Saturday, 1 August 2009

Chapter 13 - Payback

The 4 shadow skellies waited there for a while longer, until some weird portal appeared inside this strange medium which was so strong that it momentarily sucked them in.
Rockius now found himself and the others back in Hades’ palace, or more precisely – Hades’ throne room. He panicked when he saw Hades, but then he also saw that mighty human. It looked like the human was summoning the undead with the special scrolls. Maybe those scrolls were imprisoning the undead so then they could be summoned.
Rockius saw 4 more shadow skeletons appear, and then 4 more after them. Slackeros was one of them. There was 12 of them now, plus a mortal, so 13 creatures against the God of the dead himself. Rockius also noticed that all of the shadow skellies including himself were now bigger and more powerful, just like Xenokrates was. The scroll must’ve charged up some kind of force within them all, making them all more experienced in battle and not needing even a weapon.
- “Fellas!” Rockius said to other shadow skeletons, “Hades is the one who made us like this. He steals our souls so he can make red balls of death.”
The shadow skeletons got enraged and each one battle-screamed very loudly and charged towards Hades.
The mortal kept on walloping Hades on the head with a big mace, until Hades got fed up and morphed his body slightly to look like a giant squid.
Two of the skeletons grabbed his staff off his hands, and then three more pounced on his face. Hades was getting piled on. Mortal enjoyed the sight and kept on smacking Hades on the face. Rockius was right on Hades’ back now, like on a horse, and kept on hitting Hades on the head too. It was fun to finally have great power.
Hades then went down. But it was just his physical body that died. His powerful evil spirit emerged from the pile of bones and began casting various spells into the crowd, causing shadow skeletons to fly all over the room.
At one moment Slackeros got hit so high up that he got stuck on one of the hooks. It was fine though as he found a bow there and used it to shoot at Hades. Physical things did little damage to Hades’ now ethereal presence.
- “Guys, he took our shades away from us. Let us take it back now!” Rockius suggested.
- “What are you on about?” Nicholus questioned.
- “Genius!” Polyrion admitted, “Rip him apart.”
So Rockius, Nicholus, Forcus and Polyrion charged towards Hades and began ripping bits of ether from him.
- “What are you doing?” Hades asked.
Soon other shadow skeletons joined them, even Slackeros stopped being lazy and got down to get a bit of ether as well.
Hades was being ripped off, but it’s the price he had to pay back for all those shades that he used for making red balls of death.
He didn’t have much left in him, so the human took a massive swing and delivered the finishing blow, causing Hades to explode in a massive ball of energy.
The battle was won. Persephone appeared before them. Mortal went up to her and they began flirting, while Rockius and other shadow skeletons were each holding packets of ether in their hands.
- “We got it, guys! We now have the chance to be normal.” Rockius said with happiness.
Each of them absorbed the ether that they held. It was so rich that it made them very mighty. In fact they could even choose to be humans again. Rockius and a few others including Nicholus, Polyrion and Forcus did exactly that. The others decided to turn their powers to become machae and went on to take a machae course.
Persephone created a portal for the human hero to take back to Greece. Rockius, Nicholus, Forcus and Polyrion decided to follow him so then they won’t have a hard time getting out of Hades. Since then on they were a team and Rockius now had a few causes to fight for. He realised what kind of noob he used to be and he won’t make the same mistakes ever again. His death count was now 1.

THE END

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