Chapter 222: Remember Me (5)

Maple POV

I don't think anyone of us here expected to be faced with such a dilemma, choosing between a nicer and more timid Perseus or the original. But I think I can say that the answer would be anonymous, we prefer the original, as annoying as he may be, I think we all know just how endearing it was.

I guess you can't appreciate something until it's fully gone.

"Don't worry guys, I'm joking." Perseus said all of a sudden with his usual smile "That was just an act, funny aye?"

That earned a sigh of relief from everyone only for Perseus to tear up.

"Aren't you guys supposed to accept me for who I am?" he sniffled "You do prefer the meaner me."

"So, what do we name him? We have Perseus and Persia, this one needs one too." Nyra asked "Perry?"

"No...Paris, that sounds like a good name for this one." Rylee recommended

"Yeah, it's like we have 4 children, maybe all those children I carried before passed their traits onto him after all, we can work with this." Nyra replied

"Work with it? What the hell is wrong with you 2?" Lilith exclaimed "No offense when I say this, sorry for what happened to your previous children, but I'm not dating Paris, I'll consider Persia, but I want my Perseus back."

Huh, she's fallen almost to Leilah's level, even Leilah is staring at her with an amazed expression, 'my Perseus' and 'dating', words that I don't think I'll hear from her mouth.

Buddy then got on his shoulder and used a handkerchief to wipe his tears away, it's kind of cute in a way, I envy their relationship. Aww, look at those big puppy eyes, that's kind of cute...but we need to bring him back.

"Leilah, knock him out, maybe it'll bring the original one back." Ruka suggested as we all backed away "Maybe sometimes, you just literally need your senses knocked back into you."

"Wait, I'm only kidding." Perseus stopped Leilah as she was gearing up "There's no such thing as a personality switch, I was only pretending to be a wimp pretending to me. Jeez come on guys, I'm not that weak to let something like an alternate personality take ove-"

Lilith then knocked him out before Leilah can and his hair started to go back to white while his wings go away, the fox was trying his best to wake Perseus up, but it isn't working and started to growl at Lilith for knocking Perseus out.

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Perseus POV

Damn it, which one of em knocked me out? I was just pretending to be nice and I can't believe it freaked them out, they wanted that and I gave it to them. I woke up to see Buddy sleeping alongside me and Maple reading a newspaper in the corner, it had a rather exaggerated picture drawn to resemble me, but it's not too bad that I'll complain.

"Where's everyone?"

"Well, Leilah wanted to be with you, but it seems your fox didn't appreciate that she wanted to hit you." Maple answered "It was your fault though."

"I thought I told you guys that my powers don't come with alternate personalities, your mother said so as well. Besides, Buddy easily sensed that I'm the same guy, you just have to trust the fox."

"There's a reason why those 2 envy that fox." Maple narrowed her eyes at the sleeping fox "You should also stop feeding him berries, he doesn't really like it. He also complains a lot."

"Right, you can talk to animals, must be a terrible power to have, imagine having to smack a harmful and annoying bug as it pleads for its life."

"I can turn it off and on, don't worry." Maple reassured "That powers of yours, your voice, there's something strange about it."

"Oh, it was the voice of temptation, Loki's is similar, except this one is worse for my enemies, Loki will still make you have your full consciousness, but Satan's, well, you're going to be put in a sort of a trance, harder to break out off."

She closed whatever she was reading and came to sit right next to me on the bed. She's gotten more comfortable around me, and for some reason, during the break before this tournament, she left for only a couple of days at best as she stayed with us in hopes of learning more about me.

"How long was I out?"

"2 hours, give or take." she answered "What are your side effects? Apart from that mischief god's power making you eat more and the other giving you a heavy uncurable fever, what does this one do?"

"Muscle pain, the longer I use it, the more intense, it feels similar to muscle tear happening everywhere in my body even though I'm physically fine. But it's bearable, and there's one other side effect, even though there are no necessary personality changes, there is some sort of strong consciousness that is slowly influencing me the longer I use it."

"What sort of influence? Does Leilah know?" Maple asked

"I didn't." I answered "Besides, it isn't that bad, as I tempt others, the consciousness is only telling me to take over the world and be king."

"That shouldn't be glossed over." she commented

"Trust me, it's just a fading voice, I can barely register it, I had to really focus as I waited for you guys. Anyway, I need to like burn some hash browns."

"Why?"

"To honor the friend who gave me this power."

"I thought you were born with this."

"Nah, not this one, this was given to me, much nicer guy than I am. He said to like burn some hash browns in his name, so I'm gonna, I do it every year, but I might as well do it again since I used his powers. "

"You are an odd one, you know that?" Maple asked

"I know."

I know, burning hash browns is ridiculous, a waste of food, but if the guy requested it to be this way, then so be it, I ain't disrespecting someone's last wish.