Chapter 34: Chapter 31: We go down inside an active volcano
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Go left.' Chaos suddenly said.
'What?'
'There should be a volcanic island if you go right.' Chaos explained.
'So? We're on a quest to retrieve the golden Fleece.' Nyx joined the conversation.
'There's someone inside.'
'A monster?' I wondered.
'Someone who needs help.'
'Okay, if someone needs help we can help him.' I argued, and I asked the ship to go left.
Anne made a cracking sound that could mean anything, luckily, Katie could translate it.
"She says there are no such things as left and right on the sea."
"Go starboard." Nyx corrected me, and something on the lower deck crackled which I could interpret as an agreement.
'The son of Poseidon, behold.' Hemera chuckled good naturedly.
The ship went starboard and Katie gave me a questioning look.
"There's something we need to check out there." I explained and Katie nodded. Glad she was catching on rather quick.
After a few minutes of sailing we could see an island on the horizon. Even though calling it an island was an exaggeration. It was more like a giant decided to put down a huge rock in the middle of the sea and placed a small hill on it. I could not really see how it was a volcano. I thought it just looked like a regular hill.
The island was made of a red sandstone like rock and it had huge cliffs that made it impossible to enter it without some kind of transportation.
Nyx shadow traveled us to the top of the cliff and we saw a path that led to the middle of island where there we saw a gaping hole that had the was around 350 feet wide. It was getting hotter the closer we got to the hole. I was immune to the heat but I saw Katie was sweating.
'I am protecting her from the heat.' Chaos commented.
'It doesn't look like you're doing a good job at it.' I said, noticing how tired Katie looked from the heat.
'Well if it wasn't for me, she would've molten right on spot.' Chaos said matter of factly.
'How hot is it here actually?'
'You don't want to know.' Hemera said, which was a bit frightening.
When we reached the edge of the hole, we looked down to see it was around 400 feet deep. The walls of the hole were glowing red and on the bottom I could see there was a lake of magma that clashed against the walls of the hole and slowly melted it away. I saw the ground on the other side of the hole collapsing and falling down the lava pit.
"Well, this is fun, can we go back?" Nyx complained, unimpressed.
"There's someone on the bottom." Katie said, and she pointed at the bottom of the magma lake. She was right,
In the middle of the boiling hot sea was a small island. Somehow it defied its surroundings and stood bravely against the lava. And on top of the island someone was lying there, a woman.
"Who is that?" I wondered but Chaos kept silent.
"Is she dead?" Katie asked me but even for me it was too far away to make out details. She seemed to be on fire but I couldn't say for sure.
"We need to check it out." Katie decided when none of us said anything.
"Yes, but how? Nyx can shadow travel me to the bottom but you two are not heat resistant"
"Hermes Multivitamins." Katie said and her eyes lit up, "I mean, we can use those, right? After all, they are supposed to protect us?"
I took out the bottle with the remaining multivitamins, thank the Fates, there were still a few left.
"I am not sure they will protect you two."
'They will.' Chaos said suddenly.
"But my intuition tells me they will help." I added. A smile present.
Katie shrugged and took out a vitamin and put it in her mouth, when she smiled and gave us a thumbs up Nyx took one as well.
Nyx took my hand and Katie's and seconds later we were engulfed in shadows.
Another second later we appeared on the small island that, now I was standing on it, looked more like a platform, it was around 20 by 20 feet.
I looked at the woman lying on the floor and now I noticed she was actually not human, maybe a small giant and I saw she was luckily not dead.
She was curled up, holding her knees and she looked really peaceful.
Oh, did I tell you that she was sleeping?
Well she was sleeping which was disturbing. Who sleeps in a volcano?
What did she look like? Let me describe her. She was tall, around 3 meters which were one of the first signs she was not a human or a demigod, the next sign was her skin she had a reddish brown skin however around her arms and feet it looked like burning magma with glowing red lines all over her that made it look like she had lava under her skin. She had long orange hair that was burning softly at the end of her hair. She wore a black chiton that had orange streaks on them that were actually glowing and moving.
"Wow, I've never seen someone like her." Nyx said dryly, without much empathy.
At random times flames burst to life at her skin. They did not hurt her nor did the flames hurt us.
And she was snoring. Rather loudly, dareisay.
"She is asleep." Katie stated as she got closer to the sleeping woman.
"Thanks Sherlock," Nyx said, annoyed, and she summoned her black daggers.
"So are we going to kill her?" Nyx asked. Before she could, I interrupted, "She needs help. I think." I said and added telapticaly, 'Remember, Chaos said someone needs our help.'
'With what waking up? She seems to be fine, let's go.'
I however kneeled down next to her and slowly pushed her shoulder. She kept snoring.
I pushed again, a little harder, and she mumbled somthing. "I'm sleeping."
I pushed harder, at this point I might as well put my weight into it. "Wake up!"
She opened her eyes.
The woman had brown eyes, they too were set on fire and had a trail of sparkles coming out of it.
She looked at me and gasped, "Poseidon you came!" Without further warning she lunged forward and before I could react she was hugging me.
'Poseidon?' Hemera wondered.
The flames and magma on her body did not hurt me which was a good thing otherwise I would've died from a hug which was not a way I wanted to die. Especially not after surviving Tartarus.
I softly pushed her away which was hard since she was heavy and so big…and clingy.
"I'm not Poseidon." I said and the woman eyed me suspicious as she took a step back.
With a smaller voice she said/ "But you look like him."
Nyx snickered while Katie just looked confused.
"I'm a demigod, son of Poseidon." I explained as she got up to her full length and I felt a bit nervous. "Who are you?"
"You don't know me?" She asked, sounding saddened.
"No." Nyx answered, "are you an immortal?"
The woman nodded, "Of course, you don't know me."
And she began looking around, "My name is Thera, I'm the Titan of Volcanoes and Lava."
Katie and I stepped back once we heard she was a titan.
Nyx, however, just gave Thera a suspicious glare. "I've never heard of you."
Thera looked at Nyx, struck by grief she said; "That's because they erased me from history."
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Sorry if you think this chapter is unfinished but I did not have a lot of time to write.
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