Recap: There were still tear streaks on his face. As Gaea made eye contact she couldn't help but feel powerless. His eyes were burning with hate, full of sadistic intent that took on a white-silver color.
She saw the hatred, the pain, the sadness, and the rage. The new Apoth didn't blink, he didn't move or even falter. He looked into Gaea's brown eyes, a promise of death in his eyes.
"My turn," he whispered.
Apoth's eyes seemed to drain Gaea of all her power. Just his stare alone made Gaea realize how much power he has.
Apoth blinked, his white-silver aura roared to life, heat like no other torching the surroundings.
Gaea flinched back, the heat almost too overwhelming. Gaea started to pant, seemingly out of breath. Sweat trickled down her forehead and onto the ground.
A consequence from looking into Apoth's eyes it seemed. Gaea growled frustratingly, but somehow managed to keep eye contact with Apoth.
Apoth stood still, like a statue. His aura, the only thing that seemed to be only sign of life in him.
Apoth's eyes sparkled, almost too quick for any normal deity to catch it. But Gaea caught it, and she was terrified, she had no idea what it meant.
The fear of the unknown. That's what scared her. Gaea blinked tightly, spots dancing in her vision.
When her eyes reopened Apoth was gone. She frantically looked to her siblings, they too were confused.
Than she heard it; the sound of Plasma. The sound of his Aura. Behind.
Gaea whipped around, meeting Apoth's gaze again. Fear, so much fear boiled inside her.
'So this is the speed Apoth holds. Terrifyingly amazing,' she thought. Gaea shook her head and growled as she came to her senses.
The Earth shook as Gaea bended it to create a sword made of Earth. She heard the sounds of weapons unsheathing from her left and right.
Even though Gaea knew what she was facing she couldn't help but feel a new sense of power as her siblings stood next to her.
Gaea grinned, this would be a fight like no other. Her head tilted to her left and right, checking to see that her siblings were ready.
Seeing that they were ready Gaea looked back to where Apoth stayed standing. Gaea's grin disappeared, a battle hardened mask replacing the grin.
Gaea roared a battle cry, charging towards the statue like mortal. Her siblings joined in with her, all of them giving their own battle cries and charging as well.
As Gaea made to strike at Apoth, he disappeared. His speed was so great even an after-image was not visible to the eyes of the Primordials.
Apoth appeared behind Eros, his arm already in position to fire at the Primordial. Eros was too slow he didn't even know what happened.
"Dodge this."
Apoth fired a black beam of pure energy right into Eros' upper back. Eros gagged, silver ichor poured from his wound. Eros fell to his knees.
Apoth walked in front of the Primordial, he knelt down on one knee and tapped two fingers to Eros' forehead. A bright light coming from Apoth's fingers and the Primordial quickly dissolved into dust.
Gaea caught a bright light out of her peripheral vision. She turned to catch the second before Eros was quickly dealt with and dissolved.
Right then and there she already felt more powerless. Gaea growled, she brought her hand up and bended the Earth to surround Apoth into a ball.
The other Primordials did not hesitate to also put up barricades to Gaea's confinement. It wasn't enough.
The sphere grew white and quickly exploded due to the pressure that it was trying to hold in. The light dimmed but Apoth was already flying toward his next victim at unimaginable speeds.
Pontus was still trying to get the white spots out of his eyes but he could tell that something was approaching him fast. He rose his trident up and parried one scythe, swiftly he twisted the other end to block another strike.
He parried and parried the wild attacks, but he could only last so long. Apoth feigned a strike to Pontus' neck and twisted the weight of his body to slice at the Primordial's waist.
The sickening sound of blade on flesh roared into Pontus' ears. He stopped parrying the strikes to pause and look down at the damage his body had taken.
About a fourth of his waist was cut through, silver ichor coating one of Apoth's scythe. Thankfully for Pontus his siblings came to his rescue.
Apoth looked over his shoulder just in time to see a strike at his neck. Apoth twisted his body and returned a slash right back at the Primordial.
Thalassa barely dodged Apoth's attack. She used the water in the atmosphere to wrap around one of Apoth's scythes and throw it across the dome.
Thalassa fired a beam of energy at Apoth just as Ouranos thrusted his spear at him. Apoth dodged Ouranos' strike, froze the Primordial's blood, making him incapable of moving.
Thalassa's energy hit Ouranos' mid section, burning the Primordial. Apoth's hand glowed a dark red as he gripped onto Ouranos' side, pain like no other enveloped the deity.
Ouranos couldn't scream. The rest of the Primordials rushed to his aid but one clench of Apoth's fist and they too froze.
They all watched as Apoth slowly burned away the Primordial, only leaving dust particles. Apoth's hand stopped glowing red as his hand went back down to his side.
He slowly strided over to Hemera, he unfroze all the Primordials' blood as he drew nearer, but it didn't give Hemera enough time to move.
Apoth had already launched a dark beam of Plasma at the Primordial. Hemera screamed as her body was disintegrated, again, only dust was left.
Gaea felt even more powerless as her siblings were picked off. "We must fight together!"
Pontus growled, "I don't care! I'm killing this mortal myself!" Pontus broke off into a sprint as he charged Apoth.
Pontus gathered water around his body to strengthen himself, he had seen Apoth do this before his transformation.
Pontus leapt into the air, determined to take Apoth out from above.
It was not to be.
Somehow, someway, Apoth appeared in front of Pontus midair. Apoth moved his hands so quickly across Pontus' body Pontus couldn't even feel it in the moment.
Pontus froze mid-air. Then, he turned to dust just like the others. No Primordial could tell what happened.
In reality however, Apoth had touched all of Pontus' pressure points so fast in a pattern that made the Primordial's body fail and ultimately, resulted in another Primordial death.
The remaining 6 Primordials wasted no time in charging Apoth, together. Erebus slid across the ground, held his hands up and boosted Nyx up into the air.
Gaea quickly rose a portion of the Earth under Chronos to lift him up into the air as well. Thalassa bended the water from the air to push her forward at high speeds.
All 6 moved to strike Apoth at the same time. Together they charged energy into their hands, and roared as they blasted their attack at the mortal.
Apoth right foot moved slightly and he disappeared from sight again. He reappeared quickly behind Nyx who floated in the air.
Although, Nyx heard his aura so she was able to parry Apoth's scythe strike. She focused on the darkness to blind Apoth but it proved no effectiveness.
A ghost of a smirk appeared on Apoth's face as he maliciously bended the darkness around Nyx. Apoth clenched his fist as the sphere of darkness around Nyx began to tighten.
Slowly the sphere began to shrink. Nyx's screams were muffled but the other Primordials were able to hear it.
They stared in horror as Apoth gave Nyx a terrible death. A disturbing popping and crunching sound was heard.
Erebus starred in dread as his lover was taken away. He didn't even think of how Apoth must've felt, how Apoth's lover faded and would never come back. But, Erebus' lover would come back, just time is what was needed.
Erebus roared as he flew up to meet Apoth. He had more control over the darkness then Nyx did so he was confident he would be able to over power Apoth's control.
Erebus controlled the darkness to wrap around Apoth's scythe and throw it to the ground, leaving what he thought was a weaponless mortal.
Erebus bended the darkness into a scythe and charged Apoth. Apoth weaved around Erebus' enraged strikes. Erebus moved the darkness to chain Apoth. Apoth growled.
"Now you feel the loss of losing your love. How do you think I feel?! My love is gone FOREVER!"
Apoth's aura flashed to life again wildly, breaking the chains of darkness. His hands glowed red and his eyes too.
Erebus became immobile, allowing Apoth to wrap his hands around the Primordial's neck. Erebus began to disperse as he became dust like the others.
Apoth panted after the raged attack he had. His hands stopped glowing and he looked to the last four Primordials.
He was done playing games. "I'm done with this," he growled out. His right hand glowed white and he moved it in the air to create a "X" after-image shape.
He moved his arm backward before pushing his palm forward. The 'X' glowed bright and continued to become brighter and brighter.
The dark dome began to crack. The Earth rumbled for a bit, than seconds later, the dome shattered.
Gaea looked around her surroundings, she was back at the Demigod's camp. She looked for her siblings that originally stood next to her, but they were gone, replaced by piles of dust.
Gaea snarled, Apoth had taken them out. She frantically looked about for the mortal, but he was nowhere to be found.
"Looking for someone?"
Gaea whipped around to come face to face with Apoth. "Why have I not perished yet you vile mortal."
Apoth chuckled darkly, "Because little Earth goddess, I need to ask you a question first."
Gaea snarled, "Why would I ever answer your question? And why would I ever tell you the truth."
Apoth grinned tenaciously, "Well let's just say there are worse things than death, and I'm pretty good at knowing if someone is hiding something or lying to me."
Gaea gulped nervously, "Fine."
Apoth stopped grinning, he flexed his finger and laid the hidden black on Gaea's shoulder.
"Is there any way to bring someone back from the Land of the Faded?"
Gaea gulped, sweat poured down her forehead. He wouldn't like her answer, "No."
Apoth stood there with no reaction. "No way that I know at least." Apoth shook his head, he lowered the blade off of Gaea's shoulder.
He stared into her eyes as he embraced her in a tight hug. Gaea was surprised to say the least. Her enemy was hugging her.
Apoth smiled, his arm moved back, he flexed his finger and shoved the blade into Gaea's chest.
Apoth still held onto the dying Gaea's body, "Rot you filth," he whispered in her ear as she dissolved into dust.
Apoth smiled to himself, "There is a way to get her back. I know there is. I'm just going to have to be the one to find it."
"Don't worry my Moon, I'll see you soon."
Yes, this is the Last Chapter.
*Cry* *Sniffff*
I know, you're all sad that your favorite book has ended.
It is alright though, we can get through this together.
Hehe not to spoil anything but if you look at the next chapter you might smile a bit. But don't get too excited please and thank you.
So..... this is goodbye.
Bye.