streak through the sky. As it approaches, I make out that the lightning bolt is in the shape of a large bird, possibly an eagle. The lightning/ eagle strikes down about thirty feet from my position and warps into a large man with white hair and a white beard.
“Welcome Feros, brother.” Perun says with a light Russian accent as he directs his attention to each of us when saying our names.
“Return your brother’s wife.” I say.
“No; he stole my cow so I stole his wife. That is fair, no?” Perun rhetorically asks.
“Not really. Return his wife or prepare to fight; your choice .” I reply.
“What are you really getting for your efforts , Feros?” Perun asks.
“What do you mean?” I inquire .
“ You have been deceived. The person you have been promised to see has long since moved on from Underworld; she is not in Iriy.” Perun replies.
I feel a wave of anger overtake me, as if someone had promised me a meeting with Addie , only to find that it was impossible. I twist my ring and slash open my right wrist to begin drawing the Mu-cutter.
“Is this true Veles?” I ask through gritted teeth.
“Okay, so maybe I fudge truth little bit. Acehole brother still supports Loki in conquest!” Veles expounds.
“Fine… I’ll just have to kill both of you then.” I say as my helmet engages and Veles jumps to reposition himself to my 9 o’clock.
Veles proceeds to shout something in Russian to Perun, which I’m guessing has something to do with forming an allegiance to take me out. Perun summons a large battle axe to his right hand while replying; the axe blade has a scythe-crescent shape and looks like a sideways T. I draw my left Diamond sword and prepare myself for what is possibly the stupidest decision of my life. I watch Perun for incoming lightning bolts, figuring that I’ll hear Veles’s attack coming because he’ll have to say a spell for it.
‘Apparently I was mistaken,’ I think as a burst of water hits me from my left, causing me to fly about twenty feet. I catch a lucky break, considering that my Mu-cutter didn’t accidentally slice me in half. And now it looks like I’m going to learn an important lesson in the conductivity of water! A lightning bolt hits me and my prone body flies back another thirty feet, stopping just on the edge of the platform as my Diamond sword goes flying over it.
(Picking a fight with the heads of a Category 3 pantheon was not your brightest idea)
“Perhaps was bit overkill?” I hear Veles say .
“Stories about him seem like lies now. So what now , brother? Do we fight?” Perun asks.
“No, ends same way every time. I think I’ll go visit Feros girlfriend; she seems like she make good wife!” Veles chuckles.
The maw of the Void opens up in my mind, inviting me in for just a taste. I dive in without a second thought as I feel a bizarre sensation in my eyes that I can’t really describe, but it’s not exactly unpleasant; I’m willing to bet that they’re black now like when I fought Horus.
“What makes you think this is over after a pansy ass attack like that?” I ask, my modulated voice at ‘James Earl Jones’ levels.
Perun responds by hurling ball lightning in my direction. The ball lightning is around three feet in diameter and speeding towa rds me. My blackened left arm rises on instinct and absorbs the ball lightning through my hand. I feel the tingling of the electricity on my skin as it gets sucked away into my left arm.
“So that was the infamous golden apple of Perun? Weak.” I announce.
“No, that is not golden apple. That is golden apple.” Perun replies while pointing skyward and then he quickly runs away.
I look up and see a giant golden ball of lightning, roughly fifty feet in diameter, traveling towards me. There no way I can absorb something like that and I won’t make it to a bridge before impact. I see Veles and Perun watching from an adjacent platform that is about two hundred feet away; that’s within the one