Creation: The Primordial Era (Creation Series, Book 2)

Do I Know You?

Mousai's POV

"Hmm?" Oracion hums towards Persephone. "What could you mean by that?"

Her posture changes as vines sturdy themselves to create some sort of arm rest for her to lean against. "I mean, you don't have a twin, right?" She bites into her mouth-watering fruit nonchalantly.

Oracion once again grabs hold of me, squeezing a wince out of my mouth as I'm pulled towards him. "St-op...please" I beg but he doesn't care in the slightest.

'This isn't him' My thoughts can't help but call out, 'He wouldn't do this.'

And in that instance, I feel it again, that tingling sensation that courses through his entire body as if reacting to me. Loosening his grip but still continuing to keep me close.

Persephone's golden eyes trace my body, applying a pressure that anything more physical could could cause my body to shatter. "Looks like we have another problem here." She rolls her eyes towards the direction of Zs as they manage to catch up to where we are.

But not a single word is spoken whilst the hairs on their skin visibly stand up, their eyes appearing like nothing more than blue wisps as if having souls trapped within themselves. "And what do you think you're doing?" They all speak in unison.

Zahere, Zion and Zagreus the once singular being that was punished by the Moon Goddess for even coming close to me. A love that was deemed tainted, a fault by birth...a corruption to the world.

"Let. Go." They mouth.

Persephone's eyes follow them all but her intentions are clear as her plants gradually swirl around Oracion's legs in an attempt to constrain him.

'Can they win against him?' My thoughts falter.

"No" Oracion smiles. And just like that without another moment's notice, petals fall from the sky as the beautiful scenery that was created around us is cut into a perfectly circular area. An action that took no longer than half a second, a feat that the Oracion I knew was very much capable of.

Zagreus breaks the synergy as he shouts towards Persephone, "YOU'RE JUST GOING TO LET HIM DO-" his voice silences as we all look towards a decapitated stature of what was once a woman.

Her body fallen to the ground without the slightest hint of blood or struggle, "What have you done." Zion asks him, attempting to walk closer.

'They can't win'.

Oracion looks towards him, causing gentle grazes to appear along each of their faces.

'They can't win.' My mind repeats whilst the garden begins responding to Persephone's absence.

A deep rooted rumbling that causes the petals themselves to blacken as the field around our feet is dyed red. The goddess who brought chaos upon the 3 realms, discarded just like that.

"MOUSAI!" Zahere shouts, grabbing my hand and pulling me away from Oracion just in time to avoid the sentient life that begins sprouting thorns from each and every inch of itself.

"WE'RE LEAVING!" They all panic as the once thick grass around us digs itself up with the land, pushing different sections of the Underworld into an elevated space.

I look back briefly, watching as Oracion simply stands there with the most docile eyes a human could possibly communicate with. 'It won't kill him...it won't.'

And so he smiles as his separated island is covered and shattered by the sheer force of Persephone's garden.

"Human, right?" That same problematic voice rings out from a nearby tree that's carried along with our upheaved land.