Chapter 66

"why can't i stop the bleeding, why is my magic not working?" The goddess of justice contemplates.

"...who even hit me with that arrow, who dares to shoot me? Is it this out cast goddess?" The goddess of Justice ask herself. 

"No! It's not her, it's me!" Soul who read her mind, spoke out. 

"It's you?" The goddess of Justice slowly turn and ask her. 

"Yes! It's me." Soul stated as she walk to where Dusa was. 

"...you dare demon.... AHHHHH!" The goddess of Justice was about to attack soul, but her neck wound prevented her. 

"I suggest you don't move." Soul advice, and lean close to Dusa. 

"Hey! Dusa it's me Soul." Soul softly said to her. 

"...i know it's you. You other person can take that perfect shot?" Dusa spoke out. 

"..maybe Eros! He is the first god to ever hold a bow." Soul answered.

"I don't think that Eros will be able to take sure a powerful shot, and he is not the first god to own a bow. I thought i was, but mother of fate sister was the first." Dusa stated. 

"Oh yes! I almost forgot." Soul muttered, and turn to Eros who was standing close to them.

"Please Eros, help me." Soul softly said to him, and he immediately knew what she wants.

"Okay! I will hold her, from her left hand." Eros spoke out. 

"No!" Dusa suddenly shouted. 

"No for what?" Soul look at her face, and ask her.

"... it's just a minor wound, i can still stand on my own." Dusa muttered. 

"... minor? You called this minor? You were stabbed two times, one on your stomach and the other on your chest. So it is not minor, and that means you need help, our help!" Soul stated. 

"Fine! Fine! Don't nag me. You sound like Aphrodite at times." Dusa said, and draw out her arms for them.

"...i wish i was anything like goddess Aphrodite." Soul muttered, and hold Dusa's arms.

Eros hold her other arm, and they both manage to carry her up from the ground, while she heals her wounds with her magic.

"... speaking of Aphrodite, where is she?" Dusa turn to soul and ask. 

"She haven't come out of the portal. Even Zadre too." Eros answered the question. 

"Zadre!" Dusa immediately remembered that Zadre was not my her side the whole time.

".. where is he, where is Zadre?" Dusa ask. 

"He is still inside the portal, he and my mother haven't come outside it yet." Eros answered again. 

"... but we where all together, we were all together before...." Dusa was about to say something, but suddenly stop talking. 

"Before what?" Soul ask her.

".. before... before yes! I remembered!" Dusa stated.

"You remembered what?" Soul ask her. 

"I remembered, what happen to me...US! In the portal." Dusa added. 

"What happened? Did something happened to my mother? Tell me what happened?" Eros nervously ask her. 

"Nothing i think..." Dusa answered while still trying to piece together what happened to her. 

"You think so..?!" Eros shouted.

"Keep it down! She is trying to think." Soul calmly said to him. 

"How can i keep it down? My mother is probably stuck in that portal or something bad may have happened to her. I just wish......" Eros words were suddenly Interrupted by Dusa. 

"...Yes! I remembered what happened!" Dusa stated, and all the upper gods who clearly heard what she just said, quiet down and listen to what she is about to say.

"Tell us, what happened?!" Eros immediately ask her. 

"When me, Zadre and Aphrodite were passing through the portal, we noticed that the light we suppose to enter to appear here was moving further away from us anything we moved really close to it. It was strange." Dusa revealed, and hold her head. 

"...so what then happened?" Eros ask her while still holding her arm.

"Aphrodite then come up with an idea. Seems the light was moving further from us anything we moved close to it. She then suggest that we should use our magic to pull the light and hold it, still we get close enough to it and pass through it." Dusa added. 

"...so go on what then happened next?" Eros immediately ask.

"Jezz... wouldn't you just let her piece out every first?!" Soul shouted at him.

"Sorry, sorry about that." Eros apologize from his demanding behavior and kept quiet. 

"Yes! We tried what Aphrodite said, but it did not end well. The moment, we brought out our magic in that place, the all pathway became unstable. All the magic elements in the portal pathway then began smashing with each other, and some blasted Aphrodite and Zadre away from me." Dusa said and stopped talking. 

"...so...so?!" Eros nervously ask.

"... some of the magic elements in the portal also blasted me, but i tried to best to balance myself on my spirit animal, and we both tried to rescue Zadre and Aphrodite who were both drifting away, BUT!" Dusa explained and said the 'but' with a sad tone. 

"But...but what?" This time Soul nervously ask. 

"...i was blasted by the magic elements before i could reach them, and the blast separated me from my spirit animal, and unexpectedly draw me closer to the light that was suppose to take me out of the portal." Dusa explained. 

"...Yeah, so what happened next?" Eros ask her. 

"...When i got real closer to the light, i realize that it did not move further away from me, and i could also see what was on the other side of it. I saw that god of war speaking to you and throwing his axe at the portal, saying that he wants to destroy it. I knew that Zadre and Aphrodite might find a way to come out of the portal too, so i brought out my hands from the portal and catch the axe with my hands, so that it would not destroy the portal." Dusa explained. 

"So that's what happened." Eros quietly said and looked at the portal. 

"...so that's why you did not came with your spirit animal?" Soul ask her. 

"Yes! That's why." Dusa answered. 

"..so what are we going to do n...." Soul's words were suddenly Interrupted by the goddess of Justice. 

"What are you all talking about?" She ask her, while holding her bleeding neck. 

"...see! That's goddess Aphrodite sitting on her throne and watch everything that is happening right now." The goddess of justice said, and open her palms. 

She show them an illusion of the Aphrodite in her meeting room.

"Woah! That really look like mother." Eros stated.

"..You! Must be a fool!" The goddess of Justice shouted at him.

"..that is your mother sitting there!" The goddess added. 

"...Even a whole.goddess like you don't know what an illusion spell is...how sad." Dusa mocks her.

"... don't mock me witch! I know what an illusion spell is." The goddess of Justice stated. 

"Fine! Then you suppose to know that Aphrodite left a illusion of herself there, otherwise she will be here the moment she saw me coming out of the portal." Dusa said to her. 

"..shut up!" The goddess of justice shouted at her, and then her bleeding wound open up.

"AHHH!" The goddess of justice shouted in pain, and try her best to block and stop the bleeding with her hands. 

"You should not be shouting anyhow. It is not good for you." Dusa advise. 

"... shut up." The goddess of Justice quietly said. 

"..huh. you want to still talk?" Dusa ask her.

"..just know that the reason why goddess Aphrodite did not leave the meeting room to meet with you is because you are a bad sister, and she have long disowned you since....outcast goddess!" The goddess of Justice insults her, and her words made Dusa angry. 

"...why you..." Dusa shouted and was about to attack the goddess of Justice despite her wounds. She quickly remove her arms from Eros grip, and stretch it out to grab the goddess of Justice, but soul quickly stopped her by holding her again. 

"No! You don't have to attack her for what she just said. You know Aphrodite don't hate you, and she did nor disowned you, so you don't need to attack." Soul softly said to Dusa, but she did not care about the words that came out of her mouth. She only cared about how fast Soul moved just now, and how hard she grabbed her. 

"... Soul you just moved....."  Dusa was about to say something to Soul but was strangely Interrupted by Zeus. 

"The mortal is right, we don't need to attack each other." Zeus said as he walk closer to them. 

"YOU!" Dusa coldly said, and quickly conjure up her chains. Soul brought out her spirit weapon and aim it at his head, and even Eros conjure up the bow that the mother of fate gave to him, and aim it's arrows at his father because he thought he wants to attack Soul. 

"... what are you doing boy? You are aiming your weapon at me?" Zeus stop walking and ask Eros who was aiming his bow straight at his neck. 

"...you tired to kill the person i loved for no good reason, so i no longer trust you." Eros said while pointing his arrow at him. 

"Trust me? You no longer trust me?" Zeus ask him.

"Yes! You heard me right." Eros answered. 

"Hahahaha! Hahahaha!"

Zeus kept quiet after hearing Eros answer, and then began laughing out loud like a deranged person.