Awakening

Chapter 6

Chapter 6: A Life Changing Decision

I woke up being pulled along through a dark hallway. I looked at my capturers. They seemed to be women. One of them saw that I was waking up. They turned and kicked me. That's all I remember before waking up in a huge steamy room.

The walls were huge, and made of smooth stone. I walked around and heard the rhythmic swishing noise of water, almost like a pool. As I kept wandering, I heard small noises, like tiny laughs. I was getting scared, when I found a giant wooden door. I punched it, and something roared back in anger.

"Jesus Christ." I said.

I continued looking around the room. I let my wings sprout and flew a few feet into the air. The mist seemed thicker so I landed. I felt extremely sweaty, and I went to remove my shirt to find that I was in boxers only.

"What the hell..."

I decided to find source of the swishing noise. I walked towards the center of room. I walked about 5 feet and fell into a warm pool of water. Shocked, I climbed out. Not finding a towel, but not wanting to stay in moist boxers, I removed them:

"Why, hello there." A female voice said, from somewhere in the room.

"Where the fuck?! Who are you?!" I yelled.

"Keep your voice down... and come to the edge of the pool."

I cautiously walked towards the voice. I sat down on the edge of the pool and waited.

"To your right."

As I listened to the voice, I heard a drunken slur. I inhaled deeply, and I smelled assorted alcohol, the strongest being the scent of whiskey. I shimmied to the right, and came across a naked woman.

"Um, your... um..." I stammered, looking away.

"Is this really an issue? Or are you just trying to be polite?" The woman asked, a hint of laughter on her voice.

"Be polite." I said, still looking away.

"Well you can look, Axel." The woman said.

"How do you know my name?!" I exclaimed, shocked.

"You'll know in due time... but right now I need to know if my daughters brought the right demigod."

"So is this gonna be like a blood test, or..?"

"Like a blood test, but more of a taste test."

"You're not drinking my blood if that's what you're after. I'm not up for that." I said, cracking my knuckles.

"I'm not after blood." The woman said, smirking.

"You're after... GOD DAMMIT! I just wanna have one normal day! Fuck! You're after semen, aren't you?!" I shouted, annoyed.

"Someone's very perceptive. If you have a problem with that, I can always take it by force..."

"That sounds unpleasant." I said nervously.

"So are we doing this the easy way? Or the hard way?"

"I'm gonna have to say easy..."

"Smart, boy. Now come here."

"Wait, aren't you drunk though?" I asked, worried.

I heard a snap of fingers. I looked at the woman. The drunk expression was gone, replaced by a longing face.

"I guess not..."

The woman gracefully climbed out of pool. Her hands ran along my shoulder down to my hand and she pulled me along through the huge wooden door, and I saw what roared. There was a man, but rather than skin he had scales. He was easily seven foot tall and 250 pounds of pure muscle. He smiled at the woman and then snapped back to attention at the door.