The Book of Cosmi

Chapter 9: why do you hate me?

| Cosmos |

She finally made it. It's surprising she wasn't killed while being out there. Juno is absolutely clueless, she doesn't even know what's going on. I stepped forward and grabbed her by the arm and pulled her into Heaven, hugging Juno tightly. I spoke out in a gentle voice."We all thought you died Juno, do you even know what's going on..?"

Juno stood there confused for a moment but then responded to me

"𝒞𝑜𝓈𝓂𝑜𝓈, 𝓌𝒽𝒶𝓉'𝓈 𝑔𝑜𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝑜𝓃? 𝐼 𝒿𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝓉𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝑜 𝒽𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝒶 𝓂𝑒𝑒𝓉𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒞𝑜𝓈𝓂𝒾𝒸."

At that moment, I knew this wasn't good, our Goddess of War, our strongest Cosmi God, the woman who knows every corner to fighting like the back of her hand, didn't even know our realm was being attacked. A stroke of anguish came over me as I held Juno close by me and spoke as calmly as possible

"A race of monstrous beings have arisen from the depths of this realm and have declared war on us. They're called the Primeval Monsters. Their strongest or I suppose their leaders go by the name of 'Typhon' and 'Echidna' the mother and father of the Monsters."

I could tell that Juno progressively became more and more deep in thought as I spoke. I could see the plans forming in her mind. She was making not a plan for a fight or battle, but for a war. Her eyes lost their golden glow and became empty with zero reflection. The jewelry that was scattered all about her body and clothes began to shift from a shining gold to a stale, harsh black. The properties of Vallen Kigeao were very unique, it often matched very strong emotion from time to time. Juno was born to be the best of us all, a war master. If perfection was a possible thing, then Juno's mind was perfect. She had vast emotions like most of us, but she never got mad. Even at times when you may think she's mad, she's just being disciplinary to those who defy her. She is immovable in anger, she can't be pushed beyond more than just annoyed. That's why as a war master, she could formulate and continue to formulate plans in and out of battle as well as fight with so much strength that she even exceeds Cosmic's skills and mastery. She finally spoke after a few minutes of anticipated waiting, she said

"𝒲𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓂𝑜𝓃𝓈𝓉𝑒𝓇𝓈 𝒸𝑜𝓂𝒾𝓃𝑔?"

I glanced at Cosmic and he gave me a brief nod, I responded promptly

"They're expected to come any moment now, which is why we were worried about your life."

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"𝒲𝑒 𝒽𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝑒𝓃𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽 𝓉𝒾𝓂𝑒."

I was confused for a moment, but the abilities of Juno should never be doubted. She suddenly waved her hands as reality shifted for a moment and Heaven went from beauty to war field...Hundreds of millions of Cosmi soldiers were lined up in rows all armed with Ancient Polearms and Celestial Shields. They wore Vallen Kigeao armor, extremely durable as well as holding the high magical potency so these Gods could utilize their abilities to the fullest extent. Juno floated above the army.

Cosmic and I floated behind Juno along with every other Cosmi God there. She whisked her hands around and a staff appeared in her hands and spoke out to us all

"𝒟𝑒𝒸𝓁𝒶𝓇𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓌𝒶𝓇 𝓊𝓅𝑜𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒞𝑜𝓈𝓂𝒾 𝒢𝑜𝒹𝓈 𝒾𝓈 𝒶𝓃 𝒶𝒸𝓉 𝑜𝒻 𝒷𝓁𝒶𝓈𝓅𝒽𝑒𝓂𝓎. 𝒜𝓈 𝒞𝑜𝓂𝓂𝒶𝓃𝒹𝑒𝓇 𝒾𝓃 𝒞𝒽𝒾𝑒𝒻 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓁𝓂 𝐼 𝓌𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝓅𝓇𝑜𝓉𝑒𝒸𝓉 𝒾𝓉 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝓂𝓎 𝓁𝒶𝓈𝓉 𝒷𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓉𝒽 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝑒𝓃𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒫𝓇𝒾𝓂𝑒𝓋𝒶𝓁 𝑀𝑜𝓃𝓈𝓉𝑒𝓇𝓈 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝓃𝑜 𝓂𝑒𝓇𝒸𝓎 𝓊𝓅𝑜𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝒾𝓇 𝓈𝑜𝓊𝓁𝓈."

I floated there silently and nodded as Juno continued her speech to the army. I turned around towards the Cosmi Gods. There were three specifics that would be pinnacle in this war... Ose, Hestia, Origin. But something was off about one of them, I slowly glanced between the three of them. Hestia... our Grand Priestess, sister to Juno, she doesn't show her power much but she's extraordinarily powerful. Ose, is the embodiment of Balance. She is extremely smart, also extremely powerful, and resides in a tower in the realm's mainland called the "Cursed Tower of Embodiment." She has an extremely powerful mentality, but she is gentle, she's fond of creating things, kind of like alchemy. Then there was Origin. Origin takes on the body of a female, but is genderless by birth. Origin is the embodiment of a universe, essentially a blackhole, they lack a lot of emotion most of the time and don't really talk. But, Origin's core purpose is to be the heart of the Gods, they are the heart of the Cosmi Gods, though at times they don't really seem like they are. If they die, it'd be detrimental to the Gods. I looked at Origin for a moment and realized something was off... I tapped Juno on the shoulder and she turned around instantly. I pointed at Origin and Juno squinted inspecting. Origin just floated there, hardly reacting, she seemed normal but something was still off putting about them. Cosmic suddenly turned around and jutted a knife into the back of Origin, everyone was super shocked except myself. My suspicions were correct. Origin's blood spilt everywhere and they coughed up blood as well... Cosmic glanced around and spoke in a worrisome tone.

"Helcurt... this is all his DOING! I KNEW ORIGIN WASN'T THEIRSELF!!!"

We all looked back at the bleeding out Origin. Abruptly, a pair of large wings sprouted from their body and began to shift in change into something else. This wasn't Origin, it was a Primeval Monster, no, THE Primeval Monster. It was Typhon. We all got sent flying backwards by a gust of wind. I quickly threw up a protective Celestial Shield for everyone within Heaven.. The war had begun, worry fell across me, bloodshed was about to ensue. It didn't have to be this way.Typhon's booming voice echoed through Heaven.

"Why do you hate me? Why do you hate me? Cosmic and Cosmos, it didn't need to be this way..."