- “Lord Keuthonymus, the heroes are coming here! They’re coming here!” another machaean messenger this time came into the throne room.
- “What?! They’ve managed to defeat whole Callicrates’ army?” Keuthonymus did not want to believe that.
- “Well they were winning, so Callicrates pulled back.”
- “Is he insulting me by retreating?!!!”
- “No sir. He just wanted to spare some army for defence of the palace.”
- “Oh. Well in that case go and prepare the Gigantes. If little demons can’t do the job, then we’ll use some which can have those heroes for dinner. Make haste!” Keuthonymus ordered.
- “Yes sir!”
When the messenger left, Keuthonymus didn’t know what to do. He was actually scared now. What kind of mortals entered his realm now that huge armies can’t beat them, and what exactly did they want from him. Were they Hades worshippers and came for revenge? Did they want his ethereal toothbrush? Did THEY want to be the underworld leaders?
Keuthonymus was especially scared for that last one. He wasn’t sure if the Gigantes would be able to beat those heroes, so he needed a plan B.
After an hour or so and stocking up on lots of health potions, the two heroes reached Keuthonymus’ palace.
- “So… this is his palace as it seems.” The heroboy said.
- “It’s about time. Let’s get inside and teach him a lesson.” Herogirl said.
- “Be careful. We don’t know what monsters lurk in there.” Heroboy warned.
- “Don’t be such a sissy.”
They then pushed on the main doors, but those were tightly locked and were too thick to destroy. Knowing that it was useless to pummel it, they decided to go around until they came to a back door. The back door was wooden and so heroboy managed to just kick it open, and both of them went in.
They went through a few dull corridors. There were some small demons running about the place and looking hungrily at the human heroes, as well as a few Cerberus-wannabe two-headed dogs who couldn’t lie down and relax. Herogirl managed to pick each one of those off like little rats.
After those corridors, they went through a metal door that led into the lobby of the palace. There they saw the main door but from the inside. A few machae guards were there.
- “Hey, stop right there!” one of them ordered.
However herogirl just launched an arrow in his face. The other three then attacked her, but heroboy jumped into the centre and span around, mortally slashing at all three of them.
- “I could’ve handled them.” Herogirl said.
- “You’re welcome.” Heroboy gave a response.
They then entered through the next set of doors and found themselves in a big room, surrounded by lots of machae and melinoe warriors, as well as a few Gigantes who were armed with gigantic hammers and spears.
Heroboy began humming a song and herogirl joined in - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMiqIK0xg14
Hearing that tune really helped to boost their morale and so both just blindly ran into the thick of the battle and began hacking anyone they could see. Heroboy was throwing knives and flash bombs all over the place and then finishing everyone off with his two mighty swords. Herogirl was throwing nets at everyone and then finishing them off with her speedy arrows.
However after destroying a couple of dozen of machae and melinoe, the heroes got surrounded by three Gigantes. Two had superlong spears and another one had two swords.
- “Hey, watch this!” Herogirl suddenly said.
She then concentrated some energy and produced a massive wave of energy outwards that distorted everything on its way, causing the three Gigantes to be petrified in the process.
- “Awesome!” heroboy commented and then lethally smacked one of the giant monsters, causing it to evaporate, leaving only some armor behind.
Herogirl then began repeatedly firing arrows at another one and causing him to end up the same way as the one by heroboy’s hand. The third one got unfrozen at this moment and swung his massive swords at them. Both swings missed, so he then produced a wave of fire in their direction. Herogirl dodged it, but heroboy got caught inside it.
- “Brother!” she shouted.
However once the wave of fire cleared, heroboy stood there with barely a single burn on his right hand. He then began hacking at that Gigantes rapidly with both of his sword. The Gigantes swung with his swords, but by the time one of his swords reached the heroboy, he got killed and also evaporated, this time into a blue vapour rather than a yellow one.
More machae and melinoe were coming. Callicrates also came. Heroboy recognized him from the previous battle.
- “I wonder if that’s Keuthonymus.” He said.
- “I don’t know. Just kill him anyway.” Herogirl replied.
- “I am not Keuthonymus.” Callicrates interrupted them, “Lord Keuthonymus is even more powerful than I am.”
And at that moment he proceeded to stab heroboy with the Phorkos trident again.
- “You give me a headache,” Heroboy then said, “literally.”
And after saying that, he blew into his horn, summoning three ghost warriors, all of whom began prodding Callicrates with their blades.
- “Ou! Ouch! Au! That hurts!” Callicrates was screaming but still not falling back.
Herogirl in a meantime was one-shotting ordinary machae archers who were still quite inexperienced. However a high warden machae came up behind her and stabbed his spear into her torso. A bell-like sound was heard again, and she quickly took out a health potion and downed it. She then turned around and shot the machae high warden in the face. He survived the shot and attempted to stab her again. She avoided the stab and shot at him once again at a point blank range. He was still alive after that, so herogirl quickly collected some energy and then shot three arrows in a rapid succession at his face, bringing him to the ground for good.
Callicrates at this moment took enough damage from those ghost warriors and so began running back for his life. He didn’t know where those heroes managed to pull out those tricks from.
Another Gigantes approached the heroboy and herogirl at this stage. He looked pretty tough.
- “There’s another one!” herogirl warned the heroboy.
- “I know.” Heroboy said.
Herogirl quickly began firing arrows at him, but being so huge he still somehow managed to dodge all those arrows.
- “That is impossible!” she commented.
The Gigantes then swung with his arms and produced a powerful shockwave that knocked both of them off their feet.
- “Woah!” heroboy couldn’t believe it.
Both of them quickly sipped on their health potions and got up. The Gigantes produced another wave, but the heroes took a step back out of its range. Here the heroboy swung really fast and at each swing released a handful of knives. The knives flew at the Gigantes. Some hit him, but that barely did anything. Herogirl then proceeded to do that wave of energy again, but when she began concentrating, the giant got up to her and hit her with his axe. She fell down.
Heroboy then quickly dropped a flag again that can boost the morale and also continued humming that awesome song. Both him and herogirl felt stronger. He began hitting the giant monster hard, while the herogirl shot that special arrow at the ground beneath the giant’s feet, which exploded into lots of little bits, all of which grazed him. Their strategy was working and eventually they brought him down, or more like caused him to evaporate like the other oversized armor bags.
- “That was the first tricky bad guy we’ve faced here.” Herogirl commented.
The remaining machae and melinoe army got very scared and began retreating.“Yes, run, run like the cowards you are.” Heroboy shouted behind them.
- “What?! They’ve managed to defeat whole Callicrates’ army?” Keuthonymus did not want to believe that.
- “Well they were winning, so Callicrates pulled back.”
- “Is he insulting me by retreating?!!!”
- “No sir. He just wanted to spare some army for defence of the palace.”
- “Oh. Well in that case go and prepare the Gigantes. If little demons can’t do the job, then we’ll use some which can have those heroes for dinner. Make haste!” Keuthonymus ordered.
- “Yes sir!”
When the messenger left, Keuthonymus didn’t know what to do. He was actually scared now. What kind of mortals entered his realm now that huge armies can’t beat them, and what exactly did they want from him. Were they Hades worshippers and came for revenge? Did they want his ethereal toothbrush? Did THEY want to be the underworld leaders?
Keuthonymus was especially scared for that last one. He wasn’t sure if the Gigantes would be able to beat those heroes, so he needed a plan B.
After an hour or so and stocking up on lots of health potions, the two heroes reached Keuthonymus’ palace.
- “So… this is his palace as it seems.” The heroboy said.
- “It’s about time. Let’s get inside and teach him a lesson.” Herogirl said.
- “Be careful. We don’t know what monsters lurk in there.” Heroboy warned.
- “Don’t be such a sissy.”
They then pushed on the main doors, but those were tightly locked and were too thick to destroy. Knowing that it was useless to pummel it, they decided to go around until they came to a back door. The back door was wooden and so heroboy managed to just kick it open, and both of them went in.
They went through a few dull corridors. There were some small demons running about the place and looking hungrily at the human heroes, as well as a few Cerberus-wannabe two-headed dogs who couldn’t lie down and relax. Herogirl managed to pick each one of those off like little rats.
After those corridors, they went through a metal door that led into the lobby of the palace. There they saw the main door but from the inside. A few machae guards were there.
- “Hey, stop right there!” one of them ordered.
However herogirl just launched an arrow in his face. The other three then attacked her, but heroboy jumped into the centre and span around, mortally slashing at all three of them.
- “I could’ve handled them.” Herogirl said.
- “You’re welcome.” Heroboy gave a response.
They then entered through the next set of doors and found themselves in a big room, surrounded by lots of machae and melinoe warriors, as well as a few Gigantes who were armed with gigantic hammers and spears.
Heroboy began humming a song and herogirl joined in - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMiqIK0xg14
Hearing that tune really helped to boost their morale and so both just blindly ran into the thick of the battle and began hacking anyone they could see. Heroboy was throwing knives and flash bombs all over the place and then finishing everyone off with his two mighty swords. Herogirl was throwing nets at everyone and then finishing them off with her speedy arrows.
However after destroying a couple of dozen of machae and melinoe, the heroes got surrounded by three Gigantes. Two had superlong spears and another one had two swords.
- “Hey, watch this!” Herogirl suddenly said.
She then concentrated some energy and produced a massive wave of energy outwards that distorted everything on its way, causing the three Gigantes to be petrified in the process.
- “Awesome!” heroboy commented and then lethally smacked one of the giant monsters, causing it to evaporate, leaving only some armor behind.
Herogirl then began repeatedly firing arrows at another one and causing him to end up the same way as the one by heroboy’s hand. The third one got unfrozen at this moment and swung his massive swords at them. Both swings missed, so he then produced a wave of fire in their direction. Herogirl dodged it, but heroboy got caught inside it.
- “Brother!” she shouted.
However once the wave of fire cleared, heroboy stood there with barely a single burn on his right hand. He then began hacking at that Gigantes rapidly with both of his sword. The Gigantes swung with his swords, but by the time one of his swords reached the heroboy, he got killed and also evaporated, this time into a blue vapour rather than a yellow one.
More machae and melinoe were coming. Callicrates also came. Heroboy recognized him from the previous battle.
- “I wonder if that’s Keuthonymus.” He said.
- “I don’t know. Just kill him anyway.” Herogirl replied.
- “I am not Keuthonymus.” Callicrates interrupted them, “Lord Keuthonymus is even more powerful than I am.”
And at that moment he proceeded to stab heroboy with the Phorkos trident again.
- “You give me a headache,” Heroboy then said, “literally.”
And after saying that, he blew into his horn, summoning three ghost warriors, all of whom began prodding Callicrates with their blades.
- “Ou! Ouch! Au! That hurts!” Callicrates was screaming but still not falling back.
Herogirl in a meantime was one-shotting ordinary machae archers who were still quite inexperienced. However a high warden machae came up behind her and stabbed his spear into her torso. A bell-like sound was heard again, and she quickly took out a health potion and downed it. She then turned around and shot the machae high warden in the face. He survived the shot and attempted to stab her again. She avoided the stab and shot at him once again at a point blank range. He was still alive after that, so herogirl quickly collected some energy and then shot three arrows in a rapid succession at his face, bringing him to the ground for good.
Callicrates at this moment took enough damage from those ghost warriors and so began running back for his life. He didn’t know where those heroes managed to pull out those tricks from.
Another Gigantes approached the heroboy and herogirl at this stage. He looked pretty tough.
- “There’s another one!” herogirl warned the heroboy.
- “I know.” Heroboy said.
Herogirl quickly began firing arrows at him, but being so huge he still somehow managed to dodge all those arrows.
- “That is impossible!” she commented.
The Gigantes then swung with his arms and produced a powerful shockwave that knocked both of them off their feet.
- “Woah!” heroboy couldn’t believe it.
Both of them quickly sipped on their health potions and got up. The Gigantes produced another wave, but the heroes took a step back out of its range. Here the heroboy swung really fast and at each swing released a handful of knives. The knives flew at the Gigantes. Some hit him, but that barely did anything. Herogirl then proceeded to do that wave of energy again, but when she began concentrating, the giant got up to her and hit her with his axe. She fell down.
Heroboy then quickly dropped a flag again that can boost the morale and also continued humming that awesome song. Both him and herogirl felt stronger. He began hitting the giant monster hard, while the herogirl shot that special arrow at the ground beneath the giant’s feet, which exploded into lots of little bits, all of which grazed him. Their strategy was working and eventually they brought him down, or more like caused him to evaporate like the other oversized armor bags.
- “That was the first tricky bad guy we’ve faced here.” Herogirl commented.
The remaining machae and melinoe army got very scared and began retreating.“Yes, run, run like the cowards you are.” Heroboy shouted behind them.
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