Hades' Apprentice [[ON HOLD]]

10) Beckon of disaster

****MELANIE****

Since Aldric kissed me again, a week had gone by. Within that single week, I had discovered at least ten strands of hair that had turned white.
Due to my overthinking and fear, I skipped school with the excuse of being sick. I had gone as far as to fool my brothers.

I didn't want anyone to know that Aldric had infected me with a strange hair disease that was now making my red hair lose color.
I didn't even dare to face him.

I rolled in bed, avoiding the sun rays spilling into the room through the windows.
Axle's grinning face made me scream while my hand delivered a slap in defense.

"Bloody..." Axle groaned massaging his cheek but his eyes were sending daggers at my soul.

"Do-don't revenge!" I blurted pulling the covers up to my nose for protection.
As if it didn't happen, Axle blew the hairs on his nose and turned to face me, resting his cheek in the palm of his hand with his elbow digging hard on the pillows.
What the fuck was he doing in my bed this early?

He raised his right hand, and I cowered, imagining the worst since he was like a kitten...playful but dangerous when offended.
To my surprise, he only flicked my forehead and laughed.

"Timid bird."

I lowered the cover. "Get out of my room or you'll be infe-"

He flicked my poor forward again, then punched my cheek. "Aren't you tired of pretending to be sick?"

Panic struck my core like lightning.
My eyes bulged no matter how much I tried to act natural. Lying wasn't my area of expertise, which surprised me how much my brothers had bought the lie.

I made a pretense cough, but Axle's question had eroded my lying courage.
He covered my mouth before I could cough again and leaned closer, invading my space. Not like I usually had any private space while living with someone like him.
"Castor sent me here to ask you when you're going back to school," Axle whispered.

To answer him, I frowned.

"You little naughty girl."

The pain of being called little had me push his hand off my mouth. "I'm not little."

Axle chuckled flicking my forehead.
"Ow!" I winced.

"Oh right, you're not little. You're just short." Axle teased starting to get off my bed.

When he stood, I kicked the cover with one clean ninja kick(as if) and hopped on his back like a leech before delivering one painful bite on his left shoulder.

Axle let out a groan while I let a giggle.

He grabbed my hand, and the next thing I knew, I was lying on the floor with Axle on me. His arm was squeezing the life out of my throat like I was a threat. And if that wasn't worrying, his eyes had changed to...golden.

The same color as... Aldric's. He looked like an empty vessel with his sharp glare.

My vision started blurring.
My lungs started burning.
My legs ceased kicking.

But before my soul could find a reason to exit this sickening world, a blast of purple light blinded my eyes. It was so powerful that it sent Axle flying across the room and out through one of the windows.

The glass shattered and scattered on the floor.

But I paid no attention to that as the rough coughs I was letting out while clutching my burning neck.

It had felt as if I was really dying.
And it hadn't been a nice feeling.

After a minute of silence, I forced my weak body to stand.
My eyes feasted on the messy room. On the glass shards sprayed all over the floor near the windows.

"Axle!" I breathed before spinning around and bolting out of my room.

Tears blurred my vision as I ran down the stairs and straight out of the house. My heart was pounding so loud that I could hear it flood my ears.

"Axle?" I yelled searching for him on the lawn and up on the tree near my bedroom. But there was no sight of him. "Axle please," I begged tearing up.

On the ground, there were also glass shards decorating it, a clear indication that the horror had actually happened.

So, where was my brother?

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****3rd POV****

Orm was adjusting to his new role...the swim coach after failing to get a student enrollment spot.
Well, this wasn't bad either.

He was busy looking over the students in the water when Axle materialized in front of him but lost footing and fell backwards in the pool.

"Shit!" Orm cursed immediately freezing time.

"Get out!" He ordered his brother who was slowly sinking under the water. To Orm, this was just another of Axle's little pranks.

Orm squatted, his eyes searching lazily for Axle's body amidst the spreading shadow.
But when the color reached the surface of the water, Orm's expression fell and he immediately dived in.

Golden blood had now tainted the clear water. A deity's blood.

As soon as Orm pulled an unconscious Axle from the pool, he raised his palm to the ceiling, and a golden light beam shot up, straight into the clouds.
"Axle? Axle?"

Orm tore through Axle's tattered t-shirt to reveal a dent on his chest about ten centimeters wide with blood oozing from its center.
"How's this possible?"

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The signal had been visible to all the entities. Loki saw it from his car. Castor saw it from the grocery store. Melanie from their yard.

But, they weren't the only ones to detect it.

Hades saw it.
The demons lurking in the shadows saw it, even from thousands of miles away, all over the world;

"它是从哪里来的?" (Where did it come from?)

"¿Dónde?"(Where?)

"Kung saan?"(Where?)

"어디?"(Where?)

To the gods, it was like a beckon, to the demons, it was like a shining diamond, begging to be stolen.

Hades grinned.
Something was brewing on the horizon, and the gods had just drawn the incoming disaster upon themselves.

Like the devil he was, he planned on watching chaos follow with open eyes and a glad heart.

Thousands of years in the underworld had corroded his godly nature. The miasma had changed him. All this, was thanks to the heavenly Cabinet. Now that a disaster he could control was coming, he would do absolutely....nothing.

****Don't come at me😂😂I've used a translator. So not sure if it has given me the correct spelling of where in the different languages. Other than that, how's the story so far? Is it rushed or slow?****