Unlocking Olympus: Chapter 2

Unlocking Olympus

Chapter 2: Adamaris

“Son of a bitch!” I got cut off with a loud oof when the sudden gush of wind knocked the oxygen out of my lungs, sending me across the room. “Fuckin’ ugly bat!” I wheezed as I pulled myself up from the carpeted floor of once was a very cozy apartment. I brushed off the broken pieces of her cheap vase from my hair after it broke in my head, wincing as my fingers made contact with trickling blood.

“You should have left me alone, you asshole!” The harpy bared her uneven teeth which stunk like a rotten flesh. This monster was Gale Bobsmith who lived two streets down from my apartment. She rented this apartment merely two weeks ago and ever since a lot of robbery has been going on to this side of Manhattan. It was not your daily case of robbery, feathers of some kind of a huge bird has been seen in the area. I knew what it was. I just needed to locate the robber. After my investigation, I finally hunted down the culprit and there you go, voila, a freaking harpy. They had always been known for their robberies.

I took the dagger from the back of my jeans and Gale’s eyes widened from fear. Of course she’d know this dagger, the stink of Athena’s blood and magic coated it. Her wings spread like huge canopies, her eyes darting to the window at our left.

I smirked, “I don’t think so,”

“I didn’t do anything!” Her hostility was replaced with sheer terror as she knew what I intended to do. I came here with the intent to kill.

“You’re not supposed to be here.” I told her,

Her dark eyes were wild as her pea-sized brain worked miles per second. Then her unsteady gaze came

back to me, baring her teeth and claws. “So are you,”

My eyes twitched but my face remained carefully blank, my taunting smile still in place.

“You are not human yourself.” She sneered, speculating that she found my weakness.

Harpies are one of the most stupid kinds of monsters Olympus has. They are basically toys of Zeus. With the head of a human and the body of a huge bird, they looked monstrous. Her bare torso heaved, her naked breasts lifting. Her arms were covered with dull red feathers, expanding to form her strong wings and her waist was of a bird’s, her lower limbs tipped with sharp claws.

“You’re right. I am the kind of monster you should fear.” Her sense of victory was short lived and her face was once again overcome with fear. The air around us stirred with the slightest movement of her wings and I braced myself for a strike. I should really end this already. I haven’t completed the one thousand words essay I needed to submit tomorrow. Besides, this tote-a-tote has been dragging on for minutes now.

With her bared claws, she came to me with so much speed that normal people wouldn’t be able to see her movement. Within a millisecond she was already in front of my face. But I am not a normal person, she was right. I did not belong here as well. But unlike her, who belonged to the outskirts of Olympus, I didn’t belong anywhere.

It only took half a second when her claws dug into my flesh and I emitted a cry of pain. It only took half a second after that before the harpy fell on the ground in a heap, her huge wings flopping like fans in her floor. Both my shoulders were bleeding and the numbness of a deep wound started to seep in. This is what I liked with deep wounds. The injury was already past the pain receptors so the sensation of pain was quick.

The bird in front of me convulsed one last time before it became still: dead. I took the Athena’s dagger which I embedded in her chest, straight to the heart. The blue goo, which was this monster’s blood, dripped from the blade of the dagger and I winced in disgust.

“Ugh,” I groaned, scrunching my nose and wiped it to the dead monster’s feather. “I hate cleaning up!” I started to look around the turned over, one room apartment. Splintered woods scattered around the room together with the broken lamps. The owner would faint in conniption once they see this mess, not to mention the missing tenant. It’s not my problem anymore, though.

I finally found what I was looking for and I crossed the room, going straight to the upturned couch and took my sling bag. Taking out a small canister of gasoline, I went back to the dead body and poured the liquid to it. I took out my blue zippo from my pocket and flicked the small igniter, a bulb of fire coming out.

“See you in the underworld,” I threw the lit lighter to the soaked dead body and not short after it burst into a huge heap of fire. It was not an ordinary fire though, it wouldn’t stop until it obliterated every fibre of that harpy’s body and after which the fire would die like nothing happened. It was not because the gasoline was special or blessed or something. It wasn’t also because the lighter was bought on some kind of a high class store or it has magic. No, it was not because of that.

It was because of me.

I could control one of the most basic elements in this planet: fire. How cool that was, you might think. But you’re wrong. This was much of a curse than a gift.

After the last lick of flame died out, I have already washed off the blood in my arms and already changed my t-shirt. I went out of the apartment and closed the door behind me with a soft click. No one was around the halls as I went down the stairs and went straight to my red Kia Rio.

It was then when it happened. It was four o’clock but the sky turned as dark as if the sun was suddenly afraid of Earth. It was too abrupt, faster than when a solar eclipse happened. Then the lightning followed, showering the sky with thin light strips, the thunders were so loud it could shake the ground. Something was happening up there, something really bad.

I should be worried or anything but the glee springing up from my chest was what made my lips spread in a big smile.

“Nice view,” I whispered to the sky and entered my lovely ride. Time to finish that damned essay about Jane Austen.

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