She tried to kill us and lost her life in the process, but that damn child couldn’t accept it, he trapped us inside our home. We watched as the humans grew more idiotic with their beliefs, sure they made their lives better, well at least they thought they did. More and more of your ancestors were born, but none were right, until you. You broke the lock and set us free and we refuse to ever imprisoned again. You will take our freedom from us, you have to die.
But we’re petty and vengeful, we want you to die slowly and alone. We want your suffering to be so great that you wish and beg for death, then I’ll grant you the
greatest gift I can bestow, I’ll reunite you with your soon to be dead Incubus.”
I screamed out in rage, I wouldn’t let him die. I would find a way to rip these bloody spears out of me, damn the consequences.
“I can help you dearie, let me merge with you and you will have the strength you need to free yourself,” offered Adiran, but could I trust him?
“Will we stay merged? Because I don’t like the sound of that,” I replied, gasping for breath.
Athena laughed out loud while muttering about me being delusional and psychotic, fuck it, whatever the risk I would keep Malachi with me.
“Do it,” I gritted out as I pulled harder against my restraints, tearing flesh and sinew.
Adiran had an unsettling look appear on his face, but I didn’t have time to rethink my decision as he lay atop me and submerged under my skin.
32
Malachi
My life was fading fast, my vision was hazed in a cloud of grey. I could only just make out Unya when her eyes flashed and in an instant the entirety of her eyes were the soulless colour of endless black.
It matched her hair beautifully, but I didn’t have the strength to speak, all I could do was twitch my fingers.
In one swift move she bolted upright, tearing the spears out of her shoulders with such brutality that they were still embedded in the ground.
The blood was pouring out of her but she didn’t seem to notice, and she somehow had serious control over her elemental gifts as she hovered three feet from the ground.
“The problem with you Gods, is that the myths oversold you, making you out to be all powerful. It is laughable, your power has nothing on mine, now seeing as you’ve had the privilege to show me yours let me show you mine.”
Her voice had an eerie quality to it, almost as though it was supplying its own echo.
Athena began to laugh yet again, but she soon stopped when she was thrown through the air, crashing into a lamp post.
Even though my vision was impaired, I could still make out an orange glow as it began to heat up, until it was wrapping around the God of War herself.
“You tried to hurt what is mine, you deserve a slow and painful death but I don’t want to waste such an exquisite death on such a lowly being.”
She was antagonising her, what was the point in that? Athena roared as she vanished, reappearing behind Unya and thrusting a knife deep into her back. Fucking irony for you.
All Unya did was smile, turn around and cinch her hand around Athena’s neck and began to tighten her grip as she raised the God higher and higher. Even her tiptoes couldn’t reach the ground anymore, it looked as though she would pull her head clean off.
That was until her name was said in a tone of utter disbelief, it stole her attention as she looked around and Athena got free.
She grabbed hold of the new person and slammed a knife into her abdomen, Unya was unfazed as she pulled Athena back by her hair, forced her mouth open and dripped her toxic blood into her mouth.
Athena began to disintegrate as she screamed out in agonising pain and Unya just let her body fall.
The last thing I heard was a familiar voice, I couldn’t place, screaming out a name and then everything just disappeared.
Unya
“Addy please, I can’t lose you. Not like this, I never got the chance to make things right!”
The man or should I say Satyr, was cradling the girl who had just been stabbed in the chest, he had tears streaming down his face as her hand came to rest on his cheek.
“Ackley, I-I-I-I’m s-s-s-sorry. Unya.”