Heroes aren't meant to act like their villains -- or fall in love with them. The elements touch everyone on Earth -- Fire, Water, even Light -- but every so often someone becomes more attuned to their elemental leaning and develops true power. When an evil Elemental known as Thanatos arrived in Olympus City, it saw the rise of its first hero -- Zeus. But the death toll caused by defeating Thanatos changed Zeus, who by day is young detective Danny Grant. It's been six months since Thanatos terrorized the city at the start of Lovesick Gods. Danny should be used to his duty behind the mask, but the recent past haunts him. His girlfriend left him, he snaps at the barest provocation, his life feels empty -- he needs an outlet, any outlet to pull him out of his depression. Enter notorious thief Malcolm Cho, the Ice Elemental Prometheus. There was a time when Danny welcomed a fight with Cho, filled with colorful banter and casual flirtations that were a relief compared to Thanatos. Even as a criminal, Cho had recognized the threat Thanatos posed and promised to help Danny stop him, but the day Danny needed Cho, he never showed. Cho was the reason so many people died that day -- including Danny's mother. Danny decides to teach the man a lesson and fan the fire of their attraction into something more. At worst, he'll get some no-strings-attached sex out of the deal and finally blow off steam; at best, he'll get Cho to fall in love with him and then break his heart to spite him. Danny doesn't expect to fall for Cho in the process, and he certainly can't predict the much darker threat on the horizon.

Lovesick Gods

Dom went through the same process Mal had and grinned wildly at the augmented reality, especially when Priestly held the frozen flower inside the box again and it wilted like melting wax. 


“You’ll also be able to see each other’s radius bubbles so you don’t accidentally...well, for lack of a better term…cross the streams.” He looked far too annoyed with himself for that reference. 


“Depends on several variables. Most likely it’ll create mist or a light snow. Worst case scenario there might be a slight…explosion.”


Mal’s eyes widened, while Dom chuckled in excitement. “Don’t cross the cold and heat fields. Got it.”


“Remember,” Priestly said, “amplifiers basically collect a portion of your powers like a battery and store it to be able to produce the cuffs’ effects. If you get winded or too injured to use your powers normally, the cuffs can be used as a backup to channel a few normal blasts of ice or fire. Try not to rely on that though.


Chapter 64