Chapter 12

"What!? You have to be mistaken, I am not Dusa or a goddess" Soul replied Zadre. "I know I once used the favour given to me by the deity of the west wind, which gave me the beauty of a goddess, but I ensure you I am not the goddess of lust" Soul angrily explained to Zadre. "You have her face, mind touch, and some of her powers locked inside of you" Zadre revealed to Soul. "No...no... No, you have to be mistaken, please you people have to let me go!" Soul said and tried to run way from zadre. "Come back!" Zadre commanded and his magic pushes Soul back to his arms. "You even have her eyes!" He said as he stare into the eyes of Soul. "Please just let me go, I just want to see my father and Eros again!" Soul begged him as she cried. "Don't worry everything will make sense when you eat the fruit!" Zadre said to Soul. "....Please stop crying." He said again. "I just want to go back home!" Soul cried even more. "I don't want to do this, but I have no choice, am sorry." Zadre said to Soul. "What! What are you going to do" Soul scream and struggle to leave zadre arms. "Nockni" He said a magical spell and she immediately fall asleep. "I am really sorry, but I can't let you go!" Zadre said as he hugged Soul tight and flew her back to his palace. 

MEANWHILE IN THE IMMORTAL REALM.

"Soul!... Soul!... Soul!" Eros screamed as he opened his eyes. "I felt her, I felt Soul just now!" Eros talk to the magical Phoenix flying next to him. "With just a blink of an eye I could see Soul, I guess we are more connected than I thought!" Eros said to himself as he fly with lightening speed to gates of the underworld. "I coming for you, hold on!" Eros whisper to himself as he holds the flute he once gave to Soul tightly. 

Eros and his magical Phoenix eventually got to one of the gates of the underworld through the immortal realm, but after opening it with his magic, all he saw was a dark narrow cave. "I guess we should walk down there?" Eros said to the magical Phoenix and both of them walk down the cave. The magical Phoenix produced fire from it's feathers and Eros used it to see where he was going. They eventually get out of the dark cave and after getting out, they saw a huge red lake. "I think we can fly over it!" Eros said to the Phoenix and tried to fly above the lake but couldn't. The magical Phoenix stayed on the ground looking at him as he relentlessly tried to fly over the lake, but always get block by a magical force. "Why can't I pass this damn lake!." Eros shouted out loud and bend his head down in frustration. "Ding! Ding! Ding!" A boat bell rings as it moved slowly in the lake to where Eros was standing. Eros looked up, saw the boat coming his way, and immediately transformed into his human form with his golden feather disappearing into his back. He uses his magic and turn the magical Phoenix into a wood sculpture, so that the person sailing the boat wouldn't know that he is a god from the immortal realm coming to take something from Hades. "Do you want to get to the underworld or are you dead?" A half skeleton and half human looking figure ask Eros as his boat came close to him. "Yes! I want to go to the underworld I have a message for Hades!" Eros lied to him. "Okay! But you need to pay before you can get into the boat and cross the lake" the man told Eros. "Okay!" Eros said as he put his hands in his garment and used his magic to create gold coins, which he gave to the strange man sailing the boat. The man reaches out his skeleton hands to him and Eros gave the coins to him. "Okay! You can enter into the boat." The man said as he brought out a wood for Eros to climb in and enter into his boat.

Eros entered the boat and the man sailed him through the lake slowly. "Can't you go any faster?" Eros angrily ask him. "Am sorry, god of love but I don't have the strength of a god to paddle the boat, so you have to bear with me" The man said as he continue paddling the boat. "How did you know I am a god" Eros ask him as he ready himself for a fight. "Oh please, you may have changed into a human form but your godly energy is still there, and I can feel it." The man said. "If you can sense the energy of a god, you must have been..." 

"No!" The man stop Eros from completing what he was about to say. "I was once a deity, but I followed the wrong path. I fought battles with Hades because he promised to make me a god if he win the war against the under gods, but he failed after he's plans didn't go as planned and he was captured and banish to the underworld, while I was stripped of my magic and cursed to spend the remaining of my days paddling and carrying ghost to the underworld as I slowly rot away." The man narrates his story to Eros and then hold his skeleton arm. "So are you going to report my arrival to Hades!" Eros ask him. "Why should I do sure thing, I have already lost so much" the man said as he continue paddling the boat. "What's you name?" Eros ask him. "Just the sailor who carries the dead to the underworld, i have no name." He revealed and continuing paddling.

MINUTES LATER!

"We are here!" The man said as his boat arrived at the other side of the lake. "Thank you!" Eros said after getting off the boat. "Follow what you think is right, god of love" the man said as he slowly paddle his boat back into the lake. "Let's go!" Eros said to the magical Phoenix and it transform back into it's true form and they both fly to Hades palace together. But unknowingly to Eros, a Raven who was stationed at the other side of the lake saw him and went to report his arrival to Hades. Hades who don't want Eros to destroy his plans by taking Soul, immediately ordered all his demon soldiers, trolls, beasts and his favorite three head demon dog to guard his son's palace. But nobody not even single guard guarded his palace. 

"Sir we finally get it!" A old witch creature appear in Hades palace. "What are you doing here, shouldn't you be at the mother of Fate garden trying to steal that damn memory fruit?!!" Hades shouted angrily. "Please lord, let me speak" The witch said in fear. "I have stolen the memory fruit" the witch showed him the glowing fruit with a smile in it's face. "How did you get it so quickly, it have only be a 1,000 years" Hades ask the witch. "It wasn't easy Lord, and I lost many of my fellow members while trying to steal it, but I eventually did" The witch said happily. "This is truly incredible, is like the fallen gods are in our side!" Hades said as he shouted in excitement. "Okay! carry the fruit to my Son. When you give me the fruit, tell him i said he shouldn't fail me" Hades said as he's eyes shine up like fire. "Yes... Yes... Lord!" The witch said in fear and disappear to Zadre palace. 

"This is odd?!" Eros said as he fly closer to Hades palace. "Why is the palace entrance not filled with warriors or beasts trying to stop us?" Eros ask the Phoenix and suddenly a huge fire summoned by Hades from inside his palace immediately struck him down. The fire summoned by Hades was so fast and powerful that Eros or the magical Phoenix sense it when it was flying to their direction. "Hades!!!" Eros said in anger as he stand up from the ground after being hit with the fire. Eros who knew that Hades was the one who struck him with his fire powers, immediately healed himself with his own magic and flew straight into the palace without fearing that he may receive another fire attack.

"Where is she!" Eros shouted and Hades entire place shakes. "Oh! I see you are still alive my nephew" Hades said as he sits on his throne. "You mind having a drink?" Hades said as vanished some wine close to Eros. "I don't want anything from you, I just want the girl" Eros said and uses his magic to summoned the sword and armour his mother gave him. "Oh I see you mother have you some of her accessories" Hades said as he lean back to his throne. "You don't seems afraid of my presence here!" Eros ask him. "Why would I fear my nephew who was born just few million years ago?" Hades ask him. "You are just another upper god who think he can defect me" Hades lean forward in his throne as he mocks Eros. "...i am not scare of you, Eros!" Hades said and laugh.

"You better be scare because I will kill you and give your head to the gods who wants you died in Olympus. So if don't have want to die, you better give Soul back to me." Eros shouted at Soul. "Hahaha! You think because you're the son of my brother and son to the most powerful goddess you can just come into the underworld to make threats?" Hades said to Eros angrily. "Just give me the girl and I promise they wouldn't be Carnage" Eros said angrily as be pointed his sword at Hades. "Oh child! Carnage have already began!" Hades said and then fly off his throne to attack Eros. The magical Phoenix who saw Hades coming blast it's internal flames on him and this pushes him backward. "I see your dear mother gave you are magical Phoenix, one great spirit animals" Hades said while holding his chest. "But i have something about that!" Hades said as he creates a giant dark Phoenix out of his magic and his Phoenix rushes at Eros' magical Phoenix and blasting it outside the palace. The two magical Phoenix clashes at each other and it seem that Eros Phoenix was holding it's ground, so Eros focus on taking Hades down. 

"It's just me and you boy!" Hades said as he conjure huge fireballs and blast it at Eros. "Just give me the girl!" Eros said as he split each of the fire balls coming at me in half. "Ahh!!!" Hades shouted and conjure a huge serpent made out of fire and the  send it to Eros direction. Eros immediately knew that the weak point of the serpent was it's head, and he flew up with his wings in order to have the upper hand. He killed the serpent by slicing off it's head, and after the serpent dead it's instantly dissolved. "Was that all you got?" Eros said as he fly down with smoke coming out of his sword. "Just hand over the girl and I will spare you" Eros said.

"You talk a lot about that girl like you know everything about her" Hades said and vanished to his throne to sit down. "Just give me the girl uncle" Eros said as he's anger grew. "That girl who you think is a human, isn't actually not a human!" Hades said to him as he conjure up a wine and drink it. "What do you mean she is not a human, I don't believe you." Eros replied him. "Or you don't know?" Hades said and laugh. "Your beloved soul is actually the goddess of lust reincarnated!" Hades finally revealed soul real identity to him. "Lies, if she was a goddess I would have sense the goddess Aura in her, but she have non!" Eros said. "You must be familiar with Aura and Essence locking right?" Hades said to him and then laughed after seeing Eros face when told him. "No that's not true" Eros said looking confused. "Why do you think the girl has the beauty of a goddess? Why do you think she she survived when the goddess of trickery kidnapped her and brought her to me? Why do you think the goddess of trickery had the powers of a goddess when she took her favours from her? Why do you think the girl always had a bad fate?" Hades ask Eros. "No this can't be fate!" Eros said still looking confused. "You think you fell in love with a human princess? You actually fell in love with the goddess of lust, and the second piece I need to take over Olympus and kill the upper gods." Hades said and started to laugh really loud. "No no no!! I wouldn't allow you to use her" Eros shouted angrily and then he flies at Hades with lightening speed and stab him in his stomach with his sword. 

The intact of Eros swords and magic broke Hades throne, and pushed the broken pieces across the throne hall. "What are you going to say now! god of the underworld?" Eros ask Hades as he looked at him in the ground with his sword still in his stomach. "It has began!" Hades said and laugh loudly as a red light appears in the sky with heavy magical forces surrounding it. "The goddess of lust is back and your princess is gone!" Hades said and then vanished out of Eros sword. "Here did he go?" Eros ask himself as he look around the palace. "..Where is she?!!" Eros shouted and he's voice filled the room. 

"The two pieces of destruction have now combined, and now the world will burn, and all the upper gods will burn with it" Hades voice came out of no where and circle round the room. "You want the girl? Go and get her, she is up there. Hahahahah!" Hades said as he laugh, and laugh even more. "Show yourself!" Eros shouts at Hades who seem to be using an invincibility magic. "catch!" Hades said as he summoned thousands of magical arrows, swords and spear all over the room. Eros who saw the weapons coming at him, immediately creat a force field with his magic which protected him from the weapons. "How long can you hold it?" Hades ask him and continue conjuring more weapons at Eros. "You are just trying to stall me, I will still go and get her!" Eros said as he struggles to keep the force field. "just one of this arrows, spears or swords can kill a upper god. If one of this weapons touches just your skin, you will instantly bite the dust." Hades said as he multiple the weapons. Eros magical force field was slowly weaken with the amount of weapons it was receiving, but  before it could collectly break off. Hades magical Phoenix burst into his palace and the intact cause by the Phoenix hits Hades off balance. The intact also made his invincible magic instantly stopped working and all the weapons he was conjuring at Eros fell on the ground.

 "What! Who dare killed my Phoenix?" Hades shouted after seeing his Phoenix dead on the ground. "Where are my manners, am so sorry god of the underworld" the deity of the west wind said as he ready he's hands to conjure up magic. "Uncle, are you ready to truly die" Eros said with an angry look in his face. "It's time!" Hades said as he look up in the sky and see that the red light have now turn blue. "I will finish you all later" Hades said as he realised that he is out numbered, so he vanished immediately from his palace. 

Hades just wanted to stall Eros still the final stage when his son and Dusa combined their powers into creating the chaos Pearl. The most powerful weapon in the universe.

"AHHHHH!!!!" Soul's screamed in pain as the blue light increased. "Soul!" Eros shouted after hearing soul's voice coming from where the blue light was. "Am coming for you!" Eros said as and then flies to the sky with lightening speed. "....wait! Eros." The deity of the west wind tired to talk to me, but he have already fly off. "Jezz... We better follow him." The Deity of west wind said to the magical Phoenix and they both followed Eros.