Their souls were carried away by the current, split away from their bodies, Hestia’s soul was radiating golden.
“You two! Don’t look at my soul, the moment you lay mortal eyes upon a God’s body, you will be disintegrated”!
Both Shinji and Hestia immediately closed their eyes as the flood had settled down, their physical bodies had collapsed onto the floor lifeless right in front of their eyes.
The footsteps echoed in the hallways as he got closer and closer, his figure began to increase in size.
His baby blue eyes glowed in the dimly lit room as the broken lights flickered on and off.
He stepped forwards as the black water parted around him.
“It seems that river styx has swallowed you three up whole”.
“I have a family”! Asami exclaimed as fake tears began dropping down her ghostly body. “I have people waiting for me! People that want me alive”!
“You’re quite the good liar aren’t you? The shape of your soul is faltering a tiny teensy bit”.
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Hestia floated forward, her radiance shining like an angel and her voice steady. “Thanatos, could you not find it within yourself to release them? They are but mortals, insignificant to one such as you.”
Thanatos’s expression twisted into something feral, his voice rising with anger. “Mere mortals? Are you blind, Hestia? Even I can see it!” His finger shot out, pointing directly at Shinji. “That boy carries the essence of Khaos! The remnants of the Primordial Goddess herself!”
Hestia’s eyes widened at the mention of the Goddess’ name, no wonder why Shinji had been as strong as the Gods.
But before Thanatos could continue, a gleaming blade flashed through the air. The strike was so sudden that no one saw its origin until it was over. The blade slashed cleanly through Thanatos’s throat, golden ichor spraying in a wide arc.
Shinji stood above the God of Death with a knife in his hand.
“Wha”.
Hestia and Asami barely had time to register what had happened before their souls snapped back into their physical bodies. They gasped as life flooded back into them, their eyes locking onto Thanatos’s collapsed form.
“Asami, go ahead and heal Hestia, we can’t user her help if she’s injured”.
“Shinji! How the hell did you do tha-“.
“Just heal her already”.
Asami immediately rubbed her hands and spawned in large tree like creatures, they began to walk towards Hestia as they healed the hole in her chest.
Shinji sughed as he walked towards Thanatos’ body, Asami was right behind him staring.
“Shinji, how did you do that”?
“I killed myself”.
Asami visibly squinted and rubbed her eyes, wondering if she had heard him correctly.
“What”?
“Like a computer, I turned myself off and on, I mean it worked anyways did it not”?
Before Asami could respond, the air in the room grew heavy, the darkness began to swarm the entire hallway, the darkness was overwhelming, the feeling of death overcome them. A black void opened beneath Thanatos’s body, and a new figure began to emerge.