Strena The Dark Gods Part Two

 The God Of Gold

The moment that they arrived in the village they saw the village was made up of huts of gold. They saw a woman coming down a temple made of gold holding a basket made of gold wearing nothing but gold. They saw gold cages and pens, keeping the cattle in place. They noticed that they were all walking on dust made of gold.

That was when Strena noticed the way Bash and Chashathrophogh were looking at it. Almost as if they were ill and their eyes glowed with hunger.

That was when she heard Kitsuné Ryu’s laugh.

“This is going to be an interesting one. Suppose you will have a lot on your hands!”

Wh-what?

“Are you two alright?” She asked.

They snapped out of it like they were broken out of a hypnotic trance.

“Yes?”

“What happened?”

Chashathrophogh narrowed his eyes as Leonardo looked ahead as he started painting.

“It must be enchanted gold.”

“Now you’re getting to the good part!”

“Why did you look at the gold like that?”

“Wonder if they’re going to be able to think straight to help little poor you!”

Chashathrophogh closed his eyes for a moment to stop himself from looking down. Then he opened it as they heard a scream.

Quickly everyone looked at her then Zaryb. Seeing that they were then they looked to see what was going on. Quickly they looked to the side to see the people flocking to a group of men with gold blades with tips covered with blood. They looked at a woman with cuts all over her body. She ran to them and she pulled out Darkector and Orion and blocked their blades.

“Are you alright?” She asked.

She did not answer. She took a glance back for a moment to see that she too looked at the gold and was gathering it like a wolf. Her eyes too were hungry.

“Ay!” Shouted one as she spotted one about to stab her.

She kicked the hand out of the way as she saw another. She kicked him out of the way as the blades she was blocking pushed into her. She retracted and pulled the blades back and thrust her head into his stomach and used all the weight of her body to push him into the side of the crowd. She then kicked the side of one to the right.

That was when she felt Kitsuné Ryu take over and soon she felt her blade go for the throat of one of the men in the crowd. Then she found fire coming from her mouth taking out another group. That was when she felt a blade in the side. She looked at a woman stabbing her. She then felt the hands of more of the crowd holding her hand trying to rip her blades out of her hands. She felt her legs jump and thrust her ankles into the stomachs of the men and spun and sliced their bodies in half!

That was when Chashathrophogh pulled her back and hugged her.

“Come on, Kitsuné Ryu. You have spent one quarter of an hour. Switch with Strena, she needs to know what’s going on here!”

She felt her body return to her.

“Why?”

“This is the gold of the dark god Goald. He produces gold that makes people rapidly greedy to a point of addiction. It can get so bad that they would do the worst to their own children so that he would be pleased enough to give them his gold.”

“What?”

That was when she looked at the woman dead on the ground. Her arms wrapped around the gold. She could tell by the puppy fat that she had just recently given birth and her blood went ice cold 

“Let’s just get this over and done with.”

So they all ran up as Leonardo finished his painting and Bash dried it. He put it away as they reached the top and the archway then walked in.

She saw a giant that looked like he was made of gold in front of them. He looked up and smiled.

“I have been expecting you.”

She rolled her eyes as she looked at Chashathrophogh. 

“How long?”

“Half an hour!”

She nodded as Bash fired several shots at him. Yet he flicked his fingers and soon she saw a gold bow and arrows. She looked at them with hunger in her eyes.

“Zarry, knock her out!”

“Alright!”

She was out cold before she had the time to react.

“Oh! How cold! Why did-”

“Cerpheres, shut up. We have dragon blood because of our great grandfather having been cursed to be a dragon. So it’s up to you!” He called before he placed his palm to his face and soon he dropped.

Strena looked up, feeling mildly scared. That was when Zaryb came up by her side as Cerpheres laced a hand on her shoulder.

“Dooon’t worry, we can do it!”

She looked on.

“What is-”

At this she charged on and thrust her blade into the side of the ankle. That was when she felt the other foot fling into her back. She looked her legs under her and then she felt them collide with the arch above the entrance and bounced off it.

That was when she came close to the neck and went to slice it. Only to be slapped to the wall to the left. She drove her legs to where the walk would be and bounced off the wall and then went for the throat again. Only to be whacked again. Then she flipped her legs to where the wall would be and dived off it. Then appeared to go for the throat again, only to flick her blades up. This caused a small cut to appear as she was about to be slapped away.

She quickly stabbed the palms as Zaryb threw tiny daggers at the ankles and Leonardo threw oil at the other. But the tiny daggers bounced off and the oil quickly slipped off and not even a tiny drop remained on the leg.

She frowned as she looked at the blades and quickly understood. 

She saw the other hand coming at her. She sliced down and the pinky and weak fingers fell. She did the blade in and thrust the blade down, cutting the side of the hand down. Then she spotted the other hand coming at her again. She thrust her blade upwards and this took the rest of the fingers off. Then she flicked the blade down and up taking the left side and right side of the hand she was on. Then she sliced the palm in half. Then she went for the wrist and the hand soon fell. 

“My hand! My hand! Why? Why is it not growing back? Why is it not growing back?” He roared over and over again.

He brought her to his face.

“Tell me-”

Quickly she dived off the arm and drove the blades into between his eyebrows. Then slid across. He let out a roar before she dived down before the stump of his wrists to his face. This gave her the opening to dive up to his throat and sliced it.

She rolled down and cried out as she broke bones when she collided with the ground.

“Ohhh! That was good! Yet, that was just so good! My, I can’t wait until you’re an adult so I can see you peak in your greatness! Ohhh!” Cerpheres exclaimed.

“Please, just heal me!”

“Hey! How-”

“Blades. They-” 

Then everything went black.