Failed Ritual

"This was strange"

Thought Asahi as he looked at the totally wrecked floor of the ancient chamber. The Pentagram runic symbol was long rubbed into oblivion, but the floor was also crushed into pieces along with stone tiles.

He looked at the distance where unconscious Orion was lying on the floor. His hands were totally burst open from his palms, leaking blood with fractured tissue. Even his nerves were yanked into taught strings with the shock of violent energies.

He sighed to himself thinking how would he explain everything to his superiors.

"Why is this happening"

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One hour before, with some unexpected outcome, Orion came back from his summoning with terrible recoil of violent energies. It looked like Anubis was not happy with his arrival, thus blasted him back to earth with little punishment.

"Did I somehow pissed Anubis, off"

Listening to his question, while looking at the dimly lit Pentagram, Asahi felt that must be the case.

The ancient runes are written in blood capable of handling and channeling enough energy for connecting two planes that were almost rubbed off due to sudden recoil.

The dimly lit runes looked like they could only hold one more such accident before they would be erased from the floor. Leaving another thing to install for MoJ.

"Hey calm down, looks like there was some kind of problem….. Did Anubis was angry by any chance?"

Orion tried to calm his shaking hands down. He thought back to his journey, a little hesitant of emotion he had seen on that jackal face. He was not sure if that was anger or his usual expression?

Upon the insistence of Asahi slowly recounted the whole story of his dimensional travel. He recounted each and every detail, thinking Asahi might be able to point out what went wrong.

Asahi calmly listened to his recollection. But to his confusion, he didn't find anything which could possibly piss off the God of Death. At last, he concluded with the little absurd statement to calm Orion.

"Looks like you caught him in a bad mood. It's not your fault. "

Orion gazed at him in suspicion. Even Asahi felt his statement was a little far-fetched to be true. But he didn't lose his composure in front of junior and instructed him,

"Don't worry we have plenty of Gods, major, minor, spirits, angels and at last Demons….someone will surely take you in. "

He instructed Orion to sit again at the center in the same position as he fired off the Pentagon from his energy. Slowly it began to lit up in purple fire again but obviously, this time the color of the flames was somewhat dim.

As the process began, Asahi took out a coin of the dead outside and this time picked out a small seashell. He wanted to send him straight to mount Olympia but considering the haughty gods.

If there was really something wrong with Orion which could anger God-like Anubis, the Olympian God would probably kill him in just a second without any chance of explanation.

He then pocketed a sea shell, considering Poseidon may be too much for him to bear in only his second meeting. He could go after the third or fourth time if he comes back normally from this summoning like normal Conjurers without screwing off.

He then, after much consideration, took out a small dagger with a lion engraved on it. He threw it in the middle of a fire circle as he whispered his voice to Orion.

"Strongest Demigod - Hercules."

Orion felt himself again drowning in the sea of energy. This time as he opened his eyes he found himself in front of a small cave-like structure. There was a small wooden hut built at the side of it from where sounds of woodcutting could be heard.

He slowly walked towards the wooden but, thinking the good of strength lives in such a simple hut. He turned towards the open yard from where the sound of ax hitting was coming from.

There was the demigod, Hercules' eight-foot-tall muscles built like the champion was slowly chopping wood with his larger than size Ax.

He was the epitome of strength that even his naked upper torso was glistening with sweat. Orion was amazed by God so much that he even forgets to exclaim his presence.

Hercules suddenly stopped and turned back to look at the newcomer. He was so busy with the work that he failed to notice someone walked into his land.

He observed the human and genuinely felt happy for someone coming to him after such a long time. A big smile blossomed on his bearded handsome face as he greeted the human by lifting his ax.

"How are you doing, son?"

Suddenly, Orion snapped back to his senses. Truly the son of Zeus was the hero of mankind. He was so happy to see him that he even greeted him first. His heartfelt smile was a clear indication of how much he was happy to see his brother from the earth.

He wanted to greet respectfully to the Hercules, who still considers himself one of the humans even having the status of demigod.

But as he opened his mouth to speak, suddenly he felt a familiar sensation in his mouth. His eyes filled with blood with a mind clouded in pain.

His throat suddenly choked with an iron taste of blood as he lost his breath and suddenly pulled out of that realm. He felt the same experience of vanishing from this realm.

Hercules wanted to chat with this friend when suddenly he vanished from a few meters in front of him.

"Hmmm? What happened? "

He thought that there must be some trouble to him as he carefully checked the connection door between planes. It is when he realized that he was pulled back to the earth from where he came.

"So, he is alright. " he sighed.

"I thought someone dared to abduct him in front of me. Looked like he was just here by mistake, I think. "

Confirming he again lifted his large ax and began to chop firewood for his use. The monotonous sound of cutting wood was again heard in the silent forest.

On the other side, Asahi was waiting for Orion. The time between planes is always relative so there is no chance when a person traveling through planes will appear back anytime.

Suddenly, The energy storm like earlier appeared in the circle but this time it was a lot more violent. The unconscious body of Orion was thrown off like a rag doll from the floor.

While the floor and the Pentagram were crushed by the recoil of rogue energies. This time Asahi was expectedly prepared as he tried to hold back violent energies from causing much harm to the chamber.

After some struggle of few seconds finally, he managed to control these stray energies from causing any more harm. He observed the room which looked like a hurricane had passed through and moaned with a question in his heart,

"Hercules..….was also in a bad mood?"