Chapter 26

Soul with the help of the mystical creature she was riding, fly close to the giant beast. She move slowly towards to the giant, so that it wouldn't think that she was attacking it.

The beast strangely didn't attack or try to swallow Soul as she approached him. The beast only stare at it's palms which is now slowly regenerating.

The giant wasn't blood tasty at all, but Aphrodite and Zadre thought it is was  because of the way it looked intimating when it first show up.

"Hey! Hey!" Soul shouted as she got close to the beast, and it slowly turn his focus from his regenerating palm to her. "...look! I just want to talk with you." Soul said and then raise her hands up, as a sign that she doesn't want to attack. "....Yes! I don't want to attack. I am here to talk." She said as she fly really close to the giant beast and it just stare at her.

"YOU. JUS. WAN. TO. TALK?!" The giant replied soul with each word, and Aphrodite and Zadre was shock to hear words coming out of the giant mouth.

"Yes! Yes! I just want to talk. And i also want us to be friends." Soul said with a huge smile on her face. She was happy that she could communicate with the beast, and it can understand what she was saying.

"FRIENDS?" The beast ask Soul. "Yes! Friends! Me and you, we can become friends, and we don't have to fight with each other anymore....we can assist each other." Soul demonstrated with her hands, as she speaks about friendship.

"SO! DO. YOU. WAN. TO. BE. ME. FRIEND?" The beast ask soul as he leans forward. "Yes! I want to be your friend, and i love you as a friend." Soul smiled and said. "LOVE?" The giant ask. "Yes! Love. That's the element that can bring us all together, and also end the chaos in this world forever." Soul explained. ".... OH!" The beast said, and then sit on the ground. "...SO. LOVE. MADE. US. FRIENDS?" The beast ask soul. "Yes! That's want made me your friend." Soul replied him.

"THEN. LET. BE. FRIENDS. FOR. FOREVER." The beast said and brought out his other palm to Soul. "...okay! Let's be friends forever." Soul said and was able to jump back from her mystical creature to the beast, but Zadre yelled to her.

"... Stop! It may be a trick, that beast can't have emotions, and it can't be your friend!" Zadre shouted to Soul. "....Love ends battles before they start remember?!" Soul shouted back to him. "....what if you are wrong, what if all of that was a trick? That beast will surely crush you with his palm if you climb on it. And your mortal body wouldn't survive that!" Zadre shouted to her.

"...if you want to end a battle with love. You must take the risk, to prove that your love is truly genuine." Soul shouted to Zadre, and then look back at the beast. ".... let's prove to them that love can truly end battles, even before they start." Soul said as she stare at the giant.

"FRIEND!" The beast said while still holding his palm up for Soul to climb up. ".... friend!" Soul said and then climb on the palm of the giant beast.

"FRIENDS!" The beast said again, and thendraw Soul close to his gave face. "We are friends!" Soul said and hug the face of the beast, while Aphrodite and Zadre eye's pop up in amazement.

"Wow? Did this mortal just prove me wrong?" Aphrodite ask herself, after seeing how hugged the giant beast she wanted to kill. "....This mortal, isn't just using Dusa's powers solely. They is something inside her, something I can't seem to get my eyes arou...." Aphrodite couldn't complete what she was about to say because Zadre Interrupted her.

"....love, that's it. Love really ends battles before it begins. She was right after all." Zadre said to Aphrodite. "shut up demon." Aphrodite shouted at him. "....Your kind don't know anything about Love. You all are worst than monsters." Aphrodite insulted Zadre. "....We all are worst than monsters, but we ain't like the upper gods who plot against each other, and start battles they can't conjure." Zadre said to Aphrodite, and this deeply angered her. 

"You dare speak to me like that? You disgrace to anything that is pure!" Aphrodite shouted and released her trident from her magical girdle. "Come on!" Zadre said to her, and then stretch out his spear. ".... today will be your last day alive!" Aphrodite said, and she and Zadre was about to burst into another fight, but Soul scream stopped them.

"Noooo!" Soul shouted as the giant beast slowly fades away. "... don't go! Stop! Don't go!" She screamed as the giant fades into tiny round light. "...WE. ARE. FRIEND!" The giant said as he dropped Soul on the ground, and completely fade away. "....Why? Why are they all leaving me?" Soul falls to the ground and said. She recall how Eros faded away after he died, and thoughts like that put serious sadness in her heart. "...am so sorry Eros! I couldn't save you. I am so sorry." Soul said each words as tears rain down from her eyes

Zadre rushes towards her.

"....so the only way to pass the test was to use love." Aphrodite said as she watch the giant completely vanish. "....that mortal will be full of herself now. She now know that she have won the deal, she made with a goddess. Sighed" Aphrodite said as she flies down to the ground. 

"....come on, stop crying." Zadre said to Soul as he stand beside her. "....am fine! I am not crying." Soul pretends as she clean her tears away from eyes. "... it's okay To cry. It show that you were really affected by what is making you to cry. Even strongest gods sometime cry." Zadre said to Soul as she gets up from the cloudy ground. "...thanks for the words." Soul answered him, and they both stared at each other till Aphrodite came to break up the friendly moment.

"Well..well..well." Aphrodite came in from no where. "...You actually prove that love do end battles. I am impress mortal." Aphrodite said. "...i told you goddess. So you don't have to hate other kinds, you can make friends with them. You can bring peace." Soul said to Aphrodite. "....just because you won the deal doesn't mean i will let you go." Aphrodite totally ignored what Soul saying. "....what? You really are full of yourself huh?" Zadre cut in. "... you think you can just punish people when every you want, and kill people any how you like?!" Zadre shouted. "...well let me break it to you, descendant of mother fate! I will not let you hurt Soul or anybody again." Zadre confidently said to Aphrodite.

"... you dare challenge the queen of the upper gods?" Aphrodite ask Zadre as she stretch out her trident at him.

"Stop! Please you gods should stop this....." Soul try to talk some sense into them but they ignore. 

"... I don't have any problem with you demon, but since you have continuously try challenge me. I will just have to eliminate you NOW!" Aphrodite s said to Zadre and the trident in her hands began to glow. "....the goddess of the upper god said she don't have a problem with me, but you have always try to kill me any chance you get. You say you are a upright goddess, but you even kill your own sister human host just because, you have a grudge against her." Zadre said to Aphrodite as he's rage builds up.

"....You Demon!" Aphrodite shouted, and huge waves of water blast out of the trident in her hands. "....DAMN YOU UPPER gods!" Zadre shoutes as he quickly channel his rage into his spear, making it to create a magical force field that protected soul and him from the water blast. 

".... Oh! You really think you can counter a goddess power?" Aphrodite smiled and said. ".... let's see if you can counter this, demon!" The shouted and immediately the water blast increased, and sharp ice also came out of the trident. 

The two different water forms became too powerful for Zadre to handle and the impact from the two elements pushed in back as he try to hold his ground against them. Zadre didn't want his shell to break because if this happens, Soul life and Dusa's conscience in her will be in danger.

".... let's see how long you can counter my powers now, demon!" Aphrodite shouted with a huge smile on her face. "....i will not let go! Ahhh!" Zadre shouted as more rage and hate began to build up all over his body.

"Just give me Soul! Then i may spare your life." Aphrodite said to him, and then increase the force of the two elements on his forcefield. "....i will not give her to you.....You WITCH!" Zadre shouted, and rage burst out from his body like huge water waves. They all immediately enter into his spear, and this gave him an upper hands against Aphrodite attack.

"Stop! Please...stop! Fighting." Soul tries to talk to them. "....love ends battles before they start!" A voice passes through Soul's ear, and this immediately gave her an ideal. "Love ends battles right?" Soul ask herself. "... then let's end the hate in goddess Aphrodite's hate once and for all." Soul said to herself and walk closer to Zadre, who is trying is absolute best to keep the forcefield made out of his rage from breaking apart.

"....stop the fighting." Soul said to Zadre. "... sorry, but I can't do that. She wants to kill us, and i will not allow.....THAT!" Zadre said as he increased his rage. "...love ends battles before they start remember?" Soul said to Zadre. "...yeah, but this apart is a different type of battle. That goddess out there is ready to kill us, and no matter what you say to her, she will still going to kill you." Zadre explained. "...but i believe i can convince her, just stop the fighting!" Soul shouted to Zadre. "...i am sorry, but I can't do that. I promise Dusa i will protect her, and that's want i am doing. I wouldn't let that goddess kill you and destroy Dusa's conscience." Zadre said as he look at Aphrodite from outside his forcefield and bloodlust on her face, have grew bigger. 

Aphrodite is really desperate to kill them.

"....how long can you hold on? You are slowly weakening." Soul said to Zadre. "...i still have the strength to keep us alive to worry." Zadre replied her. 

"....i see you don't want to give up huh!?" Aphrodite shouted. "...well you brought this on yourself, DEMON!" She shouted and then use her other hand conjure up all the most powerful elements in the universe, and convert them into huge powerful arrows.

She was ready to kill them.

"Now! Die!" Aphrodite shouted as all the arrows fly straight at Zadre forcefield. "....brace yourself!" Zadre shouted to Soul, as he holds his spear tightly to the ground, so that the huge arrows wouldn't be able to hit him off balance. 

"...what? What is going on?" Soul ask and at that moment, all the huges arrows began to hit Zadre forcefield intensively. "AHHHHH!" Zadre shouted in pain as he tries to channel out more rage, but nothing work. ".... what's going on? I am the god of hate!" Zadre shouted as he tries to hold his forcefield in place. ".... stop! Stop! The fighting!" Soul shouted to Zadre, but he totally ignores her. ".... I can't let her break through the forcefield, I can't let her get to Dusa." Zadre quietly said to himself as he tries he's best to hold the forcefield. But it looks like he is completely out of strength. 

"Hahaha! Don't you wanna give up? You are going to die because of that girl. My son have died already!!" Aphrodite shouted and Soul heard her.

"....i am not! I am not going to give up." Zadre shouted as blood pours out of his mouth and noise. "...no!" Soul shouted after seeing the way Zadre was bleeding out intensely. "... hahahaha! I think this is where i am going to die!" She shouted to Soul. "No! Please stop fighting." Soul begged him as tears fall from her eyes.

"It's okay! Don't cry, this is best way to die." Zadre said as more black blood rush down from his noise. ".... protecting the person i love." He added and fall to the ground while still holding his spear in the ground.

"...give up demon, and met spare you!" Aphrodite shouted from outside the forcefield while attacking. "....i will die protecting the person i love." Zadre said again, as he holds the spear tightly on the ground, so that the forcefield created from it wouldn't fade out.

"...No! Stop!" Soul shouted as she tries to stop Zadre with Dusa's magic, but he immediately conjure up a chain around her with his magic. "....i am sorry, but I can't let you die too." Zadre said, as tears falls down from his eyes. "... please don't! Please!" Soul begged him. "...Dusa! I love you, and if you can hear me, just know i died i actually not as incompetent my father said I am." Zadre said as he slowly gets up. "....i did something extraordinary today! And i died protecting you!" Zadre said as then his forcefield fade out. 

"....see you some other time." He smiled and looked at Soul as he takes all Aphrodite's attack one after the other. "Nooooo!" Soul shouted as she witness who Zadre took all the attacks from Aphrodite because of her.

"Hahahaha!!" Aphrodite laughed mischievously as she send out more arrows at Zadre still he lifeless body falls to the ground.

".... wasn't that fun?" Aphrodite said to Soul who was just standing like a lodge of food, and staring at Zadre body which is fading away. "...you killed him!" Soul shouted. 

"Yes! I did, and you are next!" Aphrodite said as raised up more arrows and waiting for a chance to strike soul with it.

"...you just killed Zadre!" Soul shouted again. "Hahaha!" Aphrodite gave her laughing response. 

"YOU! JUST! KILLED! ZADRE!" Soul shouted each other, and a huge magic shock wave blast out of her, and breaking the chain Zadre conjure around her. 

"...oh i see you want to challenge me too." Aphrodite said. "Okay! Die!" Aphrodite shouted again, and summon all the arrows at Soul. 

"YOU! JUST! KILLED! ZADRE!" Soul shouted and then walk towards Aphrodite with rage in her eyes as she nock off each arrows flying towards her with just her fingers.

"What? Is this mortal hitting off my attacks with little efforts? She is mocking me!" Aphrodite who don't let to be defected said as she multiples the arrows and summon all of them at her. 

"... can't you see? It's me!" Soul said, and then conjure up a magic chain which is made out of the strongest metals in the world. 

The chain even have two sharp blades, which can cut through anything in this immortal and mortal realm.

".... impossible! Did she just conjure up Dusa's spirit weapon? But that's not Dusa! That is the mortal girl? How can she.....?" Aphrodite bombard herself with questions, and she didn't notice that Soul have already moved close to her. 

"You just killed him!" Soul shouted as she use Dusa's spirit weapon to cut Aphrodite knee, and this made her to fall on the ground.

"....so fast!" Aphrodite shouted with a bleeding knee. "....how did she counter all my attacks so fast!" Aphrodite who was lost in her thoughts ask herself. 

"No! I can't let her defect me!" Aphrodite shouted to herself and try to attack Soul with the trident in her hands, but Soul surprisely hit the trident off her hands with the spirit weapon on her hands.

"...WE! have just lost the person with love just because of you!" Souls shouted at Aphrodite as she grab her tightly with on her neck.

"IMPOSSIBLE! You...you two are sharing that mortal body at thesame time?" Aphrodite asked as Soul tightly her grip on her neck.

"What do you think?" Soul shouted as she stare straight into Aphrodite eyes.

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