor. Your prophecy is set on stone. This is the life fixed for you. . . One day you'll eventually understand."
I frowned in return. Even the God of hell can't escape one human thing. A father's pity for his child. He continued to rub his forehead when he asked.
"What did Ash did to you this time?"
"You've probably read his mind anyway why does it matter."
"I want to hear it from you Gray. Being fair in this case is the least I could do for you. "
" I caught him f*cking my new pet... again. "
" That boy would never learn. He just married your 14th one when you left and now....."
"What did you just say? He married her!?"
I cut him off. My anger started to resurface. Tila ba nanlumo ang buo kong katawan. Nanlisik ang aking mata sa galit. I balled my hands into fiery fists. As I was going to transport my self to where ever the f*ck that f*cker is, Hades froze my body and extinguished my rage.
"Calm down Gray he is still being healed right now. He still has no match for you. I think you deserve a fair fight between you two. "
Hades smirked. Now I know where I got my sadistic smirk from. I totally calmed down. He eventually let me go. He waved his palm across the table. Each pieced of my crossbow glued back together. He tossed me back my crossbow.
" I will arrange the battle ground for the both of you once he recovered. For now you could go and rest Gray."
I nodded and left. I decided to go to the dark forest. I had the sudden crave for a black apple. It is nothing like the apples that are grown on earth. It has this kick of spice that hopefully can satisfy my thirst for revenge. After taking my time walking through the fiery depths of hell, I finally find a nearby tree. I remember when I used to always climbed this specific tree. I bet my name carved on its upper trunk still exists. I flew up and jumped to one of its thickest branch. As I expected its still here. But I noticed something different. Under my name there was something else written.
Dahan dahan kong binigkas ang nakasulat.
"revertetur . . . ad . . . me"
A light voice appeared below me.
"Gray?."
I jumped off the branch and landed infront of her.
My heart skipped a beat.
"Alejandria ..."
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