[Greek mythology] Siren

Xavius ​​slowly opened his eyes when he felt that someone was constantly poking his cheek lightly.

Hades was caressing his cheek with his hand, occasionally pinching it lightly, such constant harassment made it difficult for him to fall asleep.

"What's the fuss?" He smiled and tilted his cheek, "Feeling bored?" He reached out to knock Hades' hand on his cheek, but he paused halfway, as if he changed his mind. Before he could make the next move, he was held by this man.

"En." He replied, "It's boring when you're not here."

"I used to often go into the water, why don't I see you bored." He hooked his hand lightly on Hades' palm, "When you were growing up, I stayed by your side for so long and I didn't call you bored. .”

Hades looked at him and said nothing, the invisibility seemed to ask him if he really didn't toss his face because he was bored, but seeing Xavius's righteous face, he buried his head in him a little bit aggrieved. In his neck, he stopped talking.

"Why are you still so clingy?" He moved his body and smiled helplessly, "You don't look like a child now, but you are much taller than me." Why did you still maintain the habits you had when you were a child?

"Savis." Hades sighed softly, "Can you...stand up?"

Xavius's smile stopped immediately.

Hades held his left hand and stretched it out in front of him. Savis found that Hades was holding his hand so tightly that it almost deformed his hand, but he has been stunned since just now. It feels like nothing.

Hades asked again: "Can you still...stand up?"

Hades' complexion was getting worse and worse. Compared with him, Savus felt that he was extremely healthy, but he knew that it was only on the surface.

He tried to move his fingers, and found that his hand could still move, but he could no longer feel the pain - when he still had the godhead, he could actually control himself to cut off the body's pain perception, and it would not be wasted after losing the godhead Strength is in perception, so in these perceptions he is already like a human being, and this moment is the first time since his godhead was destroyed that he can't feel pain.

But this is not a good phenomenon.

He broke free from Hades's hand, and patted his hand gently: "I can't stand up anymore, I have no strength." The tone of his speech was as cheerful as ever, and he didn't feel that he had no strength to stand up. What a fuss.

"The nightmare you had before was to foresee your own death, right?" Hades asked abruptly.

Xavius ​​was silent for a while, and then slowly nodded: "It's half because of this, but..." He paused, did not continue, but changed the subject, "Poseidon, Hestia, Germany Meter, Hera, you all come here."

Several gods came to them soon, Xavius ​​sat half leaning on Hades' body, while gently patting Hades's hand to calm his emotions.

"I'm going to die soon," he said lightly. "Although we've been looking for a way out of here for so many years, it's clear we can't find any other way, but when I'm dead, I can be used. The power to send you out." He paused, grabbed Hades's hand that clasped his wrist violently, looked back at his tense expression, and kissed him softly, "Listen to me Finished, huh?"

Hades would never refuse his request, so even though he really wanted to stop Xavis from continuing, he still held back.

"You should have an impression in your memory about the 'Prophecy of Uranus'," Savis said slowly. Si's failure ended, but because of him there is the sky, just like Gaia has the earth, only with him, the sky will not disappear, and later he was kicked off the throne and forced to return to the sky, but before returning, he He once told Cronus that one day he would meet his own fate and be overthrown by his own children."

"That's why we were swallowed by him at birth, isn't it?" Poseidon sneered, "I'm worried that we will follow the prophecy when we grow up, but to be honest, he believed the prophecy since we were born. He intends to let us go, even if we can leave here one day, I am afraid we will not get along peacefully."

"The premise is that we can leave here." Demeter added in a low voice.

"There is still a part of the prophecy that you may not know," Xavius ​​said, "because my existence has been obliterated, so your innate knowledge should not involve me, Uranus told Cronus, His child will overthrow him with the help of a second god born of the sea, when the first god born of the sea was Aphrodite, and I was born not long after Uranus returned to the sky In the ocean," he looked at the surprised expressions of several people, but he kept his expression unchanged, "Oceanos, the god of the sea, soon discovered me. When Cronus and the others arrived, a divine light descended from the sky, The blessing of Uranus was sent to me. Half of my godhead and divine power are given by the ocean, and half are due to the blessing of Uranus. Because of the protection of Uranus' blessing, even Oceanos They also teamed up with Gaia and couldn't kill me easily, in order to prevent me from growing up, Cronus swallowed me into his stomach at that time."

Hestia's eyes widened suddenly: "However, if he hadn't swallowed you, we wouldn't have met you." Kronos was very wary of his children because of the prophecy, he Can't even wait until they hit the ground and then kill, opting to swallow them the moment they are born.

However, he never imagined that the boy who was swallowed by him many years ago actually survived in the space of his stomach for so long.

"His understanding of the prophecy is probably wrong. The gods born in the ocean don't necessarily need to assist you to fight against him. I just need to send you out of this predicament safely, and then I have a chance to fight against him," Savis sneered. Said, "If he hadn't swallowed me, Hades wouldn't have been able to support you to come to him. When Poseidon landed, he would have been eaten by those plants in mid-air."

Hestia suddenly thought of what he asked Xavius ​​that day. When Xavius ​​first met Hades, he brought the seabed to him. Could it be that he was bored because he was alone here for too long, or was there something else? Purpose.

Now she thinks she probably knows the answer.

She herself had been suspicious for a long time, so she didn't find it strange when she knew the answer. What about Hades?He and Savis are so close...

Hestia glanced at Hades quietly, but saw that the man still had a dark expression on his face. Since the time when Xavius ​​said that he was going to meet death, his expression has not been better.

"I am satisfied after such a long time without a godhead. Uranus gave me the blessing at the beginning to let me help you when I meet you and when you encounter difficulties that are difficult to solve. Well, after I die, you can draw out my divine power and explode that mountain. At that time, a vortex will appear in the sky, which is the passage to leave here. You must act quickly, and don't care about what may happen in this space. Any accident, even if you get hurt a little bit, it doesn’t matter. Don’t be dazed after you go out, and run before Cronus recovers. Don’t go to the ocean, and don’t go to the land. Before you are familiar with the outside environment, go to Hide in a small island or in a mountain stream." Savis slowly urged, "And the brother you stayed outside has also grown up, if you go out, contact him..."

"Xavius." Hades interrupted him sharply, and then turned him around, "If you blow up that mountain with divine power, you can leave here, we don't need your divine power," his, Poseidon Yes, Hestia's, anyone can, why must it be Xavius's? If one person's supply is not enough, several people can work together to blow up that mountain. "You just have to," he was trembling with anger at Xavius' relaxed attitude about facing death. This was the first time Xavius ​​had seen Harvey since he had been with Xavius ​​for so long. Diss vented his emotions so clearly, "You just need to follow us, when the time comes, I will take you out, and I will find a godhead for you..."

"Fool." Xavius ​​leaned on his chest, his smile gradually infiltrated with bitterness, "Even if you blow up that mountain, you can't blow up that vortex. I have the blessing of Uranus on me, and that is the greatest thing." It is a sharp weapon, and even if I go out, I will not live long. Cronus has already wiped out my existence. When he swallowed me, he said that the ocean will never be able to give birth to new gods in the future, and those who can dominate the ocean There is only Oceanus, I am just a sea monster without a godhead, but because I once had a godhead, the ocean will not recognize me as a sea monster, and they reject sea gods other than Oceanus..."

"Even if you can only blow it up with the blessing of Uranus, you don't need to pay the price of your death. As long as you can leave here, it doesn't matter if the ocean doesn't recognize you. You don't have to go back to the sea."

"Hades. Are you not angry that I keep you by my side for another purpose?" Savis raised his head, "Although part of the reason is that I am too boring alone, but the moment I saw you I know that you are his child, and it is my real purpose to bring you by my side to find an opportunity to send you out, and even..." He turned his head and looked at the gods sitting on the sea, and there was something in his voice. Expressing some fear-like emotions, "I keep you by my side for the same purpose."

No one spoke, even Hades just stared at him.

Xavius ​​smiled weakly: "Didn't you ask me what nightmare I had, it wasn't actually a dream, it was Uranus who found me and asked me to send you out as soon as possible, so even if I don't do anything, after The blessings he once gave me for a while will also detonate on me, and only my death will free them, so I did dream about my death, not long after."

Because his back was facing Hades, Savus didn't see the veins popping out of Hades' hands holding him.

However, no matter how angry he was, he still couldn't refute the facts that Savis said.

"So, this was originally a dead end, and only my death can solve the predicament."