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Bab 140: Chapter 124: The Death March. 1915 CE

[Syrian Desert]

A long line of people were marching through the hot Syrian Desert on a scorching summer day as a group of armed soldiers escorted them by force. The people were thin, frail, barely clothed, and on the brink of death, yet the soldiers forced them to move anyway.

If anyone dropped to the ground exhausted, either they'll be left alone, or the soldiers would just kill them to not waste time. Bodies littered the path that they took, be it men, women, or children, they didn't care.

Then, from the far west, the soldiers could see someone approaching. He was cloaked, his head covered in a turban, and he had a big muscly build. He approached the group slowly, his cloak waving from the desert wind, and his sharp eyes visible between the turban.

The soldiers frowned as they saw the man.

"Hey!" a soldier shouted. "Are you lost!?"

The man didn't answer, instead, he kept approaching the entourage, slowly walking on the sand.

"An escapee maybe?" whispered a soldier to another soldier.

The soldier just hummed, and he walked towards the man, stopping in front of him.

"State your identity." said the soldier, pointing his rifle at the man. "Greek? Armenian? Assyrian? Turk?"

The cloaked man frowned. He took off his cloak, revealing his face.

"Asian?" exclaimed the soldier. "What is an Asian doing in the middle of the desert?"

"Hunting pigs," he said.

"Hunting what?"

"Hunting pigs." he repeated.

"There are no pigs here, are you insane?"

"No, there's a pig." stated the big man. "Right in front of me."

The soldier frowned. "The fuck did you just say?"

The man walked up to the soldier, who kept pointing his rifle at him. The man stopped just right in front of the barrel of the rifle, placing the barrel at his chest.

"Try." the man said. "See if you can do it."

"Are you suicidal?" the soldier scoffed. "You must be crazy."

"You are the crazy one." said the man calmly. "Marching entire groups of people to their deaths…"

The soldier got ticked off by the words, and pulled the trigger. The loud boom echoed throughout the empty and vast space of the Assyrian desert, but… nothing happened. The man was still standing, and the bullet dropped the ground, flattened.

The soldier's eyes widened as he saw it, but he had no time to react, as the man grabbed his rifle, and threw it away. The man's hands then started to glow golden, the sound of an engine started to roar, and he slammed his fist towards the soldier.

The soldier dropped to the ground hard, the sands around him swirled from the force of the impact, and the man's body shattered to pieces from the impact.

The entire soldiers started to panic, and the line of people scattered wildly, trying to protect themselves. The soldiers tried to calm them down, but it couldn't, so instead, they just let them be, and focused on the strange man.

The man who just killed a soldier stood straight again, his legs glowing golden, and he jumped high towards the other soldiers, slamming himself to the ground as fissure lines started to form on the sands.

The soldiers shot their rifles towards the man, only to dread as they saw the bullets bounced off of him. The man kept going, crushing every single soldier with the most brutal way possible, making his cloak drenched with blood, and his hands painted red.

Red sands soon stained the desert, with mangled and crushed bodies scattered everywhere, and the people that were once a line looked at the man in fear and hope. The man looked at the sky, breathing deeply, catching his breath to calm himself down.

Then, a sound came from behind him, and he saw a blue light appear. As he looked at the source of the blue light, he saw a raven-haired man and a blonde woman that he knows very well, along with barrels of water, food, and clothing behind them.

"Well Gil." said the raven haired man, looking at the bloody scene around him. "Seems like you've outdone yourself…"

The man, whose name was Gil, just shrugged at the raven-haired man's words.

Many camps have been set up around the area as Pluto and Thena arrived at the scene. Gil was now sitting solemnly in front of the campfire with the two Eternals as the moon shines brightly above.

"I was staying with them." Gil spoke softly. "They were friendly, you know, good food as well, and learned a bunch from them… these Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians… they were bullied by the Turks, but they don't really mind it, they are just silently trying to get away from their grasps… but…"

"The war happened." Thena continued calmly, but Pluto could tell she was a bit enraged as she saw those starving men, women, and children.

Gil hummed, drinking from his mug. "The Turks thought they betrayed them… so they're 'Deporting' them now."

"You call this deportation?" Pluto scoffed.

"It isn't." said Gil, crushing his mug as he thought about the memory. "They force-marched them through the deserts, or to the sea, dangling the hopes of survival… but no… they were just trying to kill them. They're not deporting them to Russia through the black sea, they are deporting them to the black sea…"

"Look at them…" Thena murmured, her eyes glistening as she saw the children eating the food that they brought happily. "They were starving…"

"Only given 3 pieces of bread for the whole trip," said Gil silently. "Events like this make me wonder… Did we even make an impact towards humanity? We were supposed to protect them, yet we can't even protect them from themselves…"

"I wonder about it myself…" Thena said calmly. "But Pluto said that between goodness, there will always be darkness that looms around it…"

"It's true…" said Pluto solemnly, looking at the humans around him. "But… kind of feels… disappointment… we've worked so hard to make them prosper, only to see them squabbling among themselves, killing each other for the sake of artificial hatred."

"I'm done with this." said Gil suddenly, standing up.

"What?" Pluto questioned.

"After this… mess…" he said, looking around. "I'll just hide myself… maybe go to Australia, new land there, hide myself there…"

"Don't be like that Gil." stated Pluto.

"No man…" Gil sighed tiredly. "I'm tired of this… I can't see this anymore… it's torture…"

"Gil." said Thena suddenly. "Do you love… these humans?"

"Love?" questioned Gil. "I… honestly don't know anymore, Thena… but… I suppose I do, don't I? If I don't love them, I'd not feel this way… disappointment… rage…"

"Do you want this to continue?" Pluto questioned.

"Well, I don't have a choice but to leave them alone, right?" Gil chuckled desperately. "Arishem's command and all… I could only help the innocents, if I could kill those Pashas, I would, but I can't."

Pluto hummed, and walked towards Gil. he hugged him, patting him on the back. "Sorry… about all this…"

"It's not your fault man." said Gil with a smile. "Maybe visit me once in a while. I heard you want to make a baby, good luck with that, invite me when he or she is born."

Pluto smiled. "Will do."

Gil turned to Thena. "Thena, good to see you again."

"Good to see you again, Gilgamesh." she said, also hugging him.

"Well, I will give everything to you now…" Gil said sadly. "Take care of the others, yeah? Especially Phastos and Sprite…"

"Well, I can't stop them if they want to do anything… but I'll try to convince them."

"Good enough for me." said Gil as he turned away from the others, walking through the dark deserts of Syria.


Bab 141: Chapter 125: The Goddess of War. 1916 CE

The trenches of No Man's land is a place that no one wants to stay in for long. Soldiers cramped to one place, refugees also spread out across the trenches, running from the Germans across the battlefield, and shortages of food for them is not an uncommon thing.

Thena and Pluto are also there, giving food and blankets to the refugees. They volunteered to the army as support, not as fighters, deciding to help the refugees and the innocents that caught up in the war.

Thena was bringing cans of food to a group of family, but then they pulled her closer.

"Please…" a mother begged. "My sons and daughters… they're still with the Germans…"

"I'm sorry…" said Thena sadly. "This is no man's land… we're barely moving…"

"They're killing them… please…"

"I'm sorry…" Thena said once again, she released the mother's grasp on her hand, and walked away from the weeping family. She walked towards Pluto, who was sorting out the inventory of the army.

"People are dying too quickly…" said Thena softly as she helped him sort the food. "You'd think Arishem would do something about it."

"But we've grown used to his silence, have we?" said Pluto rhetorically. "When the black death happened, he didn't even say anything, and that killed almost half of the population."

Thena hummed as he stared at the sitting refugees around the trench. She then looked at the land across the trench, and sighed. "Why don't we do something about it?"

"People will see you." stated Pluto.

"They'll not talk." argued Thena calmly. "Nobody would believe them anyway."

Pluto sighed. "They still have to report it, and our record of existence will be stored around the world."

"We already did that with Britain."

"That's different," said Pluto. "I know who knows, so I could erase our trace, but when you come out of that trench, I can't erase it fully."

"Then what should we do? Just stay here? Giving food to people?"

Pluto took a deep breath as he put the last of the canned food on the inventory. "Thena–"

But then, a yellow gas started to come out from across the land, blown by the wind towards their trench, making people around them panicked.

"GAS! USE YOUR FACE MASKS!" a soldier shouted desperately as he used his mask. The other soldiers soon followed, but Thena could see a problem.

The refugees don't have it.

"Oh no…" Thena murmured nervously. "Pluto…"

"Got it." Pluto hummed as both of them ran towards the refugees, who were also scared when they saw the gas approaching their trench.

The yellow gas quickly enveloped the trench, and Pluto conjured a barrier around the refugees, blocking the gas.

"W-What is this?" a refugee stuttered, dropping to the ground as he saw the barrier surrounding them.

The refugees quickly gathered in the middle of the barrier dome, and prayed for their safety. The surroundings were clouded with gas, and they couldn't see anything, they could only see yellow.

"It's our chance…" Thena murmured. "We could attack them now, these people won't see it."

"Thena…"

"There's a village ahead darling," Thena insisted. "You heard those refugees, they're killing them."

Pluto sighed. "Fine, be careful."

Thena just smiled, and she quickly ran through the barrier, even though the other refugees shouted at her not too. She ran past the gas, and jumped from the trench, leaping across no man's land as he landed in the middle of the barren soil.

The Germans quickly saw Thena, and aimed their guns at her. Men started shooting with their bolt action rifle, bullets flew across the land, travelling to her.

Thena conjured her shield, and easily blocked the bullets that came towards her. He ran towards the German trench, she summoned a golden spear, and leaped to the sky.

She threw her spear as the germans' vision was blocked by the sun, and when the spear landed on the trench, it exploded, sending waves of golden energy through the specific part of the trench.

The German soldiers began to panic, and they brought their machine guns to the front, and started loading it with bullets.

Soon, a barrage of lead flew through no man's land, flying to Thena. She just raised her shield, continuing to run to the trench as bullets piled up around her, deflected by her golden shield.

She leaped once again, this time, directly to the trench. As she landed, golden energy spread widely around the trench, knocking many soldiers out. She conjured a string of golden energy, and a golden knife was attached to the string. She quickly threw the knife to the nearest soldier, and pulled the string making the knife tear the body apart.

Soon, between the yellow gas, the soldiers could only see golden strings of light glowing across the land, moving around soothingly, and the sounds of screaming accompanied it.

An hour had passed, and the soldiers didn't hear any screams anymore. The yellow gas had passed, and they couldn't feel the bullets flying through the air anymore. They were confused of course, and so, one brave man journeyed to no man's land, and surprisingly, he wasn't hit at all.

Other soldiers quickly marched towards the trench in front, and once they arrived, they saw the trenches littered with mangled bodies, blood covered the bottom of the trench.

Many soldiers threw up when they saw the bloodbath in that trench, and the culprit was nowhere to be seen.

Meanwhile, in the previous trench, Pluto was giving Thena clothing so that she could change, because she was bathed in blood.

"I couldn't…" she murmured as Pluto took her clothes off for her. "I couldn't stop… once I saw blood, I just…"

"Shhh… it's okay…" Pluto cooed. "It's war, it's always been like this, you should know this."

"I know, I just… Old habits…"

Pluto helped her wear new clothing as he cleaned her hair using clean cloth. "I have old habits too. Don't be ashamed of it."

Thena hummed. "I think… I've had enough of this… after we saved the villages, let's go somewhere else…"

"Sure." Pluto hummed, kissing her forehead gently.

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A/N: Honestly I'm tempted to just skip WW1 and WW2 and go straight to 2000s lol.

anyway, need fanfic recommendations, I need a marvel that depicts school(Elementary, middle, high) activities, need references, seeing that I'm not American and never went through their educational system.


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