Pain. Searing pain. Scorching pain, moving to her side didn't help it made it worse. Getting up was worse. The breath in her lungs seized as she became groggy with her body feeling like dead weight, breathing felt like a game. A game shes lossing. She leaned forward her gaze covered foggy only for a soft gold light coming from her shoulders, her hand felt like air moving them onto her knees her breath coming of a short gasps,
"A..A..art,"
She tried to look around her but her eyes made it difficult, she reached up, rubbing her eyes, and she felt the heat through her hand, helping her eyes as she opened them she could see around her, in the same room as before but it's more lit than last time,
"A..art," Shai croaked again, her hand lightly touched her throat, it was dry so much she couldn't talk, Shai moved to the edge of the bed her body aching from the sharp movement, Shai hissed the pain gathered around her shoulders to her feet screamed at her to lie back, sleep. Rest for however long her body wanted, she could not with the lingering thoughts of her crying out, Apollo and Asclepius above her there hand drifting through the air filled with their power, trying to meld the power with her. When Art came in, she still heard the small, calm voice call to them for a gathering of sorts, Shai placed her foot on the cold marble floor,
"Fuck thats cold," Shai cursed her other foot planted with her hand gripping the bed, she got up and instantly she felt it, her body burned in agony from just the difference of temprethuer, Shai took a sharp breath in, she peered at the door the slight sounds of collective voice reverberated off the opulint walls, Shai limped to the door each step made it more heavy, more weaken then before when she reached the door her hand met the knod she pulled it open her body aching at her telling her to stop, she hissed her arms feeling like fire trained up them,
"What was that spell?" Shai let out, shuffling out of the door she heard the voices, soft and stern like a soft wave before the wave behind it appears. Anothor sounds of a deep ice covering a terain, but one stuck out to her the calm voice that has been guiding her since she was a kid, soothing her from her tartums…helping her when she had school, Shai looked down the hallway she saw a faint flicker of light coming from it, she limped closly down the hallway hearing bits of the conversation.
"She can make it where we have protection from Dalos traps, and time to handle what mess we have now."
The voice was straight to the point but soft, the sound of fingers tapping on stone moved with it, then someone else spoke,
"We have the figures in so for a panicked environment, they will choose Dalos there, his people. I didn't think he would be a god to them, but they are going to see him as that because of Haldio's failures. Because of Apets gone, he let them all go, he let them fail in their eyes, it would only be some time before he tries anything,"
The voices usully more jovial and cunning, were logical more detiermind then she had heard from him before, Shai made it to the middle of the hallway her voice a quite questionable whisper,
"Other?"
Shai took a step closer and saw shadows on the walls of the room, light in the room made them look biger but she noticed who some of them are, Ascelpius she saw from the corner along with Hera beside him, her posture wasnt relaxed it was strained, her hand held tightly to Zeus, She saw Zeus shadow leaning into his hand holding his chin, leaning on the table, Shai took nothor step she saw there was more then them at the table, she saw Art and Apollo, but there was new ones. Two woman two men and is that a..dragon? Shai confused lean closer, she saw the table. The figures were there, the other next to Zeus not the relaxed manner he has, but serious. Planning so cutthroat he sounds like Patton. The figure was chipping in when other need more imput the gods around the two talked with them with Shai hearing snips of their conversation, she stepped into the room when she heard Art speak so calmly,
"She has it in her to make the spell only to be connected to us.. To the world that she will be protecting, i dont know what she will think of this other than she will be the stubborn young pain I know, willing to put herself in that place."
"Just for us?" Hera asked hesitantly,
Art turned to her with her eyes squinted filled with trust, so much it stared to move Hera, she let go of Zeus hand her body moving unintentionally, Art let out with her voice stern unrelenting.
"Just for us..for her father and her new family, even more for herself,"
They heard a a thud from the hallway, all the heads in the room turned to it, Shai leaning on the edge of the hallway leaning on the wall, her eyes glowing the eerie gold from before, her hair falling like a river of gold behind her, she glanced up at Artimuse her breath heavy with her hand having a slight gold hue to them. Shai scanned the table seeing that Art got up hastily, but the figure got to her before Art could, he held her arm staring down at her frightened, the figure's grasp trembled.
"What…happened to you?"
The figure moved his hand taking her glimmering hand into his, examining it. The figure bites his cheek, and a feeling of dread goes through him. She looks so changed.. utterly different that he couldn't picture her from just a few days before to what she is right in front of him.
"You..you look just like Dalos," the figure uttered
Shai looked at him, tried moving to stand up, stared at him with a crooked smile, and her eyes crinkled at the ends,
"It's just a slight difference, thanks for noticing, sometimes people don't notice when I change my style." Shai joked that her smile grew to a full out grin,
The figure glared at her for a moment peterbed but he then softened, his eyes drooped and his hand let her go, the figher nods, chuckling faintly,
"I see it took you some time for this new look.." The figure teased when he's cut off, an arm over his shoulder. The person who did this has a dopey grin, nudging her shoulder with his fist,
"There you are, savior of the figuers, helper of the god, hero to the unknowing, the voice of the voicel.." The other figure stopped when the figure pushed him off, falling on his butt with a resounding thud. The other figure glared at the figure, eyes glowing with mocking anger,
"I was trying to greet her figure, which didn't need to land on my ass," The other figure hissed
"Why not its a big target," the figure sarcastically said, peering down at him when he held his hand out to him, helping the other figure up, glaring at the figure as he got up, they then felt someone brush past them wraping around Shai tight.
"You can stand right? You're ok?"
Shai smiled brightly, even in her tiered state, she held Arts back with a firm pat. She glanced at Art from her shoulder, the concerned expression was written all over her face and Art held onto her as if she was going to shatter. Shai showed Art her grin with her mubled softly just to Art,
"Im not going to shatter so easily…I didn't back there, did I?"
Art looked at Shai a faint smile of her own appered on her face, Art chuckled sofly her voice was smooth and calm,
"No you didn't, I wonder if you're that stubborn or it's your sheer thought of leaving that kept you here,"
Shai nods sheepishly her gaze glimps the table, she saw the other gods staring at them, each having their own set of emotions, Shai stood up well as best as she could her body still ached against her, Shai stared at them her gaze joyful but held the undercut of resolve. She saw Zeus with a soft grin appearing on his face, but his eyes, they squinted. Examining her, she looked like Dalos, the gold glow shone like a beacon that drawed everyones ier. To her vines that held the same power as him. But Shai still was her, staring back at him not timid like it once was. But like meeting an adversary for a one time agreement. Zeus hollered over the figures and Art,
"Shai sees that you survived unlike others put through that spell, that agony you pulled through."
Art let Shai go letting her stand on her own. The figures next to Art watched Shai step close to the table, her body trembling, her gaze still held with theirs.
"I have that particular talent of defeating death, not many have that, but in seem to have it like gathering stones."
Shai boasted, limping to the table. She only receded the man holding a beer in his hand, taking the last gulp from the mug when he placed it down his blue hue stared back into hers, Shai turned away finding Suanoo staring at her like a waiting storm. He held his sword leaning closer to her intrigued, Shai's gaze drifted to beside him Pele glowing with the orange glow from a volcano, resembling her control. She met Shai's golden glowing gaze with her own, she waved softly her hand, holding a small bead of lava moving on her hand by her will. Shai met the other woman on the far, a woman with a headpiece brown soulful eyes with gold covering her neck and arms, when Shai noticed sand around her, Shai felt there gazes as she let out a worried chuckle,
"I didnt know we had more company, if i did i would have acted more proper for them," Shai joked when the dragon moved to her level his eyes stared at her a colorful gaze eclipsed Shai, the dragon leaned down, huffing through his nose, causing a gust of wind making her take a step back she smiled big fixing her hair,
"That's one greeting you don't look like egyptian ot greek," Shai wondered
Shai reached her hand touching the soft feathers on the dragon, seeing the slight crafter images on the dragon's skin, Shai touched it softly, she glanced over the images muttering,
"Aztec dragon a god maybe if im thinking right," Shai mumbled, brushing a finger over a feather she saw a light in the feather similar to hers, Shai mussed at the feather,
"You are the Quetzalcoatl. The god of wind?"
The dragon purred, its eyes turned into slits at her words, and it nudged closer to her. His head in her hand with his feather puffing up from her touch, Shai admired it, feeling the feathers through her fingers when she heard a gruff voice come from him,
"You got that right, more then other who have sought me, they thought I was a serpent from Africa rather than who I am,"
Shai stopped petting, staring at Quetzalcoatl's eyes wide when she laughed rubbing his feathers
"They actually called you that?" Shai inquired
Quetzalcoatl huffed making a huge gust of wind again, Shai held onto his snout hearing him assured,
"They didn't last too long afterwards,"
He moved his nose, picking Shai back up setting her back on her feet, her hand holding onto Quetzaloatl's nose when she felt two pairs of arms at her side,
"Let's get you done, you have seen what was released from the cells, now we have more trouble that you caused to deal with Shai," The figure advised
He and the other figure set her down. Shai wobbled, staring around the room, at the people she broke out and the ones that kept her alive, she smiles lightly when she peeked over her shoulder at him,
"That I helped because there was trouble already happening, it was just me who took it to maximum overdrive," Shai quipped
"It's more of its attacted to you like a magnet," The other figure interjected,
Quetzalcoatl slithered aside, letting the two figures help Shai to the table as a marble throne appeared leting them set her gently down, Shai stared at the table she felt overwhelmed, all of them stared at her exspecting from her, she sighed feeling a Quetzacoatl tail curling around her throne, she glanced at it but looked back up at them,
"So what kind of trouble cluster fuck are we in now?"