The Devil's Smile

Chapter 27

One moment we were picking up precarious path through the mountains about a mile from the boundary of the Academy and then suddenly we weren't even in Godville anymore I guessed my footsteps halting my eyes going white the seemingly endless reach of mountainous terrain before us had dissolved and the dark dam smelling cave had loomed in around us only a pin prick of light visible in the distance.

What in the world of gods. I spun around trying to take in everything at once even though it was too dark to take in even an inch of that everything

Exactly. Dron had been the one to utter the reply sounding right behind me.

He had dropped to the back of the procession after declaring to the group that I kept getting into trouble whenever he left me on super whatever that was supposed to mean. He had been the one to plant a hand on the centre of my spine and push me forward initiating this trip through reality.

what do you mean exactly? I asked in the general direction of his voice.

The world of God, Dron replied making me realise that I was staring at the wrong patch of darkness.

I adjusted my eyes and then it hit me.

No it didn’t hit me! Because that was impossible!

This cave could not be Elysium. The cursor brothers couldn't possibly know a secret passage into Elysium!

Anything is possible rocks, Silas muttered grabbing my wrist and drawing me through the darkness towards the little pin prick of light. I must have spoken out loud or they could read minds full stuff

Knowing my luck it was the latter.

As soon as Silas’s hand touched mine my head was flooded with conflicting images. Thoughts memories. I had no idea what they were but the men and women pictured in my mind went anything like the Demi gods I knew. They wore robes as they strolled passed insanely gorgeous scenery. Lakes rivers oceans. Somewhere sitting on floating marble platforms while others look down over miles and miles of sky. Silas was using his trickery gift to fill my head with nonsense and yet I couldn't help the feeling that this particular nonsense was actually real.

Because I was in Elysium. Those demon Demi gods snuck me into f*****g Elysium.

Red wasn't just going to kill me anymore. She was going to cut me up into tiny little pieces put each piece of me into a tiny little box and then feed each box to a single block which should burn and then separate the ashes of burnt Bullock into tiny little piles and then should put each tiny pile of ash into a tiny box and then…

Welcome to the world of gods, Dron drawled as we step from The Cave into the glaring sunlight.

Silas let me go only to grab me again as a pitch forward. My feet were trying to move before my mind had caught up to the world in front of me

It was beautiful stop it had to be beauty personified the land because there were no other words to explain what I was seeing. Everything glowed like the Demi gods but a million times stronger. As if the gods lived on the sun and somehow they had turned down the heat but not the shine. That land spread out far beyond what I could see. It was all sparkling lakes rolling mountains and everything that the tales of Elysium had promised. Everything that the tales of Elysium had promised to the demigods that we're going to become gods. It was more as well. More than the stories and the lectures and the songs. I was now staring at the same things that I had seen when Silas had dragged me through The Cave and into paradise.

Floating marble structures 20 feet in diameter drifted lazily above our heads. I couldn't see beyond them to know if anyone was up there but who cleared? They were just floating there. It was magic pure and simple. Powers beyond anything I had ever seen and beauty beyond anything I would ever understand. I finally get it. I must have murmured it out loud because 5 sets of gem like eyes were suddenly focusing on me with 5 massive bodies surrounding me.

What do you finally get rocks? Cronas stepped into my space again. But he wasn't the only one. I could feel another at my back but I was too terrified to turn and find out who it was.

trying to breathe around the panic I stuttered out,” I get it why you Demi gods Spain your lives trying to get here. It is perfect.

I heard a snort of laughter to my left and somehow new that it was Silas. Don't let the beauty fool you. He said. This world is filled with as many as ugly assholes as Vandelay.

I found myself swilling to see him better. To read as much as I could from those words. It was always feeling like the brothers were speaking in riddles. Half truths. What they said and what they meant were definitely 2 different things but that was hardly surprising from a trickery gifted Demi God like Silas.

how do you know so much about Elysium? How are we even here? I asked glancing between the 5 of them. How did you find the entrance and then not die getting here? Because that was supposed to be the requirement for entry. You had to die and then hope that the God chose you for immortality ruled with them in paradise full stuff

Silence greeted my question.

Somehow though they managed to exchange a single glance between the 5 of them. Crazy. These demigods were full range of crazy and powerful. Not to mention scary and gorgeous. And we had brought me into Elysium. Right in that moment I couldn't figure out whether to hug them or run away the help from them full they have taken me to the world of gods. The one place at dweller could never ever go. Ever.

It might have been crazy but it was still a gift.

I didn't even care if they killed me. Right then I was so happy. My joy is filled out and in my usual act before you think fashion I dived forward in the brief moment before impact I saw raised eyebrows and why dyes and then I land it against the brothers. I could manage only to get my arms across 3 of them but that was I hugged them as tightly as I could and their body solid against me.

I don't even care how we got in here. Thank you! I can't believe this! I am in Elysium! I was muttering nonsense my own happiness leaking out in random Babble. Cronas had been the one in centre of my hug, next was Silas and the on the other side was Amor. None of them moved. They just let me hold them for an awkward amount of time and I couldn't believe that I wasn't being tossed across the world yet.

The silence washed over us and the peaceful nature of this land. It was like we were in secured in the clear perfection of this immortal world for one click in time and it was kind of nice. For that instant I forgot that the cursor brothers were scary demigods who would probably get me sacrificed to the very gods we were now in close proximity too because they actually felt like friends.

a throat cleared behind us and yet he said distinctly they are better be a reason you are hugging them and not me full and you better start sharing it around.

Right crazy competitive.

I was going to 4….I started to say but he cut me off.

One! I am number one!

I pulled back and turned to the persuasive demigod his eyes were so green in that moment that they didn't even look remotely natural. His hair shone more than Elysium is light than it had ever in Vandelay. It was the colour of thick dark ink piled over gold mixed just enough for the gold to rise up and peek through the darkness.

He was close but he didn't step into me. I knew he wanted me to come to him but something held my feet form to the ground. Beside him was drawn the other one not to fall victim to my enthusiasm Before.

We don’t have time for this. Dron grunted out the words clearly annoyed by something. Yet he go over and get your hug so that you can feel equal and then we need to get to lose you. Noting my confused expression he added. It is where the original gods reside.

Wait one freaking minute!

We cant go there! They will all kill all of us. You guys might be a big deal in Godville but there you are just demigod snuck into their world. You haven't been chosen by the gods yet. This is suicide!

Dron shook his head. We are not going there. You are.

Say what now?

Cronas sounded from over my shoulder. The gifts of the Demi gods are God given which means they can sense our energy. We cant get closed without alerting one of them but you… you are a dweller. You have no gifts unless we are counting your lack of common sense and general physiological imbalance as a gift. Wellness can't even get into Elysium without touching a gifted one. They would never expect it. You are the perfect one to sneak in.

I will screwed! This was why dwellers and Demi gods we're not friends. Because of this. With a half since it didn't matter anymore I showed through their brothers not even trying to be gentle. I strewed a few feet from them kneading the space. I took another long look at the world and I wanted to imprint it in my mind if this was the last thing I would ever see. I was specially entranced by the huge ocean of water out in distance and that there was number way anyone could swim across it. I had never seen anything like that before and I knew I would never again.