Chapter 28: A World Tree and A Healed Monster.
When Constantine stepped past the Dragon Gate he saw Satella looking up at her tree with pride. He smiled when he saw how she seemed to look at her tree like it was her precious jewel.
"Are you now glad that you met me?"
Satella nodded as she looked at Constantine with a smile.
"I am. You made my tree the strongest tree I have ever seen, but why the giant Dragon Gate?"
"This is because I am ready to move your tree to the Island Of Polyphemus. When I do, I will give you the Fleece to use its Life and Fertility Divinities to nurture yourself and your tree. I am almost sure that after I do so your tree will grow gigantic and far stronger than it is now. You ready?"
Satella smiled with pride as she waved her hand and the entire root system pulled the tree out of the ground. The giant roots still ended in wooden Dragon Heads and they began to walk the tree toward the Dragon Gate.
"I can do that myself. Thanks to you, I can do something like this easily."
Seeing her tree walk on its sentient roots was quite impressive. He already had the Dragon Gate in place so he just began to walk back.
"Well done. Just step through then I can do the rest."
Satella waved her hand and had her tree step through the Dragon Gate to get to the island. When she and her tree walked in she was instantly hit with the divine aura of the Fleece which was hanging off the original tree still.
Now she was sure she wanted the Fleece for her tree.
"Now I understand why that thing is so powerful."
"Right, let's be quick about this.
Constantine pulled the Fleece off the tree which instantly caused the island to start returning to normal. The lush vegetation began to shrivel up and the tree started to turn back into a normal tree.
He simply his hand on the tree and pulled it out of the ground before tossing it. He then turned to Satella with a nod.
"Be quick now."
She nodded as she hurried her tree's roots and planted it where the old tree had been. When that happened, Constatine flew up toward the top of the tree and he placed the Fleece on one of the giant branches.
The moment that happened, Satella instantly made it clear she was happy. She hugged herself as a bright golden aura started to radiate from her body as the divine energies of the fleece began surging through her tree and soul.
"Sweet Constatine that is the good shit."
Constantine laughed as he watched as the tree began to glow brightly as the Fleece began to nurture it with endless Life and Fertility Divinities. The tree began growing visibly and the Squirrels and birds in the tree noticed. From the branches not just Acorns grew, but small fruits began to emerge.
The dark purple color of the leaves became even brighter while the black wood darkened a shade. The tree even began to grow by visible inches and in just a few days it would be titanic compared to what it was now.
"I was right, given enough time the Fleece will make your tree a true World Tree thanks to all the work I have done on your tree."
Satella sat down on a rock as she enjoyed the feeling of the power from the Fleece flowing into her tree and her body.
"I can feel it as well since you used your Divine Blood to evolve my tree, I can feel the Fleece surging power to your blood that was fused to my tree. Even my soul is growing stronger through my link to the tree.
Given enough time I will be able to control all the trees that grow from my tree's acorns."
He smiled as he patted her head as she was all smiles right now.
"Good to know. I am sure it will take you some time to get used to this so take the time you need."
She seemed chill right now so she just smiled as she lay down around the sheep and noticed that the plants around the island seemed to stop shriveling up. Instead, they were looking even better so they just went back to grazing.
He let her relax as it seemed it would take her a few days to get used to the rapid growth of her tree by way of the Golden Fleece. As for him he whistled and called his ship which caused the ground to tremble as the tank treads carried the mobile fortress of a ship he had.
When Medusa saw him call his ship she was wondering what he planned to do.
"Constantine, what are you going to do now?"
He turned to Medusa and explained himself.
"I want to see if I can't reverse the curses on Scylla and Charybdis. Both used to be beautiful women like yourself who caught the eye of the gods. I had them captured alive since I always planned to fix them."
Vritra flicked his tongue as he thought of that.
"Who will you start with?"
"Scylla. Charybdis is the daughter of Poseidon and Gaae and she was turned into a monster by Zeus for being more loyal to her Father than him. She also in some versions of the myth stole land from him for Poseidon or took cattle from Heracles.
If I did fix her, I am not sure if she would try to return to Poseidon so I will keep her trapped in my ship. Now then, let Scylla out, girl."
His ship spun around on a dime and its left side began to open up. From the hull, Scylla began to drag herself out while still impelled by harpoons. His ship pulled them tight which caused the Sea Monster to struggle in pain as the Dragon Steel was quite cursed through the forging methods he had used.
The places where they were impaled were steaming as the Dragon Steel was surging with curses.
"That looks like it hurts. Unhook her."
With a brutal pull, the harpoons were ripped out which had been attached to the bases of Scylla's seven heads. When that happened the monster fell limp as the pain of those harpoons had been horrendous.
Constantine clasped his hands together and the shadows surged like a sentient mass that wrapped around the body of Scylla. It pinned down the 7 serpentine heads to the ground and it did the same to the six dog heads.
Scylla began growling through all 13 heads, but he merely waved his hand and flipped her onto her stomach. All things considered, Scylla was quite small as she was only 30 feet long(9 Meters) so he jumped onto her chest where her heart was.
He had muzzled all of the heads so he could work in peace. He placed a hand on her scally chest and he began to scan her body with his own Divine Energy. He had done this for Medusa and it had been when he was much weaker.
Now, he was a Pseudo God with his Divinity so he didn't need help for this.
"Right then. This is going to hurt like a bitch."
He then proceeded to stab his hand into her chest where he grabbed onto her heart. Scylla's many heads began thrashing in agony as he viciously tore out her large heart.
Vritra who was on his neck turned to him.
"What are you going to do now?"
"Same we did for Medusa. I only give Dragon Hearts to those that deserve them or they just work. Scylla might as well be a Hydra so give her a Dragon Heart take the curse placed on her and do it again.
He waved his hand and from his shadow emerged one vial, just Vritra's venom. Making a real Dragon Heart needed to be earned, and all new comers would get would be half-step Dragon Hearts.
If they wanted a true Dragon Heart, they had to prove they could be trusted with it. Though he did add a few drops of his blood to the mix he could control them indirectly if they betrayed him.
As such, after he fused Vritra's venom and his blood with the heart the incomplete Dragon Heart was ready. After doing that, he had a pitch-black heart that radiated a toxic aura.
"There we are, a new unique heart. Medusa, you got a Gorgon heart and now Scylla will get a Hydra heart or something."
Medusa pointed at Scylla who was only alive because he was not letting death claim her.
"She is going to die, Constantine, so stop your yapping and get it done."
"Patience babe, let the mad genius monologue."
Medusa smirked as she looked up at him.
"Mad yes, genius yes. Anything else?"
"More handsome than Adonis, or Narcissus."
Medusa gave him a thumbs up.
"I can attest to that, they looked gay."
"HAHAHAHAH!"
Medusa just smiled as she made him laugh so he placed the new heart back into the chest of Scylla. He then began to use the Divine Energy that flowed through his blood to draw out the toxic potion that Amphitere used on Scylla to turn her into this monster.
It was quite tricky, but he wouldn't be a god of Magic if he couldn't do this. As such, from her body began to flow a Divine Poison which he then fused back with the Dragon Heart in her chest.
This is what made the magical hearts he made unique as the core of Medusa's heart was her curse which he turned into a blessing. The same for Scylla who he would that that poison that turned her into this to something greater.
Plus, if she proved herself she could one day receive a proper Dragon Heart as those things gave a lot of power to his followers. It had to be a gift that was earned, not something given away willy-nilly.
As such, once he healed the heart back into place, he watched as Scylla closed the wound in her chest. He jumped off her chest and he released her from the restraints. He watched as Scylla began to thrash terribly before she began to crumble to dust.
He watched carefully as the dust fell out of a woman. He rushed in and caught her and when he looked at her he gulped.
"God damn no wonder Poseidon's wife was jealous."
Medusa walked over and when she saw Scylla's breasts she covered her mouth.
"Those can't be real."
Constantine looked down at them and he looked back at her.
"Looks like they are. She is a gorgeous redhead."
Scylla was a petite woman who was 5'8, had very fair skin, with long fire crimson hair. Plus, she had some very jealous-inducing assets from her top to her backside. He could see why Glaucus or Poseidon were obsessed with her.
Circe hadn't done it so it was obvious that it was Amphitrite who had been the one to curse her out of jealousy. As for Vritra, he nodded as he looked at Constantine.
"Another beautiful woman cursed by the wives of the Greek gods saved by Constantine the hero."
Constantine almost puked as he waved his hand and covered Scylla in a black dress made from shadows.
"I am no hero. Do I look like Batman to you?"
Medusa giggled as she patted him on the head.
"You might as well be a hero to those wronged by Zeus and Poseidon."
"Meh, doing good deeds doesn't make you a hero, but I will accept the praise. Now then, we wait for her to wake up and I know the best place to leave her."
He walked toward Satella's tree and placed her at the bottom. The Divine Aura of the Fleece would allow her to heal. Once he did that, he stood back up before he decided to go ahead with Charybdis.
"Let out he Whirlpool Monster, I might as well go for 2 in 1. Depending on what happens, I get Poseidon's daughter to work for me."
His ship repeated it's actions for Scylla by opening her hull to spit out Charybdis. He popped his fingers as his good deeds never stopped comming.
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