Chapter 24: Chapter 24 : The Sea Breeze
The sea boiled beneath a sky blackened by impossible storms.
The movements beneath the water causing waves a thousand feet high.
The ocean had looked like a dark abyss staring at Helios, wanting him dead. Voids were not supposed to feel wrathfull.
The ship was safe, Helios had told it to halt in it’s place as he went to deal with a monstrosity.
The silhouette beneath the dark waters was abnormal, for the lack of a better word.
It looked terrifying even to Helio’s eyes but he was not going to accept that.
It was large, absurdly so. The size of a small island and it was moving. Not like a behemoth but a snake, it’s movements had caused the ocean to quake and yet it appeared smooth, deliberate.
It was not really difficult for Helios to guess what it was here for.
Then the water split.
From the dark abyss emerged tentacles, each longer than the Hightower, they twisted around one another like living serpants. But they were just a mere fraction of it’s true body.
It was a grotesque. The shape of it’s skull was like that of a squid but it had a human body, covered in an oily black stone that left a haunting dead stench.
Worse still was the corpses that stuck out like body hair from the monsters pores. They looked suffering, reaching out for an escape only to be forever stuck.
It’s squid eyes glew a bright piercing blue.
It was looking straight at Helios. It, just like every other god wanted him dead. He was not in the mood for games.
He hoovered a few thousand feet above the raging ocean, his red cape snapping in hurricane winds. He looked at the thing with the same expression he had for every other problem he had dealt with.
Boredom. Helios had been attacked before. It meant nothing, these were futile attempts to stop the world from changing. This thing would die soon enough. And he would take a piece of him as a trophy.
"How many god’s do I humble by just existing?" he asked the monstrosity below amused. It seemed to have heard him as it’s eyes looked enraged.
It answered by raising it’s misshapen hand in the air. Waves a thousands feet high surged towards Helios, carrying in them stones and rocks and sea monsters and broken ships.
Helios simply flew into it. The massive wall of water, dense from compression exploded from the sheer impact. He emerged untouched, accelerating towards the creatures face.
It’s tentacles moved, terrible and with ferocious speed they attempted to swallow him whole. Helios simply held them in place with his hands.
For a moment, sea and sky looked to grow still.
Then Helios tightened his grip, pulling the tentacles with enough force to crush mountains.
The tentacles ripped apart, the monstrosity staggered backwards. It was roaring in pain. It’s screams sounded hellish. The sound of a million men drowning emerged from it’s throat. The waves, once a thousand feet high fell back into the ocean.
The black oily stone seemed to create a vibration that echoed within the creature. Helios had caught it with his senses.
The monster seeemd to regain it’s composure, wrapping it,s hands around Helios, dragging him beneath the surface. The sheer pressure of two mountains colliding crushed Helios but he just let it happen.
Then the something happened.
Helios felt his body getting warm. He had begun to glow, a beautiful reddish glow.
"This is new" he thought but let the feeling engulf him. He felt like a burning star. Then a massive red heat wave sweeped from his body. Evaporating the monters arms, eviserating thousands of feet of water.
The monster shrieked louder. The seas themselves evaporated, billions of galons of water erased as the clouds, as balck as the void began lightening.
The grotesque’s entire body had been charred.
"That’s it!?" Helios asked genuinly. He had expected more, a lot more. But maybe he was simply too powerfull.
Then Helios looked at himself, he was glowing a starrey golden now.
He raised his hand in the air, calling the storm. It answeres. A thousand thunders struck him. But they did not bother him, it made him feel stronger, glow brighter.
The he looked at the monster beneath. Bringing his handds closer he focuses. A bright golden glow emerged from his palms taking the shape of a sun.
Lifting the sun with his hand he gave a final glance to the pained monster. This was it’s end.
He threw the golden ball of fire at the creature.
As soon as it met, a bright blinding light covered the entire see, lightening the void that seemed to have appeared not long ag.
A loud explosion followed, swallowing everything in it’s path for ten miles.
It was over. Just like that.
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OBERYN (POV) :
"Wha...How" I could barely say before a bright blinding light bought me back to my senses. What had I seen just now.
A monster emerging from the ocean, so massive that it was visble clearly in the dark from miles away. The explosion that followed had reached upto the sky itseld.
The storms had vanished. The dark ocean was now a bright blue. The storm had disappeared.
Lord Helios had killed it, not even the gods from the oldest of tales could do this. If there was any doubt in my mind before now there was none. I am a believer.
It was worse for the other people in my vicinity who were on their knees chanting prayers, nothing like the ones thought in ths Sept’s but just made up ones, they were praising the sun god.
I too bend a knee, seeing him fly down to us ants. He was glowing now, like the sun. Bringing light to the night.
I would follow him now. For I had just seen what he truly was. If the Hightower was a display this was a whole theater. This was far beyond my wildest imaginations.
He landed on the ship soft and steady. The rocky waves were as flat as plains. The world had gone quiet, still digesting the scale of the battle that took place.
"Rise all of you" he spoke, he looked pleased.
"You believe me now surely! Anyway let us head to Astapor, We Have a world to save"
The proof of the battle was no longer here, it had been destroyed thoroughly. Every last remaining part of the monster was completely eviserated. The world would have soon forgotten, no evidence visible. Being as untouchable as a sea breeze. But men were there to remember.
