Chaos, order and death

Altina's madness

Makoto had Bandages over his arm where his arm had been Cut of by Altina, The bleeding hand stopped but Makoto was still pissed that for the time being that he had to function with one hand, he had high respect on those who could Live a fulling life with a handy cap. "Why are we waiting around here? couldn't we leave?" Makoto complained to Minako, who tapped her feet with her eyes closed 

"There is power here, It doesn't feel like it's Nyx's power, either...Actually I don't feel Nyx's power at all, We're somewhere else completely." Minako, Looking around they saw nothing but scorched ground, fair away there was a small structure that looked like it was made of stone, the two begun to walk to it. It was a stone chapel.

"The fuck is this" Makoto whispered, his voice echoing. as giant statue stood tall at the back it was a Marble statue of a Woman holding hands in both hands. even though the statue lacked any details it seemed to be a representation of Altina. Makoto spun on his heel and summoned his sword, the purple sheen glowed from the light of the rising sun.     

"I'm Zohar" said the young man looking in his mid thirties with a spear in his hand as he walked up to the two gods  he looked Human enough, and his weapon wasn't held remotely in an attacking or defending stance, Looking at Zohar's clothing it seemed as though he wore a trench coat opened up with a torn shirt undeath, And he wore formal trousers, around his belt held three daggers on each side, the thing that struck Minako as odd was that he didn't wear shoes yet the was the sound of metal hit stone as he walked forward. she also noted that one of his arms wasn't covered at all. and the flesh looked like it had been ripped yet no scar or blood coated it. "I mean you no harm, I brought you here truthfully." Zohar said as he stopped walking

"You...Your not human...Your something different, Something that doesn't bleed." Minako said "Given the metal sounds when you walked forward and some other slight details. Your a... Machine or some sort of mechanical life" Minako said

Zohar smiled "are you saying my life is artificial" He held a hand to his chest in mock offense "I jest. But this is a temple of Altina, She had somewhat of a cult following here...She was the god of this land." Zohar sat down on the altar. Makoto and Minako sat on a pew in front of it. "Lemme tell you her story of her life and Madness"

Zohar begun "Altina when she was first became known to us as a God was fair with her judgement and kept the peace on both sides of conflict, With her powers of Order, in this respect she had become another God that was added to in wedding vows, and she was prayed to help repair breaking marriages, How ever bandits and Berserkers oft prayed to her for the blessings of Chaos once they had set their targets. This chappal is one of them. But she learned that Other gods were jealous of her, so By her hands she slaughtered them. and one by one she Received their power, and took it in her own hands to keep the Balance of all things, Like by the Devine creator gave her the duty." Zohar and concluded the speech.

"And because of the nature of Gods warring the land was devastated" Minako pieced together

Zohar nodded "yet she wasn't the one who torn this world to shreds, it was the folly of Humans. We pushed the Gods above to Burn this world in Holy fire. I lived only because I am More machine then Human, Most my flesh and bones are nothing but Mechanical, As are my organs other then My brain, I can practically survive on nothing." Zohar looked At Makoto's arm. "If you'd like I could make you a new forearm and Hand so you can use two hands once more.

"That'd be Nice" Makoto says yawning realizing he hadn't slept in quite a while, and the fight against Altina took more out of him then he'd like to admit. Zohar chuckled 

"It will be done shortly" And with That Zohar left down the stars next to the Minako statue. Minako walked forward to wards the alter and noticed a book, it was rather Small for a Religious book, then again it was more of a cult. 

"So Both parties were at fault, But Altina was being paranoid, while Jealousy got the best of what other Gods Where here, And they fought and Humans here Decided to go to war. And then the Gods decided to destroy the land." Makoto summarized

"And Altina apparently got the power of those she killed. It'd explain why she's so god damn hard to kill" Minako added, "But what Gave her such power" Minako was skimming over the Book, when an Item name caught her eye. "a heart of Power? The hell is that? You ever heard of it?"

"A heart of power?...No but Lucifer once said that his sword contained the essence of Power taken from the heavenly host, and he gave such things to his Angels and it's why we have Powers born into us, and why we don't have our Power's passed down through blood as Demons." Makoto explained. "It's possible that they are related in some way. but as for an actual heart of power, Never seen or heard of it."

"Well I think that's how Altina got her Power so high, and we need to find a way of stopping it" Minako said putting the book down and a layer of dust flew of the Altar.