A/N: Sike, I lied.
and apologies, it's been a while since I've written some action scenes, just comment on what you think is bad in this chapter, honestly, I'm not really satisfied with it, I just don't know what to change.
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[Somewhere near Troy, minutes before Pluto showed himself.]
In an invisible spaceship, Ajak and the other Eternals stood in front of a window, peering at the sea of humans in front of the city of Troy. They were tense, anxious, and nervous.
"No sign of him, but he's definitely there." said Phastos, looking at a golden hologram.
"Should we just scatter those humans?" Ikaris questioned as he kept staring at the scene in front of him, not missing anything.
"And hurt them?" said Sersi. "Our mission here is to minimise the casualties caused by Pluto, not attacking the humans."
Ikaris sighed. "I got it, Sersi."
They kept staring at the scene, looking for any sign of Pluto.
"Let's go nearer," said Ajak. "Once he showed up, let's talk to him first."
"Talk?" asked Ikaris. "You want to talk to him?"
"If he hasn't attacked anyone, we don't need to engage Ikaris."
Ikaris just nodded, and he continued to stare at the scene as the Domo flew near Troy.
Then, Pluto showed up amidst the army of men in front of Troy.
"There he is." Sersi commented. "Let's go down, he hasn't done anything yet."
All of them quickly came down to Domo, trying to sneak into the city of Troy itself. But Ikaris stayed inside the Domo.
"Ikaris? What are you doing?" questioned Sprite, who hasn't come down yet.
"He's doing something." said Ikaris, looking at the way Pluto is standing. "He's going to throw his spear, he's attacking!"
Ikaris didn't hear the shouts of Phastos and Sprite from the inside of the Domo, he went through the window of the Domo, and flew at the speed of sound towards Pluto, not caring about the damage he had done.
He ultimately didn't care about the spear that was about to hit Hector, he just wanted to punch Pluto.
The spear nailed Hector to the wall, and Ikaris didn't care whatsoever. Mere seconds after Hector died, Ikaris finally arrived at Pluto's location.
"I should've done this years ago!" shouted Ikaris as he shot golden beams from his eyes to Pluto. It looked like a direct hit, Ikaris could feel it, but he felt something was wrong.
He deactivated his golden beams, and saw that Pluto blocked his attack with his palm. He now saw that Pluto is glowing golden as if Cosmic Energy had overrun him, and his hood is still hiding his face.
Ikaris didn't falter however, and he sped up instead. He wanted to beat the hell out of Pluto, to prove that he is the strongest one, he wanted to prove himself to Arishem, to his god.
he was about to punch Pluto, his fist was so close to Pluto's face, but all of his momentum suddenly stopped, and he realised that Pluto was grabbing his head by the face. Ikaris panicked, and tried to escape, but Ikaris felt that Pluto was stronger than ever, stronger than him, stronger than Gilgamesh.
He tried to break free, desperately. He punched Pluto's hands, he used his golden beams to burn Pluto's hands, but to no avail.
"Ikaris… why did you attack me?" Pluto asked Ikaris softly.
Ikaris couldn't say anything, his head was grabbed by Pluto, Ikaris could feel that Pluto could literally pop his head if he squeezed it any tighter. So Ikaris kept fighting, trying to break free, again, to no avail.
"I see…" said Pluto. "I see it in your eyes… Envy… Devotion… Desperation…"
Envy? Ikaris seemed enraged as he heard that. He never felt jealous, he never envied anyone.
Pluto then used his other hand, he opened his palm, and touched Ikaris's chest. "Here, I'll return everything to you, don't disturb me again, I need to kill them all, for Helen."
Slowly but surely, Ikaris's chest felt hot. Literally. Seemingly abundant cosmic energy was gathering in Pluto's palm, and not a second later, a burst of energy exploded in Ikaris's chest.
"ARGH!" shrieked Ikaris.
Ikaris couldn't breath, he was thrown to the walls of Troy, making a hole in it. For the first time in a while, Ikaris felt pain, immeasurable pain. He clutched his chest so tightly, trying to breath, and he was cowering like a shrimp on the ground.
Suddenly, Makkari dashed to Ikaris, checking his condition. Ikaris's condition looked pale, and he couldn't breathe. Looks like his lung is literally shattered. Makkari then disappeared, and not a second later, she had brought Ajak, and Ajak is now looking at Ikaris with worry.
"You're too impulsive Ikaris." said Ajak as she tried to heal her. "You underestimated Pluto."
Ikaris could only agree, after all, he was the one in pain, not Pluto. So he took a rest as Ajak was healing him, sitting against the wall.
Makkari then narrowed her eyes as he saw Pluto coming closer to them. She dashed towards them, she was so fast that even Ikaris couldn't see her run. She ran towards Pluto, she grabbed his neck, and tried to slam him against the wall.
But Pluto suddenly grabbed Makkari's arm, Makkari could feel pain once Pluto touched her arm. She saw that some kind of acid was digging through her skin, slowly burning them.
She couldn't hold the pain anymore, and she released Pluto, making them both slam against the wall, rolling on the ground.
Pluto just stood up, as if nothing had happened, but Makkari was in a lot of pain. She never felt this kind of pain before, the pain of dismemberment dwarfs the pain that she's feeling right now. She felt like she should just die to avoid the pain any longer, but she held onto it.
"Again… Why does everyone want to disturb me?" said Pluto calmly. "I just want to save Helen, I just want to take revenge…"
"Stop Pluto!" shouted Ajak, who was done healing Ikaris, and was now running towards Makkari. "You are consumed by anger! You have to calm yourself."
Pluto didn't listen. Instead, he dashed towards Ajak, wanting to silence her. As he neared her, Ikaris stepped in, preventing her from getting hit. Ikaris dragged Pluto to the sky, intending to fight above the ground, his domain.
But boy he was wrong.
As soon as they were quite high in the sky, Pluto grabbed Ikaris's hand once again. He used the same acid that he used to Makkari, making Ikaris writhe in pain as he kept dragging Pluto to the sky.
Ikaris was tenacious, he kept dragging Pluto, showing no signs of stopping. Seeing this, Pluto crushed Ikaris's hands, making them fall towards the ground. Pluto then grabbed Ikaris's neck. He turned so that Ikaris's back was facing the ground below them, and he readied his fist.
He slammed his fist to Ikaris's head, making a loud boom that shook the entire battlefield.
Ikaris roughly slammed against the ground, making a huge crack in the ground. And to top it all off, Pluto used the force of Gravity to stomp Ikaris, making a deeper crater on the battlefield.
"Ikaris!" shouted Sersi desperately as she ran towards them.
Pluto turned sharply to Sersi, his feet still on Ikaris's face. His eyes then glew golden, and 20 or so constructs with different shapes and forms suddenly appear beside Pluto.
He only pointed at Sersi, and the constructs dashed to her, as if they had just found their prey.
"NO!" Ikaris shouted from below Pluto's feet, trying to break free.
Sersi was overwhelmed by the constructs, she desperately transmuted anything around her. The ground to quicksand. The ground to water. Rocks around her turned into steel to protect her from the bites, but the constructs were overwhelming.
But then, Gilgamesh arrived. He slammed his feet towards the ground as it glowed, and the constructs were thrown away instantly.
Ikaris finally found the strength to break free, and he flew to the direction of Sersi, who was writhing in pain from the bites and scratches.
"Where are you going… Ikaris?" questioned Pluto suddenly. Ikaris then could feel a string was restricting him to fly. That string came from Pluto's wrist. Pluto quickly conjured more and more strings, and finally, Ikaris was covered up in it, and he couldn't move whatsoever.
Pluto walked slowly towards him, and again, he stepped on Ikaris's head. He looked at Ajak, Gilgamesh, Sersi, and the recovered Makkari in front of him. "Could you please just go home? this is not your business."
"You know our rules, Pluto." said Ajak. "We can't allow you to proceed."
"I will deal with the consequences myself Ajak, I don't want to hurt you all." continued Pluto. He looked at the crowd in front of him, and asked. "Where's Thena?"
"She refused to fight you." Ajak answered solemnly.
Pluto sighed. "That's a relief, I don't want to fight her…"
As Pluto and his opponents talked, the soldiers of Greece and Troy shed a cold sweat. They couldn't interfere at all, it is beyond their capabilities. In front of them was the battle between gods.
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"Are we… safe?" Paris questioned as he saw that the fight between the gods stopped temporarily. He had recovered from the shock, and quickly commanded the others around him to secure Hector's body.
"We… don't know, my prince." said a man beside him.
"The gods are with us today. Surely we must be safe." said Paris, trying to convince himself that they would win.
"But the other god… seemed stronger than the rest…"
Paris gulped. It's true, his 'side''s gods were beaten up by a single enemy god.
Paris just clenched his fist, hoping that he would survive this ordeal.
A/N: I don't know about this chapter to be honest...
[Helen's POV]
As she was locked up in a rather empty room again, Helen started to hear shouts from the outside, while she didn't know what was happening, she might have an idea on what, or rather, who caused the debacle.
Her eyes lit up as she heard the shouts. "Pluto's here!" she murmured excitedly. She stood up and walked towards the door. She checked if it is locked, and unfortunately, it is.
"Hey! Any guards outside?!" shouted Helen, trying to hear a reaction.
No one answered.
She listens for more than a minute if there's a movement noise from outside, and to her surprise, there isn't any.
"Pluto must've really caused a scene for the door to be unguarded huh…" she murmured.
She stepped back a little bit, gathering her strength to her body. "Alright Helen, you can do this, you're strong enough."
She then ran towards the door, slamming herself and making the locking mechanism break.
"Well…" Helen breathed as she examined the broken door. "That was easy."
She looked around the hall, it was empty, it seemed that a lot of the servants in the palace had evacuated along with the royals.
When she was trying to find an exit, she saw a body was being transported to the inside of the palace. She hid around the corner, trying to see who was dead.
She failed, as the body was covered in cloth, and men surrounded the body.
So, while the men were distracted, she snuck out from that part of the palace, and continued to find the exit of the castle.
As she was walking through the halls of the palace, the ground continuously shook, as if an earthquake was in progress.
"What is going on outside…" she questioned herself as she stopped, waiting for the earthquake to stop.
As soon as the ground stopped shaking, she continued, she explored the halls, trying to find the exit to no avail.
"This place is like a labyrinth…" murmured Helen. She tries again, scouring the halls while watching if there's any guards from the edge of the hall.
A couple of minutes later, she finally found it, but there was one problem. She could hear voices from behind the big door, and from what she could hear, the voices sounded like Paris.
She clenched her fist as she remembered what Paris and her men did to her. Humiliation, they tainted her, she couldn't shake the experience of it, she had nightmares because of that.
She wanted to find another exit, but it must be far away from where she is. So she risked it. She opened the door slowly, trying to not make a noise, and she snuck out from the door, slowly sneaking at the back of Paris and his men.
But then she saw something. She saw that Pluto was being bound by strange devices in the middle of the battlefield. She didn't like what she saw at all. She couldn't quite see Pluto's face, but she is sure of it, it's Pluto.
As she saw the scene, she panicked, and stumbled, making a loud noise while at it.
As soon as she stumbled, Paris and his men turned, they looked surprised, how can this woman get out?
"Men! Bring her back to the palace!" shouted Paris.
"No!" Helen cursed, she tried to run, but the men were faster. The men grabbed Helen's arms roughly, and they were starting to drag Helen to the palace.
"No! Pluto!" she shouted as loud as possible.
She tried to break free, but she was only a queen, she was not a warrior, so she couldn't.
But then, a deep voice full of rage sounded from the battlefield.
"You… fucking… MONGRELS!!!!"
A golden wave of energy exploded in the middle of the battlefields. Cracks started to appear in the walls, Paris and his men were thrown away. Helen was slammed against the wall.
And before they knew it, the defenders couldn't believe what they saw. The entire battlefield has suddenly turned gold.
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[minutes before]
As Pluto and the others faced each other, they continued to talk to one another. Ajak's side were beaten up, Sersi is full of wounds, Makkari is hurt, and Ajak is tired from all the healing.
"Please get out of the way," said Pluto calmly.
"We can't do that Pluto, you know that." answered Ajak.
"If you're worried that I will attack the civilians, don't worry, I have no plans on doing that."
"And we're supposed to trust you?" questioned Sersi as she tried to stand up, ignoring the pain. "You killed the prince."
"It was a miss." said Pluto nonchalantly. "I was targeting the cunt beside him. But it's not like he's not guilty either."
"He's trying to protect his city Pluto." Ajak said.
Pluto chuckled softly and added. "Not enough. He could've surrendered Helen and his brother to avoid war. But he chose his brother's head rather than his people's lives."
"If you were in his shoes and Helen was Paris, would you do the same?" questioned Ajak.
Pluto's face contorted as something was coming from the sky. It was his spear, returning to his arm. "Bring her out of this." said Pluto as he stabbed the ground with his spear, resting it.
"Let's go back, Pluto…" pleaded Ajak. "It's not worth the consequences."
Pluto narrowed his eyes. "What about Helen then? I just leave her? Who knows what they might have done to her… if they–"
"We can't interfere with human affairs Pluto, you know that…" cut off Ajak.
"He's right Pluto," said Gil. "Come on man, I don't want to fight you."
Pluto closed his eyes, and breathed the air that was full of dust. He grabbed the bident and said. "I'm sorry Gil, but I cannot stand idly while Helen was suffering. She is someone precious to me…"
"Why are you so attached to her?" asked Ajak curiously. "It's not like you…"
"I have my reasons." hummed Pluto. "She made me feel human. She made me feel… alive."
Ajak nodded. "I understand… but I'm sorry Pluto, we can't allow you to proceed."
As soon as Ajak said that, he felt something was approaching from behind him. He quickly turned his head and body around, and grabbed something from the air. It was empty, but he could feel it.
"Your Illusion won't work on me Sprite." said Pluto coldly.
Pluto then slammed Sprite's head, who was still invisible, to the ground, and it made the ground cracked.
"STOP!" shouted Ajak in panic. But Pluto didn't listen.
As soon as Sprite's Illusion broke, he saw the bleeding face of Sprite. "It's rare for you to fight Sprite…" said Pluto, he then whispered to her ears. "Or do you want Ikaris to see you?"
Sprite's eyes widened, and she tried to break away, to no avail. Pluto stomped Sprite's stomach, making her clutched her stomach in pain.
He sat on top of her, and she punched her face repeatedly. It was so strong that the ground shook repeatedly, as if an earthquake was in progress.
Makkari then tried to save Sprite. She dashed toward Pluto, and slammed her body to Pluto repeatedly, as she slammed, she ran away, and she ran towards Pluto to slam her body again, beating up Pluto.
Again, Pluto then grabbed Makkari's head, and slammed her head towards the ground. Pluto then grabbed his bident that was on the ground. He stood on top of Makkari, and he made a stabbing stance on top of her, intending to pierce her stomach.
But then, something suddenly grabbed Pluto's hand. It was a handcuff. He wanted to break free from it, but couldn't. He turned around, and saw Phastos, his face pale, he seemed like he was in a hurry.
Pluto tried to use his power, but couldn't. He tried to break free from it, but again, he couldn't.
"Nothing personal Pluto." Phastos said. "Cosmic Energy sealer."
"Release me, Phastos." commanded Pluto.
"Pluto, let's go back. You've crossed the line." said Ajak, walking towards Pluto. He was still handcuffed, and she hugged him.
"I know Helen means a lot to you… but we have a rule to follow."
"Stay away from me, Ajak." said Pluto. "I will ask one more time. Release me."
"It's over, Pluto." said Ikaris as the string that imprisoned him disappeared. "We'll bring you to the Domo"
"But Helen–"
He didn't continue his words, as he saw her. Helen. He saw her in the palace, struggling to break free from the grasps of men. She looked desperate. Pluto could see it in her eyes. Pain. humiliation. Sadness.
"No! Pluto!" he could hear Helen's shout from afar.
Something inside him triggered. Something… restless.
His face looked calm, but Ajak could feel something was wrong.
He took a deep breath, and he stared at the walls of Troy hatefully.
"You… fucking… MONGRELS!" roared Pluto as he easily broke free of the handcuffs. His eyes glowed golden, and an explosion of cosmic energy suddenly burst from his body, throwing everyone down a couple of feet away.
The walls cracked, the air became heavy, and the army in the back of Pluto was running towards the ship, to seek shelter.
The defenders however, saw a golden field. It was the Golden legion of Pluto. Hundreds of thousands of constructs appeared before him with different shapes and forms.
"This is bad…" Gil murmured as he stood up, helping the others. "We need to stop him before he kills everyone in the city!"
Pluto was now standing straight. His eyes were golden, and he was expressionless, like in a trance.
"The lord seeks judgement.." said Idemnon calmly, appearing beside Pluto. "And so the judgement day shall begin."
Asterion was standing tall. And roared to the Trojan warriors, inciting fear in their hearts.
Paris, who was watching the events unfold, could only stand and despair at the sight. "What have we done?"
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A/N: only one chapter today, I have shit to do.
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